o'connor says he cannot say, i would have to ask cosby himself. attempts to reach the comedian were unsuccessful n north philadelphia, chad pradelli for "action news" at ten on phl17. >>> well, rapper meek mill is out of jail earlier then expected. back in july he had an outburst at his parole office, which resulted in a why sentencing him to three to six months for violating parole. the parole was related to a drug case from 2009, he served five months, before today's release. meek mill was also ordered to take etiquette classes. >>> police in the bronx have made an arrest in this heinous robbery. that is a woman holding a baby being dropped kick, but mother felon top of her two month-old and suspect took off with her cell phone, fortunately it didn't take lock for police to identified alonzo brown as the attacker. the 18 year-old apologized after his arrest telling reporters and police he didn't realize his victim was holding a baby. >>> power is gradually being restored in the city of detroit. power outage there forcedded early dismissals at al

o'connor has known cosby in many different capacities and for quite some time.he says this is painful but he says that temple is strong and called it a great university, giving students great opportunities. reporting live in center city, i'm rosemary connors, nbc 10 news. >>> hepatitis scare at a popular new jersey pizzeria has health officials warning customers tonight to call their doctor right away. a worker who handles food at rosa's italian unstrat in hamilton township is in the hospital with hepatitis a. health officials fear there could be thousands exposed between november 10th and december 1st. now health officials are trying to track down customers. >>> the symptoms could vary from severe to mild. but the significance is how con it is. >> all garbage areas have been cleaned. the bathrooms have been cleaned. the area is approved by the department of health. that's why they allowed us to open up again. >> no one else reported any symptoms. the health department is planning a vaccination clinic for this coming thursday. >>> people wanting to sign up for m

father o'connor took us there. >> there are two altars this is the brothel of the nativity scene.u put your hand through the whole you can touch. on this side this is the altar of the manger. >> even in this paceful place there are long running disputes. the altar of the manger belongs to the monks the other alter in greek orthodox. the other christian groups is the arameanian orthodox. >> there is splits every where. >> exactly. that is give to go the holy man. >> the belief is that this is where jesus was born? >> yes. >> and then he was carried over here to the manger. >> exactly. >> then you see this is the cave which of course has been shaped but this wall is artificial. next door is the holy tirn face. >> father murphy o'connor took us there for a look. >> there is very little evidence of the original cave left here. >> whatever is original is down below us here. >> tradition has it christ would have been born on the other side of the cave but this is part of the same cave system. >> it is all part of the cave system. that is an entirely artificial wall it goes taupe the roo

and colleen o'connor, also 17, a senior at eagle crest high school.arge kohlberg, 50, and a mother of 2 was working her first night alone as manager. out in the dining room sat 19-year-old former employee, nathan dunlap. >> nathan dunlap worked there for a time but is ultimately let go. he had an attitude problem and is a bit of a discipline issue for the management. so on the particular night in question, nathan dunlap goes into that chuck e. cheese and he orders dinner. dunlap plays video games. played a shooter video game, hogan's alley. chuck e. cheese closes. dunlap goes into the bathroom. waits in the bathroom. >> he goes to the mirror. he gets himself psyched up. looks at himself and tells himself he can do this. and he pulls out his gun and he walks outside and he starts to shoot people in the head. >> bobby stephens was walking inside after a smoking break. >> as i went back into work is when i started hearing the gunshots. i thought somebody dropped something. >> sylvia crowell who had been cleaning the salad bar was the first person shot. s

. >> renee, patrick o'connor is speaking out on this really for the first time. told me the board most likely would have voted on cosby's role as a trustee but it didn't come to that because cosby resigned first. i asked the chairman what cosby's high-profile had in terms of an impact on discussions over the past week. did his celebrity and obviously his financial support of the university make things difficult for the board to come to a quick decision? >> no. we would have decided the same way if his name was bill crosby and had the same sort of allegations. it would have been no different. it was just a more painful discussion given all he has done for temple. >> many people all over the city are weighing in on cosby 'resignati 'resignation. today i caught up with mayor michael nutter to get his comment on what happened. take a listen. what's your reaction to cosby's resignation? should the board have acted first? >> he's a trustee. he took action on his own. i'm not going to get into who should have acted first or any of that. we still to this day don't know a

