"the romans gained control of aspis," wrote the roman historian polybius.orce, the army marched out to plunder the countryside. "they destroyed many houses, "captured a large amount of spoils, "and took more than 20,000 slaves back to the ships." beginning in 510 b.c., roman armies spiralled outwards, conquering ever vaster territories. greeks, egyptians, gauls, mauritanians... all fell under the sweep of the empire. hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war were torn from their home countries. they became the slaves of the conquerers. the numbers of slaves was astounding -- an estimated one out of every three people living in the empire. their lives were hard. they could be beaten, whipped, even killed for disobedience. yet slaves could earn their freedom. wallace-hadrill: the crucial difference between the roman and the american concept of slavery is the possibility of freedom in the roman concept. not only that, but the fact that once freed, a roman slave becomes a citizen. keach: in rome, freed slaves were often included in the family tombs of their for

i'm in the roman ruins of baalbek, situated 50 miles east of beirut in lebanon. here in baalbek once stood the most impressive temples outside of rome. they took 10,000 slaves over 200 years to build. i have to say, this place is totally overwhelming. this is, or rather was, the temple of jupiter, and if i can get up here, you can get the picture of what an extraordinary piece of engineering this was. and though only six columns remain, they've survived centuries of war and earthquake. and each one is 20 meters tall, and i feel absolutely tiny. baalbek is situated in present day lebanon, in the beqaa valley. traders brought their wares from egypt in the south, through baalbek, and up through turkey, and then onto rome. baalbek has been an important holy place for thousands of years. under the phoenicians, it was the scene of human sacrifice and temple prostitution. the romans added to the phoenician city, building baalbek on an extravagant scale unlike anything in rome. at its height, baalbek housed a quarter of a million people. from time immemorial, traveler me

the romans were a literate society. they were able to have this social media ecosystem where they passed messages to each other several times a day. it looked familiar for people to use twitter and facebook today. >> what were the wax tablet to talk about? >> the romans had these devices which are extraordinary. if you were sending a message within the city of rome, rather than using a piece of papyrus, you might use a black tablet -- a wax tablet, which was reusable. you would scratch her message using a stylus, and send this message by messenger across the city, and the recipient would answer underneath, and it would be brought to you. it was roman texting. it was used as a notepad. people learn to write using these things. likelook astonishingly ipads. they are the same shape and size. there are examples of murals or people are the patent holding what looks like smartphones or little smartphones that use styluses. they were using these wax tablets as notebooks. it is one of these unexpected connections between the wa

roman decided he would do it.years later he has polished it up, gotten it into high definition, and there we are being seen as two people much older talking about then and now. >> what was it like for you to watch yourself then and now. >> i've seen that a few times. there has been a lot of film on all of our motor racing careers. >> you did have longer sideburns. >> the longer the sideburn the faster you went. >> brett, there have been major advancements in fill technology and all that, but the reality it would be impossible to shoot this film in monte carlo because of all sorts of restrictions. >> first of all, because it was roman polanski, that's the only reason why roman had the access because of who he was, because the director he was and the friendship he had with jackie. jackie allowed him in his world. there would be no way a director would be literally on the track the way he filmed this was literally--i mean-- >> it must have been dangerous for the filmmakers. >> he was one of the filmmakers. roman did

it made this message far more appealing to romans and indeed paved the way for the roman adoption of christianity and began the process of utterly divorcing christianity from its parent religion, judahism. >> it's generated controversy on multiple fronts. the search for the historical jesus has been going on for decades and many say aslan contributed nothing new. >> my attempt wasn't necessarily to blaze new ground in the study of the historical jesus. at this point, frankly, there isn't all that much new to say. but my attempt was to make that research appealing and accessible to a broad, general audience. >> there have been questions about aslan's qualifications for writing the book. some prominent scholars say his work contains errors and they dispute his conclusion. >> wow, news flash. scholars disagree. there are 10,000 different arguments about the historical jesus in the scholarly world and 10,000 refutations of them. i think for the non-scholar, the non-academic it might come as a shock or be somewhat newsworthy that there are scholars who disagree with my scholarly analysis.

