the other thing, it's my sexual orientation.w a lot of straight people think that orientation is a choice. i want to tell you that it certainly is not. >> pastor swilley is a pastor in georgia and joins me now here. thank you. >> hi, don. >> everyone will tell you that it's very brave of you, even those that don't support what you did. you're 52 years old and you're a grandfather? >> i am. >> why do it now? >> well, my ex-wife and i have been married 21 years. she's my co-pastor. we have had a successful life by two years ago she said to me -- i was honest with her and two years ago she said, you know, the model of our church is real people experiencing the real god in the real world and you have this message for everyone else that god loves them as they are but you don't give yourself that same grace. >> she was in a cover? >> not at all. it's unconventional, not a typical marriage. it's real in the sense that we have real children and we live in a real house and have built a real ministry. we were not intentionally lying. i gu

newly elected members of congress are in town for freshmen orientation. some from promising to shake up washington once they are officially seated and they were in for a surprise visit by the same people who helped to put them in to office. fox 5's tom fitzgerald has details from the hill. >>> well, if you can think back and remember that very first day at school, that is a little bit how it was here on captiol hill today. house members rolled on to captiol hill on monday as republicans rallied with their tea party backers. >> the tea party are the people of the year for 2010. >> reporter: republicans got a lot of support from the tea party, but with the elections over, the activists like jo ann abbott of dale city, virginia say they expect the gop to deliver promises like repealing the president's health care reforms, shrinking the budget and cutting taxes. >> the day that you get elected, i'm not your friend anymore. i'm your employer. >> reporter: the new house shapes up like this. 187 democrats, 239 republicans. incoming republican congressman andy ha

scott was at a dualer preorientation orientations. tea party candidates gathered two dozen new members away from washington, in baltimore for two days of intensive training on how to stay true to conservative campaigns. >> we have amazing work that must be done with respect to forming our government to make it conformtive with a mandate of our constitution. >> reporter: message to the new members. stick together. >> my approach in all that i do is what i would do at home. >> reporter: sarah palin is jumping into the orientation mix sending a letter to freshman saying stick to the principles that propelled your campaigns. this freshman class meets with the speaker and speaker-to-be later in the day. >>> sarah palin is doing a lot more than just encouraging that freshman class. she is taking her daughter's lead and jumping into the world of reality television. coming up, we'll take a look at her new show. >> plus, fighting a fire on a country road is nothing like battling a blaze on a city street. we'll head out to rural baltimore count

today on capitol hill it was orientation day for the new freshman class. some of the new lawmakers have never served in government. david curley caught up to some of them as they arrived in washington. >> reporter: this washington hotel is a school of sorts today. it's freshman orientation inch the lobby we found this new member who used to work in manufacturing in kansas. >> never run for political office before, and i think that set of experiences is very relevant for what americans are looking for today. >> reporter: todd young from indiana was heading out to find a place to live. >> start to do the people's work. >> reporter: it's a huge freshman class. at least 85 republicans. nearly half have never served in government. among them, six doctors, three car dealers, two funeral directors, an airline pilot and a pizza restaurant ownerment seven are women two are african-american. including tea party candidate tim scott of south carolina. >> it's amazing. it's fantastic. >> reporter: scott was at one of the preorientation orientations. freedom work, which

freedom works hard an orientation and they are saying we have one tea party orientation on saturday and now we have one on sunday and choose that over the establishment. if you are a young congressman, associated with the tea party, it is going to be impossible. your head will be spinning. >> and the spokesman are afraid the conservative group of republicans will siphon off some members. >> it is the ground swell already starting, washingtoning is taking a bite out of the freshman already and they are not even congressman yet. we will report throughout the day. and now the rest of the head loans: pro democracy leader suu kyi detained for seven years by burma's june that has been freed. barricades were removed from suu kyi's compound. she is such an important figure there in the country previously nope as burma and won the nobel peace prize but was jailed by the government and is called the nelson mandela of that country. a group of would be bombers are stopped after storming a major nato base in afghanistan. they stormed the check point sparking a gun battle that involved nato helicopte

