and finally, the robbery happened in the heart of paris. the eiffel tower is right across the river. new york avenue, one of the busiest streets in paris, flows right below the museum. to say it is a shock it happened here is an understatement. the windows that the robber got through are so exposed, anyone could have seen them. as in the movie, "the thomas crown affair," the robbery happened under the noses of police, security and the entire city. the robber broke in through a window. then, cut a lock on a metal grate. then, he went shopping. on one side of the museum, the picasso. all the way on the other side, the modigliani. he chose each piece with care. then, frames and all, each great work went out the window. once cut from their frames, each master work was rolled up. and the burglar went off into the paris night. the museum quality works are considered priceless. the initial value estimated at more than $500 million. it's come down since then, to somewhere between $100 million and $300 million. but what's the point of stealing such

now, back to judy. >> woodruff: an audacious heist at a paris museum. jeffrey brown has the story of one of the most costly art thefts in modern history. >> brown: the paris museum of modern art remained closed today, and the city's top culture official, christophe girard, appealed for the return of five stolen paintings, valued at more than $110 million. >> ( translated ): my only worry today, to be completely honest, is the safety of these paintings. i beg these people who have taken them not to do anything to these paintings, and especially to leave them somewhere we can recover them. these are masterpieces that belong to millions of people who like to see them. >> brown: the five paintings were by pablo picasso, henri matisse, amedeo modigliani, georges braque, and fernand leger. investigators say the heist took place early thursday, when a masked intruder took advantage of a partially broken security system and entered the building through a window. his movements were caught on a not-yet-released security camera video. three security guards were on

. >>> a low-tech crime at one of paris' best known museums. prized paintings valued in the millions of dollars snatched right off the walls. as fox's harris faulkner reports, it didn't take an elaborate scheme to get it done. paris police say the security system was broken. >> reporter: french authorities calling it a grave crime, a brazen after-hours heist at the paris museum of modern art. treasured paintings stolen right off the walls including major works by picasso and matisse. paris police saying the crooks cut a padlock on a gate and broke a window before sneaking in and carefully removing the paintings. security guards never saw it coming. >> there is a security system. there are three people in the museum at all times so they were there butt system was outsmarted. >> reporter: investigators sweeping the museum looking to any clues about the masked intruder who was caught on surveillance video and they want to know if this was a solo job or the work of many. the most valuable work, this masterpiece by pablo picasso . the museum says th

and finally, the robbery happened in the heart of paris.st streets in paris right below the museum. to say it is a shock it happened here is understatement. the windows the robber got through are so exposed, anyone could have seen them. as in the movie "the thomas crown affair," the robbery happened under the noses of police, security and the entire city. the robber broke in through a window, then cut a lock on a metal grate. then he went shopping. on one side of the museum, the picasso. all the way on the other side, the modigliani. he chose each piece with care, then frames and all, each great work went out the window. once cut from their frames, each master work was rolled up and the burglar went off into the paris night. the museum-quality works are considered priceless. the initial value estimated at more than $500 million. it's come down since then to somewhere between $100 million and $300 million. what's the point of stealing such well-known works of art? selling them without getting caught, nearly impossible. >> we're talking about

. >>> coming up tonight, the security system in that museum in paris where all those valuable paintings were stolen might have been broken for we >>> firefighters near los angeles finally have a 900-acre wildfire under control. it started yesterday in the hills of east corona, california, and quickly grew throughout the night. it took about 125 firefighters to bring the flames under control. no injuries were reported. officials say the flames were started by a tractor that hit a rock. the tractor was plowing weeds for a fire-prevention measure. oops. things must be very dry. >> right. they are out there. you guys have big weekend plans? >> sure. they don't include rain, however. >> what are you doing on sunday? you might have to change what you're doing on sunday, especially sunday morning. that's the wet period for us this upcoming weekend. as far as today goes, touch of humidity in the air and the pollen count way up today, too. it's running high. mostly for birch. we'll talk more about that later but out there, you probably notice the high clouds covering the area. more will be movin

