too, had gone to see steve patterson, and pl blake calls patterson's home while langston is there, and patterson didn't want langston to know he was talking to blake, but steve's wife said honey, mr. pl is on the phone, and you can see patterson going, oh, god, she shouldn't have said that, so no question that, you know, they've been involved for a long time, and they were involved in this case, you know, and having said all of that, tim asked me the other day in the story you may have read here in greenwood on sunday, so why was wasn't pl blake indicted on this? the response that i'll address to the u.s. attorney's office, but just like, you know, the trent lot connection, i dug and i dug and i dug, and i have come up with nothing in my research that indicates anything that pl blake did that was criminal in this case. >> did you come up with any -- [inaudible] >> another good question. [laughter] you know, clearly, he was gaining a lot of these loans through banks that had deep connections to the eastland organization, and it was being -- it was coming not only from mississippi bank,

be careful traveling through the area between east north avenue and patterson park avenue. this has been a tough fix. it's beneath a an old trolley. it's interestingy maneuvering around -- tricky maneuvering around here, it will be tricky for those heading to work and school. the state highway administration had crews working all night long as well salting the roads. they want to make sure that the streets don't refreeze overnight for the the commuters. they are paying close attention to the bridges and the overpasses because they might refreeze first. >> you are not look forward to your commute tomorrow morning. >> no, i am not. >> all this is going to be what tomorrow? >> ice. >> it's still freezing. so it's going to be ice. but, you know, if they treat the road, we will be good. >> reporter: now once again, crews have been out all night work doing their part. but they encourage drivers to take it slow this morning, have a little patience and use caution on the road this morning. reporting live in east baltimore, sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> 5:49. an army doctor who re

use chester, gay or patterson park avenue to get around that. and south highland avenue is closed between bank and pratt street because of a water main break. clinton street is the best alternate. now back to you. >> thanks a lot. >>> time is 5:31. it's been more than a week since the fire in the downtown block district. wednesday, investigators released new information about that fire. abc2's sherrie johnson joins us with the latest. what's next in the investigation? >> reporter: good morning, charlie. authorities are still searching for answers about this fire. it may not necessarily be a case of arson, authorities say a person set the fire. but they are not sure if the fire was set intentionally. more than 90 people combed through the rubble during the investigation. the fire that hit the block destroyed four city buildings in the adult entertainment district. the federal bureau of chal, tobacco, firearm and explosives says it started in a video peep show room at the world bookstore at 404 east baltimore street. the fire was so intense a wall

as you can see here, we are at the intersection of north avenue and patterson park avenue. the department of public work crews are busy finishing up work on a water main break. this all happened yesterday when a six inch pipe burst. crews repaired the main and some businesses and homes between harford and bel air roads have been without water. but they now have water. crews are making the finishing touches on filling up the hole here. now, the road here on a north avenue is open, but there are some lane closures. so you want to be careful if you are heading this way. and while drivers maneuver around north avenue, other drivers will have a pretty tricky commute this morning after the recent snowfall. the state highway administration has had crews work all night long as well treating the roads. they want to make sure the streets don't refreeze and they are paying very close attention to the bridges and overpasses because they tend to refreeze first. and many drivers are concerned about the commute this morning. >> you are not look forward to your commute tomorrow morning. >>

one stop they make year after year, eva's village, a shelter and treatment facility in patterson, newsey. >> i've had grown men come up with tears in their eyes telling me this the is the first time they've ever celebrated the holidays. >> look at the penguins. >> reporter: at the holiday express warehouse year round, hundreds of volunteers pack gift bags. tim is a front man. >> people need shampoo and toothbrushes. >> reporter: he dreamed up the idea 18 years ago. >> when you do things for people, it comes right back at you immediately. >> reporter: he developed compassion early in life, seeing his brother in and out of hospitals with polio. now as his 13-year-old son jack battles leukemia. >> when he was diagnosed, my moment was, and i don't like cliches, but it was the, i've been talking the talk, it's time to walk the walk. ♪ >> reporter: their motto is serving the underserved. playing to an audience that often doesn't get the attention and everyone gets involved. >> we try to go to places where, if we don't go, they're not going to have a christmas or celebrate hanukkah. >> repor

