my heavens. >> ron: oh, my. >> dan: my heavens. >> ron: and ish smith is up. crawford trying to shake it off, too, rubbing the face. ism smith from north carolina. crawford i think is going to go to the side to make sure he's got the cobwebs off. i think he hears a couple phones ringing, doesn't know which one to pick up right now. >> ron: they're just going to make sure he's okay. ish smith will go to the line. >> dan: that was a great looking shot. >> ron: yeah. 3 of 6 tonight, 14 points, 5 assists. taylor comes into the lineup. jamel mclean will sit down. the lead is at six. 10:55 to play in the second half. love needs to get back into it a little more and he does. nice looking move. >> dan: i think particularly with mcfarland out of the game that xavier has an advantage with the inside with the offensive ability of jason love. >> ron: 8-2 run now for the musketeers. the lead is down to four. >> dan: that was just poor defense by wake forest. you can't let love dribble the ball that long. >> ron: smith saw aminu with great position. taylor was trying to fin

we'll have to get an update on his condition. >> ron: looks like maybe a cramp. >> ron: and the coachwatch how he comes down on this shot after the block. oh, my. >> dan: he grabs his knee, ron. that's not a good looking thing. >> ron: this is a young man out of schenectady, new york. started the last five games. he's probably the quickest and probably one of the best athletes on xavier. he's explaining how he came down on it. he's been playing with so much confidence. it would be a huge loss for the musketeers. they have the basketball and a two-point advantage. four minutes left to go in the half. >> dan: there's a great battle going on out there between crawford, 55, and l.d. williams, 42. they are really, really playing hard. >> ron: holloway with smith on him. williams tries to go around the pick from frease. frease left open after the roll, and he jams it. >> dan: those are the kind of things frease can do. they don't need him to score 20 points a game. set a screen, roll to the basket, catch the ball, and make an easy one. made a couple free throws, getting some rebounds. if th

>> ron: inside, mcfarland has it blocked. >> ron: the ball handling wasn't pretty, but the pass was gooded a little awkward, but this is a 6'9" guy taking the ball up the court in a fast break and he gets the ball inside to mcfarland. that's a basket that mcfarland has to score. >> ron: mcfarland comes in only a 58% free throw shooter. coming off a double-double against richmond, 13 points and 12 rebounds. he goes to the line about four times a game. he needs to knock them down. lead is five, biggest for the ball game for wake. crawford sees the double, pass on the inside knocked away. mcfarland comes up with it. quick outlet to l.d. williams and he has to regather himself. >> dan: c.j. harris running the point now. smith getting a bit of a breather on the bench. >> ron: aminu pops up high. mcfarland can't finish it out. that's kind of a silly foul. that's going to be an mcfarland. >> dan: i made the point before and i don't want to keep harping on the thing, but wake forest has had how many opportunities at pointblank range, contested opportunities to be sure, but if you have a big, str

a lot of great players. >> ron: came out of here. >> steve: yeah. >> ron: lonnie baxter.zon center when the wizards knocked off portland. and he is another guy that came out of the school in typical point guard the fashion, gets the ball up and down the court quickly, makes good decisions, excellent passer, and yet he's improved his shooting as well. >> ron: i think when you come to maryland, i think you're going to get a coach that is not going to sugar coat how he's going to coach you. and if you can take the weight, if you can take the pressure, when you leave here, you will be better for it. and i think a guy like greivis vasquez has been here for four years. he hands what it's like to carry a team. he understands what it's like to play for gary williams. he understands what it's like to follow in the foot steps of all those guys you just saw up in the rafters, that he will be prepared for the next level. >> steve: 14 players have banners hanging from comcast center, plus gary williams. kicked ball. you mentioned keith boot, and of course chucky brizell is over there

we'll square off ron paul and robert reich take on each other next on "larry king live." good evening. residents of port-au-prince waited in lines for hours today to get their first relief supplies. bags of rice and beans. food and supplies are slowly making their way to the people who need them so desperately. to find out where things stand, anderson cooper stands by as he has ever since this started two weeks ago tonight. he is, of course, in port-au-prince. i saw a film from the bbc anderson in which they brought in supplies and took them back. what's going on? >> well, we're seeing a lot of food distribution at this point. they're handing out food in a lot of different areas. i saw a food hantdout by action against hunger, water distribution is a key issue right now. sometimes if there are unruly crowds or things get beyond the control, they will might have away. for the most part things are very orderly he. we haven't seen, you know, any kind of large scale problems. i spent today looking into the issue of all the new orphans created in the wake of catastrophe. there