they would have never gotten access unless you were roman polanski. they say once the helmet visor goes down you go into another world. >> it's like a guy being given aan injection. you have been given anance they give an an aesthetic. and you lose all relation to to grief, pain and emotion outside of what you want to do. what you want to get out of that racing car. and ever so often the an aesthetic wears off and you see the cold hard horrible world that you are involved in. you see things that you don't want to see. you really want to have another shot to get back into the comfort and the warmth of your assesescape. >> some how it sounds like the ultimate at lotic zone. it wa athletic zone is if you raced for five years two out of three you will die. under and one out of three you will live. my wife and i counted 57 drivers who i raced against who were no longer with us. that were killed in racing action and that has changed. >> it's more than 19 years since we lost a grand prix driver in a racing car which is remarkable. the film shows horrible cra

it was the very best piece of roman sculpture that has come out of the ground.actually believe it was real, it was so good. >> reporter: the artifact has been traced back to the first or second century when britain was under roman rule. and expebelieve would have perched on a mausoleum, reserved for the wealthiest citizens. >> reporter: who would they have been? a roman family we don't really know who the person would have been, but we are guessing it would have been somebody of significant wealth and means. somebody with style and taste. >> what is something like this roman eagle worth? >> frankly if you were to sell it, where is the catalog of roman eagles to compare and contrast it? as far as we are concerned it is priceless, without value. >> reporter: only one other statue remotely like this is known to exist in the world. wow. >> cool. that is amazing. >>> good morning and thank you for watching wusa9 at 6:00 a.m. feel a chill? it is 37 degrees here in the city. >> i'm andrea roane. >>> and i'm mike haiduk. >> did i hear something about snowflakes on the r

i'm poppy harlow in for christine romans today. this is "your money." once upon a time, there was talk of a big deal. it would reform medicare and social security and tax code all at once. do you remember that? >> a larger agreement. a grand bargain. >> we are happy to do the grand bargain. >> we support a grand bargain. >> the grand bargain. that was then. these days, a goal less grand as the members of the house and senate try to hammer out a budget agreement trying to replace the sequester. the cuts have enemies on both sides of the aisle. democrats don't like cuts to head start and meals on wheels. republicans don't like the cuts to defense, which military leaders argued hurt the readiness of the armed forces. just ask former secretary robert gates. >> there may be a more stupid way to cut the budget than sequestration. if there is, i have not been able to identify it. these across the board mindless cuts that make no difference between what is important and what's unimportant is a crazy way to try and deal with the budget issue. >> so, can congress

western tradition in terms of the culture which arose among the western european peoples after the roman empire's fall, whose ethics came from judeo-christian religion and whose artistic inheritance owed so much to the greeks and romans. much western art can be seen as variations on the love/hate relationship western artists had with greek and roman classicism, but that is just one view. every generation takes from the past what it needs to make sense of itself. there is no such thing as objective history. in art as in anything else, there are only our interpretations, our dialogue with the past. ultimately, it's impossible for us to see in an ancient greek work of art what an ancient greek saw. nevertheless, viewing the tradition as a whole helps us understand its parts. in that light, the art of our own times may appear to be the disintegration of the tradition, its dissolution. against that, though, western art is clearly still alive and changeable. in its past, it contains a reservoir of riches for future generations to make of what they will. its greatest characteristic has always b

. >> this is the right before his the roman order touched on that.hat we need it money is needed for research. this particular dispute start over the pricing of t bolt which is an aids drug and it's cost it's put out by june lane scientific. people objected to the costs and on the other hand, the cost of the drugs went into the hundreds of million dollars that's a difficult problem and the city of san francisco has been paying for this drug if this drug didn't exist there's many people who wouldn't be alive. we need the money for the groups that do the research. many drugs fail that are successful. just two days ago our pharmaceuticals opened $14.04 the next day it was down. $11 declined in one day 66 percent. it's a pear cancer drugs. that's typical are what happens. i site overlooking another one there was a suddenly drop back in agriculture those repeatedly happen. i have to compensate our research companies otherwise they're not going to be in the field and costs lives. this is the position of the house and a senate 33 they have to encourage the

i'm poppy harlow in today for christine romans. investors went crazy for twitter on the first day of trading, it opened at $45.10, more than a 70% premium to the offering price. it stayed in that range for much of the day closing just below 45 days a share when that closing bell rang at 4:00 p.m. that stock price put the company's value at just about $25 billion. $25 billion. let's talk about that. that's a hard number to grasp. i want to bring in matt mccall, the president of penn financial and rachel sklar, an avid twitter user. when i see that number, $25 billion valuation, bigger than tiffany, hershey, all these companies, why do you think it priced that way and there was this investor reaction, matt? >> when you feel like you have a connection with something, especially a company like this, you want to be involved. that's a big reason a stock opened so high yesterday. the average investor feels i know twitter, i feel it. i want to buy it. >> you and i have talked about this. does that mean you should invest in it just because

