. >> and mass for the ages, 81-year-old billionaire and a prodigy prodigy. >> coming up next on "nightlinee mir tal romance with a solid week of love making and ended surprisingly. >> he got rich by breaking all the rules. we'll hang out with mark cuban. >> we'll continue in 60 seconds. dinner's ready. [ female announcer ] hamburger helper stroganoff. beefy. creamy. stroganoffy. helpers. forty dishes, all delicious. those five food groups sound a whole lot better when you put them in a taco shell instead of a pyramid. old el paso. when you gotta have mexican. ♪ we were skipping stones ♪ and letting go ♪ over the river and down the road ♪ [ female announcer ] at nature valley, we know nature comes together in amazing ways. that's why we bring together natural ingredients, like dark chocolate with toasted oats, or sweet golden honey. perfect combinations of nature's delicious ingredients, from nature valley. ♪ ♪ i was thinking that i hope this never ends ♪ [ female announcer ] nature valley granola bars, nature at its most delicious. >>> school is almost out and a time t for teenagers to loo

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it is the prodigious mapping of exactly how complicated things can be in this industry. he is doing more than anyone else to render order from the chaos. right after that this afternoon, we have a fireside chats about social media and advertising -- fireside chat about social media and advertising. later today, the author of "and outsmarting google" is going to have a book signing. later, another report exclusively to adtech -- "the digital revolution: a look to the marketers lens." we have a couple of exciting networking events tonight. this afternoon and tonight, we have our networking pub crawl. all attendees are welcome from 4530 to 6:00. get your mug and trouble to the different floors of the expo. tonight, starting at 6:00, the totally awesome 1980's party featuring tainted love. later, over the course of these high-speed remarks, i talk about technology, talked about innovation, the industry. there is one man who embodies the commitment to those three things in san francisco, the man we are about to bring to the stage. we are very lucky to have the mayor of san fr

she met warren buffett as a ping-pong prodigy. was chosen to give the billionaire a lesson for his 75th birthday. he had shareholders take turns playing her. they challenged her for three straight hours and nobody could beat her, not even bill gates. i hope she was betting. there are people to bet with. big day for comic book fans, it's freedom i can book day. 2,000 retailers are giving away special editions of comics featuring classic disney characters to superheroes. last year it's the world's largest comic book event. it's to attract more fans to the genre. >> we've got 60s at our coast later on today. 77 in san rafael. 75 in fremont. 74 in oakland. so we're coming up anywhere from 5-15 degrees. 73 in watsonville as well as santa cruz. so that is above normal right through the period with our warmest day on monday. then the fog returns not until overnight tuesday. >> terry: way to go lisa. keep track of the latest breaking news on twitter. talk about all it on facebook. happy cinco de mayo. hello? the words are going this way-t

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but the prodigy that he believed in, he unleashed a group of frankensteins that roamed around the landscape american civility and the opportunity for compromise. >> and i count rush limbaugh among his prodigy. i don't think there could be a rush limbaugh without the gingrich leading the way that rush throws out there. let's listen to rush talking about political partisanship. >> they are not interested in truth or reality. they are making the case in their own minds and is all that really matters to them. since the republicans took over the house, the democrat-controlled senate has taken up the bill. the best that can be hoped for right now is gridlock, bring a stop to everything. >> uh-huh. >> that obama wants. >> krystal, it sounds like newt's dream come true. >> that's their view. you listen to the rhetoric from rush and many others like him and you just have to shake your head and go, what planet are they living on? i mean, let's all recall -- >> living on the moon. >> we wish, right? let's all recall that last summer this was the party that nearly forced for no reason a default, the fi

. >> and mass for the ages, 81-year-old billionaire and a prodigy. >> coming up next on "nightline," it started as a challenge to re-ignite mir tal romance with a solid week of love making and ended surprisingly. >> he got rich by breaking all the rules. we'll hang out with mark cuban. >> we'll continue in 60 seconds.  >>> school is almost out and a time for teenagers to look for a summer job. >> is that a good plan. here is michael finney. >> learning to work is important learning about the workplace is important too but there is more than one way to pick up that part of your education. >> summer jobs, it is money but could it be more? >> you don't have to work for mcdonald's wages. you don't have to work at a record store. you can start a business and build something that you love. >> in a down economy, having a tough time to find even minimum wage jobs, so why not start a business instead? >> if you created a product or service or something you can do on your own, you can make way more than any of your friends. >> he has started half a dozen online businesses and written extensiv

