i'm russ ptacek. >>> it has been a rough night.arted with the storms earlier and they just kept coming. >> they did. in fact, they just issued severe thunderstorm warnings for prince george's county and for anne arundel county. >> we said a whole wave was coming through. >> it held together well. not like the derecho, but more rain and flooding than anything else. let's start with live doppler. anne arundel county lit up in yellow, that's severe thunderstorm warning, and prince george's county lit up as well. it goes until midnight, because of this little slow end of the round. in fact this is the end, the tail end of the heavy thunderstorms today. kind of intensified over prince george's county. some hail, on the east side now of 301, and they're pushing eastward towards annapolis. we're talking big time rains. this is going to cause flooding again. rainfall rates one, one and a quarter inches per hour. this is a pretty big store. we showed you this at the top of the show. that's gotten more intense from manassas back towards wood

. >> the details of that waste are incredible, russ. thank you. >>> mayor gray speaking out after news of that poll that says a majority of d.c. residents wishes he would get out of the job. don't forget, three d.c. council members have called for mayor gray to resign in the wake of the corruption vote scandal. kristin fisher caught up with the mayor today. i can't imagine he's a happy catcher. >> no. clearly doesn't like the numb -- happy camper. >> no. clearly doesn't like the numbers, but he understands them. he's urging his constituents to not rush to judgment, but what this poll shows is that it may be too late. >> i just ask people to allow this investigation to run its course, to complete the work that's being done and then all the facts will be on the table. >> reporter: mayor play pleads patience just because three of his campaign associates have pleaded guilty to felonies, the mayor says it doesn't mean he's guilty. >> i haven't been charged or convicted of anything. >> reporter: but 54% of d.c. residents now say the mayor sho

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here's our investigative reporter, russ' restaurant report. >> the most common thread inspectors found restaurants opening after the storm with food that had thawed and warmed well beyond what is safe to eat. in washington, on southern avenue southeast, inspectors sited china southern, sited chicken wings were held at unsafe temperatures. >> soda. >> did you sell any food during that time? >> no. >> so all this food that was at the improper temperature, you planned to throw it away? >> throw it away. >> inspectors sited the restaurant for ten violations total, including mice. on the waterfront, inspectors sited jenny's for 22 food violations reporting no employees seen washing hands between tasks and mice droppings. >> very serious. >> terrible. >> right. very serious. >> okay. >> we won't be eating here. >> were you about to go in. >> yeah, we were about to go in. >> district only made for two of the five area restaurants. reports show shutdown for vermin. tyson's buffet on randolph road. and best way snacks in landover. in arlington on columbia pike, inspectors reported suspending th

nazarian, russ ptacek, 9 news now. we've been trying to get an interview for two weeks now about this bill stabilization allowing the utilities to bill customers for the time they were without power do. you feel you explained that today? >> i do. >> reporter: people were not happy about it here. >> not happy about my explanation or not happy about what? >> reporter: they're not happy about customers being billed to reimburse the company for revenues lost during the outage. >> i think i've explained. you're not paying for power that hasn't been delivered. >> reporter: no one said they were. they said the utilities are being reimbursed for revenue they're not making and you signed that order. >> we instituted bill stabilization adjustment for most of maryland utilities a couple years ago, yes. >> reporter: did you get the message today these council members don't like it, the people in this audience don't like it? >> i heard a lot of different messages and we're taking them all back. >> reporter: did you hear one person

investigative reporter russ ptacek spent time a these numbers. >> pepco sent us new numbers which we haven't had a chance to review yet, but according to our analysis based on the news releases over the past few days, pepco did come in last place in our analysis day after day. they just didn't compare as well as the others. as crews fought through trees and debris, pepco didn't provide data for restorations for saturday and sunday, but according to press releases only 60% of customers were restored by monday, 80% restored tuesday and 89% restored wednesday. pepco was consistently in last place in our analysis of restoration completion when compared to potomac edison, dominion, novk and bge. as crews completed restorations novk reported 62% restored the day after the storm and 99% by the 4th , but it serves only 37,000 customers. of the big three providers in our analysis, dominion was restoring customers faster with 95% restored by the 4th compared to pepco's 89%. the numbers anger montgomery county council president roger berliner. >> i think the numbers demonstrate that pepco is pe

