quickly fold one by pinching the middle and tossing and flipping it around. >> i don't know that one, go back. >> it looks like you grab the shoulder of the t-shirt -- >> here an here. >> -- somehow you like pinch the middle, bottom -- >> i'm going to have to practice that with a t-shirt. >> folded they look terrible. if your pants zipper keeps falling down, run a key ring into a zipper and move it over the button. >> that's a clever one. >> yeah. so your junk's not hanging out all day long -- technically. >> do you not wear underwear? >> never. >> put jeans in the freezer to clean them. >> put jeans in the freezer to clean them? >> never, ever putting them in the washer -- ever. >> ooh. so wait. the beer spills on myself at the bar, hot dog, mustard, i'm just going to throw it in the freezer and it will miraculously disappear. >> the freezing is intended more from the bacteria you have picked up. >> i'm going to put jeans full of bacteria into my freezer? >> yeah. >> stretch out extra tight shoes but putting on extra socks and blow drying them. >> i could use that one. >> you are wel

>> well, when i left, i was still pinching myself. even in strange bubble that we were in, no contact with the chinese other than our own particular minders, we had spent our time talking about sort of the nuts and bos of a relationship to come, trade, travel, investment, legal issues, sports, culture, et cetera, et cetera. all of which ultimately became the relationship, after the triangular diplomacy came to an end. but my distinct memory, people ask me when i came back, what did you learn that you didn't know before? and i said, well, it's really silly for me to say this. but i came away with the impression -- strong impression that communism is a very thin veneer and that thisg with chin. i'd been dealing with chinese from hong kong, from taiwan, so on and so forth. but that these people that we were dealing with were chinese. and they said, wow, is that what you learned? >> how about you? >> i had two dominant impressions. one was, especially driving through the countryside, what a poor country this was. we knew that it was massi

. >>> drivers are feck more than a pinch at the -- are feeling more than a pinch at the pump. the average cost rose almost 1% monday to 3.80 a gallon. experts for the few days last week gas prices they say have been on rise for a over a month now. >>> and with the cost of filling up soaring, more and more people are trying to find alternative ways to get around. the american public transportation association says ridership in the nation's trains and buses is at some of the highest levels they have seen in decades. americans took almost 10 1/2 billion trips on mass transit last year. 2.3% increase over the year before. >>> the state highway administration is now asking for feedback on a new aspect of the beltway widening project. the project involves changing the off-ramp configuration from the inner loop into harford road to improve traffic flow and safety. a meeting to explain all this and clear up confusion will be from 4:30 to 7:30 at towson branch library discussing the possible changes. >>> a cost of college is something you can't deny. but apparently it pays off. an anal

but first motorists and the elderly will be feeling the pinch in the u.k. is the government's unveiled its twenty twelve budget measures freezing pensioners allowances have been dubbed a granny tax well there's criticism that only big companies and the rich will be protected archy's laura smith reports from london. the government's calling this a fiscally neutral budget which basically means that they're giving with one hand and taking away with the other labor the opposition party is pulling it's a millionaire's budget and people are also saying that it's ten calling around economic disaster just dealing with the edges of it the top line of this budget is greatest tax cuts for the very richest people in society from fifty percent support five percent hugely controversial the government says that the tax is not making any money anyway but groups like the occupy campaign say that it's basically a tax cut for the one percent another very controversial thing is this this issuing a one hundred year or even perpetual bourne's boring money it only needs to be pai

well motorists on the elderly will be feeling the pinch in the u.k. as the government has unveiled its two thousand and twelve budget a measure of freezing of pensioners allowances have been dubbed a granny tax waters criticism that only large corporations and the rich will be protected from london as artist laura smith. the government is calling this a fiscally neutral budget which basically means that they're giving with one hand and taking away with the other labor the opposition party is calling it a millionaire's budget and people think that it's tempering around economic disaster just dealing with the edges of the top line of this budget is really just tap for the very richest and so i see from fifty cents to five cents huge. government does not make money anyway groups like the occupy campaign say that it's basically a tax cut for the one percent another very controversial thing is this this issuing a one hundred year or even perpetual pouring money it only needs to be paid back in a hundred years' time the government says it's doing that so lo