these beetles flaking the roman oppressors was something people could realize his arm and then of course. yet the identities of their imprisoned in a comic book he always make fun off to regional um identities to steal types the national stereotypes but never in a mean way. it's always like um playful. you know. and that's that's one of the thing is that you can always claim that someone from spain will keep still when the contest they know someone from home on scotland with the one we went to go to scotland. soo it's been very generous and in the condo communities but its intensity to that particular home that was the fact that it's like a saint. it's all is connected to its time when we succeed skill petronas theater the movie came up and down the collar and the first page of patio and the cost of the time and the opening scene. an avid comic book is a link to it scary. the thing is to elicit the same something today. it's a scheme that translates as nice as i didn't have a hundred languages as he set the fall. what about fitting into a two day is going well she mentioned that when it

arguably the most intact remains of a roman city in the world.an. that's pretty amazing. born right here. someone chipped off all of the dicks, not that i was looking. anywhere else in the world is overrun with tourists, but, look, no one. you're free to wander as you wish. quite a backdrop, you know, seeing a little dinner theater production of "our town" a couple thousand years ago. not bad. the only other visitors today are a troupe of libyan boy scouts. bizarrely enough, gadhafi himself was once a scout and this is one of the only organizations allowed to remain independent of the government. maybe i ought to go down there and introduce myself to the former comrades and exchange some boy scout lore. yes, yes, i was once a boy scout, too. hello. drilled into their heads is something that was long ago drilled into mine. i promise to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. [ speaking foreign language ] >> you know, it's been a really difficult shoot for a whole lot of rea

most of these early activists were roman catholic, although a number of the prominent female leaders in the movement were protestants, including midding mildred jefferson who became head of the national organization. in mid 1971, the national right to life committee funded by the national conference of catholic bishops, was established as the national coordinating committee to provide information and material to these local organizations. but keep in mind it was the local activists, grassroots activism, that began the movement. this was before the supreme court's decision in roev. wade. with that decision which legalized and made abortion a constitutional right, american politics was transformed and it polarized the electorate in both major political parties. on the federal level, opponents of abortion in congress sought to repeal roe through the enactment of constitutional amendments or to prevent federal funding of abortion. meanwhile on the state level, anti-abortion groups undertook efforts to limit legalized abortion through restrictive abortion regulations. by the early -- by e

weighs hated and vilified by some because he was a roman catholic.in the irrational hatred directed toward kennedy far greater than what barack obama has experienced. so, what oprah winfrey is doing is making an excuse for president obama using race. many other committed left wing people who truly revere the president are doing the same thing. we all know that some americans do despise barack obama because of his skin color. there will always be bigots. but the number is insignificant. and i submit that oprah winfrey and others who play the race card can't back up their statements with any facts. the lunatic fringe will hate, no matter. what but legitimate criticism of barack obama is not race-centric. it based on policy. the president wants to change america. he wants to impose a big government income redistribution situation. many americans lake me believe that will weaken the country. i have nothing personal against president obama. in fact, he has joined with me to help thousands of wounded veterans. he has been great on that issue. but this nann

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i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. carol costello is off today. >> we're going to have more on the jfk remembrances later but first a 22-year ban now getting a second look and that means talking on the cell phone while flying just might become a reality. >> this goes in the worst idea ever file. whether you consider this idea annoying or if you're the one person on earth who thinks it's convenient, the fcc will consider a proposal at its next meeting in december to allow fliers to make voice calls in flight. >> back in 2004 the ban was considered being lifted but they changed their minds after opposition and uncertainty over the technical details. cnn's alexandra field is live outside lag ward in a airport in new york. my personal unscientific polling this morning is that no one thinks this is a good idea and everyone thinks it's a way for someone to make money. what is going on here? >> reporter: at the same time, though, christine, we've long heard travelers grumbling whether or not it's really unsafe to use their ce

