. >> 9 ray brown -- i'm ray brown, and i speak to you as a resident of bronco lake erie we are right across the street from the fairmont. we are going to get all the noise, all the construction dust. i'm here as a very strong advocate for the fairmont. they have been a wonderful neighbor since we moved here in 2006. i'm going to spare you -- i know you did not have eyes good enough to see this, but this is a picture of my grandson. he is two years old. he literally has his nose pressed against the window with the fairmont has this miniature train running around a track. the holiday season, they go out of their way to make a really warm and wonderful setting. are also speak to you from the bottom of my heart that they have answered all our concerns. they have had multiple meetings with the residents, and i do not know that i can say everyone is in agreement, but we are all strongly in agreement. i know the neighborhoods are not static. they have lives that go up and down. if the fairmont cannot change to meet the 21st century, it will weaken. the fairmont is like an anchor tenant for

. >> brown: ray suarez talks to historian susan reverby about her discovery that u.s. scientists performed secret syphilis experiments in guatemala during the 1940s. >> woodruff: and we have a discussion on what lies ahead in the supreme court term that began today, with marcia coyle and lawyers paul clement and paul butler. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by:

>> tom rathman, ray brown, mike solari, who didn't play for us but coached for us under bob mckittrick>> i was thinking montana, young -- >> joe was at practice two weeks ago. there's a lot of guys -- >> i think the reason why scott brings that up is the whole ronnie lott flap over speaking to the saints before the game when they played you. kind of pronounced this idea that we're not seeing the legends around the niners as much as we're seeing mays or mccubby, who are being constantly ballyhooed by the giants. >> i talked to ronnie. he's an icon as much as he is a 49ers icon. if you know why he spoke to the saints, the 49ers had a lot of trouble after our super bowl '81 win. there's a lot of young guys who couldn't handle success and their lives spun out of control. ronnie spoke to the saints last year. he comes very regularly to the 49ers. i have a great relationship with ronnie. those guys are around. we don't necessarily publicize it. if you saw the guys that were there monday night, should we publicize it? it's really a personal relationship with those guys. and if those guys want

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. >> brown: ray suarez previews his series of global health unit reports from mozambique. >> ifill: and producer/director judd apatow talks about his high success rate with low comedy. >> we're all kingd if idiot kids trying to act like we know what we're doing. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. al >> ifill: the crucial midtermit election campaign of 2010 headed into its closing days today.ai president obama hit the roadte again, with control of congress and key state houses still up for grabs. the president kicked off the last full week of themiin midterm campaign in the democratic stronghold ofit rhode island.a >> it is great to be here in rhode island.ar >> ifill: mr. obama has been on the campaign trail nearly nonstop.nd barn storming from battleg

. >> brown: ray suarez talks to historian susan reverby about her discovery that u.s. scientists performed secret syphilis experiments in guatemala during the 1940s. >> woodruff: and we have a discussion on what lies ahead in the supreme court term that began today, with marcia coyle and lawyers paul clement and paul butler. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: tourists in europe were in the spotlight today after the u.s. and several other countries issued travel alerts. the alerts grew out of reports last week, about a terror plot aimed at european cities. in the meantime, the u.s. launched another drone attack into pakistan, where some of the plotters reportedly trained. newshour correspondent kwame holman begins our coverage. >> reporter: japan and sweden today becam

. >> brown: and ray suarez talks to congressmen eric cantor and kevin mccarthy about their new book, "young guns," a republican manifesto for the upcoming midterm elections. >> the overwhelming number of newly elected members come january,' 11 will be members seeking reform. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> brown: a high profile freedom of speech case went before the supreme court today in a classic battle of first amendment rights versus individual privacy. it was all sparked by an emotionally-charged protest at the funeral of a u.s. marine. kwame holman begins our report. a warning: this story contains language that may be offensive to some viewers. >> reporter: members of the westboro baptist church of topeka, kansas, gathered outside the supreme court this morning carrying their signature signs and condemning america for its acceptance of homosexuality. inside, the justices heard arguments centering on the church's right to protest at military funerals. >> by your proud sin, america, you have imperiled y

isaiah leggett and the transportation secretary ray lahood and lieutenant governor anthony brown joined students walking to east silver spring elementary school this morning. it's promoting healthy lifestyle and inspired by a legally blind parent at the school who advocates for pedestrian safety. >>> facebook is trying to figure out what went wrong last night, leaving millions in the luh -- lurch. it slowed down or in some cases, didn't work at all for some people and this happened before 10:00 and haven't said what caused it. it's the second time in a month that users have been unable to get the site to work. >> and how could this happen? firefighters respond to an emergency call and refuse to put out the flames. >>> the latest from chile where trapped miners are closer to coming up above ground just ahead. >>> and first tonight, we want to remind you about all the action. it's time to catch your vote in the high school football game- of-the-week. the choices are on the screen. go to www.myfoxdc.com and you can even text your vote. the phone number is 5 -- or the text number is 55171.