. >>> and what we're learning about that brazen break-in at a paris museum and how the heist may have been prevented. >>> that's a new study >>> this week's wedding couple goes back to beach week 1996. >> 1996, everybody's heading to the beach this weekend. we did that 14 years ago and they were both graduating from different maryland high schools and they sort of met up there and there was an instant connection and they shared one kiss and that was it. and then she went back to her friends and he went back to his and they both went on to college and on to their young lives. and then she ran into a friend of his and got his e-mail ten years later. sent him an e-mail and they started chatting and they lived across the country from each other. they struck up this rapport. the same connection was there. they saw each other in person again and had their second kiss. and then they were engaged within a year. >> i credit e-mail and that kiss, too. >> right. >> let's do day lab. first up, the guy. >> the guy is william. he's 23. he's a congressional intern. he also was a former model. he's a

he's competing in the paris open. it's the first time he's competed in france in nearly a decade. the meet will kick off june 26th. >>> international soccer is big in europe. it's getting bigger in the united states. this summer, two top european soccer teams will square off at m & t bank stadium. sherrie johnson is live with what's happening today. sherrie? >> reporter: good morning, megan. are you ready for fancy foot work? i hope so because m & t stadium will host another international soccer match again. last year, more than 70,000 fans filled the stands for the international soccer game between a.c. milan and chelsea. fans from all over the world turned out for the match. this means big bucks for baltimore. it could bring in between 14 to $20 million for the economy. it also means that international exposure, this soccer game will shed a positive light on baltimore. the press conference starts at 10:00 this morning right here at m & t bank stadium. basically, they will lay it all out for us. reporting live in downtown baltimore, sherrie johnson, abc 2 news. >>> skipper dave t

a man breaks into an art museum overnight many paris and steals as 123 million in paintings. sounds difficult bust a broken alarm system made it easier. he clipped a padlocked door, smashed a window and took five paintings out of the frames and right out the door. the heist took about 15 minutes. three security guards say they heard and saw nothing. the security camera did capture some video of him. >>> let's look at news around the nation. it may annoy you when your kids text at dinner time, but text messaging may have saved one man's life. a 911 ditch patcher in tennessee received the call about a fight but then the cell signal was so bad, he couldn't hear it. so he texted him and it worked. the caller texted the location to the dispatcher. >>> don't let your kids get a sweet treat from this ice cream truck. 37-year-old guy from mission, texas, was using it as a cover for his drug business. do you believe that? he got caught when he was pulled over for drunk driving. then police became suspicious and searched the truck. take a look for yourself. do you see a refrigerator or

. >> we are learning how brazen the have got away with several priceless works of art from the paris museum. >> the history topples on top of the house. the man inside credits his survival was sleeping on the right side of the dead. >> is the diversity of maryland medical school graduation. they have a big name spe >> a line of strong, slow-moving storms produce several tornadoes in texas. the homeowner, this one on video yesterday just as it was about to touch down near mid lothian. surprisingly, there were not many reports of damage and no reports of anyone injured. in northern idaho, a man is thankful to be alive after a powerful storm sent a massive tree crashing right through his bedroom. he was sleeping in his bed when the trees came crashing down on his bedroom group. it is miraculous that he was able to get out safely. ironically, he says he normally sleeves on the side of the bed with a tree landed, but because his wife was out of town, he decided to change it up. >> thank god i was sleeping on her side of the bed. my side would have killed me. >> he will never sleep on that

stephane is in paris. we'll be focusing on numbers out of societe generale. >> we are looking at the french market, ross. despite stronger than expected numbers from societe generale, that was the first bank to report quarterly earnings in france, revenues of 34%, stronger than expected. the bank confirmed its full year guidance, targeting 3 billion euro net profit for this year. the ceo of the bank believes that the risk of a greek contagion in europe is low. it says so in the next exclusive interview to cnbc. >> the economies are in a very different situation. and you cannot compete with the other countries. so i think there is clear overreaction from that perspective. >> and still in the banking sector, we've got bnp paribas, the largest french bank, to report tomorrow morning. we are expecting a 5.1% increase in the q1 net profit. also in focus today, lefarge posted stronger than expected numbers for the first quarter of this year, but it's not expecting any major recovery on markets before the second

