it may seem extreme, but in chris powell's case, that's the point. his clients weigh as much as 500 pounds. it's all part of their year-long extreme makeover transformation. juju chang spent a day with him. >> reporter: behind each jaw-dropping transformation as people shrink to half their size, there's one man who orchestrates it all. >> i'm fighting through the pain. >> reporter: for extreme makeover weight loss edition. all total, he's helped 11 superobese people lose a ton of weight. but chris powell would tell you his secret as a hard-charging trainer has less to do with exercising people's bodies than exercising their demons. >> there is a tie to some kind of emotional trauma in the path of the people that i've worked with. that trauma is typically unaddressed. >> you deal with sexual abuse, you deal with alcoholism. are you qualified to deal with all these psychological issues? >> absolutely not. i will handle them as a friend would. i know it's outside of my scope of practice. with some of these deep-rooted psychological issues, that's why we

powell, let me come to you. you may want to respond to that and i want to ask you to talk about mfn and most favored nation status and looking at that, plus the alternate distribution method clauses that are there in cable, carriage contracts. in nashville with a lot of the entertainers, they understand that mfn approach when they're doing shows and with a lot of the content producers and people pushing content forward, we've got questions about the mfn and the adn approach so if you want to respond to what miss sohn had to say and answer the second question, that would be great. first, i want to highlight something she did say and e quoed by the country's leading regulators and the chairman of the federal trade commission that there's nothing inherently wrong with usage-based pricing, just like there isn't if you run your air-conditioning all day long at the lowest temperature and your neighbor chooses to open the windows and have the breeze blow in you will pay more money than your neighborhood is as a consequ

powell, it's interesting you mentioned the 57%. in 1992 congress was concerned about the cable monopoly and that does not exist today if you're at 57% and the folks that are sitting in this panel and -- what does that mean to the cable industry? how is it evolving to be competitive in reference to the '92 act, and not be redundant on mats matsui's question of retransmission, but what other underbrush is there that from '92 that was just so focused on the cable industry. what do we need to do to clear out the brush? what specific things should congress look at if we want to review the '92 act? >> the first thing i would say is the beauty of competitive dynamics is you have to increase value for consumers and you can do that through innovation and evolution of your service and i think the competition we faced first and most formidably from the satellite companies increased both the quality of content that we're providing and the amount of content we were providing. it forced us to look at new businesses for revenue development to con

secretary of state colin powell. the decorated four-star general has a new book that focuses on the lessons he learned along the way about life and leadership. the new book is called "it worked for me." will talk about the american wars abroad, the crisis in syria, and the 2012 presidential race, of course. we are glad you could join us. the conversation colin powell, coming up right now. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we allit's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: it is an honor to welcome colin powell back to this program. the former secretary of state and decorated four-star general is a best-selling author, whose latest book is called "it worked for me." he joins us from washington. secretary colin powell, good to have you back. >> good to be here, tavis. tavis: and a string some questions in the news,

the archbishops stood up and said," general powell, why don't we just use soft power?" it was a critique of what we are getting ready to do. it was not soft power that rescued britain from hitler. it was hard power and you have to have that. but when we won world war two with hard power, we switched to soft power in asia and germany to create democracy. the importance of this coalition that makes what we are doing so very important is that we understand that we needed all but we have been shortchanging the soft power which translates into smart power. for years, have been hearing the same things -- only less than 1% but it does not change. until we have more people like lindsey gramm and pat leahy will understand and the world we're living in an international environment where we are competing in so many different levels and not so much military levels as there are levels of economic, levels of development, what we're doing to help people in parts of the world. who are wondering if america is there for us. until we start to invest in that part of the power equation, ame

. >> ronald powell jr.pletely unaware of the approaching tractor-trailer. officer eagler sees that the ç woman who was just rear-ended his patrol car is right in the path of the truck. the woman is off camera. if the officer doesn't get her out of harm's way, he's certain she will die. >> i was yelling at her, come on, come on, come on, you need to get out of there. >> come, on, come on, come on! >> i pulled her car door open and grabbed ahold of her, looking over my shoulder at the tractor-trailer that was oncoming. all i really had time to do was push her towards the retaining wall. threw her down on the ground. >> it all happens in moments and powell, sitting in his car, becomes aware something is horribly wrong. >> why did they just jump out of the car like that? that's when i heard an air brake on the semi, it was like goo, goo, goo and that's when i felt the impact. i didn't see anything happen. i just felt it. i felt glass cutting my face. >> sheltered against the median wall, the officers are amaze