brown. on the newshour tonight, ray suarez gets a breakdown of today's jobs report, the last before the midterm elections. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner examines china's angry reaction to the award of the nobel peace prize to an imprisoned chinese dissident. >> brown: spencer michels reports on the face-off in california between former ebay chief meg whitman and former governor jerry brown. >> the california governor's race is setting records but the enanswered question is whether either of the candidates can fix what ails this state's economy. >> woodruff: from chile, jonathan miller of independent television news has the latest on the efforts to rescue the trapped miners as early as next tuesday. >> brown: mark shields and david brooks offer their weekly analysis. >> woodruff: and we close with the story of a composer, a virtuoso violinist, and the pulitzer-prize winning music they create. ♪ >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program w

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were people who hit and were vicious long before ray lewis and dave wilcox was the ray lewis of his era? number 3, hardy brown>> hardy brown was famous for his shoulder tackle. he didn't always connect, but when he connected, he'd put guys out. >> he was brutal. he had this forearm shiver of a tackle that just dropped guys to their knees. >> that forearm strike was learned the hard way, playing on the sand lots of a texas orphanage. brown had been sent there at the age of 4 after the murder of his father. football was where brown channeled his frustrations. >> he is the guy that we called the flying shoulder and would fly into guys and knock 'em out. he was a vicious vicious hitter. >> he would hit you with his shoulder like this, umm, like that. >> hard-hitting hardy brown hurls his hefty hulk into the ball carrier. >> i believe there was some. >> anybody who took him out of the game got $500, nobody took him out of the game, he took them out of 2 game. >> i'm not proud of it but, to win, i'd do almost anything to win. >> number 2, patrick willis. >> patrick willis is just a physical specimen from the minute

ray lahood. one other person that is not here that i want to technology is jerry brown. this has been a decade for him for decades. i know he is in southern california right now. it is very important to acknowledge, as others have, that for generations, california has stood as the beacon for innovation for the nation and world. yes, we salute our governor for the role he plays -- david, give him our guards. i am sorry that he could not be here with us. every manifestation of our state, whether it is the people who vote, local, regional authorities to participate, elected officials, everyone agrees that this was a priority. when the secretary says we have our act together, mr. secretary, we have been ready for a long time. what made such a difference, what tipped it over, of course, was the vision and leadership of president barack obama and the courage to go forward with this american reinvestment and recovery act which has saved or created millions of jobs, and now so many more in our state. we have been the bastion of creativity and the entrepreneurial thinking. we hav

brown, again? hide your wallet. >>> there was one more game left before the final four was set. rangers versus rayswinner moves on. ron washington gave the thumbs up in the series where the home team didn't win a single game. lee struck out 11. complete game. beating the rays for the second time this series. plenty of offensive support. kinsler. texas up 3-1, that's insurance. they win the playoff series for the first time in their series. bring on the new york yankees. the nlcs schedule is out tonight and the giants and phillies. the first two games will be in philadelphia. the giants host the middle three. game six and seven if needed would be back in the city of brotherly love. >>> usa taking on columbia. the game ends nil-nil. >>> nba preseason. i know you want to know what happened here. beat by 19 points. from demarcus cousins who used to be a starting point guard for the warriors. >> all right. [ male announcer ] carly fiorina. as ceo, she laid off 30,000 workers and shipped jobs to china. china. india. russia. poland. i know precisely why those jobs go. [ male announcer ] because fiorina sh

brown. on the newshour tonight, political editor david chalian walks us through the changes in the president's inner circle. >> lehrer: then, ray suarez looks at the varied reactions to the suicide of a student at rutgers university in new jersey. >> brown: special correspondent kira kay previews this weekend's elections in bosnia, where ethnic tensions still run high. >> lehrer: mark shields and michael gerson offer their analysis of the week's news. >> brown: and hari sreenivasan has the latest on a powerful computer virus that could be targeting nuclear facilities in iran. >>> there are lots of groups today that are now sitting planning how to make use of this kind of mechanism. >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: there was a changing of the guard at the white house today. president obama announced he's losing his chief-of-

. >> brown: for more on the progress and risks involved, ray suarez talked this afternoon to jonathanmiller, another itn reporter on the scene at the san jose mine. >> suarez: jonathan, what's been going on between the completion of the drilling and the beginning of the operation to extract the men? >> well, the main thing has been putting in these big, thick steel casing pipes into the top of the rescue shaft. this has now been completed successfully. they've had cameras going right down inside inspecting it. that's been monitord up on the surface. geologists have given it the all-clear. the little capsule, the phoenix rescue capsule itself shaped like a bullet has been up and down inside successfully. they've had it right down to 610 meters. that's 2,000 feet down inside. only 40 meters or 30 feet i should say short of the actual chamber itself. and they're very happy with it. one of the things they've discovered i should add is that when they bring it back up again because of the twists and turns in the tunnel, the capsule rotates or spirals up. they've expecting it to go the full