pinches the governmentt ahead with complementing the 20-kilometer evacuation zone, despite not knowing how to evacuation the residents. >> reactor number 1 had exploded. so we had to assume that the same thing would happen to reactor number 2 and 3. we wanted as much space as possible between the people and the plant. we wanted the people to evacuate. >> the evacuation zone increased to 10 kilometers, and then to 20 on the same day. citizens and local governments were unable to adjust in time. futaba kosei hospital was only 4 kilometers from the plant. when the evacuation order came, staff had finally begun evacuating 40 or so cancer patients and bed-ridden elderly people. patients in critical condition were carried out, bundled in sheets. the patients were flown one after another in a self-defense force helicopter from the field of the high school. but as night fell and visibility dropped, the helicopters stopped coming. >> translator: to be honest, i thought we had been abandoned. some thought we would be left there with nobody to rescue us. >> to escape the radiation, the 25 staff m

. >> reporter: there is no question many americans are feeling the pinch. >> there are a massive number of people in thisry, around 40% that are making choice involving food versus gas. >> reporter: republicans have been trying to pin the prices on president obama. >> if you want $10 a gallon gas, president obama should be the candidate. >> reporter: in a poll, 1-6 persons said the president is to blame. 31% blamed big oil companies. no other cause made it into double digits. although 1-50 americans blames president bush. catherine heenan, kron 4 news. >>> trouble on the most crooked street in the world. >> i don't care. this is my last chance. >> a plea from a man trapped in a body that is 700 pounds. how the world is now responding to his viable video. coming up, the warriors back in philadelphia on this 50th anniversary of wilt chamberlain, and manny ramirez's first at bat as an a's and the 49ers. later. >>> it was warm out there today, how warm this weekend? i will have the answer coming up. [ male aouncer ] with citibank, it's easy for jay to deposit checks from anywhere. easierhan

. >> i was pinching myself. i took this as a dream. i have studied chinese in the early 60s. i spent years as a china analyst in hong kong and working with people and the idea that we were going to go to china and now by the way, this took a lot of political will. in both governments. and only people with power were able to pull this off. >> tell us about how did you all repurpose your brains to suddenly this is okay? >> my brain is repurposed. i wanted a relationship with china. i thought it was long overdue. we had operated under the analytical assumption that china and the soviet union were a united block which was crazy and wrong. so much evidence. they were taking advantage for the first time of the split and it changed the dynamics of international politics. they landed there and one frame of mind. what frame of mind were you in when you left. we had spent our time talking about the nuts and bolts of the relationship to come. train and travel and investment and legal issues the triangular diplomacy came to an end. people asked me when i came back, what did you learn tha

points to close at 12,959.the nasdaq and the s&p 500 fiiished mixed.drivers are feeling more than a pinchaccording to triple a--- the average cost of a gallon of gas rose almost one percent mooday toothree dollars and eightt cents a gallon.. .except for a few have been on the rise for over a month.with the cost of filling up soaring.. more people are opting for alttrnative ways to get places. the american public says rrdership in the nation's trains and bussss is at some of the highest levels in decades.in 2011-americans took almost ten and a half billion point three percent increase - over the year beforr.thh apta says mass transportation has become more convenient and aacessible for all. that coolege degree will cost you.. put it still payssto get it. new analysis by the ew research center finds that over the courss of aa40-year career-- a typical coolege grad earns about 650-thousand dollars more than ttose with just high school diplomas.the average liff-time pay for a college grad is one-point four million dollars.a high school grad only averaged 770- thousand.for usiness brief, i'm e

. >> you may feel the pinch less on the water than in the skies. >> some of large cruise lines and cruise ships, the amount of people that have to raise to a fuel charge may be $30 a cabin because it could almost be spread out over a larger ship as opposed to an airline. >> if you step outside, you can feel how warm temperatures are. that's going to cause some changes. the friend does not look impressive on the radar right now. just some light snow falling. rainshowers moving toward minneapolis. head of the storm system, increasing the fire danger. across the area, down toward the sea and much of western maryland in a high a fire danger. any open flame, pretty much not a good idea. we do have strong wind out of the southwest with very low humidity. that makes it more likely for those flames to ignite. feels good to be outside, 59 right now. this is the warm air coming in ahead of the cold front but i talked about how powerful it is -- you can see how sharply contrast this, down to the 30's right now. a big drop in temperatures behind the front and that's heading our way. right now, some t

