at 66 years old, kate pearson is among the oldest female rockers touring from america.'n'roll versus a man, as they age. >> there's a lot of nasty comments, particularly online directed at women. there's a different standard. >> i'm conscious of how i look and i want to have make-up and hair. at the end of it, i want to be myself, and my hair and [ singing ] >> i'm happy. i'm ing >> black box of the crashed germanwings plane is recovered. germany mourns 16 students who were on the flight. hello in doha, protesters rage in yemen and president hadi makes another plea to the u.n. security council. >> advance on idlib.

. >>> on "america tonight" - ♪ heading down the highway ♪ >>> kate pearson exploded on to the music sceneh the b-52s. now, after 39 years and the bs kate is going solo >>> also tonight... >> the f35 is the most expensive weapons programme in american history. so far the pentagon has bought almost 150 f-35s, with more on the assembly line. even though the plane is not cleared for combat. >> it can blow up. >> absolutely. there goes the airplane and the pilot >>> good evening, thank you for joining us i'm adam mays sitting in for joie chen. despite the talk about the need for belt tightening there's a programme that has been spared. congress is expected to spend more than 1 trillion on the f-35 fighter plane. even though that programme experienced setback after setback. now there's another concern. safety. "america tonight"s sheila macvicar investigates speaking with former pentagon advisors raising alarm bells much >> reporter: the air force base is where the american pilots learn the art of aerial combat. here the full array of u.s. air power is on display, gr proven workhorses like the f

at 66 years old, kate pearson is among the oldest female rockers touring from america.'n'roll versus a man, as they age. >> there's a lot of nasty comments, particularly online directed at women. there's a different standard. >> i'm conscious of how i look and i want to have make-up and hair. at the end of it, i want to be myself, and my hair and [ singing ] >> i'm happy. i'm content where i am. and still spreading a message that it's okay to be different >>> yes, it is. that's if for us here on "america tonight". tell us what you think at aljazeera.com/americatonight. you can talk to us on twitter or facebook. >> >>> recovery efforts restart in the french alps where a german airliner crashed, killing all 150 people on board. >>> hello, welcome to al jazeera, live from doha. i'm martine dennis. also to come on the programme. [ sirens ] >>> anti-government forces move towards yemen's president, there are reports his saudi arabia ally is massing troops on the bo

to gain access to these compounds pearson extracts fats, or lipids, from the rock sample. once the lipids are extracted, they are run through a mass spectrometer, which indicates what kinds of compounds are in the sample. pearson: so, when we look at a mixed sample and identify what kinds of compounds we have in the sample, sometimes we see a compound with a mass spectrum like this and this is the mass spectrum of a sterol. the sterol is related to the compound cholesterol, which is something we're familiar with. and any time we see a sterol we interpret that as meaning there was a eukaryote in the sample. and this is significant because we're able to then look for molecular fossils or biomarkers that record eukaryotes before eukaryotes became big enough to leave large, macroscopic fossils that we can then see. narrator: but sterols do more than tell us what kind of life was present. they provide evidence for its environment. this complicated maze of lines circles, and arches is a road map of the metabolic pathways of living cells mocular biologists' current knowledge of t

[gunfire] in the forefront, general pearson.m bastogne to vietnam, the tradition remains unbroken and magnificent. the screaming eagles. [gunfire and explosions] the battle wanes. a small part of operation hawthorn is over. some of the men of the 101st will fight no more. but for this day the bastions of freedom held. they came, a full battalion. their weapons, not ours, have been silenced. throughout the oppressive days and nights of june 1966 the operation hawthorn continued. the screaming eagles repeatedly beat back the prized units of the north vietnamese army. more than 500 of the communist aggressors are killed. it is the largest single battle of the war for the men of the 101st. the bitter struggle to preserve the freedom of this little asian nation is made more bearable as each man is strengthened in spirit and resolve. at last, the fighting is done. ♪ all the world had heard about the gallant screaming eagles. and the battles of operation hawthorn. in recognition of their outstanding victory, the premier of south vietna

