postal service. the legislation would reimburse the postal service for overpayments need to its pension fund, resulting in billions of dollars in added revenue. the senate hearing chaired by senator carper looks at the finances of the postal service. it's two hours. >> i especially want to welcome back senator akaka who has been on the dl for a week or two and is back and rested. and we need and that is best in that's what we're going to get. happy to be here with senator a in scott brown and with all of you. this is not the first hearing that we've called with regards to the postal service's financial soundness, but it's an important one. other witnesses full of familiar names and organizations commandeering today is likely to be different from those we talked in the past. he needs to be different because the crisis the postal service faces is more urgent now than it's been in the past. absent, prompt action in our next postal hearing they will be about how we can help to shut down operations. it is

postal services. midway through the current fiscal year the postal services and programs than $2.8 billion. his projected losses were $8.3 billion, nearly matching the record 8.5 experienced last year. these volume and revenue numbers are worse than postal service initially project did and if the losses at the end of the year are truly as bad as we are now being told they will be, i understand the postal service will have exhausted all of its $15 billion line of credit for the treasury by the end of september and into the fiscal year 2012 with just enough cash on hand to get by. and it doesn't get a lot better from there. getting by in 2012 will likely mean that the postal service will not be able to make its $5.6 retiree health pre-funding payment and could even have difficulty meeting other normally routine pension and workers compensation related team spirit and top of that miniature crisis occurs at the next next year or so purchased for their economic slowdown could well push postal service over

postal service assets. the purchase price up a full- service real estate is $27 billion, with a fill market value been greater. the realistic and premium locations -- the nearby national postal museum has a purchase price of $47 million for it if this is an example of the fair market the news, taxpayers are well protected. a surplus of access would be likely be given over to the treasury. if the service were suddenly shut down, alternatively, there are provisions that may allow the postal service to work with opm to fashion an arrangement to recognize the assets and meet the obligation. against this backdrop the postal service continues to be built a $11 billion a year for retiree obligations. as i have testified, i agree with senator collins' call for opm to change its calculation of the pension fund payments. failing action, senator carper's bill to require the opium recalculation to correct the mistakes and balance the accounts is needed to stop the crippling pain and spirit there is a need for review of

postal service. the legislation would reimburse the postal service for overpayments made to its pension fund resulting in billions of dollars in added revenues. the senate hearing chaired by senator carper, looks into the finances of the postal service. it is two hours. >> i especially want to welcome senator danny akaka who has beeh gone for a week or two but hee s back, all fed and rested. we need him at his best and that is what we are going to get. senator akaka's here with ranking regular pencil for scott around. this is not the first hearing that we have held with regard to the postal service's financial financial -- but it is important one. while the witness is full ofimpo familiar names and organizationa the hearing today is likely to be somewhat different from those we have held in the past.feren it needsfr to be different beca thea crisis of the postal servie faces is more urgent now than it has been in the past.nt n t ebsen prompted dramatic action absent, prompt action in our next postal

office civil service and the legal staff of the postal service and postal regulatory commission. it's great to see you. thanks for coming today. full testimony will be part of the record. please, proceed. >> good morning chairman carper, remember brown and members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to to present the views of the u.s. postal service financial crisis. mr. chairman regrets being able to testify personally today. she is presented comments. i ask that the chairman's comments be made a part of the official hearing record. >> without objection. >> the united states postal service will include its year and will not have sufficient cash or authority to pay all of its bills. the commission analysis review of the postal service request for the rate increase from the postal service cash flow problem is related to an overly ambitious requirement for the postal service to refund its future retiree health benefit premium. over the past four years the postal service has paid $21.9 billion to pre-fund the benefits. all other things being equal without the pre-fund

postal service.mates, who led him to victory again and again, were tyler hamilton and george hincapie. they were constant companions and kept each others secrets. >> pelley: for the record tell me what you saw-- in terms of what lance armstrong took in performance enhancing drugs? >> hamilton: he took what we all took, really no difference between lance armstrong and i'd say the... the majority of the peloton, you know. there was e.p.o., there was testosterone, so i... and i did see a transfusion, a blood transfusion. >> pelley: all of those things are banned in races and in training. so why would a rider take the chance of getting caught? well, it's hard to imagine the endurance demanded by the tour de france. 21 days, 2000 miles and a vicious vertical climb totaling some 50 thousand feet in all. this ordeal is one reason that cycling became a dirty sport. armstrong won seven times. and in those seven races, all of the second and third place finishers, except one, were at some point implicated in do

