the credit card company learned the same thing. >> rick: yeah. >> maybe we should unlearn that. >> rick of the things you recommend for folks who are not in so dire filing into bankruptcy and still having problems nonetheless is to look into changing the deductible on some insurance policies that you hold. that could help out and raise some cash? >> absolutely, we can look at our entire life and we should look at our entire life, whatever we were doing caused us to get to where we're at which means we need to go back now into the new times and reevaluate everything, including the amount of insurance we have on automobiles, the type of insurance we have on our house, every expense should be looked at could i raise the deductible and therefore lower the premium and would that extra money be a risk worth taking, in many cases the answer will be yes, it's a risk, but a risk worth taking. >> rick: also. we can sell some things, is another thing you recommend. if we've accumulated and bought so many items maybe we could sort of sell them off and get some cash back that way? >> absolutely, we

an important week coming up for rick stansbury's team. >> dave: a good look at rick stansbury. state schedule there. two road games against two of the top teams in the east. >> in the first meeting they got the victory at oxford. >> dave: it will be interesting to see how ole miss responds. now that the game is pushed back because of the ice they play tomorrow night at home against arkansas and then they have a short turn-around. they play super tuesday game on tuesday night in lexington against the wildcats. >> joe: when you are a west division team and you cross over to the east, you have your hands full. everybody in the east, even go georgia is capable of beating you. you can throw in south carolina with what they did to kentucky and georgia is playing well. >> dave: we heard chartering from the younger coaches that had to do the turn-around before. back when you were coaching, it was saturday monday, wasn't it? >> joe: it was. absolutely. when i played here, it was saturday monday. early times when i was at kentucky with joe b. hall, saturday-monday. right. >> dave: the on

ç-- and rick.is next week, one of the first times that congress will have the chance to question the independent review that secretary gates completed. what will come out of this? guest: it is a little like the underwater bomber, and that there is a series of flights were should appear attention to but nobody connected the dots and put it together. the military system is very hard to do. it is not clear how they fix it. there will be a lot of questions. there will notç be a lot of immediate answers in how to stop this thing from happening again. this was a medical officer accused of doing this. they are treated special. they are in their own world in terms of the office -- how their personnel system works, there are shortages of them. you do not have to be a superior officer in some cases. it is a very difficult thing for them to handle. most members of congress to not understand how the military works, well enough to understand what it is they need to do. host: congressman skelton it appeared sur

let's get to rick reichmuth with more upbeat news we hope, rick or-- >> just a little bit negative.t helps. >> such a beautiful morning, have you ever been in temps that cold? >> no. >> yes. >> i lived in montana and in montana we got the temperatures. didn't you when you lived in rapid city. >> not minus 40 my friend. >> this is wind chills, what it feels like, still, that's extreme. actual air temperatures around minus 10, minus 15 around the areas so brutally cold air here and it's going to stay that way for a lot of this coming week and we've got temperatures that are going to be moderate ago little bit and then the cold air comes back, but the front has moved down across the south and cold air even florida, you see 40's, if you've got minus 14 you think it's not that bad, but if you're in florida it doesn't feel that good. not a whole lot in the way of snow in the country except for across areas of new england where it's been a pretty dry time for much of this winter so far, but this is a big storm that's going to get blocked and not be able to move off towards the east and in

that is by design from rick stansbury.when he's afraid he is getting worn down. >> joe: they lost brian johnson last year, inside player to graduation and brought in renardo sidney who has not been cleared to play by the ncaa. elgin bailey, a 6'8" guy. there is renardo sidney right there. a young man that played basketball in los angeles but originally from mississippi. the family moved back there. they lost bailey and smith to injury, twany beckham as well. the depth of the mississippi state team has been depleted this year. it's caused them problems in terms of getting rest for the starters. >> dave: augustus on the drive. couldn't finish. the margin for the bulldogs is five. l.s.u. still looking for its first field goal of the afternoon. zach kinsley, the sophomore out of baton rouge checked in. >> joe: phil turner 6'2" is matched up on tasmin mitchell 6'7" out front. giving up some size but he's a quick, tough defender. >> dave: pulled up off the dribble. miscommunication that time. >> joe: if he cut inside he would po

rick dipietro replaced roloson in the second. didn't matter.he pass from eric fehr, john erskine scores his first in 109 games. the onslaught continues in the period. this time, it's jason chimera goal number 12 for him and the caps would go on to roll 7-2 is the final. you see semin with another huge performance with those two goals. jason chimera got in the act that. third line was terrific. tonight, we'll have more on that in caps post-game live. so, alan may, as we saw everybody kind of get into the act tonight, and this is one of those things where you have to imagine if you're an opposing coach trying to battle plan against the washington capitals, how do you get this thing done? anybody we see john erskine tonight with a goal. anybody can get done on this team. >> well, the caps generated so much speed in the neutral zone tonight, it's hard to combat that. they were just outstanding automatic three periods of the game. how fast they were and you'll see time and time again when we get to show all the goals again is that it was speed in th

