the political paralysis has come to extremes. >> she was first elected to the house in 1978 and the senate in 1994. she says there is an all or nothing mentality to running congress now. she wants no more part of it. she is not running for reelection. that is an opening for the democrats. >> they might have a war in maine. they have two weeks to decide who the candidate is. this is really sad. this is increasingly happening. moderate members of congress leave because they feel there is no place for them. she is only the latest. there are many others we can name. the idea of a moderate republican is almost non- existent and is getting less existent in the democratic party with the idea of a moderate democrat. the national journal did an analysis of the voting pattern. there's almost nobody in the middle. how do you make a deal if there is nobody in the middle? i hope obama offers her a job and puts her in charge of something important. >> she left because of the political paralysis on capitol hill. nina is right. it is sad for the person the senate is losing. she pinpoint the problem. the g

i hope he puts her in charge of something important. >> she left because othe political paralysis on capitol hill. nina is right. it is sad for the person the senate is losing b because she pinpoint the p problem. the goal in congress ito block the other side. gridlock has become your highest goal. you are not really there to pass anything anymore. you are not really there to change anything anymore. you are just there to keep the other side -- >> i would put it differently. i do not think gridlock is a goal. it is a result of both pararties pursuingheir own ends to the exclusion of everybody else. they want to reach some accommodatn on. policy issues. what is missing in theenate e is the notion of respect for one another. that is gone. >> what is going to change it? that is ththe issue. >> it is been exacerbated. >> the direct way to chang it would be for president obama to run on changing it. >> he tried that. >> he needs to do it again. he needs to find something substantive. instead, he is doing familiar tropes. it is a tired o old message. it is not the message that ll give him

the ads show people whose smoking resulted in lost limbs or paralysis. $54 million campaign is the largest and starkest ever. >> they're doing something somewhere like that in the u.k. >> learn how this stretch of warm weather could be a bad thing for the cherry blossoms. >> how high will temperatures rise? >> is this thursday morning. get ready for some record heat this afternoon. are warming trend will continue. it is going to be changing a little bit temperature-wise day to day. today we are on the high end. 56 right now in the district. 50 in winchester. 62 in lexington park. another warm start to the day. 82 this afternoon. the record high at reagan national is 81. a record-challenging heat. a slight chance of a thundershower. increasing clouds. tomorrow more clouds and sunshine. especially as we go through the afternoon hours. in the upper 70's. cloudy on saturday and cloud cover on sunday. we will have an influence off the ocean on sunday, giving us the chance of a drizzle into the upper 60's. we will rebound next week into the 70's. the warmth wi

they are the ones with a rally -- paralysis or severe vision loss. >> the first walk will be april the 14th. it starts and doesn't let up. >> reporter: this year we're doing nine walks across the state of maryland. our largest one is the one in towson. >> what do the walks mean? >> this is the pry -- primary one. last year alone we funded about 40.5 million. some occurred right here in the state of maryland mat johns hopkins and university of maryland. i always say we're so fortunate that we have the best clinics here. i will say we have so many individuals who are so passionate about our mission and so passionate about trying to find a fewer for ms that through the years we've been able to fund research. it's been much more of a challenge. >> thank you mark for coming in. it's ms awareness week. we are a pod sponsor. we will force you to get out and raise money. thank you. >> all right. take a look out there, nice night to take a walk. a lot of people doing that. 65 at bwi. we've been as warm as 71 today. not record breaking but nearly 20 degrees above average. sunshine helping to war

containing graphic eye-catching images of health problems smoking can cause, including loss of limbs, paralysis and heart disease it is a 54 million dollar campaign the latest and most bleak anti-smoking campaign ever backed by the cdc. health officials hope the ads wilt get 50,000 americans to kick the happen -- will get 50,000 americans to kick the habit. >>> the american cancer society and government advisory group says it is not necessary to have a cervical cancer screening every year. they say women can wait between three and five years between screenings they say women should have the hpv test at the same time. they have found testing every few years just as many deaths as testing every year they say annual testing brought on false positives, unnecessary biopsies, risk of infection and unnecessary stress. >>> starting today the agriculture department is offering a choice when it comes to the ground beef additive known as pink slime the name given to the filler material treated with knew money to kill germs critics wonder if it is safe. the usda is allowing schools to order without it if t