maybe we need to start looking at the postal service to see if we need to change some of our policies. >> one recent letter was addressed to this elementary school on capitol hill. >> i cannot and imagine someone trying to hurt her. that is sick. >> some of the letters contained references to al qaeda and the fbi. none of the hazardous substances appear to a been dangerous no injuries or illnesses have been reported. all letters have been mailed from the dallas area. >> our postal employees are trained extensively on how to look for suspicious items and they're very good at their jobs. >> numerous schools have been evacuated today. some staff was also temporarily quarantined. >> we anticipate that the for the day to day and probably through monday that there will be additional letters intercepted. >> the fbi says there is no indication tonight that these letters are any way connected to osama bin laden's stats. it appears that the letter was sent before he was killed. >>> one teenager is dead and two others were hurt in a morning car wreck. a dump truck hit a car driven by ivar ramiro

it combines the efforts of the postal service and the postal workers union. it's helping the half million people helped by local food banks each month. >> the amgen cycling tower -- tour is going to have an update. >> leigh: the first stage is tomorrow from south lake tahoe, up to north lake tahoe, and we're expecting snow up there. unbelievable. not unusual for us to get rain in may, but this is going to be a cold one that moves in tonight and tomorrow. the high definition sutro cam showing you -- looking west towards ocean beach there to start, and now we're heading up towards marin headlands. you can see a little sun break here and there. that's all we're going to see as the storm system will quickly start to move inland overnight tonight. current temperatures, 57 in napa. san francisco, 56. 56 in fremont. 56 in livermore, and 59 in san jose of the highlights for the evening, get ready. the showers will be moving in overnight. a chance of isolated thunderstorms, too, and we'll put that in the forecast tomorrow as well. although most of the shower activity

four other letters were picked up by postal inspectors in post offices and postal processing facilities before they were sent out to the schools. anita? >> looks like they will get caught up with this guy very soon. thanks for that. >>> president obama is paying a visit to fort campbell, kentucky, today, there to welcome home the soldiers returning from afghanistan to thank the navy seals. as the president's trip began al-qaida issued a new warning to the u.s. derek mcginty is joining us live from the newsroom with more on the terrorist group's message. >> reporter: for the first time both the taliban and al-qaida say we know that osama bin laden is dead and both terror groups are using that knowledge to encourage their ranks to exact revenge. all while the president is trying to personally thank the men who took bin laden out. president obama came to kentucky to welcome home members of the 101st airborne division just back from afghanistan. fort campbell is home to the specialized army aviation unit that carried the navy seals into bin laden's compound. he met in private with the entir

it just last week, the postal service board of governors released some sobering data on the postal service's financial performance in the second quarter of this fiscal year which ended on march 31. the board also released numbers on revenues for the fiscal year today. this data shows that as those of us who follow the numbers appeared has happened, they are not recovering along with the economy as a whole. it is likely to permanently reduce mail volume despite the postal service's best efforts to bring in the new customers and preserve those it has today. the period between the beginning of january and the end of this march, mail volume declined by just more than 2% and the same period last year. this follows two quarters of modest growth. at the same time, the most important product, first-class mail, lost 6% of its volume. these developments are contributing to losses by the postal services. midway through the current fiscal year, the postal service has losses totaling $2.8 billion. its projected losses for the year now stand at $8.3 billion, nearly matching the record 8.5 billion losses e

congresswoman spear joined postal employees for a kickoff rally in san francisco. next saturday, you can leave nonperishable items near your mailbox and the postal service will pick them up and deliver them to local food banks and other charities. >>> just ahead, dramatic video in san francisco, a giant tree topples over in a popular park. brace yourselves for a cool and breezy mother's day. meteorologist frances coming up with the forecast. >> the most exciting two minutes in sports, the kentucky derby with its 137th running today at churchill downs. 19 horse field with all 19 a chance to win. we have the run for the roses coming up in sports. >> all new. oprah: the only child of sonny and cher. when did it fully occur to you, i'm in the wrong body? >> oprah's world exclusive with chaz bono. oprah: how did you tell your chaz bono. >>> take a look at this. today's high winds may have been partly responsible for uprooting a 40-foot tree in san francisco's park. it took out a light pole and damaged a few cars this afternoon. fire and police crews were called to the s