the first shot was frank o'connor from new york city is running for governor. period. slide number two. frank o'connor says he thinks the subways in new york city should be free. pause. slide three. guess who he thinks should pay for them. [laughter] >> nobody outside the five bureaus could vote for frank o'connor after that ad. >> he also made the case why -- how government can work for you, and that's something today's republican party so much mileage further that is left to get through an approach to starve the beast is the phrase came in president reagan's terms, to just cut the deficit, cut the budget, rather, and then cause government programs to be unfunded. now, what happens when the nation's infrastructure continues to crumble? people will get it once again that we need to pay for this, to make it work. >> is there some way in which nelson rockefeller -- one of the things that is amusing in your book, richard, is when first franklin roosevelt and then harry truman tell him you really ought to be a democrat. and then he is running for president, and adlai steve

sure we're pulling up a photo on the fuchl street elevation to comment outstanding on your comments o'connor you want to see intent on the larger bloke over here and in terms of breaking down the scale of the block or more articulation of the facade. >> scale of the block and the articulation of the facade one or the other or both i can't basically draw you i'm approving the repeal repeatedness we're transforming the street fulsome street is going to be the mine street i'm expected more of a building and uss that twice i mean by that have to be clear rather grid repetition. >> commissioner hillis i mean, we'll see what we get you like the design it reflects the industrial character there are a big lot so, i mean i keep it in the design and come up with an alternative but how it turns into ralph street how you make the turn but i like it. >> commissioner moore. >> we're not supposed to argue it looks like delores and market street we a restatement of the approach to the building and we had other buildings to choose no arithmetic and names as mentioned but spend a little bit more time of the c

. >> they both had stomach surgery doctor brendon o'connor with cooper hospital. they had a gastric sleeve operation, which is less complicated then gastric bypass. >> it is just a removal of a portion of the stomach. >> reporter: is what left behind looks like a sleeve. >> that is right. >> the sleeve operation is a procedure that is done with a minimally inn vase i have approach. we go in and rehave move approximately 80 to 85 percent of the the stomach, so this is designed to limit food in take accounts. >> reporter: also, say there is an adjustment but it is easy. now they are used to eating healthier smaller portions. tim who had the surgery first gets emotional when he talks about finally being able to do things with the children. >> i feel like i'm the dad i'm supposed to be. >> i wanted to try to get healthier for my kids. i wanted to be able to be there as they grow up. >> reporter: now trudy had her surgery in august. she and tim never had more than seven foster children at one time. they are now taking a break from fostering to focus on their health, ga

clinton which everybody talks about, but this could be the rebirth of 1992, talking about sinead o'connor, we could rerelease basic instincts. woody allen could leave sun ye for another stepdaughter. maybe eddie fisher is going to shoot somebody. the royal couple could separate, 1992, and the best part about 1992, i think 1992 was a great year. >> the good old days. >> they were to the good old days. >> i keep talking about clinton and bush, the fact of the matter is these are the two former presidents, they have the name and these are the logical people you would look at for the potential-runnfront-runners. >> clinton again. >> i would choose bush over a clinton absolutely hands down no question. but there are those on the right, dana pointed out. the far right doesn't want to see another bush clinton. >> do they want to see another obama. >> because that's what i want to ask them. >> it wouldn't be such a bad thing to have another obama from the republican party side, a real candidate is one that genuinely acts and sounds like a -- has the mannerisms and the humor and the charm of a dem

neither eagles nor giants are headed to the playoffs don't tell tom o'connor nothing was at stake now down on one knee he went as the evers from home watched janna their daughter, granddaughter and diehard eagles fan get engaged to tom a diehard giants fan. >> he's kind of reserved. so to see him do that is very meaningful. >> reporter: she said yes with a big kiss. >> we are new jersey state troopers, and we met on the job and today i got my ring. >> reporter: they met at the police academy and kicked off their engagement at kickoff. janna five year veteran of the air force flying high. >> a dream come true. >> luckiest guy i could be. >> the happy come couple plans to share their lives together just not their football teams. we're dealing told when the eagles play the giants neck year here in philly we shouldn't expect tom to make the conversion. at the linc brad satin fox 29 news. >> we've got another amazing story. this is about oh man driving that vehicle who was alive and lucky to be in the hospital thanks to the kindness of a wonderful woman her name is is a heat at a mcintyre

