safety is is paramount. we follow the standards of the letter. >> reporter: when it comes to fighting fires of this magnitude in rural baltimore county. >> it gives us the opportunity to first of all deal with fire fighting in a rural area. which means we don't have fire hydrants. as a result the fire engines are designed to carry additional amounts of water. you can see behind me a holding tank. we refer it to rare, rare operations. tanker operations. this is a great opportunity to practice the movement of large quantities of water. >> reporter: the new owners of the property were glad to assist baltimore county in the exercise. when it is done the farm land will be burn turned -- turned into pastures for raising horses. >>> i know it is too early to talk about it but i'm loving next weekend's forecast. >> penn state is coming to d.c. we are playing. it is supposed to be beautiful weather. >> let's talk about tomorrow morning. tomorrow we'll wake up temperatures on the cool side. 48 degrees. partly cloudy s

from the outset of this trial, the prosecutors are rying to show that bemba's responsibility was paramount and that he used rape as a weapon of war. it is said that unspeakable crimes were committed from -- by his forces when they entered the republic to help the president put down a coup attempt. >> one of the poorest countries of the world. the massive rapes were not just sexually motivated. they were crimes of domination women but also directed at men without authority. >> jean-pierre bemba has said he is not guilty. it is said that he gave his forces license to attack civilians. soon after these events allegedly occurred, bemba stood unsuccessfully for the presidency, but by 2008, he was in exile in brussels, where he was arrested, and then he was handed over to the international criminal court. more than 700 victims are being allowed to take part in this process to try mr. bemba, and several hundred more have asked to do so. some of the victims said they were still traumatized, and this trial was a way to break the silence and give them a voice. bbc news, in the hague. >> this is "bbc

there was a paramount theatre, we had to go in the back door, separate water fountains. it was a very negative experience. when i got to the library, right above the door, all are welcome. i could go in the front door. i could remember the librarian, she had a bonnet on the back of her head. very sensible shoes. i look at librarians today, that is how they look. she always spoke in a whisper. didn't talk out loud in the library. whispered. she was so kind to me that i loved librarians. when they ask me to do something, it is hard for me to say no. and that is why i flew in the dark at night from atlanta to come out here. [laughter]. but it is because of that generosity of the national public library. so i went there to get my books and i would bring them home and read all 3. then the next week i would take them back to the library. i would read often. when you read better, you read success. i credit the national public library with my successes as a young reader and a young writer. my grandfather had 2 books on his shelf. one was king james version of the bible, the othe

>> what i'm suggesting is a level of behavior analysis is paramount.here willing to enter into trusted travel programs. i believe behavior is pair mount here. we really have to get to know the traveling public. people want to take control of the things that they know they can have control of. you can't have control of the knowledge of what's going to happen to you at the airport, what your options are and how you can respond to that. look, this is the most busy travel season of the year. it's the holidays. we all want the same thing. we all want security. we all want to see our families and perhaps eat too much, but at the end of the day, we want to make sure we can get on the plane safely and i think we want to enlist our international partners in protocols that are appropriate today. >> can may i also ask you about sensitivity training? are they mandated to go through that? are we certain they're properly prepared to do this kind of job? >> honestly i don't know if they go through a sensitivity training. i can say we're often compared to israel. that

it will be performed at the paramount treater and get tickets to this one? the warriors are back in action and they will not have a player and former knick, david lee. he is being released from the hospital and spent the past week after an unusual injury. you might remember he accidentally elbowed wilson chandler of the knicks in the mouth november 10th when they played in new york. he was cut on the elbow and that led to an infection. it should be better in the next few weeks, but a bizarre 0 there. the first place oakland raiders are back from the bye week and will take on the steelers in pittsburgh sunday at 10:00 in the morning. they are looking to pick up the fourth win in a row. they have beaten the steelers of the last two times they met. kansas city lost and the raiders beat them the week before. oakland is in the tie breaker now in first place in their division. >>> u.s. treasury will be in town sharing her success despite obstacles as she grew up in the bay area. roesy rios will speak at the newark fremont hilton. she a graduate who studied at harv

this is paramount on the minds of parents. i know that we briefly went over this, so briefly in a couple of minutes. but the efforts and the thought, and everything that went into this is tremendous. and also, the head of the educational placement center, they have coordinated this and they have courted all of this in such a short time line. i want to say, thank you. >> i would offer the commissioner something to consider, hopefully in a year or two. there is the idea that they were entering the system where they did not know the level of certainty, with the private schools that cater to nervous parents, and the school district, you kind of get in or you do not get in. this is monumentally different. this is a year or so that we will continue to look at this for a model of change. >> and are there any other questions? we will open this up to public comment, if there is anyone who wishes to speak on this item. there will be no public comment. and i would like to again request that we filed this item, and appreciate the partners