>> the bullet did end up piercing her spine and that's what ended up causing her paralysis. >> it's horrible to see that because of some criminals. a little girl who was happily dancing one second will now never be able to walk. >> her mother said that she wanted to be a singer and a dancer, and at this point her dreams were even taken from her because she can no longer dance like this ever again. >>> this mugshot you are looking at is camilla joy rhodes. she was arrested monday accused of stealing wallets from a 10-year-old girl's birthday party at a skate rink. she got out of prison just last fall on similar charges for a conviction. >> this incident happened at gresham skate world. in this video we got, you can see this woman, believed to be camilla, going into a skate area. she goes in and says she's with a party and she has a gift bag with her. what's caught on video is unbelievable. >> having fun doing the cake thing and then all of a sudden we realize that one of my aunts had her wallet missing. >> so let me get this straight. this woman pretended to be part of a child's birthday part

when i heard he survived, i was thinking, paralysis, i was thinking he could potentially be a vegetable, because he did get a gunshot wound to the head. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> he's anything but a vegetable. he's sitting up talking, explaining what happened, how the fight started. >> we have a crew translation of the portuguese. sounds like there are six bullets somewhere that either have been removed or still need to be removed from his body. >> he's a walking -- >> he's a talking, walking miracle. ♪ >>> andrew dickey does some very dangerous stuff on his bike. >> no, he is not. >> oh, boy. >> oh, yes, he is. see the master take on disaster. >>> and this video goes viral, asking jeremy lin to speak at graduation. >> so have you gotten any kind of response? >> see the video, and find out what the breakout nba star is going to do. >>> the town of marshfield, wisconsin has seen a visitor lately. it was a black bear. this video was shot by randall krueger. he also got other video of the bear just hanging out in his yard. this was actually shot about a year ago. here's the bear

containing graphic eye-catching images of health problems smoking can cause, including loss of limbs, paralysisnd heart disease it is a 54 million dollar campaign the latest and most bleak anti-smoking campaign ever backed by the cdc. health officials hope the ads wilt get 50,000 americans to kick the happen -- will get 50,000 americans to kick the habit. >>> the american cancer society and government advisory group says it is not necessary to have a cervical cancer screening every year. they say women can wait between three and five years between screenings they say women should have the hpv test at the same time. they have found testing every few years just as many deaths as testing every year they say annual testing brought on false positives, unnecessary biopsies, risk of infection and unnecessary stress. >>> starting today the agriculture department is offering a choice when it comes to the ground beef additive known as pink slime the name given to the filler material treated with knew money to kill germs critics wonder if it is safe. the usda is allowing schools to order without it if the

of health problems that can come from smoking cigarettes including lost limbs, heart surgery or paralysisthe $54 million campaign is the latest anti-smoking push ever by the cdc. >> starting this fall, schools will have a nice little option. lunch meat with or without pink slime. always good to have options. the usda announcing the new opt-out policy this morning so-called pink slime. you see it right there, real delicious looking. it's a controversial ammonia treated and used as filler in some ground beef. pink slime is made from leaner meat so schools can ask for fattier meat. >>> the world's ugliest dog has passed away at the age of 15. chihuahua mix yoda died in her sleep this week. yoda won $1,000 and a trophy nearly 15 times her size when she won the contest in petta luma last year. yoda will hold the title until a new winner is crowned in june. >>> officers on the hunt for this, a bright yellow cheesy suspect cover individual sorts of toppin 6 f 6 foot tall slice of pizza was ripped off in plain sight. never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. (woman) the go

and finally in december 19th of 1860, he had paralysis of his wrist. it did resolve itself. there are many, many entries on this. and it was generally thought that he was much better by the end of that tour. george ritter of the "uss brooklyn" was murdered on november 7th, 1859. robert williams may have been a witness. there were 12 witnesses to this murder. some of them were actually chained to stop them from testifying. and it could be that because of this murder, the deck log of the "uss brooklyn" was held by the u.s. marshal's office. it is not available at national archives. so the theory, the remains of the older man found in the turret matched the age and approximate measurements of robert williams. the remains were of the man with arthritis and asymmetrical legs. robert williams of the "uss brooklyn" had abscesses which can be a sign of syphilis as seen in the medical log. the age is consistent in the 1858 and 1862 enlistment but not in the 1855. if the 1855 enlistment was correct and this was the same man, he should have been about 33. but as we see in the medical r