that i have. >>> kating with santa, i'm here at patterson park.to start the day day. it's a liitle chilly in here, ú%d we're going to beehaving clearing skies. i'm joinnd by mark to tell me about skatiig with santa. tell me whht is going on this weeeend? %-weekend this saturdayywiih saa frrm 3-5. weeare going to have ot chocolatt aaballoon man. >> i dchl!!i need the hot chocos chilly in here. the fooecast on saturday, looking a little bit chilll once high. increasing clouds aad a chance skies here at the ice skating it doesn't matter if therees snow outside, youucaa omeeannd3 skate with the santa. >> that skatin!! skkte being prs working for good ffo santa. he is lookiig slim.3 you are skating well. >> just a little rough moments -ut i'm getting used to it. >> reporter: ice cold in fact. and we do have the radar conditions. it's not mmking itt xtraú slippery this morning.ú%neverthe temperatures drop quite a bit. 22 degrees right now at inner ú%d 8 is he dew oint. temperatures may drop a deggee or two. 28 degrees in baltimore. the surrounding areas

james patterson, that's high praise indeed. the idea was that people have a good time with this.grisly, gruesome. i want people to feel as good as they can about murder. >> that's the takeaway from the interview. >> we want you to feel better about murder. hopefully you feel better when you finish the book than when you started it. >> next, daytime? >> or cable news. many cable news hosts deserve to die. we want to take them out. >> that's the next segment. where do you get your ideas? >> i work with a great mystery writer dick watke. he's terrific. i ask what he thinks. he gives me guidance and he's a terrific plotter. you look in the headlines. it's a fun version of "law & order" in a sense. >> right. >> the late night talk shows have been in the news for a year for obvious reasons. you know, you move to day time and cable news. that's in the headlines now a lot. we'd like to go where the news is. >> great stuff. here's al with another check of the weather. i'm kidding. >> i panicked. >> al, thank you very much. >>> just ahead, will a win for tiger on the course change his repu

. >> the drive home, people are saying -- i think one went from patterson park to -- it takes them -- took them an hour to go five miles. >> little rust, rusty from last winter? seems like we would be so well- trained in the wake of the historic winter. hearing about this winter special sunday, coming up this saturday night. and we're going to be -- >> what time? >> i got to double-check on that. >> all right. >> i think it's 7. we'll find out. 7. 7:00. all right. eastern standard. >> you want it? >> i'm all over it, man. we'll talk about this. of course, the inch we get today, that's all it takes. these our lesson. all sticks, all paces and not even that. tracking the snow as it came in. and thanks for putting me on the spot, man. we were tracking the snow, and you can see that things have tapered off tremendously out there now. so all we're really left with in the walk of that storm is basically just some snow action down here. lower eastern shore, still finding snow towards ocean city, back through salisbury and cambridge. even just south of easton you may find a little snow coming

use patterson park, gay or chester streets to get around that. now back to you. >> >>> it's 5:19.his morning's health alert, you having trouble dropping a few pounds? there may be a new way to win the battle. >> this is not for me. >> really? >> no way. a surprising new weight loss approach, a medical conference discussion. we have what they call thermal dieting. >> that's cold. >> very, very brisk. >> reporter: why would anyone want to walk outside in the bitter cold like this? >> we are doing it in the name of weight loss. >> reporter: we are trying thermal dieting, a new understanding of how cool temperatures can melt pound. >> we are below freeing now. we can feel it. what does that mean? how many extra calories are we burning because of this cold weather? >> we are burning at least 50 calories. >> reporter: seem too good to be true? the body has to work overtime to overcome the cold. >> the body wants to maintain a balance. so 98.6 degrees, and if it's cold it will do everything it can to get back to 98.6 and it has to burn calories to do that. heat equals calories. >> report

crews out here at the intersection of north avenue and patterson park are work on the water main break. they have been here all night working on this. this happened yesterday what six inin---inch pipe burst and some businesses and hopes between harford and bellair roads have been without water. crews are trying to fill the holes and patch it out and they will be out of here. the road is open but there's lane closures. this has been a tough fix. this is beneath an old trolley. meanwhile, yesterday's snowfall could make for a pretty interestingy commute this morning. the state highway administration had crews out salting the road to make sure the streets don't refreeze overnight. they are paying close attention to bridges and overpass because they refreeze first. the state highway' strags had about 900 pieces of equipment on the road to keep drivers safe burks some drivers still had a tough time. >> it was all ice and snow up on york road. no plow and now it's worst it's packed down coming off henderson on the lake. i slid out pretty good. >> reporter: back out here live this morning, th