nbc's stephanie gosk is in paris this morning. hi, stephanie, good morning to you. >> reporter: hi, matt, good morning. a special police brigade here in paris dedicated to art is poring over the five frames that the thieves left behind looking for forensic evidence, while interpol is contacting law enforcement around the world. the hunt for these paintings is on. five modern art masterpieces, estimated to be worth more than $100 million, stolen in the dead of night from one of the world's most prestigious museums, including pablo picasso's "do have with green peas" honoring matisse's "pastoral." the three overnight guards at the museum of art in paris say they didn't see or hear a thing. security cameras showed a lone masked intruder, breaking through a window, smashing a padlock and stealing paintings without ever tripping any alarms. motion activity sensors had been broken since march, something the thief probably knew. >> we always say it was 88% to 89% of museum thefts usually have some type of insider situation going on. it's

a daring art heist in paris has triggered a worldwide alert. five paintings including works by picasso and matisse were stolen overnight from the paris museum of modern art valued at more than $100 million. investigators searched for clues today at the site. the mayor of paris said parts of the museum's alarm system had been broken for the past few days. and the deputy culture secretary said an inquiry was under way. >> there is a security system. there are three people in the museum at all times. so they were there. but the security system was outsmarted as they saw nothing. so they didn't react to anything. but all will be revealed during the investigation. >> officials said surveillance videos showed a single masked intruder. those are some the day's major stories. to you back to jim. >> lehrer: immigration reform, which is back in the spotlight today in washington. ray suarez has our story. >> madame speaker, the president of mexico. (applause) >> suarez: it was the second and final day of president felipe calderon's state visit to washingt

don't talk about it in a paris salon. go unloved. and so is this very empirical ground-based experience show coming in now, get your feet wet or muddy and you want to go abroad a volcano. you got to walk down into the crater and smell the stench of the soul for and feel the burning rocks. and you know, very, very experiential knowledge and yet pursued partly in the spirit of poetry, which are also measuring and you're trying to link the phenomenon that you're examining with other phenomenon in your experience or scientists around the world so that you're constantly making comparisons. rate, so when i talk about this, i used the mnemonic explorer collect measure cannot and that's what you see them doing. he starts to explore. he cast himself as a world explorer and concord. so we says i will do that, but hey i'm home. i will do the humboldt in exploration right here and i will see us intensely as the humboldt style explores these. though without leaving home, so without leaving home and then collecting objects, there'll famously colle

. >> louisiana is paris presidents called out bp and the government asking why they have not received approval to dredge barriers. >> we have trained 200 fishermen who are not working. >> there are frustrations with the top killed, the latest plan to stop the leak. >> deadline after a deadline has been missed. >> the administration insists they are still in charge. >> we will push them out of the way. >> it is the oil that is now taking over. >> animal rescuers scrambled to clean them in the affected areas. this is a pelican being clean. come in there to be cleaned. >> there is a dispute over a proposed casino. the board overlooked fraud in a petition drive to put the issue before voters in a referendum. >> a maryland law may become federal law. a law was signed that eliminates the word "retarded" from state legislation. a differentquire federa term. it will be taken up in the pensions committee this week and is considered non-controversial legislation. that brings us to our watercooler question of the day. do you think the term retarded should be banned? e-mail your response to water

best of the old france but then came to boston telling you about that saying it was much more like paris not like new york failed of the class not like oliver wendell holmes. but what struck them however privileged to the people were in the beacon hill mansion nevertheless there were fully integrated the way french aristocrats were refusing to be including their own families in fact, the ancestors had created very well informed people asking questions much like there's that of silly underpinned said democracy in america. four examples quickly. john quincy adams, was an example of the old and dying by deal of civic virtue that you give your life selflessly for your nation, a party, a faction are noble and a new kind of populist potash garnering majority rule that jacksonian van yearend administration was repellent and tocqueville admired him rather than compromise the principal and really was an impressive noble monument of a man but at the same time a bit of a living fossil he no longer sit-in and very uneasy about the future of this country. having serious talks about slavery, a very ma

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a man jumping over a puddle in paris. a boy tossing a ball in the air in valencia, spain. >> he is arching back to follow the flow of the ball, but the ball is out of the picture. and so he is transformed into a figure of rapture. this is the art of photography, to be able to anticipate how the making of the picture is going to change what it describes. >> when world war ii came, cartier bresson enlisted in the french army, was soon taken prisoner, and spent almost three years in german labor camps before kidnapping. when the world had changed, so had the direction of his work. >> he felt he wanted to be engaged with this very different and rapidly-changing world. and he found, in photo journalism, a vehicle for that engagement. >> before television, before the internet, before mass tourism, it was photo magazines that millions turned to for a window on the world. and cartier bresson, a founding member of the magnum photo agency, was a leading figure of the era. his work appear in life, the harper's bizarre, the evening p