brigadier general pearson welcomes the men home.will be one of his last official acts as their commander. two days later the general transfers the command of the division to the new brigade commander. the troops watch with solemn pride as to the tenant general pins the lead -- the medal of merit on their budding commander. though they did bid farewell to the commander that led them from one end of vietnam to the other for the screaming eagles and the rest of the uterus military forces in vietnam, the effort to keep the young nation free continues. however far removed, the conflict and those who cherish human dignity and those who would snuff it out affects us all. in this belief the gallant men of the u.s. army stand steadfast , wherever they meet -- wherever they may be asked to serve. as well as deformities caused by onset broken bones. this man, a former vietcong who was defect -- or defected and was later captured cannot tell of his unspeakable nightmare with the enemy. the odyssey of the brigade continues. back up north they we

for "nightly business report," i'm hampton pearson in washington. >> chief economist with wells fargo securities. john good to see you again. welcome. >> thank you. >> let's start with if you think the timetable is up for the fed. >> there's two for this. the job number was very good. it was broad based except for mining which incorporates the oil drilling the number was very strong. the unemployment rate did decline. from the real size of the u.s. economy, it's a good story. but i think early, you mentioned a change in timing and that's why i think caught the markets off guard. it brings forward a lot of market expectations that the fed could easily signal in june and increase in the federal funds rate. that would change as timing i think, really impacted the equity market as well as long-term interest rates. that's the second part of that interesting story. >> the stock market react as if can't go up if interest rates do. what is the stock market performance rise? >> that's an interesting line tyler. in fact historically the stock market has improved as interest rates have risen as

0.2% and there are a few things both wall street and main street will be watching for and hampton pearson knows what they are. >> reporter: bitter wint weathe in much of the country and job losses in the energy sector due to declining oil prices are key reasons why leading economists expect a job growth slowdown in february. nearly 40,000 jobs have been lost in the energy sector in the first two months of 2015. according to a leading job placement firm. >> right now we're seeing in the midst of this expansion one sector going through the change. that's energy. 38% of all cuts right now for the firts two months of the year have come from that sector. >> reporter: today, the labor department tells us first time unemployment claims topped 320,000 last week pushing the moving average back above 300,000. the highest since mid january. earlier in the week a closely watched forecast for private sector job growth showed a gain of 2012,000 jobs down from 250,000 last month. >> we have to see the promise land which is spring i think before we finally start to see the economy revert to the gross rej

for "nightly business report," i'm hampton pearson in wa. >> craig garthwait joining us now to discuss what's at stake for businesses and millions of people now covered under the affordable care act. he's at the kellogg school of management where he specializes in health care. professor, welcome back. let's just cut to the chase here. would an adverse ruling out of the supreme court effectively end the affordable care act as we know it? >> well certainly in the 30 plus states that chose to use the federal exchange rather than their own exchange the citizens there would lose access to subsidies. many of those people would be unable to afford insurance and the exchange in those states would effectively cease to run. premiums would be uninsured. in those states you'd see the beginning of the end of the aca. >> what about the subsidies indeed mixed? what businesses would be most affected? >> busines you look at are hospitals. if you think about how our health care system works, hospitals are the de facto insurers of last resort. if you don't have insurance and go there, you get care. if yo

hampton pearson has more from the supreme court. >> don't take our care! >> reporter: at the supreme court, it was a battle over tax subsidies that make health insurance affordable for millions of americans that triggered the latest legal showdown over the affordable care act. opponents asking the high court to limit those federal subsidies only to residents of the 16 states with their own health care exchanges. that adheres to the exact text of the affordable care act. and it's a direct challenge to an irs interpretation of the rule making those subsidies available to everybody. >> what the internal revenue service has done isn't fair. it isn't right. and it isn't legal. >> reporter: inside the high court, justices tested the lawyers op both sides. the courts' liberals challenged michael carbon over his limiting the subsidies. justice ruth bader ginsburg said cutting off in the 40 states with federal government only exchanges would be disastrous. more people will exit the market because premium will be too expensive for them and you will then again raise

expect patience, if not caution from monetary policyma for "nightly business report," i'm hampton pearson in washington. >>> stocks took a breather today after a big week of gains. the dow jones industrial average fell 11 points to 18,116. the nasdaq saw a 15-point pullback but remained above the key 5,000 level. and the s&p 500 dropped a little bit more and in the treasury market the yield on the benchmark 10-year remains below 2%. >>> now to the european economy, and european central bank president mario drawingy said today the ecb will buy public and private debt until it is convinced inflation has normalized. it comes amid reports greece to could run out of money next >> let me disagree with you about -- almost about everything first of all, are we blackmailing greece? well it's a bit of a reach when you look at the exposure that we have with greece. ecb has 104 billion of exposure to greece. this is equal to 65% of greek gdp. if the highest exposure in the eurozone so it's a -- what sort of blackmail is this. it's up to you to judge. >> he spoke today at the european parliament. >>>