here's investigative reporter russ ptacek. >> reporter: tonight we take you into maryland and d.c.h shocked customers. customers at z pizza beckoned us close enough to see the citation, and for us, to see their reaction. >> here's the violation. >> roaches in the establishment, okay. creative with the pizza. that's kind of messed up. been coming here for a couple of weeks now. >> i haven't seen any roaches, so, yeah. >> reporter: inspectors cited eight violations including live roaches, no hand washing sign, and workers not wearing hair restraints. even if it's a grocery store or a gas stay, like this extra in upper marlboro, inspectors are looking for food dangers. they shut the deli inside this gas station because they found them operating without any hot water that would allow them to wash their hands or their utensils. the manager blamed a storm- related malfunction. inspectors also found no hot water at gin lounge on 14th street northwest and gunked up soda guns, and an expired license. >> hi, how are you doing? hi, we're here about the health department closure. >> reporter:

reporter: you're aware that people are asking you -- [indiscernible] >> i'm aware, yes. >> he told russ he has no regrets about his decision. >>> the parents of an 8-year- old prns william county boy are -- prince william county boy are charged with child abuse. they were arrested after the child turned up at a house on glen meadow lane and appeared to be lost. investigators say the boy had severe bruising all over his body. they believe the abuse happened on a constant basis. the child is in the custody of child protective services. >>> 9 wants you to know there are new allegations of more misspent tax dollars at the general services administration. the inspector general is now launching an investigation into a reward and motivation conference the gsa held in 2010 at a marriott in arlington. the one-day conference allegedly cost taxpayers $270,000 and here are some of those costs according to investigators. $41,734 for travel, more than $34,000 to rent the venue, $28,364 for time and temperature picture frames, $20,578 for 4,000 drumsticks to be used during a drum exercise, and $7,697

nazarian, russ ptacek, 9 news now. we've been trying to get an interview with you for two weeks now about this bill stabilization allowing the utilities to bill the customers for the time they were without power do. you feel like you explained that today? >> i do. >> reporter: people here were not happy about it. >> were not happy about my explanation or not happy about what? >> reporter: they're not happy about customers being billed to reimburse the company for revenues lost during the outage. >> well, i think i've explained. you're not paying for power that hasn't been delivered. >> reporter: no one said that they were. >> they said utilities are being reimbursed for revenue they're not making and you signed that order. >> we instituted bill stabilization adjustments for most of maryland utilities a couple of years ago, yes. >> reporter: did you get the message today these council members don't like it, the people in this audience don't like it? >> i've heard a lot of different messages today and we're taking them a

cheat they're just going off of russ wassenaar of senior. signature he says yeah there's three hundred million in the bank trust me they don't ever call the bank they don't want to see your real statement what sense does this make they have n.s.a. people in their offices every day going over all their advertisements and all their paperwork with a fine tooth called how could they have not known this money was not in that us big account say funds need to be locked out they need to be reported on a daily basis but right now this is not a requirement of these regulators and the n.s.a. has failed miserably to do its job it is failed completely to do its job if you can't do something as simple as check the bank account what good is well and even in the wake of m.f. global you would think that there would be that much more scrutiny of segregated funds which makes this all the more alarming and my view at least i appreciate you being on the show to share your story thanks so much christopher that's christopher olsen president and c.e.o. of treasure

joining us georgia alfredas, co-host with russ parr on the russ parr morning show, week days at wkys.ihanna recently lost her grandmother. we all have trouble when it comes to our grandmas. >> somebody has to get her off twitter. she tweeted pictures, really nice special tweets, but then posted a picture of herself on her inthat gram, it appears to be a bottle of beer, and it says sorry, gran-gran, i had to, or something to that effect. she looks wasted. it's not a good look. she either has to go private with our instagram. it's sad, but people think she's spiraling out of the control again. >> it could have been worse. >>> apparently adel may be a mom sooner than we thought? >> how dare her not clue us in. we hear a few weeks ago that she and her boyfriend are expecting a baby. we think she's, what, three months pregnant, because that's the traditional time -- turns out she's like seven months pregnant, going to give birth in september, and it makes sense, she was noticeably missing from the billboard awards. she she's curvy, i thought she was giving us some curvacious swagger, but i