was the ceremonies a chance to get in touch with the oriental culture of south. east their legs and to enjoy a. wonderful tastes. and there's no smoking drinking or mobile phones allowed inside here before. there are several special circumstances in which tea is prepared and consumed in china as a sign of respect for a family gathering to apologize and to connect large families and wedding days here with the club assistants who are poor and splashed in and over turkey to cups generous with their time to explain the five stages of boiling cattle from pile of crap to winds through pine trees sounds a little odd but all a part of the unique traditions and customs related to tea no wonder russians love it and ask for me my daily grey now a serious competition to go in there. yes. on a. side morning to absent one of. the fortunately that's once all we have on this week's program on chinese culture is in the same camp so i'll see you again at the same time next week then for me and there's the theme of my. welcome to the wisconsin t.v. experience with nobel prizes so p

meantime martin andrews dives into some authentic oriental culture that's right here in the russian capital moscow out is next. this interior design. opens five years ago and from contemporary restaurants to various shops and exciting art that's what we'll be exploring on this for its must go out program chinese culture in the russian capital. although thousands of kilometers from moscow people forget that russia borders china the countries have had diplomatic and commercial relations for centuries and today this extends to russia's fascination with chinese traditions and designs. furniture from several manufacturers in china and it's all handmade good pieces made of solid wood inlaid with pearls and various turbans many chinese people who come to our shop i'm very impressed and they say it has been difficult for them to find such mazing furniture in their country and we have it here in the us. dating back thousands of years chinese interior design is founded on the principles of energy simplicity and nature they strive to achieve surroundings characterized by tranquility and peace and from

and transit oriented development plans. president miguel: one thing, i understand your concept on phasing. the one facing that throws a little bit of a monkey wrench into it is the m line, how that fits into it. because that is integral to the concept there, and also how it affects those. those things, when we get to the transit and of that to me a fax the phasing as well. that whole thing has to be tied together a little bit better than we are getting right now. commissioner moore? commissioner moore: since you are working in the mayor's office, i think he might be tried to talk about the identification of the city and the major neighborhood route not being a state highway. 19th avenue is a state highway, which is in conflict for what we're trying to make it be. it we're trying to make it a bit -- tried to make it a safe neighborhood street. the relocation of the m line just takes one obstacle away. it is still a state highway. i will just pass that on. and i am not making a joke. i think there is some future, forward-look

orientation is under way for new members before their swearing in in january. >> there's a lot to get to in just a short amount of time. emily schmidt has details from washington. hi, emily. >> vinita and rob, good morning to you. if the midterm election sent a message to lawmakers, today's beginning of the lame duck session is the first to see if that message is actually sinking in. this monday morning means back to work for many in congress soon to be out of work. after democrats lost dozens of seats in the midterm elections. president obama reflected on the vote on air force one. returning from a ten-day trip from asia. >> in that obsessive focus on policy, i neglected some things that matter a lot to people and rightly so. >> reporter: the president said he will tell republican leaders voters didn't give them a mandate for gridlock. but there's plenty of division, especially about tax cuts that expire at the end of next month. >> i don't think there's any room to negotiate on raising taxes, particularly on smaller businesses. i hope we can get a permanent extension. >> what if we

>>neil: is the pressure on in this orientation meeting we are told could be fiery.so. i think there is a lot of have itations, a lot of groups that are trying to have events and celebration for the freshmen and it is going to be worked out and people will attend a lot of different events. >>neil: have you heard or seen this e-mail going around over the orientation session that is more put on by the republican national committee than it is tea partiers and the tea partiers or victors, are being quickly co-opted by the party. what do you make of that? >>guest: well, i have seen the e-mail and i don't think the republican party is trying to co-opt the tea party. we all share the same views. we hair a desire for limited government. for freedom. and that is what we have to do. we have to figure out scheduling is an interesting process during an orientation week which is very busy and hopefully we can all be able to bounce from place to place so we can all interact and enjoy the moment. >>neil: you say that you share the same views. no offense i have not heard that consis

right now 94 newly-elected lawmakers are going through orientation.se races are still officially undecided. of the 94 incoming freshman, 85 are republicans, nine democrats, and at least 24 of the newcomers were backed by the tea party. and the tea party is gearing up for action when the new congress convenes in january. tea party leaders plan to flex their muscles on some key conservative issues like a move to ban earmarks. so how much influence will they actually have once they get to capitol hill? let's talk about it with bret baier. he, of course, is the anchor of "special report." it seems like they are going to have more than the usual amount of influence, bret. would you agree? >> reporter: yes, jon, no doubt about it. it's already changing the environment up on capitol hill. as you see these incoming freshman arrive and, of course, as you mentioned, they won't be sworn in until after the first of the year. but the fact that republicans are going to vote on banning earmarks for the next congress and the fact that there is so much talk about this

