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he became very famous for the publication of this book "the catcher in the rye." he hated the attention. how has no fury like a media shunned. they responded by portraying him as a reclusive widow which is a bit unfair. -- a reclusive weirdo which is a bit unfair. his letters to his friend reveal a warm and open man. he would go on coach tours and he would go to the theater. salinger's letters share a stylistic trait with his published works. >> when you read "catcher in the rye," it is a very casual style. the letters are from much like that. they are very casual and it is like a conversation. they are all quite short. he has hit the nail on the head and he can be quite poignant. >> his estate was not enthusiastic about these letters being revealed. the author would have probably shared the reluctance. >> i think he would hate the idea of a letter that can be read by people. i think the justification is that say they were tolstoy's letters or shakespeare's, of course you would want to read to them because you would learn something about a man who created somethin

. >> you're using rye bread. >> mine is grilled swiss with tomato on rye. >> tomato swiss cheese, ryehe pepper aspect. i don't know if it'll work. >> this is not a two-part series. >> come on. >> choose the cheese very carefully. >> well, a little basil, mustard then i'm going to -- >> it's a little high. >> may want to turn it high. >> so serving italian grilled cheese, roasted pepper, basil. >> i love basil. and i love this mustard. >> i don't know if i can speak to you because i just got here and now you're leaving and it's just too much for me to bear right now. >> prosciutto. >> it's prosciutto and monchego cheese because it's my favorite. >> spanish/italian thing. >> i'm puerto rican. you are not. >> and the mediterranean. wait a second. >> it was the closest thing i could find. it was the closest thing i could find and i'm going to zhoosh it up with a secret ingredient. >> which is what? >> i'm going to keep it a secret with your help. >> basil. some fresh herbs. how about a little tomato pesto. >> really? >> you sure? >> tomatoes, prosciutto and basil and this will add moistur

he became famous for "the catcher in the rye." the media responded to him as portraying him as a recluse and a widow. the american author wrote to his friend and it revealed a warm and open man. he did theater and coach tours. they have been given to the university by his friend's daughter. she thinks that his letters show stylistic traits with his published works. >> he has a casual and chatty style. the letters are very much like that. they're very casual and chatty. this is like a conversation. he realized at the end of the letter, they are all quite short, that he hit the nail on the head and he could be quite poignant. >> the j.d. salinger a state was unenthusiastic about the letter is being revealed. our reluctance the author probably would have shared. >> he would probably hate the idea that these letters are here. the justification is that so are charles dickens letters, tolstoy's letters, you can learn something about the man who created the things that you love. >> this is unlikely to be the last time that j.d. salinger

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rye not start now? the ukulele, that's your pacific event for the day. >> i'm in. >> that would be fun. >>> now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. the first week in january is normally quiet at the box office. but the ticket estimates hold it's the worst since 2000. "true grit" took the top spot with a mere $15 million becoming the first western to top the $100 million mark since the 1990s. elsewhere, jim carrey and the black keys helped pump 2011's first "saturday night live" episode to the show's biggest overnight rating since last may when betty white hosted with jay-z. kim kardashian and their mother is being sued by the company creating the prepaid debit card. this endorsed by the sisters. they pulled out of the deal over the card's high fees. >>> finally, david and victoria beckham announced this weekend baby number four is on the way. congratulations to them. >>> this comes to us from washington, d.c. where thousands turned up a little too casually attired to their

." -- rye." he hated the media attention. he shuns the media, and they portrayed him as a reclusive we're there. that was a bit unfair -- weirdo. that was a bit unfair. his friends reveal him as a warm, open man. he loved hamburger's, theater. daughter has a docto' different look on him. >> when you read that book, he has a catchy style where he talks directly. he is casual and is chatty, he talks as if this is a conversation. he can be quite poignant. >> his estate was not enthusiastic about these letters being revealed. >> i think j.d. salinger would hate the idea of these letters being read by people. the justification is say they were shakespeares' letters, you want to read them, because you learn something about the man who created this. >> this may be the last time that j.d. salinger is in the news. there are talks of unpublished manuscripts. a year after his death, the author famous of being publicity shy still cannot escape the public eye. bbc news. >> drug smugglers in mexico have been caught on video by using a cata

