then look with the purple! see how the purple and the purple amethyst really gets picked up? highlighted and showcased in the stones? that. 1.71 carats of green and purple amethyst and the sterling silver. but we show it with yellow. if you are interested in and of college, is by deborah lippmann. as on www.hsn.com. like to where everything that we can from hsn so they to put a full look together if you want. i got this tip from anji corley and she is like if we are doing a juried show, let us pay nails and a fun even the neutral and look gorgeous like karo. that is a natural look as well. sometimes it's fun to add color when you wear a lot of silver. silver is great, it also demands a little bit more of the color. that is what i decide to go with this. with this ring. under. item # 125-750. we are popping simmonsc13 i love this eye philip i am in another world and another size 5-12. under $35 on what we are calling are browned xysta ring.-- round. a crest signature stamp. grecian ins pired. under lip in the hammered under size 5-12. all scalloped and designed (...) 125-729.

he earned the silver star, a couple bronze stars and a purple heart. my uncle jimmy carried them in vietnam during his three tours when they were passed to him. and he earned the silver star and he earned a couple of bronze stars and three purple hearts. and then when i joined the military, they were passed to me. and i took them all over the world from grenada to haiti to desert storm, to iraq, to kosovo. i took them everywhere with me. and is that just a family tradition or a warrior tradition? well, chief medicine crow, he carried his fathers with him, too, during world war ii. he had them under his helmet. he used to paint his body before he went into battle. so when we talk about that, that's our indian traditions. those are our native traditions. that's who we are. we take it with us. it's not something that is just in a book. it's living and it's breathing today. as dr. viola mentioned, my mother was my recruiter. growing up as a little one, i used to sit there and think, wow, watching them come in during the pow-wow. and i would think about all

[music playing] [singing] [applause] [singing] [applause] [singing] >> for purple mountain majesties above the fruit and plains, america, america, god shed his grace on thee. and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. oh beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain. for purple mountain majesties, above the fruit and plains, america, america, america god shed his grace on thee. and crown the thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea. [singing]. >> at the beginning of every event we sing the philippino and national anthem. we shall have some [inaudible], that is company and dancers group, they are going to sing the philippine national anthem.

a three-is dave, 64, time purple heart recipient. a harley 2,500 miles from north cut -- from north dakota. >> this trip to the wall has on my back a list for about 20 years. >> like thousands of other veterans, it is an emotional time. >> i would with some of the people right when they were killed. >> minutes before we met him, he met a fellow brother. a purple heart recipient who pilgrimage to the wall every year. >> i always have a problem coming back. otheris a chance for reconnect, too. >> thank you very much. >> a purple heart on top of it. >> of 42 years after leaving vietnam, dave is still surprised when the ordinary citizen stop to honor him for his service. survivor,rs himself a wounded warriors still on his feet, i'm sure if you will be make another one of trips. he can now cross it off his bucket list. you very much. motorcyclists to begin gathering before the rally at thew morning pentagon. noon, there will depart for the district. they will park their vehicles on softball field near the national mall. speakers and perfo

. >> reporter: they started a foundation and called it purple heart homes. >> our goal is simply to pay it forward, just one bit. >> reporter: dale and john hope to bring america back to those glorious days after world war ii, when veterans were cheered and embraced by their communities. >> you need to understand it's about community. it's about lifting up those that have served and sacrificed and in that, you know, we found a way that we can say, we believe. >> reporter: they soon discovered there are more than 17,000 veterans living in their county alone, and every thursday morning a group gathers here in richard's coffee shop. that's how they met dave morale. >> hay, dave. >> who served two tours with special forces in vietnam. the war cost him a leg. >> this just comes off. >> reporter: they learned that he was forced to crawl from his bedroom to his bathroom because his wheelchair and walker wouldn't fit through the doors. he said the va wouldn't pay to fix it because he's missing only one limb. >> you have to be double. a single amputee, the best i can get is a wheelchair, one ram

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>> i had to shout he was turning purple and he had to let him go. he could have fell unconscious or he could have been dead. >>> august 7th, 2010. shoppers and tourists pack the hollywood walk of fame. college student joshua fountain is waiting for a friend at the bus stop and alejandro and his brother, pablo, walk out of the forever 21 store with stolen t-shirts stuffed in alejandro's bag. >> when he left, the security guard approached him, but he did not hear him and then he started to walk off. and that's when the security guard just jumped on him and tackled him. >> started hearing a bit of a rut ruckus behind me and two individuals fell to the ground. i brought up my phone and decided to just record it. >> as the struggle plays out right in front of him, it quickly becomes clear to joshua that alejandro didn't hear the security guard. >> right away i knew he was deaf and he was trying to let the security guard know he was deaf. >> but the security guard who now has alejandro in a head lock doesn't appear to notice. alejandro's brother, pablo, t

