but now scotty bauers is talking." i knew hollywood like no one else knew it. the book, which was spent a dozen weeks on the los angeles times best seller list, has only bowers to back it up. you can choose not to believe it. but his friend, author gore individualal testifies on the dust jacket scotty doesn't lie and he knows everybody. were you concerned in writing the book that people who may have been fans of these stars would think that you were trying to tear them down? >> i thought of that. whatever you do, you can't please everyone. sure, there would be people that do that. >> reporter: bowers, who grew up in rural illinois, landed in l.a. when he came out of the marine corps at the end of world war ii. what was hollywood like then? >> hollywood was like a smaller town then. >> reporter: bowers was working at a gas station when he says he was picked up by actor walter pigeon. soon he was getting calls. he charged for his own services, but bowers refused to be paid for referrals. why didn't you take the money? >

>> scott bland and scotty burns are veterans of the high octane sport. >> you know, most people ridecoaster for a thrill. that's just about something to put me to sleep. >> but the greater the thrill, the greater the danger. >> i would say the most dangerous thing is the risk of collision. if you lose sight of somebody else that you're flying with, you can wind up with closing speeds in excess of 200 miles an hour. >> the main fear with being hit is to be knocked out or killed. >> the biggest risk for collision comes when wing suiters fly dangerously close to each other in formations called flocks. and the most important person in the flock is the base. the person flying out front, guiding the team toward their target. and there's nobody scotty burns would want as his leader more than his good friend scott bland. >> scott's been leader of more large formations than anybody else on the planet. the number one thing that we know is we can always trust him to get us home. >> they look to me for the point of reference. i have to go a rate and a speed and hold it there no matter what happe

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. - scotty, you in? - i never say no to a plane or vegas. - e? - uh, no, i can't. - oh, come on, i'm not gonna bite. we gotta take our newfound friendship to the next level. - yeah, i wanna hang out with both my boys. - i appreciate it, but i gotta see the wedding planner tomorrow. - oh god! - getting married? - yeah, in october. - you poor bastard. - well, let's go! - later, e. - we probably won't have any fun. - ♪ here i go falling down down down ♪ ♪ my mind is a blank, my head is spinning ♪ ♪ around and around as i go deep into the funnel of love ♪ ♪ it's such a crazy crazy feeling ♪ ♪ i get weak in the knees, my poor old head is a-reeling ♪ ♪ 'cause i go deep into the funnel of love ♪ >> june 19, 2012, from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show" with jon stewart. ["daily show" theme song playing] [cheers and applause] captioning sponsored by comedy central >> jon: welcome to "the daily show". my name is jon stewart. good night tonight. our guest tonight supposed to be senator marco rubio from florida. u

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and one day my wife said, scotty, andrew wants to see you. she didn't say who it was, but something hit me. it was andrew harris, the boy who i had taught sunday school with three years earlier had driven down from west point, new york, with his dad to come and see me. and i don't know if i knew that day or in the days to come that the impact that i had made on >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. you've been watching booktv, 48 hours about programming

and drove to the 300 block of scotty to check it out. he was the first person at the house.alled 911. a cable man who happened to be on the streets a helped and his -- to help and emergency responders approached and neighbors came outside. >> it's fire going on and i ran out of the house and i saw her there. >> reporter: only one woman lives in the home. she made it outside and collapsed at the front of the house. >> she was laying there and they tried to carry her. >> reporter: our photographer helped lift the woman and move her away from the smoke that was spilling out of her home. she suffered third degree burns to both hands and her hair had been singed. ems rushed her to the hospital. firefighters quickly put out the flames which start in the back bedroom. they weren't able to determine a cause and have called in arson to investigate. >>> a ride that was supposed o celebrate an engagement instead ended with three people going to the hospital. authorities in indiana say that the balloon came in contact with some power lines on wednesday night causing it to crash. they sa

don't let the door hit you on the way out, scotty. >> greg: he probably gets more votes doing that. >sident obama's horrible jobs report on friday. take a look. this is trade and betting on who is going to win the presidency. take a look where president obama has gone. on the downward slide. big number on friday. falling off the radar on possibility of winning the presidency. look what they are betting on romney now quickly. romney picking up all that upward momentum. >> andrea: the maitre d' mayor, bloomberg banned sodas. he said it's bad for you. but guess what isn't? mayo-smothered blt. he says it's fine. he smolters him in mayo. the point is bigger than blts. why is he micro managing our menu? why? mayo is okay but soda isn't? give at it rest. >> greg: trying to come up with an acronym that blt stands for. but -- >> andrea: you lost me a long time ago. >> greg: time for my banned phrase of the day. combination of event, aggravated situation is often called "perfect storm." if you go dune water slide when you are 47, then you take drugs which you shouldn't have taken an you make no

