and as i say, her death infuses the whole harry potter series. because everything became a little darker and deeper after she died. hi been writing for six months before she died. and then i got to experience what harry experienced. i lost one of the people who meant most to me in the whole world. and as i say, the books would be very different if she had lived. >> rose: what would you say to her? >> i would say,. >> rose: look what you did. >> well, yeah. >> rose: and would you say -- >> look what happened. >> rose: in living and in dying you have given me -- >> yeah, well exactly. exactly. and she-- i'm very grateful that i had her until 25. it wasn't long enough. >> rose: and you now try to provide some research funds for people to somehow come to a greater understanding of -- >> yeah. >> rose: what happens. >> she died from complications to do with her multiple sclerosis, multiple sclerosis doesn't kill people. but the complications resultsing from the disease may. and she was very unlucky. she had a se severe form of the disease. one thing i

doby only meant to maim or seriously injure. >> harry potter is dead. from this day forth, you put your faith in me. >> all your characters right there. >> uh-huh. >> take a look at this. this is what people have said to me about you and about the series. on this program. roll tape. >> tell me who harry potter is and why it is so phenomenally successful. >> i think it taps into the basic idea, i look at myself as a kid, when i was growing up in ohio. when i was 11 years old. i would have given anything to get a letter from hog warts school of witchcraft and wizardly saying i will take you out of this dreary existence. i will let you escape from this life. basically at its heart these books give people a sense of hope. and you can be 8 years old and feel that. you can be 10 or 11. particularly for kids. it gives them a sense of empowerment, hope, saying you can do something different with your life. she's a very easy person to edit because she knows what she is doing and is very confident. and those are the easiest kinds of people to work with because yo

know coy have kept writing harry potter forever, pretty much. >> rose: j.k. rowling for the hour, next. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: . >> a ditional funding provided by these funders . and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. j.k. roeling is here, if you do not know who she is, let me tell you, two decades okay she sat on a delayed train when the image of a scrawny, black haired bespectacled boy without did not know he was a wizard came to her. her vision soon captured the imaginations of readers around the world and it began an unprecedented cultural phenomenon. "time" magazine has credited harry potter series with creating a fictional universe so detailed and believable that an entire generation has pretty much chose tone live there. it is the best selling book series in history, with more than 4 -- 450 million copies sold in 67 languages. eight movies have also been spawned and they have g

deborah potter reports. >> tailbone comes forward. thigh bone back. >> reporter: on a saturday morning at boundless yoga owner and instructor kim weeks is in what she calls her sacred space. >> i feel the universe. i feel energy. i feel mysterious forces working through my body and i see them in other people. >> reporter: weeks is among the 46 million americans that our poll found have no religious affiliation, almost one in five. but they're not entirely secular. about a third describe themselves as "spiritual, but not religious." >> yeah, i think that's a pretty good description. as a matter of fact i think i say that all the time. i'm spiritual, but not religious. >> i definitely don't call myself religious at all so i would think i am spiritual, where i believe we're all connected in some way but i'm not religious in any way. >> reporter: kim weeks has come a long way from the conservative southern methodist church of her childhood and the religious home she grew up in. >> we didn't go so far as do regular bible readings but we we

all on scien particular goobledygook which is also the name of stuart vaughn's character in harry potter. professor poppycock goob el dee gook. (laughter) that's very hard to say without swallowing your own tongue. now luckily, folks, i've got my own source of polls. conservative blogger dean chambers, who analyzed these polls favouring obama and then reached the scientific conclusion that they just didn't look right. so chambers set up his own polling site unskewed polls.com where he unskewed all the national polls by skewing them in favor of romney, and surprisingly found that mitt actually had a nearly 8 point lead. that doesn't even count the margin of error. and given how many errors romney's made, i think he should get all of it. now no surprise, folks, this feels accurate polling has caught the attention of some gop intellectuals like texas governor rick perry who tweeted, always niles to get unfiltered or in this case unskewed information. amen. if we had only had more accurate polling during the primaries, perry could have dropped out way sooner. (applause) and so-- (laughter) f