. >> pinch yourself a bit. >> i'm always pinching myself.are tormented by terrible things that happen to them and that brings about the comedy. that is the motivation. it is a great point about you that says the most wounded thing about you is that you are not wounded. do you concur with that? do you feel like you have imagined to avoid the normal comedic hell? >> i don't think it is necessarily true that you have to be a wounded soul in order -- >> for standup comedy if you have had a great childhood and a happy marriage and enough money, you are going to make a lousy standup. >> it's absolutely true. you need to have had cigarettes burned on you for years to make an audience laugh. that is the sick society we live in. >> what does that say about us? >> we are sick people. >> most people will laugh at other people's misfortunes. >> i read a woody allen quote thise morning in the paper. if it bends it is comedy. if it breaks it is not. if it is painful but still within the realm of being okay it can be funny. >> tell me more about inside com

pinched me because i forgot to wear green. >> oh, yes. >> what am i thinking? i have kids, too. >> i know. we're going to get pinched a couple more times when you go home. green on the radar this morning. right now, things are winding down from this big system that came in last night. we had 12 to 15 inches of ren. 3.5 inches in ben lomond. the front came through, dropped about a half inch of rain. santa cruz mountains, areas south of morgan hills seeing showers as we tilt the radar for you. we can see how most of the moisture for now is swinging through central and southern california. we will see this afternoon, sunny breaks with showers especially around the hills. a slight chance of thunder. what you're seeing there is actually snow east of san jose up towards mt. hamilton. the temperatures will be quite cool. even if the sun breaks we're looking at mid to upper 50s. coming up we'll let you know if showers will also be in your sunday forecast. we'll have that for you coming up in just a few minutes. >> thank you very much. >>> this morning nearly all power

this is truly amazing. >> i'd like a still shot of you and larry pinching each other.ose for the next interview. >> you used to seeing us elbow each other. >> yes, indeed. yes, indeed. okay. we got the play coming along. you're into everything. into -- i mean, i go in restaurants, and when my food ain't right i'm always happy because i know magic owns most restaurants. it's cool to be your friend. lately we've talked basketball. surprised me. you're a basketball legend. what makes you look in the opposite direction from that sport and say, i want that now? >> i think, arsenio, i'm a big baseball fan. i always have been back watching the detroit tigers, back at home in lansing, michigan, and all the way to now. a big dodger fan. so baseball is a game that i love. i love to be in the ballpark. i love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel. so -- with the dodgers being up for sale, we put a great group together, and we're just going to see what happens. you know? there's not a lot i can say right now but at least we're in the final four, and

i am always pinching myself.ow another arm so i can constantly pinch myself. >> most comedians are tormented by the terrible things that happened to them. that's the motivation for why they go. they get affirmation from the crowd. the most wounded thing about you is you are not wounded. >> judd said that. >> i love that line. >> do you concur and feel like you managed to avoid the normal? >> i suppose. i don't think that is necessarily -- i don't think it's true that you have to be a wounded soul in order to become -- >> for stand up if you had a great childhood and a happy marriage and enough money, you are going to make a lousy stand up. >> it's true. you need to have had cigarettes burned on you for years to make an audience laugh. that's the society we live in. >> it was sick people. >> i suppose. >> most people will laugh at others's misfortunes. that's the bedrock of real comedy. >> i read a woody allen quote in the paper. that is, if it bends, it's comedy. if it breaks, it's not. i thought this was an inte

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that he touched, slapped, pinched, at least one of those teachers in a sexually suggestive way. >> i got to the point where i cried all the way to work in my car and i cried all the way home. >> there have been at least two investigations of this principal and a school spokesman is just out with this statement saying, it is unfortunate that these teachers are using the media to make accusations that have thus far proven to be overwelmingly false and erroneous. in rockville, bruce leshan, 9news now. >> coming up tonight, blossoming business. d.c.'s restaurants, hotels, and shops hoping to turn the cherry blossoms into big bucks. we'll tell you how they plan to do that at 7:00. >>> but first, derek, did you get a rude awakening this morning? >> i did. >> well, look at some of the damage from our overnight storm. topper? >> we have a couple storms south and west of town. we'll check that out in a minute. first, 72 and 62 go in the books. .11 fell in dulles. record high is 83. record low 12. when we come back, we'll talk about warmer air and fog tomorrow morning. >> but first, the justic

