we have a lucky severson story today we call "spiritual in seattle". >> reporter: sunday mass at st.james cathedral in seattle where attendance has actually been growing, defying a national trend of fewer people attending church. sister joyce cox, a catholic scholar and spiritual director for the seattle archdiocese says a survey in a book called "the none zone" found that people in the pacific northwest are less religious than the national average. >> the first question was: do you have any faith or church that you follow or you participate in? and the answer was none. so, 67% of those who answered, answered none, but they still claimed in other questions that they believed in god and that they were spiritual. >> reporter: that's the good news, an increasing number of americans say they are searching for spirituality. >> by whatever name you might call the holy one of being. >> reporter: and many, inside and outside of church, are finding it with the help of a spiritual director-- someone to listen and offer guidance in the quest for the experience of god's presence. sometimes it's

. >> 50s from seattle to sacramento. mostly 40s across the rockies. 30s for the midwest and much of the northeast. 50s in dallas and new orleans. a warm 82 in miami. >>> zookeepers in scotland got a chance to witness a special delivery thanks to an extra pair of eyes more than 2,000 miles away. >> that's right, the zoo is now showing off its new southern white rhino just before christmas. the staff says they would have missed the entire birth if it weren't for a woman in cyprus who was watching the rhino on the internet. she says she noticed the mother's water had broken, she immediately called the zoo. >> how do you miss that. huge rhino. the event was witnessed by the staff and web cam viewers around the world. >> so cute. >> very cute. >> we'll be right back with more "world news now."

seattle transit officials are dumping the security company that hired the guards who stood by and watched this 15-year-old girl get beaten. the guards were told to observe and report and to call police but not to intervene when they witnessed criminal activity. transit officials said that replacing the company is the best way to help passengers feel safe. >>> an argument over a pooshging space got way out of hand in pittsburgh. police say a guy shoveled the snow from a parking space for a friend of his but his 61-year-old neighbor took it. the man says when he objected, his neighbor sucker punched him and then pulled a gun. he says he was shocked. >> never thought it would get this serious about parking spaces or anything like that. >> police say when they got to the scene, the neighbor shot at them and they had to subdue him with the taser. he's facing a list of charges including attempted homicide. >>> an experiment got dangerously out of hand for two university of south carolina students. matt wolfer and paul bowers are planning to spend a week being homeless in columbia, south carolin

they are 14-1 in seattle, washington. their oenly loss was to oregon.arkable. nic wise, jamelle horne, derrick williams came in averaging 42 and have been held to 16. nicwise with just five. arizona is the top foul shooting team in the conference, 75%. >> marques: 13 for 20 going into that shot. >> steve: pondexter, knocked out of bounds. horne. >> marques: defensive block against cal to save a bucket down the stretch. >> steve: once again, he could have caught the ball. time-out will be called by quincy pondexter. we have 7:20 left. an eternity, but the way that young man is playing, another double-double by wub of tone of leading candidates for player of the year. saturday we have a doubleheader -- here's a look at what's going on on the women's side. stanford running away with it. they are fantastic. a huge game for arizona state. >> marques: michael for the trojans -- tennessee -- >> steve: darnell gant runs it down. another offensive rebound. coming down with the miss. >> marques: get to the basket. out of control. >> steve: throws it away. here's

so what was -- it wasn't like seattle in that way. i think what was interesting -- where there was an interesting parallel was in seattle you had it inside outside sort of big sur where they were the people of the street to where shut down the city, but then you also have the developing country governments who were in many ways emboldened by the protest to stand up to the incredible bullying from the u.s. and the european union to say no to a bad deal. so the reason why this seattle world trade organization was not because there is protest, it was because the developing countries broke the deal. refused the deal. and that dynamic was certainly a play. but i think there was much more interplay. i mean, to talk about bolivia again. but not just olivia. i think with some of the developing countries that were pushing some of -- some of the more progressive policies, it was much more dialogue, much more fluid like for instance as i said at pelicans in our row, one of bolivia's leading negotiators came and speak at klima form and there was