>> hey, paris. i'm a friend of jesus's. check it out.and it has a dog in it just like yours. >> hi, paris. i'm meg. >> i met larry king. >> name dropper! >> larry: should i be honored? seth mcfarlane's our guest. his show provoked an outcry with a musical about the late terri schiavo. we reached out to them today, and terri's brother bobby had this question for you. how do you justify using the term "vegetable" to describe any human being when its only intention is to denigrate and dehumanize just like the "n" word? >> well, my first response would be it's not a human being, it's a cartoon. but you know, i think -- this is -- this was a touchy area because the idea was, keep in mind, this is a play within a play. and this is an instance where you see the griffin family in the audience reacting in a way that is -- they themselves are a little put off. and we've done this a few times on the show, in which there is something that is done in extreme -- you know, one could argue questionable taste. but you've got to have somebody there who's

in paris, a mass intruder pulled off one of the world's biggest art heists. someone broke into a museum and stole a picasso, a matisse and three other masterpieces with a combined value of $123 million. one thing that made it easier for the thief, the security system was down because parts needed to fix the alarm hadn't arrived yet. >>> in virginia, an inmate was executed for killing two men in front of their families. derek walker died by lethal injection last night, becoming the 107th inmate to be put to death in virginia since the supreme court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. >>> genetecists in the u.s. say they have developed a cell controlled by manmade dna. scientists say the research will lead to creating microbes from scratch useful in the creation of vac seens and bio fuels. >>> and japan successfully launched a rocket today carrying a space probe making its way through the cosmos on its way to venus. the probe will examine venus' climate. >>> now here's an "early" look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 10,068. after l

the islamic republic confiscated her passport on march 8th, as she was leaving tehran airport for paris. she had been invited there to deliver a speecand read a few of her poems on the occasion of international women's day. despite her physical fragility and age, she was interrogated all through the night and told to report to the revolutionary court. for now, she is under country arrest. she is virtually a prisoner in her own country. once more, the darkness will leave this house. and i will paint my poems blue with the color of our sky. there is director of old bones will grant me in his bounty a mountain of splender in his testing grounds. old i may be, but given the chance, i will learn. i will begin a second youth alongside my progeny. i will recite the-- of love of country with such fervour as to make each word bear life. there still burns a fire in my breath to keep undiminished the warmth of kinship. i feel for my people. >> lehrer: again, the major developments of the day. b.p. said a mile-long tube is siphoning about one-fifth of the oil gushing into the gulf of mexico. on the

concord program. 80-year-old parvier is one of five facing charges of manslaughter at the tile in paris3 people died when the supersonic jet crashed shortly after takeoff in the french capital 10 years ago. british airways reported record losses, they lost $670 million, the worst result since privatization 20 years ago. the slump in the travel industry has been compounded by b.a. -- for b.a. thousands protest a film at the cannes film festival. they say the movie "outside the law" distorts the struggle for algeria's independence from france. with a billion mouths to feed, india is considering introtusing genetically engineered food crops. farmers and others are divided. doubts have been raised by the work of growing g.m. cotton in the area. it's been linked to suicides in the area. >> in the village here, in the heart of india, they mourn the death of yet another farmer. he hung himself from the roof beam of this house after his debt spiraled out of control. his young family will now have to fend for themselves. he borrowed money to buy g.m. cotton seed. there was no rain and his crop f

paris is missing a $123 million painting. >>> baltimore will be painting its own international pictureis summer. the city gets to host another friendly with 70,000 of your closest friends expected to attend. >>> when you hear ding-ding and all of the music, you race outside for the ice cream truck on the street. this one was not selling fudge bars, creamsicles or drum sticks. >> no. >>> good morning. it's friday. justin, because of your weather forecast, i will have my mulch and dirt delivered today instead of monday, all right? >> sounds look a great friday there, jamie. >> fantastic plans. >>> we start you off with incredible video right now. check out this massive wall cloud hovering originaller north texas. a funnel cloud touched down south of fort worth. powerful winds helped to tip over an 18 wheeler. the driver of the truck, not hurt. >> really? >> again this is two mornings in a row we've had great video of funnel clouds and nobody hurt. good stuff. even bet fer we don't have any of that around here. as we recap yesterday, it