. >> peta calls it ill conceived the plan is too daempk russ she called the prospect troubled people and says it's like playing roouett. >> people can change, too. >> and is offering the city 10,000ses today cancel it but the program is set to begin august 1. in san francisco, abc 7 news. >> there is safrlt r.santa clara getting a new court house after planning and development this, is a sketch of what the court house will look like. it is expected to save between $2 million and 3dzs million a year. and there is a july 2015 come police date. >> a study suggests a chemical found in every day cosmetics could increase the risk of type two diabetes in some women found women with higher levels of phalates had almost twice the risk. researchers say the link is an important first step. >> and graco is banning the use of certain chemical flame retardants and is reported they've committed to removing four of the most-toxic flame retardants. and nearly 4,000 parents signed a petition asking the company to do this. >> there are scientists promising to fix a bug in software and users learned pri

russ spent his day getting some answers. >> well, it depends who you ask.ast year pepco made its largest investment in infrastructure ever and that's nearly a half billion dollars. tonight, a spokesman says that's just part of the utility's response and critics who said pepco just doesn't stack up. >> last year, business insider.com listed pepco among the 19 most hated companies in america. also at the bottom of the heap was comcast, time warner, and delta airlines. but pepco ranked number one for most hated. business insiders sited a survey showing 70% more pepco outages than other big city utilities. three years of analysis shows pepco customer satisfaction dropping year after year to last place in 2011 among 19 east coast utilities. even as bucket trucks hit the streets, new complaints tally up. this report prepared for the maryland public service commission identified troubles during 2010 outages. recommending outages including tree trimming, reliable related initiatives. improve estimated time of restoration of service, and improve customer communicati

russ. >> hi anita. maryland customers still don't know how much they'll be billed for those first 24 hours. pepco lost all of their revenue from the storm power. but estimates vary from around nickels to dimes dimes to around a dollar. it could be against the law. >> today, downtown bethesda is back to full power. and although our report went viral online, about maryland, pepco, and bge customers being billed for 24 hours of income, many here are just now learning about it. >> so you are going to get a bill for that? >> no. >> really? >> state senator says our story could change the law. >> people were in the dark. your story lit the lightbulb. >> constituent reactions from our report could influence the maryland state house. plans on introducing legislation in january to ban such practices. >> lightbulb went on. people said, oh my god. i'm paying these people for not giving me electrical service? >> why should you pay for something when you don't have it? >> should be no charge. >> yeah. i need to call

that was russ.thawing, oh, no. >> reporter: and it turns out that when deputies got on to the scene, they saw there was a note in the car where russ tried to kill himself. that note spoke to accounting problems at the company. sheriff thompson immediately called in the fbi and everything has gone on from there. as they continue to try and unfold this, we also reported earlier today that russell's son had sent an e-mail to employees the friday before the monday suicide attempt basically saying that everything was okay. clearly, that's not the case. maria. >> what a story, scott. thanks very much. we'll keep following your reporting on this. scott cohn tonight live. let's get more with tomorrow's action. what we want to look forward to. 30 seconds on the clock. our next guests will tell us what they think will move the markets. joining us now, steven bookbar, kevin karen, and rob smally. peter, what are you watching for tomorrow? >> tomorrow's focus begins tonight when china reports their very importa

you'll see that tonight. >> thanks, russ.erek. >> lesli, mitt romney back on his way back to this country after his three country overseas trip. the presumptive republican nominee ended his visit in pow land, but the critics are focusing on controversial comments he made a day or two ago in israel. the story from danielle nottingham. >> layed flowers at a monument to heros. one of the couple's final stops overseas. >> beautiful. >> the republican white house hopeful received a warm welcome in poland. a country that has been at odds with the obama administration. >> in a turbulent world, poland stands as an example of freedom. >> romney's trip has been filled with controversy. in london, he questioned whether the city was ready for olympics. he told them their culture was better off economically than palestinians. reporters shouted questions about those comments after romney visited poland's tomb of the unknown soldier. that threw anger, in this exchange that a reporter recorded. >> show some respect, jim. >> we have another c