afterwards he met privately with scotty reston a diplomatic correspondent for "the new york times." they met in a darkroom. he said this has been the toughest thing in my life. i've never met a man like that. how can i deal with him? one reporter said that kennedy had turned green after the end of the meeting. he was obviously very, very badly beaten up. he had not been prepared for this kind of meeting. he went to ireland. he told mcmillen -- to england first and to ireland, he told mcmillen that it has been a terrible experience. mcmillen said you have to yield. which was mcmillen's view. khrushchev was just the opposite. he felt wonderful about the meeting. he said i've really laid the law down to this guy. and he said, kennedy is a boy in short pants. he could not get over the fact that kennedy was so young. nobody in the soviet hierarchy got to any position of responsibility until they were senile. here was an american president who was young and in khrushchev's mind didn't know what was going on. so he decided that he could continue to beat on kennedy. we at the u.s. mission i

. >> reporter: the general manager had plenty of high praise for oats, compares hi to scotty bowman and bill belichick, citing intelligence and preparation. from the verizon center, jill sorensen comcast supportsnet, back to you. >>> a stowaway on a ship headed for a stop in virginia. >>> millions of students could be facing biggers bills as a last-minute deal on loan rates hangs in the balance. >>> a new obesity drug gets federal approval for the first time. >>> and the terrified dad who got on the ride, he explains why he would do it all over again. >>> a ship bound for norfolk, virginia, is being searched at the port of newark, because there may be stowaways on board. it's the "ville dequerius." officials say they conducted a random boarding, and one container sounded as if there could be people inside. the ship was sent to newark for unloading and a full search. so far nothing out of the ordinary has been found, but the search is expected to go through the night. the freighter's current voyage originated in the united a i rabid emirates and stopped in e .before -- >>> on monday inte

in that moment if he had said, beam me up, scotty. >> he was too humiliated. >> i'm sorry to hear thatne has pictures, send them in. >>> coming up, holly continues to help you set your table this summer. >> and a local artist is here. oh, hey, holly. >> reporter: we are doing art with food this morning in terms of finding the best for your summer table. we've done seafood and meat. and now we are picking the perfect produce, which many say you will find at whole foods market. we are live this morning at the whole foods in georgetown and coming up, we are going to check in with the produce guy from whole foods, and nora of restaurant nora, about how they pick the best. tricks of the trade next on fox 5. stay with us. >> now a local artist, born and raised in the d.c. area. she is out with another cd. find out what is behind her music and plus, she'll perform for us. time now, 9:43. ♪ corete. and eel. our cloud is the smartest brains combating the latest security threats. it spans oceans, stretches continents. and is scalable as far as the mind can see. our cloud is the cloud other cloud

scotty mccreary won an award and after that was his high school graduation. that was cool. he got to take home two awards. >> in the same night. >> kris humphries is moving on past kim kardashian? >> she sort of looks like kim kardashian. we saw them on the beach last week. she looks like kim kardashian. he said, no, a neighbor. we just happened to be at the beach at the same time. now we find out they have been dating since january. >> so he has a tight one then? >> i guess he does. >> what is coming up tomorrow? >> tickets for everything. tickets to nicki minaj and many others. logon for details. >> georgia, thank you. >> thank you. >>> motorcycle riders start your engines. a poker run and motorcycle run is coming to fairfax this saturday. >> 8:00 is the start time. bright and early, riders should meet at the harley-davidson. registration fee is $20. all money collected goes to the -- mike o'meara is hosting the event and stopped by our studio to discuss why fisher house means so much to him. >> nobody has a better reputation than fisher house. bikers, i think as you know

we go into this heat wave, scotty. >> reporter: if you listen to pepco and utilities connected to this region, they feel like the state of the grid is pretty good. and they go into this heat wave and the potential for record power demand with not a lot of worries about brownouts and blackouts. pepco says it is prepared for extreme heat and record setting demand. >> so, are we anticipating any difficulty right now? no, we're not. >> we are well situated. >> pepco is on a regional grid. 62,000 miles of transmission lines that connect you tillties from chicago to new jersey. pgm's all-time record demand was 164,000 megawatts during a heat wave last summer, but it can handle more than 185,000. thus pepco's confidence. that doesn't mean power comes cheap during heat waves. real time, wholesale power prices jump 60% from one week to the next during a snap heat wave in early june. >> you also know in maryland, district of columbia, we have been very aggressive with energy efficiency. >> one effect, pepco is pushing programmable thermostats that allow them to cycle off tens and thousands of cu

