his allegations became the crown jewel of the case colin powell made to the united nations before the war. three years ago, we told you part of this story. but we were missing one crucial element-- curve ball, himself. we couldn't find him. well, finally, we did. so tonight, we're going to introduce you to the man and ask you to ponder how anyone could ever have believed one word he said. do you think you helped get saddam hussein out of iraq? >> rafid alwan: yes. exactly. >> simon: and here he is, the iraqi informer who became known as curve ball. his real name is rafid alwan, a 44-year-old chemical engineer who says he had a mission. so you left iraq with the idea of destroying saddam hussein? >> alwan: uh... exactly. >> simon: we sat down with curve ball in europe. we agreed not to reveal exactly where. what made him decide to talk to us? we still don't know. but he was unapologetic, hard to pin down, and really nervous... >> alwan: one minute, please. >> simon: ...not sure how much he could reveal about how he fooled western intelligence services into believing that iraq had a sec

this is colin powell's, one you break it you own it. we didn't break it but once you intervene you're involved and then in to another really tough in fact problemly the toughest nation-building operation we would have ever confronted because this is a country where there really is nothing much except qaddafi but i would go further and this is an attempt to answer your question and that's that the historical significance of what's happening across the arab world right now is in direct proportion to what we're not involved. the pride of the egyptians of what happened and the meaning of what happened in egypt across the region has the fact that it was egyptian and nothing to do with us, virtually nothing. so i think our debate has become much too much about us and this is not about us. it really is not about us. it's not about us. it should be about them. it should be about them reclaiming their futures and what we've got to do is keep this discussion from being about the united states. it's not. >> no one could possibly mistake the revolu

when we thinkabout his virginiae it's been called the powell doctrine. and it was memorialized in a 1992 article called "u.s. forces, the challenges ahead." this article became known very much as the powell doctrine, with two editions that the public and press often put on his thoughts about military missions for the united states. in short, the powell doctrine includes answers to a number of questions that any president, secretary of state, or secretary of defense should answer prior to or at the very least during a military mission involving the united states. those questions are, as follows: is the political objective we seek important, clearly defined and understood? next, have all other nonviolent policy means failed? third, will military force achieve the objective? at what cost? next, have the gains and risks been analyzed? and finally, how might the situation that we seek to alter, once it is altered by force, develop further? and what might be the consequences? added to this, the press and public have offered two more additions oftenly called pa

the to what extent might this be the result of the powell memo back in the early seventy's where lewis powell said that the beginning his letter to his next door neighbor and best friend the president chamber of commerce we've got to get into the public sphere we've got to influence people and out of that memo came the heritage foundation the cato institute the federalist society which now has over half the judges in the country this whole huge right wing infrastructure and of course three months later richard nixon put him on the supreme court was that the genesis of this is that the starting point of this or is there some it is they're not even identifiable it's certainly true that the position we're in now where to supreme court is over and over and over again ruling in the favor of corporate law. didn't happen by accident you know in that memo that justice powell wrote forty years ago he said that the chamber needs to employ the best lawyers in the country pay them enough nih that they can get these lawyers of national rapper reputation and here we are forty years later and arguabl

these two photographs or four actually, lake,meed, looks like that and the other lake, powell. >> this is courtesy of doctor read mond, you should. he's doing wonderful work on the climate. what we have here is a temperature slide from the lower basin starting about 1890 to current and it looks much like the slide of worldwide temperature. the annual data is red and the blue is $1,130,569 running mean and this two degree fahrenheit increase. the upper basin numbers are comparatively about 1 point 5 degrees and in the little inset here you can see, what's happening nationally during that period. you know las vegas wins the record for many many things and they win nationally for the highest temperature increase during that same period of time. another slide from doctor redmond, he swapped the colors to red is the $1,130,569 year running mean. what you see is very little trend over this one hundred year period. it's interesting to look that low period numbers here at the end and the lots of variability you see here in recent years. in 2002, and 04 and 06, the basin lost enormous amounts o

army colonel and former chief of staff to colin powell on thanks so much for being here and i think you've been unavailable to us and what do you know since the last time we were on the program we started another war can you believe it's amazing. every single time how quickly things change make it easy for the president to use the military as human and he will usually i want to talk about obama's speech last night and we're going to break down some of the things he said some of the things he doesn't didn't say but overall do you think that obama has a doctor and this is the question that so many are people are asking now is does obama even have a doctor i think i think he has a doctor and if that's the right word for the liberation he needs before he acts and while it might not always agree with the outcome i do agree with the fact that one should think particularly about fateful decision the senior men and women to die for state purposes or to kill others. i like that about the president our serve you know i think. nobody can complain about the fact that we finally have a president that t