. >> they said you know that guy that tried to kill himself at pmg, that was russ wassendorf. >> he survived prosecutors say he left a note detailing the nearly 20 years of fraud. "through a scheme of using false bank statements i have been able to embezzle millions of dollars from customers accounts. my ego was too big to admit i failed, so i cheated." >> millions of dollars of customer money is missing. the company is bankrupt the restaurant is closed. the impact extends on-iowa and and beyond the employees and customers across the country. this is the second firm of its kind to grow go broke and take customers with it. the first was mf global run by former new jersey senator jon corzine. more than $1 billion is unaccounted for and regulators are considering cracking down on commodity firms which comes too late in cedar falls. >> i don't know it reaches into the community when so much effort going into character here it is sort of shocking. >> now a pillar of the community sits behind bars. charged with making false statements to regulators. prosecutors say additional charges are likely. a

search for something jaw who went to google to find a new leader this afternoon for global executive russ meyer was officially announced as yahoos ucla. lyon who is 37 stars were tamara i the struggling sunnyvale company got a hose that she can bring some stability soon a company that has seen five ceos and they say her experience lodging's the mogul's most popular features of the last 13 years separates her from past leaders. >>> she brings a lot of cachet to that job. 5 million as the silicon valley brand appeal if she does that limit the company more accessible to software engineers and developers. were there was trash anyone had treasurer people started to drop flour's by name and some point sometimes are oranges and apples and pears but put was not welcome with open arms to push to move the mouse. and whether we admit we all have the capacity for road rage what makes people more prone to lash out? they ought to protect that the group willing to pay to certain people to be foster cats ahead suddenly as the dog days of summer and we have had unseasonably cool temperatures now the data

pilot russ mowry, however, is stuck inside, and the engine is still running with 80 gallons of fuel onthreatening to ignite. police officers arrive within minutes. they were already on the scene responding to the earlier shooting that the helicopter originally was sent to cover. >> he was telling us, pull the red levers, pull the red levers. >> to stop the engine. >> to stop the engine, yes. >> rescuers pulled out the pilot out of the wreckage and shut off the engine. the three men are taken to the hospital. all survive the incredible crash. the fuselage around their seats protecting them like a cocoon. their unbelievable survival becomes a national story, and pilot russ mowry is interviewed on the "today" show. >> my last thought was i wanted to get away from the street, wanted to hit a rooftop, get on the rooftop level. i saw that -- what i thought was a white chimney. i said, if i can hit that chimney and stop, that will arrest my forward motion. i'll stop when i hit the chimney and land on the roof. i thought, well, this is it. and it's over. and it was -- no flashbacks. i'm dead,

investigative reporter russ ptacek is tracking food dangers in this week's restaurant report. >> reporter: one of the most awkward parts of my job is telling customers who have just ordered what inspectors found inside. by the time we told customers at chien dragon chinese carry -- china dragon chinese carryout they had already ordered. >> today i got shrimp with broccoli. >> reporter: how is the food here? >> whatly today was good. >> reporter: any worries today -- what i had today was good. >> reporter: any worries today? >> your presence. >> reporter: on friday the 13th inspectors found insects and gross unsanitary conditions that may endanger public health. workers handed me a phone with the manager on the line. this is the second time you've been closed, so i'm trying to understand what's going on here? he declined an interview. in the carryout's other closure last october inspectors cited workers blowing their nose or coughing and no one washing their hands, food at unsafe temperatures and a sewage backup. prince george's county reports three closures including family dollar on barn