when you look at who won, scotty's got a platinum record, there's something to be said about that ashe ring. you can have as many as you want. i'm just saying the difference is that ours is just new people. we try and find those that -- because the first thing that goes into my mind, if you have three or four shots at the bat, at the plate, there's something you're missing that you quite don't know yet, because people have tried to discover you, but it didn't happen. >> ellen: yeah. it's a tough business, too. and sometimes labels drop you and don't give you a chance. >> of course. >> ellen: so people do -- but you would say that adam is -- >> adam is my boy. christina's my girl. cee-lo is my dawg. [cheers and applause] and blake -- yo. yo. blake is almost like my brother. we just have different moms. >> ellen: is he in the pound as well? >> they're all in the pound. i love those guys. those guys are so successful. it's been amazing job. i really do. ellen knows about me. it's all about love. i call her e. it's all love. >> ellen: what else do you call me? you call me e. you call me

you should probably contact the lieutenant and ask scotty for more power. >>guest: that's right.d, who played spock was with us at john f. kennedy in april when it came in on the piggy back ride and our follow crews were that and we here for this and i have to tell you it is magnificent to watch this thing spin around and to see the joy on the people's faces of the people behind our cameras, so many of them. cameras and all of their blackberrys and iphones going nuts taking pictures of flights over head, and news helicopters watching this thing spin around and the people who are lucky enough to be on the flight deck today as visiters have quite a view. they can be seen across the river from me. look at that. spinning around. in front of us. >>shepard: i wanted one of those round things that the lieutenant had in her ear? >>guest: we will see what we can do, put in a request. >>shepard: if they dropped it that would be incredible television. i hope it doesn't happen with that is why we watch in case they drop it. we want it to go perfectly but if they do we ned a camera. >>guest:

. >> scottie? >> financials are feeling the pain. shares of morgan stanley down 5%. if a disappointing jobs report and global economic fears were not enough, the big banks fed potential downgrades by moody's. >> we spoke exclusively with the ceo of morgan stanley, james gorman, about that. >> the industry will be downgraded. the question is, to what degree. what we have done and the kind of company that we are now from a few years ago, it's very, very different. we've raised the liquidity, sold assets, long before moody's came along. >> so as gorman said, the key may be the degree to which is t is downgraded. the key here is, two notches or three notches? he's expecting two notches. joining us is deborah for the street and fred. let me kick it over to you. what kind of downgrade are you expecting. gorman was pretty specific. he said it's coming. >> yeah, it's coming. it's going to be three, we're almost sure. this has been out there since february but after the jpmorgan disclosures, things really got hit and it looks like they are going to get the full degree of the

i saw a promo with 20 guest singers listed, gloria gaynor, nelly furtado, and scotty mccreery.pe from an ex-girlfriend who always hated you. but i'm happy to report that at long last, "american idol" is done for another season. randy jackson will get back to his dance crew. jennifer lopez will go back to making, i don't know, three commercials a day. and steven tyler returns to his day job as a mannequin at chico's in the westfield mall. [ laughter ] there's -- [ applause ] there's -- hard to believe, but there's been another new development in the secret service prostitution scandal. four of the eight agents who were let go are now trying to have their dismissals overturned. they claimed they're being used as scapegoats because there's an unwritten code that says you can get drunk and have sex with random women in over countries as long as the relationship ends once you leave. they say, this kind of thing is so common, seriously, that internally, they refer to it as the secret circus. which explains why they were trying to pay the hookers, pea nuts, i think. just because you'r

to see me, and i said no, no, i don't want to see them, no thank you.nise one day, my wife says, scotty, andrew wants to see you. she didn't say who it was. .. who it was, but something hit me. it was andrew harris, the boy who i had taught sunday school with three years earlier had driven down from west point, new york, with his dad to come and see me. and i don't know if i knew that day or in the days to come that the impact that i had made on >>> madame secretary, welcome to book tv. weeks on the best-seller list which is every authors dream. congratulations. >> guest: it's so nice to do this with a good friend. >> host: you were just being sworn in when you learned your parents had been a born jewish and some of your members of your family had been killed and holocaust. it answered a lot of questions, you dealt with a. was a painful period. what made you go back to it? >> guest: well, because i didn't think i had all the answers and let me shiastan explain the context of how this happened. when i was the ambassador people started writing me letters and there were letters that would

