(gena rowlands) i said, "how do you know when the light is right?" and john said, "you know the light is right when if you're in the audience, you want to reach through to touch the face ofhe person that you're looking at." and i thought, you know, that's how immediate the characters in the audience, how intimate they were. and i don't know. for some reason, i always found that enormously touching. (narrator) john cassavetes collaborated with a close circle of friends, including his wife, gena rowlands, to explore a world of emotional chaos outside the standard hollywood fare. (gena rowlands) every time you break a rule in anything a certain number of people are going to be disturbed. and people were not used to being disturbed in the movies. john didn't write a logical, intellectual, well-crafted script from beginning to end, which everyone is always comfortable with. (gena rowlands) he'd write a very full script, but when he gave you the part, that was yours. now you! you let me finish! you're a man who doesn't say what you mean very well. what you

rowland was born in 1927 in ohio.fter skipping grades in high school he entered university at the age of 16 and studied chemistry. in the 1970s he suspected that the earth's protective ozone layer was being depleted by clor oh for oh carbons from refrigeration devices. his theories were disputed by business leaders and some scientists. in the 1980s scientists discovered a hole in the ozone layer proving rowland correct. this led to the 1998 protocol for the production of the ozone layer. in 1995 he and two other researchers were awarded the nobel prize for chemistry. rowland said scientists have an obligation to take action when they discover something that affects the environment. >>> last week, we were saying spring was just around the corner, but we may have spoken too soon. rachel ferguson joins us with the world weather forecast. rachel, it feels chilly in tokyo this morning. >> hi, catherine, it does feel chilly. we're still in the middle of winter feels like right now. fortunately, we don't have any of the snow

now we of steve rowland on the construction update. -- we have steve rowland on the construction update. >> good morning. construction management oversight. a quick update on the activities of the past period. 230,000 craft hours over the complete transit on the transit side. 20,000 in the month of february. the buttress work continues with 10 shops completed in the last period. down on the west end they started the piles that will support this service trestle, we spoke about at the last board meeting. pg&e is working on the infrastructure on fremont street. finished first read already. we're focusing on getting the traffic bridge in over the memorial day weekend. as bob reported, there was one recordable incident on the project. to clarify, it was not a serious incident, but what made it recordable is the individual was given a prescription pain medication, versus just over the counter bad bill or tylenol. and-- over the counter advil or tylenol. it was just an ankle sprain. that is the first recordable incident since last july. to give you an update on the timeline, you have seen this

>> ted rowlands reporting live from ft. leavenworth, kansas. we'll talk to a military life and blogger who has written an open letter to bales' wife carolyn. she wants carolyn to know that it isn't her fault. >>> new developments in the shooting death of an unarmed florida teenager. the fbi and federal prosecutors have now joined the investigation. outraged protesters are demanding justice for 17-year-old trayvon martin. he was only carrying candy and iced tea when a volunteer watch captain, george zimmerman, killed him last month. zimmerman says it was in self-defense. he has not been charged. sanford, florida, police say there's no evidence to refute his story. martin's dad told anderson cooper, it's racial profiling. >> i think it's just a matter of profiling, which i think that's an issue that mr. zimmerman himself considers as someone suspicious. a black kid with a hoodie on, jeans, tennis shoes. as you said, thousands of people wear that outfit every day. what was so suspicious about trayvon that zimmerman felt as though he had to confron

ted rowlands is in chardon for us. ted, how hard has it been this morning for kids and teachers to arrive at school? >> reporter: well, as you can imagine, fred, it's been a very tough day here. it was a tough day yesterday, too. students came with their parents yesterday to school. they had about 1.5 hours in the school cafeteria, the school classrooms where they could go. there were counselors on hand to talk to. they have changed the school taffe tear yeah. that's where the shooting took place. they changed it in a way that they've painted it. they've changed the way the cafeteria tables are arranged in the room for students. of course four students were shot sitting at one of those tables. they are really encouraging the community to be involved in this healing process. take a lis ento the superintendent yesterday at a press conference at the school. >> parents, be a model for your children. they watch and will embrace everything you do. send them off to school each day with a hug and a kiss and the message to do t

