the piggy bank. you know where the boxes and the churches collect money? yeah. this is the original he here. yeah. >> (speaking spanish) (laughing) (speaking spanish). >> this instrument is called c carete and with the right hand and the left hand and open and shuts in a rhythmic time. >> (speaking spanish). >> so this instrument is called sen sero but it's actually a cow bell. >> (moo). >> it was made out of material. >> (speaking spanish). >> but for the african and any instrument that create a rhythm or a sound will become an instrument. (speaking spanish) (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> these are the spanish influences. >> (speaking spanish). >> they adapted to the style of this type of music (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> these are just simple spoons, kitchen spoons. (applause). >> (speaking spanish). >> and here we have our principle instrument. >> (speaking spanish). >> the name of this instrument is called cajon. >> (speaking spanish). >> in certain places in africa this instrumentality existed. >> (speaking spanish). >> and the percussionis

when i was leaving a fourth grader looked me in the eye and said, i have a piggy bank at home and i will help you raise money for the school in pakistan. i didn't think anything of it. 6 weeks later the school is raised 65,000 penes. >> main stage's loud efts performance was about bief the detroit native high strung. they had an energyic performance. the concert was a plash back to the kinks and the who and tv shows like hala blue. ladies and gentlemen. the high strung. [music] >> hope you enjoyed this look back at some of the entertaining guests that graced the stage of the main library. you can watch more highlights from main stage on you tube and new episodes on sfg. org. watch for more readings, speakers and performances during the next year. we leave you with a bonus performance from the high strung. and a thank you to everybody that made the last season possible. [applause]

we'll introduce you to one little guy who gave up the contents of his piggy bank to help firefighters need. >>> you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back on this tuesday morning. big storm system. a lot of moisture moving into the pacific northwest. rain at lower elevations. once again, cities okay, plenty of snow at higher elevations and interior sections of the west. boise itself looks like mostly snow. maybe a little rain mixed in. high of 35 today. your wednesday forecast, the storm begins to move out. we clear it out in the northwest. still cool, though, through much of southwestern portions of california. if you're watching on krnv reno, nevada, black friday at the mall, it wasn't your thing, visit a smaller venuepick up hand-made gifts at the artists co-op gallery. that's your pacific event of date. lynn? >> bill, thanks so much. >>> now here's a look at this morning's headlines in entertainment -- the kardashian sisters have finally found something they can say no to. their attorneys are seeking to cut ties with pre-paid debit cards that feature their name and likeness a

. >> they used the tax dollars collected from the hardworking citizens of bell as their own piggy bank. john: much of what they did was what lots of politicians do vote to spend taxpayer money on what they think is important, themselves. >> they want to do whatever the hell they want. john: exactly. everyday politicians spend your tax dollars on their vision of what america should have. that's what some tea partiers are angry go about. in this case they are yelling kill the health care bill. congress didn't kill it. >> the bill is passed. john: passed with the serve america act. and wall street reform. plus foreclosure relief. and children's health insurance. and extended unemployment. of course the stimulus. they always spend more. thomas jefferson said it is the natural progress of things for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. but never before outside wartime has government gained so much ground. >> just got to stop spending. john: for most of the life of america when we grew the fastest government spent in today's dollars just a few hundred dollars per person. today, th

. >> they used the tax dollars collected from the hardworking citizens of bell as their own piggy bank. john: much of what they did was what lots of politicians do vote to spend taxpayer money on what they think is important, themselves. >> they want to do whatever the hell they want. john: exactly. everyday politicians spend your tax dollars on their vision of what america should have. that's what some tea partiers are angry go about. in this case they are yelling kill the health care bill. congress didn't kill it. >> the bill is passed. john: passed with the serve america act. and wall street reform. plus foreclosure relief. and children's health insurance. and extended unemployment. of course the stimulus. they always spend more. thomas jefferson said it is the natural progress of things for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. but never before outside wartime has government gained so much ground. >> just got to stop spending. john: for most of the life of america when we grew the fastest government spent in today's dollars just a few hundred dollars per person. today, th

was about putting people in their homes and it was about allowing people to use their homes as piggy banks by refinancing. if they hadn't done that than consumer spending wouldn't have been what it was for a long time. >> charlie: because we were a consumption and spending society. >> and spending beyond our means. >> charlie: we couldn't have done that unless somebody was willing to take your debt. >> there's a new normal and it's not 2006 and 2007. >> charlie: all the devils are here the hidden secret of the financial crisis. have a movie in thiin this? >> i don't know whether to say i i hope so or hope not. >> >> >> charlie: so listen, of all the things you've written the one that i just jumped at me -- you don't just write about finance or education and whatever strikes your fancy. my impression at the new york times is just write. so you -- somebody, tell me the story of the column you wrote because i asked you to read part of it. >> i -- >> charlie: who he is. >> he's one of the great russian oligarchs that was jailed by putin and his goons, if i could be so bold, and spent the last

the money has been used as a piggy bank by a lot of members. they go off and do their favorite project in their home states and then seek voter credit for doing that and they get into the habit of loose spending. undisciplined spending. i think it's very wise in time, particularly when we're so tight on the budget, to cut this stuff out. yes, there are going to be some good things lost in the process but we've got to get back to essentials. if they don't need the $15 billion, cut it out of the budget. we've got to start somewhere. >> dana, how much of this is about earmarks are about idea and how much is simply getting on a bandwagon? >> this whole debate has really fascinated me simply because i think that those who are arguing in favor of earmarks i think is sort of a smoke and mirrors situation. because what they're essentially arguing for, john, is the opaque process that has been going on in washington, d.c., for so unbelievably long. earmarks as they're being argued for right now, they're talking about tacking on spending requests, unvett