russ uncovered the bonuses in the aftermath of gsa's infamous las vegas convention. we remember those videos. >> this has been a long haul and anita, our investigation showed the very gsa officials responsible were among dozens who received dozens of $10,000 a piece. we uncovered the bonuses shortly after those gsa videos with workers bragging about easy government money. with details of 2200 square foot hotel rooms for gsa executives and 823,000 las vegas conference run by a man now infamous for his champagne bathtub shot. jeffrey was awarded $9400 no bonus money. but our freedom of information act request showed he wasn't alone and it went on for years. received 33,880 in a bonus in 2009. 15,500 in 2010, and another 22,000 in 2009 followed by 10,000 in 2010. of the most recent bonuses, documents uncovered by 9 wants to know 6700 high ranking officials splitting more than half a million in bonus money. all between $8,000 and $10,000 a piece. today's announcement would eliminate 85% of that. acting administrator said quote, i believe that these immediate changes will

so russ particularly yesterday and today we had phenomenal positive reaction to mario draghi the ecb he's going to print money, lower interest rates, buy bonds. today it sounds like angela merkel backed him up. do you buy it? you've been around the international scene for a while. do you buy it? >> you know, i buy that europe is sort of stumbling towards a solution but here's the problem, larry. obviously the politicians in europe are aware of the challenges, mario draghi is well aware of them. it's not year, though, that all of these challenges will be solved in the time frame that the market is looking at. in other words we're talking about fiscal integration on a very large scale, sovereignty issues. these issues are not settled overnight. while it's encouraging mr. draghi will take more aggressive action the reality we'll see europe as a source of chronic stress for the foreseeable future. >> when you see a big two, three day rally like the one we've just had, obviously because of the european discussions of bailout city, do you buy it or do you sell it, russ? >> this one seems a

. >> they said you know that guy that tried to kill himself, that was russ wassendorf. >> they said heetailing the fraud. through a scheme of using false bank statements i have been able to embezzle millions of dollas s show i cheated. >> millions of dollars of customer money is missing. the company is bankrupt the restaurant is closed. the impact extends on-iowa and beyonds customers across the country. this is the second firm of its kind to grow go broke and take customers with it. more than $1 billion is unaccounted for and regulators are considers cracking down on commodity firms which comes too late in cedar firm. >> it reaches into the xhunlts when so much effort going into character here it is sort of shocking. >> show a pillar of the community sits behind bars. prosecutors say more charges are likely. allegations of white collar fraud come home to roost right here in iowa. >> we are back in a moment with a strange sight in the air today and a man's unbelievable labor of love for his wife. [ engine revving ] ♪ hey, hey, hey ♪ [ tires screech ] [ male announcer ] with fuel econom

russ found out the program wasn't originally intended for storm outages. it was intended to encourage energy efficiency? here's the deal. >> it was designed to encourage the utilities to encourage energy conservation. to help them make it to the bumps when people use less energy and charge less for delivering that energy to your home. we conserved a lot after that storm. we have spoken to regulators and the utilities and read the order. virginia and the district don't allow it. even in maryland, they had a hearing six months ago and whether this was manipulating the system. instead of eliminating it, they cut it back to the first 24 hours that they are billing you that they can bill you now. this is the official maryland public service commission order that put the charge into law in january. and take a look at this wording. right there on the original intent of this payback, it was to encourage ewe utilities. spoke against utilities using the order, supporting energy conservation, reimburse utilities where no energy is going through your meter. >> it adds

russ is here because 9 wants you to know if you'll be charged for an outage. this doesn't seem rational. >> well, the power companies make their money for delivering the power to you, not so much for the electricity. but for the billing charge to bring you that electricity. and this is the state order that allows the power companies to charge you when they can't charge you for delivering that power. so when the power is out, there's a way for them to recoop their losses when they can't charge you for delivering that power. >> ask any maryland customer who went without power after the storm. >> i wasn't aware of that. >> that's news to me. >> and you're unlikely to find one aware while they were counting the hours without electricity, the ewe till tills were counting the losses so they could bill the customers. and regulators allow it. >> it isn't fair. i don't see anything else. >> they are getting paid when regular citizens are losing out. >> in maryland neighborhoods, many that went days without power, consumers are billed separately for the electricity. it'

