we shouldn't think of ourselves as up on a pedestal. we should think of ourselves as part of a community. our job is to help with information. other people help with other things, and we shouldn't want the pedestal. >> let's get in some of the voices from our audience now. hi. go ahead with your question. >> my question is in terms of political television news with ratings and demographics shifting seemingly towards the cable personality-driven news shows--rachel maddow, john king--do you think that in the future that will make the traditional nightly newscast obsolete? >> you gonna make the traditional nightly newscast obsolete? >> if she's right, i have to set myself on fire now. is that how this works? no. will we make them obsolete? i don't know the answer to that question, and i don't mean this to sound the way i'm going to say it, but i almost don't care. that's my job. my bosses might not like this, but i hope not. i hope--i like the choices. i like that people have a variety of choices, and there are very good programs there. in

, spin on pedestals. is that is to beat an elephant with a weapon like this and whip them. ringling hits them across the face and whips them across the face. >> could you explain the video we're watching right now. >> we are seeing an undercover video taken last year by peta, it shows the handlers with ringling brothers beating the elephants just before they go into the show. they are hitting them across the face, whipping them across the face. these elephants are not doing anything. this is what ringling and all circuses do. they want to instill fear in the elephant so the elephant will listen to them. the way they do that is to beat the elephant and cause pain with a weapon like this. >> is there any way that you could see if they took out some of these techniques that you're talking about, that you would be okay with animals in a circus or you just feel that there's no way that this can be donahue mainly and you would just like the circuses to get rid of animals altogether. >> you can't train an elepha

it has a pedestal sink and a matching toilet. it has a wonderful medicine cabinet here with a great feature now, so there is actually a locking compartment so you can put your medicines in there. >> there you go. excellent. and it has got its little shaving mirror or whatever. makeup mirror. normally, this would be recessed, right? >> yes, it would be pushed on the wall, so you have to be again mindful about that. when you are doing the construction, you have to leave a little opening for a period >> one of the big issues we always have is coordination and construction between the fixture's and the trade. the plumber might come along and put a vent pipe or some of the plumbing lines in the wall light real -- right where you want to resist the medicine cabinet, so we need to have the architect or someone coordinate between the contractor and the various subcontractors just to make sure that the homeowner gets what they had in mind when they designed it. >> absolutely. even in a bathroom, there is a lot going on. there is medicine

. >> does this book take oprah off her pedestal. >> nothing could take oprah off her pedestal. >> plushas lots of discounts on car insurance. can i get in on that? are you a safe driver? yes. discount! do you own a home? yes. discount! are you going to buy online? yes! discount! isn't getting discounts great? yes! there's no discount for agreeing with me. yeah, i got carried away. happens to me all the time. helping you save money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. eating healthy is important, but only vegetables can give you vegetable nutrition. one of these will get you more than half way to your five daily servings. v8. what's your number? >> smith: celebrity biographer kitty kelley is famous for dishing dirt, naming names and selling books. lots and lots of books. cynthia bowers brings us the authorized story of a notoriously unauthorized author. >> reporter: she may be petite but you've got to give kitty kelley this: she doesn't think small. just look at her subjects or is that targets? jackie o, elizabeth taylor, frank sinatra, nancy reagan, the british royals, the

. >> the sculptor has put the cucumber on a pedestal. the vegetables have been cast in acrylic and given place in the museum. the artist says he identifies with these salty snacks. two classics of austrian cuisine. appleple strudela -- n applan strudel or a pickle. >> that is the main reason why i used it. who wants to be a strudel? >> it is fine to laugh. >> i went to see and feel them. >> it is a funny installation. >> what does he think of the rest of us? bbc news. >> insight into the fascinating world of pickles and cucumbers. this is bbc news. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold. get the top stories from around the globe and click to play video reports. go to bbc.com/news to experience the in-depth, expert reporting of "bbc world news" online. >> funding was made possible by -- the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, and union bank. >> union bank offers unique insight and expertise in a range of industries. what can we do f

the sculptor has put a cucumber on a pedestal.he vegetables have been cast in acrylic and been given place at the salzburg museum. >> what you see here are two classics of austrian cuisine. there is a pickle bergen and an apple strudel -- a pickled burk igherkin and an apple strudel. why the pickled gherkin? >> i would say because in vienna, austria, we grew up with because, with this kind of food. it is an in-between dish. that is the main reason why. >> the artist says people are free to make of their own mind about the meaning of the peacpi. >> i like the small ones. the small ones, their interest in me. the big ones are too big. >> i got a big smile on my face when i was walking. >> the show begs the rather unsettling question. if the artist can see himself as a pickle, what does he think of the rest of us? >> i think it is a cultural thing. much more pickles, gherkins, and all the international news online anytime you wanted at bbc.com/news. you can get in touch with me and all of the crew on twitter. you can also see what is

will the devil or the chief knock the champ off its pedestal? "takers" could take the top stop. the heist thriller is expected to draw the teens out and bring in around $15 million. giving it a run for its money is "the last exorcism." young women could carry this one and scare off the competition. and the one to be afraid is two time weekend champ "the expendables." a successful stallone comeback with $71 million to date. experts predict it should get another $9 million this weekend. but the $2 billion gorilla in the room is the limited release of "avatar" special edition. the highest grossing movie of all time will be rereleased with 8 1/2 extra minutes of footage to bring in a few extra million. it's not expected to make the top five. that may go to "eat, pray, love" which brought in $50 million so far and has shown surprising staying power despite brutal reviews. and they have been brutal. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> we haven't been too nice to it either. >> you haven't been dragged to that yet, bill? you haven't been dragged to that movie? >> no, i don't think it's happening eithe