rain and mountain snow in northern california to seattle. snow ends in the northeast. but lingers around the great lakes. >> 30s from boston to baltimore and much of the midwest. 48 in dallas. 58 in new orleans. 75 in miami today. 40s from boise down to albuquerque. phoenix climbs to 60. and sacramento's 55 degrees. >>> and when we come back, new taxpayer outrage. the company saved from collapse is rewarding its employees with big bonuses today. >>> and one of the founders of apple computers says gas pedals aren't to blame for some of toyota's troubles. announcer: kids who don't at breakfast .aren' getting the nutrition they need to keep their bodies strong. carnation instant breakfast essentials supplies all the nutrients of a complete breakfast to help build strong muscles and healthy bones. carnation instant breakfast essentials. good nutrition from the start. with relief from dry, uncomfortable skin. only aveeno skin relief has an active naturals oat formula... to improve all five symptoms... of winter skin in just one day. discover the beauty and comfort of skin r

seattle transit officials are dumping the security company that hired the guards who are just standing by right there and watching a 15-year-old girl get beaten. the guards were told to observe and report and to call police but not to intervene when they witnessed criminal activity. that's what they did. transit authorities says replacing the company is the best way to help challenges feel safe. >>> the gold medal showdown is men's hockey is all set, team uflt sa against team canada. joe carter has more on the dream matchup. >> team usa and team canada will play on sunday. it's the rematch everyone wants to see. team usa advanced to that gold medal game after beating finance lan on friday afternoon. going into the game, many expected a tough semifinal matchup between the two teams, but instead it was usa's biggest breather of the winter games. they scored six goals in the first period, coasting to victory. >> we seemed to roll there. we kind of caught them off guard and just kept on attacking. it was fun to be part of. >> it was pretty unbelievable that you're in a semifinal game in th

rain and mountain snow from northern california to seattle. snow ends early in the northeast but it is on and off around the great lakes. >> 30s from omaha to detroit. 24 in the twin cities. 37 in new york. 55 in atlanta. 75 in miami. 40s in boise, salt lake city, colorado springs. sacramento is 55. that ice falling off buildings is scary. i remember signs in chicago and new york saying, watch out for falling ice. freaky. >> sad that it happened twice in the same place, too. >>> a beloved pet is finally back home with his family after a harrowing ordeal in california. >> nearly two weeks ago, spiky the german shepherd, the one plucked from the l.a. river in that dramatic rescue captured on came camera. his owners never saw the television coverage. they had no idea where spiky was. >> but they were reunited yesterday thanks to their granddaughter, who saw the rescue on the internet. wasn't the dog being called baltic? >> different dog. they must have been living under a rock, this thing was everywhere. we all saw it. we'll be right back with mo

. >> next from the seattle asian art museum, a biography of madam wife of the former taiwanese president. she was a prominent voice in nationalist china. this event is 45 minutes. >> thank you for coming. one of the first questions i'm usually asked is -- i was talking about why i decided to write a biography of the madam. my first two books were about royals, a granddaughter and a daughter of queen victoria who lived in romania and germany. why would any writer in her right mind jump from europe to asia from transparent western ladies to mysterious chinese? the explanation goes back to my life with my late husband, alan pakula. sorry about the pronunciation, it is pakula who was working on a screen play "no ordinary time." a brilliant book about the roosevelt white house. we've been having one of our usual dinner conversations about our work. i.e., no one listening particularly carefully to what the other one was saying. when alan told me about the time when madam chang was staying at the white house. although there were phones and call bells in her room, when she wanted something, she

you recently had a jump in the call in from i think the seattle, washington, area. those kinds of start-ups. we do have a lot here. i have been supporting both in terms of getting federal money -- also in terms of other kinds of support, green business incubators. those are the kinds of things we can do. green universities, from the campus of syracuse. we have the state school of environmental science and forestry, the best in the world. we have all sorts of educational institutions. even our community colleges. the spinoffs from the students and faculties are really creating the kind of business that will take us into the future. what i tried to do is help make sure the policies are going to encourage that kind of environment. i really don't believe the government itself necessarily can do things to directly create jobs. what we can do is provide the kind of environment that is going to help private industry, working with other kinds of organizations, to create jobs. host: representative aaron schatz joins us from peoria, illinois. same question -- it was a snapsho

