nbc's rosen tells us more. >> reporter: who wouldn't be happy with just one mansion, huguette clark owns three. all perfectly manicured, all sit empty. this one in santa barbara hugs the california coast. its value over $100 million. her estate in connecticut worth over $20 million. it's empty. huguette clark also owns the largest apartment on new york's fifth avenue, 42 rooms, worth over $100 million. it's empty too. according to msnbc.com, clark hasn't seen any of them in over 20 years. in fact, she's been living in seclusion here, inside a manhattan hospital room, surrounded by her french doll collection. clark's lifestyle is so miss steers you, this is the last known picture ever taken of her, in 1930.

he wrote to his new attorney, law professor rich rosen.rosen warned him that there probably wasn't any evidence left to test, and if there was, dna could cut both ways. >> rich rosen: understand, if the dna comes back and shows that you did this crime, whatever legal issues we have don't make any bit of difference-- you're going to spend the rest of your life in prison. >> stahl: he warned you that, if it comes up positive, you're sunk? >> cotton: i told him to put his foot down and go with it. >> stahl: packed away on the shelves of the burlington police department was ten-year-old evidence from the two rapes that night. inside one of the rape kits was a fragment of a single sperm with viable dna. it proved what ronald cotton had been saying all along-- he was innocent, and the rapist was bobby poole. within days, ronald cotton was back in court... >> you're walking out of here today a free man. >> stahl: ... this time, to be released. so, not only do you find out that ron didn't do the crime, you find out bobby poole did. >> gauldin: it

jay rosen is a professor, press critic, and leading proponent of new media. clarence page is a pulitzer-prize-winning writer and longtime columnist for the "chicago tribune." welcome to you both. >> thank you. >> we take this term "citizen journalist," and we dance it out, and we stomp on it, and we criticize it, and we celebrate it. what exactly is a citizen journalist, jay? >> well, it starts with the people formerly known as the audience. >> the people formerly known as the audience? >> yes, and when the people formerly known athe audience use the tools that they now have to inform one another, that's citizen journalism. >> is that all it is, clarence? >> i prefer the term "non-traditional journalist" because there's us old-school media types, you know, that you learned about in school--newspapers, magazines, et cetera. but non-traditional journalists now because technology is changing so fast and people are finding new ways of covering news and making news and commenting on it. >> you consider yourself a professional journalist, right? >> i'm both, really

correspondent james rosen profiles the unorthodox figures who stand both inside and outside the g.o.p. >> not going to beat them up or anything, right? >> no wonder jim demint half expected a sock in the face from colleague john cornyn share of the campaign committee with the tea party ties and conservative fund, demint has become a potent counterweight to the own party leaders in the choosing of winning and losing candidates. >> i hope i am a threat to the so-called establishment here in washington. i see press reports of anonymous staff members, cowards, saying things they won't say to me. but actually, a lot of republicans here will whisper to me that keep up the fight. >> demint in this cycle has thrown his weight behind 12 g.o.p. candidates, nine of them winners. most audacious was the early backing of senate nominee rubio at a time when rubio, the races's front runner was the underdog. now the south carolinaen is vowing to raise by next week $174,000 for delaware christine o'donnell. part of the demint pack $4 million in receipt and expenditure for the cycle. >> people can come

bret. >> bret: james rosen live on capitol hill. thank you. most presidents struggle with getting their nominees through the senate confirmation process, but some republicans are accusing president obama of bypassing the system to avoid a fight. white house correspondent wendell goler reports tonight while the president will bring his choice on board. she will be shaping a new government office instead of running it. >> in the end, there was less question about whether elizabeth warren would oversee the new consumer financial protection bureau than how the president would arrange it. he made clear she's been his choice from the start. >> the idea for the agency was elizabeth warner, she's been a dear friend of mine, somebody i've known since law school and i've been in conversations with her. >> reporter: sources say warren will be be assistant to the president and advisor to treasury secretary geithner and writes the rules governing credit cards, and the move frufs, this is a disingenuous effort to circumvent the senate confirmation process a