zoo officials are calling the elephant a musical prodigy. she plays the harmonica with her trunk.yap elephants are known to be artistically inclined with some in captivity that have even taken up painting. i think i've seen stories about that. >> maybe they can sell for what that other painting sold for. $120million. >> an elephant painting will maybe sell for a million. >> pandas are still cute. >> we've got rain showers moving in from the north and east. i don't know how to touch any of these animal stories this morning. >> let's not. it never goes in a good direction. >> exactly. let's see if we can do a better job with the weather. radar off to the north and east showing the shower activity approaching. columbia and maybe laurel before long. baltimore has been getting light rain showers. this has been tracking to the east and to the south and east. here in washington, we are sort of on the southern edge of t it may get close enough that we'll get shower activity. i think northern portions of howard county and anne arundel county. earlier, we had some flashes of lightning as we

spelling prodigy. >> i am really excited.i'm having a lot of fun. >> reporter: the scripps national spelling bee is back and this 10-year-old is just one of the elite spellers competing to win a $30,000 cash prize and the title of national champion. >> i'm so proud to be here and supporting her and watching her spell on stage. >> reporter: she hopes to follow in her big sister's footsteps. she won three years ago. sunny levine hopes the third time is the charm. that's a big word. >> not really. >> reporter: she spelled it right putting her one step closer to a goal of tomorrow night's final rounds. >> i want to win. >> reporter: she study differently. she is visually impaired. mesmerized described how more kids are fascinated with words today. >> since 1976 we have had international participation in the bee but in recent years it has exfloat -- exploded. >> reporter: they will start international competitions as early as next year. kelly, more than 200 kids are about to get cut. we'll find out who will make this through the f

charlie d'agata is in london with more on this child prodigy.ood morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, jeff. if you've ever seen a work of art and thought, my 5-year-old could do that, in this case you would be right. but instead of sticking it on your refrigerator like i do, this little girl's family has already raked in more than six figures and counting. a pint-sized picasso, a minnie m monet, but this 5-year-old is already making a name for herself in the art world. >> welcome for you to come to my space. hoorah! >> reporter: her work has been shown in galleries in london and new york and sells for upwards of $25,000. we caught up with her at home, with her parents in australia via skype. and what does it feel like to be such a superstar? >> more great than i can say. >> reporter: when you start painting, do you have an idea of what you want it to look like? >> when i pick up a paint, sometimes i just start picking up that paint and then i pick up the other paint. and then when the paint is finished, i think, wow, perfect. that's what i

a true prodigy. amazing stuff there.that story. >>> but first, of course, gay rights advocates are cheering president obama's support, finally, of same-sex marriage. >> president obama revealed his change of heart on the issue during a sit-down with abc's robin roberts at the white house. >> mr. president, are you still opposed to same-sex marriage? >> i've always been adamant that gay and lesbian americans should be treated fairly. and equally. and i was sensitive to the fact that for a lot of people, the word "marriage" was something that evokes very powerful traditions, religious beliefs and so forth. but i have to tell you that over the course of several years, as i talked to friends and family and neighbors, when i think about members of my own staff who are incredibly committed, monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising children together. when i think about those soldiers or airmen or marines, sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that "don't ask,

. >> gareth williams, described as a prodigy who had made a valuable contribution to british intelligence, but found dead in a locked bag. central questions -- how and why did he die? his body was found in the bathroom of the flat. it was in the fetal position with no sign of a struggle. a set of keys were underneath him inside the bag. the back was locked shut on the outside. two experts tried to block the back from inside -- to lock the bag from the inside. neither succeeded. the case has brought a spotlight on the role of mi6. gareth williams was unhappy and have requested a transfer. he was last seen on this cctv footage out shopping in 2010. despite failing to turn up for meetings at work, he was not reported missing until this call one week later. >> one of our members of staff is missing. >> mi6 says it is profoundly sorry for the week-long delay in reporting gareth williams as missing for work. by the time police came to gareth williams' flat, it meant he had been dead for over a week, meaning his body had been badly decomposed, making it difficult to be certain of the cause of de