. >> she commuted from seattle to memphis, stayed in a crew lounge in memphis from midnight to 4:00 a.mcommuted from memphis to newark from 4:00 to 6:30 and then hung out in the crew lounge in newark until her 1:30 show time. >> o'brien: the transcripts of the cockpit voice recorder provided clues about other problems. the first officer seemed under the weather and concerned about the cost of calling in sick. "if i call in sick," she said, "now i've got to put myself in a hotel until i feel better." and both pilots appeared tired. the transcript notes sounds similar to yawns. >> we are ing find out what happened here. >> o'brien: the investigation threw a spotlight onto the operations of colgan, and raised questions about pilot qualifications, training and pay. the story that emerged shocked family members, and even industry insiders. >> there are some accidents that really make you step back and take a look at what's happening in the system. 3407 forces us to look at issues like commuting, fatigue. it forces us to look at training. it forces us to look at fundamental regulatory relatio

. >> she commuted from seattle to memphis, stayed in a crew lounge in memphis from midnight until 4:00 a.m., commuted from memphis to narc from 4:00 to 6:30 and hung out in the crew lounge in newark until her 1:30 show time. >> the transcripts of the cockpit voice recorder provided clues about other problems. the first officer seemed under the weather and concerned about the cost of calling in sick. "if i call in sick," she said, "now i have to put myself in a hotel until i feel better." and both pilots appeared tired. the transcript notes sounds similar to yawns. >> we are going to find out what happened here. >> reporter: the investigation through a spotlight on to the operations of colgan and raised questions about pilot qualifications, training and pay. >> woodruff: flying cheap airs >> brown: "flying cheap" airs tonight on "frontline" on most pbs stations. >> lehrer: again, the major developments of the day. haiti raise its estimate of heart quake dead to 230,000. that equals the number killed in the asian tsunami of 2004. first lady michelle obama kicked off a campaign against

over 1,000 photos taken by alcala were taken in a storage locker in seattle, including these bikini photos shot the day rob bip din disappeared. >> you walk up and say, you know, you want to be in pictures? i mean, basically, he was a skilled photographer. >> reporter: investigators believe there may be clues to countless other victims in the photographs. >> we believe there's more out there. it wouldn't surprise me if he ended up 10 to 15 more. >> reporter: new york city law enforcement believes there is evidence of at least two other murders committed by alcala. but he's never been charged. in 1977, he was studying at nyu, and using the alias john berger. >> and it was during that horrible summer of sam. >> reporter: and sheila well earl's cousin met him. >> he was a photographer and she wrote the name john berger in her address book and she disappeared. >> reporter: ellen was just 23 years old. a new york socialite whose father owned a los angeles nightclub. her disappearance and murder was front page news. >> it was heartbreaking to everybody in the family. people don't forget these th

. >>> and if you're flying today, expect airport delays in seattle, san francisco, and detroit, along with every major hub in the northeast. >>> a canadian figure skater embraced by her country after her mother died just days ago, skated to a bronze medal last night. joannie rochette said she knew her mom was with her on the ice. brad bhee lis with skating and all the other highlights from vancouver. >> reporter: the best of the best in figure skating last night. u.s.'s rachael flatt, but it was not enough. mao asada takes the silver. joannie rochette wins the bronze. and the americans fail to win a medal. the americans wanted to win in this one. u.s. women against canada in the gold medal game. but two goals in the first period by poulin, and it's 2-0, canada. and the u.s. keeps canada scoreless in the final period. but america can't score. once again, canada takes the gold and the americans settle for the silver. >>> after eight decades, the america drought in the nordic events is over. phil lamond races to gold in the cross-country. johnny spillane gets the silver. julia mancuso ba

. >> reporter: what is also incredible what this biologist from the university of washington in seattleut these penguins. >> there's a man. >> reporter: in her three decades here, boersma has banded more than 60,000 penguins. >> okay so, i just looked at 152 birds and one of them's got a band. >> reporter: she's tracked generations of them and documented an alarming decline in the penguin population here. >> penguins are really telling us that our world isn't doing well. >> reporter: boersma is one of the world's leading experts on these oh, so charming, oh so quirky creatures. she has inadvertently become an expert on penguin romance. >> he's courting. >> reporter: when they're familial, do they stay with the same couple? >> reporter: do you think people are? >> reporter: you are asking me on network television to -- >> you're asking me to talk about penguins. >> reporter: you're going to tell me that penguins are faithful during season but after that, they move on. >> we've had some pairs that have stayed together 16 years, so that's really high fidelity. they're mon nothing mouse but