however, the investigation into his disappearance continues let us rosen video you can see frederick sales on where this search continues for his connection to efren valdemoro whose girlfriend on the home where the sales let us. he had a problem with of relationship with his girlfriend. and frederick sales woke up efren valdemoro and they say that they were the aggressors in that incident. efren valdemoro was injured and police came to the home, a arrested him, efren valdemoro courted them away, and ricardo sales was badly beaten. and then each day that frederick sills is missing. >> considering the nature of this case, there are is growing concern for his safety. he was not involved in an altercation with the suspect. if the suspect has been associated with four different deaths. there is definitely a concern for his safety. >> a search of a nearby business park, coastline, and provided no clues. and there is even the location where the hercules are today. they're speaking to people and trying to develop leads. reporting live and hercules, christine connolly. >> so much still unfold

bret. >> bret: james rosen live on the hill tonight. james, thank you. senior political analyst brit hume is here with thoughts what the debate over the soon to expire tax cuts really means, good morning, brit. >> hi, bret. the running argument over extending the bush tax cuts may come to nothing if congress decides to just go home in three weeks, but it's been a revealing exchange nonetheless. the president's co-offer extending the cuts from middle class taxpayers, president bush didn't just cut for the rich, it was for all taxpayers. it would cost 700 million dollars in lost revenue over ten years and keeping them from middle class which they now support would cost about three times that much. still, the president's position means he agrees with republicans, that raising people's taxes in the midst of a flagging economy is a bad idea. but the very language used in discussing these issues tells us something as well. in washington, letting people keep more of their own money is considered a cost. as if all the money really belongs to the government in th

>> james rosen on capitol hill. thanks. more americans are living in poverty according to the u.s.reau, it reports the median household income last year was just under $50,000 and the poverty line was at just under $22,000 for a family of four. the report shows for every six folks living above that threshold, one was living below it and 43.6 million americans living in poverty. that's up from 39.8 million the year before. it is the largest number of people living in poverty since the government started keeping records 51 years ago. more trouble for the scandal ridden city of belle, california. yesterday, the state's attorney general announced he is suing the three former city officials and others after hearing reports they were paying themselves excessive wages. these three officials alone were making a combined $1.6 million a year until they resigned. now, the state's controller's office reports the city must refund more than $2 million to local businesses because the l.a. suburb illegally increased its business license taxes by more than 50% over the past 10 years. newspapers hav

rosen feld will face leggett, the first african-american elected to that office and unopposed in the democratic primary. let's take a look at our forecast for the day. nice day after election? >> certainly off to a beautiful start. no fog. clr sky. off to a cool start. many locations in the 50s right now in washington. temperatures, as we look around the region, low to mid-60s there. upper 50s in prince george's county. mid-50s in montgomery. near 60 near the bay. away from the water,idewater gion and eastern shore only in the 50s. and out of the mountains, a chilly morning in the 40s. western maryland and west virginia over the last 12 hours we have had high pressure giving us clear sky. plenty of sunshine with highs reaching low 80s, low humidity. increasing clouds on thursday. a shower after sunset thursday evening. drying out by friday afternoon. details on that in just a few minutes. >>> tom, good morning. as we get under way, wre doing pretty well along the 95 corridor as you head north from stafford to the capital belays. both directions, no really hangups. and travel lanes ar

rosen. >> mr. chairman, members of the committee, given that these agreements would begin july 1, i recommend that you amend for retroactivity and based on the r.f.p. process we recommend you approve as amended. >> very good. thank you, mr. rose. i just have one question, pretty simple one. that is i notice these contracts have different terms and what is the reasoning behind that? >> the reasoning behind sit under -- we do receive a level of state funding for linkages and case management. the maximum allowed by the grantor is a maximum of three-year term with a one-year option where we have more flexibility for a maximum five-year term for community living fund. >> that will go to 2015 with the extension. >> yes. >> okay. we can open up this item for public comment. any member of the public who would like to comments on number one please come forward. seeing no one come forward, we'll close public comment. motion to approve from supervisor maxwell and we can take that without objection to the full