he got under the nerves of his superiors when he lived in paris and they sent him to china. he had, i'm not saying he didn't think of god at personal terms, but he had a cosmic sense of god. and he wrote almost cosmic poetry, if you will about that. >> he was very popular in my youth and i don't hear much about him anymore. >> the last person that spoke to me about him was mario, former governor of new york. he was very devoted to his thinking and his letters and he had a woman whom he deeply loved. and she, him, and he wrote to her. so we talked about his religion. he was also a pacifist, was he not? do you have any insight into his humor or any further insight into his love life? >> well, what would you like to know about his love life? what do you mean? >> any other women besides the one we discussed? >> first there was a wife, nileva and he started having an affair with his second wife while he was still married, then after he was married to elsa, the second wife, he did have a series of affairs. >> did she know that? >> she was very much aware of these affairs. >> who i

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the 80-year-old is one of five individuals facing charges of manslaughter at the trial in paris. 113 people died when the supersonic jet crashed shortly after takeoff from the french capital 10 years ago. british airways has reported record losses. the airline lost $766 million, the worst result since privatization. passengers numbers fell. the slump in the travel industry has been compounded by b.a. by industrial action. thousands of people have protested against a film at the cannes film festival. the protesters including members of the right wing national front say the movie "outside the law" distorts algeria's independence from france. with a billion mouths to feed, india is considering introducing genetly modified crops. farmers and others are divided. doubts are raised by the experience about growing g.m. cotton in india. they link to the suicide of thousands of farmers in the poorest parts of the country. we report from the central state. >> in the village here in the heart of india, they mourn the death of yet another farmer. he hung himself from the roof beam of this house a

he comes back he stands a trial and he is instantly acquit bud he is broken heart and he die ons a paris subway. >> was the technical achievement of the light bulb an enormous frontier? >> oh, total but more important than the light bulb because somebody else might have done the light bulb although edison took 3,000 experiments to do it making the light bulb work vast distances required him building dine moes, switch, cables, sox. >> even though he had insul with him carrying probably the lion's share of the implementation edison himself was a practical implementmenter -- exactly. >> he was also keeping track of how was this going to be integrated into society. >> completely right. >> is that an all trueisistic impulse, was he doing it for mon-- money or for the common wheel. >> he was doing it to solve intellectual problems. he was a pragmatist in the best american tradition. he didn't want to invent something that people were not going to iewvments for instance, he invented a voting sheep early in his life -- machine for legislators to press a button and vote. they didn't want to tell

. >>> a warm day for tennis in paris. day two of the french open.en's top seed roger federer got overheated. upset with the umpire. federer playing as the defender champ, kept his cool in the 86 degrees temps. federer puts him away in straight set. >>> serena williams top ranked woman in the tennis world. she's never lost a first round match taking on stephanie vogale of switzerland today. >>> a college lacrosse championship to be played at raven stadium this coming weekend. salisbury state is coming to town to play for the division three title. the sea gulls gotover time play. check out the celebration. how does no one get hurt? you would think someone gets hurt in there. but these guys are used to it. the gulls are advances to the title game for the first time in five years. they will take on taft university on sunday. >> the celebration is rougher than thth,,,, >>> don't miss the cbs prime time line up. >>> finally tonight, the city of chicago went to the dog's this weekend. that's because pugs and their owners held a giant party. the guest of ho

