please go ahead, miss pierce. thank you for being here. >> thank you, chairman leahy and senator sessions. as you said, my name is catherine pierce and i the acting director of the justice department offices on violence against women. it was enacted almost 15 years ago and i'm i want to talk about the challenges ahead. i want to personally thank the chairman and committee staff who worked so closely. this bill contains a number of much-needed amendments to improve aw -- avwa. we provide funding to states, tribal governments and nonprofit organizations to assist communities and encourage them to come up with innovative strategies. we are grateful to congress for responding to all victims of violence against women including victims of sexual assault. we are pleased to report that this year for the first time, they will make an award. o.v.w. has increased its efforts to respond to the serious crime of stalking. in january this year, the department released a special report which confirmed stalking is pervasive. women

searing, piercing, he would say these things. a quote to during a press conference that a mere 10 democracy was just not equipped to protect and that was not made for african-american and at that time. but a press conference said if anyone sent to a dog on a black man of the black man should kill the dog whether a for the dog or a two legged dog. that is hard to say and public. and baby to put that in perspective today we did not get important african-american to stand up and say things like that. >> absolutely one of his most important characteristics was the ability to speak truth to power and probably will be the most eloquent radical critic of america and democracy during the postwar period. the outcome is also a bold enough for not acting proactively enough but what is interesting study about the backs she really day she really serves as the counterpart in a way that people don't think of. they think of him as a counterpart for the a good black man and malcolm is the nasty anti-white. no. saying things that king cannot say i

says a bullet flew through, pierced the side of a refrigerator. the family went on for hours as they were waiting for police to respond. >>> you have a hole in your refrigerator. and you have two small children in the house. and they have to go hide in the closet to keep from getting shot. it needs to stop. >> the following day an officer did come out and remove that 45- caliber bullet from the fridge. >>> there's always the recognition of first babies born in the new year as it rolls in. but one tampa mom and her twin boys can celebrate the first and the last year -- birthday of the year. the couple welcomed in marcelo on just before -- midnight on the 31st. and then the other right after new year. the boys are said to be okay. >>> time to take down that christmas tree. baltimore city has a new program to help people dispose of their trees in a green way. ♪ [ music ] >> the holidays are over. and the time to clear out the tree and tinsel has come. andy wilson says he needs the space. >> my wife and i are expecting in a couple of weeks. >> this is

the cameo, there are extended cameos for ralph finnes, guy pierce.u saw jeremy remmer, brian geraghty. the three main stars of this film. they play members of a bomb squad in iraq. it's about the iraq war. it's a big canvas but this is a small, personal story. it is intense throughout. it is believable throughout. it is credible. kathryn bigelow really keeps it moving along. it came out some months ago but i don't think it will be forgotten when the academy award nominations come out. it's a really terrific movie. really outstanding film. best iraq war movie so far. >> oh, okay. "moon." >> "moon" is an interesting movie. it's from a first-time director duncan jones, who certainly has some creative talents in his blood lines. david bowie is his father. >> get out. >> it's a really impressive debut film. it's really just sam rockwell in this movie. he plays an astronaut on the far side of the moon on a three-year mission to help mine the moon for a big corporation to mine it for an energy source that we need on earth. but the satellite has gone down so

a close call when a stray bullet flew throw through the window and pierced the side of a prefrich rater stopped in the back of the freezer. thanks to the fridge, no one in the home was hurt. but the officer came out and removed that.4045 caliber ballet. >>> what is is over and so is the new year. it is tame to take down that christmas tree. as gigi barnett reports, the city has a program to help people who want to dissuppose of their tree in a grean way. a green way. ♪ [music] ♪ >> reporter: the holidays are over. and the time to clear out the tree and tinsel has come. andy wilson says he needs the space. >> my wife and i are expecting in a couple weeks. >> reporter: this is an option. the tree mulching program is a green alternative for folks who want to recycle the tree or keep it for later. >> if you want to take the mulch home with you, bring a bag or container and we're happy to fill it up. >> reporter: the spokeswoman says curbside collections will continue but those trees won't see a mulch pile. >> they would have to be collected separately for us to treat them in a special way t