he's a prodigy.dler's a prodigy, as it turns out. >> they were calling you the toddler ceo, and they don't say that any more at all. this is a tough question, but try. >> mm-hmm. >> how would you grade yourself as a ceo, as the leader of this business? >> i mean, that is a hard question. >> that's a hard question. >> i also don't think you can ever win by answering that question. [laughs] now, we've made a huge number of mistakes along the way, right? now i always say i just think we've made probably every possible mistake you could make. >> is there a decision that you've made that the people around you told you was a mistake and you defied them, and you were right? >> you know, the most famous one, i think, probably has to do with selling the company, right? i mean, in 2006... >> right. >> we had this opportunity to sell the company to yahoo for a billion dollars, and we turned that down. i think a lot of people at the time thought we should sell the company. >> absolutely. >> but you know, i felt

. >> and mass for the ages, 81-year-old billionaire and a prodigy. >> coming up next on "nightline," it started as a challenge to re-ignite mir tal romance with a solid week of love making and ended surprisingly. >> he got rich by breaking all the rules. we'll hang out with mark cuban. >> we'll continue in 60 seconds. >>> school is almost out and a time for teenagers to look for a summer job. >> is that a good plan. here is michael finney. >> learning to work is important learning about the workplace is important too but there is more than one way to pick up that part of your education. >> summer jobs, it is money but could it be more? >> you don't have to work for mcdonald's wages. you don't have to work at a record store. you can start a business and build something that you love. >> in a down economy, having a tough time to find even minimum wage jobs, so why not start a business instead? >> if you created a product or service or something you can do on your own, you can make way more than any of your friends. >> he has started half a dozen online businesses and written extensivel

prodigy. asian elephants are known to be artistly inclined ask taking up painting. >>> sounds like she's taking up breathing through a harmonica. >> and marketing, too. >> her way. >> i like elephants, they're great. >> well, like you said, we had 70-degree, 80 degrees, and 60 degrees today. >> it was a crazy temperature contrast. the high was 74. we did that in the space of two hours this afternoon as this warm front was moving around the region. it has big contrast around it. tomorrow, we are on the warm side. a little bit of haze out there. it is on the cool side. refreshing, a little bit moist. we have been watching radar up to our north. up through pennsylvania, because there's a line of showers and some pretty hefty thunderstorms that are plowing south about to cross interstate 80. here's what it looked like on radar. we think this actually could hold together, believe it or not, and maybe produce some rain or an embedded rumble of thunder around 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning. so, we had t

kids twice her age are considered prodigies. no one younger than 8 has qualified a at the nationals. she's home schooled and adorable. >>> a photographer is claiming he was roughed up by justin bieber. >> ma don that, is she taking a swipe at lady gaga? teresa garcia has those stories and more at this week's look at entertainment. >> reporter: madonna kicks off her world tour in israel this week. her performance may sample a lady gaga song. at rehearsals in tel aviv, madonna was heard inning ising the lyrics to gaga's -- singing the lyrics to gaga's song. some say lady gaga ripped off madonna's hit. the '70s band the sex pistols is rereleasing their controversial song god save the queen right in time for the queen's diamond jubilee. the song which is critical of the monarchy was originally released to coincide with queen elizabeth ii's silver jubilee. it was a top ten hit in 1977 despite being banned from air play. >>> an eternitity with the king could be yours for the right price. auction ears are selling el-- auctioneers are s

the home debut for 19-year-old prodigy, bryce harper, batting .333 after two games. with the nationals. meanwhile the os in action tonight. taking on the new york yankees. and jason hammel, for baltimore. bottom of the second. orioles up by one. and until eric chavez, taking this one deep to right. a two-run shot. the yankees take it 2-1 lead. top of the seventh. same score. os with runners on second and third. uh-oh. wild pitch here. tries to score. the catcher, russell martin. flicks it back to him. tags him out. not good. yankees hold on, win, 2-1. orioles, 14-9 on the year. but, fall to 14-9, if you do, orioles, into the shabby. back at msg, rocking the red on nbc 4. running a contest. we have a were in. go to nbc washington.com to soon up to, win tickets to game four, coming up at verizon center. tonight's winner. mary c. white, from south riding. call -- mary, that is -- hope you are watching tonight. congratulations. you can claim your ticket. all tide up at one, guys. a whole new series coming back call her. ok. [ cellphone rings ] hey. you haven't left yet.