. >> winning is still paramount. audio changed. bbcish. >> give you the latest headlines this hour. officials have confirmed that information on bombs on planes on friday came from an al-qaeda member. >> the woman elected over the weekend debate brazil's first female president has promised to make gender equality a priority. she will continue the work of her hugely popular predecessor and mentor. we have this from san paulo. >> brazilians went to work with the news that they had their first woman president, dilma rousseff. eight years ago, no one could have imagined her as president of brazil, not even dilma herself. born in 1947, she is the daughter of a wealthy bulgarian immigrant and a schoolteacher. she was a schoolgirl when brazil fell under a military dictatorship in 1974 and later became a key and neat marxist resistance to the dictatorship, for which she was arrested and tortured. her name is still engraved in the present. in 2005, after a corruption scandal brought down a key government figures, she was made chief of staff

the outset of this trial, the prosecutors are trying to show that his command responsibility was paramountnd that he used rape as a weapon. the chief prosecutor told the court that unspeakable crimes had been committed by his forces when they entered the central african republic's eight years ago. >> troops stole from the poor people of one of the poorest countries in the world. the massive rapes were not just sexually motivated. they were crimes of domination and humiliation directed against women but also directed against men with of sorting. >> he has been pleaded not guilty, but the prosecutor said a commander that allowed his troops to act this way, is more dangerous than a single rapist. soon after these events allegedly occurred, he became vice-president in his own country of congo. he later stood unsuccessfully for the presidency, but by 2008, he was in exile in brussels where he was arrested and handed over to the international criminal court. more than 700 victims are being allowed to take part in the trial. and several hundred more have asked to do so. a legal representative for

outset of the trial, prosecutors have tried to show that the command responsibility of this man was paramount and he used rape as a weapon of war. the chief prosecutor told the court that unspeakable crimes had been committed by his forces when they entered the central african republic nearly eight years ago to help the president put down a coup attempt. [unintelligible] >> these were crimes of humiliation directed against women but also directed against men with authority. >> he has pleaded not guilty, but the prosecution said a commander who allowed his troops to act in the way described was more dangerous than a single ripest. he said he had given his forces licence to attack civilians. soon after these events allegedly occurred, he became a vice president in the democratic republic of congo. he later stood unsuccessfully for the presidency. but by 2008, he was in exile in brussels where he was arrested and then handed over to the international criminal court. more than 700 victims are being allowed to take part in the process to try him. several hundred more have asked to do so. a legal r

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. ♪ santana and symphony rehearsed tonight at the paramount theater and tomorrow and saturday they perform new work by producer walden called the enchanted forest. 7 higher world of music. >> this is new dimension from my heart to here the whole symphony like this is extremely insparing and up lifting. >>reporter: he says he hopes the concert will expose young people to wide variety of music. >> will do that for certain. what a great idea. >> yes. larry here now. third period lead and over time agony once again. what's the problem exactlyi] at the end the problem exactlyi] at the end of the day for the men in >> good evening. oh, brother. where am i? the sharks continue the road trip tonight in dallas. game that turned out to be an instant replace of last night game in colorado. why don't we just good to the video at this point, okay. sin we are already in the tank here. shark fans, maybe he knows what is time it is. the sharks losing 2 nothing. then score 4 straight goals. ties at two got me the target commercial 4 a.m. people shopping at 4 a.m. i was thinking about the morning. any way,