rick? >> molly henneberg in washington, thanks. >>> there are questions about security failures in intelligence lapses in the failed terrorist attack. it's now a top priority in washington. lawmakers have already called for congressional hearings had they get back to work next week and there has been partisan finger pointing on how to keep america safe. what happens to the other big political hot topic? remember health care? will it take a back seat when congress returns from break? joining us now for a look at the new priorities when congress convenes is former advisor to the house republican conference, and richard, former advisor to president clinton. it's great to have both of you here. thank you for joining us. >> hi. >> glad to be here. >> i'm curious. let me ask you first, dave, about health care and where it stands at this point. when everyone comes back to work, is it terror, terror, terror and prevention? is that what america wants? >> i think that's what obama wants in terms of h

>> you think rick horrow. >> thank you. >> rick, good morning to you, sir. >> too much, man. >> happyew year. first time talking to you in the new year. >> i'll give you the really quick weather report. palm beach, snow flurries tonight, i can't wait. i'm getting my shovel out. >> we got bonnie for that but we appreciate you contributing. >> thank you. >> the big question, if this -- and a lot of people might not know this, rick, i know you do. even after all this came up, this week at a game in philly he joked around in pregame faking like he was shooting his teammates with his hands. now, rick, what he did was bad enough, but his attitude afterwards, is that why he's suspended right now? >> well, the big words would be authenticity of contrition, how does that sound? i don't know if he was serious about his apology. and so the guy has a contract that is 111 million bucks over six years, so it's $147,000 a game that he's missing when the commissioner says you're suspension is indefinite. if he wasn't sorry before, he sure is sorry now. >> so what is the league going to do with this g

rick did it for a short period of time and then left for texas.nk that oliver purnell has established that presence there. >> tim: he spent time at maryland as an assistant. >> mike: he's getting great players out of this state, out of south carolina, he's recruiting georgia very well. >> tim: stitt gets them both. the lead is back to 12. >> mike: talk about that fre free-throw shooting. >> tim: singler, a runner the lane. >> mike: so tough for a right-handed player to go left like that. >> tim: booker on the dribble drive. it's 51-40. here comes the pressure for clemson after the made bucket. scheyer. beating miles plumlee. >> mike: that was almost an afterthought. he was going try to kick it cross court. plumlee, with his athleticism, bailed him out, going up to get the lob. >> tim: johnson, booker, potter, grant, and stitt on the floor for the tigers. booker working pick and roll. that's a nice feed. oh, beautifully done. but he didn't finish. >> mike: that's the second time singler has gotten up and bothered the shot. booker might have been be

. >> yeah, pastor rick warren announced last week that donations have fallen short.rgent plea for $900,000 and the faithful did not disappoint. here's abc's laura marquez. >> we met our goal, folks. we met our goal. >> reporter: their goal and then some. $2.4 million raised in just a few days after pastor rick warren made an unusual plea on the saddleback church website. last week, warren posted a letter saying they were on target for the year, but then last week, the bottom dropped out, what is normally received. plunging the church into the red. warren said he needed $900,000 by year's end. the donations came pouring in over the internet. small amounts, most under 100 bucks. and that's not even counting what came in the mail. warren shared from the pulpit some of the e-mails. >> even though this has been my worst year financially, i still want to help my church. >> reporter: the tough economy taking a toll on churches across the country, even one as popular as saleback, one which has benefited from the book "the purpose driven life." >> a very tough year financiall

we continue the conversation with roxana tiron and rick maze. the hearing will be taking place next week and is one of the first time that congress will have opportunities to question the people who reviewed this. what will come of it? >> it is like the underwear bomber. there will be a series of flags that were flying that people should have paid attention to, but nobody connected the dots and put it together. in the military system, it is hard to deal with. there will be a lot of questions. i do not think there will be a lot of immediate answers on how to stop this from happening again. there is a medical officer accused they are in. their own world -- medical officer accused. they are in their own world. you do not have to be a superior officer. it is a very difficult thing for them to handle. i do not think congress understand how the military works, well enough to understand what needs to be done. >> in fact, the congressman appeared surprised by your question. >> i got the sense that congress will step back and let the hearings go on and w