we are actually live at the intersection of north avenue and patterson park avenue where as you can see here, crews are still very busy working on a water main break. they have been out here all night long trying to repair this break. it actually happened yesterday and business and homes between harford and bel air have been without water. crews are trying to fill this hole and patch it up. and this has been a tough fix because it's beneath an old trolley. now, crews say they will be out here for another couple hours and it's tricky because they have a couple lane closures but there's one lane in each direction for people to travel on. but you know what, meanwhile, this kind of travel, yesterday, snowfall could make for a tricky commute this morning. the state highway administration has had crews working all night long salting the road. they want to make sure the streets don't refreeze overnight. they are paying close attention to those bridges and overpasses because they tend to refreeze first. the state highway administration, they had about 900 pieces of equipment on the road to try

. >>> reporter: mike patterson and alan goldberg two oakland hills neighbors are thinking more about their football rivalry than the anticipated storm. not to say, though, they're downplaying the damage nature can cause. >> those two trees right over here and one of those last year came down over the road right after a car went by. that was pretty good. that was the biggest storm thing i have seen up here. >> reporter: today, the city's public works crews moved quickly to clean up as many drains as possible in a day's work. here along skyline boulevard, a gutter got clogged by branches and mud. down the road, workers were feeding the wood chipper. pg&e says 13% of its power outages are caused by trees. so the best prevention is to try to keep limbs and branches from tangling with power lines during windy, wet weather. oakland maintenance crews are rushing from one spot to another. this crew is flushing yet another storm drain so water won't back up and flood. >> what we do is run the flusher hose down the line, pull back the debris and vacuum it up records a different type of defense

flo we got to know out there was red patterson who was a former director of public relations for california. he told me about accompanying general eisenhower to the grounds and confronting him with evidence that organized people had. dwight eisenhower had played professional baseball in 1909 and 1910 in a league based in kansas under the alias of wilson patterson general we illuminate according to our records there were two wilson sanofi. which one where you? he said the one that would get hit. [laughter] so he is a ballplayer, he was a call for, and gradually as he became more confined and as his health failed, he becomes not only all these things, grandfather or whatever, he becomes a friend and it is in this era that i believe dwight eisenhower's character really comes through. there other reasons to look at the 1960s as well. early to the middle 1960s is the hour before daylight for the republican party. when eisenhower leaves office in 1961 there is a feeling, and my grandfather colleges this in the papers, a feeling among politicians and pundits in washington that the eisenhower presi

you can use patterson park, chester street or gay street this morning as an alternate. megan, back to you. >> thanks. >>> 6:14 right now. a surprising weight loss approach is the talk of a conference going on. new health ideas being thrown out there. andrea canning with a very unusual diet approach some call thermal dieting. take a look. >> that's cold. >> very, very brisk. >> reporter: why would anyone want to walk outside in the bitter cold like this? >> we are doing it in the name of weight loss. >> reporter: we are trying thermal dieting a. new understanding of how cool temperatures can melt pound. >> -- pounds. >> we are below freezing and we can feel it. what does that mean? how many extra calories are we burning because of the cold weather. >> at least 50% more calories. >> reporter: seem too good to be true? the author says the body has to work overtime to overcome the cold. >> the body wants to maintain a balance so 9 #.6 degrees. and if you make it cold, it will do everything it can to get back to 98.#e and it has to burn calories to do that. heat equals calor

my name is jamel patterson. council of human services, and i feel like it's my duty as a citizen of san francisco to give you my opinion who should be the next mayor. and it should be somebody who understands the fabric of the city. when i look at the bicycle program, i look at that as something that brings different parts of the community together. i'd like my community to take part of that more. there's one thing about the last two mayors. pros and cons. you could say good or bad about either one of them. both of them had ideas and they were upbeat, and that's what people need. and also, both of them came to my mother's funeral. her name was barbara brown. she founded the united council of women's services. so we need a mayor that understands the people and understands the young sung heroes of the community. cxfc and i'm the tie between the younger generation and the older generation because i'm, you know, in my 30's, early 30's. and i'd like to say god bless you all and support the ideas of the new up-and-com