cnn's ted rowlands is live in chardon, ohio.id i misspeak, i thought classes were going to start in an hour and a half. is it really in 30 minutes. >> 30 minutes, yeah, students are just starting to arrive at sdmool 30 minutes. it will be a difficult day, obviously, a regular day of classes, they're saying, but counselors will be there, grief counselors, it will be anything but a regular day. they were there yesterday for a short period of time with their parents. they've changed the school cafeteria around, soledad, where, of course, this shooting took place. they have painted it and they've changed the way that the cafeteria tables were arranged. they completely redid that. of course, four students were shot while sitting at a table in the cafeteria. they say they want a fresh start as this students come back. it was a very emotional skrin in the school yesterday. i suspect it will be same there today as well. >> it's got to be hard to imagine to get a fresh start when the funerals also start today, right? >> yes. we have a wa

the biggest surprise of what they found in 2-year-old rowland, chemicals found in nearly anyone else in the world 6 times higher than in parents, twice the levels that researchers see in land animals. this is a serious warning said a scientist researchers on flame retar tkapbts. young children are exposed because they put their hands in their mouth and bodies don't eliminate chemicals as readily. to me i think very historically crystallizes what we are learning. that was a story in 2006 by the environmental working group where they analyzed the umbilical cord blood of newborn babies and found an average of 200 chemicals found to be toxic in every single baby, man made synthetic chemicals. when we see this picture that babies are being born into the world polluted with industrial chemicals it is time to say how can we do things differently? how can we do things differently? that is the question that essentially we took to the world's largest beauty companies starting in 2003 letters, phone calls. who thinks the companies were wanting to have this conversation? unfortunately they weren

cnn's ted rowlands is following the story for us. >> i think if i would have had more information, maybeanged. >> reporter: standing in his front yard, steve virgona broke down talking about the murder of jane beshara. >> sorry. but i want justice served. >> reporter: she was found strangled to death in her abandoned mercedes on january 25th. virgona said his frand, joseph, a handyman came to him after the murder. >> he was anxious and crying about it and everything. but sometimes it's a situation you just can't get out of. you've got to make the right choice. >> reporter: virgona says the choice was to tell police what happened, that gentz killed her in her garage, that her husband, bob, convinced him to do it. >> he was manipulated. >> he was manipulated. >> reporter: he says he went with gentz to turn himself in february 23rd, but after hearing his story, police let gentz go. gentz who virgona and others say has a low i.q. was arrested a month later for murder and conspiracy to commit murder. he's currently undergoing a mental evaluation. her husband remains free and maintains his inn

ted rowlands is outside ft. leavenworth, where bales is being held.s been covering the story from the beginning. let me ask you, ted, first if you could clear up. last night trying to make sense of 17 charges when reports of 16 civilians murders. turns out there was another tern killed. right? >> reporter: yes. it's interesting, erin. the afghan government still has their casualty list at 16 but the united states government and charging documents released today say they have evidence that robert bales killed 17 innocent afghani citizens. that's what he's charged with. >> i know he spoke with his wife for only the second time. do you know what they talked about? >> reporter: we don't. we do know that the army allowed that conversation to take place during a blackout period. they made a special exception to allow bales to talk with his wife. it was a phone conversation. she didn't come here to leavenworth. they did talk we understand for a period of time and the army allowed them to have that conversation, even though technically he was in a blackout pe

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cnn's ted rowlands is following the story for us. >> i think if i would have had more information, maybe: standing in his front yard, steve virgona broke down talking about the murder of jane beshara. >> sorry. but i want justice served. >> reporter: she was found strangled to death in her abandoned mercedes on january 25th. virgona said his frand, joseph, a handyman came to him after the murder. >> he was anxious and crying about it and everything. but sometimes it's a situation you just can't get out of. you've got to make the right choice. >> reporter: virgona says the choice was to tell police what happened, that gentz killed her in her garage, that her husband, bob, convinced him to do it. >> he was manipulated. >> he was manipulated. >> reporter: he says he went with gentz to turn himself in february 23rd, but after hearing his story, police let gentz go. gentz who virgona and others say has a low i.q. was arrested a month later for murder and conspiracy to commit murder. he's currently undergoing a mental evaluation. her husband remains free and maintains his innocence. >> we have

ted rowlands is there following the story. what's the latest you can tell us?ell, erin, we're not getting any information from ft. leavenworth. they are not commenting because these charges haven't officially been released. we reached out to john henry browne, the attorney of sergeant bales who was here earlier meeting for two days with his client. he says until he's seen the charging document and officially shown these charges, he is not going to respond to what he says are, quote, leaks. so we're getting no information from bales' attorney or from ft. leavenworth here. one of the specific things we're asking is why 17 charges when the official death toll as far as we knew was only 16. clearly someone else must have died in the past few days. >> ted, i'm curious, our pentagon team is reporting that some of the difficulties here in proving this case include the fact that autopsies were not done on those afghan civilians. there could be resistance in the afghan community to, obviously, taking them out of the ground and to finding more information out from the au