plus, ron thompson will come back with ron's reality. this time he will examine the thoughts of one andray blatche and his one-game suspension. how did he play tonight after serving that one-game punishment. ron, take a look at the play from josh smith we showed you in the open. it is kind of a microcossism of how this season has gone. >> there is no way in the world that after the way the wizards have been playing that you can give up totally wide open laps. have no idea where the ball is and throw it ahead. what i didn't understand is they were running towards the guy that was wide open. all facing that direction. but that is what has been going on as of late and that's something as a coach how do you change that? these are professional athletes. if you don't know how many baskets you need to get back. that's where flip saunders has got to be trying to figure out what do we have to do to stop these lulls we keep going through and nine times out of ten it is happening on the defensive end. >> this is the interesting thing about this and

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ron, drive safely. stay where you are, we'll come back and talk to you later.arm up. >>> all of you stay with us, more on the extreme cold. you can keep up with the weather everywhere on weather.com. >>> we go to steve because unemployment numbers continue to tell the same story, more people losing their jobs, still signs the economy is headed towards recovery. we'll ask him where they are. steve, thanks for joining us today. where are those signs we're headed for a recovery? >> temporary employment has been up for three straight months, an initial step lot of employers take before bringing on permanent hiring. the workweek, we had gains in the prior month in november, held onto those gains. average hourly earnings up 0.2%. all of those sub text to the main head line story, the 85,000 job losses. i would say it's disappointing, wouldn't say it's decisive. there are still many economists feel like within the next few month, february, march, we will turn a positive number as jobs slowly come back. however, if you do the math, it doesn't work out very well for une

i would like to introduce senator ron wyden. resources committee, finance, budget and select committee on intelligence and the special committee on aging. i want to thank you for everything you do for us in washington, d.c. i know there are a lot of issues out there ahead of you and there is much work to do. i especially want to thank you for your work you put in the did the work you put in it to setçó up a healthy forest issue for east side forcest. so we can make short that we do not let our forests burn out. -- so we can make sure we do not let our forests burn up. >do we need to wire you? >> i'm fine. thank you so much for that gracious and inflationary introduction. we are going to go with questions with commissioner dickson in a minute. how many of you have never been to one of our town hall meetings? raise your hands. before i go to questions, i usually start with a couple of comments, an hour or so possy worth. ççó's worth. he thinks some serious. the gentlemen in the third row, his face got all pale. that is not what w

>> i want to go back to what ron paul and tanya said. to say we need to take time to get a better understanding and this is a civil war. that is completely the rhetoric we can't hear right now, and i'll tell you why, larry. a man almost blew up 300 people on a airplane. they seem to know we're at war with us by declaring jihad. we don't acknowledge in our administration now and we have an opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the bush administration that he made. look, obama bungled the initial response. we know that. especially, you'd think he would have learned from george bush's visual on the golf course, but he didn't. the biggest mistake was trying this guy as not an enemy combat ant. that was a missed opportunity and now we're in negotiations with him, and he has an opportunity to not send these 40 yemeni men back to yemen. that would the best thing he could do to immediately stop the threat. we can't perpetually be on duty. we have to strike them before they can craft these attacks. >> larry: before i get a break, peter, what

good afternoon, ron. >> reporter: good afternoon. welcome back. ravens fans gearing up for the wild card game against the patriots. wjz fan cam question can the ravens beat tom brady and company next sunday? >> run the ball, run the ball and they will beat new england. >> of course they can beat new england participates rot next week and the way they could do it is basically flacco is more mobile. >> ravens can beat new england on sunday. they have the playoff experience. >> the ravens have all the potential to beat yes, yes, yes we can go we made it this far, we can go all the way to the end. >> reporter: new england -- in new england is hurting because they are losing the guy walker and that's going to hurt them very much. >> i believe the ravens can beat anybody on any given sunday. >> no question they can beat them but they have to stay disciplineed and no penalties and good defense and stick to what they know and they can do it. >> reporter: the odds makers made the patriots 4 point favorites. if you are heading to foxborough, bring your purp

after four months they were engaged and the relationship seemed really healthy. >> ron, talk to me aboutncrease in traffic you've seen over the years and the feedback you can give us in terms of pure da data. >> absolutely. i think online dating has been around for a while. it's a hold-over in the old days, classifies with what may have had a lot of negative baggage. with the advent of internet, in the early days it was more mainstream focus. now the biggest growth area is in the targeted niche base. people are looking for a safe, effective environment where they can find people also looking for people like themselves. >> what does your company do to safeguard some of that? the profile, you put up a picture and meet him or her. that may or may not look like that picture. i tell you i make $250,000, and oops, zero in the wrong place, $25,000. how much can you safeguard what's online? >> the everyality is we provide a myriad of options on the back and the front end for the user to make sure they have the safest experience possible. just like anything else, it's buyer beware. you have to go

