>> reporter: and what a big turnaround, raj, for the o'neal family. look at the beautiful home they moved into today. as you mentioned, this is all thanks to community donors and to one of san jose's finest. >> cereal. >> reporter: blessed is how the o'neals say they feel to be stocking their new kitchen. >> these last two weeks, i've had my ups and downs. my children have been staying with friends close to where they go to school. >> reporter: they lost everything in the fire just days before christmas. but on that same painful day, they met a man who's virtually become an extended member of the family. >> how are you? >> reporter: christian is a san jose police officer. he was assigned to do traffic control at the fire scene. he stood side by side with the family as they watched their home burn. and christian hasn't left their side. >> it really hit me when i got home and i looked at our christmas tree up in our house with presents under it and i just thought, they're not going to have any of this. >> reporter: the officer helped raise almost $8,000

o'neal. no one knows whether he was behind the military noigs replace the commander of the armed forces or whether he even knew about it. all he says is he was removed unlawful from his office by mr. o'neal and that he should be reinstated. >> chaos has been restored back to order. the country rich in oil, gold and other natural resources that the world wants to exploit, but only if it's safe to do so. >> but until the issue of the two prime ministers have been finally settled, its unstable politics will prolong its future. duncan kennedy. >> this is "bbc world news." i'm david eades. the headlines this hour -- nearly a quarter of spain's workforce is now unemployed. more than 57.3 million, the highest rate in the industrialized world. the u.n. secretary general tells world economic leaders that they have a social and moral responsibility to turn around the global economic crisis. >> firefighters had to work around the clock to deal with a blaze in south western china. chinese state media sta

his replacement started his career on capitol hill, spent nearly a decade as policy advisor to chip o'neal. >> i jumped up and was like let's go. >> fire burns a senior housing complex. the actions of a bay area couple. >>> major medicine mix up. the over-the-counter pill that could be powerful prescription painkillers. >>> best known for giving money advice. now a financial star in the debit card business. what she is offering. going strong: . >>> after a month on the picket line striking workers at the american licorice plant are still going strong. early this morning they blocked the entrance to the factory where the popular red vine candy is made. about is 180 walked off the job december 5th to protest proposed changes to their medical plan. leaders and company managers met this morning for mediation talks. no word on what the outcome was. >>> bargain hunters beware after years of decline the housing market is bouncing back. a new forecast from real estate data firm clear capitol shows prices leveling off in the metro area this it year. that is after a nearly 5% drop last year. it's pr

. >> o'neal swan san has buried detroit residents for years. days, business is booming for all the wrong reasons. >> you will look and you'll think about the potential that these youngsters had was taken away. >> last sunday, dozens of detroit's undertakens drove a motorcade of hearsts through the violent neighborhood. they bore a simple message from the bible. swanson led the procession. >> these are funeral directors. they don't want business that way. >> elaine saw the hearsts in downtown detroit as she was making funeral arrangement for her son-in-law. 36-year-old was a married father of five shot and killed in front of his two sons when he tried to break up a fight. >> did you feel relieved someone is standing up? >> do you know what i felt? i felt pride because a funeral director is coming together with his fellow funeral directors and saying, enough is enough. >> we want to send a message out to the youngsters that we're concerned that someone cares and if we had more jobs, i think you'd see a difference throughout america if there were

shaquille o'neal style from the 90s, boomer does a complete front flip double hand slams this basketballnd breaks the glass on the backboard. >> this isn't nba where they swap one out, swap another one in. >> i'm sure they don't have a reserved backboard there. a guy named steve steal was in the stands and shot this video. of course the crowd loves it, all these students that are in attendance. they go wild. this dude high fives his friends. boomer, you know, put on quite the show. >> yeah, man, that was awesome. we aren't the only ones who think this video is pretty awesome. only posted on january 20th and already has a few million hits. >>> how many of us have been to presentations that have bored you to tears? i think we can all agree. >> yeah. >> well, they've come out with a video called every presentation ever. >> mediocre icebreaker jokes, that doesn't quite land. >> does any of this seem fam particular to any of you. >> titled dramatic pause of my presentation. question about how long this session will last? annoyed vague response. exaggerated eye roll. >> i know all these people

not currently, but was for years, a guy by the name of tip o'neal. he used to say our politics are local. and i firmly believe that, but all disasters are local as well. and it's important to remember that. and it's important to remember that as each incident happens, people who are at the local level, the city level know that. sometimes just once in a while, some of the feds might forget that. but it's important to remind people of that. so if you look and you have federal government with all sorts or local and state government. very impressive team. very impressive team. can do a lot. but by no means, the team. about this much is government. can do a lot, should do a lot. but needs to bring in the private sector. as we heard not a new concept near san francisco. wasn't a new concept in boston. but let me tell you for a lot of places that is a new concept. to bring in the private sector as a key member of the team. what they can bring to the table, what they have brought to the table and what they will bring to the table. i was a little surprised wh