record pool-- was made up of 25 jocks who played in gay clubs, and-- you know, larry levan, larry patterson, and tee scott. i mean, it was all these popular disco deejays, and they were doing what-- the leader of that pool, judy weinstein, said that disco was black music made easy for white people to dance to. and that became-- the most important input on black radio was disco. and so, when you're in the ghetto, and you're listening to y.m.c.a. or i love america by patrick juvet on your black radio station, there's a disconnect, and what always happens when culture, you know, rises above the masses or rises to a different aspiration than what the masses have, then the masses create new, and whether it was, you know, from the jazz to blues to rock and roll or to rap music, it was that they had to create their own, and rap music was a return to funky-- even rock and roll, but funky beats-- and a return to artists who looked like and spoke to the needs and the minds of the people, and that's what t rappers were at that time. early on, you worked with kurtis blow. my first artist was kurtis blo

. >> this is agent patterson. >> i have to call you back. mr. president. >> then there's the part where he learned abramoff does impressions of clinton and reagan and al pacino. all the news and commentary now on "countdown." >> i'm the super lobbyist. >>> good evening from new york. this is thursday, december 16th, 691 days until the 2012 presidential election. breaking news at this hour. senate majority leader harry reid just polled the omnibus spending bill that would have funded the government for the next calendar year. this leaves the government technically speaking without any funding. reid said nine republicans, complaining about earmarks, some marked by republicans, that reneged on their commitments to support that omnibus. the house on the road to ramming through a trillion dollars in tax cuts that our kids will have to pay for. democrats battling republicans, battling democrats. in the final days of the 111th congress. we begin with $858 billion in tax cuts expected to pass the house tonight. debate beginning hours after how house lea

the 9-year-old adam patterson spotted the suv and told his dad about it. dad turned the car around and the family called 911, the father ran up the hill to help the driver, firefighters got to him and rescued him, amazingly the driver was not hurt. >>> thanks for joining us tonight at 5, will thomas is in for brian bolter with the news edge at 6.

. >>> reporter: mike patterson and alan goldberg two oakland hills neighbors are thinking more about their football rivalry than the anticipated storm. not to say, though, they're downplaying the damage nature can cause. >> those two trees right over here and one of those last year came down over the road right after a car went by. that was pretty good. that was the biggest storm thing i have seen up here. >> reporter: today, the city's public works crews moved quickly to clean up as many drains as possible in a day's work. here along skyline boulevard, a gutter got clogged by branches and mud. down the road, workers were feeding the wood chipper. pg&e says 13% of its power outages are caused by trees. so the best prevention is to try to keep limbs and branches from tangling with power lines during windy, wet weather. oakland maintenance crews are rushing from one spot to another. this crew is flushing yet another storm drain so water won't back up and flood. >> what we do is run the flusher hose down the line, pull back the debris and vacuum it up >> reporter: a different type of de

and he's against gun control and mayor jeffrey jones of patterson, new jersey, which has a serious crime problem. he's for more gun control. mayor, we have lots of laws on the books. why aren't they enough to control, keep guns out of the hands of the wrong people? >> well, i think, in part, the laws on the books are about folks who are abiding by the law. we're talking about an element of folks who could care less. and so there has to be a much more aggressive approach, particularly when millions of the guns are coming to my city seem to be coming from other states. >> why do we have to have this hard position and not -- not see that there are certain sort of compromise positions we can take that makes sense? i mean, most normal people out there -- i want to have my own guns in my house but i don't want -- >> you're not talk about any sort of especially dangerous gun. if you want to deal with the most dangerous, hunting rifles. those are by farther most powerful weapons we have. those are by far the most powerful guns on the street. if pope jon paul had been shot with -- >> what's your

this in author, patterson who's written on post-traumatic stress and describes it in one of his books to see if you take your cap and put them in your backyard and spend the evening lobbying hand grenades you have a different cat in the morning and we are seeing some of that play out in post-traumatic stress with multiple deployment. what does that do for the individual and to family, what is it doing to the integrity of the military itself now? >> guest: there is no question it had a tremendous impact on the army and the marine corps. but first of all, let me say our men and women that served today are doing service and carrying out the mission that has been given to me on a very fine fashion. we've got great leadership, great in co said soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. but having said that, i see a lot of marines because i am in an area with a tremendous amount. i was in fort bragg last week at fort benning in tampa at central command. the stress is, tremendous. the deployments are taking their toll coming and you can see it in terms of the divorce rate and in terms of as you

