senator alap simpson, erskine bowles, gentlemen -- senator alan simpson, erskine bowles, gentlemen, thank you. >> thank you, judy. >> ifill: now, two takes on the mexican drug war. first, a report on how the drug trade is spreading far north of the u.s. border. "newshour" correspondent tom bearden reports from colorado springs. ( siren ) >> reporter: the violence of the mexican drug wars may seem far away. but the drugs and the dealers that fuel them are close to home. colorado springs is best known as the home of the air force academy and the army's fort carson. but this quiet, mostly conservative city of 400,000 is also a major distribution point for mexican cartels. matthew barden is the agent in charge of the federal drug enforcement administration office in colorado springs. >> this house was the focal point of one of our recent investigations into a large methamphetamine organization. >> reporter: he says mexican drug cartels began exporting large amounts of methamphetamine after law enforcement began cracking down on production in the u.s. five years ago. huge quantities of heroin

while i cannot support the simpson-bowles plant. i want to thank them for their dedication to this difficult task over the last a months. i agree that the work was constructive this by our inability to get the needed votes. i believe that we can do this without further eroding the middle class in america. it pays to remember that 10 years ago we had a budget surplus. that was rapidly decreasing. during the bush years, the surplus disappeared. through the wars and the tax cuts that mainly in wrist the already wealthy and a blind eye to the recklessness of wall street that caused 8 million americans to lose their jobs and millions more to do -- more to lose their homes. now we are on a "unsustainable fiscal task" that threatens the economic viability of our country. i agree. there is another threat to our economy and our democracy. that is the alarming redistribution of wealth that is shrinking the middle class. the top 1% of americans own 34% of our nation's wealth, more than the entire 90% of the rest of americans combined. even dur

it's estimated simpson herself is worth $100 million.od to be jessica simpson. >>> this comes to us from wxia 11 alive in atlanta, georgia, where one man sacrificed his dream to focus on what's really important. when the super bowl contending new york jets needed to replace an injured player, they called on keith who had been cut months earlier. remarkably, he said no. he stayed home to take care of his parents. it's a tough decision he deals with every time a game is on, but he says it's the right one, sticking by those who never left his side. >> see, lynn, he was only going to be on the practice squad, $5,000 a week guaranteed for five or six weeks. and then he was going to lose his regular job. >> still. still. >> i don't blame him. >>> i'm lynn berry, and this is n stop of the day today on your nbc station. t >>> a trip to the dentist is never pleasant. but for kangaroos in israel, it may be life saving. zookeepers are bringing the animals in for a disinfecting toothpaste treatment believed to prevent a deadly gum disease for those

first of all, let's repeal -- take over national health care -- >> no, no, congressman, allen simpson, your republican conservative senator agrees repealing it is going to cost us money. they want to strengthen many of cost-saving provisions in there, allen simpson, judd gregg -- >> well, judd gregg nor allen simpson is going to be in the congress next session, okay. >> i think everyone wants you to tell the truth -- >> you know, that's clever. >> thank you. >> here's the deal -- yeah, yeah. so here's the deal. you were a governor. you know the kind of unfunded mandates that went into new york. costs that went in there from the federal government. at some point, we need conversation with the governors about how to reform the big programs. the entitlement programs. >> let's take medicare, far and away the biggest driver of the deficit. can you give us any cults that you're willing to make in medicare so you begin to make some progress in this $11 trillion, $12 trillion chasm? >> eliot, there are things you can do with medicare, with medicaid. both in partnership with the states. on the

. >> a simpsons celebration.t's thursday, december 16th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> i think it will make a lot of people feel old, "the simpsons" has been on for 21 years. >> i kind of got out of it. >> it's hard to believe originally the doctor was supposed to be bill cosby. it gives you an idea how old the show is. nevertheless, very funny. >> oh, man. 21 and counting. good morning, everybody, i'm rob nelson. >> i'm vinita nair. >>> we are learning troubling new details this morning about the gunman who opened fire during that florida school board meeting. his wife describes clay duke as a gentle giant who was pushed over the brink by the bad economy. >> rebecca duke also claims her husband did not mean to kill anyone but himself. >> reporter: police say the man whohattered the monotony of that school board meeting was a 56-year-old ex-con with a grudge. clay duke was angry the board had fired his wife, a special ed teacher, earlier this year. >> he loved me. he loved his family. and he was