i'm john berman. >> and i'm christine romans. carol costello has the day off today. rare, deadly, devastating, that's how many are referring to yesterday's tornadoes. the national weather service sending out three teams today to survey the damage from the unusual, unusual late season tornado outbreak that simply slammed the midwest. this left at least six people dead, entire neighborhoods flattened. this morning, hundreds of thousands are without power and trying to figure out how do they even begin to clean up and move on? >> 68 tornadoes reported across the region, 68. illinois one of the states that was hardest hit. these twisters, they were not small either, at least one there packed an ef4 raking with winds up to 200 miles per hour. the state's governor has declared a seven-county disaster area, plans to tour the devastation later today. >> in the town of brookport, illinois, schools closed today after a tornado tore a path of destruction through two mobile home parks. >> i hope no one's hurt. our father, two w.h.o. art in and, hall owed be thy name. >> in the l

i'm christine romans. we have come a long way, but we have a long way to go. it is all in the eye of the beholder. first, put on your rose-colored glasses. your 401(k) is on fire. the index touching new milestones. look through the broken glasses. only half of america is invested in stocks. what happened when the federal reserves does this? stocks fall sharply. back to the rosy glasses. now back to the broken glasses. until first time home buyers come back, it is not back to normal. 28% of october sales were first time buyers. let's look at jobs. jobs are coming back. 204,000 create in the october. this is a low wage job recovery. nearly 60% of the jobs created in the economy since 2010 have been lower paying occupations. ken rogath is with us. maggie lake is here with us. ken, which glasses are you wearing when it comes to the u.s. economy? >> i think i have one eye broken lens and one eye rosy. you summarized it well, christine. i think for the next few years, we are still healing a lot of long-term unemployed and divisiveness politically. on the other hand,

i'm christine romans. walmart. a walmart in ohio is collecting canned food to help its workers feed their families on thanksgiving. this picture posted on the walmart facebook page. >>> if there is a recent political controversy, starbucks ceo called for law makers to end the shutdown and spoke out in support of the same-sex marriage. when talk turns to chick-fil-a. the ceo is taking stance for his opposing gay marriage. some of the groups are upset again because the original says presented him with an award for champions of justice and equality. walmart and starbucks and chick-fil-a just a few. is politics bad for business? we have the former hp here with us. the most powerful woman in business six years in a row, but she ran for senate and advised john mccain in his presidential run. she knows what it takes to create jobs and what it takes to get votes. carly, do the two mix? politics and business? >> i think this trend where ceos are standing up and getting involved in politics while they are active ceos, i thin

the threat from the soviet union, jfk's stance on civil rights and his attempt to become the first roman catholic president of the u.s. and now, "meet the press remembers -- jfk: the presidential campaign." >> announcer: now, here's the moderator of "meet the press," mr. ned brooks. >> welcome once again to "meet the press." our guest is senator john kennedy of massachusetts, who yesterday announced his entrance into the race for the democratic presidential nomination. he said under no circumstances will he accept the nomination for vice president. senator kennedy is the front-runner in most of the public opinion polls. as a member of the senate labor committee, he is certain to play a leading part in drafting legislation to deal with the steel dispute, if it is not settled. senator kennedy began his career in the house of representatives at the age of 29. he was elected to the senate in 1952 and re-elected with the largest majority in the history of his state. he is the winner of a pulitzer prize for his book, "profiles in courage." and now seated around the press table, ready to interv

on the other side of the world, in the ancient roman city of ostia, huge merchant ships were part of an economy much like our own. and today, the tanners of morocco still practice their ancient craft, living proof that economies have evolved out of the past. everyone who has ever lived has been part of an economic system. iel bote grande...mil pesos! economic systems are simply the ways people produce, distribute and consume things -- everything and anything, from tortillas to stocks and bonds. for 10,000, 10,000 an eighth. today, as in the past, economic systems lie at the heart of how a society is organized. archaeologists search for these systems because they believe economies hold the key to understanding ancient societies. archaeologist william sanders. the economy of any given human group, any culture, is a powerful factor that affects the rest of that culture -- the social organization, the political institutions, even the ideology, the religion of a people. from my perspective, the economy of a group is one of the most powerful determinants of human behavior. keach: to archae

piazza amphitheater was built around an ancient roman arena.he arena's long gone, its oval shape is a reminder of the city's classical heritage. locals have been gathering here for 2,000 years. today's attraction -- a flower market. piazza san michele also has ancient roots. it's hosted a market since roman times, when it was the forum. today it's dominated by the church of san michele. towering above its fancy romanesque facade, the archangel michael stands ready to flap his wings, which, thanks to a crude mechanical contraption, he actually did on special occasions. in its heyday, lucca packed over 100 towers within its walls. each tower was the home and private fortress of a wealthy merchant family. towers were single rooms stacked atop each other -- shop, living room, and then the kitchen. this one, lucca's tallest surviving tower, is famous for being capped with a bushy little forest. those making the climb are rewarded with commanding city views, all in the shade of its amazing trees. nearby, the church of san giovanni hosts nightly conce