. >>> some scary moments for passengers on an american airlines flight from dallas to seattle today. the plane had to be diverted to oklahoma city after passengers heard a banging onboard. >>> the mother of a 6-year-old in colorado is suing her son's school after a teacher duct taped her kid's mouth shut. that teacher has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child abuse charges. she says she put the tape on the child's mouth and hands after he got unruly. >>> three young children left home alone, a recipe for disaster turns into one when a fire breaks out. >>> i'm about to show you what not to do. spinning out of control, coming up next, i'll tell you how to avoid this. >>> we may actually have slick spots tomorrow, here's your wake up weather. temperatures in the incompetenter 20s to -- upper 20s to low 30s. we'll take you through the rest of thursday. we're the watchful ones. we like to know where things stand. we keep a close eye on what we have and what we spend. suntrust would like to applaud our solid financial ways. now when you pay your bills online you'll not only gain more control

dan springer live in seattle. dan? >> reporter: jon, these new tougher smog regulations would immediately put a majority of metropolitan areas out of compliance, and to get into compliance governments would have to consider a whole host of measures, including taxing driving, getting people out of their cars, cracking down on utilities, which would then just pass the cost on to consumers, and also reformulating gasoline which would add about 15 cents to the cost of a gallon of gas. the epa says it will save lives, they really don't have a good idea six who -- of how many, and as far as the costs they're all over the board from $19 billion, up to $90 billion. jon? jon: in hollywood, who doesn't dream of taking home that little gold statue? jill dobbson, who's in the running this year? >> reporter: the nominations were announced this morning. ten films are up for best picture, leaving theo leading the say, avatar and hurt locker, both up for nine oscars, including best picture and director, and sandra bullock at the first

. >> 50s from seattle to sacramento.northeast. 50s in dallas and new orleans. a warm 82 in miami. >>> zookeepers in scotland got a chance to witness a special delivery thanks to an extra pair of eyes more than 2,000 miles away. >> that's right, the zoo is now showing off its new southern white rhino just before christmas. the staff says they would have missed the entire birth if it weren't for a woman in cyprus who was watching the rhino on the internet. she says she noticed the mother's water had broken, she immediately called the zoo. >> how do you miss that. huge rhino. the event was witnessed by the staff and web cam viewers around the world. >> so cute. >> very cute. >> we'll be right back with more "world news now." to prep my houses for sale. febreze fabric refresher is an essential component of my toolkit. when a house smells good, it gives a very positive impression on homebuyers. i also use it in my house because our couches were smelling more like dog than anything else. (laughing) it removes odours of sports,

>> i was aboard -- i was born in seattle. i like to point out that. a little bit of both in my blood here. breaking blue was a sort of the oldest homicide sought in american history. it was all by sheriff in north idaho who found the bad guy, the killer who was an ex-con who was growth in the 1930s. you won't believe, but they were killing people over bootleg butter. that was their racket in the 1930s. somebody got onto and they killed a nightwatch than. they find a bad guy and he is living here in montana. i think flathead valley where he had been a judge. and had a pretty prosperous life. tony was the sheer state who caught up with his bad guy in the eve of his death. the guy died shortly thereafter. and i have been with the "new york times" for 20 years and it's one of those times when i did that i've been roaming the west for 20 years looking for stories. that's basic and what i do. somebody says you're a historian. the congressman called me a history. thank you, congressman, but i am not worthy of that designation. i am a storyteller. i heard the

drenching rain from northern california to seattle. >> 50s in the pacific northwest. 48 in boise. 20s from minneapolis to kansas city. 41 in boston. 45 in atlanta. and 65 in miami. >>> well, the harsh winter weather has taken a popular item off menus and produce stands. tomatoes. nearly 80% of last month's tomato crop in florida was wiped out by the hard freeze. >> that means the price for thoomatoes and other vegetables that were harmed is going to skyrocket. those prices will go up. and the shortages could last well into spring. >>> business news is next, including a new minivan recall this morning. >>> and is it the end of the road for the hummer brand? >>> and more from the deadly attack at seaworld. are killer whales too dangerous ♪ what if one pop ♪ ♪ could open a world of wonder ? ♪ ♪ so sensory ♪ so satisfying ♪ the discovery ♪ never seems to stop ♪ ♪ it's the magic friskies ♪ ♪ makes happen ♪ every day ♪ in so many ways ♪ friskies ♪ feed the senses i have a note from the previous owner. just show me the carfax. a carfax report can help you choose a great used car. it's free a