for "today," rosen, nbc news, new york. >>> and now here's jenna. >> lester, thanks.w to los angeles, where a high-profile divorce is under way. it's unfolding with all the drama of a hollywood script. while you may not recognize the couple's names you're probably familiar with what they're fighting over. here's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: frank and jamie mccourt have said little publicly but are at the center of a hollywood soap opera. millions of dollars are at stake, fabulous mansions are on the line. ♪ breaking up is hard to do >> reporter: and one of major league baseball's most storied franchises. >> and it's whacked toteft field. >> reporter: is hanging in the balance. after nearly three decades of marriage, the mccourts have called it quits. and now both have claimed ownership of the los angeles dodgers. a team not in position to make the playoffs. >> this is a beloved institution in los angeles and they've diminished it. >> reporter: the public drama started to unfold when frank fired his estrange wife as ceo of the dodgers in 2009. he also accused jamie of

irene rosen feld is second. followed by patricia woertz. >>> facebook and skype are considering a partnership. it could allow members to skype with their facebook friends. a deal is expected to be announced within the next few weeks. and skype is saying the version of skype, skype 5.0, should be released in the next few weeks. this is moments away from us. >> we're becoming more interconnected these days. crazy. >>> coming up on this thursday morning, new debate over how soon to get a mammogram. >>> and burned by a building? sin city's newest resort reflecting the sun and burning people poolside. the mystery of the vegas death ray. next. 33 for those of us who have lactose intolerance, let's raise a glass to cookies just out of the oven. to the morning bowl of cereal. and to lactaid® milk. easy to digest and with all the calcium and vitamin d of regular milk. [ female announcer ] lactaid®. the original lactose-free milk. it was a mystery to me. i found out that connected to our muscles are nerves that send messa

bill: sure is, interesting, james rosen, thanks, on the hill now. martha.eard it, out there, democrats want to extend the tax cuts, only to the middle class, and republicans especially senate minority leader mitch mcconnell, out spoken, right now, saying it really has to be, in his opinion, all, including the rich or nothing. and, former new york senator al dimato joins me to weigh in on that, having spent many years in the building, good to have you here. >> nice to be with you. martha: mitch mcconnell says we need all of this and everybody to not get a tax increase on january 1st. how likely do you think he is to get that. >> he has a chance. notwithstanding that the democrats have huge margins in both the senate and the house, a number of them are beginning to see the discontent, people have, and, actually, contempt they have, arrogance of congress and spending and this is really being pushed by the president, because he wants to set up, i'm for the little guy, and, no to the rich guy, class warfare obama's team is waging. and i think a lot of house demo

dozens of civilians have died in the wave of terror attacks baghdad based journalist and you know rosen who has chronicled the war says america's declared victory comes at a high price for the iraqi people they didn't get rid of saddam hussein at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives of iraqis millions of displaced tens of thousands of iraqis who are languished in american prisons years of their lives were lost the rock is destroyed shattered thirty desperate people of very poor living amidst trash during hours of checkpoints and desperately trying to obtain electricity so yes there are some freedoms. that exist now that didn't exist before but there's also a rocky say of democracy of death and random bombings and the freedom to die in the street so there's no way to say whether it was worth it and what strikes me every day that i'm here is that a family i meet that hasn't had their men murdered kidnapped beheaded their families displaced not a family you meet hasn't been touched by the occupation the violence that came with it so while the american administration is celebrating it

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in san rosen napa holding on to the '40's also in the 40's through livermore valley 49 degrees and theth bay low 50s by about the 10:00 hour we will see more '60s and the forecast by noontime jumping into the '70s high today getting into the 80 so the orange shows us the '80s. through the delta and warmer inland spots. then back down into the '70's and '60's 3:07 p.m. hour. your highs getting to 8183 napa 84 for fairfield. nice little warm-up for you plenty of sunshine out there it will continue to increase through the rest of the week. 84 for los gatos, 83 livermore, your 7 day around the bay and not one day of sunshine but entire forecast filled with sunshine blue skies and sunny days temperatures into the '90s through the weekend. by the end of the weekend up her 90s in some of the warmer spots it is around the bay mid-70s for the coast. newly a hallway and monday getting up to 101 degrees. fall comes back and so does the triple digits. >> the bay bridge toll plaza and not spot but as low spot already in the westbound direction meter lights activated at 624. no incidents on the uppe