rye. it's a very old and certain pretty authentic i guess from back in the day. it's even possible to watch footage from the pit back in one thousand nine hundred sixteen and the conditions the men had to endure on the ground. almost two hundred years old and the coal industry is still the region's largest exports but not all the fuel here ends up on the phone. igor smirnoff has a much more creative use for it he claims he's the only coal sculptor in the world it's amazing to think you can create something as following and detailed as this out of such a fragile and thorsten difficult area to work with but without a little incentive from a friend none of these might be here at all one of the goals makes bets in that he'd never be able to make a sculpture of cole. he didn't put too much money on. his work ranges from fantasy pieces to portraits of the saints and he's quite happy to give lessons to. do less work on a design. this is such a tricky material to work with the coal is coated with a special glue to stop it shattering but with every stroke of the chisel i

conservancy is more about getting everybody together and teaching them what the difference between rye whiskey and vodka is and how you would mix that, more of the culinary and cultural appreciation of beverages. i think on that level, our message is very much on immature and developed -- on a mature and develop stage. we do not develop shot in beer specials and street parties. i guess we do develop parties, but it is about more of immature message about appreciation and responsibility -- more of a mature message about appreciation and responsibility. >> i appreciate that level of awareness and education. the young learn by following -- >> exactly. that is the kind of message. the state of today's cocktail culture is at the same level as our food. i do work just like the top shops in the country. i get flown around the country to speak and perform and present, to teach about cocktails', beverages, and spirits, very much the same wish of stew. so do my colleagues. among those levels, we want people to understand that the cocktail holds this place on the same stage as wine, coffee, and b

rye is also with md-vip. his practice has shrunk from 3,000 patients to 250. now he has no doubt he's offering better care. >> preliminary data from md-vip shows we're cutting down hospitalization rates as much as 50 to 70%. and emergency room visits are also down by 50%. >> reporter: 68-year-old peter wallace uses medicare and pays $1800 for the specialized attention. he says it's a small price to pay. since he made the switch, his doctor diagnosed a heart problem early, helped him lose 25 pounds and kept him out of the e.r. after a bike accident. >> i feel like i'm going to live a lot longer. i feel better, i'm a lot healthier. >> reporter: right now there are ten bay area doctors participating in the md-vip program and that number is growing. marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >> interesting concept, thank you. >>> now to an nbc bay area follow-up. the environmental protection agency wants to know what led to a series of marin county sewage spills. sewer systems overflowed in ross valley at least two times before christmas, sending hundreds of thousands of

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. >> the hospital police officers we have on campus have a rye sponsibility. we have made shifts to increase hospital police officer presence within the secured treatment area you're taking thaem way from other areas. >> but they're not permanently stationed in units? >> but that is something under consideration. it's being analyzed. >> what do you say to worker who's say they're afraid to come to work? >> i think the, what the department would want to message to those employees is that they're concerns are reasonable. >> i asked turner how long this will take before they act on requests for more police. she said all that have is driven by money. and considering the battle over money that is going on in sacramento that could take months and workers say the situation is dangerous and unacceptable. >> and students in a middle school are fighting violence with smiles. they the san francisco unified school district's respect week focusing on diversity, conflict resolution and prevention of bullying. >> in the hallways and classes we smile at one another it builds

senate the democrats are still the majority and the rye peel is expected to be defeated. also-- repeal is expected to be defeated. president obama says he will veto it if it takes it to his desk. >>> 7:16. we've just learned congresswoman gabrielle giffords will be flown to a rehabilitation clinic in houston on friday for more aggressive treatment for her head wound. in the meantime, her husband is describing his horrifying ordeal after his wife was shot in to ton. mark kelly says for about 20 minutes, he thought she was d ead. he says he broke down in tears after watching tv news reports that said his wife had been fatally shot. kelly says he then learned she was alive when he called g iffords's mother outside the operating room. he now feels his wife is on the road to to a slow but steady recovery. >> she gets a little bit better each each day. every day i see her, she looks better. as long as she stays on that slope, i'm confident she will make a full rye coverry -- recovery. >> kelly said president obama was the first to call him when he got to the hospital. he though

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. >>> president obama has agreed to sit down for an interview with fox news host bill oh rye lee as part -- bill oriley has -- it's customer. last year the president was interviewed by katie couric before the super bowl. >>> scientists are down playing talk the recent mass bird and fish deaths thousands of them suddenly dying are a sign of something apocalyptic. biologists say the reality is mass dieoffs happen all the time. the u.s. geological survey recorded 95 mass wildlife deaths in the past eight months. most have gone unnoticed. however because we do have global communication now more people are aware of things and experts say technology makes it easier to document those events. >> i still think it's bizarre. >> it's weird. >>> everyone is talking about this, sal it seems very biovar and not normal. >> right i have gotten a lot of tweets on that. go ahead and tweet me if you want. i take traffic information. you can talk about whatever you like really. let's go out and take a look at westbound 80 information. it is crowded here in berkeley though. once you get to san francisco 101