pierce remains in the intensive care unit at the university of utah hospital. >>> typically you have to get into an airplane or helicopter to be a half mile off the ground, but in one city, all you have to do now is h on an elevator. the burj dubai tower opens today in dubai. it's now the world's tallest building. the tower is at least 160 stories high, cost $1.5 billion to build. these are live pictures from dubai right now. it is being called a vertical city of apartments and offices. i ao includes four swimming pools, a private library, and a hotel designed by giorgio armani. the opening ceremonies are taking place right now. once again, these are live pictures of that opening ceremony from dubai. >> very fancy. >> it is fancy, to say the least, indeed. >>> well, coming up in the next half hour of "news 4 midday," we'll have more on our top story. jim zorn fired as head coach of the washington redskins. >>> plus, a month after he disappeared, a new push by family and friends to find a missing utah mother. >>> and some of the severe weather conditions facing parts of the country th

and so, it's a combination of way our numbers for pierced double hundred thousand actually work on network and they're concerned about their futures. and also, we promote among her other members sponsored training, upgrading of skills, look to the future, don't let to the technologies. our members are really into this. so we talk about the speed matters campaign which restarted in iowa actually two years ago. it was in iowa because of the political interests. it was our members who took it up, met with the candidates in both parties, talked about the libraries, schools, hospitals, clinics and iraq are not having high-speed connections and what that means. and so, to our members it helps say that our organizations not just about important as it is the standard of living, but it's also about obviously coming you know, where will our the skills you need and how to contribute any meaningful way way to this country? you know, it's not just a good word. we feel like your work is meaningful. >> one of the ways that the fcc is looking at trying to shift some resources to having to deploy your broa

some of which were co-authored with pierce. i was thinking it is a tribute to haines that so many of the books, not a majority but so many were written with other journalists. herb bloch was born in 1909 and he died in 2001. in between, he had a long and glorious career. he joined the washington post after serving in world war ii. his cartoons were so brilliantly thought out that he often defined the time. he is credited with inventing the expression mccarthyism in a 1950s cartoon. he won the pulitzer three times including 1964 after he published the defining cartoon on john kennedy's assassination, lincoln at the memorial weeping. many of her block's cartoons are etched in our memory. this generous book that haines has produced contains many of herlock's drawings and excellent explanatory text. the narrative gives us a historical context for the cartoons especially for people who weren't there and didn't live this period. i think they will enjoy this. for those of us who did live the period the book helps us to remember and re

kevin pierce was hurt thursday as he trained in park city, utah, for next week's olympic qualifying eventseswoman says pooers was in the middle of a maneuver when he landed on his head. their main concern is monitoring his brain for signs of swelling. they say pearse has a long recovery ahead of him. >>> elton john's musical style has little in common with eminem's, but there is one thing they do share. a personal struggle with addiction. how the british superstar is helping the rapper. >>> ireporter ryan hartman got marry than we expected while taping a new year's eve fireworks show in thailand. one of the ignited shells misfired and fell back on to other fireworks. hartman says some were screaming in panic while others were cheering. he saw some people with minor burns but luckily no serious injuries. >>> china could end up dealing with its coldest winter in 40 years. snow has been causing major trouble in china since friday. there's been so much of it that traffic in beijing is barely moving. a lot of people are trying to get back into the city after the long holiday weekend. beijing's

things are true that you said, but there was a kind of raw language that would just kind of a sering, piercing, he would say these things. here's something, you know, a quote during a press conference, and he was, obviously, somebody who thought that american democracy was just not equipped to protect black americans, and that was not, you know, made for african-americans at the time the. but at a press conference in washington, d.c., he said, if anyone sets a dog on a black man, the black man should kill that dog whether he is a four-legged dog or a two-legged dog. [laughter] that's hard to say in public. i'm sure at that time, and just maybe you could kind of put that in perspective. i mean, even today we don't get, you know, important african-american leaders standing up staying things like that. >> guest: absolutely. one of malcolm's most important characteristics was the ability to speak truth to power. and he's really going to be probably the most eloquent radical critic of american democracy during the post-war period. malcolm also is bold enough to criticize president kennedy for not a