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we do have a cold front that will be moving on shore, so we're expecting to see showers from seattlecisco before moving south. southwest, things actually pretty nice. dry across the northern plains. we do have an area of low pressure across the lower mississippi valley, so that will bring us some rain and snow as we had head into oklahoma and of course the significance snow with this monster storm? the northeast, not only did we have wet snow snapping branches and power line, now we're looking at drier snow that will be blowing and drifting with 30 to 40-mile-an-hour sustained wind the, >>> that's your latest weather. thousand back over to harry. >> so when is this supposed to end? new york city? >> honestly? next week. this round is actually really going to taper off on sunday morning, but we still have some lingering flurries, an additional system that could bring us though into early next week. >> sorry i asked. >>> can go up, truly a matter of too much information. how your friendly text and tweets can be used to break into your home. is ready to see you! i've got good news. you

ahmed rassam was tried -- i transferred venue from seattle. before the trial started, we thought his target was the space needle celebration of the millennium in seattle. i transferred venue to los angeles. as a developed -- the fbi discovered the target was lax. the discussion about whether these cases can be tried in articles records revolves around seven -- concerns about security of the courthouse and community where the trial is to be conducted and the like. i can shed some light on my own experience in trying the case. people are talking about security expenses in the neighborhood of $1 billion to try the cases in new york. which i find rather startling given the fact there was no expenditure of funds by the local police in los angeles regarding the trial. the marshals tell me their expenditures could be measured in the thousands of dollars as opposed to the millions or hundreds of millions or billions of dollars. the l.a. police department did virtually nothing to enhance security surrounding the court house in los angeles. we had no pr

>> he is a businessman who lives in seattle, washington. >> who is kirby wilbur and how did you get intothe board. >> they're still there? >> yes. >> he is to be a talk-show host. >> yes. he was one of the top conservative talk-show hosts in the country. he is one of the cream talk-show host in the country and a conservative leader. >> young america's foundation owns the reagan ranch. >> yes, they do. they turned that into an incredible site. they built a museum in santa barbara near the ranch. it is in honor of the president. >> howdahs john bliss get into all this? -- how does dauntless get into all this? >> he is the only one i did not inherent. -- inherit. he is a constitutional scholar. back in 1992, i have known him for 18 years or 20 years. he was the chief counsel for the senate judiciary committee's constitution sub-committee. he was the top constitutional lawyer. he is a tremendous guy. >> brian berry. >> i have known him the longest of the mall. i inherited him on the board. when i walk into the reagan- bush campaign headquarters in 1984, i said, i am here. i am 17. i will tur

i group up 90 miles north of seattle. in british columbia, they have a flag that was actually meant as a salute to england, around the turn of last century they came up with it. there it is. it really kind of show shows th last century arrogance. it shows the sun. called splendor without setting. remember, this at this time, the sun never sat on the -- set on the british empire. never! they were global. it was always light where great britain had power. when europe fought world war i, europe was stressed out economically. now the greatest empire since rome struggled economically. these people had the biggest and the best fleet. they had more ships than anybody else ever had. what did they do when they were struggling? came to woodrow wilson. i hate this guy. he was a progressive that said i'm going to help you out. it was quite clever, actually. worked to our advantage. instead of diving in world war i with guns ablazing and say we're going to help clean this mess up, he had a different plan. he said we'll help and loan y

reporting from seattle. bill: we might have found bipartisanship at last, martha.ties fighting against the possibility of funding the civilian trials for terrorists detained at gitmo and we want to know whether or not the trials will happen now, steven hayes on that, great reporting, steven, he's on deck. martha: and how about this. snoopy was never like this... a band of vicious beagles, have you heard about them. bill: sure have. martha: are scaring the daylights out of people. sound crazy? how adorable dogs can inspire reactions like this: >> i quickly grabbed my dogs and came running back into the house. and closed the door and just as we got in, the dogs jumped at the door. i thought that it was like some wolfs come at me. -- wolves coming at me. want to know how fast it took my stiff joints to feel better? one pack. 6 days. that's elations. new elations. clinically proven to improve joint comfort... in as little as six days. drinking it every day keeps it working. elations has clinically proven levels... of glucosamine and chondroitin, in a powerful form that

