the fake obituary is just the start. at school, a grim reaper arrives to call these dead kids out every 15 minutes to symbolize the stat that one kid dies 15 minutes from such actions. a police officer then comes in and reads the obituary, the teen returns to class in white face makeup and a toe tag as cops send mock death certificates to the parents, at home and at work. how do you know this is a really bad idea? the kids love it. consider the target audience who already love drama and romance death. anyone remember how romeo and juliet ends? dying young brings fame. you're now queen of the zombie prom. once they asked local press to back off, the trend stops. the lesson, teens romance post-death attention and run for the exits. the scam also installs grieving people who have had to write real authentic obituaries, so why not focus on the drinking and texting and driving without actually glorifying death? stick to real life. it's sobering enough. >> i am, you know, 49. i remember the good old days. does anybody remember

i want to know, in spite of the fact i might be foretelling my own obituary. but judge like right now, i'm just skipping a beat. little bit like a record, needle skipping a beat. so i have to go back and reconfigure what your question was. >> yeah. so -- and you -- >> and that happens to us when we're working all the time. >> sure. >> because i have to give it to em, then i have to remember it, what i said, then she'll-then i'll ask her to read that back. all the time, acting as if i'm really thinking when in fact i'm just trying to remember. >> the pressure to act as if you're not affected are by it, must be very, very strong. that idea that you're going to pretend that everything's fine. >> yeah, and that's the way it is with other people who have parkinson's. it's in many ways a hidden disease, resisting it, they have to say to somebody else, oh by the way, i've forgotten your name, what is your name? i'm sorry it's the parkinson's. >> how big the is the blank spot that arises when you forget that moment? do you forget everything about what you're doing or

we do, however, restrict what the property obituaries can do because their credit card part of the public good. it's your maintenance responsibility to take care of the sidewalks. we have restrictions for what people can do and we have guidelines and require permits before they can be removed. we did receive an application to remove the tree if the tree is healthy and in good condition we'll deny the baigs application if we feel it's possible to mitigate any litigation. but i want to state the department would never seek to keep the damaged sidewalk and it can be safely preserved and our recommendation was to a expand the area around the interest tre to create a larger tree well, for a nice landscape adjacent to the tree. our policy is to preserve may i approach trees when possible because they provide greater benefits to the residents of the city and it takes many more years for the trees to provide the same services. and so for those reasons we have rules about when trees can be removed from the public right-of-way. i got an e-mail from one person who protested the removal of this tree

i've got to tell you, in his obituary, the pc is going to be the latter part of that. the work he's done on malaria, on a.i.d.s. -- >> does it feel comfortable he's written your obituary? >> it's a graft. >> good morning, bill. >> i hope there's a lot more to be put in there. the part about government generosity is important to highlight. even as philanthropy comes in, government aid is key. u.s. aid, even though it's way below what it should be, is ten times what my foundation spends internationally. as we're looking at budget trade-offs, the question of do vaccines for poor children, which are part of that aid budget, do a.i.d.s. drug keep people alive? do they remain a priority? that's really up for grabs. >> may i ask what you all have learned that's been most striking to you about american education as you've done this work. >> well, what's fascinating is that teachers get no feedback. that is, they may be really good at one part of their job and not another part of their job, but we haven't created a system where observers come in and watch what they do, where we

future we just don't know the americans ultimately gave israel a pass and we saw the new york times obituary was very favorable with iran and it by and large the american coverage of sharon has been to lionize him so you could say today that he got away with it that he has established a greater israel. will history prove that that is a success you know we were reading books about the great startup nation israel's got an economy that's extraordinary bigger than all arab commies around it it's got more it's it has been an extraordinary success story in many ways will that explode will the arabs will it be a solid game story where eventually they'll come back and push the crusaders out of israel we don't know you know that would you like to reflect upon that because agree i agree with everything we just heard from joshua but can you know this vision to be maintained because it looks like you know they're at a dead end here with this so-called peace process which of course sharon was against from the very very beginning against the treaty with with egypt against. relations with the jordan eccent