supposedly if i live in sunset, i have to taking the l or the n car, and then get off on powell and mark streets. but there is no connection. so i am forced to walk from market to union square. one way or the other, it is about a thousand feet. then i will take the subway to chinatown, which is clay and washington, a mile and a half. but if i wanted to go to broadway and pacific, where most shops are, then i have to walk. is there a bus going that way? it is too much trouble. the bus service will not it officially anyway. and then after that, with bags full of groceries, i have to walk back to clay and stockton, then go down all the way to the subway station, take the bus to union square, then walk again to powell and market. i say hey, that is too much trouble for me. i would like to take the bus or just forget about the whole thing. take the bus. but is there a bus system going directly from market street to chinatown? it turns out the bus system will not be as frequent as now. so i want you to consider a better plan to help seniors. most of us take buses anyway. so if this truly is re

the city is doing repair and maintenance work on the tracks and underground cable that keeps the powell mason line running. people who would normally use the doors get to work can hop on buses that -- the cars to get to work can hop on buses that go on the same line. the powell mason line cable cars will run again starting on saturday. >>> well, the alaska airlines section of the oakland airport looked like a luau this morning. the festive dancers and decorations were for the inaugural alaska airlines flight from oakland to hawaii. it was taking off this morning. the new flight is part of the expanding service between the bay area and the hawaiian islands and this morning an alaska airlines spokesman said the new flights are proof that the economy is improving. >> you know, hawaii obviously got hit pretty hard a few years ago. but it's really come back. we're just really filling our planes on all of our routes on the west coast. >> there are going to be four flights a week from oakland and three from san jose. the first flight from san jose left yesterday. >>> well, we are following dev

the policy applies to those properties on the south side of jefferson street between powell and hyde streets. we are not talking about very many properties. it is approximately four blocks. the buildings are not on port property, but the sidewalk is. if you recall the infamous blue line, i'm talking about things that hang over onto port property. currently, building owners are required to seek a permit from the city's planning department and the department of building inspection. the policy also requires that building owners come to the port for an encroachment permit, and this has caused confusion and frustration with the building owners. and there is also issues with enforcement. so we have spoken with the planning department, and there is a mechanism in place that the board can still achieve what it needs to achieve -- that the port can still achieve what it needs to without having the building owners go through this business steps that are cumbersome. in an effort to make the process a little bit more business- friendly, it was determined that the airspace encroachment portion of

so i think powell has a tremendous historical burden. the sad thing is i think he knows that, and that must be an awful thing to live with today. i like wilkerson the i think powell's doctrine to get involved in wars only very cautiously and only when overwhelming american interests are at stake is a good one. but given the chance to implement it, he failed. brian: go back to your comment about paul wolfowitz about it won't cost anything for the iraq war and he went on to be head of the world bank. what is it about this town that rewards -- and maybe you could shed light on this -- did the george bush administration think he had been successful? >> well, they did, and that is hard to explain in europe. they think it has gone really well. that's one of the marks of a zealot is you don't let facts get in the way of your theory. brian: let me inject. former secretary of defense donald rumsfeld was here i showed him a letter he and paul wolfowitz signed in 1998 where they wanted to go in and take out the saddam regime and they actually did w

in their memoirs both collin powell the secretary of state back then and donald rumsfeld the defense secretary effectively dock responsibility and point the blame finger at others mainly the cia specifically george tenet head of the sea. at the time he said it was there and it wasn't and they believed him because they wanted to invade iraq and colin powell was digging for information of cia headquarters in langley of course they were digging for it and it was it wasn't clear he was trying to come up with something because he couldn't find it even after this latest revelation about curveballs lies and many western media outlets put the following spain on the story u.s. officials they not lie they were duped but it really reveals here is that contrary to the headline that we saw from the guardian which was that the americans were duped somehow by your story and that really isn't a very accurate telling of what happened in that really the cia wanted to do if you want to use that word at all but really they were looking for an excuse they found one the man who presented the case for war

you talk about colin powell being a realist.eople watching this would say he had a chance and he did not stop the idea of going to iraq? >> i think he was a shakespearean tragedy. i think he was a realist but general powell did what he did his entire life and i have great respect ansar with him. i think che he was ack up on -- i think he was a check upon the system that failed. he chose to be a good soldier and not a great statesman. if he had resigned and tenet had gone with them over shaky intelligence, we would not have gone into iraq. he has a tremendous historical burden. i think he knows that. that must be an awful thing to live with day to day. i like wilkerson. given the chance to implement, he failed them and go back to paul wolfowitz and where he said when asked how much it will cost and he said mostly nothing. >> he went on to the head of the world bank. what is the -- what is the -- what is it about this? you could also shed some light on did they think he was successful in the bush administration? >> they thought it