. >> paris is wrapping up a two-day event that's turned its most famous avenue into a giant garden.hamps-elysees is covered with flowers, crafts and farm animals. it's part of a $5 million project aimed at highlighting the plight of struggling french farmers. >> organizers say they hope to preserve a big part of the french way of life. i think of the champs-elysees, i think highbrow, sophisticated. beautiful. i don't think pig and is barnyard animals. >> it's pretty. >> it is, no doubt about it. >> all the flowers. we'll be right back. >>> it's one of the most unforgiving environments on the planet. the jungles surrounding the mighty 4,000 mile long amazon river. >> a man there is in the middle of an extraordinary adventure. ed stafford's trying to trek from one end of the river to the other to where it empties out into the sea. bill weir ventured along with him on this dangerous journey. >> i'm worse. ow. ow. ow! >> reporter: it is hands-down the worst place to take a long walk. but for ed stafford, that was the perfect reason to come. >> it was in fact a lot of people telling me t

they're everywhere even in the paris hilton book. [laughter] but of course, international finance was there because they were there. the money was flowing through into rome word various offices. there were taking this without the use of interest but they had various things that were considered croquet much like sharia banking today. there are ways around it. but the world is changing with the intellectual explosion the world has never seen before that is what is called the ku source of embarrassment i don't think richard rubenstein is a christian follower my guess is not but he said muslims to turn their back on this therefore took the fateful step that islamic leaders have rejected and i italians are the first grade banking instigators they invented double entry bookkeeping which was critical late also introduced the arabic numerals of course, they took them from the indians but they have the number zero. and doing debit and credit calculating in roman numerals. ever tried it? don't. it is impossible. one of the key people they took

when you go to paris disneyland, you do not go to the real paris. we put on super parades'. there are all sorts of rules about how they comport themselves on campus. they cannot walk and talk any cell phone. the tourists will not like it and so on. a lot of what we do is faking it. it really burns the students. these are great kids. host: what about academically? do they cannot well-rounded in terms of their military skills, it's common and liberal arts education? hostguest: have a very strong ce curriculum. they have to take engineering. there is a broad variety. a lot of civilian campuses have given up on the idea of core curriculum. i have argued that academics are compromised by the fact there is a much mickey mouse stuff going on. host: also raised concern about recruiting. something you have in common with other colleges is the recruiting of athletes. how is that different from 15 years ago? guest: it is getting worse. everyone agrees that college sports is getting professionalized. i disagree with that. be that as it may come a private university can do with it once.

. >>> elizabeth smart is now 22 years old and currently serving on a religious mission in paris. >>> another rollercoaster day on wall street. stocks bounced higher as investors put aside concerns about europe's money troubles. >> reporter: the stock market took a bunkie jump with the dow plunging below 10,000 and then bouncing up. traders sell the recent selloff might make it a healthier market. >> it's like pruning a rose bush. it's necessary to have it trim back. >> reporter: investors followed the news when there was a bailout for shaky european economies. greece was the first to accept help. but the government has fought the efforts to control spending. business leaders say the resistance has to end. >> i think the greek society has now realized that this is a dead end road. and unless we turn 180 degrees, we're facing doomsday. >> reporter: if greece irons out it's troubles that would bring some comfort to wall street. jitters about the european economy have fueled a losing streak that took stocks down 10% this last month. president obama's push to reform the financial industry

. >>> art collectors are on alert for a thief that stole five masterpieces from a paris art museum including a picasso and matisse worth $120 million. the museum was waiting for spare parts to fix the alarm system which broke two months ago. >>> the third and final scheduled space walk will start an hour from now. the crew woke up to the song traveling light played for mission specialist. "atlantis" will touch down next wednesday weather permitting. >>> a maryland woman is on a mission to help breast cancer patients. her story is coming up. >>> bike to work every day, how one firm is giving their employees a two wheel opportunity. >>> a light jacket will do it this morning. temperatures many it to upper 50s but a warm and humid afternoon. holding off all chances of rain. i will let you know when the chances come back in the forecast with the complete outlook in a few minutes. [ female announcer ] welcome to busch gardens williamsburg, where d.c. goes to get away. maybe it's because washington d.c. loves the legendary coasters. or that your entire family will have fun, even the little ones. i

synagogues were being attacked in the suburbs of paris, in caracas, in leon. there were various antisemitic acts going on around the world. everybody knows where the jewish community lives in tehran. everybody knows where the jewish community is in [unintelligible] [cough] they were trying to whip up a frenzy as much as they could. in the immediate aftermath of the gaza, had a jewish store, was there a single incident that i could determine for an attack of the jewish committee in iran? no. although the jewish community is much reduced, it is the largest board jewish community still in the muslim middle east along with turkey. estimates range from 20,000 to 25,000 jews still in iran. i thought it was worth raising the question. here's a man, president ahmadinejad, making this a vial, abhorrent and night -- annihilation as threats to israel and you really believe that this is a maniacally antisemitic, absolutely ruthless regime bent on killing as many jews as possible, as fast as possible. why not start here on your doorstep while you have 25,000 of them? there