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chairman mcdonnell: for what purple? >> for the panhandle remaining whole. it would be whole, just in a different district. then we could add the population perhaps a block here and block there in russian hill. chairman mcdonnell: thank you. just to summarize, the initial change was 1,460, ansa vista. deviation would be a -- >> negative 2.12%. chairman mcdonnell: and district two a negative 6.18%. mr. leigh? >> can i ask some clarifying questions? chairman mcdonnell: you may. >> i know we had talked about the u.s.f. campus in those three blocks. can we have the population of those? for me personally i would want to see more on sort of -- i think the implication is the russian hill area. so i would like to see more

purple indicate pedestrian access. the main parking access for the hospital will be off of geary. you can see that northbound arrow at the bottom and access off of post street for cars driving into the parking garage. once inside there is an anterior drop off and pick up zone. all of that activity will be off street. then there is access to the parking garage from within that drop off area. on the left you can see there is a loading dock that can accommodate several trucks at once anden ables large trucks to pull in facing forward, maneuver off street and then exit facing forward as well back on to franklin street. you can see the emergency room access for ambulances and for people that need to get to the emergency room quickly. they will access that off of franklin. then they will exit on to post street to the north and immediately east of that there is a small parking area for ambulances. you can see the driveway in and out. that is all the access in. for cars exitting the garage they are exitting only on to post street. there is also an emergency drive way on to geary street an

the purple is the regal color.l jewels, to london most of it is done in amethyst. what is not to love about this ring? >>host: the focal point, that big bold beautiful amethyst solitaire. we have 6-8 only. but i have a size 56 c13 i i wearing it on the center finger so even if you have a smaller hand it is not too big. >>guest: so many times i read your reviews and you are like i want the most heavily saturated gemstone. i do not blame you because amethyst is judged, the quality is on a saturation of color. when you ask me for the deepest most delicious purple i am giving it to you in this ring because it is the most valuable of all3 amethyst. the cushion-cut celebrates it is the best of a square and round.you get all those 58 facets of the round brilliant3 but, the sisides instead of pointy end square are soft. i wear a cushion-cut engagement ring.n-cut adam gave you. it is the most beautiful because it very is the best of two great fancy-cut gemstones. me that when you put this on you do not look like you just go

let this purple yo-yo represent the medical department. it is purple. but -- ♪ >> the budget was all purple there was money in the department's going everywhere i know city that you really cared like overtime 19,000,099 and i know it is going to be fine say it there in night over time we're going to a party like it is 19,000,099 if you did not come to budget do not bother knocking at the city budget door after all that is what medical money is for tonight we're going to party like the budget over time 19,000,099 ♪ >> it is like you sometimes -- ♪ >> disconnected the phone line relax make it today is the day you're going to make the budget obk because we're going to need some money and it comes from you today is the day you're going to make the budget ok and the money comes from you but did you ♪ [bell rings] ♪ >> and you worked hard like this and you worked budget hard like that and i knew all along that the money would come back to you and your card like this and you work hard like that and i knew all along the overtime money and jobs were going to com

so much that i only wear purple tops.ried to wear other colors i have to take them off as they really bother me. how did this happen? >> how did this happen? number one you have to think back what was going on when you decided to focus only on what you were wearing for a top? got to be bigger problems in the world than that. you don't want to live your life as barney. >> it was not me. this was a viewer e-mail even though i am wearing purple. >> next, my dad was unkind to me as a kid he walked out on me, my mom for a new family. never paid child support. criticizes me. part of me feels i should have nothing to do with him. is that crazy? >> i am worried about people who keep damaging people in their lives. people tend to keep family members around no matter what. that tells your mind that you are not worth any more than that. so here's the thing. when people are destructive tell them good-bye. if you have to say good-bye to dad, add that, too. >>> finally this viewer e-mail my mother coddles my brother doesn't let him hel

purple tie, what do you say to that? fair shot? >> not at all. the reality is there are some old laggards out there. there are a lot of them that are out there may be $50 billion. there's hard things to do when you're lugging around $50 million. we focus on niche areas where we can be special, we can do short positions. very difficult to do that on the long side. when you look at it, emerging markets is an area that we love. we think emerging market debt, which the whole asset class has been up about 50% as far as new money coming in in the last year. we did a em long/short fund. there are a lot of opportunities out there. maybe the big brands woept be bringing big news. >> a little niche with a little heat. good place to be. let's talk about something steven rattner said earlier on cnbc. he basically said individual investors have no business moving in and out of picking individual stocks. he said they belong in index funds most especially. how do you answer him? is he mostly right? or a little bit right? >> i'd say a little bit right. i think m