cat o'connor owns the company and she is here with brian wise who runs the group called u.s. consumer's coalition. all set by a secretive project in control freak in washington called operation choke point. brian what's that? >> a program department of justice is pursuing. it intimidates banks and processors to stop doing business with industries that they fundamentally don't like. people like cat are being affected and losing the ability to provide their services and their products. >> bad industries like cat makes ammunition. >> right. >> companies say a scene on tv i have this list at least for the department of justice. they didn't want to reveal this. firearms makers, payday loan sellers, pornography, surveillance equipment, tobacco sales lots of companies. >> they didn't want this program to be released as you mentioned the public at all. but most of these industries are industries they have tried to legislate out of existence over the last 20-30 years. they haven't been able to do that so the obama administration under the direction of eric holder of the department of

george o'connor, senior analyst, thank you for joining us. what do you think is the main catalyst behind the big moves we're seeing in shares of oracle right now? >> there's two issues here. first off, a good set of results. and secondly of course is that macro back drop coming out of -- in the u.s. expectations are very low going into this quarter set of numbers. as you said, they missed three times. so there's a bit of relief in here, as well. when it comes to break out the eggnog and go easy on the egg. >> but is oracle beating estimates by cost cutting or actual revenue growth? >> so it's beating on the back of good execution on the cloud. one of the big concerns in the tech sector at the moment is we've got a group of legacy vendors. hewlett packard, oracle, ibm, s.a.p. in that group. they're selling old stuff. >> and, you know, interestingly enough, old tech has been a winning trade this year. a lot of these names we have, specifically their dividend yields. will this trend continue in 2015 if the fed does raise rates? >> very good poin

. >> and didn't carroll o'connor say he didn't know if the audience would trust him and like him?t alone in homes and so forth, i had no question in my mind that we were simply dealing with the truth in american life and the things that were impacting american families. it was no big deal. >> with archie you ultimately went to carroll o'connor, but you guys had some pretty big fight over the shows, didn't you? the writing? >> we did. he was carrying an awful lot of weight. he was an enormous star. he was playing a politically unlovable character. the average actor doesn't understand his own -- the degree of his own charm and how much that matters. so without that understanding and carrying that role and everything else, he was, you know, uptight. and a lot of the scripts he just didn't want to play. >> so how did you resolve that? >> by playing them. >> in the book you basically say you never backed down. whenever there was an argument -- >> that makes me sound a lot stronger than i think i was. i didn't back down because i thought they were silly arguments. when the network said

cliffton, former consultant to the obama campaign, and principal of clifrton consulting, and also larry o'connor, the host of "mornings on the mall" on wmal radio, and also editor at large at ij review.com. >> has obama care been successful? what it has done is it ahas covered a lot of the uninsured, and it's creating a market-based system which it was designed to do. if you look at it from a republican value, market-based and state-based implication is what it has become? some of the surprises we've seen with obama care we didn't expect that half the state says, only 13 states actually have implemented state-based exchanges, and the other is less than half took the medicaid expansion. now what we're going to look at in terms of cost and enrollment is how is it implemented in the states, and who epdz up in that pool that signs up for obama care? >> well, larry, one of the unintended consequences by the administration would certainly be that about 30% of people, according to the gallop poll, say they're not using their health care, and that's because it's too expensive. >> yeah. and also i just w

justice sandra day o'connor described it as "that terrible case," and other justices in this series have spoken about it similarly. dred scott is the archetypal case that symbolizes injustice. it is one of the cases most widely invoked in making comparisons about failures of justice. scholars count the ways that the decision went wrong. as you will recall, the case contained three rulings blocking dred scott's claim to be recognized as a free man. there were a pair of rulings about the legitimacy of the congressional power to prohibit slavery in the territories. and a third very clear holding that as a black person, dred scott was precluded from utilizing the federal courts. to assert his freedom regardless of the validity of his claim under diversity jurisdiction to be heard in federal court, he had to be the citizen of some state. or perhaps some foreign jurisdiction, such that the diversity of citizenship existed between the parties, thus justifying federal jurs digisdi. in a 7-2 decision, the supreme court decided that as a black men dred scott was not a citizen of missouri or any st