about her first novel after harry potter.ng in the world and what we've been covering on cbs "this morning". >> it is going great. >> president obama and governor mitt romney have quit campaigning for now. they are too busy preparing for tomorrow's second presidential debate. >> if i am barack obama, i'm focusing on one number, 47%. and if i'm mitt romney i'm going to talk about in two words you deserve, you deserve to get your questions answered mr. president. you were asked a direct question and you chose to attack me. how will you work with congress when all you do is attack. >> felix baumgartner, the austrian daredevil made that record breaking jump from space ending with a perfect landing on earth. >> i regained control. >> what you saw was more than be a stunt at least to nasa, the space agency wants to learn more about felix baumgartner's space suit and experience. >> l.a. drivers know that sometimes you're a little late because of traffic. it happened to the space shuttle "endeavour". >> what do you think of the space

our report tonight from nbc's mark potter. >> reporter: arizona rancher, john lad, whose land includes eight miles of mexican border fence, says that while fewer cross his fence now he is overrun by the drug runners. he fears many are armed >> they have no regard for laws or anything, and if they want to cause us harm they're going to do it. >> reporter: this video shot by a hidden camera on his land shows a group of smugglers carrying bales of marijuana, which lad says he sees regularly, also they cut holes like this in the fence, and they drive trucks through it, headed with drugs, he believes, headed for the ranchland. >> the problem is, our government at the highest level doesn't want to admit what the reality is, is that we have been invaded. >> reporter: in surrounding cochise county, arizona, they fear the drug smugglers, especially after the deaths of two agents. >> we have chunks of this country that we've given control to, to armed thugs. >> reporter: this retired official says that washington has ordered fuel supervisors to downplay the threats in rural counties. >> they don

. >> thinking, all harry potter now. >> i like harry potter. >> at what point, the little boy's on theth his mom and her parenting skills are called into question. >> she one tolerant wife. >> you know what? i don't think she's tolerant. a darn good sense of humor. she played along here. who's funnier? her, him? >> the kid's the funniest. >> can i pay you $50 to take off your stinking sunglasses? you've been wearing them ten days? >> no. >>> see it all in slow mo. >> this is going to eat the tennis ball. >> see the secret moves of dogs -- next. my name is debi. [ wheezing ] this may be my last chance to warn you... about the dangers of smoking. gradually, tobacco took not just my health, but my dreams. [ inhales deeply ] think about what tobacco is taking from you. quit now, before it's too late. [ inhales ] [ coughs ] >>> members of a graffiti crew in speeden found a cool building and started bombing one of the walls. they did have a special permit from the homeowner to do this and it took them ten hours to cleat. >> hmm. >> wait until it starts coming together. >> we got batman? >> t

mark potter, nbc news, miami. >>> that's our broadcast on a wednesday night. you for being here with us. we'll look for you back here tomorrow night. i'm brian williams. and a reminder, we're back on the air tonight with our live coverage of the presidential debate, 9:00 eastern, 6:00 pacific. we'll look for you then. good night from new york.

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. >> thinking, all harry potter now. >> i like harry potter. >> at what point, the little boy's on theith his mom and her parenting skills are called into question. >> she one tolerant wife. >> you know what? i don't think she's tolerant. a darn good sense of humor. she played along here. who's funnier? her, him? >> the kid's the funniest. >> can i pay you $50 to take off your stinking sunglasses? you've been wearing them ten days? >> no. >>> see it all in slow mo. >> this is going to eat the tennis ball. >> see the secret moves of dogs -- next. when we switched to fios, we got better tv, better phone, better internet. it was like somebody like took our computer, shook all the junk out of it. we're actually getting more for our money with fios. [ male announcer ] it's time to get more for your money. upgrade to verizon fios internet, tv and phone with our best price online. just $84.99 a month, guaranteed for one year with no annual contract. there's at least three computers. [ girl 1 ] a tablet. [ woman 1 ] couple of gaming systems. we could all be running at the same time. we do not