don't use your prodigious talents to mess things up. too many smart people are doing that already. the smart people he's talking about include the financial wizards that brought the economy to the brink of collapse and the lawyers. so he is right to remind us that talent and expertise can be misused. if you live out our professional lives using your talents and not mess things up, that is all right. if you set the bar at not messing up, you're not going to do what we need you to do, make a difference. having just implored you to aim high, i'm going to offer the one piece of career advice in this address and it may seem to contradict what i just said. it doesn't actually. the advice is this, do not think of your professional life as a ladder to be climbed. whatever you aspire to, don't try to plot out a straight line from here to that goal. it is almost certain not to get you there. if you're always asking yourself, what's the next rung on the ladder and how do i take that step up, you're going to miss out on the experiences that actually could make the biggest difference in helping

stallman sas the purpose of his career is to campaign for users rights back in the seventy's he was a prodigy a programmer and a part of the newly born hacker community he could have continued in a software developer career but an attempt to introduce a totally free operating system made him a true philosopher the launch of the g a new project started the free software movement in fines for running changing and redistributing computer programs without charge thanks to richard stallman and his friends most commercial software has free alternatives stallman himself believes in a static line of lectures and promotes his philosophy around the globe. i will richard welcome to the show and thank you very much for being with us well first of all you just when you were listening to that intro you said that it's a mistake to confront free software and commercial so right one what we are these are two unrelated questions the program is free or proprietary depending on whether the users control the program or the program controls the users whether the program is commercial or not that's a totally differ

a child computer prodigy who went to harvard, where he started facebook in a dorm room in 2004, as dramatized in the movie "the social network." >> you know what's cool? >> you? >> a billion dollar evaluation. >> reporter: today, wall street valued facebook at $104 billion. bigger than mcdonald's. as for zuckerberg, he is now worth $19 billion. i got in on the action in the opening seconds. i'm going to buy one share. review order. place order. bingo. i'm a buyer. price $41.10. at first the stock dipped sharply, but then it rallied, and then dove again, ending the day where it started, at $38. the lack of enthusiasm is a sign of investor anxiety over facebook profits. in order to boost those profits, facebook may have to change your experience on the site. so, he could be under the sort of pressure that, and i knew he's resisted that, that we turn our facebook on in the morning and there are ads all over the place? >> right. and mark zuckerberg is a smart guy and he doesn't want to do that. i think that he's thinking larger. he's not just thinking about selling ads on every square inch of fac

. >> reporter: by day, he's a passionate professor of english liratour, by night a prodigious solversword puzzles. >> it's a lot of there's a war and the trojans win. >> reporter: michael sharp, ph.d., bing hampton university, rex parker, manic maven of the "new york times" crossword. it's a habit he fell into in college 20 years ago, imitating a friend he felt was smarter and cooler. >> throofs a part of me that just wanted in a really stupid, shallow way to seem smart. >> reporter: but what began as a caper is now his second full-time career because five years ago he created this crossword blog. he calls it "rex parker does the "new york times" crossword." why rex parker? >> it seems so ridiculous that anyone would do this i thought i'll just put a fake name on it. >> reporter: crossword solvers everywhere discovered blog, as many as 30,000 hits a day. >> i have mixed feelings about him. >> reporter: the editor of the "times" crossword puzzle. >> it builds a crossword community which i think helps. >> i thought it might be fun to match wits against him. bad idea my latin, my latin.

and ping-pong prodigy, john blackstone introduces us to the 16-year-old who is america's best hope yet for an olympic medal. >> i'm am going to fight to the very end. i want the medal for my victory. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> glor: good evening, i'm jeff glor, after more than ten and a half years of war in afghanistan the u.s. and its allies this weekend are looking for the best way out. the setting is a nato summit in chicago against the backdrop of demonstrations. senior white house correspondent bill plante is in chicago. he begins our coverage, bill, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, jeff, well, the u.s. and its partners in nato are just plain tired of the war in afghanistan. it's unpopularity has added to political pressures here and abroad to get the troops out even sooner than planned. and the question is how to do that without giving up the gains that have been made. that's the main topic here at the nato meeting in chicago. with france's new president saying he will pull his troops out of afghanistan by december, two years ahead of t