neither the eagles nor the giants are head to the playoffs but don't tell tom o'connor nothing was atone knee he went as the evers from home watched janna their daughter, granddaughter and diehard eagles fan get engaged to tom a diehard giants fan. >> he's kind of reserved. to see him do that is meaningful. >> reporter: she said yes with a big kiss. >> we are new jersey state troopers. and we met on the job and today i got my ring. >> reporter: they met at the police academy and kicked off their engagement at kickoff. >> janna five year veteran of the air force flying high. >> dream come true. >> luckiest guy i can be. >> reporter: happy couple plans to share their lives together just not their football teams. we're being told when the eagles play the giants next year here in philly we shouldn't expect tom to make the conversion. at the linc brad satin fox 29 news. >> incredible video from house fire in alabama. a young child escapes by jumping from a second story window. on lookers watching as the intense fire burned and the child was trapped in the home. so a woman in the video is y

neither eagles or giants are heading to the playoffs but don't tell tom o'connor nothing was at stake. down on one knee he went as the evers, at home watched jena, get engaged to tom, a died hard giants fan. >> hees reserved. so to see him doing that is very meaningful. >> reporter: she said yes, with a big kiss. >> we urge new jersey state troopers, and we met on the job and today i got my brain. >> they met and kicked off their engagement at kick off. jena, a five-year veterans of the air force is flying high. >> dreams come true. >> luckiest guy i could be. >> so the happy couple plans to share their lives together, just not their football themes. we are told when eagles play giants next year here in philadelphia we shouldn't expect tom to make the conversion. at the link brad saton fox 29 news. >>> a man gives a christmas present that proves you don't need fancy wrapping paper or pretty bow toss make people happy during the >>> that is the the best. heat myselfer. >>> blue mountain in the poconos mountains. i bet a lot of people are heading up this week week between christmas and

. >> the o'connor family in ireland, wanted to give their daughter special welcome home.armel has been living in australia for the last four years, and this will be her first christmas home. here she is, with the help watch this whole thing unfolds >> oh, my gosh! >> ♪ >> common in. >> common in. >> i'm if the going back. >> fun, right? yes, you heard her right. carmel surprised her family with the news that she is staying in ireland for good. >> kind of cool. >> very cool. >> my family emanates from galloway. haven't been to ireland. what's your favorite christmas movie? tweet us, use the #fox29goodday. what's yours, kerry? >> favorite christmas film of all time? >> oh, i'm big fan of the christmas carol. >> that's great. >> all right, we'll show you those favorites, yes. >> you know, i got to say, probably as i think about it further, national lampoon. >> that's great. chevy chase. >> yep, yep, yep. >> also ahead there is guy had a lot of nerve. he got his heart broken and made a bold plea on line. now he's got his holiday wish. we'll tell but that straight behold, the

today nbc 10 spoke with chairman patrick o'connor.e told us he spoke directly to cosby over the last week to discuss the sex assault allegations and their impact on the university. according to the chairman, if cosby had not resigned on its own, temple's board would have most likely put it to a vote. >> i thought it was a noble act on his behalf, because he put temple in front of himself. it's something that he wanted to keep. he wanted to remain a trustee. he wanted to come to our graduation. he was part of it. but this story was getting too big. >> more than a dozen women have recently come forward to accuse bill cosby of sexual assault. cosby has never been criminally charged. >>> at first it looks like a harmless encounter on a city street but moments later comes a sudden and violent çattack. who police now have in custody and what the victim is saying about the man who took her and her baby by surprise. >>> perhaps it's the thought that counts. this pennsylvania bridge was renamed in honor of a fallen police officer. but there's

jessica lanning lanning, american horror story freak show, frances mcdormand, olive kitridge, francis o'connorllison tollman, fargo. best performance by an actress in the supporting role, in a motion picture. patricia arquette, boyhood. jessica chas tane, a most violent year, kiera knightly the imitation game. emma stone, bird man. merrill streep, into the woods. best director, motion picture. wes anderson the grand budapest hotel, ava thelma. david fincher, gone girl. alejandro gonzales, bird man. richard linkletter, boyhood. >> so glad to hear selma got a nod. here's more. >> best performance by an act rest in the motion picture comedy or musical. amy adams, big eyes. emily blount, into the woods. helen miron the hundred foot journey, julianne more, alice, wallace, annie. best performance by a actor in the motion picture drama steve carol, fox catcher. benedict batch imitation game, jake gyllenhaal night crawler, david, thelma. best motion picture drama. boyhood. fox catcher. imitation game. thelma. and the theory of everything. >> congratulations to all of our nominees and please join us fo