i'm investigative reporter russ petasik, 9 news now. >>> pep cotoday donated $25,000 to the american red cross. the red cross and local emergency management agencies have been providing food, water and shelter to impacted residents. pepco said it is also working with police and fire officials to make sure they know how to handle electrical power emergencies. >>> we have a lot more information on the after the of this epic storm on our web site wusa9.com. >>> they had to cancel their fourth of july festivities because of last friday's storms. but cheer up, gaithersburg residents; the city is rescheduling its fireworks display. it's for next friday. the action starts at 5 at the montgomery county fairgrounds. i guess when it gets dark, fireworks. >>> deciding's biggest fireworks show was over in just a matter of seconds. a technical glitch last night caused all of the fireworks to go off it at one time. it lasted 15 seconds. thousands of spectators geared to get a view. some people even camped out for hours to see the fireworks others used the restroom, came back and it was all done. >

. >>> more of russ getting our news from youtube.morning, a study released that show people head to the site during times of major events or natural disasters. a third of the most watched videos come from eye witnesses. >>> barack obama will hold his first town hall meeting today in ohio. expected to launch another round of attacks against presumptive opponent, mitt romney and his financial dealings. according to the campaign, fl pl this is the latest in the series of attacks which changed the subject in the president's handling of lackluster economy. >> he ought to say he is sorry for the kinds of attacks coming from his team. >> we won't apologize. >> the tax returns have become an issue with the obama team and republicans saying he should release more than he already has. romney campaigning today in jackson, mississippi. >>> time for five things you may want to know. board of trustees will hold a meeting in tallahassee talking about the resignation of that school's president. a band member was killed when he was hazed in november.

i'm investigator reporter russ ptacek, 9news now. >>> now to utah a bizarre suicide case in which theler try to steal an airplane. he killed his ex-girlfriend in colorado and today he tried to make a get away. he climbed a fence in utah, boarded a 50 passenger jet and started the engine. the plane crashed into parked cars. when police got there, they found him dead of a gunshot wound. >>> we move on to campaign 2012 tonight where mitt romney now trying to get back on the offensive after days of president obama slamming him for his business record. romney told the crowd mr. obama funneled federal grants to companies that he says belong to big democrating sfourtters and donors. -- supporters and donors. >> that kind of capitalism does not create jobs and it does not create jobs here. >> at a fundraiser in san antonio, he took another shot at the president's record. he called him a pioneer of outsourcing. he argued that his opponent beliefs prosperity comes from the top down. >> i believe in fielting on behalf -- fighting on behalf of working families and giving them opportunity. >> tax

federal regulators today sued the firm and its chairman russ wasendorf, sr., for misappropriating client funds and submitting phony bank records for at least the past two years. the national futures association froze p.f.g.'s accounts late yesterday, after the company reported wasendorf had attempted suicide. he remains in critical condition. we spoke with wasendorf back in november as the futures industry was grappling with the m.f. global debacle. >> f.c.m.s are required to keep their customer funds segregated from their operating capitol. that's religion in the f.c.m. world. we don't ever violate that. >> susie: also today, p.f.g. best's clearing agent, jefferies group, unloaded positions held by p.f.g. customers after the firm failed to meet a margin call. jefferies says it does not expect to incur any losses. as we mentioned, worries that corporate earnings will fall short of expectations set the tone for trading on wall street today. the s&p 500 opened to the upside but quickly lost ground, leading the index to close near its worst level of the day, down 11 points at 1,341. trading