>> they are outraged and see themselves as piggy banks to the state. when there is a need for increase, they go to them rather than having a broader conversation about how to fund education. in years it's gone up 240%. when i was a student at csu my fees and that's what they were called and they changed to tuition. we have tuition that was outlawed under the master plan as a denial of equity. now we have fees and i could not have been a college professor. my fees were $500 a semester. these students will be $5,000. >> fall of 2011 which will be a year from now. live here at san jose state, today in the bay. >>> the little tugboats that could. people stranded on a carnival cruise line are closer to dry land. they are expected to to the ship to shore very soon. it lost power early monday when an engineer room fire triggered a shut down. carnival delivered food and supplies to passengers. carnival said the ship will dock and passengers will be let off by noon. >>> a san jose fam family said they feel the pain of losing their teen son a year after being ki

. >>> well, time to break out those piggy banks for university of california students, because tuition next fall is going up. the board of regents voting on a fee hike today, just one day after students demonstrated against the proposed increase. nbc bay area's traci grant is live at the uc campus with more. traci? >> reporter: an 8% tuition increase means that university of california students will be paying more than $11,000 a year, but the board of regents' decision to approve that increase today was actually a little anticlimatic. yesterday, there were hundreds of protesters out here. today, very few people actually showed up to witness that vote. >> as everyone snknows, the students are not in favor of this increase. >> reporter: the war of words played out in board room. >> i feel they're provided short-sighted solutions to a very, very complicated future. >> reporter: instead of the physical battle involving pepper spray and handcuffs that landed 13 people in jail yesterday, they were all fighting for the same thing. >> have we really exhausted everything? and if we have, and yo

that was cash out refinancing by using their homes as piggy banks, and no one wanted to stop that party. >> reporter: and you agree with that? >> totally. 100%. >> reporter: joe nocera, bethany mclean, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us. >> woodruff: finally tonight, a look at the dramatic senate race in alaska that came to an end last night. >> we made history! >> woodruff: alaska senator lisa murkowski claimed victory last night-- the first write-in winner in a u.s. senate race since strom thurmond did it in south carolina, in 1954. >> well, tonight, after eight weeks, i think we can say, our miracle is here. our miracle is here! ( applause ) >> woodruff: a week of counting the write-in ballots gave murkowski a lead of more than 10,000 votes over republican joe miller. he won the official republican nomination over murkowski in a primary last august with heavy backing from the tea party. >> hello alaska! let's bring joe miller to washington. >> woodruff: and from former alaska governor sarah palin. she had beaten murkowski's father in a republican gubernatorial

across the country and drew attention to city leaders using trumped up tax money as their personal piggy bank new details how tangled the corruption turned out to be in moments. martha: and, still, a week later, we have got to winner in alaska in the senate race there. but, republican joe miller is holding out hope, that the numbers will swing in his favor, he joins us live, moments from now. bill: and shocking poll numbers, on how americans feel about the overhaul of health care. do they want it or not and whether or not republicans can ultimately block it? >> the american people are not excited about the government takeover of health care. and, they need to come to the table fully repeal obama care. ÷ [ male announcer ] gout's root cause is high uric acid. ♪ if you have gout, high uric acid can lead to more attacks. ♪ to help reduce attacks, lower your uric acid. uloric lowers uric acid levels in adus with gout. it's not for the treatment of high uric acid without a history of gout. uloric reduces uric acid to help you reach a healthy level. [ female announcer ] don't take uloric if you ar

when i got done, a fourth grader came up to me and said, i have a piggy bank at home and i'm going toyou. i thought, what can a fourth grader to? six weeks later website school raised 62340 pennies. [applause] >> think about it, it wasn't adults, it wasn't celebrities, it wasn't wealthy or poor people. it was kids reaching out for children halfway around the world for kids in pakistan who they had no clue who they were. so today from that program we have, from the passionate we have a program called pennies for peace. for lack of better words, it's kind of going bananas libbey. three years ago with this 280 schools, right now it is in 5400 schools around the u.s. when i go to -- [applause] >> when i go to business schools they say was your strategic marketing plan. [laughter] >> we don't have any. is totally run by kids and just one person. but sadly though, we work for the nea national education for two years and we came up with a ocracoke that has been approved this year to be integrated into the element to junior high and high school cricket. and that curriculum, children learn abo