christine romans is in new york.the other way. >> they've been falling a little bit. this most recent reading from freddie mac shows 3.35%. that's still historically low. the average since world war ii is like 6.5% so 4.35% is still pretty cheap money. you look at the 15-year, popular refinancing tool, that number is 3.35%. so for those of you looking out there to refinance for first-time home buyers, they've been ticking up. in part, because of that slightly stronger october jobs report. when you start to see signs of strength in the economy, you see interest rates that can start to rise. that's one of the reasons they're moving up here. stan humphrey from zillo told me he expects by the end of 2014 to be back to 5%. you have people in the housing market, housing industry thinking that mortgage rates will very, very slowly rise into next year as the fed tries to figure out when to take its foot off the accelerator and stop buying up those bonds to keep the economy going. first-time home buyers have not really been p

it was one big weekend monday was a sensible book of romans eight one user friendly welcome and roman name i think that when we can all be forced to choose between going to blow or stay at home. i bet the mid to late to try and find comfort knowing that more and more of their friends. i don't want the internet is a dealer and yet all that the very same reasons time when me and schooling. and it looks to state that we are now on to haunt of gets half of the time a big break the pcc yes seasons in the hall torn open to think by the nations are discussing economic partnerships that the queue forming one show one that is it that is dealing with climate change the number of pacific states of themselves experiencing pointing to the nobles and also command output is leading the way to nome and then on he's not the second tree gentle the pacific islands forum secretariat me to treat high climate change and was a green economy. his slaves class how do you see says he believes that the testing center and it seems that the foreign was held in two thousand and six so what kind of cute things happ

hostility toward the roman also known as gypsies runs through all levels of czech society. no it's reaching new lows and even those seniors point helpers are being targeted when it came to rome any text link and images like these. gypsy catalan who do not know. other than the trash collectors twice a month. no one checks would ever show their faces the three hundred similar to those around the country housing about a quarter of czech roma. some eighty thousand people the government seems reluctant to take any steps towards integration. european union funding earmarked for the purpose. tends to dry out with no visible results. and this little political will to invest in these children's future. i do what he called his mother of four. she still finds time to do volunteer work for multiple birth mothers association. she supported an authentic human rights and start becoming another target of racist hate campaign. she thought of as possible. i've been getting very ugly letters. it sends a shudder down my spine to think of it. at first i made an effort to answer them. and then w

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. >> i'm christine romans. nice to see all of you, it's 5:00 a.m. in the east. >> unfortunately, we begin with an eye on the weather. this massive storm now a nor'easter. it's barreling up the east coast. it's bringing strong wind, heavy rain and snow and making travel a bit of awe nightmare for millions. >> let's start in cleveland. it was sloppy 3 to 5 inches around the region with even more today. some areas could see up to 10 inches by the time this is over today. it's so pretty, isn't it? >> it is but nothing pretty about trying to get to grandma's house. >> we originally planned to leave in the morning but news of the weather forecast, we decided to leave early to try to beat the weather down. >> i'm from north carolina, so i'm definitely not used to this type of weather. >> it's smart to leave early but drive slowly. new york's area, albany, also finding snow. just a dusting when this pictures were taken. but it promises to be messy there, rain, sleet in the forecast. >> it could be tough around pittsburgh today, with rain and snow, keeping t

it is dominated roman catholic church for centuries.nd the men in this all-male clerical culture that i've been a member of for 46 years, we have claimed and continue to claim that only we as men can speak for god. only we can interpret the holy scriptures and know the will of god. therein lies a serious problem. women are viewed -- and i say this with great sadness -- it saddens me to see this, women are viewed as lesser than men as expressed in the church's teaching. only men can be ordained. women are not worthy. and also very important, gays and lesbians are seen as lesser than straight. which is very important. i think pope francis must inflict amount is 1.2 million catholics -- billion catholics, and say, we are all created of equal worth and dignity. we do not have this inclusiveness in the roman catholic church. therein lies the problem. equal ande we are all worthy of dignity, we must change the church's teaching, beginning -- i highly recommend they go to the catechism of the catholic church which talks about the church's offi