. >>> postal inspectors were able to grab four of those white powder filled letters today before they went out to dc schools but six others had to be picked up at elementary schools and high schools around the city. law enforcement sources tell bruce leshan the suspect may be the same person who has been mailing out those similar frightening but apparently harmless letters going back to 2008. sources say he has mailed hundreds of letters to governors, to hospitals, to schools and federal agencies all across the country. >> they want to insight fear and targeting schools is a very good way of doing that. >> someone is disturbed like this and send these letters off to schools and to hospitals and governors. it is a very disturbing thought and i hope they go out and find that person. >> postal inspectors say their ability to trace letters back through the mail stream has improved considerably since the anthrax attacks of 2001 but have yet to catch this guy. >>> the 16 year old that stabbed a teen at the zoo on easter monday was back in court today. the accused is charged as an adult faci

. >> today the postal service was on the look out. >> our postal employees are trained extensively on how to look for suspicious items. >> the fire department command center has remained open since this started. today was a lot quieter than yesterday. parents are happy the post office stop delivery, but asking what kind of people send such letters? >> it is a school. there is children here. it does not make any sense. >> it is good to know that the post office caught it, but it's still scary. children are supposed to be safe. >> after 9/11, someone started sending anthrax laced letters to the u.s. capitol and to d.c. postal workers. the fbi says that these letters are harmless. hundreds of these letters have been sent to locations around the country. >>> for more on this developing story, for a full list of schools that receive the suspicious letters go to our website, wjla.com. >>> severe flooding continues to plague states. many fear the worst. this is the view from the sky in and this, tennessee, where entire farms are partially submerged. today, the coast guard went door to door u

postal service is struggling financially, but the way the independent postal regulatory commission isoing about getting input from customers may have you scratch your head a bit. people can make their case for keeping their local post offices open, but only via e- mail. really? apparently yes. really. >> that's odd, isn't it? >> a little odd. only snail mail. or maybe both. >> or maybe both. >> they probably don't like that snail mail term. >> no, they don't. all right, what do you have? >> 81 today was the high. it's going to be a distant memory tomorrow night. we're going to lose 20 degrees. let's start with the radar. live doppler, access this on our website, wusa9.com. we watched storms all evening. eventually they are going to cross over, but by and large, the heaviest storms have been inbetween cumberland and also toward hagerstown and into pennsylvania. franklin county and fulton county in particularly. these are heavy. no warnings just yet, but winchester get ready. some heavy rain and perhaps strong, gusty winds. look at the temperature. 79 downtown. 79 in gaithersburg. 81 in

postal team. now the french open is just a few days away and one of russia's main hopes seems to be peaking at the right time world number three it is only the over reaching the semi's of the brussels open i need to just forty seven minutes to power past the world number twenty eight alexander who've taken the first and the second six one and the last four she will face chinese eight c. playing shall be unseated swede adds unless the other semi will be between top seed caroline wozniacki and french open champion francesca schiavone but wozniacki had the easiest quarter final match of all her belgian opponent you know with my retiring with a back injury after being two games to love down in the first set so at least that they should be fresh for her clash and schiavone. was given a great dane in the quarter finals at roland garros last year and shouldn't be feeling think side for their clash this time around three reasons partly because we were duped into sex sixty sixth grade. i mean while world n

postal inspectors were able to grab four more letters.thers had to be picked up all around the town. the district went into a bit of a panic after the letter senior first popped up with a total of 29 of them being found by the end of the night. law enforcement sources believe that the suspect may be the same guy who has been mailing out similar frightening but apparently harmless letters going all the way back to 2008. >> they want to insight fear and targeting schools is a very good way of doing that. >> you have someone who is disturbed like this and they send these letters after to schools and as you were saying to hospitals and governors. it is just a very disturbing thought and i hope they go out and find that person. >> the police believe the suspect has mailed hundreds of letters to governors, hospitals, schools, federal agencies all around the country. postal inspectors say their ability to trace letters back through the mail stream has improved considerablely since the anthrax attacks of 2001. >>> three restaurants are back open