nbc's mark potter is in sierra vista, arizona tonight where agent nicholas ivy lived with his family. good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, brian. federal investigators tell nbc news that based on evidence they've found so far, they are looking into whether this shooting may have been a friendly fire incident. agents shooting at each other. agent nicholas ivy of the border control was shot and killed early tuesday morning while responding to desert sensors that track illegal movement across the border. two other agents were with him. one was wounded. they had reported being fired upon earlier. about five miles north of the border near naco, arizona. officials blamed the shootings on armed criminals and mexican authorities say they have made two arrests related to the case. while u.s. investigators say they have reached no conclusions and still have a lot of work to do, they cannot rule out the possibility this was a friendly fire. brian? >> mark potter with this late development out of arizona tonight, thanks. >>> overseas this evening, we've learned that after weeks of wait

about her first novel after harry potter.happening in the world and what we've been covering on "cbs this morning." >> it is going great. >> president obama and governor mitt romney have quit campaigning for now. they're too busy preparing for tomorrow's second presidential debate. >> if i'm barack obama, i'm focusing on one number, 47%. if i'm mitt romney, i'm going to talk about the two words "you deserve." you deserve to get your questions answered, mr. president. you were asked a direct question, mr. president, all you do sat tack me. >>> felix baumgartner made the record breaking jump from space ending with a perfect landing on earth. >> i was fighting to regain control because i wanted to break the speed of sound. >> the space agency is stud dig his suit and also studying his experience with the sky jump. >>> l.a. drivers know that sometimes you're a little late because of traffic. it happened to the space shuttle "endeavour." >> what do you think of the space shuttle? sglit's really big. >> this video shows a terrible

mark potter, who has covered the drug war extensively for us, is in sierra vista where he lived with his family. good evening. >> reporter: federal investigators tell nbc news that based on evidence they have found so far, they are looking into whether the shooting may have been a friendly fire incident. agents shooting at each other. he was shot and killed early tuesday morning while responding to desert sensors that track illegal movement across the word board e. they had reported being fired upon about five miles knnorth o the border. u.s. and local officials blamed the shootings on armed criminals and mexican authorities say they have made two arrests in the case. but while u.s. investigators say they have reached no conclusions and have a lot of work to do, they cannot rule out the possibility this was a friendly fire incident. >> mark potter with this late development out of arizona. >>> we've learned that after weeks of waiting for access, the fbi has now come and gone from benghazi in the last 24 hours investigating that attack on the u.s. consulate that killed our ambassador

yet again this year at the national harry potter year i think we have found the perfect place. >> the diabetes walk, i want to say a big hello to ron da. she was one of the walkers. she was diagnosed four yeempleghtz congratulations rhonda for keeping that under control. >> 2,000 people showed up. we just want to say hod did i, thanks. next year if you are listening, we want to see you. >>> your son went out there too? >> both my sons went out there too. >> the ravens suffer a bad loss on the road. plus a season ending injury redskins means a recent fan favorite is headed back to the roster. details coming up at sports. >>> -- in sports. >>> 72% of american men own one of these but only 35% of them actually use it. >>> here's a response you posted on the wusa9 facebook fan page. our fans wrote b, a map. men hate to look like they don't know where they are going. >> log onto the wusa9 facebook fan page and receive your, -- leave your response. >>> 5:22 on this monday morning. frost in the shanendoah valley. as we head toward 9:00, still 40s. around 50 degrees. not looking like we are g

she starred in the biggest movie franchise of all time, "harry potter." yeah. >> jimmy: you look gorgeous. do you watch a lot of late night television? [ laughter ] welcome to our show. hey. hey, hey. i have a question for you. i really do. >> okay, really? for real? >> jimmy: yeah, are you shooting a movie with russell crowe, right? >> i am indeed. >> jimmy: is it -- where is it again? >> we are shooting in iceland in reykjavik. >> jimmy: yeah, and i just heard that he got, like -- is he crazy or something? he's nuts. [ laughter ] he got, like, pulled out of the ocean or something with -- >> he -- yes. that was -- he was -- yes. he had to call emergency services. he needed to get rescued off of a kayak. but this came -- this came as no surprise to me because, like, russell bikes to set. he, like, walks six miles to set. >> jimmy: yeah. he's an adventurous guy. >> if he, like, catapulted on set in a jet pack, i probably wouldn't blink. i'd be, like -- >> jimmy: yup, that's how russell gets to work. >> i -- >> jimmy: yeah, he parachutes in. >> yes. yes. >>