all over the country, from las vegas to seattle to cincinnati, air martials have filed official complaintsmination. in cincinnati alone, 20% of the office filed complaints, according to their lawyer. 6% say they were then retaliated against in the workplace with undesirable assignments. managers allegedly spent nine months at an unknown cost to taxpayers investigating whether one female air martial had her car registered in the proper state. >> at the conclusion of that, she was notified that the car in question belonged to a different air martial so they were dropping the inquiry. my almost one-year-old child would probably be better at picking up the phone and dialing up the licensing bureau than these guys are. >> then there is the story of this woman, a girlfriend, now wife of an air martial, who complained to the department of homeland security she was followed, photographed and investigated by the air martials, all because, she says, her then-boyfriend had a workman's comp claim. >> america's safety is being put, you know, on the back burner because, you know, we're 40 miles away fro

there's a nurse saving a life in baltimore. 20 minutes later, she'll bring one into the world in seattlehelp an accident victim in kansas. how can one nurse be in all these places? through the nurses she taught in this place. johnson & johnson knows, behind every nurse who touches a life... there's a nurse educator... who first touched them. ♪ you're a nurse ♪ you make a difference in the north of england to my new job at the refinery in the south. i'll never forget. it used one tank of petrol and i had to refill it twice with oil. a new car today has 95% lower emissions than in 1970. exxonmobil is working to improve cars, liners of tires, plastics which are lighter and advanced hydrogen technologies that could increase fuel efficiency by up to 80%. >>> i used to live in a halfway house. my father knew i deserved my own apartment, so he got me the prettiest apartment that has an eat-in kitchen and all this beautiful wicker furniture, which is fantastic. wicker butterflies and my very favorite part is i like in the phone both there's a sign right outside that says "if you lived here you'd

. >> we talked a few months ago in seattle.ut the ft you had had the perft race, that 500 in torino. you didn't have the perfect race here. does that bother you? >> i think it depends on how you define a perfect race. i think many, many times during these olympic games i was very close to having a perfect race. you know, in sho track speed skating, a lot of things are out of your control, whether you get bumped or whether a referee makes a decision to disqualify you or another skater grabs you or pushes you. a lot of things are out of your control. but, you know, one thing that kind of rang true in my mind is when i was leaving the rink on the final day, there was a lot of great short track skating legends who were there watching. some told me it was an honor to watch me skate and be a part of my career and for me that was very humbling. >> i was actually sitting not far from your dad who was watching you and i saw you come up and embrace him after the eighth medal. describe that moment. >> you know, the entire olympic games i

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all over the country from las vegas to seattle to cincinnati, air marshals have filed official complaintsclaiming age, gender and racial discrimination. in cincinnati, alone, 20% of the office filed complaints, according to their lawyer. six marshals say they were retaliated against in the workplace with undesirable assignments. managers allegedly spent nine months at an unknown cost to taxpayers investigating whether one female air marshal had her car registered in the proper state. >> at the conclusion of that she was notified the car in question belonged to a different air marshal so they were dropping the inquiry. my almost 1-year-old child would probably be better at picking up the phone and dialing the driver's license bureau than these guys are. >> reporter: then there is the story of this woman. a girlfriend, now wife of an air marshal, who complained to the department of homeland security she was followed, photographed and investigated by the air marshals because her then boyfriend has had a workman's comp claim. >> we're 40 miles away from the airport investigating private citiz

seattle and king county will keep driving the prius models but have requested that floor mats be removed vehicles according to a new report. we heard from the ceo of toyota today apologizing for quality control issues with the company saying they would make great improvements but we've not seen an official recall of the prius as we've seen with other vehicles. there have been reports of brake problems with the 2010 prius but as of now there's not been an official recall from toyota but now this news, officials taking action and asked all state agencies to pull that particular vehicle off the road. also, there are some stories out there this morning, no way! during the commentary of a soccer match might not be for the faint of heart -- doing that may not be for the faint of heart. take a look at the guy on the right a. brazil yap tv commentator. he's a former player. he passes out on live tv. boom. we're not sure what happened but if you look at the temperature in the upper right-hand corner you can see it's 37 degrees celsius, that's 99 degrees fahrenheit. maybe it was the heat. we don't