a 4-year-old in decatur, georgia, was killed by a stray bullet that pierced the roof of a church where was attend a new year's eve service. child died after being rushed to the hospital. in georgia, a man was asleep in bed just before midnight when he was hit by a bullet. the slug fell through the roof on his mobile home and hit him in the leg. >>> in miami, a 6-year-old boy was hit by a stray bullet while eating at an outdoor restaurant. he's expected to recover. the city's mayor says people need to be warned about the dangers of firing weapons into the air. >>> the danish cartoonist whose drawings of the prophet muhammad angered the muslim world has been attacked in his home. a man is charged with attempted murder and cnn's phil black has the details for you. >> reporter: kurt westergaard was looking after his 5-year-old granddaughter when danish police say a man broke into his home in aarhus and tried to kill him. westergaard fled to a fortified safe room and activated a panic alarm. the police say they responded quickly. this officer says the man attacked police with an ax and a kn

we can save lives i was talking to katherine pearson last -- katharine pierce evening and i figure willdifficult to measure how manymany people will not come forward and tell us. long after they graduate, when we teach is education, we are teaching them life skills. it is no different than anything else that we teach in health class. we teach them about heart disease prevention, the chances of becoming involved in abusive relationships in high school are for > them developing heart disease in high school. >> i recall in 1999 when i was attorney-general, we did a film and high school and distributed to all the high schools. that program did not meet the test of persisted. i will take that lesson from you today. >> i was trying to find that tape to see if we could duplicated and handed out to our schools >> in my last seconds, for maxwell's, -- four of ms. wells, suspected perpetrators of sexual assault and obtaining dna samples, what level of suspicion do you recommend be reached before the testing can take place? do you require full probable cause or a more clearly articulated suspicion

a 4-year-old in decatur, georgia, was killed by a stray bullet that pierced the roof of a church whereing a new year's eve service. the child died after being rushed to a hospital. and in environmentingham, georgia, a man was asleep in bed just before midnight when he was hit by a bullet. the slug fell through the roof of his mobile home and hit him in the leg. and in miami, florida, a 6-year-old was hit by a stral bullet when eating at an outdoor restaurant. the boy is in serious condition but is expected to recover. the city's mayor says it will warn people about the dangers of firing weapons in the air. >>> how can seven cia acts be killed in afghanistan inside their own compound? if it's an inside job, as the taliban is now claiming, carried out by a double agent. we'll explain that one. >>> a security breach allows an airliner to take off before they identify a passenger on the government no-fly list. wow, is this... fiber one honey clusters? yes. it's delicious. delicious. i know. but it can't have... can't have about half a i assure you it does. i was expecting... expecting sawd

there's some cameos from david morris from ralph finnes to guy pierce.formance of anthony macchi, jeremy ren ard are so good. it's about an explosive ordnance unit, bomb squad in iraq. really tense scenes but it's a real personal -- it's sort of a real personal movie as well. great year for female directors. katherine bryn bigelow did a gr. >> number two, quentin tarantino's inglorious basterds. we have a clip here. >> my name is aldo rein and i'm putting together a group of eight soldiers, american-jewish soldiers. you might have been hearing dates but we will be leaving earlier. we will be dropped into france dressed as six civilians and once we're in enemy territory, as a bushwhacking military army we're going to be doing one thing and one thing only -- killing nazis. >> so number two for good reason. >> i really liked it. i thought it was a real challenging movie. first of all, it was my favorite tarantino movie since "jackie brown." i love saying that because i think "jackie brown" is underrated. the pulp violence you expect from tarantino, i didn't

and all of those things are true the you said, but there was a kind of role language that was a piercing he would say these things. here is something a quote during a press conference and he was obviously somebody who thought that american democracy was just not equipped to protect black americans and that was not made for african-americans at the time. in a press conference in washington, d.c. he said if anyone since adolf on a black man, the black man should kill the adult whether he is a four leggitt all were to leggitt bald. that's her to sing in public. i'm sure at that time and maybe you can put it in perspective. even today we don't get important african american leaders standing of saying things like that. yes, absolutely. one of malcolm's most important characteristics was the ability to speak truth to power and he's quick to be probably the most eloquent article critic of american democracy during the post war period. malcolm is also a bold enough to criticize president kennedy for not acting productively enough in birmingham alabama. what's interesting when we study malcolm x

against antoine walker and eddy curry, tied up and robbed, stephon marbury robbed at gun point, paul pierceumerous times in a club and a lot of players feel like they have targets on their backs, and when you talk too them, and i don't say this as a compliment, they sound like nla members, saying we have to bear arms, it's our right, our families are threatened. unfortunately, i think statistics show that's not the best way to defend your family is owning a gun. >> but when i go to the knicks games, go to the garden, i get screened, i mean, i have everything looked at, i'm padded down if i'm wearing a big coat or something. how do the guys get the guns into the arena? >> they go through the tunnels, around the metal detectors and that's different. one of the players said we might have to start going through the metal detectors now, because no nba player, even those who are second amendment enthusiasts who talk about their guns, none of them want a situation where they're bringing guns to the locker room. the locker room is a sanctuary, a safe space and people don't want it to change. >> wha