. >> you can make biscotti calls and you can make business scottie to google talk calls. >> this is thefrom a call made to biscotti to someone on google talk. it sells for $149. there are no monthly fees and domestic and international calls are free. >> we really feel like we were having a face-to-face visit. >> the voice quality in our call was clear but it had a hollow quality to it. the picture quality, crisp. we did experience some minor video breakup and voice interruption. >> push it back. >> but overall, the quality of the call was impressive. next we gave the discotty perhaps its biggest test ever. we attempted to call from the bay area to a remote region of afghanistan. >> i think it's going to be a challenge. it will be interesting to see how it goes. but we are up to the challenge. we will learn from it. >> i just knew that i loved him, and this is part of who he is. >> the california army national guard introduced us to anderson marie mitchell, a newlywed wife of staff sergeant frank mitchell. he's deployed in afghanistan with the 2668 transportation company. the couple rece

we also know the food them was very much -- scotty inspired.hat pallet cleanser, the whole procedure, so we followed that protocol. but i think if you get the book on amazon. [inaudible] >> the auction of titanic items. one was a >> the auction of titanic items. one was a menu. i think castrated rooster. >> i don't remember that. but i don't remember that, but -- we don't have menus for everyday of course pick some of these are actually found on the bodies of people. and some were shoved into peoples coat pockets, you know, on the night. but you can buy that book, last in on the titanic him and it has a lot of history. for instance, third class at the main meal midday pick an evening they just got a hearty english tea. so their main meal was lunchtime. then they had a tea at 4:00. so that was just one of the many class differences. evidenced by the food. yes? [inaudible] >> the fourth funnel, yes. [inaudible] >> yes. so people could say wow, look how glamorous the ship is. how can you fold and when there is no smoke coming out of the fourth whe

thanks very much for that, scotty. despite today's down market, there are upbeat news.ere we are now. the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500, yes, they are down sharply, but they're not down as much as they were earlier on today. also let's look at oil. this is hopefully a good thing despite the fact that it is obviously down on disappointing economic data. but crude has fallen more than 8% on the week. it's now down nearly 25% since march. in other words, officially bear market territory. and that's also been sending prices at the pump lower. again, this is the bright spot that we're trying to find for you. well, talking about the pump, automakers reporting a strong may thanks in part to pickup in incentives. will an economic slowdown bring sales to a screeching halt? let's bring in edmonds.com and phil lebeau. we were talking earlier on about the headlines of gm being one of the few stocks in the green today on some pension news. can you fill us in there? >> essentially general motors has made a major move when it comes to shoring up its pension obligations. this has to do with

it is really scotty onto u.s.s would appear to be favorable for jpmorgan this morning. i understand they managed to sell off between 65 and 70% of their new london wales position. >> the single worry, it is a profitable company like many internet companies that have become public. you need earnings momentum to sustain a high multiple stock and you don't see it yet. >> moving more towards the franchise mist, creates a more cash reagain tiff, stable, predictable stream, allows us to focus on the brand, operations and improves the operations of the restaurants as well. >> we think that the market ultimately will settle down to a more normal time, so you have 12 and 24 month trends. after a nice six months and a lot less pressure from the government on them, there will be invest men's again. >> good morning and welcome to the third hour of "squawk on the street." let's get a check on the markets here. we're pretty much flat line as we await fomc decision at 12:30 and then the quarterly press briefing at 2:00 eastern t

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the old days of, you know, dean arch son calling up scottie reston and saying this is what the storyi had to fight and scratch and scrape for the reporting that i got. these aren't handouts. this is serious journalism, serious reporting and accountability reporting and -- >> dig into that for me a little bit more. when you say that, because it is being framed as if there is an individual who is calling up and leaking the stories. you're saying that's not how it works. >> it is not how it works, that's what i'm saying. >> it would be nice. >> yeah. the number of handouts that i've gotten in my career for this kind of journalism, i could count onhandouts or somebody at level of authority giving you information they shouldn't be. somebody telling you something -- >> it depends on how you define what they shouldn't be telling you. let me say, let me say that in the case of -- in my case, in the case of the new york times, in the case of all of the respectable journalists i know, when there is some suggestion that reporting, national security information, that could do serious damage to t

can you take that banner out, scotty? yeah. isn't that pretty?ng the national anthem, too, but what a beautiful shot. almost at the museum. alina cho is near atlantic city monitoring all of this. when the intrepid gets a little closer to the museum, alina will join us live once again. see all the boats around the shut snl some are taking pictures. some are police boats opinion of course this barge is being pulled by tugboats. just a beautiful shot i wanted to share with you this morning. >>> let's talk act miss usa. a contestant says the pageant was fixed and now donald trump is going to sue her. "showbiz tonight" host a.j. hammer is here with the drama. >> this brings a tear to my eye. this pageant seems to attract a lot of drama. a contestant is alleging the whole thing is fixed, while the organization calls it a case of sour grapes. miss pennsylvania is making these allegations. she didn't make it to the finals, so she's giving up her title and posted a statement on her facebook page announcing her decision. here's what she says. i can no long