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. ♪ we all know gas prices are on the rise but your wallet could get pinched harder if governor martin'malley gets his way. he will testify before house and senate committees is evident on his plan to apply the 6% sales tax to gasoline in maryland. price as of $4 per gallon in most parts of the states and more commuters are choosing public transportation. the mta said a close to 10% increase across the board since january of last year. >> it is a lot more affordable for many people to get on the public transit system than to try to get on the roads. >> the average marylander pays $3.82 per gallon of regular gas which is 11 cents more than just last week. this is from our facebook fan page. a tax on luxury cars, boats and all that would be more appropriate. good news on the jobs front -- maryland added 5000 new jobs in january bringing the unemployment rate to 6.5% which is the lowest level in more than three years brett analysts credit the warm winter for job growth in construction, transportation, education, and health care also saw increases. officials are pleased with the progress.

. >> call it an old homeopathic remedy where a pinch of salt could be the secret ingredient to surviveallergy season. >> good information. meantime, doctors are shocked by a collection of data out of the u.k. that shows we they have had a cure for cancer right under our noses. taking a daily aspirin may help prevent entry types of colon, prostate, long, and breast cancers. aspirin is one of the oldest and cheapest drugs to get your hands on. >> many pharmaceutical companies out there are spending billions of dollars to get a result like this and here we are with aspirin doing the exact same thing. >> experts say until further research is conducted, the best prevention strategy for the general public are exercise and healthy eating. coming up next, your maryland lottery midday pick 3 pick 4 numbers and will get another check of the forecast but first a look at how wall street is performing. >> this will inspire you -- a 101-year-old utah woman who ushered in her birthday with a paraglider right and she soars into the record books. she is a great debt great- grandmother. she has been off

he touched, slapped, pinched, at least one of those teachers in a sexual suggestive way. >> i got to the point where i cried all the way to work in my car and i cried all the way home. >> there have been at least two investigations of this principal and a school spokesman is just out with this statement saying, it is unfortunate that these teachers are using the media to make accusations that have thus far proven to be overwelmingly false and erroneous. in rockville, bruce leshan, 9news now. >> states cannot be sued for denying employees time off to recover from illness under the family medical leave act. that's ruling today from the spar. this all stems from a case in maryland. daniel coleman tried to sue the maryland state court of appeals for damaging for firing him after he asked for sick leave. he was wrongfully fired after his request was turned down. but maryland argued states are protected by the constitution. >>> employers probably saw a lot of sick calls today because of all this great weather we've had to endure. you couldn't ask for a better way to start the spring. it's

is that the driver is feeling the pinch.e started work at 4:00 a.m., and six hours on the job, he has only had two customers. in his 30-year career, he has never known things to be this bad, and he is not the only one who is suffering. >> i work all day, and it is not worth it. i earn seven euros a day, and at the same time, everything is getting more expensive. >> petrol, in particular, takes almost all my profits. >> the portuguese are fed up with being both pete and blamed for the eurozone's problems -- pete and blamed. they are well aware of their country's economy. the country's record unemployment rate is just one example of that. marques is torn between edgar and dejection. >> europe is a good idea, but where do we stand now? portugal is doing badly. spain, too. greece's a disaster. where is it going to lead? i do not know. >> there's evidence both for and against the theory that portugal is heading in the same direction as greece. in the construction industry, lucrative contracts are becoming increasingly scarce. pub

to have a penguin come up and start pinching on your pants, you're amazed they're not afraid of people. they have nothing to be scared. that was just one video. there's many more to come. >> let me see -- ♪ >>> everybody likes a good dog trick, right? this is a clip from the broadcast of the crufts 2012. this is the agility competition, went down in birmingham, england. we're watching libby here, a 5 1/2-year-old cross breed, nailing this course. 30 seconds through the run, which i've got to say, libby is killing this run -- >> yeah. >> she hits the brakes. >> oh! >> you know what, now is a good time to drop a deuce. when you've got to go, you've got to go. the thing is, this was in front of 6,000 people in attendance. this is the largest dog show in the world. this was a broad cast. listen to the announcers. >> this, this is a good run, too. well, a dog's got to do what a dog's got to do. >> which is doo-doo. >> the owner's reaction is just -- she is just mulling this dog through the run. oh! >> got i forgot to take the dog for a walk. >> as the broadcast replays this incident and put