if you listened to the late jack, you would have had to read our obituary three times in an 18-month period, and there's no doubt that a lot of forces in the party didn't want us to succeed. we were a real threat. we were a threat because with our ideas, we were going to change the power arrangements in the party, and that's something people in politics do not understand anymore. if you talk to this or that group, that's great, and it works on politics because they are gerrymander, and in a republican district, you can't beat them, got a million more votes for congress that time than they did, and they still have the majority. the only challenge is not, i mean, the challenge is never to work with the other party. it's to -- it's to hold the party line, move towards the extremes because if you don't, you get primary, and that's just such a terrible thing for the country, so the second reason is, i just wanted to focus op ideas. y'all have. part of the movement. i'm not going to go into the ideas, y'all know have opportunity and responsibility and community, many of you at cleveland wh

cnn has shown that the string of obituaries seem endless. one after the other. about 15 in all.awyers all found dead. they are all suspected of take ing their own lives. we discovered similar patterns. florida and south carolina. mississippi, ohio and oklahoma. which in 2004 and 2005 saw one layer suicide every month. the terrible outcome of high rates of depression which this lawyer's colleague battled in killing himself. suicide data, lawyers were in the top five. they suffer from depression, the root cause of suicide at a rate 3.6 times higher than non lawyers. you are dealing with a judge witnesses who may or may not say what you thought they were going to say. a jury you are trying to persuade. >> some of these attorneys are highly functional until the very end. generated $600,000 of billable hours his lift year. his wife gave his eulogy and talked about how proud he was of his children and talked about what a wonderful fan he was and you think why would this person take their own life. two more lawyers in their office building also killed themselves. for when the stresses

here is what kerry said he said something about them having an obituary?s, they had an opportunity last year but now i just think too much time has gone by and they are in a bad place. >> is interesting that all of these companies, that they had a good concept initially made justin keep updating. what is that happen? why do people get so lazy? >> they are big companies. so when they tried to do change it's like moving a big tanker. and you have to innovate and be creative and you have to take some chances. all of these, i think they need to find an idea and testmarketed but with jcpenney they try to roll out the big change across all the markets. then when it didn't work they got beat up by the media on their misstep. and i think that some of them should really consider going private again. but it's a lot tougher to do things and move quickly. gerri: you have to come back and talk to us about how individuals can brand themselves in the job market. >> i would love to. gerri: thank you. goodbye. gerri: coming up, which smart phone plan is best for all of you

. >> reporter: the string of obituaries seemed endless. one after the other. all successful kentucky lawyers all found dead. >> to a large degree, it's been trial attorneys. the men are primarily middle-aged. >> reporter: but the biggest shock was yet to come. they're all suspected of taking their own lives. harry rankin, by hanging. jim didwoody, single gunshot wound. as for schwartz? >> how did he kill himself? >> shot himself upstairs here. >> reporter: we discovered similar patterns in montana, florida, north and south carolina, mississippi, ohio and oklahoma. which in 2004 and 2005 saw one lawyer suicide every month. the terrible outcome of high rates of depression, which this lawyer's colleague battled before killing himself. >> the biggest factor in the profession and why there is a problem in this country, and it is called stress. >> reporter: the centers for disease control calculated available suicide data. among all professions for cnn, lawyers were in the top five. lawyers also suffer from depression, the root cause of suicide, at a rate 3.6 times

. >>> later, are we too quick to write chris christie's political obituary? some pundits are saying he's done. new polls on what voters think about the bridge scandal and how he'd do in a contest with hillary clinton. >>> welcome back. part of being human, of course, is putting yourself in someone else's shoes, seeing someone's story and thinking, hey, look, that might have been me. there's empathy, though, and then there's what one florida couple experienced after they heard what curtis reeves had done on monday, when they heard he had shot and killed a man and wounded his wife during a movie confrontation over texting, they had the best possible reason for thinking it might have been them. it actually might have been. they say they had a prior run-in with reeves, also at the movies, also over texting. jermyra dixon told a local cnn affiliate what happened when she first heard about the shooting. >> i had to pull over the car, becau because, um -- it could have been us. he gets up, he's like, "can you do me a favor, can you please just stop texting!" it was

but president obama in his relatively short career in politics has had his political obituary written time and time again. from the early primary analysis in 2007, when the pundit class saw just no way for him to beat hillary clinton, to the scott brown special election, to the tea party congress in 2010, to that rough spell after the first debate in 2012. but time and time again, when things have looked bleak, he has always pulled off whatever it was nobody thought he'd be able to pull off. today, it's starting to look like obamacare is the ultimate example of that pattern playing out. two months ago, obamacare was a massive, flaming disaster. and not just in that special fox news hysteria way, it was actually a disaster. a completely broken, smoldering ruin, which you can learn about even on the regular old lamestream media. >> reporter: in the first months, only 110,000 americans signed up. >> tonight the numbers are finally out, and they confirm the new health insurance program is in big trouble. just 27,000 people have enrolled on the federal website, healthcare.gov. >> the numbe