." >> scottie mcquery? >> yeah.ou on your ipad. >> she has never face toned from anything. >> what is that? >> i call you like this. but it is horrifying don't ever take your picture like this. >> right. tom in wisconsin you are on the "stephanie miller show." hi, tom. what is the happens on the ground in wisconsin? >> literally thousands of people across the state are in the streets right now. registering voters. things are just amazing. the one thing that i did want to point out to your listeners though, is there has already been some pampering that the republicans were putting out phone calls last night telling anyone who would listen that if you signed the recall petition you already voted. >> did you hear about this getting phone calls saying if you signed the recall petition we already have your vote. don't worry. >> yeah. and a number of us got phone calls today saying please register and vote on wednesday. and when we called back it was the republican party of wisconsin. >> wow. >> yeah. >> as you know we ha

and then to have somebody come along as a scotty come lately and decide that i'm going to allow that people are going to be suppressed in their voter rights is a shame. >> reporter: the controversy stems from efforts by florida's republican governor rick scott to clean or purge, depending upon which side you're on, the voting rolls. backers of the effort say it's simple, noncitizens were people who are dead should not be eligible to vote. >> i don't see any logical reason you can give to not removing deceased voters from the roll. >> reporter: florida has flagged 2700 potential noncitizens on voter rolls, and asked county election supervisors to have them prove their citizenship. the department of justice has ordered florida to stop the search. opponents saeuts it disproportionately targets hispanic immigrants. in miami just two noncitizens have been found to have voted. we found one of them. >> if you don't have a driver's license, and you're not a citizen, how could someone vote with your name? >> i don't know, sir. >> reporter: right now, most county election supervisors have stop

give scotty a big round of applause foris introduction. [applause] i want to thank todd allen, who is the principal here at oyster river high school. [applause] and i want to thank our outstanding senator from new hampshire, jeanne shaheen. [applause] and i want to thank all of you. [applause] i know it's a little warm in here. [laughter] that's okay. that's okay. it is wonderful to be back. and i just have so many good memories here in new hampshire, and i see some familiar faces and folks who were with me when people were still figuring out how to pronounce my name. [laughter.] >> we love you! >> i love you guys back. i really do. [applause] now, i am back here in new hampshire not just because i need your help -- although i do. but more importantly, i'm here because your country needs your help. in 2008, we came together to reclaim the basic bargain that built this country -- the basic ideal of this country, the thing that created the largest middle class, the most prosperous nation in the history of the world. we came together because

star, for sir, y would come and addressing and i would say no, no, thank you.r, one day my wife said scotty, andrew wants to speak to you. we she didn't say who it was. but something hit me. whit who is andrew? the boy who i had taught sunday school with three years earlieri had driven down from west point new york with his dad to come and see me. to come i don't know if i knew that they are the days to come, that the impact that i'd made on a young child had done a 180. and that this child was impacting the in an amazingly. >> you can watch this and other programs on line at booktv.org. spent next on booktv, elizabeth price foley talks about her book, "the tea party: three principles." she respond to telephone calls and electronic communications while being interviewed at the 2012 "los angeles times" festival of books. being held on the campus of the university of south -- southern california. this is about 25 minutes. has wr last author of these today's, elizabeth price foley who has written a book of the tea party, "the tea party: three principle

a good question for the senate might be, what do scottie pippen, larr larry flynt, and dd rockefeller have in common? the answer would be that besides being very rich, they've all gotten farm subsidies in the past. i think this should change and that the wealthy shouldn't be receiving farm subsidies. this amendment would get rid of this. and i yield back the remainder of my time and encourage the senators to support this amendment. ms. stabenow: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. ms. stabenow: mr. president, i would urge a "no" vote on this bill. the good news is that the people mentioned will no longer be able to get farm subsidies under this bill because of the reforms we've already put in place. we have already lowered the adjusted gross income. we have put $50,000-per-person cap on payments, which is less than half than farmers currently receive, and let me just say, this would cap across the board, including conservation and conservation of land and water is critically to us, as a country. i yield to my ranking member. robert rocket it is not only co