>>guest: this purple orchid is beautiful.tion.within one minute you are steaming and it is like magic and you can put right up against this wool fabric and i used to use a pressing cloth but you will need that with the steamer. you can go right up the fabric and it saves you time. >>host: and it saves your clothing. >>guest: it was wrinkled in and back and it will steamboat's sides. we are very busy on the today's special and the steamer at $20 you want to get this for college and graduates and father's day because men will steam. we still have many people saying yes to the today's special and let us say hello to susan in tennessee. welcome to hsn. thank you both of you beautiful actresses up there. >>host:i will put mine on in tribute to susan. it is all about the sunglasses. you got the today's special but you already have 12 pair of her glasses? >>caller: the joy, joy, joy? >>host: what did you love the today's special? >>caller: so i can read out side in the sunlight. >>host: not remove sunglasses and put on reading glass

. >> he's purple. >>> "caught on camera out of line." >> hello, i'm contessa brewer. welcome to "caught on camera." from politicians to police, sports stars to security guards, seems almost everybody gets out of line sometimes. and in a world full of cameras, those moments can live forever. in the case of our first story, some poor judgment, even becomes an international incident. a good-will basketball game takes an angry turn. when players stop passing basketballs and start hurling chairs. >> quickly you realize this was not your typical sports altercation. >> it's an international basket brawl and the entire scene is caught on camera by fans in the bleaches. >> i was fearing for my physical well being. >> the georgetown hoyas arrive in beijing for an exhibition tour. an entourage of more than 200 fans and school officials accompany the team on the trip. >> they wanted this to be a good will tour to expand georgetown's brand and bride. >> but the hoyas are not the only high-profile americans in china. >> vice president joe biden was in town at the same time. there's

. >>> purple, pink, and blue.are just some of the hair colors being sported by celebrities this spring. it's a look considered to be really bold. >> we saw them on katy perry on those music award shows. fashion experts say now is the perfect time to experiment with your look. reporter jane hansen has more on summer's hottest hair colors. >> reporter: gone are the days when changing up your hair color meant having a few highlights. judging by hollywood, summer hair color is going to be all about going bold. check out kelly osbourne. she has been spotted here in nyc sporting bright purple locks. >> you love the golden girl as your inspiration? >> yes. actually. >> that is certainly one way to get noticed. ♪ >> reporter: whether you love it or hate it crazy color is nothing new for the 27-year-old rocker who has been known to favor pink and gray in the past. also going purple, pop starlet katy perry. ♪ hey i just made you and this is crazy ♪ >> reporter: she is another girl who has never been afraid of color and now

the areas uc in purple. those are severe thunderstorm counties. that is in effect for another half an hour. there are a bunch of these storms that are moving to the northeast. i in the eastern panhandle of west virginia. these are not severe but heavy storms moving in the western sections of frederick county. it is a very active weather day and becoming more active later tonight. we started off two waves of storms but now it is consolidating. extending to the southwest of our viewing area. this is under a severe thunderstorm watch. storms may become severe. these are warnings in effect. a small area under a flash flood warnings for another couple of hours. some of the rainfall came through. we had three whether -- weather bugs. picking up 0.07 of 1 inch. still around 90 where the sunshine is still shining. 89 in the nation's capital. it feels warmer with the wind -- temperatures and the humidity at 50%. the cool air will move in. tomorrow will be a transition day. we will be in the mid-80's. thursday is the day that we will -- it will move in. it

>>> and, purple haze. a top she all-star dishes about hi lifz and love of cooking and shares his recipe for the best homemade violet ice cream you'll ever taes. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," may 4th, 2012. >> good evening, happy friday, i am bill weir. for couples that have lost that loving feeling, how is this for a rehab strategy? a prescription for seven straight days of getting busy. no malter how busy they get. it's meant to be a radical solution. can a healthy sex lichl really be the cure-all for an unhappy marriage, or, for these couples, is the missing piece of the puzzle something a lot less sexy? here's abc's juju chang. >> you're right. this time we are fighting. >> you can't be putting anything on this pot. look what happens. >> reporter: for these couples, marriage once always a battlefield. >> just do it yourself, please. >> reporter: once upon a time, anna and anthony were madly in