in fact, let's take a look at what people in seattle are tweeting about right now.a is a big topic, people talking about the recall. haiti, those americans charged with child abduction and, of course, wear red. you'll notice the anchors on msnbc wearing red to bring attention to women with heart disease. >>> breaking news, dolphin mall, a plane was heading for final approach to a runway in miami and there went the part on to the parking lot. we're keeping an eye on that. don't forget. we've got updates throughout the day and evening now on the winter storm that's hitting washington, d.c. andrea mitchell is up next. i've been growing algae for 35 years. most people try to get rid of algae, and we're trying to grow it. the algae are very beautiful. they come in blue or red, golden, green. algae could be converted into biofuels... that we could someday run our cars on. in using algae to form biofuels, we're not competing with the food supply. and they absorb co2, so they help solve the greenhouse problem, as well. we're making a big commitment to finding out... just ho

and it runs from chicago all the way to seattle or oregon. and on that line train ride, paul wrote a letter that changed his entire fate and destiny. in the oss, just back up for a moment, is effectively the first cia or central intelligence agency but it was far more than that during world war ii. it was also for operations groups. they do with propaganda. we also dealt with research and analysis which took all the human intelligence that was out there and collated it and then analyze it. and it was sort of an entire agency that had everything under one umbrella. which in many ways, the brenner assignment as well as what's going on today, is a very back to future problem. we are dealing with human intelligence issues and everything else and a lot of people about it to did a need for an oss. again, a hall joins this agency and coasters by turning and is given the opportunity to form his own team. any forms a small team of about four men and they jump back the heinz alliance into northern italy to sever the path for the small passes that lead

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. >> when we deployed it in 8 hospitals around the world, and they range from seattle, london, toronto, to poor settings, rural tanz ania, each hospital had a reduction in complications. the average reduction was more than a third. and we saw a significant drop in deaths as well. >> reporter: and it didn't matter if the hospital was rich or poor. he argues the simple checklist is effective because in today's high-tech complex medical world there is just too much for the human mind to remember. >> fairly standard to use a prosthetic for this portion of the procedure and save veins for later. >> you can take two lessons out of this. one is you can say isn't it terrible how things go wrong. but i think the deeper lesson is the complexity of the world in medicine and beyond has begun to eclipse our abilities no matter how well trained we are. we teach medical students here's all the stuff in this textbook you're going to have in your brain. we don't teach them, guess what, there is going to come a moment where it's not in your brain. and someone's life depends on it. what are you going to

i worked at stations in seattle, st. louis, minnesota and maine in 2003 went to los angeles to work for a program called marketplace, a business news program. was around this time that mitel mounted wife ellison took the foreign service exam and passed, and in 2005 she was hired by the u.s. state department for her first assignment we were sent to bomb echo. yeah. we did not know where it was either. , coe is the capital of mali in west africa. soi left marketplace and found myself in west africa with a lot of time on my hands. this gave me ample time to write my first book which is called last team standing. this is a book about the 1943 merger of the pittsburgh steelers in philadelphia eagles. the nfl was so short of players that they merge the steelers and eagles and they became known as the steagles. the receiver was blind in one eye. the center was death and one year. the running back had ulcers. the actually did much better than you might expect. how well did they do? the book is available in paperback. [laughter]

i was with you before in an earlier meeting, i believe in seattle, and it's a pleasure to be with you i want to start by saying that the federal government is actually following in your foot steps. this group of mayors has some climate agreement. and in this agreement, you've urged the state and federal governments to show more leadership to aggressively work at reducing the carbon emissions in the united states. and so i'm happy to say that through the recovery act, the president and his administration are directly supporting your efforts. and in the near term, we have been investing $80 billion and we see this as a first down payment in order to help the united states transition to a clean energy economy. this $80 billion is creating new jobs immediately. but even more important than the jobs that we so desperately need, it is also investing in a future. the world is moving towards the green energy economy. it's becoming apparent to developing countries, in fact, i've seen the sea chains in country like china. only in the last year or two where the developing countries are saying as