>> chris christie's political obituary is being written, chris christie, himself, doesn't seem to understand quite the magnitude of this scandal. >> i'm enormously flattered that folks would talk to me in their party as someone who they think could be a candidate for president. i'm absolutely nowhere near beginning that consideration process. >> that was today. today. during the press conference christie convened to try to explain the breathtaking political payback scheme that was apparently engineered from inside his own administration. it is this context with a massive abuse of power scandal exploding around him that chris christie says he is, gosh, flattered. chris christie is still convinced republicans think he might be their guy in 2016. joining me now, political consultant -- publisher of the federalist. senior fellow at the heartland institute. ben, i get the sense, i've been very interested to watch conservatives not rally around christie. usually nothing makes conservatives rally around someone faster than when the liberal media has their cross hairs on him. that has not been the c

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now, that's an extraordinarily premature obituary. what the president needs to do is say, look, he's going to take actions on his own but i think he's got to go beyond that and really exort this congress and say let's not give up. let's actually push for big things, not just bite sized things. >> while you were talking we should note to viewers at home we were showing video from white house.gov of the president. our first read team notes for the first time this white house has engaged in extensive prestate of the union outreach to groups like immigration, including some former clinton staffer as well. does that suggest to you an effort to break out of the bubble now six years in? >> i was going to say it only took six years. yeah, when i worked in the clinton administration, that was something that was done regularly because you wanted to know -- everybody comes with their laundry list, but at the same time you want to do the outreach so people feel like they were heard. it's a good thing -- it's a have positive sign that the presiden

that is the obituary in several of the papers today.ot dealing with the second world war, but the first. here is a story from the financial times today. the german public is reassessing the blame game for the first world war. it is a conflict long overshadowed by the crimes of the third reich. it is being reassessed by a public eager to regard the empire as a great power unlike any other. the best selling history books are those that spread responsibility, rather than hitting the blame on berlin. it notes that a cambridge book sayingote a that imperial germany was not alone. it held the number one spot for seven consecutive weeks. the german edition was published last september. to read more about that story, you can do that. angela is waiting in st. petersburg, florida. good morning. caller: good morning. i cannot believe that you brought up japan and the philippines. anyways -- that guy is not a hero. terribly fori felt obama. terribly. he should fire his speechwriter. ,e brought up so many times other leaders believe this. other coun

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a meals on wheels worker telling the 81-year-old william earl smith that they had just read his obituary it confused and returned his social security check. >> last friday i was notified that i had been deceased. they sent my social security check back. well, that was a little bit of a shock, but i knew i was still walking around. >> there he is looking at his obituary. he was actually mixed up with another william earl smith while he was stationed in korea during the war and at one point, he was deployed to the wrong place. ♪ ♪ >>> that was brian's favorite band, one direction. nearly every young girl obsessed with them, including mark walberg's daughter. he was on conan last night talking about it. listen to this. >> my four-year-old is going, daddy, i like haley. i'm like, i'm going to punch harry in the nose when i see him. but if i see that little (bleep), he's going to get it. i could say hey, i really want to meet one direction, i'm a big fan. maybe you can do the title track for the song. >> by the way, brian, the beer still exist. >> i like the people at schmitz. they're fine pe

he was incredibly accessible, and is, -- this is not his obituary here. he is a thoughtful guy and a love of technology that came through his work. david, when he spoke, said the problem of connectivity, and i would quibble with that a little bit. i think the issue here is the opportunity of connectivity. we have this dawn of great new agent safety that connectivity is going to usher in, and the question is -- is the pace of change consistent with the nature of government in the modern world? i think the answer is, unfortunately, maybe not. the process takes two to three years to implement. every show at ces you see dramatic new innovation, so yeah, we always talk about innovation, but to have innovation, it is finding its way into the marketplace now in quickly and it is really profound. i was just that a show a minute ago and i went through the mercedes display, and there is the wearable watch that commands the interface, the system, and that is pretty striking. as a metaphor, and i do not say this to pick on nhtsa, nhtsa does the best they can do with