[laughing] >> i told lieutenant reilly i would buy him a pedestal one day because i think he is a savenlt but this swridge, quite frankly, is someone who is very skillful. we want to make sure we have someone very good. i'm not sure lieutenant reilly is fully replaceable, but i think welcome very close to it. commissioner hammer: thank you, chief. you told us there would be a -- an assistant to lieutenant reilly. i don't know if anyone knows this, he resigned a year and a half ago, and hope fle we can keep lieutenant reilly around much, much longer. he is a saint. president marshall: public comment on item number four. the commission report. >> commissioners, i am director of san francisco open government. i provided my gizz business cards so you may have a copy as well as the director of o.c.c. and of course chief gascon. i would like to comment on the director's report saying there are 576 cases in and 544 out doesn't necessarily deal with the issue of aging. many of you are familiar with accounting terms, and unfortunately some of the cases put into the resolve column are cases that ha

visitors not only groups but also many individual tourists who don't stay overnight but to this a pedestal on their way to us as our town is an entrance gate to the region paris level will amaze and delight this area is full of fascinating facts and figures lenin worked in a village in the past district. the second is to the town and the three hundred year anniversary of the romanov district was celebrated here. birchwood picture frames and decorated timbales there are several markets still situated next to red square tourist attack from paris level by. their. this location here at the place the lake is considered to be the cradle of the russian fleet as of the end of the seventeenth century peter the great and ship builders from holland the first russian vessels here join a five year period over one hundred boats here but as they were built in the landlocked lake here they could go anywhere decades later the town safin and when does fire and all the ships built by piece be great were lost except one it was the boat titled fortune. and a prison the boat is kept in the local state museum wh

workers will install a second stairwell from the ground up to the pedestal. 3,000 people for day walk up and down the only staircase. inside the statue the only staircase that goes up to the crown will stay the same. >>> 350,000 people packed imperial beach in san diego for the u.s. open sand castle competition. it kicked off saturday with the children's contest and then on sunday u.s. open got under way with sand artists vying for $21,000 in cash prizes. a lot of time and effort spent making these sculptures, teams from around the country competed to share in that $21,000 prize purse. the competition has been an annual event at imperial beach since 1980. >>> 5:25 a.m. coming up in our next half hour, they went on strike at two east bay health care facilities, more than two dozen are without jobs. >>> i am tara mergenner in washington afghan police are on the hunt for taliban militants who executed ten foreign aid workers including six americans. >> five people injured in two separate shootings overnight. one woman has died. what the city is doing to crackdow

the obamas are so historic and so up on a pedestal and they are so different from everyone who came before it was probably good to -- remember in the wizard of oz, when you pull the curtain back on the wizard and a little guy pulling a bunch of levers, i wanted to do that with the obamas. that's what i did, and i don't know. they are fascinating. do you know michelle has actually referred to her husband after listening to one of his speeches as a walking talking, ambien cr? that's shocking to me. we're having a lot of fun. but seriously, the country, larry, i think is on the brink. in all seriousness, i wrote this book because not only do we need to understand what's happened over the last 18 months. i come at it from a conservative prospective. you have seen the polls. young person, women, latinos, are beginning to take a second look. a beautiful family, a wonderful father, but policies are not working, and we have to examine those and take it very seriously. serious stuff in the book, but these diaries are, you know -- am i doing a dramatic reading on larry king? this is pressure. >> lar

caller: i think we have a tendency to put our politicians on pedestals.e have done this to george washington, we have done this for abraham lincoln. and we cannot help it. that is the way we are. when we first elect somebody, we are truly enthusiastic. we put them on a pedestal and we slowly gets -- these are human beings. yes, i voted for president obama. i think -- i believe he is doing a good job. i know that a lot of people do not. one of the reasons why i love watching c-span is you hear so much from across the country how people are feeling and sometimes i am very surprised about who calls in and how they say what they say. yes, we have a tendency to do that. i do think we expect to much. but on the other hand, you have to expect too much because that is how we start analyzing what people are doing and where corruption is. with that, i will say goodbye. host: next is a call from philadelphia. however, republican line -- howie when a republican line. caller: the more we expect of our liberties are destroyed by the fourth amendment. i am fed up with t

generation of parents, i'm assuming, who put roger clemens on the highest mountain, the highest pedestalparents. and this burden falls foremost on them. and the kids say, mommy and daddy love roger clemens. but even he resorted to using performance-enhancing drug, or we believe. that's where it starts. as kids go back to school, now, robin, it seems incumbent upon the parents to establish first of this. how can they establish a new theme here? how can you teach kids to compete with all your heart and soul, but to respect the game? to respect your opponent? to respect the coaches, and certainly the officials, the referees, the umpires who govern your game? >> that's a good way of defining what sportsmanship should be for our game. the little league world series. i love seeing this. they're high-fiving each other. congratulating one another. there are bright spots we're seeing, skip. >> there are, robin. i'm with you. i love to watch the little league world series, if for nothing else, to watch them shake hands after the game. it looks genuine. it looks like they played their hearts out, b