this is salem, massachusetts, home to the infamous witch trialed of 1692.t forward and it's known as witch city where a small business community turned an ugly history into a commercial industry. >> if there's a witch on it, you can sell it. >> there's a hook to why people come here. >> look closely. you'll see witches everywhere. they haunt the streets, the police cars, the fire department, the newspaper, the high school band and just about every street corner. >> it's a great business. we turn a buck for the city every chance we get and for ourselves. this is all about being successful. >> october is the busy season and the merchants are gearing up to earn a hefty percentage of revenue. >> halloween is big business. over $5 billion is spent nationwide on halloween. a good part of that is spent here in salem. >> tourism event promotor is a modern day wiccan or witch. he, too, is part of the multimillion dollar tourism industry. >> i charge $150 a ticket for my witches ball. it's rated as one of the top halloween parties in america. i give people $150 worth

>> i hope to spend a lot of time in salem. i hope to spend some time in boston in the library there. everything else has been published. i like to think there is material in england. it is telling me this could have been going on in massachusetts in 1692 when most people had family in the u.k. and there were not a lot of letters written home about the unpleasantness, about what was happening. i assume there have to be family letters. >> stacy schiff author of four biographies. "vera," "ben franklin," and "cleopatra." thank you for joining us. 877->> for a dvd copy, call 1- 662-7726. to give us your comments, visit us at q-and-a.org. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> upcoming guests include karl marlantes, lawrence lessig, and simon winchester. >> tomorrow, a discussion on the gop primary race. after that, a look at manufacturing in the u

it's about the salem witch trials. i felt i'm back home in some way. >> and when will that be? >> many years i am afraid. this is someone in the future still. i'm a couple months into the research. >> de still live between canada and new york, or canada and boston? >> yes. >> but you married a canadian? >> i did. >> how long ago? >> 22 years ago. >> do you have children? >> how old are they. >> what do they think of a writer being like this? >> i think that for the most part they think i type for a living. i do not know, it is a really good question. maybe that is a good thing. i think the are grateful for the fact that i'm a negligent parents. >> do you think your father had an impact on you and in what way? >> my father never read my first book. he died right around the time of publication, which was a huge disappointment to me. i obviously think of him often. it was that first moment when i had changed careers. i'm sure if you were to really look into this, studying people out of context, working in different locales, something to do with i grew up. the whole point of a biog

winston-salem. >> caller: thank you for the program and i would like for him to speak kind the issue of president obama, a politician in nine as to martin luther king as a leader. >> guest: it is very important to recognize people occupied different phases and have different missions. margin mr. king, jr. was then head of a wonderful and am perked -- important political social movement. he was a civil rights leader and a leader of the struggle and he occupied a certain role and he has certain responsibilities and a burden to carry eight when you occupy that role. as a policy issue occupy a different role. you have to watch public opinion and if margin is 13, jr. was willing to go against you are the elected politician go over public opinion poll calculation is different winning and losing is defined differently when you talk about martin luther king, jr. and barack obama, these are men that occupy a completely different niche and you have to identify them differently 87 dr. kennedy will be joined by now irvin painter here at the campus of miami-dade. we will broadcast their talk in i

more off the california coastline but the stream is coming straight up the coast from salem to portland, no end in sight. heavy rainfall continues all the way through coastal washington state. thankfully snow levels are high right now. but after this system goes by, we have another one coming in thanksgiving day. and that will have colder air to work with. so the mountain passes are going to be snow-covered thursday into friday. so keep that in mind for any of your travel plans. and in seattle just not a great forecast. all the way through the holiday weekend. on and off periods of rain. looks like the heaviest hit this morning. another round thursday into friday. and then over the upcoming weekend. that's just the stormy spot in the country. how o pres sent is the satellite picture. moisture coming off the pacific now from due south to due north. that means it's a slow-moving storm. as far as storms go, we will clear it eventually out here. heavy rains will end during the day today. we get a break tonight and another batch coming in on thursday. find out here in the four corner region