for "nightly business report," i'm hampton pearson in washington. >>> and just yesterday, by the way, the supreme court issued a decision that could affect securities lawsuits. the high court said investors could not sue companies for making misleading statements of opinion in an sec filing that later turned out to be false. but investors can sue if documents filed with the sec express an opinion but omit important facts. the case stems from stock offering statements filed by om omnicare. the supreme court decision was unanimous. >>> the security and exchange commission took an important step to making it easier for small and mid-sized businesses to raise cash in the public market. the commissioners approved rule changes that allow companies to raise up to $50 million a year from the general public without certain regulatory hurdles. that's way up from the $5 million cap. this rule approval was part of the jobs act the president signed into law nearly three years ago. >>> and american express' investor say, ken chenault said he has a strategy to overcome recent setbacks. dow component

now we take you beyond the beehive and discover there's more to the b-52s kate pearson.d out at aljazeera.com/"america tonight". >>> welcome back, in our fast-forward - this is the most contaminated nuclear site. for decades workers were exposed to toxic chemicals and raidia active waste cree -- radioactive waste created by a world war ii bomb programme. exposure is still happening today, some say. lori jane gliha with more on ill examination. >> it was on this 586 square mile site where workers developed a nuclear reactor, producing plutonium for a bomb in world war ii. the site generated millions in waste, and hundreds of billions in liquid waste until the last reactor shut down in the '80s. thousands of workers were hired to help with the clean-up - still going on today. dale worked at hamford for 30 years nearly. how often did you walk around with no mask? >> most of the time. almost all of the time. >> reporter: gear worked in the tank farms, his job including making sure the storage units filled with radioactive waste functioned properly. now retired and suffering

. >>> on "america tonight" - ♪ heading down the highway ♪ >>> kate pearson exploded on to the music sceneh the b-52s. now, after 39 years and the bs, kate is going solo >>> also tonight... >> the f35 is the most expensive weapons programme in american history. so far the pentagon has bought almost 150 f-35s, with more on the assembly line.

hampton pearson outside the supreme court.e meantime more details about the apple watch expected to be unveiled at an event in san francisco next week. however, our next guest wrote an article in "fast company" this week, you guys realize the apple watch is going to flop, right? joining us mark wilson joins us from fast company, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> are you essentially say this is like a vanity project for jony ive? >> that's what it sounds like. i know that doesn't sound kind but "the new yorker" ran a 16,000 word piece in which they went inside the apple lab and what they say very indirectly is that ive has become obsessed with rolexes and bentleys rather than the democratized designs that brought us the iphone. >> but there's a sense that the apple is only expecting or analysts are only expecting them to sell about a tenth as many rolexes as sell in a given year for the high-end of the apple watch. they know they're not going to get there overnight. you disagree with the other analysts who say expect abou

. >>> on "america tonight" - ♪ heading down the highway ♪ >>> kate pearson exploded on to the music sceneh the b-52s. now, after 39 years and the bs, kate is going solo >>> also tonight... >> the f35 is the most expensive weapons programme in american history.

sharp reaction from the new york stock exchange but first, hampton pearson has more on what some are calling the federal reserve's most important policy decision in years. >> reporter: federal reserve chair janet yellin and fellow monetary policy makers appear ready to open the door to a rate increase later this year. but they also appear to be in no rush to do so. >> just because we remove the word patient from the statement doesn't mean we're going to be impatient. >> reporter: the fed chair rules out a rate hike at the end of the april meeting. economic data tracking further improvement of the job market and higher inflation appr to be the most sensitive rate hike triggers but the fed chair acknowledged slower economic growth and downward pressure from the strong makes a strong case for waiting. >> just as we don't want to be pre in tightening policy and aborting a recovery that we have worked long and hard to proceed as far as it has, we also don't want to be behind t curve and beginning to tighten given those. >> reporter: markets rally based on the notion of late increase they