author patterson has written extensively on post-traumatic stress and he describes it in one of his books saying if you take your cat and put him in the backyard and spend the evening will be in hand grenades all night at the cat you have a different cat in the morning and we are seeing some of that plank out in terms of post-traumatic stress with multiple deployments. what does that do to the individual and to the family? what is it giving to the integrity of the military itself now? >> guest: i don't there's any question that it is the tremendous impact on both the army and the marine corps. but first of all let me say our men and women that served today are carrying out the mission that has been given to them in a fine fashion. we have great leadership agreed soldiers, sailors and marines but having said that, i see a lot of marines because i live in an eerie with a tremendous amount. i was at fort bragg last week in tampa at central command and the stress is tremendous. though repetitive deployments are taking their toll and you see it in the divorce rates and as you mentioned suicide

there is an author patterson who has written extensively about post-traumatic stress and he described it in one of his books saying, if you take your cat and put them in your backyard and you spend the evening lobbying hand grenades all night at the cat, you will have a different cat in the morning. we are seeing some of that play out in post-traumatic stress with multiple deployments. what is that due to the individual, what does it do to the family, what does it do to the integrity of the military itself now? >> guest: i don't think there is any question it has had a tremendous impact on both the army and the marine corps. first of all let me say, our men and women that serve today are doing yeoman service and they are carrying out the mission that has been given to them in a very fine fashion. we have got great leadership. if that great ncos and soldiers sailors airmen and marines but having said that i see a lot of marines because i live in an area that has a tremendous amount. i was just at fort bragg last week at fort benning down in tampa at central command and socom. the stres

this was a bar at the conference center at the wright-patterson air base.there's, unfortunately, no picture of it in the book, but you have -- that's milosevic sitting there at a very critical moment in the negotiations. general clark is above him hunched over the map. c-span: that's you at the back? >> guest: well, that's me -- yeah, that's me. that's general clark. that is general caric with his back to us. there's milosevic. he's staring at a high-tech computer right off the screen. that is rudy perino, very senior diplomat who was with us, and we're trying to figure out a route to the isolated eastern enclave right along that area. and we've got this high-tech computer screen. c-span: but the small story was, you know, you just tell about the waitress. >> guest: oh, waitress, yeah. helped our listening in dayton. she is a legend now. milosevic asked her what her name was, and he speaks excellent english, but he does the v and w transto vision. so when i went back out for the anniversary celebrations, i was proudly served by waitress wicki herself. i hop

scott patterson is our guest. "washington journal" is next. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] ♪ ♪ in the news at this hour, the founder of wikileaks has been arrested on a warrant. today is the 69th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor in hawaii. and the tax-cut deal is making news all over the place. obama sent biden to capitol hill today to sell the tax deal to angry democrats. we want to get your reaction to what we heard the president announced last night. front-page news, everywhere we are looking this morning, "philadelphia inquirer" here is the headline. they are stressing that democrats are not happy about all of this. here is the front page of the "washington times" this morning. and in the "new york post", here was the headline with the big question mark. let us get to some of the details. if you have not caught up on this, the agreement -- that the president reached with republicans is a tax cut with everyone for a couple of more years. it will exten

with the kind of post-traumatic stress they have to endure and there's an author, richard north pattersonrite authors wrote a novel about this. he says if you put your cat out in the night overnight and spend the night lobbing hand grenades, you'll have a different cat the next morning. that's kind of the situation. many are going in, fighting an enemy they can't identify, works works with them during the day. tries to kill them during the night. the one two-year stays away from home, a real burden on the military. we have to celebrate them. they're heroic what they do out there is beyond the call of what they should be doing. >> it's time washington start defending them. >> yeah. >> like they defended us for so long. they're not doing it. >> thank you so much, william cohen. >> thank you, mr. secretary. >> sorry for the voice. >> you get worn out on msnbc. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. executor of efficiency. you can spot an amateur from a mile away... while going shoeless and metal-free in seconds. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car

with the opportunity to get support and retraining like the community college in my district in patterson, new jersey to the t.a.a. community college grant program, this is the least we can do to our workers who have been hard hit in the last 10 years. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. herger: mr. speaker, i am the last speaker. i reserve my time until later. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california reserves his time. the gentleman from washington. mr. mcdermott: i yield three minutes to the the gentleman from north carolina, mr. etheridge. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. etheridge: permission to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. etheridge: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i want to thank the chairman of the committee and ranking member for their work and the committee's work in really bringing the omnibus trade act of 2010 to the floor. this is an important piece of legislation. it re

