narrator: but it's not nostalgia for days gone by that concerns geographer richard greene. northern illino university, he's studying development patterns around the chicago metropolitan area, and what worries him is the science and economics of what's being lost. green: the soil that is being removed here took 10,000 years to create. and in just a matter of a few weeks, this soil will be gone anin i pwille w dethe bn the worlfooducing crops. narrator: and if you don't believe it,w weask a local farmer. be gone man: yeah, when i put that driveway in, i had a cat come in here, and he took black dirt out of here at wasasil18s toet dp be he gra. t on is it good di it whh is wwa at wasasil18s toet dp be he gra. good soil with good drainage is what grows crops. you also have to have the climate; you also have to have the rainfall; you have to have the infrastructure. so it has everything going for it, this area does. an intense competition for the land has been raging. to see how the pressure developed, we head downtown to the center of chicago. the tallest building in north amer

had just been announced but mitt romney's openly gay and now former foreign policy spokesperson richard green now has stepped down following criticism over his sexuality and appointment within the campaign. i think he looks good by now we're going to have to just kidding i live but yes he was an openly gay aide and there was such so much hoopla out there that he actually had to resign over it which i just i think people are jumping to conclusions on this grinnell was appointed and he came under fire from yes the social conservative right but also from leftist groups like think progress attacked him because he'd been somewhat less than cautious with his words on twitter in addressing certain female members of the media so it was kind of a no win situation after he got a point you know and we don't know why he stepped down we know that the romney i mean campaign i want him to stay he says that they begged him to stay he himself said that he stepped down in large part because of the backlash by conservatives. did he said that he stepped down because he was receiving a lot of producers will ality

with the guy who first introduced you and me several years ago richard greene and he told me the story of how you had to head home one evening from some gig that you were both at so that you could finish reading a piece of legislation actually read the bill how can we get more american is that passionate that concerned about the laws that congress is passing. i don't know i don't know i you know like i said this started with something that was a personal connection to a friend and then piqued my interest from there i think if you're staying informed you're going to stumble across something that affects that's the other interesting thing about this is that this group of people that i was arrested with who most of whom are in wheelchairs and suffer from some form of disability are really fighting the fight for all of us because we all are one car accident one skiing accident one work related injury or just age away from needing some sort of home health care. as a preference to being institutionalized so they're fighting for an issue that really really going to affect everybody in our thi

greene takes over. >> eddie: long shift for carter and richards. >> mike: that's icing, pierre. you're right on the red line when it came by. >> pierre: a couple of opportunities here. patrik elias over to david clarkson. goes to settle the puck down. bouncing puck, missed opportunity for the devils. talk about the chance for kovalchuk. guys are getting in the lane. all kinds of opportunities in the passed shot. trying to find henrique and kovalchuk can want get it to him. >> eddie: you can't be looking to make a pass. >> pierre: he's done a lot tonight. he's been unselfish. has to get a little bit more selfish. >> mike: stoll on the draw. stepping across is lewis. he's got it. harrold on him. more board balting. greene. off the devils stick. punched behind by king and popped up high where elias can settle it down. quickly touched scuderi to doughty and back to lewis. they have a little more time and space to work with. emerging with it is doughty. sliding back along doughty. nice one across. hung up on the line. drilled back in by him. it's all a legal play as the kings make a

greene takes over. >> eddie: long shift for carter and richards. >> mike: that's icing, pierre. you're right on the red line when it came by. >> pierre: a couple of opportunities here. patrik elias over to david clarkson. goes to settle the puck down. bouncing puck, missed opportunity for the devils. talk about the chance for kovalchuk. guys are getting in the lane. all kinds of opportunities in the passed shot. trying to find henrique and kovalchuk can want get it to him. >> eddie: you can't be looking to make a pass. >> pierre: he's done a lot tonight. he's been unselfish. has to get a little bit more selfish. >> mike: stoll on the draw. stepping across is lewis. he's got it. harrold on him. more board balting. greene. off the devils stick. punched behind by king and popped up high where elias can settle it down. quickly touched scuderi to doughty and back to lewis. they have a little more time and space to work with. emerging with it is doughty. sliding back along doughty. nice one across. hung up on the line. drilled back in by him. it's all a legal play as the kings make a

greene takes over. >> eddie: long shift for carter and richards. >> mike: that's icing, pierre. you're right on the red line when it came by. >> pierre: a couple of opportunities here. patrik elias over to david clarkson. goes to settle the puck down. bouncing puck, missed opportunity for the devils. talk about the chance for kovalchuk. guys are getting in the lane. all kinds of opportunities in the passed shot. trying to find henrique and kovalchuk can want get it to him. >> eddie: you can't be looking to make a pass. >> pierre: he's done a lot tonight. he's been unselfish. has to get a little bit more selfish. >> mike: stoll on the draw. stepping across is lewis. he's got it. harrold on him. more board balting. greene. off the devils stick. punched behind by king and popped up high where elias can settle it down. quickly touched scuderi to doughty and back to lewis. they have a little more time and space to work with. emerging with it is doughty. sliding back along doughty. nice one across. hung up on the line. drilled back in by him. it's all a legal play as the kings make a