james rosen shows us how she was received ♪ don't stop believing republican christine jo'donnell washe bell of the ball where they soaked up the anti-establishment fervor that vaulted her to the national stage. >> they're trying to say we're trying to take over this party or that campaign. they don't get it. we're not trying to take back our country. we are our country. >> some of our establishment friends are not real happy with me or you, so, i think we're in a-- we're in good company today. >> senator jim demint who's riled party leaders by promoting tea party candidates over some g.o.p. stallworths has one of politicians on hand. they come to hawk books, rally the faithful and do testing of both the political waters and latest punchlines. >> yes, we have serious enemies and growing threats around the world, unfortunately, we have an administration whose idea of a rogue state is arizona. rahm emanuel should have sent a dead fish to secretary salazar that might have prevented a whole bunch of dead fish in the gulf coast. >> they have when hair i met sharon playing in nevada. >> wou

greg rosen, good luck to you.very much. >> thank you. >> gregg: food fight washington style. republicans and democrats slamming one another over their plans for the future. we'll try to sort out the mess next. >> julie: that's going to do it for us. i'll see you in an hour on the fox report. have a great weekend, everyone. >> gregg: bye-bye.

correspondent james rosen reports on the sniping between the current president and the man who would be the top dog in the house. for the second week in a row, president obama zeroed in on the house g.o.p. leader painting him as unsympathetic to tonight's, teachers and state and municipal workers facing layoff. >> john boehner who wants to be the next speaker of the house, if the republicans take over, he specifically said well, these are just government jobs and they're not worth saving. now, it's just not smart from an economic perspective for us to allow a whole bunch of those jobs that are right here in the united states to go away. >> reporter: boehner made headlines last month demanding the president fire his economic team. mr. obama returned fire in his home, calling out his name no fewer than times. >> there were no new policies for mr. boehner. >> we've offered him new ideas for the last 20 months. >> reporter: on sunday, boehner said he wants to see the bush era taxes for all income brackets, but would support an extension limited to the middle class if he has no other choi

kraft's irene rosen if he would remains second followed by patricia ward.hat is your "moneyscope" report. >> it is :19. now 67 degrees. time for traffic and weather every 10 minutes. >> rapidly-changing situation. a newly issued tornado warning. take a look at our live doppler radar. look to the right-hand side of your screen. a tornado warning for southeastern calvert county in southern maryland and eastern st. mary's county until 7:00 a.m. so another 40 minutes to go as this system moving towards the north at 40 miles per hour. tornado warning for southeastern calvert county and eastern st. mary's county until 7:00 a.m. on top of this warning, we also have a tornado watch in effect until 1:00 p.m. this afternoon. also a wind advisory to the south and east of d.c. until 6:00 p.m. and a flash flood warning for the entire metro area until 6:00 p.m. this inc. so a lot -- this evening. so a lot going on. that's why we have doppler radar indicating tornado warnings. nothing has touched the ground at this point. look at the rain totals. 6.2 inches in fairfax as

james rosen is keeping an eye on that live. james. >> reporter: jon and jenna good afternoon.lican lawmakers say their party is unified, they want to see the bush tax cuts extended to all tax pwr-bgts including the upper ones, democrats say extending the tax cuts to top easterners will effective lee sock our national deficit with an additional $700 billion. this debates unfold as we expect to see senate action on a separate bill that would give approximately $30 billion to encourage lending to small businesses by community banks. the remarks on the senate floor yesterday by the two party leaders made clear that these issues of taxes and lending are very much linked. >> they are holding on to the capital while they wait for us to act. half a million americans who want to work, people ready to get off unemployment and get back to the job that they so desperately had or one that they need are desperate for us to get our act together. so we need to go to work. >> reporter: democrat. >> democrats sent the last two years putting government in charge of healthcare, car companies, stu