they pulled out a .22 caliber handgun and shot him twice, one bullet piercing his aorta and the otherring a hole in his liver. >> to this day i still don't know the story. i've never tried to seek out the story because the only person that could tell is and while the chaos continued at simeon benji's brothers were miles away with a sibling connection that still haunts them. >> i was in library class and i heard somebody say i got shot. i got shot. i was in library class and i was like i'm going crazy, but then i thought about cain and abel when cain slew his brother and the most high said where's your brother? i heard his blood cry from the earth. right there something let me know that he got shot. >> and as a matter of fact, i had a dream two nights in a row before he died, somebody or something tried to tell me, had a dream that night benji was dead. next day i had a dream benji was dead. at that moment i heard my brother's voice say i got shoot just like i said to you there, came to me like. so this was something there and i was like what the hell's going on here? my mama always sa

and you mustn't buy this, it's poisonous that in a very loud, piercing voice. [laughter] , and you don't bite, do you? trade you know, exactly that you don't buy it if it's poison. >> host: that's a perfect note to end on, and i want to thank you for joining us. and tell you that you are one of my heroes as well. i know that that's not a completely neutral statement from someone entering, interviewing a book author. but i am come on behalf of their own, i am grateful for you to what you've done. thank you. >> guest: well, thank you, just as i am grateful to all the heroes who share their not only passion but love with me. >> bryan garner is the co-author of making your case. mr. dorgan what you like to write a book with the supreme court justice? >> or so, it's an honor but we have quite a few debates as we went along. the reason we wrote the book together is that we have a very similar philosophy of writing. and of advocacy. but when we got into the book we have some disagreements. so there were four debate in the middle of the book which are kind of fun. just

emily pierce is our first guest, joining us by phone. front-page story on a "roll call." the question is the biggest policy issue, health care. after a day of observing it, what our leaders saying? guest: in the immediate aftermath they are saying we need to take a deep breath and think about what we need to do. at the same time, they are exploring this option of the house perhaps taking up the senate bill and just send it to the president. in order to do that, you would need an agreement by the senate to pass a separate bill through budget reconciliation rules, the need for 60 votes, that would do some fixes the house demanded. it is a very complicated negotiation. it is not clear at all this will happen. but leaders continue to say they are committed to trying to pass health care reform. host: you have a front-page story about harry reid. guest: harry reid has had a bad year, and senator chris dodd's announcement that he would retire, harry reid became the most long-haul marble democratic incumbents. health care reform is very unpopular in nevada right now. what we did

one pierce, just mercedes benz. >> it is the game of game bruce boudreau used to love to play in. tampa bay 5 and washington 4. the bruce boudreau led capitals are 2-0 against the lightning. ever since he took over and in our legal fight of the night. cabby can't put a reason for the dominant. >> i have no idea. none whatsoever. from the very first game here, a trem game, we got the lucky bounces and for our sakes i hope it continues. joe: bruce on top by t and this window of opportunity makes it three. craig pretty good by stephanie veilleux. good side pressure prevents downie for getting mustard against theodore. power play just be done and good penalty kill. they needed it down by third. joe: washington is in florida and tampa bay hosts florida on thursday and the capitals are home against toronto on friday. after tomorrow in sun advise you can say 7 of the next 9 in our nation's capital. backstrom pulls the triggal and theodore blocks that off. we can step away for a moment se tium. lightning bolts on csn. joe: a whole lot of shaking going on. craig: a lot of young guys in tam

. >> next phone call fort pierce florida, mike, good >> caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. a few things -- you look like a dear caught in the headlight. you don't look comfortable. iraq, it's not so bad we went in there, it's bad we went on a lie. this is what i don't understand, and young men and women have lost their lives. the line is that george bush and his administration told are going to pay for it for generations. you can't make them right. >> host: ambassador crocker? >> guest: that was a comment rather than a question. i was in washington in 2002 and the beginning of to the some three and then i was in iraq just weeks after saddam hussein fell so as i look back on this side don't think we have a situation of lies or conspiracies. these were hard issues as i have tried to describe. challenges posed to the international community by saddam hussein, challenges posed to us and i've seen the assessments at the time. the assessments that the intelligence community produced pointed to the existence of weapons of mass destruction. those weapo