i call it paralysis by analysis. instead of just letting your body react naturally, stress causes you to overthink the situation, and this can throw you off your stride at a critical moment. >> so what can we do to overcome an attack of the nerves? >> well, here's how to fight the stress. simple things, like singing a song as you step up to the ball or focusing on the spot at the back of the net where want the ball to land, can prevent you from overthinking every step of the performance. >> i'll certainly have to give that a try. thanks, dr. beilock. >> you're welcome! >> blue whales are big, and so is their appetite. a new study of the giant creature found they take in almost half a million calories, not in one day -- in one mouthful. that's like eating a thousand fried-fish sandwiches in a single serving. this report is brought to you by paramount pictures. >> who are you? >> hugo! >> nominated for more oscars than any other movie this year, "hugo" is a truly awesome adventure. >> where are your parents, little man

the reason that i or my nco is pushing you or kicking you in the butt as we like to say, paralysis is the most detrimental response you can have to fear. more you can move, more you can mitigate it, and use it to your advantage. of course, afterwards my guess is the enemy was just as afraid as we were. that's something unique. >> leroy, anything you want to add? >> i'd say that's a good topic, fear. i could talk forever, but i'm going to keep it short. i remember my first deployment, probably the best situation of fear was being trained, a lot of soldiers had trained to go to combat. when we got that call to go, everyone was excited. it is kind of like you're practicing, practicing, never go to the big game. when you're on that plane headed overseas, it's dark, only little red lights inside the airplane, you're sitting across from each other, and you're looking at the faces of all these other soldiers across from you. all of them are like nothing is bothering them. you can look into their eyes, see a little of that fear you have in yourself, and the knots in your stomach. it takes you

gwen: debilitating paralysis. that's strong language, chuck. congress is about to really change, if it hasn't already. >> yes. well, this gridlock has been growing and growing. it's become a huge problem and it's really quite shocking for senator snowe, i think, to say she wasn't going to run, because she's a very able politician. she's really figured out her state of maine. there's no question she could have been re-elected, but she's sick of it. she's not the only person in the middle. you have ben nelson, the democrat from nebraska getting out, joe lieberman. there are several others. and what you're seeing is this continuation of a growing partisanship, and it's particularly a problem in the senate, ballgames the senate is set up really to solve problems in the middle. and you have the filibuster power that gives the minority party a tremendous amount of power. but what you have is a partisanship that's almost like a parliamentary system like in the house, where the parties do not work together on hardly anything. gwen: so as a result of th

that's what people are worried about, that our future is imperiled by this paralysis. >> reporter: was it getting too lonely to be a moderate republican in the senate? >> there wasn't a lot of company. that's for sure. i know that some would describe us as a vanishing center. i would always say the sensible center. obviously, fewer and fewer within our ranks. >> reporter: snowe's centrist positions were a reflection of the politics in her state of maine and her departure is a big blow for republicans, scott. they had been hoping to retake control of the senate in november. that was already a tall order, and now they'll have to fight to hold on to her seat, too. >> pelley: thanks, nancy. there is a glimmer of hope tonight that north korea's new leader, kim jong-un, wants to step back from the nuclear brink. today his country promised to stop testing nuclear weapons and long-range missiles and allow international inspections. in return, the u.s. will send tons of food aid. north koreans have struggled with starvation for decades while money was diverted to the military and its atomic bom

withdrew want to end up in analysis paralysis. >> that happens all the time. i see it with patents.eople get focused on protecting their idea and it is not a good idea customers want. don't stumble early on trying to really build on research around it. get it out there and see how i does. >> fast ail fast and cheaply an never the same way twice. >> willie writes -- as small company creating a high-end product how do you create larger market share by emphasizing quality? >> smart. very mart. small businesses will never win on price. it is quality and more importantly i think service. i think that's how you establish the touch points with your customer. s that how you get them talking, referring other customers, coming back. you know, in the case of this, i would wonder how you sort of expand beyond this one product. but -- you know, i think -- service is definitely something that can distinguish you from the crowd. >> how do you make sure your customers are talking you about about you? >> external versus internal. external basis customer's testimonials are fantastic. if you get them