and it's okay, ron, kate, marysol, if you haven't heard.he summer olympic promotional blitz, now for the winter, next to no fanfare. advertising time is up for grabs. it's virtually unheard of. we wondered what exactly is going on. ♪ do you know these faces? jeremy abbott? >> i don't know. >> reporter: not to worry. you're not alone. kelly clark? >> football. >> reporter: ind lindsey vaughn? no. these are some of america's best hopes for gold. >> going into the games, it's like, what? there's another olympics already? because of the interest in beijing, it was such a big event. >> reporter: on the eve of the olympics, weeks shy of the opening ceremonies, the vancouver winter games could fall flat state side. >> they need to have a superstar. that usually is a figure skater for the american audience. >> reporter: no dominant women's figure skater. no nancy kerrigan, no michelle kwan. they could figure out of the medals in figure skating for the first time in centuries. former stars such as miller and ohno give the u.s. team some hope. few fr

george will, sins ya cynthia tucker, david sanger, ron brownstein. aloha. let's talk about flight 253. >> there were three failures. one of which, the least important, the failure to connect the dots. when you have millions of dots, you cannot define as systemic failure anything short of perfection. our various intelligence agencies suggest 1600 names a day to be put on the terrorist watch list. he's a known extremist. as the president said. there are millions of them out there. we can't have -- second. as senator lieberman said this man should be treated as an enemy combatant, not lawyered up with miranda rights. and third, the most catastrophic failure here, that of al qaeda. after 9/11, they're down to explosives hidden in underwear. incompetently administered by the operatives they have. we need to look at them and think about what they're thinking about their own failures. >> it's good news, then? >> the inability to pull this off in a big way, obviously this was a much smaller plot than 9/11, is good news. on the other hand, i think that the failure t

nbc's ron allen has our story tonight. >> e-s, hey, hey, what do you say!> reporter: revere high in massachusetts has just about everything for its students. >> good afternoon, everybody. tomorrow is spirit day. wear your school colors. >> hi. >> reporter: however, senior lucy salez, who's determined to be a chemical engineer, wanted something more. >> there weren't really electives here that i wanted take that were specific for what i want to do later in life. >> reporter: so each day for one period, lucy leaves revere high's traditional classrooms to take a course called chemicals of civilization. the teacher is in vermont. students log in from several states. the class is completely online. >> i get to do it when i want and where i want. >> reporter: cyberschool, or virtual learning, is one of the hottest trends in education. more than 2 million pre-k to 12th graders are involved and that number is expected to grow to more than 10 million within the next 4 years. >> we're looking forward to the day when we don't talk about online classes versus face-to-f

maybe that's how we get rid of the deficit. >> ron, thanks. janice is back with our national forecast. >> we've alrve already talked a all the cold weather that's in place. now we'll give you a look at your local forecast. northern tier of states will not reach highs out of the single digits. in parts of minnesota and the dakotas, 9 degrees today in bismarck and 3 above in minneapolis. that's your high for today. it will reach 16 degrees in for 12 years. >>> now here's jenna. >> all right, janice, thanks. we'll be right back with more of "today" right after this. ...kept coming back... ...or that i could help prevent them in the first place. the problem was that my controller medicine... ...was treating only 1 main cause of asthma symptoms. but there are 2. airway constriction. and inflammation. unlike most controllers, advair treats both main causes. advair treats both maicauses. and that helps prevent symptoms in the first place. (announcer) advair contains salmeterol. salmeterol may incree the chance of asthma-related death. so advair is no

ron mott, want to thank you very much for braving the elements all morning with us. we appreciate it. >> reporter: okay. >> for more on our wintry woes, let's go to nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, good morning. >> good saturday morning to you, alex. incredible scenes in florida this morning, where sleet was reported in many areas of central florida, from tampa to orlando to daytona beach. it's warming up there now, but the cold remains in the middle of the country with negative temperatures really covering much of the dakotas, nebraska, iowa, all the way down now into areas of northern portions of illinois. so, as far as the windchill goes, still negative 3 in chicago, st. louis at minus 10. the bitter cold is all with us during the day today. high temperature only 8 in kansas city today. still a lot of snow and ice out there on the ground. very difficult to travel. we've been very cold ever since new year's eve. many locations are still waiting in the midwest to hit 32 degrees. the story tonight will be the cold in florida with freeze warnings all the way down