army colonel and former chief of staff to colin powell still with us. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right. i think. the one well. we never got the chance to keep safe get ready because freedom. a charmer in here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. new website which twenty four seven live streaming news towns like to do about the ongoing financial heart unlimited high quality videos for download. and stories you may never find. the. most aren't. you guys welcome to the show and tell me i'm going to show which part of our guests have to say on the topic now i want to hear our audience just go on to you tube video response or the twitter part of a question that we posed on you tube every monday and on thursday the show longer sponsor we like your voice. as the death toll continues to rise in libya increasing number of people how twitter no fly zone on the table but as the u.s. weighs its options politicians from both sides of the aisle rallied for intervention and some are wondering if the u.s. has

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and tonight powell mason line shut down for maintenance. muni has buses covering the lines. the service on the powell street line will resume on saturday. >>> also in san francisco public works crews started lighting up geary boulevard. the underpass is getting retro fitted with 350 new light fixtures. thatry supposed to last longer, be more efficient and city the city on the electricity bill. it will take about five weeks to finish. >>> and we have cooler temperatures tonight. warmer daytime highs tomorrow. patchy fog. and this weather system just to the north of us here, it is a weak one. tomorrow we will see clouds filter in and it will cool the temperatures a bit in the north bay. the temperatures will be a bit cooler. the high pressure is sticking around. that high pressure is going to give us patchy valley fog and the jet stream drives to the north keeping the rain out of here and a big warmup for the midweek. after last week we are heading for a warm stretch here. the temperatures in the 30s and 40s overnight. patchy valley fog. not a big deal in terms of the fog but

and tonight powell mason line shut down for maintenance. muni has buses covering the lines. the service on the powell street line will resume on saturday. >>> also in san francisco public works crews started lighting up geary boulevard. the underpass is getting retro fitted with 350 new light fixtures. thatry supposed to last longer, be more efficient and city the city on the electricity bill. it will take about five weeks to finish. >>> and we have cooler temperatures tonight. warmer daytime highs tomorrow. patchy fog. and this weather system just to the north of us here, it is a weak one. tomorrow we will see clouds filter in and it will cool the temperatures a bit in the north bay. the temperatures will be a bit cooler. the high pressure is sticking around. that high pressure is going to give us patchy valley fog and the jet stream drives to the north keeping the rain out of here and a big warmup for the midweek. after last week we are heading for a warm stretch here. the temperatures in the 30s and 40s overnight. patchy valley fog. not a big deal in terms of the fog but

colin powell supported him. bush -- it was the first time that bush repudiated colin powell and told the leader of south korea, no, we're going to take a hard-line and we have come full circle. we are depending on the chinese to act as intermediators with north korea. and i think that we can make progress because that is a very, very poor country. very repressive. all regime. but they need outside assistance. and so we are coming back and we are negotiating. so, yes, maybe we'll make progress, but it isn't because of our unilateral throwing about our weight that we're succeeding, but because we are using negotiations and we're using allies. >> you said that the administration's ideology is a crude form of social darwinism. what does that mean? >> the idea of natural selection, survival of the fittest and -- and the fact that it is a -- that is, in fact, what's happening. that's how species survive. but the fittest is not -- does not mean who is the strongest in -- in combat. the fittest is who can cooperate bett

it has helped make delaware ohio's fastest-growing county with cities like powell.ome to the accoutrements of the upper middle class and workers like richard. >> the people who live in this neighborhood are doctors and engineers and lawyers and computer scientists, well educated, well trained. >> reporter: powell's median household income: $126,000 a year. nearly triple the income in nearby crawford. >> at one time our per capita income was higher than the national average. >> reporter: dave williamson has one of the tougher jobs in this part of ohio, head of economic development for crawford county. >> right now we're 70% of the national average in per capita income. if this county of 43,000 people could just be average in per capita income, that would be an additional half a billion dollars a year of wealth in this county. >> reporter: so you're just looking to be average. >> just to be average. nobody wants to be average. >> reporter: but jobs and people have deserted the sinking city. >> the graduating class used to have about 280 kids in them. this year we have

and mass transit just getting word that there's some problems on the powell mason cable caroline.s suspended. we'll have more details coming up. back to you. >> thank you. it's 5:36. >>> it's dry now, but this morning, a state of emergency on the santa cruz county coast because of flooding. kiet do is in capitola which was hit by two floods in three days. he joins us with the latest. >> reporter: good morning. as part of the state of emergency here in the downtown area of capitola, they are paying for two weeks worth of hotel rooms for the evacuees and also letting the clean-up crews park here at the city meters for free. now, on saturday, several feet of water gushed from a broken culvert here that broke on thursday for the first time and it flooded out more than 40 homes and several dozen businesses in capitola village. this was the second failure by the same pipe. the water came from the underground culvert at the bottom of a 20-foot hole and that hole was created on thursday when the pipe failed for the first time. now a number of mobile homes are yellow or red-tagged and one