. >> eso no se hace, como gustarÍa ser harry potter. >> vente para acÁ, nosotros te vamos adoptar. >>buena. >> no seas tan cerdo. >> esa buena. >> no manches! (mÚsica) >> a usted la conozco, me tengo que ir a conseguir un peluche rosa. >> quÉ te pasa? >> ya! por quÉ hablas asÍ? me estÁs espantando! >> mirÁ nada más! fÍjate como hablas! >> tienes muy mal aliento. >> me sacas de onda. >> sacando de onda? mejor sacate la ropa, riete fue un chiste. >> oye! >> ya vamosnos. >> nada de trabajar. >> vamos! >> por favor, voy sacar el poster que tengo de las dos y voy a poner otra cosa. >> quÉ le pasÓ? >> me dijeron que era como un arma mortal. (gritos) >> mirÁ! >> orale, ahÍ viene nuestro remedio. >> es brujo. >> le va a salir mÁs barato. >> podrÁ romper todos los hechizos. quiero recuperar a carmelo. >> yo soy carmelo. >> y me dices oye! >> estoy muy confundido. >> no te preocupes, piensas quÉ podremos recuperar a mi esposo? >> estÁ muy sacado de onda. >> parece que estoy sacado de onda porque lo quiero. >> no te vamos a pagar hasta que termines el embrujo. >> ahora si. (mÚsica) si... imamá,

. >> those books and the harry potter. >> they are all the same. >> and then harry dent. >> harry potter. >> it is uncanny. >> it is hair. >> outstanding. >>> coming up next new york known for sites, skyline. there is something new brewing. we have that story right after this. [ male announcer ] trading's like a high-speed train. and you don't want to miss it with thinkorswim by td ameritrade. you get knock-your-socks-off tools, simple one-click orders, real-time paper trading to hone your skills, plus anytime you need it support. ♪ stocks, options, futures, and forex. get your trading on track. thinkorswim by td ameritrade. trade commission free for 60 days, plus get up to $600 when you open an account. [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. >>> it is healthy week at nbc universal. we are looking out for your personal and financial wel

. >> stephen: we took your culture when we stole harry potter from you guys. >> yes. [ laughter ] >>phen: you guys are greece to our rome. >> i haven'ting for given you for that. >> stephen: empires don't care. you used to have an empire. >> we had it for 10 minutes. you've hit for five minutes. the roamentans had it for 1,000 years. >> stephen: what did they do right? >> when they went and beat somebody up and defeated them they said, right. that's over. we've won. come and join us. join in the enterprise. you can become citizens. you can have a share of booty but we go on for the next war. every time they had a victory, they produced more and more people, got them on to their side and so the roman empire was actually full of stakeholders, people for whom it was beneficial to have the empire. >> stephen: you make that sound kind of warm and fuzzy but thsh -- >> the jews got very cross. >> stephen: the jews often get cross. but they are a tough people. >> i know. >> stephen: what did the jews do? >> they revolted because they refused to worship the emperor. >> stephen: didn't have th

my guest tonight is a best-selling author of the harry potter series of books. her new novel is called the casual vacancy. please welcome to the program once again j.k. rowling. ( cheers and applause ) thank you for being here >> thank you very much. jon: first, you are so electric. you just blew up half of our studio grid. the book is called the casual vacancy. let me congratulate you on something that i think is one of the most difficult things for an artist and author to do and accomplish is to create something of great success and then let it be and create something else and put it out boldly >> thank you jon: that is not an easy thinged to do. i congratulate you for it. >> thank you. ( cheers and applause ) you know, it's funny because a lot of people say this is very brave. but i'm not sure it felt very brave. the brave thing honestly was working on something seven years with no hope of getting it published. i look back at those days and think, well, i was brave then because i showed a lot of self belief really >> jon: absolutely. what was it in yourself b