watched as their comrades perished around him, still managing acts of bravery that resulted in five purple hearts. they also saved each other's lives. chuck hagel pulled his unconscious brother out of a carrier before it blew up, turning his face into bubbley blisters. he prayed as he watched blood pour out of tom's ears. he reflected after that as he lay near death severely burned in a makeshift hospital. quote, i made a promise to myself, he writes in his excellent book, that if i got out of that place, and was ever in a position to do something about war, so horrible, so filled with suffering, i would do whatever i could to stop it. i have never forgotten the promise, unquote. he understands the sacrifices we have made this evening because he has made them. he understands how difficult it is to rejoin society because he has done it. he understands the traumas that prince harry has spoken of so eloquently. his life of public service has been informed in so many ways from what he experienced as a young man. sergeant hagen, mr. chairman, we of a atlantic council salute you. >> fred, thank

it's like a purple curtain. >> these trees are 145 years old. the branchs have grown more than 30 meters from the trunks in all directions. the vines swallow from the wire, some of them are as long as 180 centimeters. some reached the middle to create this giant pergola that spans bigger than four basketball courts, making it one of the largest giant wisteria displays in the world. these are raised in the nearby farm facility. they said transplanting a tree older than 100 years was in impossible, but the first certified female arborist was successfully able to move them to the flower park. >> translator: people who come to see the wisterias say they are beautiful and it's great. they leave with a sense of joy and happiness. my hope is that these giant wisterias live for 1,000 years and grow beautiful flowers and continue to be loved by visitors. >> in the evening, they get to take pleasure in another kind of show. the park will have a special illumination display for the tunnel until may 20th. more than 80 halogen lamps give it a warm glow. whet

when you buy it you want to make sure it has a nice purple color like this with green around. this time of year you will find some with a lot of purple which is fine as long as there's no yellowing. and the stock needs to be nice and green, free from any cracking. when you bring them home it is so important to store them in the refrigerator right away. if you close that bag, it will start to heat up on you and that is not good because broccoli gives also much heat on its own. it is even packed with iced in refrigerated trucks and transportation. that is how much heat is off to keep it nice and cool. rocklin this time of year, it does not get much better than this. i am your fresh grocer, always remember to eat fresh and stay healthy. i will take this home. some guy just took something behind me. >> i hope that he pay for that. coming up tonight at 5:00 there maybe an affordable answer to bring dental care to thousands of california kids. >> could replace the debt is to keep kids smiling? that story and more at 5:00. take a look it is, pictures before and now, after. here's the

i got to tell you, you walk in with this purple thing going.ur wife out purples you. >> i'm ready. >> i'm ready to put on the camel and go to the ballpark. >> we are ready as well. we are ready. we are ready. everything is going good and we are getting ready for the 5k run. >> the foundation, you started this a while back. everybody starts a foundation on a wing and a prayer and a hope. how is the foundation going. are you happy with how it is going so far? >> we are extremely pleased with the growth of the foundation. since our inception in 2008 we have not only raiseed funds to assist people battling als but raised the hopes and spirits of many of my fellow pals. go to our web site to read more about us. >> definitely will. >> you mentioned the 5k coming up. >> yes. >> are we expecting any big stars for that? >> hopefully so. we will see. so many people come out. we try to get around to say hello to everyone, see everyone but it's so many people out there because we are, of course, bringing awareness to this als thing and trying to do what we

they get to see purple and white wisterias in full ploom at the same time. but the biggest crowd pleaser of the park is this. the giant wisteria tunnel. >> translator: looks like i came at the perfect time. i'm so happy. >> translator: it's so refreshing looking at these flowers makes me so relaxed. >> translator: what a view from down here. it's like a purple curtain. >> reporter: these wisteria trees are 145 years old. the branches have grown more than 30 meters from the trunks in all directions. and the vines fall from the wired ceiling. some of them are as long as 180 centimeters. some of the branches have reached the middle of this wired structure to create this giant perg la. it spans more than 2,000 square meters, bigger than four basketball courts, making it one of the largest giant wisteria displays in the world. these plants were actually raised in a nearby farming facility and scientists had said that transplanting trees that are older than 100 years was impossible. but in 1997, the first certified female arborist in japan was able to successfully