caption funding provided by fox sports net >>> welcome to seattle for pac-10 hoops presented by kfc.bank of america arena. it's the arizona wildcats and the washington huskies. a check of the pac-10 standings through the first half show the surprising wildcats tied with cal for first place. we have defending champion washington in a five-way tie for fifth place. hi, everybody. steve and marcus with you. it's amazing that arizona is tied with washington for first place. but marques, how do you see the second half shaking out? >> you are asking me that? what's happening for arizona, nine of the last champions have been leading or tied at the halfway point, so that's good news for them. the other good news for guys log jammed in the middle, you have the weekend and right back in the mix. a supercompetitive pac-10 this year. >> coach miller has the pac-10 player of the week and the coach loves him. >> he has given this young basketball team the kind of leadership they needed. came in chunky as a freshman, dropped the weight, increased the mobility and range on the jump shot and he's a bo

you recently had a jump in the call in from i think the seattle, washington, area.e kinds of start-ups. we do have a lot here. i have been supporting both in terms of getting federal money -- also in terms of other kinds of support, green business incubators. those are the kinds of things we can do. green universities, from the campus of syracuse. we have the state school of environmental science and forestry, the best in the world. we have all sorts of educational institutions. even our community colleges. the spinoffs from the students and faculties are really creating the kind of business that will take us into the future. what i tried to do is help make sure the policies are going to encourage that kind of environment. i really don't believe the government itself necessarily can do things to directly create jobs. what we can do is provide the kind of environment that is going to help private industry, working with other kinds of organizations, to create jobs. host: representative aaron schatz joins us from peoria, illinois. same question -- it was a snapshot of

and the co-pilot had actually flown overnight from seattle, had a cold, so this issue of pilot fatigue is very much at the top of the agenda and the faa says it will be coming out with new recommendations come this spring on that very critical issue as well. >> good information today. allan, as always, we appreciate it. thank you. >>> so flying through heathrow today. smile, you could be on a very candid camera. yep, europe's busiest airport is using those body scanners that you've heard so much about and they can see through clothes, making it easier to spot anything hidden. this is a security guard testing the system. now, not everyone will be scanned. only those who raise suspicion. and they will be able to see everything. >>> some new developments in haiti on the case of americans accused of trafficking children from the quake zone. we'll have that story. >>> and rob marciano is tracking weather on this groundhog day. he's going to check in with us. and we're going to check in with punxsatawney phil in just a few minutes as well. >>> plus here's the latest on the dow. we'll give yo

actually, and they were protesting the government stimulus plan which we have been digging into here in seattleby february 27th, dozens of rallies had started nationwide and they were dubbed the tea party rallies for the first time which is a reference to the boston tea party and throwing off the yolk of oppression and taxation without representation. by april 15, 2009, thousands rallied how the government uses tax dollars. from september 12th, through the summer, the tea partiers had a march on washington and it drew tens of thousands of people in d.c. alone and of course february 4th, today, the first national tea party convention starts. tickets are soldout, and they are somewhat expensive and as a result of that some people are staying away and some people have backed out feeling that the amount it costs to actually go to the tea party convention is not in keeping with the grass roots approach it was supposed to v. let's go to senior political analyst gloria borger in washington right now. gloria, are we witnessing the birth of another party in america? >> well, we are witnessing the birth

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host: seattle, on the line for democrats, bob.r: from the end of world war ii up until 1973, there was a direct correlation between productivity gains in the economy and the average wage gain for the worker. when congress and wall street decided to go for globalization and these phony trade agreements, starting with nafta, of course, our remembered when ofross perot -- we remember when ross perot talked about the big sucking sound. isn't it interesting that china now has become our banker? it does not take a genius or an economics professor to figure out that when goldman sachs, who was behind nafta, along with mr. robert rubin, bill clinton's first secretary of the treasury , they basically went against the american people's will because that was the percentage of the american people that opposed nafta. the other thing i want to say is that when china passed their stimulus, they had a provision that 100% of that money had to be spent in china. if we have the same provision in our -- we had the same provision in our stimulus, but