ted rowlands, thank you very much, as you can see standing outside ft.venworth. >>> let's check in with anderson cooper. i know he has more as we continue covering all this breaking news here tonight. >> yeah, major developments in the killing of trayvon martin, including thousands rallying right now in sanford, florida, his hometown where the teen of course was shot dead. the man leading sanford police department's investigation as you reported stepped aside. did not resign. tonight i interview the man who has the power to actually fire him, the sanford city manager just ahead. >>> also new late details on what killed whitney houston. the toxicology report out tonight. we'll speak with dr. sanjay gupta and dr. drew pinsky. what role the drugs found in her system, cocaine and a cocktail of others played in her death. we're also keeping them honest on the gas prices. >>> now free speech or grounds for discharge? sergeant gary stein says he's facing dismissal from the military after he posted anti-obama comments on his facebook page. now, he founded the ar

lou gill ton, pat buscovich and frank rowland , geotech -- gee owe technical engineer. are we safe standing here? >> (inaudible). >> okay. right behind us, we can see all the way down san francisco's ocean beach and water front all the way down to points stig identity. what is that. >> pacifica is sticking out. beside that the muscle rock, the next promenade to the north and san andreas fault. >> muscle rock is what? the middle ground? >> in the fog. >> the bunch is just coming out. >> it's the point furthest south. >> okay. and why is that important to us? >> muscle rock is where the san andreas fault comes into san francisco cocaine and city a nd -- county and city. >> this is -- >> coming out into the water. >> going into the water, and out past fill rock and frank, where are we going from there. >>çó port race, it comes up between valleja so,. >> that's balinsa and point rat fault comes in between those two. >> okay. how far offshore is the fault where where we stand? >> about a mile and a half to two miles offshore. >> i have a question. i always hear that earthqua

officers say rowland ramirez and his girlfriend were spotted in a stolen car around 12:30 this afternoon. the two allegedly led police on a short case which ended when ramirez tried to carjack another driver according to police. two cars and one building were damaged in the police chase and several streets were closed during the investigation. these late winter storms that have hit the bay area have had a significant impact on water levels and snow back. this is what it looked like in east san jose just a couple hours ago. it is raining, you know. it is not raining but actually snowing on top of mount hamilton and stephanie traun is there to show us what's going on right now. it looks beautiful actually. i am sure pretty cold. >> you are right. it is beautiful but very cold. the last time we saw you it was snowing nicely and went on and off the last hour and the wind has picked up so it is really hitting you now, the cold. let's show you one more time you have a couple of inches here of snow that's snowing and been snowing since over night and really started sticking today. you can see s

ted rowlands is there with us. we'll check in with him next. >>> plus, what did bales' wife blog reveal about their family. that's all coming up. >>> but first, a mom who proves we will do anything to protect our kids, even from a shark. 15-year-old sidney labee and her mom lala were surfing in florida. sydney was pulled off not once, twice, a shark had her ankle in its mouth. >> the girl was getting sucked under. i said there is no way this thing is going to kill my daughter. >> she yanked up her on to the board, single-handedly saving her. clearly jaws has nothing on sydney's momma. if that doesn't make you a rock star, we don't know what does. ♪ she's a brick house [ leanne ] appliance park has been here since the early 50s. my dad and grandfather spent their whole careers here. [ charlie ] we're the heartbeat of this place, the people on the line. we take pride in what we do. when that refrigerator ships out the door, it's us that work out here. [ michael ] we're on the forefront of revitalizing manufacturing.

and retreat of interpretation of nixon's civil rights policies was advanced by such journalists as rowland evans and robert novak. and liberal members of nixon's administration who left the administration like leon panetta who wrote a memoir. problems with the southern strategy include that it is simplistic. it is to a certain extent unsophisticated and one-dimensional. it's true it captures nixon's political motivation which was undeniable. it also tends to wrap isolated events into a tidy all policy is politics argument. the second school of thought might be described as the nixonian revision. this we can see in the 1970s, continuing into the 1980s. we see memoirs emerging in the 1990s. this is the first effort to revise the record. it could be found in memoirs by nixon and some of his closest and most loyal advisers such as william saffire, ray price, leonard garment, george shults. even john urlichman. these writers stress nixon's policies and accomplishments such as peaceful desegregation of southern skooms in 1970 in the wake of the supreme court's ruling and holmes versus alexander.