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but he shouldn't orient often republicans. he ought to orient off the american people. the american people said they don't want obamacare. the american people have said by huge margins, they are frightened of big deficit spending. they want washington to spend less. they want us to focus on paychecks and jobs. they want economic growth to be the number one issue. all he's gotta say is, not hear boehner and mcconnell, he needs to say i hear the american people and listen and think carefully about what are the american people saying? they ain't saying go ahead and continue to be a left wing president who tries to out maneuver the republicans. that will be a road to the end of his presidency. >> greta: does he have it in him to do that? >> i done know it is going to be fascinating to find out. he's clearly smart enough if he wants to do it. if he decides that's his mission in life he has the capacity to do it. the question is judgment. is he willing to listen to the american people or determined to impose an obama world view, no matter what the people want. >> greta: repub

meanwhile, freshman orientation under way in washington this morning. more than 100 newly elected members of congress, 90% of them republicans, began to arrive in washington yesterday to learn what it takes to do their jobs. last night house republican leader john boehner, who's poised to become the new speaker, welcomed the incoming class. according to excerpts of the speech obtained by the hill.com boehner told members in the new majority the people's priorities will be our priorities, creating jobs, cutting spending, reforming congress. the goal is to start us on a path to smaller, less costly, more accountable government. for the first time, outgoing house speaker nancy pelosi is being challenged publicly to step down as leader of congressional democrats. north carolina congressman heath schuler a member of the blue dog coalition said yesterday if pelosi does not abandon her bid for minority leader he will challenge her for the post. >> i'm hoping that nancy pelosi will step aside and will allow the leaders that are available who are ready to go, bu

freshmen orientation started today. week of events.rybody wants to lay claim to the guys and that's where the controversy began brewing yesterday. most of the house republicans, incoming guys are coming to reception here in an hour at the capitol hill club. now, the controversy is the tea party patriots scheduled a competing event and they got confrontational in an e-mail to supporters yesterday pressuring members to attend their event. the memo said, "we need you to call and e-mail the incoming congressmen and tell them you want them to attend your tea party patriots event or would you rather they attend an indoctrination organized by d.c. insiders and lobbyists, members of the ruling class? the tea party patriots put out the private e-mail and phone number of all the incoming republican freshmen and some of them got bombarded with calls. later the tea party patriots put out another memo apologizing for doing that. also backing off their criticism of this event today. it's unclear now whether the tea party patriots are actually going

if you're hungry for art and the state museum of oriental art is the place you should visit it's one of the largest museums representing the culture of the eastern countries and chinese art is part of its permanent collection exhibited in several schools the display features around twenty thousand items representing the country's artistic traditions in chronological order starting from as early as almost full thousand years ago. jolty imperato meaning yellow emperor and russian is a clinic of alternative medicine combining the traditions of chinese theories which of thousands of years old but the latest developments top specialists from china work in the clinic and pharmacy the philosophy behind their approach is to treat the past and not just the disease its methods as acupuncture massages and treatments for plants and hubs are usually used as remedies. in the first patient is examined by both russian and chinese doctors translator also turns your appointment is needed in doses based carefully study of medical history and suggestions treatments believes that acupuncture suction cup