you see is what copping neither eagles are giants are heading to the playoffs but don't tell tom o'connor nothing was at stake. down on one knee as they went as they watch general, their granddaughter and diehard eagles fans get engaged to tom a diehard giants fan. >> so he is kind of reserved. so to see him do that it is look meaningful. >> reporter: she said yes, with a big kiss. >> we are new jersey state troopers, and we met on the job, and today, i got my ring. >> reporter: they met at the police academy and kick off their engagement at kick off. jena, a five-year veteran of the air force, flying high. >> it is a dream come true. >> luckiest guy i could be. >> reporter: so the happy couple plans to share their lives together just not their foot wall teams. we're being told when eagles play giants next year here in philadelphia, we shouldn't expect tom to make the conversion. at the link brad satan fox 29 news. >> i give that marriage about a year, two years. >> oh, chris good those two teams, there is no way, too much of a rivalry. >>> good deed goes a long way, garbage collector had

joining us is nancy o'connor with the centers for medicare and medicaid services. biggest news here tonight is we've got more people in pennsylvania that are eligible for coverage, and credit? >> that is right, pennsylvania expanded their medicaid program. helping about 600,000 pennsylvania pennsylvanians get the health coverage that they need. so that is adults between the age of 21 and 64 years of age. >> reporter: we will talk about that later on but a lot of people going back to last year to healthcare.gov web site there are people that enrolled last year, maybe do it for the first time this year, what are the dates they have to keep in mind. >> well, we're in the marketplace open enrollment period. open enrollment runs from november 15th, to february the 15th, and so people who want to pick up a health insurance plan or those people who have have to reenroll in the health insurance marketplace, should do that by december 15th if they want coverage effective january 1st.t. >> reporter: is what the whole purpose of going to that healthcare.gov web site you get f

new jersey garage owner john o'connor pays his entry level employees a state minimum which moves the to 8.38 an hour. he can hand -- moves up to $8.38 an hour. he can handle the increase now, but it will force companies to raise prices. >> on the small stuff, those prices will have to go up. as my costs go up, i have to pass it on. >> reporter: many business owners and workers will continue to see wages go up. several states plan to increase the minimum again next year. >> both maryland and d.c. will see increases in the minimum wage this year. maryland goes up from $7.25 to $8 appear hour tomorrow. d.c. -- an hour tomorrow, d.c. increases from 9.50 to 10.50 on july 1st. >> reporter: it is new year's eve in times square. the people are showing up. the last minute it's the time of year for making lists... at chevrolet, we've made it onto a few lists ourselves. in fact this year, we've been at the top of more awards lists than any other car company. now during the chevy year end event put us on yours. choose a cruze in stock the longest and get cash back for 20 percent of the msrp. tha

yes, jena evers and tom o'connor met each other a few years ago at the police academy. a diehard eagles fan tom a giants fan. tom got down on one knee before the game and popped the question and she said yes. >> we are new jersey state troopers. we met on the job. today i got my ring. >> a hh. >> so she must be south jersey and he is north jersey. so no plans yet for a honeymoon and in place for either of them to change their realities to their football teams. >>> well, trending this morning a heart warming video of the son revealing to his parents that he paid off their mortgage for christmas. as he said on twitter, quote sometimes, the best gifts come in the lame packages. >> it has to be a nice present. >> what? >> i love you. thank you. >> my goodness. it gives you goose bumps. video has 6.8 million views was posted on you tube. according to plate.com the son created video shop a popular video editing app and what a christmas present that was chris murphy. >> i hope my kids do that for me some day. i hope they are watching. >>> act of kindness goes a long way for a

debate simon rosenberg, president and founder of ndn and a former clinton campaign advisor and larry o'connorst of "mornings on the mall" at wmal in washington and at ij review.com editor at large. great to see you. let me start with this executive action of the president. here we go again with another executive action. it has to do with police training, and body cameras for police, but is that really what instigated the situation in ferguson? >> no. i think that the american people are kind of tired of what looks like political opportunism over the death of this young man. let's get real here. nothing the president proposed yesterday with his pen, nothing would keep michael brown alive that day in ferguson. none of it. is it great to have cop cameras? that's fine. i'm not against that, but, guess what, he is not the mayor of the united states. he is not the police commissioner of our country. it's not the president's job to determine community and police relations and police practices. leave it up to local municipals. >> is the president tiptoeing here? we had a variety of opinions, and i ha