you don't want to end up in analysis paralysis. >> that happens all the time. i see it with patents. people get so focused on protecting their idea, and it's not even a good idea that customers even want. don't let the, you know, don't stumble early on trying to really build a lot of research around it. get it out there and see how it does. >> fail fast, fail cheaply, and never the same way twice. >> all right, let's move on to the next one. this is from willie. as a small company creating a high-end product, how do you create a larger market share by emphasizing quality? >> smart. very smart. i've said it a million times. i probably sound like a broken record. small businesses are never going to win on price. i can't think of a single win that does. it's quality. more importantly, i think, service. i think that's how you establish the touch points with your customer. that's how you get them talking, referring to other customers coming back. in the case of this, i would wonder how you sort of expand beyond this one product. you know, i think service is definite

security council and made it less likely although you may be a maybe a traitor it's created a lot more paralysis even if i can go to you because russia and china is good to get here and given a lot of criticism in the world for its vetoing of any more intervention into syria and the russians and the chinese will go back and say look what you did in libya you abused that mandate because of this new doctrine in the russians and the chinese are going to not budge on this one or if there is it'll be much more nuance now what i'm getting at is it our destruction is finding itself dead in the water because it was abused in libya. i don't think so i mean russia and china's position on this the resolution that was put to the security council that russia and china vetoed made no mention of military intervention it's very important regime change is mentioned in there and in the need to change the political order on the ground so it's under the same we understand and slaughters its own people like that and is an elected and has ruled for forty years and i don't think it's unreasonable to discuss regime cha

it shows things like heart surgery, tracheotomy lost limbs or paralysis. $54 million campaign has been the largest ever by the cdc. schools will soon have a choice when it comes to be served to students. the agricultural department is expected to make an aspin today. they can make an odd moment -- bulk ground beef that does not have the pink slime. the federal reserve you can follow them on twitter. >> if you are an apple investor, it is payday. with business news, we go to the bloomberg headquarters. >> good morning. lots of anticipation over apple's ipad released tomorrow. people already camping out in front of the fifth avenue store in new york city. investors want a piece of the pie as well. shares closing at just under $590 a share yesterday. at least four analysts are projecting shares will hit $700 or more. the fed is ready to tweet. this is ben bernanke's lead is ever to reach out to the public. followers can see the fed pause press releases, testimony to congress, and even the weekly balance sheet. it seems those getting professionally social on l

campaign that shows people whose smoking lead to things like heart disease tracheotomies lost limbs or paralysis. the $54 million ad campaign is the largest and starkest anti- smoking pushed ever. spending more on almost every form of transportation and the fallout from an anti goldman sachs op ed. >> good morning. topping america's money, gas prices may be peaking. signs california prices will go down soon and other areas could follow. gas is up 5 cents in the past week. buying an airline ticket could get bumpy. some predict fares could double this spring and summer. the huge wall street firm goldman sachs lost more than $2 billion of its market value yesterday. shares plunged after an employee publicly quit calling the corporate culture "toxic and destructive." you jersey lottery winner will have to split his jackpot with five former co-workers. he claimed the entire mecca millions jackpot was his, not part of a lottery pool. a jury disagreed and says he owes the former friends $4 million apiece. that is america's money. >> 2012 campaign, rick santorum hopes wins in alabama and mississippi wil

he's looking at, because he is walking just fine in that tape, and i don't see anything close to paralysis or injury in that videotape. we have enhanced it and looked at it. and we're saying where is the broken nose, the blood on the back of the head -- the evidence is there for you to look with your own eyes. listen to the 911 tapes. you don't hear trayvon saying about you're going to die in the 911 tapes. >> if this goes to trial, how could this be used by a prosecutor in terms of mr. zimmerman if this is his testimony or his statement that his father and brother are properly appropriating what he is saying. >> you prefaced it the right way, reverend. if it is his testimony, and they shared bits and pieces that were convenient to suggest that his nose was broken, his head was beat into the concrete, but we know from this video that report is not true based on what we see. so if that is his words and his father and brother are saying everything he said to the police, that he can be in peace. more importantly, as you assume he told this to the lead investigator, reverend sharpton, and the