>> every day, customers asking us where the cable car is and i have to send them down to powell. >> theylacing the switches and allowing the mechanical components that keep the power running. you will see some work done on our sewers. >> the streets along california were going to be torn up anyway to access utilities. tony says it was a good time to do a little maintenance down below. >> you tillty on davis. they will have the cars shut down anyway, they decided to do more work on the street. >> police, switches, and other components that need fixing will come out now. huge wheels move the cable along california will remain silent. go to cbssf.com. click on connect to send me your good questions. >>> yet another one of the raiders top picks played his final game with the silver and black. who hit the longest home run of spring training? up next. (announcer) roundup extended control is no ordinary weed killer. because it does two jobs... at the same time. one: it kills the weeds you have - right down to the root. two: it forms a barrier, that prevents new weeds from growing for up to four

the san francisco streets on how -- powell and post, we have no problem with that. the only building that we anticipate having problems with is the one on pine street. 1000 pine street. >> it sounds like, based on market trends nationally and abroad, that we are doing much better. >> in general. supervisor mirkarimi: as with residential home ownership, there are different class is in tears. i understand that there will be some that will be more protected and stable as opposed to other tiers of ownership. in the middle, on the low side, that sounds an unstable. what does that look like in san francisco? >> 9800 timeshare units, we only have 96 time share, that is a low percentage. we believe that the owners that are delinquent in taxes simply abandoned them. either they cannot afford to take vacation anymore, or they cannot afford to pay the high cost of maintenance. close to $1,000 per year for the maintenance and the insurance. so, they do not feel like it is worth keeping them. after years of delinquency, the property tax penalties of interest increase and increas

is experiencing 0 to 45-minute delays -- 0 to 45-minute delays system wide due to a delay at the powell street station because of a disabled strain that was heading to the airport. there's no details on how long this delay will last on washington. check with -- will last on b.a.r.t. check at ktvu.com. >>> a software glitch in gm could de -- could prevent the defroster from working. if you have one of these cars, you -- you can have the software reprogrammed. you can find a link at at ktvu.com. >>> an atherton teacher may find out soon after a student told on him that he rattled the desk, scaring -- rattled a desk, scaring a student. the teacher has been on paid leave and the school board will take you the issue. >>> you wouldn't think the hardest part of an armed robbery would be getting the right mask. but video shows masks can make or break a crime. couldn't open the cash register. he eventually ran away without a dime. >>> coming up on ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00, president obama and the first lady turned up on facebook to deliver a crucial message to young people. they released a st

more recently, we have one of those at the powell street station. april 1 as the deadline for the convergence, but we feel optimistic because more than half of our users are already making the switch. i'm pleased to advise the board that sf park pilot program will launch in the next few weeks and we will be before the board's policy and governance committee, but i want to give you a quick update for the board so you can know the status. we have completed installation of parking meters and sensors in december and wrapped up installation of the roadway centers in january. we finished work regarding the real-time data from parking garages as well as making the upgrades. we are nearing the end of the testing of the real-time data feed from the warehouse, and we are gearing up for the official launch of the pilot project with a comprehensive customer outreach campaign, which will be launched in the either late march or april, and we will be briefing the mayor's office on the details of our project plan and roll out, so sfpark is moving very smartly and i

the powell mason line will be shut down until friday. the municipal transit district is doing maintenance on the tracks and district. tourists can also get their san francisco experience by riding one of the other two cable car rides. >>> let's check in with sal. >> we are doing well to start off this commute. the traffic continues to look good if yaw are driving on -- if you are driving on 80 westbound. also the morning commute looks good if you are driving at the bay bridge toll plaza. we are off to a nice start here. you can see traffic is looking good on 280 northbound getting up into the valley. so if you will have to ease yourself into a good monday commute right now is a good time to do it. let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sir. and i can honestly say this week will be much quiter for me and not as bad if you're having to commute because the storm track is going north and everything points toward fair, dry, and warmer weather. maybe. but it does look more positive for sunshine and warmer weather. we still have a lot of low clouds