. >>> question -- can sexual orientation be changed through conscious decision-making or therapy?uestion itself is highly charged with its seeming implication than one sexual orientation may be preferable to another. but some men and women do want to change. tonight, our cameras for the first time are allowed inside a retreat for men that claims it can help. it costs $650 a weekend. and it's all part of the newest wave of so-called gay reparative therapy. ryan owens has our report. >> reporter: meet preston, a 28-year-old from outside salt lake city, utah, who has just landed in houston for a weekend with his buddies. >> i'm definitely excited to go and take part in it. >> reporter: they've hit the road to the outskirts of town. toward a small secluded camp. preston left his wife, megan, at home because this we! >> it's so good to see you. >> to be able to connect from one man to another with no facade, with no, you know, nothing holding back, it's just amazing. >> reporter: part summer camp bonding, part therapeutic peer counseling, this 48-hour retreat is called journey into man

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it will enhance the therapeutics of the hospital and will include sensory stimulation, orientation, socialnteraction. >> it was set into like boxes to create color filled areas in the hospital. inspired by nature, the signature painting of native san francisco birds, clouds, and the surface of the ocean waves were translated into a variety of media including glass mosaic and

>> en la habana todavÍa no sufrimos efectos del viento, si lluvia y humedad, pero sÉ que para el orientes de emergencia mÉdica se dirigieron al lugar, quÉ tan lejos estÁ donde ocurriÓ la tragedia? hay algÚn hospital o poblaciÓn cercana? >> bueno, es un pueblo pequeÑo pero estÁ relativamente cerca, de la cabecera de provincia, se ha compuesto una comisiÓn investigadora, hacia allÁ fue mucho personal de salud pÚblica pero todavÍa hay bastante misterio. si han perecido todos, si hay sobrevivientes, es uno y formas en que se mantiene en secreto. >> nosotros nos mantendremos pendientes de todo lo que ocurra. muchÍsimas veces por ayudarnos a conocer un poco mÁs de los detalles de lo que ocurre en la habana y en cuba y general. yoani, muchas gracias. >> y en otro incidente aÉreo, un aviÓn airbus, la aeronave mÁs grande del mundo, tuvo una emergencia poco despuÉs de despegar de singapur rumbo a sidney. el incidente ha sido considerado el mÁs grave de uno de estos gigantescos aviones en los Últimos tres aÑos. a tal punto, que la aerolÍnea suspendiÓ los vuelos de este aviÓn. intensas lluvias lleva

once you get towards the center of the park you really lose your orientation. very much in a remote area. there are a lot of trees that shield your view from the urban setting. you would simply see different groves that gives you a sense of freedom, of being outdoors, not being burdened by the worries of city life. john mclaren had said that golden gate park was too far away. he proposed that we have a park in the south end of the city. the campaign slogan was, people need this open space. one of the things that had to open is there were a lot of people who did a homestead here, about 25 different families. their property had to be bought up. so it took from 1928 to 1957 to buy up all the parcels of land that ended up in this 317 acres. the park, as a general rule, is heavily used in the mornings and the evenings. one of the favorite places is up by the upper reservoir because dogs get to go swim. it's extremely popular. many fights in the city, as you know, about dogs in parks. we have 317 acres and god knows there's plenty of room for both of us. man and his

we're surrounded by low-scale, car-oriented neighborhoods. i think the assertion of that is quite troubling to me, because there is no relief except for the open space which is already on its own right there for a moment. the number of units that we are bringing to the side exceeds what is proposed for treasure island. i wanted to say that and let that stand in the room because it is not the end. while i believe in more transit- oriented development, i think the retrofitting of the suburbia has to occur around it being more gradual and parts of the sites and be more responsive to the setting. >> her last comments because it echoes of my thoughts. the site has to be intensified, there is no question about it. the ecological situation out there is not good, it hasn't been good, and it is not sustainable. in my opinion, it is a bit overdone. it is a bit too much in intensification. i think the scattering of buildings, the way it is laid out so far, it means to be worked. i agree with commissioner moore as to the lot of buildings which do not, in

it's freshman orientation.e lobby we found this new member who used to work in manufacturing in kansas. >> never run for political office before. i think that set of experiences is very relevant for what americans are looking for. >> reporter: todd young was looking for a place to live. >> time to finally hit the ground running and start to do the people's work. >> reporter: it's a huge freshman class. at least 85 republicans. nearly half have never served in government. among them, six doctors, three car dealers, two funeral directors, an airline pilot and a pizza restaurant owner, seven women, two african-american. including tea party candidate tim scott of south carolina. >> this is amazing. >> reporter: scott was at one of the dueling preorientation oren traces. freedom works gathered two dozen members away from washington in baltimore, for two days of intensive training on how to stay true to their conservative come pain. >> we have an amazing turn around with respect to reforming our government and confor