. >>> museum officials are pleading with thieves not to damage paintings stolen in paris. the $123 million works were lifted from the museum of modern art yesterday. the alarm system was malfunctioning and with no alarm to worry about the intruder got in to the museum overnight, took five canvass out of their frames and fled. experts say the paintings are so well known they would be difficult to sell. >>> a new initiative is underway to step up food safety measures abroad. the university of maryland and the water corporation today announced the creation of a fin first of its kind international food safety laboratory. the facility is in college park and it is designed to teach about 200 foreign food and government workers each year. it is expected to open in july of next year. >>> "atlantis" astronauts made one final space walk today before leaving the international space station. two of the shuttle crew ventured out on friday morning to finish installing fresh station batteries. the third space walk for the astronauts this week. "atlantis" will undock from the space statio

she studied french in paris and spanish in guatemala. her travels have taken her through central american through europe, mexico. in addition to working as a children's book editor for mcgraw-hill in new york would like most about her reza may is she worked as an editor for the french edition of the tv guide. [laughter] she's lived here in tucson for almost 25 years the last ten of which she reported about the border paying particular attention to the death of migrants. her coverage has appeared primarily in the tucson weekly for which she has won a slew of journalism awards. aside from her border writings she's been an art critic and writes about the irish immigrant experience. she's here today just weeks after the release of her first book, immigration stories from the arizona mexico border land. margaret. [applause] >> thanks buddy for coming today. i didn't find out until recently i was going to be speaking in between two marines. [laughter] i'm not a marine, never have been. i've been a journalist in tucson for about 20 years. i've

at midnight, i got on a bus, i went to boot camp at paris island. you want to know how i got into the united states marine corps reserve? i looked them up in a phone book. no special help, no special privileges. i joined the reserves by picking up the phone and signing up. unlike many of my peers, i chose to join the military and serve my country. [cheers and applause] >> as i joined the united states marine corps reserves, i was stationed at paris island and i served a six-year commitment in the reserves. i reached the rank of sergeant and i was honorably discharged. i am proud of my service in the united states marine corps. [cheers and applause] >> i am prouder still that my oldest son matthew is now serving in the united states marine corps reserves. [cheers and applause] >> i am just one of thousands of people across connecticut and across the country that served in the national guard or the reserves or in active duty. in fact, thousands of members of the national guard and our united states marine corps reserves and members of other services a

. >>> thousands of farmers staged a protest in paris.der the eifle tower and tossed oysters into the streets. the farmers are demanding more government support for an industry they say is going out of business because of rising costs and falling prices. >>> demonstrators are preparing to march in phoenix this everyoning to target arizona ease new law. phil gordon will be joined by hispanic leaders during a three mile candle light procession to the state capital. arizona's new law requires police to question people about immigration status if there is reason to believe they are in this country illegally. it makes it a state crime to be in the u.s. illegally. >> sinkthe physicians committee for responsible medicine has come up with a list of the five worst foods you can order. >> but i think a lot of times what gets sidetracked about healthy food in mexican restaurants are the chips, the alcohol, the cheese, the pork, and everything else gets poured on top of it, but underneath all of that, there is a healthy meal you can select. >> the mo

restaurants in the world, that basically the great show should be in chicago, in new york, in london and paris and then florence, kansas. so we heard the shots you most admire to a shot at the palmer house in chicago. he told him what your thoughts shots when he wanted to do big important jobs to work in the little place like lawrence, kansas. i'll pay you all the money in the world. you can do whatever you want here, just make this a place everybody talks about. and william phillips with a shot of the palmer house came there. he was paid $5000 a year, more than the head of the bank's. and much of what we know about this restaurant amazingly enough is from coverage of it and the list of newspaper. that's how well-known this restaurant quickly became because this was the place for two english guys had created the races of american food and international food and ultimate place or people hunted and fished and brought what they caught and they were paired in the grand international style. this restaurant changed fred rb/. he made a creature with william phillips which he actually had a copy of th