hampton pearson has more. >> reporter: harsh winter we send a slowdown in major west coast ports and the strong dollar not only drives on the economy ae end of the year but continue to take their toll in the first quarter. total corporate profits dropped more than 8% last year the biggest decline since 2008. that decline accelerated in the fourth quarter, as earnings from multinationals were impacted by the strong dollar. after tax corporate profits fell $57 billion in the fourth quarter versus a $52 billion increase in the previous quarter. corporate profits from outside the u.s. had a decrease of $36 billion versus a $16.5 billion increase in the third quarter. and the dollar gained nearly 8% against the currencies of the main u.s. trading partners in the last six months of 2014. >> some pullback would be expected. we're not terribly concerned about it going forward especially given the fact it's a transitory nature to that dollar. >> reporter: in contrast the benefits of lower energy prices may finally be showing up in consumer spending. the 4.4% increase at the end of last year w

decides to appeal to the supreme court and at this point route needed a lawyer and he finds carl pearson who is still practicing in new york city and he agrees to take the case on contingency so the two of them working out of his tiny office against a who's who of their trademark lobby but the supreme court refuses to hear the case and ralph whinnies and he wins his right to reduce anti monopoly wins a settlement for his damaged game and also wins the right to talk about the origins of the game, previously turned down a massive settlement offer that was a lot of money but wouldn't be able to talk about the history of the game. victory is not enough. he and his friend russ foster, that quality photo here, to deduct the game. they go to minnesota and they think they know where they are buried and they look and have no lock and somebody says you are in the wrong place and route seems okay we will go back, go to where they're buried and you might have a problem, they built condos on top of where the games are very. so when people ask me why have you spent all this time writing a book about m

at this point ralph nader lawyer and he finds carl pearson who is still practicing here in new york city. he agrees to take the case on contingency. it's the two of them working out of the tiny office up against a who's who of the trademark lobby but the supreme court refuses to hear the case. ralph wenz. ralph wenz and he wins his right to produce anti-monopoly. he wants a settlement for its damaged games and wins the right to talk about the origins of the game. he turned down the massive settlement offer that he wouldn't have been able to talk about the history of the game. he and his friend russ foster and this is a bad quality photo decide they want to dig up the games. so they go to minnesota and they think they know where they are buried him a look and have no look -- no luck. somebody says you are in the wrong place and ralph says we will go back. we will go to wherever they are buried. they say you might have a problem. they have built condos on top of where the games are buried. so when people ask me writing a book on monopoly and a boardgame which is the perfectly legitimate qu

decided to appeal to the supreme court, and at this point ralph needed a lawyer and he finds carl pearson who actually is still practicing here in new york city. he agrees to take the case on contingency. so it's the two of them working out of carl's, like, tiny office up against a who's who of the trademark lobby. but the supreme court refuses to hear the case, and ralph wins. and he wins his tight produce anti-monopoly. he wins a settlement for his damaged games, and he also wins the right to talk about the origins of the game. he had previously turned down a really massive settlement offer that was a lot of money, but he wouldn't have been able to talk about the history of the game pre-darrow. but victory's not enough. he and his friend russer, who there's a bad quality photo here, they decide they want to try and dig up the games. so they go to minnesota, and they think they know where they're buried, and they look and they look and they look, and they have no luck. and then somebody says you were in the wrong place and ralph thinks oh, well sure, we'll go back, we'll go to wherever t

some of those present at lincoln's death spent across the street from four theater and pearson house were so eager for last words from lincoln that they kept hoping in spite of the severe head trauma that he would wake up and speak as he lay on his deathbed. one can understand mary lincoln's shrieking out in her bottomless grief across the street, calling for young tad to be brought over from the white house as the sound of his voice she believed, might revive his father. it's more surprising to find a 23-year-old surgeon who first ran to the stricken presidents aid voicing the same hope, that lincoln might rouse himself to consciousness. writing nearly a half-century later, he said he knew in 1865 that unconscious patients suffering severe head wounds could sometimes regain recognition and reason just before departure. if there was a chance that lincoln would admit even a single word the dozen or so men who remained by his bedside at the very end were determined not to miss it. even as they waited all night for possible last words the doctor and several others standing around the de