. >> this question is for ron.here is a view out there that the kind of downturn we are in right now is not the garden variety downturn, but a credit- induced downturn. there is too much debt, people cannot borrow. with your emphasis on work, you have six people looking for every open position and people having a different -- a difficult time finding work, more and more difficult than any time during the postwar period. how do you feel about the extension of unemployment compensation that can go into a year, sometimes up to two years, and what are we spending on training for skilled positions relative to unemployment and so forth across the country? >> if i had complete control, i do not think i would have an unemployment benefits for a year. one thing, if you were an economist, you might have impacted recovery because the states are going to have to repay a huge amount of money, falling unemployment insurance. after the 1975 recession, it took them forever to pay off their debt, so they had to keep anteing their t

ron has a quick comment.xcuse me. >> prevention in a magnificent new book called "creating opportunity in society." there is an analysis, a very complex set of rules. here is what they are. graduate from high school. get a job full-time. get married. have children. if you follow that sequence, you will have a 2% chance of being in poverty and a 70% chance of being in a middle-class. if you don't follow any of those rules you will have a 74% chance of being in poverty and a 7% chance of being in the middle class. >> ma'am. >> i am ann crittendon, a writer here in washington. this leads right to my question. the investment in early childhood, not just in the policy of population, but in just simply basic, good, early education leads to the kinds of life choices that you're, you know that we want to see people make. what as always amazed me though is that when we talk about this current crisis, investing in infrastructure, i hear much more about roads and bridges than i do about kids. and i have never heard, i w

good morning, again, rachel. >> good morning, ron.tment telling employees in yemen to stay home. we have word that the british embassy in yemen is also closed today. all of this comes a day after general david petraeus travelled to yemen carrying a message from president obama and pledging full u.s. support in the fight against al qaeda in yemen. there are new attacks against al qaeda strongholds in recent days. the yemeni government has pledged to help in looking at the christmas bomber, allegedly trained at terrorist camps in yemen. last year, the u.s. gave yemen $70 million to fight terrorism. this weekend, general petraeus announced that amount will double, more likely than not this year. >>> more than 160 people have been arrested in a cock fighting ring raid in texas. they seized drugs, cash, and more than 100 roosters. child protective services took into custody as many as 15 children, some as young as 7 years of age. >>> rick warren says that donations to his southern california megachurch total $2.4 million. he had asked for

while ron burgundy had never heard that song, it certainly rings true for the redskins. >> you can'tntrol it. if the's meant for me to be here, i'll be her if the's not, i won't. and that's for any guy in this locker room. all you can do, like i say, you're in an interview on sunday, so you want to put the good stuff out there. >> a lot of guys are really just trying to be like, okay, let'set to san diego, let's play as hard as we can, then wherever the chips fall after that prettysure to be a lot of quick decisions probably coming up soon. >> ron burgundy also famously said, san day go, i am completely miserable. it's hard to be miserable in southern california, but at 4- 11, the redskins have had their share of misery. in san diego, dave ross, fox 5 sports. >> we're all jealous. here tees sunday lineup ahead on fox 5. we'll start off with rskins game day at 11:00 a.m., followed by geico redskins at 11:30. followed by the skins and chargers at 4:15 from san day go. >>> it's fast becoming a new year's tradition, a maryland newborn is the first 2010 baby in america. how many times has

. >> ron paul.e is moving with his idea after 30 years. >> libertarianism now, eleanor. >> allen greenespan testifying on capitol hill saying he made a mistake. >> clint eastwood, who is a long time conservative in deep left hollywood said this, quote, we are becoming more juvenile as a nation, the guys who won world war ii and that whole generation disappeared and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. >> most honest, mort. >> president obama said hearing who won the nobel prize, who >>> okay, the most overrated, pat. >> global warming. >> eleanor. > charlie crist, who was mostly an absentee governor. >> monica. >> tim geithner. >> the leaders of most of our major financial institutions in this country. >> the most overrated is freedom. when faced with economic uncertainty, people don't want freedom. when they can't see their economic future, they want the nanny state. okay the most under rated. >> robert gates, most powerful man in the cabinet. >> eleanor. > nancy pelosi, who held together a caucus