>> thank you, rick.role in this book project was to call around to superintendents and cfos to learn how the people who are responsible for putting together and meeting a budget are dealing with the leaner times. most school districts spending, i'm sure you all know, anywhere from 75% to 90% is on salaries and benefits and most of that is on salaries and benefits for teachers. that means to cut costs you either have to pay teachers less or to pay less teachers as the colorado finance analyst told me. grammatically that should be fewer teachers, i know that, but it didn't have quite the zing. rather than make that hard choice, though, or perhaps because union contracts or state class sized mandates don't allow administration to make that choice, i found that a lot of districts are pleerly drawing down reserves. they're relying on the federal stimulus dollars, or they're playing a game of chicken with their state legislature, and their city councils. threatening to end all the kindergarten or trim a couple

the google and youtube for possible vice presidential candidates. >> mark halperin: rick davis saw one she did with charlie rose where she was very much the sarah palin that people find appealing. she was lively, she was engaging, she popped off the screen. mccain boxed himself in. he needed a game-changing pick for vice president. and that left them with a last minute pick of someone who was, to mccain, a virtual stranger, and was, to his senior staffers, an absolute stranger. >> cooper: just two days before mccain publicly announced his choice, sarah palin arrived in arizona to meet with the senator and his top staffers, including chief campaign strategist steve schmidt. >> schmidt: i said, you know, "if this project goes forward, you'll be one of the most famous people in the world by friday. will you be able to live with that?" she said she would be able to. >> cooper: after senator mccain asked her to be his vice- president, how did she respond? >> schmidt: she was very calm, nonplussed. i said, "you don't seem nervous at all about this." and she said, "no, it's god's plan." >> co

. >>> mega church pastor rick warren got more than double than what he asked for in plea donations. now his church in southern california took in $2.4 million in just three days. on wednesday, he had made an urgent plea for $900,000 to fill a deficit. warren said the recession and a huge drop in offers over the holiday caused that shortfall. warren is the author of the best-seller "the purpose driven life" and he also gave the invocation at president obama's inauguration. >>> okay. we're taking a broader look at church donations as part of our "your views" topic for the day. here is the question. are you confident that your house of faith spends your donations responsibly, and are you satisfied overall with the way religious organization support your community? all right. let's hear what you have to say. charles says this. i think is there could be some funny math going on here. they like to live high on the hog in good times, and now they want him to support his lifestyle? i say let it fail like any other organization that lives beyond their means. felix says this. i'm confident th

. >>> megachurch pastor rick warren got more than double what he asked for in a plea for donations. his church in southern california took in $2.4 million in just three days. on wednesday, he made an urgent plea for $900,000 to fill a deficit. warren said the recession and a huge drop in offerings over the holiday caused that shortfall. warren is the author of the best-seller "the purpose driven life." he also gave the invocation at president obama's inauguration. >>> forecasters say there is more rain coming in an area where storms caused dozens of mudslides. officials say at least 60 people have been killed since rain started pounding southern brazil on wednesday. mudslides buried entire homes and shut down a major highway. rescuers are looking for survivors sometimes digging with their bare hands. and in one case rescuers celebrated when they dug out a toddler whose entire family was killed at home. but the little girl unfortunately died later in the hospital. >>> folks in rhode island broke out the shovels after seven to ten inches of snow fell over new england. most of the rain

we'll tell you what happened when rick warren asked his con agree xwags for some cash. >> and is it cold enough for you? >> man, oh, man. many parts plea zero. >> much of the country. and reynold wolf has been tracking below zero windchills and knee high snowfall to boot. his forecast when we come back. . a cherry tree with chills. code orange. the late night heat wave. code orange. when the fever is high enough to be a code orange, you need children's motrin. medicine with muscle. the brand pediatricians recommend most... to bring high fever down fast... and keep it down for up to 8 hours. the 103 degree after-school surprise. code orange. tell carl he's coming to new york with me. i thought you said carl was our best presentation guy. [ worker ] he is. just last week he told my team about fedex office print online for our presentations. we upload it to fedex office, then they print, bind, and ship it. the presentation looks good, right? yes, but -- wait, you didn't actually bring carl with you. good morning! but i digress. [ male announcer ] we understand. you need presentations done r

rick nelson is a former navy helicopter pilot with over 20 years of intelligence experience.ick, you say underestimating the importance of leadership in an agency like the tsa is a huge mistake. >> oh, absolutely it is. in times like this, you've got to have necessarily have strong leadership in place. as the president has said in his remarks, there's some systemic failures that occurred on christmas day, and for those systems to be changed, it's going to require strong leadership at the department level. and it's going to require the president to have his individuals and his leaders in place to do that. >> what really is going on at the tsa? when you look at recent events, you have the christmas day attempted bomb we are explosives sewn into the underwear. we have the newark airport security breach where the tsa worker leaves his post for about 90 seconds and this guy slips by. what's going on? >> again, i think it's an issue where you strong leadership is needed. certainly the acting administrator is doing a good job but, again, the acting name is something you have to get