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. >> senator, i am can pierce. it's -- i am ken pierce. a small businessman.ything about -- in what has happened with the economy lately. i would like to know if the republican party, and let me let make one more comment. i have always been a conservative republican. after the last two election cycles, i would much rather be referred to as a patriotic american. i would like to know if the republican party has cultivated leadership capable of constructing and executing another contract with america. that is what is going to take to help us turn this thing around. [applause] >> well, let me put you in perspective where i am. and i think i am where you are. i am an american first. and i happen to align with the republican party because in their platform is more what i believe then what is in the par. we are. it has been for a number of years. and there are some seniors in here -- medicare part d, how many of you pay for that? no, young people are paying for that. we are charging that to your grandkids. who put that through? the republicans. right? so we took and

kevin pierce was hurt thursday as he trained in park city, utah for next week's qualifying events. pearce was in the middle of a maneuver when he landed on his head. he was wearing a helmet. doctors say their main concern now is monitoring his brain for signs of swelling. they say pearce has a long recovery ahead of him. >>> a delta flight from boston to new york returned to logan international airport when a pilot smelled smoke in the cockpit. a delta spokesman says the pilot turned back eight minutes into the flight. the odor was gone by the time the plane landed back in boston, and all of the passengers were rebooked on a later flight. delta is investigating the cause of the smoke smell. >>> the fire is finally out at an oil well near austin, texas, but it wasn't easy to do. that fire started yesterday afternoon with two 500 barrel tanks. crews moved in, but had to pull back because it was just too dangerous. the flames spread to a few other tanks, but they were finally extinguished by early evening. about 2,000 barrels of oil burned. now it's not clear how the fire started, but

rick dipietro has come on for dwayne roloson and the caps have already pierced him once in this period. schremp, the lohn lone goal scorer for new york. rob schremp indirectory for -- endirectly from jon sim. goes to that inc. we are. goes to the split to stay on side. penalty call coming up against washington. gervais angling in a sprawling poti intercepts. rick dipietro at the islander bench. [ whistle ] >> joe: washington goes a man down. referee van massenhoven says hooking. >> craig: it's a hook from behind. caps will go shorthand well in control here. tomas fleischmann will head off after he talks to van massenhoven who is going to make the call. >> referee: minor penalty, hook. >> craig: the big hook. schremp and his islanders have scored one. there it is in the neutral zone against schremp who has been on the boards for the islander on the power play. >> joe: mark streit closing in. bombs away by theodore. he saw it all the way. islanders overload this side. okposo, taveras, hunter with streit and weight at the point. mark streit really came into prominence back in 2006 at the

the government hopes that the unveiling of the structure is going to pierce the cloud that has lingered over the clouds since december, when it received a second $10 billion bailout loan from of dhabi, after some creditors abandoned due by." that is from this morning's world section of "of the washington post." -- section of "the washington post." next caller. caller: happy new year. one thing that was not on the books, after years of people trying to get attention, they did not even enforce the rules on the books. when you come to the housing crisis the most disturbing thing is that people were led into second mortgages that they could not afford to pay and they wound up losing their house. i thought that was an error on the part of lending. it is very unfortunate when a person's income does not allow them to get this large extra amount of financing on their house and they cannot afford it. host: darrow, republican line. your thoughts? caller: that gentleman that called about apathy, he needs money to know that. i cannot believe that ben bernanke is complaining about regulations for mo

our general election opponent was steve pierce.were expecting a tighter race than it was and we were saving this for when we thought we would be under assault from a lot of directions included republicans. never really developed that way. it was a wonderful closing and moving story to tell. he is getting better slowly but surely. it was one of those stories when we ran across it, it was a natural for it to tell. it was concise and he believed every word of that. he was very emotional about the congressman. next campaign not want to show you, mark baggage was running for senate against ted stevens in alaska. i don't know how much you know about senator stevens's illegal troubles? most of you. at the time we aired this commercial he was not yet indicted but it was clearly on the horizon. his home had been raided by the fbi for influence peddling and accepting gifts. there was a whole host of charges likely against him and at the same time of lot of other scandals going on in state government. alaskans were fed up with politicians in