james rosen has more on the gop's new power couple. >> not going to beat him up or anything, right?t has expected a sock in the face from john cornyn. demint has become a potent counter weight to his own parties leaders in the choosing of winning and losing candidates. >> i hope i am a threat to the so-called establishment here in washington. i see press reports of anonymous staff members cowards saying things they won't say to me. a lot of the republicans here will whisper to me that you know, keep up the fight. >> demint in this cycle has thrown his weight behind 12 gop candidates. nine winners. most aa audacious was the backg of mar co-rubio. now, he is vowing to raise by next week $174,000 for kristine oh donald. >> people can come to senate conservatives.com and give directly to candidates. we have ten candidates on the site and hopefully we will hit 5 million before november 2. >> only sarah palin who boasts no beltway title rivals demint as an unofficial gop kingmaker this year. endorsed 43 candidates and racked up an impressive 25-11 record. like demint palin rejects the kin

she was the preferred choice there, but the going rogue candidate christina o'donnell has rosen onto the national stage, she's very conservative and democrats think they have a real chance to keep this seat in delaware now because she's far more conservative than the establishment moderate candidate who lost. >> okay. primaries are one thing, conservative voters are enthusiastic ahead of the midterms, be new a presidential election it all comes down to the independent vote. that's where it comes down to. what does it say about the prospects of a tea party candidate in 2012? >> all the primaries this year are shaking things up. far, far away a lot of the candidates like mitt romney who have been quietly laying the groundwork with more traditional visits to iowa and new hampshire and south carolina over the last year and are going to continue to do that. it is hard for them to get as much attention as sarah palin. this was the most attendance for the dinner in iowa she was at than they have ever had. she tracks a lot of attention from the left and right and can raise money. that will m

the victim 75-year-old joan rosen that will found shot to death just outside of her front door.olice say they've invested 4,000 hours following leads and investigating this but they've made no arrests as of yet. an anonymous donor has post the that reward money. >>> eight city officials of the southern california town of bell are going from jail to court this morning. they were arrested in a scandal that has drawn nationwide attention. the mayor, the ex-city manager and six current and former city officials are accused of taking more than $5.5 million from this working class suburb of los angeles. the eight are facing dozens of charges for legally paying themselves enormous salaries. >>> a federal judge could decide later this week whether to resume executions in california. capital punishment has been on hold in the state since 2006 following a legal claim that it may inflict cruel and unusual punishment. the state attorney general office is now asking the judge to lift that ban saying that the state has modified its execution procedures. a ruling on the request is expected by

dear 7 day around the bay shows it is the end of the heat wave come tomorrow coast of fog rosen we willh day torture labor day. >> we are tracking a problem for the santa cruz mountains this hot spot ciller has been issued because the southbound lanes have been blocked a deal to replace highway 17 is closed so they are using similar road instead. a number of vehicles got trapped in the back up with bigger rigs there is no way to turn them around they will have to sit there until crews can deal with the spill of beer it was 43,000 lbs.. then they have to write the trailer and open lanes. it is likely to be awhile. it is backed up to glenwood. tracking the drive on interstate 80 hot spot here read showing on the road with sensors leading down towards berkeley just between ashby and university there was a minor accident in the second lane from the left it has added to this slowing. the bay bridge however is not that badly backed up. san francisco was quite heavy on the inbounds central freeway not so bad now. from time to time we have seen a back up here where the central freeway and the j

james rosen is live on capitol hill. this is interesting.he white house message has bank of america' the republicans trying to take care of the rich. we democrats want to take care of the middle class. now you are seeing 31 democrats saying we don't think the rich should be taxed more either. >> with neither party having the votes they need to ram through their prefer approach on the extension of the bush-era tax cuts, the name of the game has been to find a few members of the opposition, cherry pick them off and persuade them to defect. as we take a look at a live picture of the house floor where a vote is underway. the republicans as the minority party have seized on a new tactic, namely, they are pressing, daring house speaker nancy pelosi to stage a straight up or down vote on whether to keep all tax rates as they are now for all tax brackets. this move comes after two top lieutenants to the house speaker, both democrats from maryland, steny hoyer and chris van hollen have signaled their amenability along those lines. but the house speak