where i, fox news contributor and former political advisor to senator frank lautenberg, and larry o'connorhost of -- and editor at large at ij review.com. let's tackle the two competing headlines first. larry, how can newspapers get -- who is right? who is wrong? well, of course, i think both the "new york times" and washington post are consistently wrong. that's an easy question to answer. you know, i don't understand why this is even a discussion right now. the fact of the matter is big gop donors are not the reason why the gop won last month. that's not why larry hogan won in maryland and is a shocking republican governor in a state like that or joannie ernst in iowa. it's because the grassroots voters were excited and motivated. the rnc needs to stay out of the process and let the people choose their candidate, and i pick -- i want a long process. let them go through the process. >> really? because it's kind of this age old argument. some people say, well, if you let them do that, then they beat up on each other. >> think big gop donors are not the like the grassroots. they're like inv

justice sandra day o'connor described it as that terrible case and others have spoken about it similarly. dread scott is the case that symbolizes injustice. it is the case decided by this court and most widely invoked in making comparisons about failures of justice. scholars count the ways that the decision went wrong. there were a pair of rulings about the legitimacy about the power and to prohibit slavery and the territories and the third very clear holding that as a black person and he had to be the citizen of some states or perhaps some foreign jurisdiction such as the diversity of citizenship that existed between the parties. >> they had freedom by residence. this rule maintains if a slave slid for a time on free soil where the bonds of slavery were banned. that residence freed the slave and changed the person's. the broken bond would not reattach. once free, forever free.[>Ñz rev case. in 1852, in 1852, the missouri supreme court declared that no longer would they follow the rule by residents and the scotts had only one option. to file suit in federal court in st. louis. the u.s. s

hillsborough police chief marc o'connor. >> it had been attacked and was presenting with injuries consistent with a predator attack. >> reporter: there have been other sightings in urban areas in the bay area in the recent past. the mountain lion trapped under a car in mountain view. this one jumping on a car. another hiding in a tree, waiting for deer. their backyard faces the san mateo river, its thick foliage inviting to deer. this is their habitat and now their predators', too. neighbors were nervous today, especially those with kids. >> we are not going to let them get outside in the backyard without one of us out there. >> i saw rudolph. >> reporter: vic lee, abc 7 news. >>> a peaceful protest took place in san francisco's union square as shoppers were trying to cash in on post-holiday sales today. >> abc 7 news reporter wayne freedman is live in san francisco with more. >> reporter: well, good evening. happy day after christmas. welcome to union square the day after christmas, where you have a ready-made crowd and everybody ready to take advantage of the ready-made crowd, whether a vi

justice o'connor, put a great deal of her political experience in the court. that is true people in private practice. people from civil rights backgrounds. those are relevant questions. i'm not sure the fact they all went to elite schools. one was a sharecropper's son. others were immigrant children. it is not just the elite backgrounds. >> you may remember that president nixon tried to put someone on the court. when the man was defeated because he was demonstrably unqualified to sit on any court's, a senator from nebraska commented, everybody is entitled to representation on court, even mediocre people. mediocre people don't get into harvard and yale. i think when politicians go looking for people to nominate they have some stars in their eyes about the elite schools. they seldom get beyond that. >> i am wondering if you guys see any cases coming down the pipeline where there could be a conflict between religion and secularism. >> i don't know. there has been one case so far which has been about religious accommodation. the length of a prisoner's beard. wheth

justice sandra day o'connor described it as "that terrible case," and other justices in this series have spoken about it similarly. dred scott is the archetypal case that symbolizes injustice. it is one of the cases most widely invoked in making comparisons about failures of justice. scholars count the ways that the decision went wrong. as you will recall, the case contained three rulings blocking dred scott's claim to be recognized as a free man. there were a pair of rulings about the legitimacy of the congressional power to prohibit slavery in the territories. and a third very clear holding that as a black person, dred scott was precluded from utilizing the federal courts. to assert his freedom regardless of the validity of his claim under diversity jurisdiction to be heard in federal court, he had to be the citizen of some state. or perhaps some foreign jurisdiction, such that the diversity of citizenship existed between the parties, thus justifying federal jurs digisdi. in a 7-2 decision, the supreme court decided that as a black men dred scott was not a citizen of missouri or any st