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protests and people arrested for paefrly demonstrating on the capitol steps, wayne powell went righto their aid and agreed to represent 30 men and women pro bono. he is a fiscal conservative, which i think serves the seventh district very well. there's a problem with eric cantor, eric cantor is a man who shorted, who actually shorted u.s. treasury bonds for his own personal financial gain. this is unpatriotic. now, this is one of two things, either has been giving inside information to his wall street bookie, or he doesn't have confidence in his own ability as an american leader. you know, for his own nation. he bet against his country. and to me, this is unpatriotic and reprehensible. >> how much do you think he is the cause of obstruction? and how much damage has he done to the country, in your opinion? >> let's put it this way, when john boehner was trying to come to terms with president obama to reduce this deficit, eric cantor went full blast against it and he voted, he supported the ryan bill. the ryan bill will put the deficit $6 trillion deeper than we already are in the next

i'll talk to the challenger, wayne powell. you can listen to me on sirius xm radio monday through friday, noon to 3:00 p.m. follow me on twitter at ed show and like "the ed show" on facebook. we're right back. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." the big question tonight, how radical will the republican national convention actually be this year? in tennessee, if that's any indication what's happening down there, you better fasten your seat belts. tea party bigots in tennessee are taking action against republican governor bill haslan for appointing democrats, gay people, and muslims. they said the action or actions of the republican elected governor of the great state of tennessee and his administration have demonstrated a consistent lack of conservative values. it's specifically targeting a muslim american employee saying she is an expert on shariah compliant finance which is one of the many ways islamic terrorism is funded. give me a break. the resolution also criticized gay workers in the state government. these workers are be

get in there. >> powell says he doesn't remember pointing his gun, only drawing it.ted it, first at tamisha, then at ryan. while tamisha goes in, ryan decides it's best to stay outside, hoping the officer will understand their situation. >> you ran a red light. >> we went back and forth for a little bit. and then i realized that i was talking to a wall. i mean, he wasn't going to listen. he didn't care. >> did i not stop at the red light? did i not -- >> stop. and then you just blew the red light. >> i waved the traffic off. >> it was still red. >> and then i turned. >> shut your mouth and listen. >> shut my mouth and listen? is that how you talk to me, dude? >> shut your mouth and listen. >> he was just, like, i can take you to jail, i can tow your car. shut your mouth. all this different stuff that i was thinking that wasn't appropriate for a cop to say to anybody. >> it's decision time for ryan. he knows if he stays he'll probably miss his opportunity to say good-bye and to be there for his wife. >> well, i was thinking i didn't want anything else bad to happen, s

powell around the issue of tax certificates. in the past, mr. barrett, your association we're representing here today strongly endorse passage of legislation to establish a new communications tax certificate program. is that still the na b's position? >> yes, it is. the nab would continue to support such a legislation initiative. >> and mr. powell, the association that you're representing here today also previously endorsed passage of legislation for new communications tax certificate programs. is that still the ncta's position? >> yes, mr. rush. in 2003 when senator mccain introduced tax certificate as chairman of the fcc it was an enormous proponent and remains so. >> thank you very much. mr. chairman, without objection i would like to enter into the record the fcc's section 257 report recommending that congress reinstate a tax certificate policy. i would point out that the statement of former fcc commissioner michael j. comps, accompanying that order and being the source for the minority ownership percentages that i cited earlier. and with th

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interstate 80 there is an accident before the powell street exit would be 80. we have a reported now from highway patrol there are no serious injuries but you can see it's slowing traffic. we'll stay on top of this in case there is more to bring you. an accident on interstate 80 just before the powell street. >> a train derailment that caused a fire in columbus, ohio. three tankers were carrying ethanol. it prompted authorities to evacuate a mild wide area until the fire could burn itself out. two people ran to the scene were injured. they were able to take themselves to the hospital. eleven freight cars derailed and investigators are still looking into exactly right. >> republican presidential candidate mitt romney was boo'd during naacp meeting in houston. >> trying to eliminate, expensive program i can find including obamacare and i'm going to work to reform and save --. >> the boos went on for nearly 20 seconds. he patiently waited and cited a survey of small business owners the majority they would be likely to hire workers and he said he would be a better