is cull der rosen making any measureable progress? -- is calderon making any measureable progress?0 deaths in mexico, largest loss anywhere on the when you look at the per that's a lot because of the aggressiveness of the calderon administration and taking fight to the cartels. one of the important things is remain consistent from a government perspective to continue to disrupt and dismantle these criminal organizations. >> gregg: what do we need to do? >> to make sure we continue to improve the security at our country's borders. there's been talk national guard resources, more infusion for the supplemental fins, border patrol agents, having the right strategy to make sure there is not a spill over to this date there's not been evidence of that we want to make sure we don't see that spill over of violence into the united states. >> gregg: jason ahern, thank you. >> thank you. >>> frightening situation in mexico. gunfire is now being heard and felt across our border here in america >> julie: yeah. >> gregg: that is going to do it for us thanks for watching. >> julie: i'll see you in

james rosen is reporting live for us. >> reporter: midterm election politics in the air here on capitolnetheless president obama stands poised to win another round with the senate expected to approve a $30 billion measure that sets aside taxpayer funds for community banks to lend to small businesses. republicans had successfully fill bus terd -- filibustered this measure back in july. this week two republican senators, a senator from georgia and one from florida relented. president obama speaking at the white house thanked the two senators by name and urged the rest of the gop colleagues in the senate to quote stop playing games on the other matters that are pressing around here, that is whether to extend the gush era income tax cuts. they say they want an up or down vote on all the taxes and he says it's the president that doesn't get it. >> the sooner we extend the current tax rates for all americans, the sooner some of the uncertainty that is clouding the picture for small businesses begins to clear up. it's important if we want the economy to get going again. >> reporter: a key figu

james rosen is live for us in washington with a look. james. >> reporter: jon, good afternoon. the mood here at the values voters summit where you can see congresswoman michelle bachmann over my shoulder is upbeat more than a year ago, heady with the enthusiasm of the tea party movement, with the trends seen in tuesday's primaries and the prospects of gop takebacks in the house and senate. the bell of the ball, christine o'donnell won't be speaking until 3:00 p.m. eastern time, but a number of politicians who have been stalking iowa and the 2012 presidential nomination for the gop are making their presence felt, governor huckabee spoke this morning and also an individual who endorsed christine o'donnell, senator jim demint of south carolina, exulted on the stage here that the gop establishment isn't too happy with him right now, he said that the tea party movement has ensured that the ballots in november won't be featuring just the least worst choice. >> i don't know if the media is going to help us communicate this, but none of us want the government to push our religion. don'

elsewhere: said rosen not clustering to rebound temperatures into the upper 50s 63 fairfield upper 50sreakthrough this our continuing with '50s and '60s by noontime bringing in some '70s unlike yesterday we will work our way into the 80s in the north bay right to the delta and the livermore valley as well. in the '60s by the o'clock hour. your route to highs getting up 81 in santa rosa 83 napa 84 for fair fairfield 70 through san rafael in nevada. '70s sure the bay and in the '60s along the coast. check out the 7 day around ave. nice day if your loving the beach weather. the temperature in the '90s inland eighties around the bay '70s for the coast. monday it could be a fire watch to a temperature into the troubled digits. the upper 80s run bay and '70s by the coast. let's check on with traffic. >> problem in san jose will tell you about a moment. but the bay bridge westbound no problems here the back of continuing to diminish only confined to the right hand lanes for the west bound cash customers of the bridge even with this second wave at 10:00 a.m. san mateo bridge ride looks well ve

making our way through the day to day will burn off quickly staying cool this morning up and said rosennapa about 56 for san francisco 61 intro clinton, who as the make their way into the afternoon breaking their way into the '70s with the latest today 75 percent rosa 6437 cisco 4 degrees cooler than yesterday south bay temperatures in the mid-70s 76 for los gatos 72 in san jose killing it in the upper 60s through oakland 74 hayward and your city. listed check gone traffic was george. >> no hot spots but we do have some slowdowns. the ride through san francisco the inbound central freeway is slowing a bit of approaching the james like it's a combination of things a minor accident northbound could be garnering some attention and of course this merge right here between these two freeways and things have been backing up there. this is a pattern for about six weeks or so that we have seen slower traffic on the inbounds and from merging with the south don james let. the bay bridge in the westbound ride there are the back up slowing a bit. this 880 approach still the best one to the bridge an