business of ipads and smartphones, demand for wireless data has shot through the roof, and that has pinched wireless networks to squeeze more out of the airwaves they use. the federal communications commission proposed today more flexibility for airwaves used by satellite tv providers. it could lead to dish network launching its own wireless network. that possibility pushed dish shares up to a 52-week high. dish has spent $3 billion licensing airwaves, hoping to start up its own cellular business. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: goldman sachs thinks stocks are the place to be for investors. in a global strategy report today, two of its portfolio strategists write: tonight's "street critique" guest is looking at dividend- paying stocks as bond rates rise. she's hilary kramer, author of "the little book of big profits from small stocks." >> tom: due agree with goldman's call. does it make sense to own dividend stocks with treasuries rising? >> it does, tom, but you don't want to own it is no growth stocks such as utilities. you want to own the stocks that can give you a dividend

its life, a garden grown on accident after accident, add a father painting shelves on the cove, a pinchf guilt, statues of isabella butter flisse -- butterflies, and extinct alpha betts, a teaspoon of autumn leaves, a shepard playing with the winds, some animal begging for snow. mix vigorously like the mountain mixes up its slopes. preheat the bed of a star to -- 240 light-years away. thank you. and next is -- [cheers and applause]

. >> i think that they have because, a, you don't want to get pinched on st. is that pretty good? >> not bad. >> not bad. >> oh, yeah. >> what do you say to everybody on st. patrick's day? >> oh, my god. >> like a lot of times we're pushing it with the things that teddy says. he said, oh, this is good but that really sounded like i was. >> this is the best one yet. >> yeah, i think it is. teddy, who knew this would be so fun to watch a porcupine. >> day in and day out. we wait around for teddy to send us e-mails. >> what's the next holiday coming up? >> easter. he can put easter ears. >> oh, yeah, that's going to happen. >> and he can eat easter eggs. >> until easter, teddy, we'll see you then. >>> we all know how to ride bicycles. alejandro pause knows how to ride them really good. this is on a trail near san pedro de costa. >> whoa! >> watch this guy. >> that dropoff is so far down and that path is so narrow. >> and look at how fast he's going. starts out like any other mountain bike video we've seen but then he starts going over these crazy boulder mounds,

three zero pinching ways to launch air strikes in gaza hit it seventeen people and three days it was as i just heard and saw all the trees with the sides and it is the worst the region has seen. after next it's our special report a standing army looks at how american armed forces shape the lives of millions in the countries where that base. is this place. with a lake on board well how they get the money to make them and who's giving it all and what to protect us from what these are all questions that somebody like obama should have been asking was. it just didn't happen in the empire it was it was designed. and those bases just came along but i can know some terrible crimes. when you see how much money is at stake in in the operations that go on every day it's phenomenal the number of flights to take off from katrina air force base every single day involved just that one base in that one country on one day when have been false thousands of gallons of jet fuel. repair and maintenance and parts for those aircraft the rationale for these bases is that they're continually practicing and

consumers in southeast asia are feeling the pinch and they're starting to make their anger known. in indonesia, around 5,000 protesters rallied wednesday outside the presidential palace in jakarta. they called for a planned hike in fuel prices to be delayed. the government of the president there has proposed a 33% increase in energy prices. the plan still needs to be approved by parliament. it's due to come into effect on april 1st. >> translator: the government says it has to raise prices. my question is who put it on this lot? the people? >> economists forecast the price hike will push indonesia's inflation rate above 7% this year. >>> meanwhile, in the philippines, people are also showing anger about fuel prices in a unique way. the a littlest trend mocks the president's alleged inaction on the issue. it involves people just sitting down and looking bored. or lying around staring into space. basically, not doing much at all. local media quoted the president as saying the new form of protest does not merit attention. >>> that's going to wrap up our bulletin. i'm pack sh >>> now