. >> when i saw the unfortunate fire that happened to the o'neal family, we decided why don't we help them furnish their new home. that's why we're here today donating miscellaneous things, tvs and couches and beds and end tables, et cetera. >> the community has also raised thousands of dollars and helped them buy food and clothing as well. >>> for some children, living with a disability is routine. and now it's an elementary school students in florida have a new understanding and appreciation for what they go through on a daily basis. they gained that understanding by spending a day in a wheelchair or blindfolded themselves. here's what they discovered in their own words. >> ready? >> i'm ready. >> everybody go. >> we're doing this program at school that's called one world, many abilities. it's basically like showing us what the difficulties are of being in a wheelchair, being deaf or being blind. >> okay. to demonstrate the different disabilities that people have. and we try them out to see what it feels like to have that disability. >> she need to go through a normal school day and

he starred in the 1970s movie bad news bears that included tatum o'neal and walter matthew. in this ad he has some of his co-stars from the bad news bears and uses that theme to talk about issues like the middle class, the 9% and the u.s. economy. by the way, if you want to get more information on his run for congress and this bad news bears spin off as part of his campaign approach, log on top pollack for congress.com to get more information about his race and also his background. he is a graduate of ucla. >> you're listening to washington today on c-span radio. >> the hot line is out with its latest senate race rankings. reed wilson is here in our studios. thanks for being with us. >> what are some of the headlines you take away this latest look at the senate races for 2012. >> the senate has been overhad doed by the white house race which is unfortunate because the battle for the senate is as important as the battle for the presidency. democrats hold a 53-47 majority in the senate. they have 23 seats up this year, a lot of which are vulnerable. republicans only have to de

first half, jermaine o'neal, celtics jumped out to an 11- point lead. foul. missed the free throw. wall with a team high 19. first half, wall from behind the 3-point arc, lobbed it to mcgee. wizard fell by 17 at the half. to kevin garnet. had a game high 24. wizards lose 94-86. same two tomorrow in boston. >>> tonight on nissan sports xtra, lindsay murphy in philadelphia with more on the positives. they will now pick sixth in the draft instead of seven. so they can get a better player. >> we have to look at the bright side, because otherwise we're all crying. thank you. >>> a missouri town remembers the tornado that hit one year ago destroying entire neighborhoods. why so many who lived there are counting their blessings instead of their losses. that's next.  >>> the new year means a different kind of new beginning for parts of st. louis. the missouri city on the river is rebuilding in places after a devastating tornado. andy banker reports. [ applause ] >> reporter: a flag unveiling and applause to mark the first anniversary of the day a tornado turned an entire ne

ever since he began his career in public service as top aide to tip o'neal, jack has fought for where everybody does they're fair share and everybody follows the same rules. that belief is reflected in every decision jack makes. jack also has my confidence on matters outside the borders. before he served at omb for me, jack spent two years running the extremely complex budget and operations process for president clinton at the state department where his portfolio also included managing the civilian operations in iraq and afghanistan. over the last year, he has weighed in on many of the major foreign policy decisions that we've made. so there is no question that i'm going to deeply miss having bill by my side here at the white house. chicago is only a phone call away, so i plan to seek bill's advice in the months and years to come, and here in washington, i have every confidence that jack will make sure we don't miss a beat and continue to do everything he can to secure our economy and help the middle class and keep america safe. so i want to thank bill once again for his extraordinary

i'm thinking of bernie -- unlimited access and john o'neal's unfit for command which arguably change the course of an election and all of which by the way were number one on "the new york times" bestsellers list. next month for the preview we are adding another powerhouse national figure to the list of authors, hopefully best-selling authors the regnery is published and that is donald trump, of publishing the book of donald trump called trying to get tough. i would love to say that it is really a strategic work of the regnery team that made it so successful. of course that is a factor, but in the past 12 years, just as important is that in addition to being good at what we do, i think since 1999, maybe at that point in our lives, conservative media was that something at a tipping point. rush limbaugh, "fox news," all of those were just beginning to gather steam and approach critical mass in the late '90s. so at regnery what we did was we leverage that explosive conservative media and what we were trying to do and have tried to do since is to find, shape, promote is the best conservat