police chief of cicero illinois has been hired by the chicago city council finance committee thomas rowland will help finance german ed burke investigate the validity of workers' compensation claims by city employees the sun-times reports that he was once investigated by the fbi and a cicero police officer said that he threatened his job for cooperating with the fbi thomas rowan has donated about $10,000 to alderman ed burke and his political fund >>two brothers a former state treasurer alexi giannoulias have been named it a federal lawsuit involving the failure of chicago-based broadway bank prosecutors say that george n. demetris giannoulias approved 17 questionable and money-losing bonds which directly contributed to the failure of the family bank in 2010 alexi giannoulias was not named in that lawsuit however the bank's failure was often brought up during his 2010 senate campaign including allegations of questionable loans that were made to convicted political fund-raiser tony rezko the fdic regulators are trying to recover $104 million in losses by this time next week rod blagojevich w

we have police activity at rowland avenue and deep dean.'s no access northbound or southbound. to avoid all the across, the alternates are falls road or charles street. traveling on the harrisburg expressway, plenty of cop gestation from sean road over the belfast. >> on the topped to have inner loop, expect 20 minutes. and on the inner loop, a significant delay from the southwestern boulevard to security boulevard. almost 30 minutes to get through. jammed up to march raiseville road. white head at wood lawn, labor hill at claire knell. and north charles at cam worth. things are very busy on the belt way. and we'll take another live look. things seem to be easing up just a bit. back over to you. >>> it's a great day to enjoy some ice cream not just for you, but for your dog. >> we have more on the first ice cream truck for our four legged friends. [barking] >> reporter: it's maryland's first ice cream truck for dogs. >> i read an article about the first doggy ice cream truck in the u.k. a bell went off in the back of my head and here i am t

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live in this in a country you're an independent country and the united states decides we can send rowland's to your country attack and kill whoever we want whenever we want and this is a now why i mean is it any question that there are enraged and furious in cutting off the program and there's going to be terrible blowback from the drone rates there's no question about it innocent people are being killed in this lots of evidence about that you can argue about that and the government certainly of pakistan will see it from other countries are saying wait a minute you do not have the right to come into our country and decide who to kill and when to kill and how to kill so i'm not surprised again that pat's unraveling the only question is how the u.s. would be elites in the pentagon are going to come to terms with a sensually a new kind of warfare new kinds of threats and how well you couldn't deal with it other than with military solutions because many of these problems are social problems and they are economic problems they're educational problems there are bad guys who have to be gotten afte

the electronic books are available on jacky rowland's -- on the author rowling's web store. now you can play the book on many devices. national tickets are opening day are now going for an average of $81 each right now. that is much tighter the last year when it was $52. that is business news at bloomberg headquarters in new york. the linda bell reporting for abc 7 news. back to you. >> thank you. not a good start for tennis star. she will not be serving up a new routine on dancing. martina was the first celebrity to get the boot from the dancing competition after messing up the job on monday night. she said she did this in the first place because the thought of dancing scared her. >> before the show i was worried about the actual dancing. what got me was in 75 seconds of dancing and i blew the first 10 seconds of the dance and that was the whole season. i am not used to that, because in tennis you can come back for the next point if you miss a shot. >> 11 contestants left. they will have to perform a dance that tells a personal story next week. it airs monday night on abc 7

ro rowland martin, dean and chris me metzler. welcome to all of you. first question.sterday's primary showed that those who thought the most important quality within a candidate was the ability to beat president obama. those exit polls show romney was way out in front with at least 46% of the voters saying that. so the question this morning, should romney just get on that horse and ride full out to the finish line, don't even talk about other issues. rowland? >> if so, he will be dead in the water. you have to talk about issues people care about. you have to be focusing on issues of the economy. what romney shouldn't be doing is talking about nfl owners and nascar owners as being his friends and learn to sit down in living rooms to get an understanding of what mom ceos and dad ceos are talking about. it has to be about economy, economy, economy. >> chris? >> absolutely. he has to showhe's electable. he can't just say he's most electable. and talking about the grits and olives and all that, get away from that. dude, you just seem so uncomfortable. let's talk about jobs