. >>> if you're watching us on wxii 12 news, winston-salem, north carolina. community members in the show of b an orphan girl who run away to find a better life. bet you heard of it. "annie" hits the stage. the sun's going to come up. >> tomorrow. >>> now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. she sold more than 20 million albums, so who bloknow what tay swift might accomplish. swift was named the entertainer of the year. only the second woman to win the award twice, joining country legend barbara mandrell. >>> elsewhere, piers morgan announced he's leaving "america's got talent" to concentrate on his struggling cnn show. >>> oscar winner morgan freeman will soon pick up more hardware. a lifetime achievement award at the next golden globes. >>> and finally, speaking of the oscars, on the day after his friend director bret ratner resigned as producer of next year's telecast, eddie murphy has dropped out as host. after the soft opening of "tower heist" last weekend and now quitting as oscar host, bloggers are wonder figure his mega-s

but from portland to salem to eugene to medford, a solid shield of rain. as far as today's forecast, we'll continue with it during the morning, we may get a break, but another storm right behind it. in other words, if you're traveling, especially in the air in the northwest, very difficult. we're just fine in southern california and arizona, that's a look mess, along with arizona. >> it doesn't look like the forecast improves much, even through wednesday and thursday. >> a wall street thumb's down for the supercommittee. one investment that's still safe -- and temporary holiday intimacy on craigslist, your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. plus the fallout over j. lo's shameless product placement production. >>> coming up, sidney crosby returns to the ice and does a pitcher deserve an mvp award? the voters say yes. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry and here are some top headlines. u.s., england and canada have announced sanctions from iran aimed at cutting it off from the in

winston-salem. good weather for football there. plenty of sunshine but cool. 53 degrees kickoff time. good luck to the terps against the demon deacons. >> they need it. they need a "w" for sure. >> finish the season on a high note. >> thank you. >>> all right. >> new from overnight, light is shining on the monuments and memorials on the national mall once again this morning after going dark. here is a live picture. power was intentionally cut around midnight to allow pepco to make emergency repairs to a damaged power line near the lincoln memorial. the underground line was struck thursday night as crews installed a water line near the reflecting pool. many street lights and traffic signals in the area were also dark. power was restored around 3:30 this morning. >>> well, the clock is ticking for the congressional super committee that is trying to cut more than a trillion dollars from the federal budget. the 12-member bipartisan group said it will work through the weekend to try to come up with the c

taking his 2-8 terps into winston, salem. to cameron ford, 13 plays, 75- yard drive. 7-0. maryland responding. cj brown on the wheel route and pinkett scores. we had ourselves a ball game. 3rd quarter, missed opportunity. dave visits the love shack. oh no. illegal shift, so bring that back. same drive, nick, those boots were not made for kicking. wide right. so again, those missed opportunities just killing the terps. pulling away here. could have ate a sandwich and called mom. the nightmare from maryland continues. check these highlights out. mike london in virginia with a mathematical change to go to the acc championship. perry jones with one of his eight receptions and is this a tough one. gets blasted. the linebacker says let me see your grill. 14-13. last play of the game here, bruce, florida state rolls a pass. the receiver doesn't get out of bounds. so the clock runs out, but the ref says he didn't make the catch. there are three seconds on the clock. virginia was in the locker room. they had to come back out. florida state has a chance to kick the field goal and th