tied for the best record in baseball, russ detwiler on the mound tonight, coming off his best start ofn, but as you know, every night is not going to be a winner. tonight was not a winner for the nats or detwiler. nats fans were out there tonight. they want to know if they can get a refund. wasn't pretty, man on second. here we go. this one's out of here. two-run shot. it's 2-0, milwaukee. bernie brewer, very happy, loving that one. bottom of the fifth now, steinman replaces detwiler. he didn't do much better. boom, there she goes. two-run homer. it's 4-0, brewers. this is not going well, folks. top of the seventh now, nats finally threatening. we have two on, livan hernandez gets sandy leon to ground into the double play, that ends the inning. nats end 6-0. shut out for just the third season but the second time in the last week. >>> orioles hosting the a's, not a lot of good pitching in this one, none at all. bottom of the eighth, tied at eight, bases loaded. this one out to left field. j.j. hardy comes in to score. jim thome is sent home. that isn't a good idea. he's gone. orioles up

investigative reporter russ has found out those bonuses there are three times bigger than anybody knewto know obtained the information even congress couldn't get. >> now we can see why they didn't want to give us the details. you've helped uncover incredible abuse of a bonus system. >> watch our investigation expose $30 million in unreported gsa bonuses right here tomorrow night. >>> so in light of all that, how does $5.25 an hour sound to attend summer school? that's right. paying kids to go to class right here in d.c. according to the washington examiner, the program pays rising 9th graders who are considered less likely than their peers to graduate on time. the examiner goes on to say only 53% of public school students in d.c. do graduate in four years. >>> in tonight's health alert, the symptoms of juvenile arthritis and why kids need to be diagnosed as soon as possible. juvenile arthritis is an autoimmune disease that affects $300,000 kids. joint pain and swelling is the main hallmark but youngsters can also have g.i. tract problems, skin issues and even inflammation in the eyes.

ever since in the 200 years since that war britain, america, canada have stood side by side in new russhting with each other and invariably on the side of justice and of peace. thank you very much. >> now a word from the british prime minister. >> onnored gentlemen. it is my great pleasure to participate in this historic event as we mark the anniversary of the war of 1812 and commemorate the long-lasting alliance between the united states and the united kingdom. now, it's true that our shared history had a turbulent beginning. indeed visiting the white house earlier this year, i was a little embarrassed to confess this managed to burn the place down. today as you sit at fort mchenry, the sight so ably defended by u.s. soldiers against the brits, you can't help but think of the battle of baltimore, the event that inspired the star-spangl"star-s banne banner". in part i suppose you can sort of thank the british for your national anthem. now, the war's origins may be obscured today, but what maps maerts since the end the two countries have been allies for almost 200 years. that eelgsship h

because it starts with a plain russ runny nose and it is typical of flu and then it goes on for daysks and you sound like dr. siegel that he end, which is real whooping cough. >> jamie: i remember, in california, years ago, actually it was on the rise. is it seasonal? is it certain places around the nation, right now? >> it tends to be all year around but especially like all respiratory viruses in the winter and i have to tell you, jamie, it is a worse problem than everyone realizes, the cdc says 15,000 cases reported a year and it is on the rise, but many experts think it is goeser to a million and i'll tell you why -- closer to a million and and i'll tell you why. pooh don't know they have it, when you are a grown-up, you don't have the whoop, you feel run down and, have a little cough and you think it is a virus and it turns out we were overtreating those with zithronycin and we were getting rid of it and, now we are saying we are overdiagnosing things and it is a bacteria and because of that early diagnosis and treatment is key but there are so many infections out there we are mi

many would also like to see meyer convince her predecessor, russ levenson, to stay. now, lev levinsohn was interim ceo after scott thompson was dismissed earlier this year. most of us, including me, assumed he would get the ceo job. this is the second time he's been passed over as ceo. he has a lot of people who are very loyal to him at yahoo! meyer would be well served to convince him to stay. the other big task is exciting the rank and file at yahoo! getting them excited about being yahoo!s as they call themselves, and we'll continue to watch a and see how she does. a busy day for yahoo! and a rather exciting day for marissa mey meyer, marla, her first day as a ceo. >> absolutely. scott, as you say, she's a yahoo! now. meyer will become the second woman to take charge of yahoo! the first was carol bartz who ran the company from 2009 to 2011. mayer is the newest addition to a growing list of female power players in high tech. meg whitman is ceo of hewlett-packard, cheryl sandberg is ceo of facebook, who finally took a seat on the company's board of directors in june