. >> i was watching dallas cowboys back in the '70s, i think drew pearson who jumped up, spiked the ballfter touchdown and hurt his knee and was out for the super bowl or something like that. out for a major game. melissa: i'm picking harvard to go all the way. i think they will win the whole thing? >> hottie, ole miss. >> i think i pulled a hammy. melissa: got nothing? villanova? go with me and go with harvard kentucky nothing? you guys don't watch basketball? you're all drawing a complete blank. todd was there. >> sec all the way. melissa: okay. >> missouri playing? >> sorry, have to take a call. hello? melissa: documentary series comes to shocking real-life conclusion as real estate heir did they not tell you guys we were doing the segment and come up with your pick? what he said when he thought no one was listening? camera controversy making customers furious. this will make you think twice before sending in your rental car. coming right up. ♪ melissa: a shocking confession of an alleged serial killer. hbo's "the jinx" stunning viewers in the final moments the miniseries chronicles t

bob pearson runs it after visiting italy. >> farm to city has a winter harvest buying club, you shopr groceries online and pay as you go, and choose from the pick up sites in the city or suburbs. he said the goal to help farmers and customers. >> there are so many people in the united states that suffer from diet related diseases, obesities, diabetes, hypertension. >> reporter: farm to city's winter harvest forearm has 6 off participate -- program has 60 participanting farmers. >> i like the fact we're supporting local agricutlure and i get fantastic food. >> reporter: you may call the pca help line for details. that number (215)765-9040. the lisa thomas-laurey channel 6 "action news." here's a look at what's happening in and around the delaware and lehigh valleys this week, we're taking a live look at the palestra at the university of pennsylvania campus as people pay their final respects to officer robert wilson. they will be having a viewing from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at 10:00 a.m. they will begin the search e service for him there. here's what's happening in and around the dela

to katrina pearson with hers. what do you make of it? >> this is classic liberal hypocrisy.tioned several things going on across the country that he's not talking about. for example, outsourcing jobs. you have these ceos that are finding their political voice at the expense of their company, not realizing that a lot of americans who may not be politically active are in fact, active in their consumerism and just might use that power moving forward. >> i'm just wondering whether you'll have a beef on gays, for example. >> right. neil: you leave yourself open to, all right, he spoke out on this but he didn't speak out about outsourcing or about illegal immigration and people start saying, oh, you pick and choose your battles. right? >> right. and he took this personally being gay himself. and that's understandable. but you don't emotionally, you know, flashback at people, particularly in a state that has nothing really to do with you as an individual. you know, he didn't mention the fact that it was bill clinton that signed a religious freedom act way back when. >> that's right

but several agency officials were reassigned and former director julia pearson forced out paving theay for joe clancy who now faces his first major test. >> he's already disciplined a number of the members of the secret service, and he'll need to continue to do that apparently. and establish the culture from the top. >> we have received even more information about exactly what happened that night. we are told that the entire incident lasted all of about 30 seconds, lou and what's more the vehicle in question ended up tapping one of those huge orange barrels, the kind you see in construction zones on highways, the ones that are about three or four feet high, but it hit it so softly, it didn't even tip it over. we're likely to hear a lot more about that and what can be done to reclaim the luster at that agency on tuesday when the director speaks before a house appropriations committee. lou? lou: kevin, thanks so much. can't wait for that hear handgun. we're coming right back, stay with us. >>> former house speaker dennis hastert on republican senators intervening in the iranian nuclear

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hampton pearson is outside the supreme court in washington. hampton, what is so important about these six words? >> the meaning of the six words could determine the future of the affordable care act. just like it was three years ago when the mandate was really the front burner issue, we had demonstrators outside the court on both sides of the issue, and we also saw the same idealogical split among the justices. now, four plaintiffs were challenging the irs rule. they are arguing that tax subsidies should only go to individuals in states that set up their own exchanges. >> what the internal revenue service has done isn't fair it isn't right, and it isn't legal. >> now, inside the court justice anthony kennedy, a potential swing vote really questioned lawyers on both sides about the negative impact if the government loses the case but he really didn't commit to supporting either side. he is supportive of the government, and he is very unusual for the better part of the 90 minute argument we heard today. chief justice john roberts was silent thre

the dismissal of several top officials including the former director of the secret service julianne pearson. they are the ones that will be in charge of investigating the incident. a lot of this comes right to president obama's doorstep. after the september incident members of congress urged the president to brirng in outside leadership. he brought in a guy who was seen as a consummate insider joseph clancy who once headed up his personal security detail. >> joe clancy has been in the position for less than a month now. has he taken any steps to try to correct all of these problems? seems like another day another month another major scandal that puts the president's life potentially at risk if this stuff isn'ted contained. >> you have house cleaning when you are dealing with federal employees, a lot of people were reassigned to other jobs. the thing that kept coming up again and again in the aftermath of that september since dentincident was the culture of service. there have been no major changes since that incident. >> we will be following the story through out the day. more on this as we