manager of the hotel have been the best never we could have had to show us the new fremont and current paramount were working to be good neighbors and make nob hill a great place to live. many of our residents are on 30-day lease. we took this process very carefully. you have heard from my residence. many of them are in support of this project enough to come speak to you today, including those who have bedroom's right across the street. they take the long view. my average resident spends 14 years in my apartment. they love the neighborhood. they love living on the hill. they see the value of improving the hill. in the last couple of years, it has been hard to open restaurants on nob hill. why? there are not enough people who live there. we need these residents to make this a surviving neighborhood. in the past, it was a residential neighborhood. the last century, it was a hotel never heard. we would like to see the next century go back to the residential uses that have been so well received in the apartments we manage. there are a lot of things we have heard of short-term thinking of the negativ

baptist who couldn't be more thrilled to have earned a bracelet with the words "man for others," a paramount objective of jesuit education. >> it says "man for others," and in our school being a man for others is a big thing, because it's an all-boys school, they want us to grow as men and to be helpful to the community and to be close to god and help others in need. >> we do this not to create catholics, but because we are catholic. it's the social justice teachings of the church that drive us and that basically "men for others" kind of works in almost any religious setting that you have or any religious creed. it's basically leaving things better than you found them. >> what many of these students find when they go home after school are tough neighborhoods where they're expected to set a good example. >> we've all heard stories about the ridicule that a uniformed child might get. but to me, it's about, you know, does this learning environment create or help generate within a student a strong moral character that has them-that gives them the ability to navigate difficult situations within a

. >> this report is brought to you by paramount home entertainment. >> the power to control the elementsbestowed upon a chosen few. >> "the last airbender," directed by m. night shyamalan, is a live-action film based on the popular nickelodeon animated series. the movie tells an epic story of four nations locked in an age-old conflict. >> each of the nations has control over one element, fire, earth, water and air, and they've been living in harmony. >> until the fire nation wages an attack. >> what is this? >> the fire nation is here. >> and the war can only be ended by the avatar. >> there's this one being called the avatar, which is meant to be the savior to the world. and he can manipulate all four elements. >> shyamalan chose newcomer noah ringer to play the avatar. >> he was an amazing martial artist, and he had this intensity about him. and he was a dead ringer for this kid. >> aang is a monk who -- i mean, he just wants to be a kid, you know. and he has to battle through these massive battles to become the avatar. >> and battle he does, while embarking on a magical journey throug

they say safety is of course of paramount concern to them. do you know how many planes might be affected? >> just over 40 a380s in service, of which about half have this engine. the other half are flown with an american engine. the biggest operator is all power by the other engine, so they are not affected by this at all. >> do you know if any action has been taken since that report that identified the problem with the turbines in august? >> that report was requiring the operators to inspect the engines regularly, so that was the action taken. obviously, if the investigation determines that this incident was related to that earlier problem, they will have to look at some sort of modification to the engine. clearly, something major happens to the engine. we will expect something out of this. >> it could be some time before the investigation reveals any clear answers. >> the engine has been quite badly damaged by the explosion. they have to piece together from the debris found on the island in indonesia the jigsaw to get to the bottom of what c

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. ♪ >> santana and the symphony rehearsed last night at the paramount theater.omorrow they'll have a world premium of a new work by michael walden. it's called the enchanted forest seven higher worlds of music. >> this is a new dimension for my heart to hear a fuel symphony like this extremely inspiring and uplifting. >> santana says he hopes the concert will expose young people in oakland to a wide variety of music. >> 4:56 now. they may have fallen head over heels in love when they met, but now a stockton couple shares something else. wayne and laurie now hold the guinness world record title as the worlds tallest living couple. 6.10, she's under 6.6. the two met at a singsels club. they enjoy several percs of being ahead of the others in the crowd. they can find each other easily. he said he can see when people are going bald sometimes before anyone else. i was feeling good about that story right up to the end there. oh well. >> yao ming and his wife can't be beat. the basketball player. >> that's right. >> next on abc news at 5:00, the latest on the fatal cra

welcome to the paramount region in russia close up on our cheap. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand days. of beach front several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares . you see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is very most appropriate signification is a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing not only garbage but to accumulate where so many guys died. a new battle is going on. the history be protected. return to terra what julian cooper story on our t.v. . free trade between russia and the new from atlantic to pacific russia's prime minister outlined his vision to have a high powered business meeting in berlin germany supports the idea of a question of the country's trilateral customs union with belarus and talbot stopped. a journey of space company and for a russian cosmonaut and his nasa colleagues if they come back down to earth safe and sound three people remain in orbit a new explanation will be approved and russia sta