evolution of his tone that in the early essays it's a serious tone, and then at the end, you get the rye tone we're familiar with, and there's a phrase that he's a happy pessimist or something like that. >> guest: a cheerful pessimist. >> host: there are essays where he provoked everyone. he says one is masculine and the other is feminine, and i can tell you if you wrote that in the "new york times" you might be generate a letter or two being critical of the feminine one, but was that a tension in the way they approached discourse? >> guest: i think it was just a self-preservation on my mother's part. >>i think the book is shocking in the 50s when she wrote it that my father, you know was an intellectual and read widely as you can tell. me reading the book, i was amazed of how she assimilated at an early age and the essays are amazing from his 20s. there's a certain confidence and proclaiming about the thinkers and usually respectfully about them but what we learn from some thinkers, and my mother is more scholarly and careful saying here, let's go through the structure. she did maybe to

anyway, i want to thank rye and for that intro and also thank the cambridge library, this wonderful building, and thank maryland in particular for inviting me to be here. i also want to say a special thank you to my classmates, to fritz donovan and the harvard class of 1959, several of whose members are here today and make me feel very much at home. as i was listening to brian speak about this book, i found myself questioning, wondering what they're really it is an antiwar book. it's called "reasons to kill: why americans choose war." and i don't think i would have written it if i didn't believe that the united states had become involved in too many unjust and unnecessary wars. but on the other hand, the question that i'm asking, why do americans choose war goes in a way beyond the question of which wars to you like and which wars did you not like. it goes to the question of how we become convinced that a war is worth fighting or not. because one of the things one finds for a quickly when doing research on a subject like this is the ubiquity, the strength, the power of anti-war movements in

sam has written the best book of the rye bread. it is called "empire of summer moon." it is an unbelievable epic history and get an incredible narrative storytelling so congratulations to you for having written just a fantastic book. [applause] but in addition to the fact that i admire sam so much i have to say i am so excited to be with him here today because sam is one of my very good friends. when i was starting as texas monthly and knew less about editing stories than i do today we went to lunch together and i worked on a piece that i didn't feel great about that was okay with. and sam and i went to lunch and i had never met him before. he had been in "time" magazine and before that a national correspondent. he was hired as an executive editor and he is now a senior editor for the "dallas morning news" in my neck of the lives. we started talking about this story and every moment that i thought i had taken a misstep in that piece as an editor he was able to identify it on his own and yet he was able to do it in sort of a wonderfully supportive and obstructive way. i

that's westbound traffic on the rye. bay bridge toll plaza also pretty quiet now.rely a wait for the cash-paying lanes. golden gate bridge looking good. no major trouble out of marin county. we don't have that live shot in the south bay, but it's been very quiet in san jose. just also mass transit has been reporting no delays but for that vallejo ferry, keep in mind using a transit bus for the 7:00 departure. you can always get the latest at abc7news.com. eric? >> frances, thank you very much. 6:20 is our time. the san francisco 49ers may have to up the ante if they want stanford jim harbah as their new head coach. steven ross is reportedly flying to the bay area to meet with harbah this morning. supposedly making him the highest paid coach in the nfl. he met with 49ers owner york and ball beingy for hours yesterday. the san jose mercury news reports an nfl source says it may take six or $7 million a year to land harbah. the chance to land the schedule so the world champion giants can open their season at home against the dodgers isn't going to happen after all. it

. >> ok rye and, jackie as always returned you for inside hockey do you think this season is too longavel as hard as they played more division rivalries it would be a lot easier on them. >> we always talk about husbands and wives living together and it's hard to keep a relationship going. what if you lived six months out of the year was the one you didn't care about. you know what i'd say about you didn't love you're bouncing around. let them get it out jacki. >> i think the do better in the playoffs. >> let me say thank god you're here, whenever she talks hockey and i don't same assembled enough to be your grandfather i get very excited that one to jump across a desk. when we return the world series mvp maybe he's not retiring, babies coming back to the giants. maybe a million dollars was an insult. edgar of little but talk about edgar next. @ world series mvp edgar true local fire what he said he was insulted by the giants $1 million offer to return. supposedly talking to the giants and a number of other teams. he said i was going to retire, why line is when you're mid to late '30's

i said, well, i'm not sure, but i think it is important that people in zimbabwe know that chang rye is saying one thing to them in public and another thing to u.s. diplomats. it may make it more difficult for him to arrange the kind of political solution he wants, but it's important the people know that he doesn't necessarily represent what they thought he represented. so i think it is good. i think it is important that there be whistleblower protections. >> host: we have about 40 minutes left with our "in depth" guest this month, phyllis bennis hartford, connecticut, thanks for holding. you're on the air. >> caller: hi, how are you? happy new year to you. my question, i'm originally from pakistan. my thinking, i've read about afghanistan war, but i haven't read your week, and i will -- book, and i will definitely. >> guest: good. >> caller: my assessment that afghanistan war right now is a war by proxy within a civil war. do you agree with that assessment, and how you see it ending? what you see as end game? >> guest: yeah. >> caller: how and where and when? >> host: phyllis bennis. >