>> i play andrew "smoky" salem. he is one of the fighter piles. he is from alabama.ys guitar and chews an ungodly amount of tobacco. yeah. >> you wanted that role. >> for four months they gave me this black licorice that honestly i think i might have preferred the tobacco. it's the most disgusting thing you will ever taste. >> oh, real sfli. >> to perform i got a big wad of black licorice right here and spit it in the cup and it looked like the real thing. it was disgusting. >> you going into aking? >> a little bit. i haven't gotten the whole thing down yet but i'm getting there. >> okay. you feel the extra pressure of playing such important contact ters like the tuskegee airmen? >> oh, especially, because there were some tuskegee airmen there on set. >> oh. >> oh, yeah. they was a-plus, you know, you can't say nothing to a dude that went through what think went through and yelling at you, like, that ain't how it was! put the thing -- >> right. >> like, sir, we're still rolling. okay. cut. let's do all that again because he's yelling. yeah. >> after the break, two ho

semantics ceo enrique salem. >> countries from eastern europe to asia. >> we better step it up.- >> and house intelligence chairman mike rogers, accused china specifically. >> josephman, one of the world experts on cyber war. he has written a long series of articles for "the financial times" as well as an entire book on the subject. the u.s. counter intelligence service actually said china out loud. they said russia too. this is new. i mean, it used to be some entity of some sort is -- we all knew they meant china. now they're poking fingers. >> it's fascinating. people have been waiting for this for a long time, because it's increasingly widespread knowledge in the security industry, in the -- among defense contractors, among many companies that have been hit that it's the chinese. the code is in chinese. the ip addresses are in china. it's very hard to get definitive attribute use, and i think what's happened is the u.s. government has said, okay, 99.5% certainty is enough. we need to go public. >> is there a risk when we say, yes, it's the chinese? >> yeah, there's a risk. yo

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he had 400 years but i am personally a fan of his riding and my favorite is salem's lot. [applause] the reason i went into politics i was a literature major and i did not write 12. [laughter] i am a great admirer of those who can in do. this festival is a vital part of the ever along with our communities to have a nationally recognized library system. thank you so much for coming out tonight. i hope you will enjoy the program and to introduce our honored guest who will be the recipient of the mason award is the president of the mid-atlantic chapter of mystery writers of america up. [applause] mystery writers of america is the premier organization for mystery writers and for those who like to read a good mystery. our co-sponsors is george mason university library with special thanks to the university library and and we are particularly pleased to be co-sponsor of mr. king because in 2007 gave him the grand master award which is something we reserve for the giant of the genre. i could list his awards that links but without further ado, stephen king. [cheers and applause] [c

two games this evening 24-17 at winston-salem. 6-6. the bears led for philadelphia tomorrow.s still among the best in the business, the bears well aware that will have to keep him inside, he is able to get loose for 43 yds in last year's game. you watched him into rounds, he looks really fascinating, he has a great arm. teams that have been able to get pressure for the ball low but earlier or get them on the ground. have found success. really nothing that has happened in the past will keep them in the pocket this week. high school football, loyola quarterback malcolm 29-nothing also in class 8-8 today. the hall of fame jockey mike smith overtakes his former fiancee and the stretch to win the race. he wins by a length in the half, the cow bush's suspended at fort worth. at last night's truck series event he caught him and he slammed into the low wall, bush with a nasty case of road rage. nba labor talks still going on in new york at this hour but there is no word on how they're going. a freestyle snowmobile event is sponsored by rep read bowl, no snow but competitors came in f

and he's a radio talk show host with salem radio network. from the great state of tennessee. good to see everybody, thank you for being here tonight. we're talking about this now republican primary and about romney and the race. and bragging you were, i predicted this as well. and said newt is going to have his moment. he's hanging onto it. >> the reason i thought he's going to is that the feeling wasn't strong enough. you know what gingrich did. it was smart. impacting the press, he importantly had some inception to say in every case. what gingrich has done is become disciplined which is something he never was before. and now, he's getting the point. the interview i thought was great. he said how have you changed? sean said, he said i have become a grandfather and you have a different view of the world when u're a grandfather. >> interesting thing is that many people are looking at the republican field. people are disenfranchised with the president. they don't agree with what he's done. they're looking for someone who can fix it and solve p