rick newman, thanks. >> thanks, chris. >> it's good to see you. >>> paparazzi under fire.new law that could put star-seeking photographers in hot water. we'll have the details coming up on msnbc saturday. the sea salts of the world vary in color, taste, and intensity. now campbell's has found one that tops them all. it's naturally flavorful. adding it helps us use less salt than before in campbell's tomato soup. that famous, familiar flavor, as delicious as ever. now with less salt. thanks to a very special sea salt. ♪ so many, many reasons ♪ it's so m'm! m'm! good! ♪ >>> across the u.s. today, lots of new laws to abide by. those laws taking effect at the stroke of midnight, january 1st, right when we all were celebrating a new year. how will the new laws impact your life in 2010 and beyond? nbc's jeff rossen joins me now with all of the details. jeff, let's start with the smoking ban and kind of an unlikely place. >> you wouldn't think of north carolina, chris, a place you ban smoking. after all, north carolina is where big tobacco sort of exists but there's that ban ther

. >> what we heard from father rick today is they are desperate for medical personnel and supplies, rightthey have nothing right now, is that right? >> yes. yes. i am just telling the example of the little girl just to show the situation. they have nothing at all. if you go back to the place, you would not recognize it. everybody is sleeping everywhere outside. and the line goes all the way back to almost the embassy. it's just a disaster what just happened. >> the hospital has 120 beds. the hospital has 120 beds, and now he is seeing 750 patients. is that right? >> exactly, if not more. >> larry: let me get a break and we'll come back. we have a two-hour "larry king live" special event for you monday night, tomorrow night. you can raise money for some of the neediest people in the world. we hope you will join us. that's tomorrow night from 8:00 to 10:00 eastern. we'll be right back. sfx: coin drop sfx: can shaking when you own a business, nothing beats the sound of saving time and money. and it's never been simpler to save - with regions lifegreen checkg and savings for business. you'll

evangelical minister rick warren's prayer was answered in a big way. laura marquez reports. >> we met our goal, folks. we met our goal. >> reporter: their goal, and then some. $2.4 million raised in just a few days after pastor rick warren made an unusual plea on the saddleback church website. last week, warren posted a letter saying they were on target for the year. then this last weekend, the bottom dropped out. the weekly offering, less than half of what is normally received. plunging the church into the red. warren said he needed $900,000 by year's end. the donations came pouring in over the internet. small amounts, most under 100 bucks. and that's not even counting what came in the mail. warren shared from the pulpit some of the e-mails. >> even though this has been my worst year financially i still want to help my church. >> reporter: the tough economy is taking a toll on churches across the country. even one as popular as saddleback which has benefited hugely from sales of warren's popular book "the purpose-driven life." >> a very tough year fin

i have yet to see rick levinthal put a barbecuing a n somebody's face and say thank you so much for turning in this terrorist. i have got to see one of these, some of these muslims come out and say i turned in this terrorist. >> greg: i would like to see rick levinthal out there in shorts down at the beach. >> that is bill keating's job. he wears the sandals in this country. >> to make the approach a little better and nicer they should make the burkas red, white and blue. >> you would welcome fbi scrutiny because that would mean people would actually care about you for once? >> you are saying i need to threaten you for the fbi to start sur veiling me? get it on video and make it happen. i'm in dire need of attention, greg. >> i care about you. >> you are a friend. >> greg: here is one thing that gets me mad. every time a marriage incident happens in the -- a major incident happens in the united states we are told that we have to be more mindful of the backlash than anything. as far as i know, i have never seen a back also dash towards the muslim community. we say we suffer badly and try to

>> thank you, rick. role was to call around to superintendent and cfos to learn how the people who were responsible for putting together and meeting a budget are dealing with the leaner times. most school districts spending, i'm sure you know, is on salary and benefits. most of that is on salary and benefits for teachers. that mean to cut cost you either have to pay teachers less or to pay less teachers as the colorado financial analyst told me. grammatically, that should be fewer teachers, i know that. but it didn't have quite the zing. rather than make the hard choice or perhaps because union contracts are state class size mandates don't allow to make that choice. i found a lot of districts are drawing down, they are relies on the federal stimulus dollars or they are playing a game of chicken. threatening to end all of the kindergarten or to trim a couple of weeks out of the school year if they don't get the money they are asking for. but i also found some good ideas for saving or even raising money. n