. >> we're not harry potter, with a wand we can appear in libya sudden. >> i we turned to joe sestak,ylvania democrat who is a retired three star admiral. >> you have the navy did i destroyers. >> logistics to have people from the airfield to move them over there. you have a whole thing to work from. i read the accounts and people that were there would have done anything to get there, but it does take some planning. >> october 26th the father of former navy seal tyrone woods who was killed in benghazi went on fox news america live to respond to reports that the c.i.a. operators requested help during the fire fight and were denied. >> these people who made the decision and who knew about the decision and lied about it are murderers of my son. >> bret: then president obama does an interview with a local denver reporter. >> were they denied requests for help during the attack? >> well, we are finding out exactly what happened. i guarantee you that everybody in the state department, our military, c.i.a., you name it had number one priority make sure that people were safe. these are our fo

. >> we actually is a good one from our pal, mark potter. take a look at this one. >> have now been oiled -- oh! oh! >> so i mean this one of my favorites. this reporter -- this weather person. can we rerack it? we jumped out of that for a second. he is doing his weather. he is doing his weather. >> oil. >> oh. >> mark potter? >> worth seeing again. >> and? >> oh, god. oh, my god! >> what is it? >> i love that. >> that would be my reaction. i actually, on a shoot, am allergic to cats, a whole different story. i know. i know. >> bernadette. >> deep seeded issues. i'm alearnic to cats and i was on the shoot with this little girl and she gave me her farm cat, broke out in a horrible hive, eyes shut and i had to do the entire interview profile with this eye shut closed. >> all right, papa. >> but wait a second. i'm sorry, i need to go back to this. we just did a whole segment about cats. >> my cats have -- >> zyrtek. >> my cat is hypoallergenic. >> that's what he told you. >> when i adopted her. >> here is our bonus. last night, comedy central a

my colleague mark potter, a florida native, i should point out, is here with more. reporter: good morning to you. when something odd happens here, and that's a regular event, are people throw up their hands and say, only in florida. it can be an unusual place but it's why we love it. it's also very important politically despite its many quirks. around the country florida is seen as america's playground where tourists come to escape their problems back home for a while. >> romney, romney. >> reporter: with almost 19 million residents and 29 electoral votes in a winner take all election, florida is also a political powerhouse, a swing state, courted heavily by the presidential candidates. which for miami based humorist and author dave barry is terrifying given the year 2000 hanging chads election mess here. >> we've already had what a lot of us couldn't figure out how to punch a hole in a piece of cardboard which isn't that surprising when you see florida people drive. >> reporter: many say because sunny florida is so diverse, home to people around the country and the

. >> mark potter in bisbee, arizona, thank you. >>> and again, we told you last night we have an out of control situation. in california, gasoline prices have been rocketing higher in the last 24 hours it has gotten even worse getting close to $6 a gallon in some places. others have no gas to sell at all. nbc's kristen dahlgren from los angeles with us. good evening >> reporter: good evening, since we talked yesterday, things have gone up, take a look. 5.89 as prices in california close in on all-time record highs. just when people in california thought things couldn't get worse. >> five bucks? oh, my god. >> reporter: even bigger sticker shock. >> i had no idea it had gone up this much, you know, just overnight. >> reporter: prices up another 20 cents a gallon since midnight. >> how can it go from what was it? 4.70 a week ago? in california, the price is up 36 cents, to 4.49, 67 cents from last year when gas was 3.82. and some stations are topping five dollars, that is if they have gas. many costco stations shut down this week after running out. and independent stations say they can

because as we both know i could have kept writing harry potters forever, pretty much. >> rose: and whyn't you? >> because i always envisioned it as a seven book series, i had enough plot for seven books, and when i always knew i would stop at seven, and i am not going to lie. it was heartbreaking in many way, because harry was with me through a very turbulent per od of my life and always a place i could go, you talk about readers being able to go there, it was a place i could go and to close the door was, it was like a death, but i knew that it was time to go and i have not regretted it. >> rose: other than all of the obvious things -- >> yes. >> rose: wealth -- >> yes, it changed my life, the most obvious thing clearly is utterly changed my life, it transformed my life situation, with they were a precarious, my daughter and i were in a precarious situat