i would like to introduce senator ron wyden.nance, budget and select committee on intelligence and the special committee on aging. i want to thank you for everything you do for us in washington, d.c. i know there are a lot of issues out there ahead of you and there is much work to do. i especially want to thank you for your work you put in the did the work you put in it to setçó up a healthy forest issue for east side forcest. so we can make short that we do not let our forests burn out. -- so we can make sure we do not let our forests burn up. >do we need to wire you? >> i'm fine. thank you so much for that gracious and inflationary introduction. we are going to go with questions with commissioner dickson in a minute. how many of you have never been to one of our town hall meetings? raise your hands. before i go to questions, i usually start with a couple of comments, an hour or so possy worth. ççó's worth. he thinks some serious. the gentlemen in the third row, his face got all pale. that is not what we are going to do at all

i would like to introduce senator ron wyden.resources committee, finance, budget and select committee on intelligence and the special committee on aging. i want to thank you for everything you do for us in washington, d.c. i know there are a lot of issues out there ahead of you and there is much work to do. i especially want to thank you for your work you put in the did the work you put in it to set up a healthy forest issue for east side forest. so we can make sure we do not let our forests burn up. [applause] do we need to wire you? >> i'm fine. thank you so much for that gracious and inflationary introduction. we are going to go with questions with commissioner dickson in a minute. how many of you have never been to one of our town hall meetings? raise your hands. before i go to questions, i usually start with a couple of comments, an hour or so's worth. he thinks some serious. the gentlemen in the third row, his face got all pale. that is not what we are going to do at all. this is part of the pledge that i made to organ bac

for more on the loss to kobe and company, we'll join chris miller and ron thompson. i'm sorry.hat kind of advice did you give. mr. bryant because it didn't work off the top? you know what i told him? i told him, dude, don't let your index finger be the release point if it's broken. try to the ring fing ear they have no follow through in the air balls. >> yeah, bad look on my part. that's why i have them in my fantasy league. ron, this guy after talk to go him yesterday, just finds thewill, the yearning, the desire to thirst to compete every night. despite the fact that maybe his fingers broke in two place, still two points off his average with 26. >> could he be gee an absolute assassin. his intelligent level is through the roof and he has a tremendous feel for the game. when you couple that with his ability to shoot the long ball, he has an excellent mid range game. he has the ability to get by you and finish and when that fails, he has the ability to set his teammates up. there's no answer for that. ladies and gentlemen, you are watching the best in the business when you look

congratulations. >>> first i want to thank ron matt and janice huff.h for being with us. next week when you look at food label, you know what you're reading. we're going to get to the bottom of them. >>> plus eight brave women travel to antarctica for the adventure of a lifetime. find out what they did when we meet them live. i'll see you back here for nightly news tonight. have a great day, everybody. >> coming up next, the naacp's baltimore chapter head joins us for a segment. we will speak to a local author as well. >> this morning the sun is out and it is windy and very cold. when you're living with bipolar depression... ...it's easy to feel like you're fading into the background. that's because bipolar depression doesn't just affect you. it can consume you. one option proven effective to treat bipolar depression... is seroquel xr. for many, it's one pill, once a day. here is some important safety information

what do you think about ron paul's effort to audit the fed and then more portly, abolish the fed? >> well, he sold more books than me so far. [laughter] >> i think this is an example of why, if reasonable politicians on both sides of the aisle they'll come up with reasonable solutions, people are going to gravitate towards these unreasonable solutions. we don't need to get rid of the fed. what we can't depend on monetary policy is her only regulatory tool, which is effectively what we've done for 20 years. monetary policy is wrong. it's the human condition for monetary policy to be wrong, but we need limits on borrowing so that mistakes in monetary policy don't create any asset bubbles in one particular asset class that becomes so big that it can't fix itself without destroying the rest of the economy. and of course, we need to do better with monetary policy. but focusing on the fed and what it's done right or wrong there is a distraction, in my view. thank you. >> hi. what about getting rid of some of the regulations that i would've you've sort of part of the root cause of the pr

nbc's ron mott is in atlanta for us today. let's get the latest from there. any chance that the temperatures are going to allow the ice patches to melt? >> not today, alex. good saturday morning to you. i'll go ahead and put an all point bulletin out for the man who nicknamed this town hotlanta. it is 13 degrees now. with the windchill of a big fat zero. this is the coldest it has been for the longest stretch of weather we have seen here in this town since 1982. people are waking up going what in the world is going on? this is supposed to be the south. it is not going to get above freezing for another 24 to 36 hours. so all those wrecks we saw yesterday, there was one after another, after another, after another, were probably going to see again today because it is it is below 22 degrees. that's what is causing a lot of the problems because the mixture they put down on the road to melt the ice is actually melting it, but then quickly refreezing. we're seeing some troubles on the roadways again today. it is much better today than it was yesterday. yesterday peo

