i noticed in david's new book "the devil and sherlock holmes" in the piece about the obsessive it conan doyle and scholar who is mysteriously found dead in, that in writing about sherlock holmes to say that arthur conan doyle, the author, in 1906 began to turn his powers of the observation to solve real-world mysteries including the case of a serial killer and that what both of you do it and perhaps all writers in general that's something you having common with detectives, that you turn your powers of observation on the world to solve real-world mysteries. so i guess, david, if you could talk about that large task and then, malcolm, i will go to you. >> i think that is very much the case that many of these stories about the art of detection and the protagonists in the story is in it "the devil and sherlock holmes" often lose themselves even if they are not professionals. there's a story about a con man who suspects may be being conned. there is a story about scientists trying to unravel the mystery of this kind of sammy mythological creature, the giant squid. a story about a working-cla

and in the sherlock holmes story, the main character is this great scholar who is found dead in a series of circumstances and he had become obsessed himself with trying to write a biography and trying to tell the story and piece together the narrative of conan doyle and in the process is driven mad. in that story, you have both the story of the protagonist trying to unravel the mystery of conan doyle and who he was and kind of be his narrator and to some extent i in the narrator as the sleuth try to tell his story and figure out what he was after, what he was searching for to unravel the mystery of the character and find out he was in the certain circumstance. >> as you will go about a story like that,-- [inaudible] how do you map your way mentally and physically to research the narrative and come to your conclusions? >> in that case, and in almost all the reporting cases, the stories often began with almost a clue, a tantalizing clue and i'm sure this is probably true of malcolm too where you hear somebody say something. in the case of sherlock holmes, somebody had mentioned just in pas

whale was supposed to be sherlock holmes turns in to an x rated mystery. now wal-mart is trying to figure out how it happened. much mormon that. >>> first after day of ash the airport gets back into the flight path. i'm kelly swoop. baltimore washington airport saw it's first arrivals and a departure since that huge ash cloud grouped air travel. cheryl conner is live. >> reporter: so many happy faces. you know the delays continue tonight. that military plane got in two hours late. i can tell you there is relief here and stories of how that volcanoo affected so many lives. a hero's welcome home with an extra sigh of relief. after fighting in afghanistan for six no months the ash cloud delayed those men and women. >> they starts to redeploy. >> reporter: a plane with 300 should ors finally landed. it was rerouted to kuwait when the ash cloud clog the air space. earer the first flight in six days touched down. gena finally gets ail hug from her parents but vacation is cut short. >> i live in africa. i was excited to come home. three weeks. >> reporter: the he

the female sherlock holmes was one of the many exceptional winning in this hall. the first black woman hired in treasury was sophia holmes. she worked as a custodian. the division of issue at $15 per month, and became famous for finding two hundred thousand dollars that had been mistakenly thrown away as trash. when she died in 190079 -- in 1979, the secretary of the treasury was among the notables at her funeral. another woman hired in the early part of the 20th century, that congressional members repeatedly asked her to interpret charts and graphs for them. she was appointed the first woman treasurer by president truman, and the position has been held by women ever since. women have held other leadership roles throughout the years. recent standouts include one of our panelists, sheila bair, who served as assistant secretary for financial institutions from to the someone to 2002 -- from 2001-2001. 2. too often girls are told what subjects they should study, what interest they should have and what jobs they should do. to all young girls, students and professionals

sit down and open this movie and uh, it wasn't sherlock holmes. everything went pretty surreal fast. you don't believe it's going to happen. >> she says the movie was going to entertain children. well, thankfully she got it before any young eyes viewed its contents. wal-mart replaced the tampered with dvd for the real thing. the company is still trying to figure out what happened. the wal-mart spokesmen says returned dvds are never placed back on the store shelves. >>> how about this? he's only four years old, but he's well on his way to becoming the next fire chief. grease spilled onto open flames in a kitchen stove. the little guy's mom tried to put it out but couldn't. she called the fire department and when the kids went to get out of the house. the 4-year-old grabbed the fire extinguisher. >> i sprayed the fire out. >> you sprayed the fire out? >> how about that? . the child's mom says he learned to use it in daycare. if the boy hadn't put out the fire, it could have spread to other parts of the apartment. he was given a badge of courage for

investigators are like sherlock holmes. i have seen them kicking tires and asking people in the garage because they have heard something they think may be plausible. when they see a lot of complaints they do not suddenly run out and recall. they do it preliminary investigation. there is enough data for us to allocate resources and do a preliminary investigation. the contact car companies for more information. when there is enough concern, they raise it to an engineering analysis. they are clever in how they can replicate some of the things that occur. with toyota, the fact that we are seeing the same sort of issues from other cars from other manufacturers makes you think it could be it is not a floor mat. it could be that there is something in the software or electromagnetic, as nasa is looking at. . . that is where you find if you disregard something that is not in the facts, you could be labeled that you are ignoring. that is not the case. they like to go out and get the problem and solve it. >> we're taking your phone ca