. >> thank you, rick.in the interest of time, and because of the nature of the subject, i'm going to forego the usual early morning efforts at humor and get right at this. my message is straightforward, and i'm going to give it in just a moment, but some of the things i have to say will not swallow easily with some of the individuals in the audience. i know that from prior experience. so i just want to lay the groundwork by explaining that there is not a number i am using today, which does not come from a united states federal government statistical agency. i didn't make up these numbers myself, and if you choose to in some manner challenge them, then we'll have to go back and talk to the budget bureau or nces, etc. now here is my thesis. it's twofold. the united states education system over the last -- roughly the last 100 years, has enjoyed a remarkable fiscal benefit. even when you control for inflation, dollars per pupil have had an almost perpetual rise. when you look back 50 years ago, and you look a

i'm not sure, you know, with -- i don't know, rick, if you wanted to. >> let's get a mike over to rickd. >> if you think back toÑi 2008, what was the news? the news was all about the campaign. the election. and both candidates of course were promoting health care reform. but i don't think, at least even anecdotally, i don't remember much in the way of discussing people anticipating translating that in any significant way to action. particularly what we saw as we talked about was much more to do with the start of the >> i guess to add on. typically contracts and other prices and things like that toñ negotiate for health care are typically done on an annual basis, so añrxd lot of that was already set, leading up to the emphasis for health care reform.Ñi >> sorry. this should be obvious, but why it is medicare expenditures increased more where as everything else increased less? >> do you want to. >> ok. well, like i had mentioned the medicare increase was driven primarily by two things, one was increased hospital spending for fee for service, which was due to increase in admissions and th

[cheers and applause] >> thank you rick for that great introduction. it's a great pleasure. after last year's invitation, i want to thank rick and kathleen murray, head of the association who does a great job in that role, for inviting me back here again. it's also a pleasure to share the stage again with the ba soon. i understand some call him the troy polamalu of economic -- [laughter] unfortunately i didn't get to see his presentation but i did catch his assertions that he nailed it. [laughter] so, i fear my presentation might not live up to his in quality. i'll try to makeup for it in modesty. [laughter] [cheers and applause] >> when i spoke to you last january, economic activity was contracted quite sharply. and i thought it was a reasonable expectation to see growth in the second half of last year. and despite that there were substantial uncertainty about how the contraction would ultimately play out. in particular, there was a possibility i thought of a deeper contraction that i thought i couldn't dismiss. in the end we did see positive momentum. third quarter growth

rick is in the extreme weather center. man, it's extreme. this is off the hook. >> you feel like it's been a cold winter so far in the northeast, shep? >> not like oxford? >> exactly. 16 is the coldest we've been in new york city. 8 in oxford. this is odd. it will be worse across parts of florida over the next two days before we see any break. the wind chills still right now into the minus teens. it will be minus 30 or so across some of the plains tonight. all of this cold air diving down across the south. here is our departures from where we should be. still around -- not departure. minus teens once again across parts of the plains. tomorrow into sunday morning, we still have it. look at monday morning. a bit of a break. it's still cold. we have a very long weekend to get through in florida. then we're going to start to see big pattern shift and next week a lot of people will thaw. 50-degree warm up in the plains and could t could mean a little snow melt as well. >> rick in the weather center. thanks. to stay or not to stay in prime time? t

soldiers were already dead. >> tom ricks joins me now to make sense of all this. he's by common defense the best defense reporting in america. having covered the u.s. military for almost 20 years. first for "the wall street journal" then "washington post." he's written four highly accl m acclaimed books including "fiasco" and "the gamble." tom, let me ask you first, why is this battle important? what are the themes we should be looking at as we peer more closely at it? >> it's significant because it's representative of several things and it shows you why this war is so difficult and how things can go wrong. the afghans have survived by smart, bu observing. they know how americans fight. they know the intervals they have in which to attack. they know where the american weaknesses are. communications, heavy weapons, and things like overhead reconnaissance means you attack ideally in bad weather like the attack a couple of weeks ago, when it's going to be hard for the helicopters to get in the mountains. you go after their communications then you go after their heavy

later, a look at this rick -- the supreme court's recent ruling to ease limits on campaign spending byrporations. >> sunday on "prime minister's questions," british prime minister gordon brown talks about the government relief efforts in haiti and the creation of the united nations reconstruction agency to respond to future disasters. that is at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> each year, the washington center brings thousands of students to washington d.c. to experience the workings of our government firsthand. this weekend, they will discuss politics, government, and their futures. sunday night at 8 on c-span. >> this week, a conversation with the new president of the national association of broadcasters, a former oregon senator gordon smith. se6 to 2008. our guest reporter is the washington bureau chief of broadcasting and cable magazine. i want to start with the supreme court decision this week. i will ask you what their ruling on campaign finance means to your members. >> i probably should admit i never voted for mccain fine gold, so i think it is a big decision for freedom of