followed by director ofin gover, the director this museum, a former professor of law at the sandra day o'connor college of law at arizona state university from 1997-2001. assistant secretary for indian affairs and the u.s. department of the interior. i think the person who we all me to always keep in mind when we think about the book or read the book or the exhibit and think about these things is our good friend suzanne sho-harjo. she is a writer, curator, policy advocate who has helped native nations recover sacred places. ofmore than one million acres of land since 1975, she has developed key indian law and clipping most important national policy laws for the protection of native american ancestors, arts, culture and religious freedom as the founder of the museum of the american indian and served of the guest carrier of this project is not -- as well as other projects. i think she is something of a national treasure and i want to say how honored i am to be here with you. [applause] we will go until about 5:15 p.m. are three, there wonderful things waiting for you. the first is a book signing

he's currently a partner at cozen o'connor, with a practice that emphasizes commercial litigation.prior to that he was the general counsel at sethhelon where he oversaw all the company litigation and property issues. it's a very wide range of issues that he has handled in the private sector. but mr. pappert has also demonstrated his dedication to public service. he served six years, as senator casey pointed out, six years as the attorney general of pennsylvania and in that role he was a very successful attorney general. successfully arguing cases before the u.s. and the pennsylvania supreme court. he won a landmark case before the u.s. supreme court, the booth versus turner case which set forth the administrative exhaustion requirement for a prisoner seeking to sue in federal court. mr. pappert also has enjoyed bipartisan support in the senate. the senate judiciary committee voted him out of committee

harriet tubman, the founder of the girl scouts julia gordon lowe, supreme court justice sandra day o'connor, astronaut sally ride, and my personal inspiration, margaret chase smith. madam president, i first introduced legislation to establish a museum for women's history in 2003. early the following year, the senate unanimously approved my bill. unfortunately, that legislation was not taken up by the house and died. in 2005, the senate again approved the legislation, but it, too, stalled in the house. with the passage finally of this commission bill, the effort to establish a museum for women's history in our nation's capital takes a positive step forward. this bill will convene a talented, diverse, and skilled panel of historians, educators, museum administrators, and other experts with experience in women's history to make recommendations for the creation and the sustainment of such a museum. it's important to emphasize that this museum will portray all aspects of women's contributions to our history, without partis partisanship or bias. the only political statement that we will be making

justice o'connor have been in politics, really should put a great deal of that experience on the court, and i think that's true with people in private practice. it may be true with people from so bright backgrounds. i think those are relevant questions. i'm not sure the fact that they all went to an elite school. because one was sharecroppers son. others were immigrant sons and daughters. so it's not that they're all kind of elite backgrounds. >> you may remember that president nixon tried to put someone on the court, and when the man was defeated because he was quite demonstrably unqualified to sit on any court, even though he had been on two lower courts, the senator from nebraska commented that, well, everybody's entitled to representation on the court, even the mediocre people. [laughter] >> another question. >> mediocre people don't get into harvard and yale and columbia. so i do think that when politicians go looking for people to nominate, to court, they have some stars in their eyes about the elite schools, and think that's where they really ought to look first, and they seldom

justice o'connor, put a great deal of her political experience in the court. that is true people in private practice. people from civil rights backgrounds. those are relevant questions. i'm not sure the fact they all went to elite schools. one was a sharecropper's son. others were immigrant children. it is not just the elite backgrounds. >> you may remember that president nixon tried to put someone on the court. when the man was defeated because he was demonstrably unqualified to sit on any court's, a senator from nebraska commented, everybody is entitled to representation on court, even mediocre people. mediocre people don't get into harvard and yale. i think when politicians go looking for people to nominate, they have some stars in their eyes about the elite schools. they seldom get beyond that. >> i am wondering if you guys see any cases coming down the pipeline where there could be a conflict between religion and secularism. >> i don't know. there has been one case so far which has been about religious accommodation. the length of a present our's -- priso