we're in paralysis. our government has made promises that it knows it can't keep. democrats have been making empty promises and the bill is about to come due. we're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar the government spechbdz. we're mortgaging not just our children's future, but we're going to harm our economy. so what we decided to do in the house is to deal with this. is to tackle this challenge before it tackles us. >> how many got a favorable reaction, raise your hands. >> i wasn't finished making my point. [ laughter ] >> halfway through. that is the challenge. it takes politicians too long. >> the problem we see it, granted i'm a house member. in order to pass the budget, the law says the how passes the budget the senate passes a budget you compromise and pass a unified budget. house passed a budget to tackle the debt the senate didn't pass budget in 2010 and 2011 and now they say they will not pass one in 2012. if one of these two bodies doesn't act. nothing gets done. >> senator bennett, senator from colorado, is the senate responsible for why nothing is pass

we're in paralysis. our government has made promises that it knows it can't keep. democrats have been making empty promises and the bill is about to come due. we're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar the government spechbdz. we're mortgaging not just our children's future, but we're going to harm our economy. so what we decided to do in the house is to deal with this. is to tackle this challenge before it tackles us. >> how many got a favorable reaction, raise your hands. >> i wasn't finished making my point. [ laughter ] >> halfway through. that is the challenge. it takes politicians too long. >> the problem we see it, granted i'm a house member. in order to pass the budget, the law says the how passes the budget the senate passes a budget you compromise and pass a unified budget. house passed a budget to tackle the debt the senate didn't pass budget in 2010 and 2011 and now they say they will not pass one in 2012. if one of these two bodies doesn't act. nothing gets done. >> senator bennett, senator from colorado, is the senate responsible for why nothing is pass

that's what you're seeing here is the paralysis of the republican party when faced with anything that rush limbaugh does. the only thing they do is back down if they timidly criticize him. he came of age right after the roe v wade. this culture war took place where clear channel has these owned and operated rural stations where they are piping in right wing radio all day long. he's speaking to older and male and isn't in the modern world. he's also speaking to these terrified republicans who don't have the guts to stand up to him because they are afraid that base will erupt against them and vote against them. >> do you think rush limbaugh has given us a poison pill for him to be too difficult to swallow. >> i think his weapon, which has been his mouth, what proves fatal to him. this is too far especially when you contrast his deplorable comments with the class and measured response of sandra fluke and the class of the president calling her to support her, that's where the contrast comes in and people say, that's it. we're done. >> thank you so much for joining us. just to let viewers

we are in paralysis. our government has been making promises to people they can't keep. and democrats for decades have been making all of these empty promises. now the bill is about to come due. we are borrowing $0.40 on every dollar the government spends. we are getting to a point where we are mortgaging not just our children's future but we are going to harm our economy. what we decided to do in the house is to tackle the challenge before it tackles us. >> how many of you had a favorable reaction to him. >> you are dialing him off the charts. >> i wasn't finished with my point. halfway through. >> maybe that's the challenge it takes politicians too long. our problems now as we see it granted i am a house member, is in order to pass the budget, the law says the house passes a budget the senate passes a budget then you compromise in between and pass the unified budget. the house passed our budget. the senate didn't pass a budget in 2010 and 2011 and now they are saying they aren't going to pass a budget in 2012. no wonder it is disfupgsal. -- dysfunctional. >> senator be

, yes, there is a political system here in washington where it's dysfunctional and the political paralysis has overtaken the environment to the detriment of this country. >> senator snowe is the latest in a string of moderates who have either been forced out of congress or chosen to leave over the last 2 1/2 cycles. and she's not the first to issue a call for cooperation on her way out the door. >> taking advantage of political gusts or whims, is not what our constituents expect of us, nor is it what they deserve. we must have courage to come out of the fox holes, the fox holes we dig into, to the middle to where the rest of america is. >> that was from democratic senator blanche lincoln delivering her farewell address in 2010. she joins me now. thank you, both. >> thank you. >> both of you, you didn't choose to leave. you both got booted out arguably by -- you had problems because of the ideological left, in your case, ideological right in your case. you watched senator snowe leave and the way she's leaving and how do you react? >> well, first, i'm very sad. i believe that she was truly o