can the children in the city of newark, the city of patterson, the city of jersey city, the city of trenton, and for god sake, the city of camden, can they say that? those parents can't. in the main, they cannot. and that is at the core of our failure. but those parents dream of the same thing that my parents dreamed of for me, but because of a system that does not nurture those children, does not educate those children, does not draw out their potential for it to be exploited, for it to be developed, it is simply a system that is there to serve the adults, not to serve the children. each and every day in those cities in my state and others, the worst schools are continuing to be allowed to operate without any effort systemically to fix them. it is time for us to stand up and demand that the teachers, the principals and the administrators truly do what the teacher's union says they do every day, putting the children first. it's for the kids, you understand. well, it is time for us to hold them to that test. if we don't do it, if we don't change what is happening in our mediocre and poor-per

children in patterson, in trenton, can those parents say that? that is that the court of our failure -- that is at the core of our failure. those were the same things my parents' dream for me. because of the system that does not nurture those children, does not educate those children, does not -- does not draw out their potential for it to be exploited, for it to be developed, it is simply a system that is there to serve the adults. it is not to serve the children. each and every day in those cities in my state, and others, the worst schools are continuing to be allowed to operate without any effort, systemically, to fix them. it is time for us to stand up and demand that the teachers, the principles, and administrators truly do what the teachers union say they do every day, putting the children first. it is for the kids, you understand. it is time for us to hold them to that test. if we do not do it, if we do not change what is happening in our mediocre and poor-performing schools, we fail those children. we continue to play the blame game and m

my father worked in mills that were common in the city of patterson, new jersey, textile mills, and there was something in the environment there that was very harmful. my father was 43 when he died. my mother was a 37-year-old widow and i had already joined the army. i had enlisted in the army. so we saw -- i saw what happened. my father was sick for 13 months from cancer. and, by the way, his brother died from cancer, worked in the mills, and their father worked in the factory. he died at age 56 from cancer. and when my father died 13 months after being stricken with colon cancer, what he left besides grief, unfortunately, my mother, being the sole income earner for the family, owed money for doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, you name it. and the -- overwhelmed by debt, it was necessary to go bankrupt. painful experience. it's a -- it's an influence, it's a memory that is very hard to deal with because it creates an atmosphere of failure. but life turned around for me and i am one of the most fortunate people on earth. my wife and i have 13 grandchildren, the oldest of whom is 17 and the y

james patterson fans are going to love this, the lifetime tv's "sunday at tiffany's." welcome!rything that's wonderful about this time of year and everything that's wonderful about love and everything that's wolf about tiffany's. everything. >> so in the beginning you have this kind of imaginary friend. >> yeah. >> it starts out when i'm a little girl and i have an imaginary friend because my mom is kind of a type a whosorkahol. she's delicious and she was everything that i wanted her to be. she's so lovely. and i grow up and i'm engaged to this guy named hugh who is a big famous actor. ivan survey plays hugh. my imaginary friend from childhood comes back into my life all grown up just to stir the pot a little bit. >> i bet he's darn cute, too. >> he's kind of handsome. eric winter plays that character. the cast is great. it's modern day fairy tale. it is so romantic. i loved that this character starts out someplace kind of flawed and you see, you go on this journey with her and she ends up okay in the end. >> of course. it is lifetime. hallmark and lifetime. >> now we said in

patterson ran after him.xt day on the school bus, someone said hey divens and i tried to squirt suntan lotion on those. >> you will stall any way you possibly can? >> some people say this business model is fantastic right now, but they worry, they have a major concern that's too easily copyable and that any other company can copy this and someone who wants to be aggressive and come in and undercut your fees can basically push you to the side, are you worried about that? >> in addition to being the fastest growing company ever, we have probably been the most copied company ever. there's over 500 groupon claims all over the country. the first groupon claim came out in the first 18 months. 99 of them are completely irrelevant. >> last week amazon made a significant investment in one of your competitors called living social. does that worry you that a company like amazon is pouring money into that company? >> we think as long as we build a product that our consumers really like to use and is useful for merchants