>> secrecy is going to be absolutely paramount. i think it's certainly not going to be short, it bont be strepless. and i don't think it will be outrageous. >> reporter: whatever they decide on, it will be a spectacle. not bad for a girl whose known as a commoner. this is as close as we can get to kate middleton's family home, which is just down that driveway. and it not somewhere that you would expect a future queen to grow up in, but she did. and it's this middle class upbringing that is reflected in her personality. kate hails from this village in the british countryside, where the news is being celebrated everywhere you look. what do you think of kate? >> oh, she's lovely. she seems to be lovely. beautiful, isn't she? >> reporter: la ma hasan, abc news, buckleberry village, england. >>> as the royal family gears up for a wedding, here at home, one american family is considering a very different life changing event. sarah palin says she's huddling with her family, weighing a run for the white house in 2012. and she made a predic

when you're a parent, that's your paramount concern for your children. and there were some very credible and frightening threats. and the agency declined to provide any security, and it was -- it felt like a betrayal all over again. it was really painful. tavis: what's the stated or unstated reason for denying -- they know your cover's been blown. it's all in the newspaper. they denied you that protection for what reason? >> i can only speculate, but the reason given to me was, well, we really don't think that those threats are that serious, which completely was countermanded by the actual facts. but it was a mistake on their part. >> actually, the washington, d.c. metropolitan police were very good and they were very responsive. as have been the santa fe police. we have set up a system whereby we have a prompt response in the event that something were to happen. tavis: how do you live your life when -- under that kind of threat? i was going to say how do you live your life in fear? i'm not saying you live your life in fear, but how do you advance under

including cementing and running casings, those are issues they would have to -- >> they would be paramount. >> and how does having a narrow pore pressure fracture gradient window a fact that cement job? >> they would have to pay particular attention that they were not exceed the fracture gradient due to the weight of the cement. >> and is that why they chose come in your view, to use lighter foam cement in this job? >> i believe that's so. spent and you heard me describe yesterday that cement job based on e-mails and reports of bp, a complex cement job, and a complex well bore. have you evaluated in your professional experience wells that were as complicated as macondo? >> yes, i have. >> where they drilled safely? >> yes, they were. >> and what is it that made macondo complicated that was similar to those of the wells? >> just repeat myself, it is really the very narrow margin between pore pressure and fracture gradient, and the very high deliverability of these blocks. so it's a unique geological environment really spent and on the other wells were describing that were drilled safely, th

safety is of paramount concern. they are making sure citizens are ok. this is not an area where you want to visit if you don't have to be here. the mount pleasant ice rink should be opening around 5:30 this morning as a shelter. all agencies are working together and trying to make sure residents are as safe as possible. >> again, give us a general idea of where we're talking about. >> if you try to come off of northern parkway, you'll be stopped over in the northeast section. roads are blocked off. this in a community that is in northeast baltimore. i am near a shopping plaza, and northern high school. is so dark. i'm standing at the corner of jubilee court and fleetwood. the debris is far and wide. there is stuff all over the place. >> have you had a chance to talk to some residents? " i talked to a couple came out to look at the debris. winds elements car is smashed. he said it was about 2:00 a.m. this morning and he heard a loud sound. he looked out the window. his girlfriend said to look at his car. he could not believe it. at that time, you are asl

. >> there is no practical application of anything anymore when religion is so paramount you can't nott to blow people up without -- it just doesn't work. if they were selling snuggies at the gift shop and we went and bought snuggies, they wouldn't let us on. you can't wear a snuggie on the plane. >> i am wearing one now. >> i am wearing a snuggie thong. >> in the interest of pr alone, the imams should give them a mulligan. why not just come together on this. >> from burkas to bicycles. earlier this week a california 13-year-old had been told to remove his u.s. flag from his china-made shaw win. citing security concerns coming from racial engs its. he pointed to some sort of vague mexican-american divide within dinare middle school. due to off well ming media coverage, today the school rescinded it flag ban. -- rescinded its flag ban. here is the super safe take on the unsafe matter. >> this morning we met with the principals and the campus supervisors to just kind of get the complete story on why the campus supervisor asked cody to remove his flag. it was based on information that she