know, exist with the political system here in washington where it's dysfunctional and the political paralysis overtaken the environment to the detriment of the good of this country. kelly o'donnell joins us right now. boy, does that speak a lot. as a person who covers the hill. i'm not asking you to make a partisan judgment. you never do. but what does it say about the fact that moderates, whether it's bill nelson or ben nelson, rather, from nebraska, a moderate democrat or a moderal republican, doesn't fit anymore. doesn't like it anymore. >> well, it's interesting. by observation and by hearing members talk about this, something that might not come to mind right away is that the experience of being someone like olympia snowe on capitol hill means you spend a lot of time out on your own island politically speaking. well, republicans would be frustrated with her, democrats would be trying to put a lot of pressure on her, even encouraging her to switch parties, always counting on her as a deciding vote. all of that pressure. so some of the collegiality and the sense of getting things done has

, exist with the political system here in washington, where it's dysfunctional and the political paralysisrtaken the environment to the detriment to the good of this country. >> maine republican senator olympia snowe, telling me yesterday about the frustrations that led to her decision to leave the senate. major garrett is the white house correspondent for the "national journal," and here is our exclusive look at their new issue out today and major joins us now. major, olympia snowe has been one of those figures in the senate that frustrates both parties. harry reid would get frustrated with her, her own caucus didn't talk to her after the stimulus vote, which is why, you know, so many of her constituents love her so much. she's an independent, a true woman in the spirit of margaret chase smith. >> yes. and that northeastern brand of republican, particularly in the senate, has really been either retiring off or being voted out. and olympia snowe is one of the last exemplars of that approach to senatorial politics, legislative politics within the senate, and her national party. standing ath

has served so most folks don't know us and i think that causes rushes to stereotype it causes some paralysis around what to do but we want to educate people about the issues facing our community and give them onramps in ways to help and we frame in the four basic categories of what folks need coming hope: health care, education, employment, and community. and the last one is sometimes the most important. because of that isolation, they need to be around other veterans they need to be around other family members who know what where they're coming from but they need to come home to supportive civilian communities who can action against those issues. unemployment is a huge challenge facing our members. we see about a 17% unemployment rate. that should be acceptable for everyone and we want folks to think about these veterans not just as charity cases but an investment. we can build a new greatest generation who can meet us in business and help turn around our economy but they need opportunities and support. >> rose: so, eric, what about people who are on the front lines of the battle who may ve

and when you don't have good options, you sit in paralysis.hem want the country, want the regime to be bombed. okay, so you bomb them. what happens? maybe the regime starts to crumble. probably not quickly. and if the regime starts to crumble, then you have a civil war. so does the u.s. really want to start and then be involved in a civil war? if you don't bomb them, then the people, the opposition, who we support morally, continue to get massacred. so what options do you have? maybe you could find a third way, and the third way would be a buffer zone, a humanitarian corridor, or convincing russia to stop supporting them. so there are other ways instead of bombing, which would start a civil war, and maybe it would get rid of the regime, but probably not. and, you know, you bomb them once, it's certainly not going to do it. so maybe there are third ways. and the third ways are probably best pursued through getting the russians to turn on the syrians, and getting the turks to do more. and the turks are keen to do more. >> and martin, let's talk

and we've seen in recent political fights a sort of paralysis and a broad loss of faith in government. and that sort of secession of the wealthy from our economic life that we've already started to see could be matched by a secession of them from our political life and a sort of loss of that broad democracy that was characteristic of mid-20th century. that's the greatest fear that we have. >> would you say we still have a middle-class country? >> that's -- >> wow. >> no, no, i wouldn't, i wouldn't. >> you're hesitant. >> if you asked me if you asked me that point blank, i mean -- >> point blank, paul, do we still have a middle-class country? >> i would say no. i mean, obviously there is still something, there is still something that we would recognize as a middle class, it's still probably the biggest segment of the population. but in terms of its weight in the society, its ability to produce a society and reproduce a society that is oriented around the needs and concerns and opportunities of the middle class, i don't think that we live in that country anymore. >> there was a poll don