and i've never been back to salem because i'm scared to go back because of the foreigners. explain that to me? guest: first, i'll take the last part of your question. the v.a. partners with medical universities for training new doctors. and a lot of our medical personnel in our country are coming from foreign countries. and they're being trained at our medical facilities. it's a great partnership for v.a. and it's a great partnership for universities that are training these medical personnel. it gives low -- high quality at a low cost for our veterans. there's nearly no other way we can do that. with the prescription drugs, v.f.w. is fighting hard to contain the cost of prescription drugs. you earned the right and earned the benefit through your service and through your disability to receive these services and we will continue to fight for that. host: on our sunday night interview program, "q&a," this week's program is about a veteran who is -- talks about his experience. his name is carl marlantes. his book is called "what it's like to go to war" and discusses how he finds

reverend james meeks senior pastor at salem baptist church, a south side briefly ran for mayor last year2003 but focus on education pushing for a cure diagnosing and treating parkinson's disease and 111111 today only comes around every 100 years opportunity to take advantage of special deals telling you out. how. tonight's medical watch better diagnosis for parkinson's. actor and parkinson's patient michael j. fox leading the way teaming with chicago doctors a new tool they need more people to help in the cause. >> diagnosed with parkinson's 14 years. a couple of years ago they decided i did not have parkinson's. james whetstone not the only one confused. doctors for years have to rely on the way a patient looked or moved to figure out what was wrong did not know how to proceed with his treatment. >> the only real condition that i had never stops. do not have a lot of the other parkinsons conditions do not have problem with walking squabbling that sort of thing >> parkinson's also mistaken for other movement disorders similar symptoms but medications are different accurate diagnosis is c

. >> the received a boost from members of the salem baptist church in the impact family center amongin dry goods to help those in need. food pantries collected the items at the office of cook county commissioner deborah simms who said the donations are going to the food pantries because the people who run them know who need the food the most, ultra foods provided the discount on some of the items. an illinois congressman is speaking out after a video of him posted online earned him some criticism. why joe walsh is apologizing. a happy ending to a bizarre story in venezuela were a major league baseball player had been kidnapped. with the macy's parade just around the corner it is time for volunteers to freshen up their balloon handling skills. for many, nexium helps relieve heartburn symptoms caused by acid reflux disease. osteoporosis-related bone fractures and low magnesium levels have been seen with nexium. possible side effects include headache, diarrhea and abdominal pain. other serious stomach conditions may still exist. talk to your doctor about nexium. beth! hi. looking good!

winston-salem. >> caller: thank you for the program and i would like for him to speak kind the issue of president obama, a politician in nine as to martin luther king as a leader. >> guest: it is very important to recognize people occupied different phases and have different missions. margin mr. king, jr. was then head of a wonderful and am perked -- important political social movement. he was a civil rights leader and a leader of the struggle and he occupied a certain role and he has certain responsibilities and a burden to carry eight when you occupy that role. as a policy issue occupy a different role. you have to watch public opinion and if margin is 13, jr. was willing to go against you are the elected politician go over public opinion poll calculation is different winning and losing is defined differently when you talk about martin luther king, jr. and barack obama, these are men that occupy a completely different niche and you have to identify them differently 87 dr. kennedy will be joined by now irvin painter here at the campus of miami-dade. we will broadcast their talk in i

e-mailed to the winston-salem journal from then-governor mike easley in 2002. after mounting pressure from reporters the state decided to do more and convened a task force in 2003. nothing resulted. then another task force came. and went. >> we're the united states for god sakes. this is so wrong. >> reporter: which brings us back to that day last summer when victims and the their families had their say. in front of another government task force assigned to determine how they should be compensated. >> what do you think i'm worth? what do you think i'm worth? it doesn't matter what you think i'm worth, it's what i think i'm worth. >> priceless. >> there's nothing that the state of north carolina can do to justify what they did to me. what they did to these other victims. >> they told me to sign papers. i didn't sign no papers. i ain't never signed papers. that was not my signature on these papers. >> reporter: north carolina is the only state to consider compensation in the range of $20,000 to $50,000. but tony riddick, standing up for his mother and the other v