this is definitely hail, you see this right in here, this purple color, that's big-time hail. and that's occurring on the west side of i-81 in between martinsburg and this area here. we'll zoom in a little more. we guarantee you that they are getting hail in some of these areas right here. this is right at 320, 322 rather and this is our county route 30. this is big time, i mean big time hail on state route 45 right here. just on the west side of county 81. the storm itself will move off to the south and the east and we'll keep you posted on where it is headed to see how far it could make it. right now it will end up kind of dissipating before it makes it to the immediate metro area. we'll keep you posted and talk about the widespread activity tomorrow. derek? >> all right, dissipating. that's a good -- good thing. thank you, top. >>> what they are doing to spice up the old menu at mcdonald's. >>> plus, mitt romney picks up a key endorsement from somebody who wanted to beat him out. >>> we'll have the latest polling number in the battle between romney and the current president

it is shown in purple where pedestrians will go to a wooden structure. also shown here is the pedestrian tunnel. it will be excavated underneath van ness avenue. that construction is about a 10- month time span when it they will have to cut open the van ness avenue. only after 7:00 p.m. there will close down two of the six lanes at a time at most. always having four lanes of traffic open. and always having one of the two sidewalks on been a 70 that could be closed. only during that tunnel construction time with any pedestrians be routed onto a different side of history. but there will always be at least one sidewalk lebanon of van ness avenue. that is construction. now i will talk about bus rapid transit. there are, i believe, three alternatives being studied as part of the van ness avenue brt project. one is side-running, and two are center-running. i will first talk about side- running and in the two center- running together. i was going to point out -- the cathedral hill campus -- and van ness avenue north this to the right. south is to the left. this

they were inspired by all the people wearing purple on friday during football season.very wednesday and want you to do the same. they say it's -- getting that come back. we all want to get in the spirit. fans should support them rather. if -- get ready with orange. that will be tough. >> let's go up to toronto. you of little faith. you know why we have seen this act before? the orioles lost again tonight in toronto. the blue jays hit four off hamels. the birds have lost eight out of ten. they are hang around first place but they better right the ship. the fans have a sinking feeling. he is rubbing his hand. >> we are coming back. just a bad streak . >> keep driving their --. >> tell me when i will put the thunder shirt on my dog. >> friday night. get them ready. that's our main next round of thunderstorms. off shore though a tough night for out on the fishing boat. rough off shore but we will continue to watch beryl move away. it's interesting to see a storm that makes landfall in florida goes on shore and ends up ocean city, that's an unusual one. otherwise looking go

city, and the red and purple or on the west and southern areas of the city. we are also looking at seeing if we can feed some of those through groundwater and/or recycled water as a way to fight fires. this is a total of 26 reservoir on top of 20. it was just recently cleaned out. we added a large new intake from some reservoir that we could put water in rapidly and also cleaned it out. the voter does not show the large pile of debris which came out of this. unlike our drinking water reservoirs, this is uncovered so it does accumulate stock over time, but we found it to be in strikingly good condition. it is actually in pretty good shape. lastly, the schedule, we are looking at designing about 15 cisterns, developing the cost for pump station one, conceptual engineering on pump station o,

marine and purple heart recipient who was badly injured in the war in afghanistan has been recovering at walter reed medical center but was greeted to a hero's welcome at his home in georgia. >> reporter: with a traditional marine oorah, he came home to a hero's welcome. on the tarmac hundreds of well wishers swelled with pride and patriotism. military veterans, motorcycle groups, local citizens, family and friends. >> it's great to finally get home. my brothers over there deserve the same. >> reporter: the 19-year-old returned from walter reed medical center in maryland for the memorial day weekend, taking a break from rick rouse recovery after an improvised ec pleasive device in afghanistan left him without legs, a left thumb and right pinky. >> he'll stand before long. he can stand now as far as i'm concerned. he's ten foot tall. >> reporter: ten foot tall to those who waited in the hot sun for nearly three hours for his arrival. >> a hero who served this country above and beyond and we're just here to show him he's got support. >> reporter: support if those proud to call son adams

above that purple area, a red bud tree, the state tree. the state bird, and by his other hand, an astronaut. there have been more astronauts go into space from oklahoma than any other state in the union. we come into the senate chamber. oklahoma's legislature meets the first monday of february, has to be finished by last friday of may. in session four months out of the year. we have 48 state senators elected for four years. the lieutenant governor is the president of the senate, but not active in that role, probably in 70 years now, so the president pro tem really is the leader. and a little bit of our history from 1907 to 2006, the democrats had the majority, so the pro tem was a democrat. 2006 we had a tie. so they elected a democrat and a republican, and they alternated days who was conducting the business of the senate. i thought if the lieutenant governor was ever going to be involved, that would be it. turned out the first year of that session there were no tie votes at all. in the second year, there were openly four, so they really