richard is happy with his new electric car. >> living in the bay area, you just feel like, you know, you have some obligation to be as green asyou possibly can. >> richard hardly uses any gasoline anymore as long as he can keep his car charged up. and he figured that would be no problem. see, he lives in this san francisco high rise. when he parks in his assigned place there is an electric outlet right there. >> the car was designed to be convenient. that's the beauty of the volt, it has a 110 socket and you can plug it right in. >> the chevy vold needs only an ordinary socket like this one. the setup seemed ideal until i told his landlord about it. >> the answer came back, we allow no alteration to our premises. >> he explained it required no alterations and he would pay for the extra costs of electricity. still his landlord gave him a flat no. richard could park here, but he could not plug his car into the socket three feet a away. >> i'm willing too reimburse you, please let me plug my car in. >> the manager e-mailed him said trinity management services does not approve such a request. now he has to drive to charging stati

he said because if you don't accept it, just as god made little green apples, richard nixon will become president of the united states. that is something that rayburn, who just despised president nixon could not deal with. i think that lbj does it for the country and a large mentor. >> did he play any significant role -- i don't believe that kennedy ever introduced introduce any civil rights legislation? is that right? but i know there was frustration with wallace during kennedy's administration about letting the students at the university. i am wondering if johnson played a role as a southerner in any of that stuff? >> johnson uses jfk's martyrdom, in part to give the civil rights act of 1964 through. he says very pointedly to lawmakers, this is what our president would have wanted. this is what john f. kennedy, our fallen president, would have wanted. you owe to him and his country. i don't know that kennedy could have done it. i think it would've been difficult for a lot of people to accept a northeastern democrat getting civil rights past. and i think it took nixon to go to china, t

richard is happy with his new electric car. >> living in the bay area, you just feel like, you know, you have some obligation to be as green as you possibly can. >> richard hardly uses any gasoline anymore as long as he can keep his car charged up. and he figured that would be no problem. see, he lives in this san francisco high rise. when he parks in his assigned place there is an electric outlet right there. >> the car was designed to be convenient. that's the beauty of the volt, it has a 110 socket and you can plug it right in. >> it needs only an ordinary socket like this one. the setup seemed ideal until i told his landlord about it. >> the answer came back, we allow no alteration to our premises. >> he explained it required no alterations and he would pay for the extra costs of electricity. still his landlord gave him a flat no. richard could park here, but he could not plug his car into the socket three feet a away. >> i'm willing too reimburse you, please let me plug my car in. >> the manager e-mailed him said trinity management services does not approve such a request. now he has to drive to charging stationings and

green technology. but one landlord told a tenant kit not use a plug to charge his new electric car. and neither can any other tenants. >> all i did was start it up richardis pretty happy with his new car. >> this just feels like you have obligation to be as green as you can can. >> he can keep his car charged up and he figured that would be no problem. and when he parks in his place there is an electrical outlet there. >> this car is designed to be convenient. that is the beauty. there his volt needs only a ordinary socket. he told his landlord about it. >> the answer came back we allow no alterations to the premises. >> he explain plained woe pay the cost. still his landlord gave him a flat no. richard could park her, but -- here, but not plug his car into the socket. >> i'm willing to reimburse you. please. give me your permission. >> the building manager saying simply trinity management services does not approve such requests. now richard says he has to drive to charging stations and wait hours for the battery to fill up and contacted 7 on your side and we tried to talk with the building owner. developer and his company trinity properties in this bui

while come back to spotlight on al green novel just a reminder that my guest on the show today is richard stallman founder of the free software movement richard we've got we've got dozens of questions from our viewers and here's one from a man called k.c. and andre he put a question to you on our website what can the free software movement do to convince people to use free software instead of by heavily more a kid in proprietary products because. some people still believe that that windows are mad well it works better than them for it so well they don't realize that it's full of malicious features it's basically an instrument to give someone else power over them and this power is being abused constantly so what i do to try to show people why they should move to freedom respecting free software. is i don't talk about practical things near convenience because you know free software in some cases is convenient and in some cases less so just as proprietary software in some cases given in some cases less so they're not all incompetent i'm not going to claim that but they never respect your fre

green light to same- sex marriage. >> marriage itself is the relationship between a man and woman. >> the tea party claims of one more republlican incumbent richard lugar. >> who sure republicans want the senanate taking a more conservative line. >> even high school is not o off- limits. >> i did some stupid ththings in high school d if i hurt anyone with that, i am sorry and i apologize for it. >> a bomb makers still at it, and borders in europe trigger a political tsunami. >> money is like water, and if the dam brks, ththat could flood. captioned by the national caponininstitute --www.ncicap.org-- >> as we all know, vice president joe biden has a reputation as someone afflicted with foot-in-mouth disease. on last sunday's "meet the press," he said gamarriage is fine with them. >> i am absolutely comfortable with the fact that many married menomen marrying women, are entitled to the same exact rights. >> that caused major flap with the chattering classes, and mieeeek, in an interview with robin roberts, the p president suggested he jumped the gun. >> he got a little over his skis boat t out of generosity of spirit. >> on the fox news website, a