postal service is running out of money. >> the postal service is subject to market trends.profitable category, first class mail. >> reporter: first class mail accounts for half of the agencies income. but more and more people are using e-mail and social media to communicate. the postal service lost $8.5 billion last year and are set to lose more this year. >> the postoffice will remain open. so you can buy stamps, if you have a box office, you can get your mail. just the deliveries is what we're looking at. >> the move will save $3 million but it's not enough to default on payments including for retiree benefits. now congress is considering a new law for a pension program. >>> and the channel 2 news at 6:00 is next. >> the state launches an emergency flood drill for the next three days. that story coming up at 6:00. >>> on the witness stand, the surprise testimony today as the defendant in the chauncey bailey case answers direct questions about the killing. >>> don't worry this is only a test. it is one of the reasons california may be better prepared than others to handle

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postal team is now trying going. streets on through to france where not alberto contador doping case will be heard at the court of arbitration for sport next month and cycling's governing body is challenging khan to those acquittal on doping charges by spanish authorities in february tribunals accepted contador as defense that he contaminated big force his positive test they still play mitchell going to lead the final week of the tour de france last july the international cycling union and doping agency have appealed against the decision that is prepared over three days and six eighth's again this time around if console is found guilty he will loses to influence top of the pounds this year's i. asked the n.b.a. oklahoma have beaten dallas to level the western conference finals series at one of these the school was one hundred six points one hundred in the latest contest in dallas kevin durant's twenty four points out of james harden's twenty three to be damaged by the home up in the top home advantage lifting against

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postal teammate, frankie andreu. instead, this sunday's report by pelley breaks major new ground based on evidence tied to an ongoing federal grand jury investigation of armstrong in los angeles. >> it appears the federal investigation, with its subpoenas and sworn grand jury testimony, has broken cycling's code of silence. we don't know how many u.s. postal riders were using performance-enhancing drugs, but we have learned that at least three have told federal authorities they used banned substances and witnessed armstrong using them, too. one of those riders is armstrong's other close teammate, george hincapie. we're told that now, for the first time, hincapie has testified to federal onvestigators that he and armstrong supplied each other with the blood-booster e.p.o. and discussed having used testosterone-- another banned substance-- during their preparation for races. through his attorney, hincapie declined to be interviewed, citing the ongoing investigation. >> reporter: when it comes to such an investigation,

postal riders were using performance-enhancing drugs. but we have learned that it at least three have told federal authorities they used banned substances, and witnessed armstrong using them, too. one of those riders is armstrong's other close teammate george hincappie. we're told for the first time hincappie has testified to federal investigators that he and armstrong supplied each other with the blood booster epo and discussed having used testosterone, another banned substance, during their preparations for races. through his attorney, hincapie declined to be interviewed, citing the ongoing investigation. >> reporter: out west where the prestigious tour of california is winding down, fanses expressed a mix of emotions about the armstrong allegations. >> he was tested more than any other athlete's ever been tested. hundreds of times he was tested. and every time he was tested, he was tested negative. so how you going to prove it? >> but there's a whole bunch of people here. so i don't think it's hurting the sport a whole heck of a lot.

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four others were intercepted by postal inspectors at a mail- sorting facility. all of the letters are believed to be from the same person who mailed them just outside of dallas, texas. >> reporter: the letter that showed up was like the others. a printed address label on the outside and on the inside, a suspicious white powder. it was tough for this mom to let her daughter walk in to bancroft for preschool knowing it was a target. >> i'm scared. it's not easy. >> reporter: johnson, who has been with the postal service for 23 years, was delivering mail to homes near bancroft and determined to do what he came to do without fear. >> i do my job and i am very careful about what i do and what i'm looking at with the mail, but this is my job. i do it. >> altogether, 34 d.c. schools got a suspicious letter. all are similar in style and content to the ones received yesterday. d.c. police chief cathy lanier said that others could still be in the system and arrive as late as next monday. even so, she said that parents can rest easily. >> we have a plan in place to ensure