ron alle nbc news, revere. >>> it is the beginning of a new year for traders on wall street. let's check in with cnbc's courtney reagan now. she joins us live with more on that and the rest of the day's business headlines. >> good morning to you both, where things are looking way up on the first trading day of 2010. the dow is up almost 162 points. really starting the year on the right foot for the bulls. angst markets also posted some modest gains overnight. europe, positive too. it's going to be a big week ahead for economic data reports on manufacturing home sales and friday's jobs report. that's the big one, as usual, and this time it could show the first rise in payrolls in more than a year. stocks did close out 2009 on a down note, at least last thursday, despite news that weekly jobless claims fell to their lowest level in 17 months. but we've really turned around today. in 2009 overall, the dow rose 19%. the the nasdaq rose a whopping 44% last year. let's see if we can do it again. >>> fed chairman ben bernanke says lax regulation was more to blame for the housing mar

that will take some of the workload off of people like ron robinson, a v.a. years, and a veteran who spent 20 years in the army. you're proud to serve. >> ron robinson: yes. >> pitts: are you proud to work for the v.a.? >> robinson: of course. >> pitts: are you proud of the work the v.a.'s doing? >> robinson: no. we can do better. >> pitts: problems in the v.a.'s benefits branch have been the subject of g.a.o. reports and congressional hearings for years. starting in 2007, the v.a. received sizable increases in its budget and began hiring thousands of new employees, yet the backlog of claims keeps growing. >> robinson: we keep trying to fix it, but it keeps getting out of hand. we throw more money at the problem, more people-- we still have the problem. >> pitts: so, what is it, then? if more people can't fix the problem, more money can't fix the problem, how do you fix it? >> robinson: it's a culture, it's a leadership problem. >> pitts: robinson points to the v.a.'s requirement that employees meet production quotas. it's a convoluted system of earning point

let's get the latest now from nbc's ron mott. cold there still? let's see, breathe. yeah, i see the emissions that are coming out of your mouth. it's cold! >> reporter: it is cold, indeed, alex, but it's warmed up to a balmy 15 degrees here in atlanta with a windchill of about 2. and as you can imagine, in a place that they've nicknamed hot-lan hot-lanta, things can get a little dicey when it gets icy, and that's exactly what happened here yesterday and far beyond. >> look out! >> reporter: the dangerous, frosty weather stretched from coast to coast, menacing planes, trains and automobiles. in the south, bumper cars minus the amusement as icy conditions turned many roadways into slippery slopes, triggering wreck after wreck, like this 27-vehicle pileup friday morning in atlanta. >> there's nothing we can do to stop the cars, and you just watch one, boom. it comes up, you see the next one. and you see it coming. and there's another one and there's another one. >> reporter: no one died here, though a handful of weather-related fatalities were reported elsewhere. in the

we have nbc's ron mott in atlanta for us where it is just lots of snow behind you.so cold, but nonetheless, a good morning. >> reporter: good morning, alex. it is a balmy 13 degrees right now with the windchill of zero. and they have the nerve to nickname this place hotlanta. as you can imagine, a lot of folks getting a little dicey with things get icy here. that's exactly what happened here and far beyond. >> look out! >> reporter: the dangerous frosty weather stretched from coast to coast, menacing planes, trains and automobiles. and in the south, bumper cars, minus the amusement, as icy conditions turned many roadways into slippery slopes, triggering wreck after wreck. like this 27-vehicle pileup friday morning in atlanta. >> there is nothing we can do to stop the cars. you just watch one, boom, he comes up, the next one, you see it coming and there is another one and there is another one. >> reporter: no one died here, though a handful of weather related fatalities were reported elsewhere. in the pacific northwest, wind was the big culprit. >> it is just painful

nbc's ron allen is there for us this morning. ron, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, meredith. what a way to end the holiday travel season. terminal c here, which is headquarters for couldn't nental airlines, was shut down for some six or seven hours from about until about 12:45 in the morning yesterday. thousands of flights were canceled. thousands, dozens of flights were canceled, thousands were stranded because somehow, a man apparently here, to meet an arriving flight, got to the other side of the airport, to the secure side of the airport. he went through a passageway or through a door, it's unclear how he got there. and it's unclear why security staff didn't stop him. so the result was that they took everybody who had cleared security, even people who were sitting on airlines and brought them back to the public side of the airport where they searched that area. with dogs, they looked at videotape trying to identify the man. and some airport officials say they think this man probably doesn't even know what he d