and our sports business guru analyst man around town, rick harlow joins us. let's start with indie race car driver danica patrick. >> she's no longer an indie car driver. 13 respected nascar races they're anticipating. frankly she came into the nascar world at the right time. sponsorship wise and attendance wise. she's going to do for nascar what hannah montana did for disney. we'll have to see. >> nfl. how are they promoting the pro bowl this year? >> big deal. pro bowl, super bowl together in miami back to back. the head of the super bowl host committee says $5 million. they're going to keep people in town for the second week. dolphins eliminated from the playoffs today. never fear, they head to south florida at the end of january. >> $1.76 billion for the winter olympic games in vancouver. >> not an all-time high but it is for the winter games. after the super bowl we have 5,000 athletes, don, from 58 countries heading to vancouver. $2 billion of cost. the open, closing ceremony already sold out. hockey game already sold out. good to know in this economy i

fourth quarter, said rick benson, right side, finds a hole. 47 yards. the crowd back into it, the bengals back into it. cincinnati with a shot. not anymore, carson polymer is sacked. -- carson polymer is sacked. >>> peyton manning becomes the first player to win the associated press' nfl mvp honors for times. manning and the colts have a bye after finishing 14-2. >>> long time usc coach pete carroll is going back to the nfl to become head coach of the seattle seahawks. the cowboys just at the eagles, 34-14. philadelphia loses. have you gotten your seasonal flu vaccination? great - but your work's not done yet. we still need to get the h1n1 flu vaccination. you, me -- we should all get one. the vaccine is safe and proven effective against this highly contagious new strain of flu virus. we can help prevent the spread of this virus if we all just roll up our sleeves. to lea more about the h1n1 flu vaccination visit h1n1get1.com or call your local health department it's up to you to fight the flu. i think you might have hooked it up wrong, though. yea, we'r

for more surprising numbers i'm join lived by rick newman, chief business correspondent with u.s.ews and world report. let's get a little more depressed, shall we? a few more items that jumped in the last decade. >> not all bad news. >> an ounce of gold. >> that one is obvious. when times are unpredictable and people are scared they take their money out of the usual type of investment talks and put it in gold. which is presumed to be safer. that's why we've seen this big run-up in gold. gold may come down as people get more comfortable in some kind of recovery in the financial system's more stable. >> the daily edition of "the new york times." 75 cents to $. a 7-eleven slurpee, 99 cents to $2.12. a gallon of gas up 97%. the cost to raise a newborn to age 18 just 76%. that may be birth control in and of itself. we know it's common for prices to go up. but seriously, these semak sesive. >> yeah, i think well there's a story behind each of these things, chris. gas has gone up because oil is a fixed commodity. we have a fixed supply of oil and there's a lot of demand for that througho

. >> now a debate for the candidates for the fom nation for texas governor, we'll hear from rick perry, kay bailey hutchison and debra medina. this debate held in the dallas suburb of denton, texas is an hour. >> good evening and welcome. this is the first time all republican candidates for governor will debate. we're airing live throughout texas on television, radio and online. i'm kera news director shelly kaufler, and i will be the moderator for this debate. we have asked the audience to hold the applause put right now put your hands together. you're invited to welcome our candidates. [applause] >> our candidates are. >> our candidates are, senator kay bailey hutchison. senator hutchison is 66 years old and grew up near houston. debra medina former republican county chair and rick perry, he's been governor since 2000 and a former -- a native of paint creek near abilene. for the next hour i'll be joined in questioning the candidates by marie renee a reporter with kvun channel 23 in dallas and dave montgomery a chief for the "fort worth star-telegram." and doug in the audience with mo

rick lazio is the only contender. but even an old ford -- even harold ford is considering running, and that is good news for republicans. david paterson, at the democratic governor, is by most accounts unelectable. in massachusetts, there is a good chance that a republican could defeat deval patrick, the governor. in delaware, a longtime former governor and congressman at large -- there is a lot of places where there is encouraging news for republicans. >> in massachusetts, the numbers are narrowing -- >> for ted kennedy apostasy. -- ted kennedy's sea. >> the pennsylvania seat held by all inspector could be in jeopardy, to -- heldy arlen specter could be in jeopardy, too. >> we have republicans -- have a bunch of republicans leaving. >> chris van hollen, you had on, democratic chairman of the house campaign committee -- when republicans had a big year in 1994, picked up 52 house seats, 30 of those seats were open seats -- that is, they were retired in spirit 95% of incumbents still get reelected, and in bad times were