and we had a meeting the night before in winston-salem, north carolina, it was going to be on the campus of wake forest university, and the four of us had a meeting to go over questions. and i was the moderator, the three panelists were peter jennings of abc news, annie grower who was in the orlando paper and john maasic who was in the atlanta paper. and we went over, we had dinner, and it was very secure, it was in a closed room in a downtown office building, and suddenly peter jennings said i've got an idea. let's forget the debate rules, let's just say, mr. bush, mr. dukakis, go at it with no rules, nothing. and i was stunned. and i got very self-righteous, all of that, i said, oh, peter, we can't do that. we're honor-bound, we agreed to do this and this and this and whatever. i didn't know what we were going to do. fortunately, annie and john agreed with me, and so anyhow, we had, we outvoted him. we didn't really vote, but we -- there were, the majority, majority ruled, and peter went on and all of that. but we, and we followed the rules and all that. but i must say, it was spooky f

and we had a meeting the night before in winston-salem, north carolina, it was going to be on the campus of wake forest university, and the four of us had a meeting to go over questions. and i was the moderator, the three panelists were peter jennings of abc news, annie grower who was in the orlando paper and john maasic who was in the atlanta paper. and we went over, we had dinner, and it was very secure, it was in a closed room in a downtown office building, and suddenly peter jennings said i've got an idea. let's forget the debate rules, let's just say, mr. bush, mr. dukakis, go at it with no rules, nothing. and i was stunned. and i got very self-righteous, all of that, i said, oh, peter, we can't do that. we're honor-bound, we agreed to do this and this and this and whatever. i didn't know what we were going to do. fortunately, annie and john agreed with me, and so anyhow, we had, we outvoted him. we didn't really vote, but we -- there were, the majority, majority ruled, and peter went on and all of that. but we, and we followed the rules and all that. but i must say, it was spooky f

police now identifying the victim as 30-year-old nancy berry of salem, massachusetts killed when a u-haulmmed into her and two other tailgaters. one student remains hospitalized. a harvard employee treated and released. >> i saw it coming in. they with pin balling coming in. >> we thought it was an accident and you saw all the people laying on the ground. >> gregg: police have not yet released information about the u-haul driver who is in custody. >> heather: switching gears. the holiday season, shopping season is almost upon us on new york city streets. like this one right here. that is a live shot. it will be packed with people looking for good deals. there should be plenty to go around on black friday. some stores apparently have sorrowd on the idea. brenda butner jns us. first of all, i have to ask you have you participated in any of those sales and gone out at 4:00 in the morning? >> never. >> heather: i don't know who does? >> i shop in my pajamas. >> heather: online. you don't go to the store in your pajamas. [ laughter ] let's talk about the backlash. a lot is saying enough is eno

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my name is paul salem. this is on how monarchies have dealt with the arab spring. we have a very distinguished panel. this is part of a research project that is emerging as a part of a paper in the next few weeks on the topic of arab monarchies and the arab spring. the authors of this paper are muasher marwan and marina ottaway. and our commentator for today is jon alterman. currently vice president at the carnegie endowment in charge of middle east works here and in beirut. he was vice president at the world bank, deputy prime minister p. beasley in jordan, and prime minister, very active in heading the reform agenda in jordan and previously very much involved in the arab peace initiative and the arab-israeli peace process. senior associate at the carnegie middle east program, has written widely on political reform, political change in the arab world, and the balkans, and elsewhere and has authored many books and many studies. commentator for today is a good friend, jon alterman. his name is not jonathan, he tells me. it is not short for anything. he is well-known