even obituaries people didn't die of cancer, they died of a wasting illness. what mrs.ord did was to bring this out into the open and over night transform the way women in particular looked at this disease. for her it was also a lesson. it was her first baby and most important lesson in the influence that a first lady could have by being herself, by shining the light on a dark corner, by educating the public. >> next up we'll listen to president ford himself announcing the results of her surgery. >> i just returned from the hospital where i saw betty as she came from the operating room. the doctor assured me that she came through the operation all right. \[applause] it's been a difficult 36 hours which our faith will sustain us and betty would expect me to be here. >> in a few weeks i will complete my chemotherapy treatments and that will be another milestone for me. since that first year i have not talked much about the difference of my experience with cancer. but my mastectomy and the discussion about it, i was glad to see it because it prompted a large number of wome

he was an incredibly accessible guy who, and is, -- it's not his obituary here. [laughter] but kind, thoughtful and a real love with technology that came through his work. david, when he spoke, said the problem of connectivity, and i might quibble with him a little bit. i think the issue here is the opportunity. we have this dawn of great new age in safety that connectivity is going to usher in. the question is, is the pace of change consistent with the nature of government in the modern world? i think the answer is, unfortunately maybe not. the regulatory process takes two to three years to implement. every show at ces you see dramatic new innovation so yeah, we always talk about innovation but the innovation is finding its way into it marketplace now and quickly and it's really profound. i was just at a show a bit ago and i went to the mercedes display, and there's the wearable watch that commands the interface. the integrated system. that's pretty striking. as a metaphor and a don't say this too big a nhtsa because i think nhtsa does the best it can do with re

and, madam president, when you read these just obituaries and horrific newspaper articles about shooting after shooting, as i have since i became so personally connected to this issue in the wake of the shooting in sandy hook that took dylan hockley's life and jesse lewis' life, ben wheeler's life, you see how casual the violence is. chad olson lost his life on january 13 of this year in wesley chapel, florida. chad was going to see a new movie -- i haven't seen it but heard it's pretty good -- "lone survivor." he was texting his three-year-old daughter as the previews were playing. one of the movie patrons didn't like the fact that chad was texting during the previews of the movie. and so he confronted chad about it. they had an argument. they had an altercation. this guy left the theater to go get a security guard. and when he returned, he came back alone, took out a gun and he shot chad. chad was struck in the chest and died. his wife was hit in the head and suffered injuries. an off duty police officer and two nurses who happened to be in the theater made sure no more shots were fire

considered , it is when you have to switch gears and do something very serious like when somebody dies, obituaryartoons are some of the hardest institute. you want to be -- hardest things to do. you want to be respectful and everybody expects you to crack a joke. that is the worst thing, being misunderstood. mine was a local cartoon that you wouldn't know about, but it was about a local school. it was misunderstood and we ran letters for four days. i haven't gotten any death threats yet. [laughter] i am still holding out for some. situation that was sort of along the lines of what happened with mike. was i think ins the mid-2000's when the israeli government under ariel sharon had a policy of bulldozing homes of palestinian terrorist family members. actually, it must have been earlier. bushs during the administration and many allies thought this was an and advised policy -- an ill advised policy. i was doing a cartoon that was basically -- also, bush was trying to tell sharon, don't do this. he was doing whatever he wanted to do. it was a cartoon where we had arafat as a cat being chased by a bi

is a local jersey scandal, bridge, traffic, who will care in 2016 and there have been premature obituaries written about his volubility as a presidential candidate but this is serious stuff because of the callous as the governor put it, the callous nature of his top aides, people he knew were part of his inner circle, deliberately creating this huge multi date traffic jam in new jersey, apparently for political payback reasons. lori: if you compare it to a sex scandal you are judging the character of someone like anthony wiener or elliot spitzer using taxpayer dollars in question with each of those situations, seeking political revenge, summary quarters, gets things done. where do you come down on all of this? >> there is a line between being a tough guy and in the national stage, a brash tough-talking, and the reason this scandal resonates so loudly, at those so loudly beyond the borders of the garden state is because chris christie has a history in trenton, local reporters know this very well loved playing the game very hard and it is kind of hard, that this didn't happen yesterday. it h