craig: rick toddit is saying what's the call. probably saying why don you give him an extra charging penalty and a roughing. i think this is the right call. ovi er lowered the boom. steven stamkos is steaming and so is toddit. joe: trying to end a losing skit to bruce boudreau. that's up to twelve. as well as washington coming in to this building and winning seven in a row. craig: to one 7 in a row was against the islander is 2001 when the caps one nine times on the islands. joe: last win for tampa bay against washington november 16th, 2007. 755 to go in the third and st. louis stumbles. may have had an edge against green. craig: i think he did, green was on the inside. joe: semin with tom fleischmann. deflected high and away from macky. and 3 on 3. st.louis deep. deflected. craig: wrong choice for st. louis because he had a guy in the net more wide open. joe: there's green. it is just swept away from st. louis. the other way, a potential two on one goes awry and steven stamkos fumbles it. they get theodore in the act. this has a

. >> paul: big white house, special counsel that attorney genre rick holder appointed to look into whether the c.i.a. and bush administration officials should be indicted for the anti-terror policies. the he indicts, recommending indicting those, you will see a firestorm. >> paul: there is a good chance that he will make that recommendation. >> >> all right. we have to take one more break. when we come back, big events to shape 2010 and beyond. the panel's predictions are next. next. o >> paul: time now for our new year's predictions and it's on tape. so we're going to hold you to them, all right? play them next year. all right, dan. >> my prediction flows out of all the anxiety we've been pumping out on the program tonight. i'm predicting that there is the possibility of an independent or third party movement emerging in the united states. i know they're usually hopeless. but look what is going on. not just in congress but the legislature in california, new york and new jersey are in a state of crisis. i think there is a crisis of governance emerging in the united states and that the ame

what happens when those leaders, people like rick warren at saddleback church, people like bill kibellsin willow creek, built these giant congregations- - what happens when they retire, though? what happens to those congregations? it's really hard to step in to a congregation that's already in process. that's something i'm really going to be looking at. >> abernethy: i want to hear, jason, what you have to say, and e.j., each of you, about kind of the state of religious life and of organized religion in this country today. how is it going? is secularism pushing it aside? what's happening? >> it does seem to me that the new atheist books gave a certain permission to people to claim that they are not religious, that you don't have to have the default be, "oh, yeah, i'm a christian, even though i don't do anything. now it can be, no, i'm not religious. and that seems to be more socially okay." of course, being biased, people in religious institutions-- i spend all my time with religious leaders for whom things are very vibrant, right? but i think we shouldn't overlook the fact that there a

>> i want to give a great thanks to mark moyar in tom ricks for this terrific discussion. again we do have books in the back a thanks again for your remarks and thanks to all of you for coming today. appreciate it. [applause] >> marine corps university professor mark moyar is the author of "triumph forsaken," the vietnam war in 1954 to 1965 in "phoenix and the birds of prey," counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism in vietnam. for more information visit mark moyar.com. atul gawande surgery professor show's tells something as simple he checklist can reduce complications and surgeries. he appeared on c-span's washington journal. this is an hour. >> host: we are going to introduce you to our guest of the morning, dr. atul gawande who is a surgeon and also been inside the debate over public policy on health care for a decade and a half now. he has in the pastored the number of books including a surgeon's notes on performance, complications is surgeons note on imperfect science in his latest book called "the checklist manifesto" how to get things right. we are going to talk to

a few days ago, rick warren put on an emergency call for donations to his huge saddleback evangelical church, which was about to end the year in the red. warren was asking for $900,000. today, he announced that his church had received at least $2.5 million. >>> one note from overseas tonight, they are finding more bodies in brazil after massive mud slides. at least 75 bodies have been recovered from a vacation resort and a nearby slum outside of rio. the mudslides were a result of heavy rain that started two days before new year's. >>> coming up on "world news" this sunday, an accused mass murderer is caught after five weeks on the run. how a tv show helped break this case. >>> the arizona sweat lodge deaths. was the self-help guru in charge under the influence of steroids? new evidence tonight. >>> and the incredible story of the laid off auto worker who used his bowling skills to engineer a comeback. water can be good for constipation but drinking more and more may not always help. now you can make water work harder with new dulcolax balance. dulcolax balance combines with water and