green light to same- sex marriage. >> marriage itself is the relationship between a man and a woman. >> the tea party claim another incumbent, richard lugar. >> hoosier republicans want to see the united states senate taking a more conservative track. >> even high school is not off limits. >> i did some stupid things in high school, and if i hurt anyone, i am sorry and apologize for it. >> lawmakers still at it. voters in europe trigger a political tsunami. >> money flows like water, and if the dam breaks some place, it could flood, even here in america. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> vice president joe biden has acquired a reputation as a person afflicted with foot-in- mouth disease. on last sunday's "meet the press," he said that gay marriage is fine with him. >> i'm comfortable with the fact that man marrying men, women marrying women, are entitled to the same rights. >> that caused a major flat amid the chattering classes, and by midweek, in an interview with robin roberts, the president suggested joe biden had jumped the gun. >> he got out a little bit over his skis. >> the president says h

green light to same- sex marriage. >> marriage itself is the relationship between a man and a woman. >> the tea party claims and other income and, richard lugar. >> who wants toee the senate take a more conservative track? >> even high school is not off limits. >> no question i did some stupid things in high school and half by hurt anyone by virtue of that, i am very solid and apologize for it. -- very sorry and apologize for it. >> voters across europe for a political tsunami. >> money flows like water. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> as we all know, vice president joe biden has acquired a reputation as a person who is afflicted with foot-in-mouth disease. on last sunday's "meet the press," he said gay marriage is just fine with him. >> i am comfortable with the fact that menarry men, women pairing women -- marrying women, are entitled to the same rights. >> that caused a major flap among chattering classes, and by midweek, in an interview with robert roberts of abc, the president suggested he jumped the gun. >> it was in spirit. >> one supporter said "the president and vice president played as." wh

green and yellow. and red like those powders and syrups kept behind the counter at blocks pharmacy. red. and red like the stripe on richard's barb bar pole and the stitches on button holes on over alls of those coming to down on saturday. solid red at the blue moon and red like the eyes of the late staying patrons on sunday mornings. and in church the red of the edge of white pages in a black bound bible coming together, closing. red as a congregation rises. [applause]. >> this references a lynching. the lynching of 2 couples in monroe, georgia occurred july 25, 1946. it's now referred to has the morris ford lynching. insurance man, 1946. silos you might not be here april. ain't none of us never promise said tomorrow. if you died you would need a will. that way you control your nickel when you are gone. get your ducks in a row you might not be here come april. yeah, your policy is up-to-date and we will pay say if you lose an arm at the elbow at the mill. if you died you need a will. double pay for accidental deaths we have you down. your wife will not need to borrowo. you might not be here come april. being alive is enough

richard jordan. >> and i'm angie goff. here are some of the top stories we're following. major delays expected on metro. four green closed. there is single tracking on three lines. that could make it hard to get around with big crowds expected to flock to d.c. for the caps and nats game as well as the avon walk for cancer. >>> president obama kicks off his re-election today speaking to students at virginia commonwealth university. shaka smart will introduce the commander in chief. >>> no word yet on what caused the fire of a well-known community activist. dorot dorothy brizill. firefighters say the fire caused the house to collapse. one firefighter was hurt but is expected to be okay. >>> the woman who claims to be the escort who sparked the secret service prostitution is speaking out. dania suarez spoke for the first time for a paid interview. she called the agent dumb for thinking he wouldn't have to pay her. she also said she could have posed a threat to the president security. suarez flew to dubai after the incident blew up. she has not been contacted by officials. something that concerns members of congress.

green belt, tracee wilkins, news 4. >>> the town rocked by the shooting death of trayvon martin is welcoming a new interim police chief. captain richardyers formally stepped into the job today. myers is a 35-year law enforcement veteran. he says his first task will be to quickly rebuild relationships between td police and the community. there's been outrage since martin was shot to death by george zimmerman while zimmerman was on community patrol watch. >> we have a chance here in sanford to make something good out of something bad. we have a chance to draw strength and energy in memory and honor of a young man whose life ended so unexpectedly. >> reporter: myers' most recent job was chief of police in colorado springs. >> the family of former nfl star junior seau plans to donate his brain for research. seau killed himself on wednesday at his california home. the 12-time pro bowler shot himself in the chest. the family says they are not speculating whether concussions are a factor in the suicide. they want to do more research on head injuries. seau played 20 seasons in the nfl for the chargers, dolphins, and the patriots. >>> yahoo's