. >> reporter: maria, news anchor for rye tv in italy, says it's america's youth and drive that stillw where all politicians are fixed and glued to their chairs until the age of 75 or more, that is quite a lot. >> reporter: so as the year turns, europe's verdict tingd no doubt with wishful thinking, reports of america's decline are greatly exaggerated. ♪ way down south >> osgood: and next, bill geist. >> reporter: i spend new year's eve at the opossum capital of america with this. no offense. ralax. it's the one. the one recommended by more doctors. only miralax is clinically proven to relieve constipation with no harsh side effects. miralax is the only one. restore your body's natural rhythm with miralax. on new year's eve all eyes were on the krystal ball dropping in new york's times square. what? nobody was dropping anything anywhere else? get serious. a giant pickle plunged into a barrel in north carolina. a 200-pound balogne fell to earth in pennsylvania. in times square they drop the ball. and here they drop a shoe. >> reporter: a live drag queen floated down in key west. and th

instead of being the leaders of the generation that they had once been, they come back and they are per rye yas in the generation and that class a a fault line in american history, and they are despised by many in the country for what they did, and so, you know, their pain would still reside in them to this day. it's something that you don't have to dig very deep to feel it. >> time for one more question. >> could you comment about any discussions # about the -- institutions about the use of the atomic bomb in germmy. >> the use of the atomic bomb in germany? well, you know, i think the germans were lucky the war ended in may. you know, i had looked, maybe you know, i've never seen definitive evidence of planning to drop the bomb on a german city that was, you know, they didn't know until very late in the game that the thing would work, and so to my knowledge there was no operational planning of the same sort that was going into building b-29s for long range bombing missions and b-29 carry the bomb to hiroshima. there was great anxiety about what the germans were capable of doing in terms o

economic data is being weighed in the middle east and how that might impact oil rye serves. right now, the dow is up 26, 11,849. nasdaq is up 2 1/2. s&p is up 5. also this morning, the price of crude oil is hovering around the $90 barrel mark. investors are worried the process could be slowed by moving the oil down the canal. there are also concerns that it could spread across other nations and stop production. >>> in egypt, massive evacuations are underway as houses -- as thousands of foreigners as the political unrest enters another day. our reporter is in cairo with an update on what is happening there politically. good morning, fred. >> reporter: hi, good morning, tori. politically, it really is in turmoil in egypt here. we saw tens of thousands of people calming into central cairo to protest against president mubarak. but the people say they will stay on streets until he's gone. the military is bridging in more and more -- bringing in more and more tanks. they are setting um checkpoints. they are sort of trying to control the situation which is working in downtown cairo

no imagine ear problems reported rye now -- major problems r eported lie now with muni and. yesterday we had a problem at 880 northbound at high street. that's been fixed. this morning, at the toll plaza, it's much lighter today than it was yesterday for some reason. once you got on the bridge, it looks good. moving along to the peninsula. traffic is moving along okay on 101 but it's getting busier and in the east bay still some slow traffic, 580 at airway there is a crash. 880 heading south down to the silicon valley. it's busy. 101 is not. but as these days wear on more and more people coming back to the silicon valley jobs and the commute seems to be getting better every day. let's go to steve. >>> a morning like we've had the past couple. that's fog or cold. mostly sunny. higher clouds are right there. they are just dropping down over the ridge of had. if you get the sunshine, it's not too bad later on. low 0s, mid-30s, but but a lot of 30s. sonoma and kenwood, 29. eekmont, near kenwood was 28. gilroy, petaluma, 32. novato, san carlos, 37. coal valley and potrero hill in