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postal service posted a $2.2 billion net loss for its second quarter. and hinted it may need a congressional bailout by september. >>> finally, it was once an unthinkable relationship, but today, how close as china's communist economy become with america's wall street? later today, the hot ipo seeking to raise millions will be china's top online dating website. >>> the walk on down on a sore laker loser, the red wings continue storming back and there's no hail in baseball. >>> plus, a tight series between the hawks and the bulls gets even tougher. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> today's greatest weather concerns, severe storms, possibly even tornados, an update on the severe weather outbreak later today. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, last night in what is perhaps the toughest most evenly matched series of the nba playoffs so far, chicago's bulls pulled ahead of the hawks. here's nbc's fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>>

postal service's annual stamp out hunger day.gest food drive for the san francisco food bank. letter carriers collected nonperishable food left by mailboxes and then dropped it off at the local food banks and pantries. and then the volunteers, well, they wentto work sorting all of those donations. >> the sharks right now are circling in the water in vancouver resting up for tomorrow's big game. one matchup with the canucks. >>> also, the giants will [ music ] >>> good evening, everyone. welcome to this saturday night edition of sports wrap. the giants had to suffer through a damp miserable night at wrigley field. but in the end it was worth it. they got a win and they only had to suffer through six innings to do so. the cubs played under the lights on a saturday for the first time in nearly nine years. and it was somewhere between misting and raining the entire night. buster posey with a single off davis that scored sanchez from second. he heads to second on the throw and ends up at three after the throw by cory hill gets away. i

the postal service and essential government function or can private industry do a better job? is public transport and essential government service or should we leave in private hands? these are questions we still debate. although the ratification of the constitution and the creation of the federal government answers answer some of these questions, and calm things down a bit, they arrested again into all-out civil war in the mid-19th century when many americans felt the federal government had usurped state and local powers. slavery was central to the civil war that northerners tended to oversimplify the nature of that conflict. even americans who opposed slavery and the north as well as the south and supported emancipation recognize that the emancipation proclamation with all its good intentions, also represented government confiscation of property. it is horrible to think think of human beings as property, but they were. the civil war did not and that conflict. it flared up again during the civil rights movement in the 20th century when the federal government essentially usurp

postal service's current financial crisis. the service has seen continued losses from a decline in overall mail volume despite having job cuts and new products. >>> a commemoration will be held at the capitol rotunda in remembrance of the holocaust. this year's theme focuses on justice, accountability in the face of genocide. steven brier will give the key note speech. >>> and oprah winfrey will tape two of her final three shows in chicago. the farewell guest lineup has been kept a secret even to the talk show queen herself. >>> all day long, you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with nbc "nightly news." >>> and, finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. an exclusive interview with a gym teacher and soccer coach whose life was nearly destroyed when he was falsely accused of molesting a student. and christina aguilera talks about finding her voice on the new singing competition "

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. >> reporter: mail was stopped at schools and postal facilities checked for the possibility of more of these suspicious letters. and we now know that the total is now 34 schools that have received these letters in the district and we are told that, again, that suggests the possibility there could still be more of them out there. again, five more found this morning. the fbi telling us that, from what we understand, none of the letters contained any harmful substances like the one found yesterday and those schools have been given the all-clear. tony and allison, back to you. >> they have to treat them like they may. thank you very much, sherry ly. >>> meanwhile, the computer hardware and documents recovered from osama bin laden compound in pakistan are shedding even more light on al- qaeda and it's future plans for terror. we are now learning of sible plans to attack the u.s. rail system. intelligence officials believe they were supposed to coincide with the upcoming 10th anniversary of 9/11. sarah simmons is following the situation from our news room. >> reporter: tony, we are gettin

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postal service cycling team. >>> the road to yosemite is looking brighter.orried about the closure of highway 50. >>> and we will have the weekend forecast. >>> and you can watch all of our tkvu newscasts on www.ktvu.com. >>> highway 50 up in the sierra is set to reopen tomorrow three days ahead of schedule. last week the crews started rebuilding a rock wall. this week's snowstorm slowed the work down a bit. caltrans says the highway should reopen on saturday afternoon. >>> we are talking about the weekend. while it won't be great it will be better than last week. >> it is not a washout but cooler temperatures move in over the next couple days curtsy of the fog which is developing off shore right now that will push back into bay. it is happening right now in the bayside locations. right now i can show you this. there is that cloud bank. we had clearing from north to south earlier today but we have a good batch out here closer to pacifica and san francisco. that low cloud deck will be a big factor as we head into your saturday morning. here's a look at the we