host: alex is an independent in salem, michigan.ler: senator, you say that there was a surplus in social security. in fact, 2 million i know you's in government, so there is -- iou's in government, so there is no saving. guest: if you take that argument, this country has a $14 trillion debt, and all the bonds that people hold our just iou's. yes, the government has barred from social security, as it should have. but the argument that it is just an iou -- well, all of our debt is an iou. i do not think that is a strong argument. host: what do you expect the next week to be like in the city? guest: i think the focus will be on the super committee. people will be anxious to know what will be accomplished? i hope they can reach an agreement, but i hope it is an agreement that does not come down and force reductions on the backs of the middle-class and working families. there are ways to do deficit reduction that are fair. i hope the committee reaches the conclusion. host: thank you for being at the table. we are going to take a break. w

host: let's go to salem, new jersey. caller: i want to disagree with what mary said with what the poor do with their money. if you looked at what americans spend -- millions and billions of dollars on, it is ludicrous. it is not enough money to pay for this. how about every time that a child is being born in the united states they take their versatility to the federal reserve break and take out a million dollar loan in this child's name. in my name they did it. , they may have done it in your name. -- they may have done it in your name. there is money out there that is just sitting there. people need social security. they need that money. they have the right to that money. host: let's go to a comment on twitter. springfield, new jersey, mike, democrat line. caller: i would like to add a little bit of information about social security. the tax has a cap on its. so, people that make, i believe it is about $103,000 a year, pay the full social security tax. anything over that, is free. the rich do not pay. they do not pay th

. >> wake forest second place in their division, vanderbilt perennial door mat, goes to winston salem >> the winds of change are sweeping across the north -- the nashville mountain. >> the nashville mountain. those famous nashville mountains. >> swirling through the valley, the valley of despair is being swept away for good. >> he's made us a little bit greedy too this coach, we should be 8-4, we gave a couple of games away. but alabama locked up the spot in the title game. >> they look great. by the way, i'm an alabama fan. i don't usually get upset about anything. >> this is right here. >> this is right here. i'm zen, but all these people, alabama, doesn't -- it should be boise or something. give me a break. >> just stop it. >> here's the deal, i will bet anybody, right here, come on, bring it on. i'll bet anybody that alabama will not be the underdog in that national championship game. vegas will not make alabama the underdog. so all these people out there who say, oh, they've already lost once, those two are easily the best teams in america. >> there's no argument. >> there's not

host: democratic plan from winston-salem, n.c. do you have a question?ler: thank you overtaking my call. i have listened to all of your calls, and i have a question and a short comment. the question is, first of all, i do not even know what harp is. do you have any contact information for those viewers that have no idea what you were talking about but may need help? as well as, i would like to say that i appreciate the numbers you have given in terms of the many, many people that have been helped. that just warms my heart. however, there are other people, like your callers that have been calling in to save you have bad credit when you hit this bad economy, and i would just like to hope that the people that are listening, but some of them are our representatives that understand that people with bad credit vote, too. thank you. guest: you have the right comments. we have not solve the credit issues and a fresh look at what more can be done going forward. we'll have to be bold about our thinking about new policies, including the government. i do not work fo

. >> my name is paul salem and the director of the carnegie beirut and i'm very pleased to be moderating this session today. this session is on arab monarchies and how they confronted or dealt with events in the arab spring or the arab awakening. we have a very distinguished panel with us. and this is part of a research project that is emerging as a carnegie paper in a few weeks, exactly on the topic of arab monarchies and the arab spring. the authors of this paper are dr. marwan muasher and dr. marina ottaway. let me go ahead and introduce them as well as our commentator for today, or jon alterman. marwan muasher is vice president for studies at the carnegie endowment in charge of carnegie middle east work here and in beirut. he is known to i'm sure all of you previously vice president of the world bank, deputy prime minister previously in jordan and prime minister, very active in heading the reform agenda in jordan and also previously very much involved in the arab peace initiative and the israeli peace process. marina ottaway to his left is a senior associate at the carnegie peace pro