this might happen at certain places, such as powell street. revitalizing major public spaces. there are some very key public spaces up and down market street. some of which are not currently to their potential. they really can served also as large nose of baxter -- nodes of activation. we are looking for at 3 at this moment. dusky public spaces up and down the corridor. -- those key public spaces that are up and down the corridor. given their proximity to very large transit stops. we have a huge volume of people coming up from the underground comic a large number of people above ground. how can we capture those people in public spaces and make a film titled places to be? -- and make them a vital place to be? we held our first round of outreach last year. we have since been preparing are interesting best actress this research, those documents are available -- best practices research, those documents are available on the website. brown to about which will be in july. -- round two of outreach will be in july. we will make sure we are on the right track with what we heard last yea

but powell said the new wave of product introductions could reverse the trend.lus, despite recently raising the dividend by 8%, classic sign of confidence, 12th dividend boost in eight years powell kept expectations low which gives the company a phenomenal chance of beating them. next up, you can't have a recession without a dollar store entry. we flogged dollar tree forever. it's up 30% year to date, no doubt because of my hefty candy purchases. but morgan stanley downgraded it on potentially slowing numbers. i'm jumping on another general. this time dollar general. it's up a similar amount but has more chance than the money trees which i call dollar tree. they are getting in california. vastly underdollared. one of the chief reasons i like dollar general is i have never seen the stock of a company eat through not one, two, three but four secondaries and still come out ahead after every one of them. while the dollar store theme is no long uhher unknown and the price to earnings have expanded dramatically dollar general sells at a slight premium to the growth ra

approve the plans and specifications, and award wastewater enterprise contract ww-442, mason and powell street sewer system improvement and pavement renovation, in the amount of $4,920,357, of which $504,223 is funded by wwe/cip, $3,570,114 is funded by wwe/r&r and $846,020 is funded by dpw, to the lowest, qualified, responsible and responsive bidder, shaw pipeline, to replace or rehabilitate existing sewers and construct associated appurtenances and perform pavement renovation on mason, powell and bay streets. d, approve the plans and specifications, and award wastewater enterprise contract number ww-490, oceanside water pollution control plant digesters and facility improvements, in the amount of $15,373,000, to the lowest, qualified, responsible and responsive bidder, shimmick construction company inc., to repair corroded digester infrastructure and perform necessary improvements to the existing digestion process to achieve class a biosolids at the oceanside plant. e, approve the plans and specifications, and award wastewater enterprise contract ww-535r, wastewater enterprise facilit

and what i read in the "new york times" of all places on the front page that confirmed what colin powell said that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction. so i told the millions of people who watch this program we have got to go in there and, you know, cheney is right that once we overthrow saddam. iraq will cooperate with us. we will try get a democracy up and running and i was wrong. i was wrong. that hurts me not only with the audience but personally because iraq didn't greet us as liberators. and you say you had some misgivings. i never heard those misgivings. >> no, look. some iraqis did greet us as liberators. >> bill: not many. >> tough people. let's review why we went into iraq. we did think through the intelligence briefings that we were getting and the briefings given to the congress that saddam hussein had reconstituted his biological and chemical. >> bill: absolutely and so did colin powell when he made that. >> absolutely. we thought he might be a from nuclear weapon. remember, saddam hussein and weapons of mass destruction was not a theoretical proposition. he has u

colin powell is the one who made the presentation at the united nations. he probably had more experience dealing with intelligence materials than anyone, including george tenet, director of cia. one of the intelligence elements reported to him at department of state, he spent days workingen it. he prepared a speech for the world which he believed every single word in it, let there be no doubt. president bush believed every word he said as vice president cheney and condi rice and as did i. i think that is -- i don't know quite how to characterize a person who would come to that conclusion when all of the evidence is to the contrary. the congress, republicans and democrats alike, looked at same intelligence and voted overwhelmingly for the resolution for president bush. the political leadership in the congress, hillary clinton, bill clinton, john kerry, one after another, al gore, were in support. now, when things didn't go well, obviously they shifted their positions some what. but you can go back to the record is clear. the intelligence agencies of the uni