ron allen, nbc news, are rever. >> there's much more ahead. >> plus we'll look at the answers to the "watercooler question of the day." >> here's a look at the winning maryland lottery numbers. good luck. (announcer) fact: life today calls for more than an ordinary wipe. that's why there's lysol dual action disinfecting wipes. they go beyond ordinary wipes... because they have two different sides. a scrubbing side with powerful built-in fibers that easily lifts tough messes. and a wiping side that cleans and kills 99.9% of germs. lysol. disinfect to protect. try lysol all purpose cleaner to remove tough grease and kill 99.9% of germs. >> good morning, everybody. keith mills with you it wasn't easy and certainly wasn't pretty. but the ravens are head fod the playoffs. 21-13 they beat the raiders. was it me or were there some anxious moments in the second half? there was a whole lot of number 23, willis mcgahee. second quarter willis buftsz through. there's one guy to beat. he knocks him down. 77 yards. 14-3 ravens. we will see this again. and watch the stiff arm. or is it a joe frazie

we had a meeting ofhe usindia trade policy forum, i have been to washington, ron kirk has been here twice: he came for the wto ministerial, he also came for the trade forum. the focal groups have met, we are going to sign a framework of cooperation on trade and invtment, hopefully during the forthcoming visit of the prime minister and later on we will have the treaty of the tradeand investment agreement. and there are other developments on the way, we are talking about them. >>friedman: what about progress with theuropean union? where does india stand? >>sharma: we have had many rounds of discussions on trade and investment agreement. this is after the helsinkisummit indiaeu in 2006 accepted the recommendations of the high level group. it will be in the interest of both india and the eu, we have a strategy partnership, eu is indias largest trading partner,we have annual trade of over 80 billion euros and the potential is much more. >>friedman: last couple of areas. foreign direct investment. what is the score card for india? you have been attracting a lot in the last few years. >>sharma:

ron wyden seeking reelection. republicans waline.caller: i hear a lot of political talk about one party or another, and you are reading numbers about the disenfranchised. i'm a working guy, have been laid off, and what everyone of us is talking about, what everyone is saying, what does not seem to be getting hurt on the political level is that there is no real change. the change we're talking what is jobs coming back, seeing the people here are actually having their lifestyles getting better, not worse, with health care that is affordable, not just an option, but something real and affordable so that we are now trapped in ones we don't like. guest: this is a problem the president has. the congress has been doing a lot of different things, but the results have not been there. people do not see the results. if the economy were improving, even if the president had not done anything, he would get credit for it. and that is the change, the change for how people feel, that they're happy with the way their lives are improving. this is the p

peter marici, shirly anne warshaw, ron reagan delivered a lengthy speech as well as bill clinton. does the length matter? >> this only matters to the extent that you can keep the american people awake. the state of the union has lost a lot of people. most recent presidents are on television all the time. whether it is a local newscast or whether they are talking somewhere. the american public is not that excited about seeing this president on television. people switch the channel, they would rather watch a rerun of than the state of the union. if they have to, they can read it in tomorrow's newspaper. the audience is the community and not the american public. >> i think it does matter. you never talked for more than 40-45 minutes. by talking so long, the people flip the channel and they have choices. more than that, the president has solved problems. there is growing discontent that he spends too much time campaigning, visiting foreign dignitaries, not enough time solving problems. the president has enormous resources at his disposal. i think that he is going to hurt himself tonig

i would like to introduce senator ron wyden.e did the work you put in it to setçó up a healthy forest issue for east side forcest. so we can make short that we do not let our forests burn out. -- so we can make sure we do not let our forests burn up. >do we need to wire you? >> i'm fine. thank you so much for that gracious and inflationary introduction. we are going to go with questions with commissioner dickson in a minute. how many of you have never been to one of our town hall meetings? raise your hands. before i go to questions, i usually start with a couple of comments, an hour or so possy worth. ççó's worth. he thinks some serious. the gentlemen in the third row, his face got all pale. that is not what we are going to do at all. this is part of the pledge that i made to organ back in 1995. i said if i was chosen as the first new united states senator in 30 years, we would have an open community meeting in every county every year that i served in the senate. so that is what we have done. we have met more than 500 times. fo

ron worked at ranger college from 1964 when he was hired until his retirement in the year 2000.ring his tenure at the college, he filled many roles. he was the head coach of both the men's and women's basketball teams, head coach of the softball team, head coach of the football team and also the alingt letic director. throughout much of his tenure he held many of these jobs at the same time. most remarkable about coach butler's ranger was the unqualified achievements the school had in athletics. in almost every sport, coach butler's teams found success and championships. a college as small as ranger this is a big deal. it is not a stress to say -- stretch to say that the president of ranger college was right when he said that, i single-handedly give credit for the reputation and success of ranger college to ron butler. compeling in athletics enabled the school to be able to grow and build its reputation as one of the finest junior colleges in texas and beyond the nation. beyond the wins and the championships, he has touched 25 years of students and families. his unwavering dedic