thank you, walter pierce metallic fur to this opportunity. i am also president of afge 1534.e seven vice president has usaid and opic, overseas private investment contract. i like to compliment one of your officers for doing something that i consider outstanding. her name is susan swart. i have all my decrees except a phd. i've experienced a lot of challenges around a lot of things over the years and never member in front of madeleine albright, i spoke to the issue of having minorities in the pipeline to be promoted to senior local officials. no one ever done anything about that until susan swart came aboard. she'll initiated action to preselected program they spoke about. susan made sure that anybody could to senior level has to go in front of a board, something that wasn't here before. also, she put together a dialog panel to discuss the issues and concerns of diversity, with the outstanding results that she published throughout this organization. and additionally, within a timeframe, under her watch, with acuity more minorities at the senior level position that has ever be

unspeakable tragedy, seven of our law enforcement officers were killed then that duty from louis county and pierce county, seattle and lakewood. oversees 13 of our military service members from washington were killed in iraq and afghanistan and just last week a grant county deputy died on patrol with his car rolling over. it is often said that law enforcement officers in servicemen and women make the ultimate sacrifice to support us and our nation. sadly, and this past year the real human tragedy behind these words was driven home to us with numbing regularity. they are sons and daughters. they are brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, the moms and dads, colleagues and friends. and while their loss to us forever, they will never be forgotten. these are my heroes. they gave their lives to protect us. and know better than that. let us always remember the families who are left behind in their sacrifices. the too garr my heroes and my heart still breaks for them. you have a list of these law enforcement officers in servicemen and women. please join me for a moment of silence for them and their fam

they pulled out a .22 caliber handgun and shot him twice, one bullet piercing his aorta and the other tearing a hole in his liver. >> to this day i still don't know the story. i've never tried to seek out the story because the only person that could tell is and while the chaos continued at simeon benji's brothers were miles away with a sibling connection that still haunts them. >> i was in library class and i heard somebody say i got shot. i got shot. i was in library class and i was like i'm going crazy, but then i thought about cain and abel when cain slew his brother and the most high said where's your brother? i heard his blood cry from the earth. right there something let me know that he got shot. >> and as a matter of fact, i had a dream two nights in a row before he died, somebody or something tried to tell me, had a dream that night benji was dead. next day i had a dream benji was dead. at that moment i heard my brother's voice say i got shoot just like i said to you there, came to me like. so this was something there and i was like what the hell's going on here? my mama alway

but their words helped pierce the concrete and wire of the iron curtain.tire era. today, remnants of that wall sit inside this museum where they belong. and the new iconic infrastructure of our age is the internet. instead of division, it stands for connection. . . which tells us that all people have the right to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas to any media and regardless of frontiers. with the spread of these restrictive practices, a new information curtain is descending across much of the world. and beyond this partition, by role videos and blog post are becoming the indicators of our day. in the demonstrations that followed iran's presidential elections, grainy cellphone footage of a young woman's bloody murder provide a digital indictment of the government brutality. we have seen reports that when iranians living overseas posted online criticism of their nations' leaders, their family members in iran were singled out for retribution. and despite an intense campaign of government intimidation, braves citizen journalist in iran continue u

but their words helped pierce the concrete and concertina wire of the iron curtain. divided and it defined an entire era. today, remnants of that wall sit inside this museum where they belong, and the new iconic infrastructure of our age is the internet. instead of division, it stands for connection. but even as networks spread to nations around the globe, virtual walls are cropping up in place of visible walls. some countries have erected electronic barriers that prevent their people from accessing portions of the world's networks. they've expunged words, names, and phrases from search engine results. they have violated the privacy of citizens who engage in non- violent political speech. these actions contravene the universal declaration on human rights, which tells us that all people have the right "to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." with the spread of these restrictive practices, a new information curtain is descending across much of the world. and beyond this partition, viral videos and blog posts are

the government hopes that the unveiling of the structure is going to pierce the cloud that has lingered over the clouds since december, when it received a second $10 billion bailout loan from of dhabi, after some creditors abandoned due by." that is from this morning's world section of "of the washington post." -- section of "the washington post." next caller. caller: happy new year. one thing that was not on the books, after years of people trying to get attention, they did not even enforce the rules on the books. when you come to the housing crisis the most disturbing thing is that people were led into second mortgages that they could not afford to pay and they wound up losing their house. i thought that was an error on the part of lending. it is very unfortunate when a person's income does not allow them to get this large extra amount of financing on their house and they cannot afford it. host: darrow, republican line. your thoughts? caller: that gentleman that called about apathy, he needs money to know that. i cannot believe that ben bernanke is complaining about regulations for mo