francis mc dorm than the, olive kit emergency ridge, francis o'connor, the missing, allison tollman,ess in a supporting role in a motion picture, patricia arquet, boyhood, jessica chasetape, most violent year. kira nightly, the imitation game. emma stone, birdman. meryl streep, into the woods. best director, motion picture, wes anderson, the grand buda pest hotel. avenue a, thelma. david fincher, gone girl. gonzalez, birdman. richard linkler, boyhood. >> best performance by an actress in a motion picture comedy or musical. amy adams, big eyes. emily blunt, into the woods. helen march on hundred foot journey, julianne moore, wallace, annie. best performance by an actor ma motion picture drama, steve correll, foxcatcher, benedict comes back, the imitation game, jake jill end hall, night crawler, david, thelma. eddie redmain, the theory of everything. best motion picture drama, boyhood, foxcatcher, the imitation game, thelma, and the theory of everything. >>> congratulations to all of aeronomies. please join us. >> oh, we might. so important hollywood people. just realize after listenin

more recently, america's favorite unemployed cowgirl, sandra day o'connor has observed from one end ofother, knowledge of our system of governments, i wrote rights and responsibilities of citizens is not passed down through the gene pool. it must be taught. we have work to do. each of these three patriots was describing the essential historic mission of our nations of schools. admission as important as foundational today as it are as has been, as it always will be. for those of us who care about these of ehealth about our nation, and for those of us who care about people becoming civic lee engaged, we must care about the foundational civic mission of our schools. and folks, we are not talking about your grandpa's civic learning. were not talking about old-fashioned civic that that thick education. were talking about new, exciting race of how to be engaged. my calling, the first civic social studies teacher in our nation, susan griffin, is going to talk a little bit about that. susan. [applause] >> great to be here with you. there is a lot of wonderful stuff going on this afternoon, but

more recently, america's favorite unemployed cowgirl, justice sandra day o'connor, has reserved from end of this country to the other knowledge of our system of government, our rights and responsibilities as citizens is not passed down through the gene pool, it must be taught, and we have work to do. each of these three patriots was describing the essential, historic civic mission of our nation's schools, a mission as important as foundational today as it always has been, as it always will be. for those of us who care about the civic health of our nation, for those of us who care about people becoming civically engaged, we must care about the foundational civic mission of our schools. and, folks, we're not talking about your grandpa's civic learning. we're not talking about old-fashioned didactic civic education. we're talking about new, exciting ways to learn how to be civically engaged. my colleague, the first social studies teacher in our nation, susan griffin, is going to talk a little bit about that. susan? [applause] >> great to be here with you, and i have to say there's a lot

frances mcdoormanned, "olive kitridge," frances o'connor "the missing q. allison tolman, "fargo."otion picture. patricia arquette, "boyhood." jessica chastain, "a most violent 84." keira knightly, "the imitation game." emma stone, "birdman," meryl streep, "into the woods." best director, motion picture, wes anderson, "the grand budapest hotel." avas a duvreneau "selma." david fincher, "gone girl." alejandro gonzalez, "birdman" richard linkletter, "boyhood." >> best performance by an act tres in a motion picture samberg or musical, amy adams, "big eyes." emily blount, "into the woods" helen mirren," the hundred foot journey" jullian moore, "max to the stars." annie. best motion picture drama, steve carell, "fox catcher," the imitation game, jaim jake gyllenhaal, "fight crawler. eddie redmain, "the theory of everything." best motion picture drama, "boyhood," "fox catcher," the "imitation game, " "selma," and "the theory of everything." . >> congratulations to all our nominees. please join us for hollywood's biggest celebration on sunday, january 11th, for the 72nd annual golden glob

you have earlier in the week or you are working on an opinion and he is fully engaged, or justice o'connorsame thing. it was a wonderful environment and environment where people were not raising their voices but thinking they were of the view that the work was more important than they were and our job was to turn out the best product we could. that's the court i came to and that's the way i think the court is now. i was very pleasantly surprised at how much work it took. i came on the court and i was 40 years younger than justice locklin at the time. he's doing it in his 80's, so i said it can be all that hard. he was cruising along and i had fallen along the way. the boss used to tell me clarence you have to get a system and learn how to do this job systematically. i have to say the number one thing for me was just how warm and respectful and dignified the people were with whom i worked whether they agreed or didn't. that was my biggest surprise. >> i was surprised by all of this as well. for me, the tradition had one positive thing which it taught me that the court as an institution was