out in areas like affirmative action, race discrimination, brown versus board of education and its prodigy any. it goes way beyond that. the number of different features of american law that are shaped and cannot be understood otherwise, except through these amendments. it knows no bounds. your handgun rights which you now have, you didn't a couple of years ago but now you do, are run through the 14th amendments. there are no connecticut handgun second amendment right absent the 14th amendments. rights that were only before the civil war held by individuals as against the federal government. most criminal procedural law is the result result of the 14th amendment. the list goes on and on. this is a huge legacy of the civil war, one that's fought out all the time. just seven years ago, nine years ago, justice o'connor, normer justice o'connor said she hoped that maybe in about 25 years questions of affirmative action in higher education admission policies might be able to be race blind as a matter of constitutional mandate. i think when she said that, what she meant was maybe in 25 years fro

back in the eighty's and ninety's was a true prodigy on just players his breakthrough was of be age of sixteen when he won a gold medal at the chess olympiad in manila that game is seen as the springboard into his successful career among. the best chess players of all times including the celebrated new filed with meaning under their guidance won the world champion title in two thousand and securing a landslide victory. meet. latimer welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us well first of all this i think isn't one of the eternal questions not only of chess but journalists about talking to people. chest and spoil sport in chess well i've been a sports journalist for a long time i've asked this question and three answers but it is to interesting to see your answer. cheers. is a sport right but sport isn't about being the best sport it is about winning is chess is best winning while i think in this in this sense i don't see a very big difference between chairs and other sports like tennis or for boring minutes it's about winning call being the best whatever you call it but

and senator santorum prodigious worker covered all the counties, played right into his strength with the evangelical right is but as soon as the people of america found out about them, like the people of pennsylvania, there he went. romney has changed positions so many times, gilmore had a regular night when he said romney has changed positions more often than a pointer -- tran-one movie queen. [laughter] [laughter] >> i'm not happy with him exactly. this policy with health care is absurd. this policy with afghanistan is absurd. there is no al qaeda or fight with the t

we will need the piano progeny -- we will meat a piano prodigy. >> 62 degrees on tv hill. >> coming upwe'll take a last look at weather and traffic together before you head out to start your day. >> time to get to your answers to our watercooler question of the day. >> this morning we asked -- does someone lose ownership of an item, like a lottery ticket, once they throw it away? >> we will post more of your answers on the front page of our website, wbaltv.com. >> is the rain impacting things? >> we have some problems along the route 1 conowingo dam because of a tractor-trailer accident at a fuel spill. it is expected to be shut down for several hours. have an accident in edgewood. and for a crash on the shoulder southbound 95 at o'donnell. and heavy delays on the beltway. slow spots leading up to o'donnell. route 1 shutdown in both ways at the conowingo dam. >> the rain will be off and on like yesterday. another batch of storms late this afternoon or this evening. high temperature of 76. the middle of the day should be fine. >> thanks for joining us for 11 news today. >> we will be ba

he began blurting out the names of the city and the district that lived in soon after the parakeet prodigy even squawked out its home address to a crowd of stoned police officers apparently the bird's owner had lost a previous parakeet and was determined not to let it happen again so she taught this one her address so while you can't teach an old dog new tricks you can definitely give a parakeet a few pointers. crimes the lies and corruption of media mogul rupert murdoch's employees seriously damage the united kingdom and although it's impolitic to say it out loud at least one of his companies has been poisoning the political dialogue here in the united states over murdoch's news corp acking scandal brought shame to the british people as journalists of the employ of murdoch crossed ethical and legal lines to tap into the phones of celebrities politicians and average citizens to get more and more sensational stories for is so-called news papers murdoch's media empire didn't discriminate in its sleazy tactics going after the most powerful people like former prime minister gordon brown and de

a prodigy named coaching at tornado, which i describe apart just a little earlier, who was the darling of the harvard math department. she had one deed not olympia three years ago and so on. so they came to me and said, you know, we decided to look at this thing in the assumption mathematically as the formula for all of this is an election process and we have found it has no solid foundation. in fact, it's wrong mathematically. no one had ever done that before. why? because is an extremely difficult mathematical problem. it didn't seem would be necessary to do it, but it turned out. but when i put the evidence that you got to put that group selection, then we got sent an entirely new open to. and i'm as where we are now. no supporter of the old theory, it happened 18 months after we made that move the nation magazine has actually ever addressed the scientific issues. that is the mathematical inaccuracy and also the better paradox of the nation. and that is where we are at the present time. i show in my new book that finally we have a series, an explanation of how it's originated in hum