seven of our law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty, from lewis county and pierce county, seattle and lakewood. and overseas, 13 of our military service members from washington were killed in iraq and afghanistan. and just last week, a grant county deputy died on patrol when his car rolled over. it is often said that law enforcement officers and servicemen and women make the ultimate sacrifice to support us and our nation. sadly, in this past year, the real human tragedy behind these words was driven home to us with numbing regularity. they are sons and daughters. they are brothers and sisters. husbands and wives. moms and dads. colleagues and friends. and while they are lost to us forever, they will never be forgotten. these are my heroes. they gave their lives to protect us, and they come no better than that. and let us always remember the families who are left behind, and their sacrifices. they, too, are my heroes. and my heart still breaks for them. we have a list of these law enforcement officers and servicemen and women. please join me for a moment of silence for th

we think pierce will change that.en finally, the last is senate bill 130 which is innovation zones. giving district in schools the opportunity to waive many of the state regulations that are hindrance. so the state getting out of the way. as getting out of the way. as well as getting outside bargaining agreements. we know that to renegotiate some of the contracts are going to be impossible, so through innovation zones, schools don't have to become a charter to actually have that kind of autonomy and likability. they can be approved by the state board of education through senegal 130, and innovation zones to get outside of some of those regulations. >> thank you, dwight. i want to throw it out to the audience at the moment. first i just like to get folks a couple of opportunities to clarify a couple of things that struck me. that i'd like us to bush on a bit. stacy, one of the things that you discuss in your paper that you briefly mentioned is that even some of these really claimed initiatives that you look at the terr

on the front page years of the good stuff taken place, here's the work in the privacy realm, the pierce the work in the technology developed world, here's the stuff and research. as one of my hopes to be able to make them more visible to people through recognition of the work being done from the hill, to the folks out in the government agencies out there. so developing the strategy is one of the things. also looking at an organized unified response to attacks on our systems. and that's not to suggest for a moment there is not a plan out there, the people don't have it and we want to make sure is unified. we want to make sure we're leveraging the skills and capabilities of every u.s. government agency and our private sector partners. and we've seen in many cases that not just the government side has of his ability in these things. we've seen private-sector entities come in and say we're seeing this activity, we've got hit by this and start marshaling our forces so we can make sure that the private sector is working with the government and vice versa. so the president's desire to have uni

they pulled out a .22 caliber handgun and shot him twice, one bullet piercing his aorta and the other tearing a hole in his liver. >> to this day i still don't know the story. i've never tried to seek out the story because the only person that could tell is t is benji. >> -- tell it and while the chaos continued at simeon benji's brothers were miles away with a sibling connection that still haunts them. >> i was in library class and i heard somebody say i got shot. i got shot. i was in library class and i was like i'm going crazy, but then i thought about cain and abel when cain slew his brother and the most high said where's your brother? i heard his blood cry from the earth. right there something let me know that he got shot. >> and as a matter of fact, i had a dream two nights in a row before he died, somebody or something tried to tell me, had a dream that night benji was dead. next day i had a dream benji was dead. at that moment i heard my brother's voice say i got shoot just like i said to you there, came to me like. so this was something there and i was like what the hell's go

i want to talk about a fort pierce-based nonprofit organization called missionary flights international that began flying food and supplies to haiti daily. since the earthquake, the organization has collected donations and gathered volunteers to load food and water and supplies on their planes, and in one day alone, the organization sent more than 400,000 ready meals to be eaten in haiti. another organization, the big heart brigade in palm beach, is shipping 140,000 meals ready to eat this week. the big heart brigade provides meals to many in south florida, but in the wake of the tragedy, they focused their efforts on haiti. i want to talk about a mr. hank asher who i happen to know well in boca raton, florida, who immediately took his plane and started flying in doctors and nurses from jackson memorial and needed supplies into haiti and brought back the wounded and the injured back to florida, and we were able to give him some assistance in trying to get in and out shortly after the disaster. but the good people of florida and the good people of this country are opening their hearts an