the one thing i'd add, jon, is there's been a little too much premature obituary writing here about thelans to seek the white house, a campaign that doesn't start until two years from now, and some people are saying he's toast. that is ridiculous. this scandal could go away in a week or two or not depending on what comes out. jon: i would point our viewers to an interesting piece chris stirewalt wrote. he points out this is getting so much press in part because so much of the press is new york-based, and a big story that happens in new york, new jersey. i mean, if you live in northern new jersey, you want to get into map hat tan, you've got -- manhattan, you've got to cross the george washington bridge almost every day. that's why this story is getting so much media attention. >> absolutely. as opposed to a bridge in, you know, kentucky, nevada, some other state. but also, i think, chris christie, you know, anybody who watched any portion of that marathon news conference, i mean, he is a fascinating guy because he's not a typical blow-dried, talking points, poll-tested politician. so in

he was incredibly accessible, and is, -- this is not have the butcher he -- this is not his obituary here. he is a thoughtful guy and a love of technology that came through his work. david, when he spoke, said the problem of connectivity, and i would quibble with that a little bit. i think the issue here is the opportunity of connectivity. we have this dawn of great new agent safety that connectivity is going to usher in, and the question is -- is the pace of change consistent with the nature of government in the modern world? , think the answer is unfortunately, maybe not. the process takes two to three years to implement. every show at ces you see dramatic new innovation, so yeah, we always talk about innovation, but to have innovation, it is finding its way into the marketplace now in quickly and it is really profound. i was just that a show a minute ago and i went through the mercedes display, and there is commandsble watch that the system, and that is pretty striking. as a metaphor, and i do not say this to pick on nhtsa, nhtsa does the best they can do with really dedicated pub

also in the obituary section of "the new york times closed quote -- times" -- york ohio, democratic callerwhat do you make of the president telling the new yorker that marijuana is not more dangerous than alcohol alcohol applaudol? caller: i him for making politically incorrect comments. i also like the idea that he is appealing to the younger youthful voting group. i am 58. i feel like he is appealing to me and my ideals. i am a social worker and have been all my adult life. i have worked in a lot of various fields and seen a lot of human tragedy. i have experienced personal tragedy. not one of those tragedies have been related to marijuana use. they have been related to alcoholism and hard drug use. both my first husband and my brother-in-law have dealt with alcoholism. it is indescribable what it does to people. i think we can all, tom how many drug -- how many drunk driving incidents. i have never known anybody that has had a marijuana accident. i think as many callers have mentioned, what the tragic -- what the travesty of what has happened to varying contribute in people is they got

this is almost like an obituary. >> i'd like to shoutout to my favorite i-mac g3.om for so long. >> that shows your age. my dad had the original and the first time he used that spray can effect, amazing. >> i'd graduated to the attic fairly quickly. >> when you look at it, it is a bit of nostalgia. nostalgia is something we find on buzzfeed is powerful. people love it. they have a site where you can go on and put down the first mac you had but there's no sharing functionality. at buzzfeed, tweet out your first mac. >> i got to celebrate it though. you say they botched their own anniversary? >> i don't think they did a great job with the nostalgia campaign. why can't you share out what your first computer was? what city would youed a ideally live in because people love to share out what city should they live in. i need to get on the phone with them. >> i agree with you. >> buzzfeed. >> apple is not great when it comes to social and sharing. they proved that again and again. ping, was it called? >> oh, my god. >> but i think nostalgia is a good move here. they have d

. >> jason, a lot of people have tried to write the obituary for vick tra vic trading, and that surprisedainly you had strength mortgage and credit outpace some weakness on the commodity front. revenues while down from the third quarter did outperform some of the peers that have reported so far. looking out, clearly there's some uncertainties you look at 2014 with respect to vic whether it's the local rule, the reform, tapering and the impact and all that, you know, but the end of the day and you kind of heard jpmorgan talk to it yesterday on their earnings call, you know, dema demand for global instruments continues to grow and they look for volume to improve and widen over time. you are additionally seeing a lot of other banks exit different portions of that space. and you're seeing banks particularly in the u.s. pick up some market share. >> as volcker's codified, are we beyond the sort of balloon of uncertainty, or is that still ahead of us, jason? >> no. i think we got a lot of clarity the latter part of last year, you know, it looked like banks had been adapting to a lot of the fina