and these were oriented north- south. that allows for more sunlight to penetrate into the neighborhood, and also to help make sure they are not aligned with the strong westerly wind we get off the oceans, so we don't get winded tunnels coming through. these have offsets to knock down the wind tunnel. the next question became, when we introduced the street grid, how do we introduce an urban forum into this fabric? one of the things that was important to us when we started to think about this was that it is different from other projects that one might think of as a neighborhood plan, in that it was not a skyline project. it was not about creating a recognizable skyline from a distance. this was more of a neighborhood where it was a finer grain, were you would start to fill in at a lower height. you would recognize a generally urban fabric, but not necessarily a large place markers associated with it. how we did that was, basically, we created two zones of base height, the general height of the fabric of the neighborhood. on

>> i smiled when you said this was freshmen orientation.hink this week, packing up the u-haul and heading up to washington. it is very exciting. a lot of things coming at these new members. going to be very confusing, but the biggest challenge is going to be in the hands of john boehner. the incoming speaker of the house for the republican party, because as you know, 40 of these members had tea party support. support from a group at times is very independent from the republican party. that's going to present speaker boehner with many challenges. the good news is, he went through this with the rest of us in '95, '96, '97 '98. i cannot underline it, saying it all year on the show, the parallels between 1994 and today, instead of the tea party we had people who had support from the republican party and perot groups. i was one of those people and i felt as much pull from the perot supporters as i did from the republican party. it gave me a great deal of independence, along with people like steve largent and lindsey graham at the time, and many

. >> the old oriental house. >> and this survived the earthquake. >> and the fire. >> and the fire as well. it was made a landmark in 97 and damaged in the 89 earthquake and in an attempt to fix it or replace it and we have a building inside and some ways the new building structure is supporting the masonry of the old warehouse and you can see it and it's fantastic how it's done and called facadism and in our world and just save the outside but it's better to save that than nothing i think, and here is the little sign on it and the oriental warehouse and all of that remains of the pacific steamship company. designate thdesignated alandmark in 1997 y street. >> a lot of the buildings were landmarked of the 200 year anniversary of the u.s. and 1976 we started landmarking buildings and what i think set it off was the demolition of the fox theater and people got up in arms and no more of the demolition and celebrating 200 years of the country and 200 years from now we want some left. >> there was a historic survey done i believe in 76 by the planning department. is that accurate? >> junio

and you have this large open spaces of that you can orient yourself. although we have this radiating geometry of what was there, i think what we have done is try to take that can turn it into creating a single street that runs through the neighborhood and ties it together to become a way for residents and visitors to become oriented and access smaller, individual streets where people might be living. commissioner moore: let me ask you a question if i may. what determined the density of the project for you? we do want to create a higher density near transit, but the distance of your showing in one of your diagrams, this one by far exceeds the established distances by which people walk to transit. we have studies throughout the united states from the introduction of the red line and green line in washington d.c. where we are trying to retrofit suburbia more closely to downtown washington, it is used as a criteria that people did not walk much further than five minutes. if the normal expectation is 3 minutes, the actual expectation will be beyond five min

orientation is under way for the new members who will be sworn in january. for current members there is a lot to get to in a short amount of time. emily schmidt has the details. >> this monday morning means back to work for many in congress soon to be out of work after democrats lost dozens of seats. president obama reflected on the vote while on air force one returning from a trip to asia. >> in that obsessive focus on policy i neglected some things that matter a lot to people and rightly so. >> he says he will tell republican leaders voters didn't give them a mandate for gridlock but there is pleasant of division about tax cuts set to expire. >> i don't think there is any room to negotiate on raising taxes particularly on smaller businesses. i hope we can get a permanent extension. >> what if we moved up to a million dollars, everyone below a million will get a tax cut but the millionaires and billionaires won't? >> other challenges, lift being the don't ask don't tell policy for gay service members, voting on a strategic russian missile deal and banning e