we'll hear from chris powell in a moment.ck from everything, to be honest. >> reporter: he was 28 and had never been kissed. never been on a first date. >> i don't have a full-length mirror anywhere in the whole house. if i can just avoid seeing myself, you know, then i guess it's like out of sight out of -- mind. i mean, who would want to see this? i just feel like no girl deserves this. >> reporter: at 493 pounds, he was so overweight, his brother feared for his life. >> i really think he cannot get up off the couch sometimes because of the weight. >> reporter: the only times he would go out, to see nearby family. going house to house to get food. >> get something to eat. come on in, michael. >> all right, what do we got here. >> reporter: he was ready for massive life change when chris powell entered his life. >> it's begun. >> reporter: chris's workout showed how hard it would be. at the 90-day mark, he has lost 120 pounds. >> no, way! >> yeah! >> reporter: by the six-month mark, two milestones, a new woman in mike's life

then she met our friend, "extreme weight loss edition" pri chris powell.ries are always so good. where's the countdown clock? a new chapter here today. just under six hours until "good afternoon america" begins. >> i better go. i need a nap. >> everything you love about "gma" but a little later. a live studio audience? >> come on down. also, pop-ins from the three big names on the program if you know what i'm saying, george, robin, sam. >> oh, that is a pop-in? >> yeah, that was my hint. are we allow to say the special guest? >> they have to stay until 8:30. >>> we begin with the heat wave that has been scorching this great land. violent storms making way for cooler temp chus. a tornado, in fact, being blamed for this. tearing apart a virginia dance studio that was filled with cheerleaders. only two parents hurt. texas, thunder chasing the rangers and twins off the field and into the dugout mid-game. the death toll has now topped 45. zpmgt and day on the lake beating that heat turned to tragedy for the acceptson of pop st star usher. 11-year-old kyle gibso

kyan powell, fell from the window while his mother was sleeping at their apartment in the 500 block of van buren street. the mother, 26 year old tiesha powell, was initially arrested, but police released her almost immediately... deciding there was no neglect. the boy apparently fell from a window that had a loose screen. he was flown to chicago for treatment due to the severity of his injuries. so far, no word on his condition. sauk village leaders are working on an emergency plan... to fix the town's contaminated water supply. they held a public meeting last night to discuss the problem. the illinois e.p.a. says... it found dangerous levels of vinyl chloride in the drinking water. this chemical can increase the risks of liver cancer and other health problems. last spring, residents voted to get their water from lake michigan, but that solution may take too long, and be too expensive. >>we're not talking money politics or anything it's about the health and safety of an entire town >>this is scary and i have lived here all these years i used to drink the water for years now our drink b

bay, nothing major we are keeping track of a new crash reported, initially reported westbound 80 at powell headlights moving along nicely. the crash is eastbound 80 and it looks like it could be blocking the left lane and we'll check out to see if it is causing delays. eastbound not too bad at this point. bay bridge toll, minor back up for some of the cash paying lanes overturn crash we are following in castro valley blocking northbound lanes of five canyons parkway towards 580, 580 itself fine in both directions. >>> breaking news right now the concord fire department is battling a structure fire on st. francis drive not clear what is burning there. nick smith is headed to the scene in concord and will bring us a live report at 6:30. >>> this morning in san jose, city officials will announce help is on the way for the city's understaffed fire department. katie marzullo is live in san jose with more on the story. >> reporter: it is a very large grant we are at the fire department's training center, you can see that large in the background where some of the structure fire training takes pla

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he's working on the campaign for wayne powell up against eric cantor. it's great to see you. th >> is that a fair description of what happened in virginia since republicans took over? >> well, the ground is different now. you're talking about bob mcdonnell law. i call it sodomy bob. the story in 2003, he was in the general assembly, and he put in hi bill where if you were a judge, you had to swear on oath like boy scout honor that you never committed sodomy. well, a reporter asked him if he had ever committed sodomy, and he went, i don't recall. now, i've got a bad memory. i forgot where my car keys were plenty of times, and sometimes i forgot where my car was. but there's certain things that you don't ever forget. >> do you think that eric cantor is -- obviously you wouldn't be working on the campaign if you didn't think eric cantor is beatable? do you think he's beatable any year or do you think year in this virginia in particular he's particularly vulnerable? >> of course he's vulnerable. you have the organizing of americans getting out for democrats. that was the differen