. >> the protein found in barly, wheat, rye and contaminated oats.e, one out of seven. >> if you're trying to cut down on gluten or can't have it at all, what do you do when you go out? >> it's gotten easier, george. i started off by walking into a restaurant and explaining to someone what gluten was. it's gluten. and why i wrote the g-free diet, is to give everyone an easier way of the talking about it. in the handbook, i outline how to be in an restaurant. there's tons of mainstream restaurants that you can be a part of. you can go to wendy's, d.q., p.f. chang's. outback steak house. on the broad range of price and cuisine. it's important to call ahead. if it's restaurant that doesn't have a menu that's gluten-free. call ahead, with severe intolerance to gluten. you're able to open up the conversation. can you have a special pan that's clean, available to make my chicken. >> when you get to the restaurant, that may not be gluten-free, there's warning words to watch out for. >> yeah. a lot of marinades, unfortunately, do contain gluten. if something

first, to rye peel it then to try to starve it by cutting off the money. >> obamacare will interrupt the country. you'll continue to see the fight. >> reporter: next line of attack, government spending. republicans are threatening to cut offer the ability of the government to borrow money, unless it gets back to where it was before barack obama was president. >> i'm not going to vote for an increase unless we get back to the spending levels. >> reporter: the white house says that's playing with fire. >> it's caused purity by insanity. >> reporter: the third line, investigation. new republican sheriff is darrell issa. he's planning a barrage of hearings on everything from medicare fraud to the government's failure to prevent the bp oil spill. >> as soon as the administration figures out that the enemy is the bureaucracy and the waste full spending not the other party, the better off we'll be. >> in their first official act, republicans plan to vote to cut it by 5%. it's a symbolic move, robin. one that won't balance the budget. >> as you said, a symbolic move at that. jon, thank you v

we'll need to wrap rebecca's wedding gift, rye. >> of course. >> we'll need to wrap birthday gifts. baby gifts throughout the year. pick the colors relatively neutral and don't just think holidays but i'll milk this stuff all year long. >> another one that got me, gift cards, deals in january on them. what's that about? >> because there is a re-sale market. people got them for christmas. some got gift cards to places they don't like to shop and wanted cash so they went to a site like plastic jungle and sold them, which means you can buy them now. there's a great selection like buying discounted cash. i can buy a $100 gift card for 90 bucks. the really bargain bees load up on these to buy something like a washer and dryer they will buy five $100 gift cards at five dollars off. if you know you will shop at that store, discounted cash. >> you talked about a historic cal reference, some are no-brainers, any other reasons in particular january being this time of year to get good stuff. >> it kims down to timing. the other we don't have is carpeting. people entertain for the holidays and

that's a real battle that's happening in this couldn't rye right now. -- in this country right know. -- right now. that's something we have to face in this country. we've got higher taxes, but we've got economic prosperity so the essence of the challenge is are we going to create a free enterprise country or be an entitlement society. mr. akin: i think you've really framed things, you're getting off at a distance and say, there's two choices, and the two parties really are very, very different in this. one seems to be the party that wants entitlements, they want food stamps, and they have unemployment and the other party is saying, we want jobs and paychecks. that's kind of the choice. and if you want jobs and paychecks, you've got to have a free enterprise economy. if you want the government to just subsidize you and live off of welfare, that's a different perspective. so what we're seeing is this growth in entitlements, this number is low on this chart because it doesn't have food stamps, doesn't have public housing, and it doesn't have the debt service. when you put that all toget

protesters have clashed with rye pot police. rubber bullets and tear gas have been fired.t leave until their demands are met. their first demand, president mubarak who has ruled egypt for 30 years, step down. they're also angry about corruption, unemployment, and poverty. >> the president doesn't know about anything else, what we're doing. everything is corrupted, everything is polluted. we cannot live anymore like this. >> reporter: this protest has been organized largely on facebook and twitter, though down here on the square, there isn't any cell phone coverage so it's impossible to get the word out. there's no doubt that tunisia and other protests in the region have given a big jolt to egypt, but it's still too early to tell whether this really is the beginning of a change. alex marquardt, abc news, cairo. >>> chicago politics have taken another strange turn. the illinois supreme court ordered election officials to keep rahm emanuel's name on the ballot for the mayor's race while they decide if he can run. absentee and early voting begin over the next few days. if the

rye move to reconsider that vote by -- that the resolution resols agreed to. the vice president: without objection. pursuant to senate resolution -- resolution 1, the chair -- the chair appoints the senator from nevada, mr. reid, and the senator from kentucky, mr. mcconnell, as the committee to join the committee on the part of the house of representatives to wait upon the president of the united states to inform him that a quorum is assembled and that congress is ready to receive any communication that -- that he may be pleased to make. mr. reid: mr. president, i have another resolution at the desk that i ask to be considered. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 2 informing the house of representatives that a quorum is assembled,. the vice president: the resolution is considered and agreed to. mr. reid: i move to reconsider that vote. the vice president: without objection. mr. reid: mr. president, i have a resolution at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: s. res. 3, fixing the hour of daily meeting o