tip o'neal lost a primary in his hometown to be a delegate.is is a question whether these angry people in the republican party have the courage of their convictions. i think they're wrong in that the country will not welcome them, but let's have that test. let's take that unvarnished conservative that's not just conservative, this angry right wing radicalism, and let's put it out there. >> it certainly seems like newt gingrich is capitalizing on this angry emotion we're seeing coming from republicans, especially from the south who just can't stand the president of the united states. let's talk about, if we can, the gentleman you just mentioned, mr. muskey versus mitt romney. mitt romney, is it in his character to be a political attack dog? i mean, it seems to me that newt gingrich has got mitt romney out of his wheel house right now. >> he will do it -- i will say this about mitt romney. muskey was a thoughtful, creative man. i didn't mean to compare him with romney. romney does have a great advantage in this race. he is totally unencumbered b

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i worked with ronald reagan in the early 1980s, and tip o'neal was speaker and he wanted to make reagan-term president. as speaker, i was negotiating with bill clinton. he knew i wanted him to be a one-term president. we got a lot of things done including welfare reform. the country comes first. how are we going to get things done? we will fight later. let's sit down in a room and talk it through. i will tell what you i need and i will tell you what i can't do. you tell me what you need and what you can't do, and sometimes it takes 20 or 30 days. but if people of goodwill, even if they are partisans, come together and talk it out, you know, we have welfare reform, and the first tax cut in 26 years, and 4.2 unemployment, and a four straight year period with a balanced budget, it can be done with real leadership. >> anybody else have a point of view about how you actually work with the other side when they committed to working against you, governor? >> yeah, i was governor of a state that had a slightly democratic leading house and senate. my legislation was 85% democrat, and i went aroun

. >> old tip o'neal rule, all politics is local. ahead tonight's truth. last night on this program the house democratic leader nancy pelosi predicted newt gingrich would never be president. a moment of claire voyance or just a long-running feud? >>> plus what prompted a connecticut mayor to say this? >> what are you doing for the latino community today? >> i might have tacos when i go home. i'm not quite sure yet. ♪ ( whirring and crackling sounds ) man: assembly lines that fix themselves. the most innovative companies are doing things they never could before, by building on the cisco intelligent network. but proven technologies allow natural gas producers to supply affordable, cleaner energy, while protecting our environment. across america, these technologies protect air - by monitoring air quality and reducing emissions... ...protect water - through conservation and self-contained recycling systems... ... and protect land - by reducing our footprint and respecting wildlife. america's natural gas... domestic, abundant, clean energ

there's -- shaquille o'neal was there for a while. >> jimmy: we love him too. >> yeah, he's good. >>. >> jimmy: his friends call him did. >> diddy diddy. did's a neighbor. but i never see him. in 15 years of living there. >> jimmy: well there's a big -- you had a big new year's eve story that went down with diddy this year. >> i certainly did. >> jimmy: yeah. >> well, you know, my kids are now getting to be you know, teenagers. and they're aware of the fact that the party that we've been like watching for 12 years is now -- it's his party. now, they were little, and they didn't really get it. every midnight, you hear fireworks. it's like right in our property, it's two houses over. and it's loud and noisy. and well, this year they know, they go, "mom, that's diddy's party. they have a huge thing. can we be invited?" like, we can't be invited, honey, i don't know him. i saw picture of you and him at the kid's choice awards. yeah, 21 years ago. [ laughter ] i don't know him. >> jimmy: i don't think he was diddy back then, either >> he was puff the magic dragon. >> jimmy: puff the magic