in june, 2001, our former colleague, senator russ fine fwoe gold of wisconsin, held the senate's second and most recent hearing on racial profiling. i was there. there was bipartisan agreement about the need to end racial profiling. then came 9/11. in the national trauma that followed, civil liberties came face to face with national security. arab americans, american muslims, south asian americans faced national origin and religious profiling. to take one example, the special registration program targeted arab and muslim visitors, requiring them to promptly register with the ins or face deportation. at the time, i called for the program to be terminated. there were serious doubts if it would help us in any way to combat terrorism. terrorism experts have since concluded that special registration wasted homeland security resources and infect alienated patriotic arab americans and american muslims. more than 80,000 people registered under that program. more than 13,000 were placed in deportation proceedings. even today, many innocent arabs and muslims face deportation because of special re

. >>> the list of financial geniuses who turn out to be con artists keeps growing, and russ wasendorf the latest. he's accused of stealing at least $200 million. as dean reynolds reports this morning, not only did wasendorf betray his investors, he also betrayed the small town where he set up shop. >> sometimes things that look too good to be true are too good to be true. >> reporter: for mary shepard, former president of the cedar falls rotary club, it's been a harrowing week. >> it's pretty rare when we have the fbi showing up downtown and going in and out of a building, and there's a scandal that's been going on. >> reporter: on main street, the aftershocks are still being felt from the implosion of the peregrine financial group and the unmasking of its founder, local boy russell wasendorf, as a fraud of the first order. he promised $2 million to the university of northern iowa, contributed to charities for disabled children and funded scholarships to a local community college, evidently with money he stole. wasendorf tried to kill himself a week ago in the company parking lot, hav

has shaken off the setback hailing the rebels' actions and pledging additional support to russ baker from the investigative website who was why don't call me told me the mainstream media are seeing june with washington's anti side stands. a decision had been taken and that it was necessary to intervene or invade or whatever you want to call it and then all the news is fit to match and so what we see is a whole series of documented unsupported allegations and in the case of syria as in the case of libya these are allegations of mass rape. and of massacres without carefully trying to establish who exactly did wired who saw what and so forth what we do is we start finding that it goes it's trans pre-suppose back to several individuals who seem to be syrian emigres living very interestingly in saudi arabia others in the united states appear to be connected to exactly the people who want to displace the saudi. we're keeping a close eye on the developments in syria more analysis on the timeline of the conflict develop on a website any time you want to check it out refresh yourself starting

his company and report, and don't come back and come back here, and eventually he gets the most fame russ job at fulton fish market. and as a young man as a teenager getting up at 4:00 in the morning, shoving crushed eyice, and coming home and smelling like fish. this led him into eventually getting a job at tammanh hall. as part of this, all of these groups are beginning to organize. and as we said, this is sort of the heyday of the irish machine getting its bearings in new york in the middle of the 19th century. what were conditions like, the lower east side is famous during these years, particularly as you get into the late 19th century as being the single most crowded place on the face of the earth. >> the question is twofold. one, i am interested in what al smith's role and commitment was to both the new york state's civil service system and labor, and how he championed that when he campaigns on the federal level. what specific things did he do to help reform new york state politics and particularly the civil service system and his commitment to labor? what did he do for the labor mo

then in focus will be getting the latest from the olympic games very shortly following russ' golden triumph on t.v. one. reason for the most expensive football player ever in combined transfer fees is locked on the bottom of it scores on his debut for p.s.g. . history maker robert green cars the lowest ever and score at the can you do you know. action is well underway now on day two of the olympic games in london there's already been a gold medal handed out jell-o. when juno doing the business for china in the women's ten meter a pistol shooting advent when june first retaining the crowd and she won her home games in beijing four years back. up with ukraine's. bronze the gold though further stretching team china's leader of the top of the medals table. team russia meanwhile claim their first gold medal of the games on saturday's opening day for more on the on the country's hopes today day two here is under former an richard from port played. so what a night when day for russia austin gal stan coming from nowhere to claim gold in the men's juday he beat all the favorites on route to the sixt