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sorry, rick. thank you very much. >> jerry, thank you so much for organizing once again, through your advisory committee to the internet caucus today's state of the net conference. i want to just take a moment at the outset to commend the tremendous work over the years jerry berman and his associate, tim lorten have done, making the internet advisory committee a vital and functioning part of our continuing dialogue within the congress to make sure that members of congress and their staffs are constantly aware of the pros and cons of the critical issues of the day. that affect the internet and gentle la communications policy. the internet advisory committee hosts throughout the year, in conjunction with the congressional internet caucus, a series of forums, and these forums are normally held during the lunch hour on business days in congress. they typically meet in one of the congressional meeting rooms. in the capitol. and they are among the best attended forums that any of the various caucuses wi

we have our tech guy, mario armstrong, the sports guy, rick horrow.e anderson. we can go on and on, but we would be missed if we didn't mention josh levs. levs, look out. >> josh, what has been your favorite story of 2009? does anything standout to you? >> this is a fun exercise to think about it, right? this is the one we chose because i felt good about this. we did a story called the youtube symphony. in tend it was about taking people who had given up on their dreams and finally making the dreams come true. >> hello. i play this. >> i started playing the violin when i was 5 years old. >> hello. i am from romania and play the violin. >> they are coming from all over the world to live out a dream. >> i'm coming to you from bermuda. >> 3,000 people submitted audition videos onyoutube. music professionals chose 200 finalists and youtube use irs voted. 96 people from 30 countries get to fill these seats. >> i'm 28 years old. i work as a systems engineer for a government contractor out in los angeles. there's no other way that someone like me who is not

poking at rick is becoming a parlor game in washington. you said your school are underresourced. i know that's the conventional wisdom at tsa about the schools that people go to but if you did the kind of analysis that those schools that steve wilson did of their district would you end up concluding they are underresourced? >> i can't really speak to that. i do know that the work of marguerite rose and others have shown that there is -- there is inequity in resource allocation between schools. >> largely because of lower teacher salaries because of newer, more junior teachers, i think. >> yes. >> okay. why did you find steve's paper more in your word optimistic than john's? >> i guess because in speaking about the motivation piece and that's sort of why i chose to focus on that, i think it's a little defeatist to say, well, it's really hard for a teacher to invest students so we've got to turn to technology. i think that's letting the profession off the hook. i mean, i think that's the hard work of teaching. you have to figure out how to do it. you have to figure out how to inves

the basketball coaches are involved, rick barnes and jim boeheim.judd is participating and trying to raise funds for the earthquake stricken island nation of haiti. >> the basketball players are answering the phone. >> bob: you're getting a masters? >> yes, sir. >> bob: what were your sat? >> better than my college school. i haven't take an standard test in years. >> carter: your love for kentucky basketball is well known. and like a lot of kentucky fans, there is an enthusiasm this year for this basketball season. and in a few years. what is it like now to have the second ranked team be 17-0 again and have all the basketball world interested in kentucky and focussed on kentucky again? >> it's so great to be back. this is how we like to play basketball, be regarded. we enjoy the team and we think we deserve it. and it's a fabulous season for us. i have personally been enjoying it to the max. >> 19-point lead in this game in the first half and down to seven now. are you nervous on the road in auburn? >> it's a characteristic on the team. come out and

. >> the top counterterrorism experts like rick nelson say the white house shouldn't have been surprised from the threats from yemen and the c.i.a. shouldn't have waited until now to add agents focussed on it. >> the threat of al-qaeda in yemen is not new. we can recall the uss cole attack in 2000 where 17 sailors lost their lives and numerous others were injured. then again, the al-qaeda in yes yemen, attacked the u.s. embassy a few years ago. threat of al-qaeda in yemen is not something new. >> former democratic congressman and former 9/11 commission chairman lee hamilton agrees. >> it seems to me that we've known for some time that al-qaeda is recruiting and training, improving their skills in yemen. >> hamilton criticized the administration for failing to intensify its hunt for terror ties in yemen after the fort hood massacre, and major hasan's collection to cleric lawmak al-awlaki implicated in the abdulmutallab plot. >> one, two, three, four five bits of information that are hidden among mountains of data. and you have to be able to select those out, analyze them quickly and act o

we will hear from representative rick boucher and brian roberts of comcast ceo to lead a discussion on copyright issues and internet privacy. this portion is two hours and 40 minutes. >> good morning, everyone. here we are meeting not in virtual space but in real space. my name is jerry berman and i am the chair perhaps for life of the congressional internet kokesh at eis recommitting. as you know we work with the congressional internet caucus and all of you to try to educate each other and policy makers, some of your policy makers, and the world about the internet, and we started this 13 years ago and the issue at that time to of them, could we get a congressman to connect to email. well that was a tough one. we were going door to door saying here's how you do it. the second thing we were concerned about, and it was fundamental was that policy makers from whether you are republican or democrat or independent that the internet faced policy issues but it was very important that whatever your solutions base is that you understand the technology. now we were presumptuous kafta think we un