>> and afeel like, and don't get me starts op the o'neals or shania twain or not why.ain has asked why for so long, it is time she asked why not. >> and brooke is out in nashville and how is the big celebration down there in nashville? >> have you seen the judds? >> well, it is huge and we don't have the green goblin or spider-man but i could not ring in nashville without my cowboy hat, my cowboy boots and we are learning how to do it southern style here in nashville. happy new year almost, and we are 90 minutes away from new years and a bash on broadway and nice enough to have us back. take a look at the crowds and we have a photographer up top from the hard rock cafe and shooting 40,000 people, and they are anticipating, and you are talking about the amazing weather in new york and not to make you jealous, but a wonderful 60 degrees. let me hop off of the riser and this is kathy by the way and trying to figure out what a southern new year's is, and how do you ring it in southern style? >> we bring it in with a bash. look at the people around, and that is how we bring

megyn: to force universities to pay for the birth control, terry o'neal came out and said, last yearhe u.s. catholic bishop peddled a version of religious freedom that would allow organizations to withhold needed healthcare from woman, as if the organizations were people with ability to have a conscience. it goes onto praise the president for his decision. nancy pelosi also praising the president. >> see that kind of disparaging language, that kind of vitriol is actually working on our side, because a person who is caught in the middle on this issue is going to say listen to the way they speak about catholics. you're not just attack being the bishops. most people like "the washington post" are saying, go ahead and provide contraceptive services in most health plans if you want to do it voluntarily but for the federal government to come in and say after you say you're going to give it a religious exemption there aren't going to be any it looks like a bullying tactic. let them keep talking this way, it is an election year. megyn: the archbishop is complaining about the exception saying

snookerred in the '83 reform because what happened in '83 was he got a bunch of tax increases that tip o'neal and greenspan and the folks who -- this was the greenspan commission. they got a bunch of tax increases immediately, what you were talking about, and the rate went way up. it went up to -- social security went up to 12.4%. they did get some benefit cuts and they did it in a very smart way. the benefit cuts didn't come for a long, long time. in fact, i suspect i was at a town hall meeting in brentwood, someone was talking about social security and i talked about some of the things we're going to have to do to change the social security system. i asked what's the eligibility age right now for social security? anybody know? >> 67. >> it's 66 and a month or two. it's going to go to 67. when did that happen? in 1983. and they didn't start changing it. it was 65 back then. and they changed it in 1983 under ronald regan, but it didn't take effect for 20 years. so none of you people are mad at ronald regan for having done that, right? because none of you know. see, this is how politicians do

i signed up for her special rising star workshop, a healing modality sondra shares with derek o'neal who's her ex-british forces commando who lives on the astro plane but i spoke to him on the phone. so you can reach it. it was a collected effort involving half a dozen students gathered for 12 hours of instruction, meditation, advisization and holy dancing the highlight for me gently absurd and justinly lovely was a spirited essentially of ring around the rosy with george harrison's beet lord. we were at the home of one of sondra's regulars named louise who sells participants to ball players and athletes. and there was mary a beautiful psychotherapist who was on the guru trip for years, before she sound sondra, the real thing, louise and anthony and mary were veterans of sondra's workshops adepts so when it came time for me to graduate from the first level they lead me into the living room into a candle lit study where sondra awaited with a sword. a real sword, much bigger and heavier than her cord-cutting way. and here i have to back up again, the first ritual that i had to go throu

you heard me say with tip o'neal as speaker, we had to get a third of the democrats. question is outrageous. boehner has said nothing about trying to violate the constitution. it is the president who's behaving in an unconstitutional manner. if the white house means it, it is utterly outrageous and i apologize to my deputy press secretary not not following his instructions as he should have. >> newt gingrich taking over the white house and president over their comments about using executive orders because of all the partisan gridlock. newt gingrich saying he's still standing, he's still here. want to take a look at where the candidates really stand on issues that matter to you most. each day this week we are taking a look at one critical campaign issue. today of course the economy. more specifically how this election could affect your taxes. let's start off with newt gingrich. he wrachbts to create an optional flat tax of 15%. he also wants to make the bush tax cuts permanent. he would drop the corporate tax rate to 12.5% and under his plan, capital gains and inherita

i was serving as a sophomore with tip o'neal.o if reagan wanted to get his economic growth plan, which is the three-year tax cut plan, if he was going to get it through, we had to get a third of the democrats. we couldn't pass it as a partisan idea. reagan worked very hard as a former fdr democrat, he worked very hard to always reach out to democrats and independents. even at the republican convention in 1976 he said my fellow republicans, and he stopped, and there was a pause and he said, and those democrats and independents who agree with us around the country. he always in the back of his head understood that he had to be an american who brought us together. he couldn't just be a narrow partisan. so when i got to be speaker, we had the same thing. i knew from the reagan experience that there's a reagan cookbook. lower taxes, less regulation, more american energy, and be positive about people who create jobs. make them feel good about the risk they're taking to go create jobs. the obama cookbook is the exact opposite. higher ta