. >> thank you, ron. i appreciate it and i wanted to give you these hats for don and marty. these back to the studio. >> you hold them for now. we will do that and see you tomorrow morning. >> all right. thank you. >> thanks a lot. >> cathy, you hi? >> hey. >> you are from woodlawn. >> yes. this is missy and the snookieman. >> get her back. >> he's a mini i adopted in march. so if anybody is looking for a little friend, you can contact drna and they're also looking for foster homes. >> okay. where do you work. >> at russell bmw. >> great place. thank you. >> they're on route 40. >> i am going to be late this morning. >> harry, do you have a han on missy there? >> yes. i am holding her. she can sing. do your thing, baby. [ laughter ] >> are you giving odds on it? >> all right. let me hear those two if you please. >> here we go. let hope for the best. >> she's cold. >> i am, too. monic monday, cathy from woodlawn. here we go. ♪ [ music ] . ♪ 6:00 already i was just in the middle of a dream. >> oh yeah. ♪ he was looking for a -- and saw a crystal blue italian stream. >> yeah, b

with corporations, blackwater, and ron, goldman sachs, bank of america?ss has to do is say that if you get federal bailout money, federal contract money for corporations, you are not permitted to engage in expenditures. essentially what that is doing is taking the money from taxpayers, giving it to corporations, and letting them turn around and tell us how to vote. >> so you have moved to a ban on federal contractors. of course there is a right of the press to engage on the first amendment. in politics, in speech of any kind. but the press is an activity. it is not a class of individuals or actors or participants in society. it is an activity. if the first amendment was written today, it would have freedom of the internet. but there are no people saying that. the press is an activity, and it applies to all people. these days, it applies to persons under our laws. let me get to person's virtue as individuals. i know you like to talk about that. but the press is, as i mentioned -- here is -- actually, i hope for problem the point i want to make because you

. >> manufacturering czar ron bloom. >> he's good. >> we kind of agree with now that political power from the barrel of the gun. >> yeah, he's great. he believes political power comes from the barrel of a gun. he believes, he doesn't believe in actual i think manufacturering, which is weird. >> number two? >> fdc diversity mark lloyd. >> what we're saying is the doctrine is not enough. >> you're in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power? >> i like that. >> we have sam jones. >> don't stop there. >> or number four. >> is it the disinformation czar? >> i will tell you stu did a very good job as the disinformation czar. >> i'm liz douglas, communication office for white house office of health reform. i'm to keep track of the disinformation. >> i'm stu from the office of disinformation and offices of disinformation. today we talk about linda douglas' video you saw. i'm dressed like her because i'm a huge fan. she's talented. she made the incredible leap from main stream media reporter all the way to obama administration mouthpiece. how d

ron on the republican line.ller: i first have a comment and question and i would like your guests to attend to answer it. the biggest problem as i see with the economy in this country and what has happened to it is the lack of integrity through the entire population, from the oval office to the janitor cleaning up. everybody seems to want something for nothing and the work ethic is just about disappeared in this country. or the good work ethic. more to the point, one of the biggest problems in this society seems to be there are so many non-productive jobs getting fantastic pay. for instance, both the guests this morning on this program, it appears that they sit in an office and administrative over a group of people that is nothing but make policy decisions or review policy decisions as opposed to the way it was years -- a few years back where our best and brightest are actually doing something productive. both of you, i've heard this morning, proposed more government intervention. with the policies of congress a

i had help with my friend ron fare. he and ken brainchild this project. these two voices, they're so different. to find the common ground -- >> male and female. >> it took a while to crack the code, and we did. it's an important project. i mean, to talk about haiti, that was almost redundant, and there's a problem down there. >> larry: the song is 40 years old? >> which makes you and i, larry, much older. >> larry: you must know this song from your childhood? >> absolutely. my mom used to play the aretha franklin version when i was a child. >> larry: does it have great meaning to you, andrea? does it have great mining to sing the song? >> i remember when i was a child, i knew already the song, and i soang -- i played in the piano bar all evening. and with the money i bought many, many keyboards, it was my passion. >> why don't we go to a karaoke bar together? >> these two singers are so fearless they'll do anything. they come together so beautifully, that's the true mark of a super star, i think. >> larry: how has the haiti story affected you? >> very hea