>>> she thought she was watching sherlock holmes, but it turned out to be john holmes. bought the dvd from wal-mart. how did this happen? >> it almost looked like superman and looks like a swan and acrobat all in one. >> look at this. what a play this was. we'll find out where it happened. here on good morning, maryland. megan is off today. >>> let's start with justin berk with our earth day forecast. >> megan's out there in boston trying to help the os. >> we have a look at a dense fog advisory. that includes just the western counties or counties west of the bay. there are problems east of the bay as well. visibility cut down to less than an 8th of a mile. makes it difficult to see signs and overhead traffic signals. eastern shore, we have a one-hour delay in king county and 90 minute delay in queen ann's county. let's show you some of the views. improvement, at glen burnie. about 10:00 last night. rain stopped, skies cleared. it was the perfect set-up for air to cool down. any leftover moisture on the ground couldn't hold itself. we just quickly build up

house is really "sherlock holmes". >> what are the ingredients to solve a mystery?t know that anybody knows. i think certainly paying attention is very important. when doctors tell me they never see any interesting cases, you know, i feel bad for them. i think it means that they're not fully paying attention all the time. that they're maybe a little bored with their job and they're not paying attention. i think paying attention is very important. >> how do you -- is this part of a discussion you have with your new medical students or you new residents about the very idea of listening to the patients? the art of the diagnosis? how do you get people to understand that? >> well, i tell them that fascinating cases are passing in front of their nose every day. and if they're not seeing them it's because they're not paying attention. even if somebody has just a classic hospital disease, a pneumonia, the chances are excellent that their pneumonia is going to be a little bit different than somebody else's pneumonia. some percentage of the time that pneumonia is going to be

that the whole lost in a bar story mite have been part of a clever marketing scheme, calling sherlock holmesre. >>> and a different high tech ganlt is being put to use in an unusual case, counting penguins. an international team has launched the world's first penguin census, using pictures and data from spy sat lilts over antarctica. the pictures are so good, they can count individual birds. it doesn't disturb the penguins, and the researchers get to stay warm. >>> and about that more con sensual census the one that covers our houses back here at home. it finds that women in this country have now closed the education gap. new numbers show women are now as likely to graduate from college and to earn an advanced degree as men. but the wage gap remains with women still earning about 20% less. >>> and a woman who spent her life fighting for civil rights has died. for 40 years, dorothy height led the national council of negro women, blazing a trail for justice. never underestimate the power of a gladiator, in a picture hat. we first saw dorothy height in the 1940s, lobbying eleanor roosevelt for

you know, "house" is really sherlock holmes. >> what are the ingredients to solve a mystery?> well, i don't know that anybody knows but i think certainly paying attention is very important. when doctors tell me they never see any interesting cases, you know, i feel bad for them because i think it means they're not fully paying attention all the time. they may be a little bored with their job and not paying attention so i think paying attention is very important. >> how do you -- is this part of your a discussion with your medical students? new earesident students and the art of the diagnosis? how do you get people to understand that? >> well, i tell them that fascinating cases are passing in front of their nose every day. and if they're not seeing them, it's because they're not paying attention. you know, even if somebody has just a classic hospital disease, pneumon pneumonia, chances are excellent the pneumonia is different than somebody else's pneumonia and a certain percentage of the time it is something different and if you're not paying attention, you are going to miss i

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investigators are like sherlock holmes. i have seen them kicking tires and asking people in the garage because they have heard something they think may be plausible. when they see a lot of complaints they do not suddenly run out and recall. they do it preliminary investigation. there is enough data for us to allocate resources and do a preliminary investigation. the contact car companies for more information. when there is enough concern, they raise it to an engineering analysis. they are clever in how they can replicate some of the things that occur. with toyota, the fact that we are seeing the same sort of issues from other cars from other manufacturers makes you think it could be it is not a floor mat. it could be that there is something in the software or electromagnetic, as nasa is looking at. . . that is where you find where if you disregard something because it is not fitting the facts, you can be labeled that you are ignoring the industry. that is not what i have seen to be the case. we're taking your phone calls th

the final point i want to make is this: this is kind of like the sherlock holmes, the dog that didn't bark. there's something missing from this legislation here. you look through the entire bill and probably the biggest reason for the failure of our financial system was the fact that fannie mae and freddie mac were allowed to go whole hog, take on a bunch of bad loans and end up with an implicit guarantee that ultimately became an explicit guarantee by the taxpayers of america. you won't find any resolution of that problem in this bill. why is it that when everybody knows that this problem began with a lot of loans being made to people that couldn't afford them, those loans then being acquired by fannie and freddie and then sold off in fancy esoteric instruments on the market here, why is it that there's nothing in here about the risk of fannie and freddie and the risk that they still pose? it is way north apparently of $400 billion. i have heard in the trillions of dollars. and that this would be a taxpayer liability. if that's the case, shouldn't we be focusing reform on the entitie