" and he came in and was a voice on the "the simpsons."awe, the writers just in awe. i will never forget. he walked in the room, carrying a file-a-fax, pack of cigarettes and drove up to the show in an immaculate white corvette, he had dark glasses on. he came in. he was very shy and reserved for a while. then it took a long time. he warmed up. then he started telling us stories and after the recording, didn't take long, and you could see that -- again, i -- i mention this before. but a lot of these performers who are really great, they're not what you think they are. they're not -- that person right away. they're -- they're highly intelligent, shy, and maybe uncomfortable around people they don't know. and so, it doesn't surprise me that maybe he was that way with guests. >> larry: back with conan o'brien after this. [piano keys banging] [scraping] [horns honking] with deposits in your engine, it can feel like something's holding your car back. let me guess, 16. [laughing] yeeah. that's why there's castrol gtx... with our most powerful de

might not seem like the type to have a sense of humor but this past october he was moved on the simpsons and volunteered the voice his absence in character himself. >> gabe slate kron 4 news. >> to give you an idea of facebook growth by the time i finish this sentence, another 25 people have

andy stern is a former president of the service employees international union. >> the bowles-simpson plan got 60% of the votes. it deserves a vote. you know, whoever made the rule up of 14, we made it up. >> woodruff: in a statement, president obama praised the commission's work without backing any specifics. instead, he said it "underscores that to sustain growth in the medium and long term, we need to face some difficult choices to curb runaway debt." the president said his economic team will consider the proposal in working up a budget for the coming year. >> lehrer: and to the analysis of brooks and marcus-- "new york times" columnist david brooks and "washington post" columnist ruth marcus. mark shields is away tonight. david, erskine bowles, i will not ask you any banana jokes to follow up on simpson but erskine bowles also said that the one thing this commission proves or now sets out is an adult conversation about the deficit. do you agree? >> i do agree. i think simpsons must save those up over the years. >> lehrer: he writes them down. >> i do think it has had an porn effec

the fact is the heart of "the simpsons" is real emotion.oks, when we turned this into a series, he said, the only way we're going to do this is if we can make the audience forget, at points, that they're watching a cartoon. >> reporter: and those characters are real, darn it, in a way. they are to simpson fans and they are to groening, who named them after his own family. >> my mother marriage did have a beehive hair-do when i was a little kid. the angle that i was looking at her, i was looking up so the hair looked taller. >> beer here. >> sure, sonny. >> reporter: the creator feels nothing but love for his characters even if they don't feel the same thing about him. >> matt groneing? what's he doing in a museum? he can barely draw. >> i love homer simpson because he's the guy who's being kicked by life and he does not get it. >> room service? send up two more pot roasts -- >> i sauls like that he loves what he loves. he has these full desires. good doughnuts, good beer, the laziness, all that. he feels that with his entire heart, he never

simpson, would you show your hands to the jury? >> reporter: anyone who followed the people versus o.j. simpson can tell you, even when the dna seems like a slam dunk, that doesn't guarantee a conviction. in the era of "csi," juries have become more comfortable with dna evidence. >> that was fresh when it hit the shirt. >> reporter: if lonnie franklin is convicted, it could mean a nationwide expansion of familial dna. >> this will change the way that policing is done in the united states. >> reporter: and if the case suddenly becomes much bigger with new victims identified among these women, then the foe lust will be more intense than ever. as soon as the lapd posted these photos last week, the response was huge. >> a million hits. it was pretty mind-boggling to me. >> reporter: there have been hundreds of phone calls, too. each of them providing a lead that now needs to followed up. each one a potential clue into the mind of a serial killer. >> these guys, they do strange things, and, you know, sometimes they take pictures, someti

simpson emphasizes we cannot keep borrowing so much money. >> no more fun and games.aking promises we can't possibly keep. >> such as medicare, part of $88 trillion in future benefits we cannot pay for. the new plan would reduce future costs in part by making the wealthy pay more. the plan will have social security to avoid 22% cut in benefits in part gradually raising the retirement age. >> what you suggest in increasing the social security retirement age is accept to believe me. to raise it one year over 40 years is hardly radical. >> simpson warned interest groups were poised like dennison of the darkness as he put it to rip this baby to shred and urged commissioners to make their own decisions. in washington, jim angle, fox news. >> a bit different format for the show today, since the world aids piece ran. now we're going to bring in the panel, but first, back-and-forth on lame duck session and the priorities. take a listen. >> i delivered a letter to senator reid signed by all 42 senate republicans. it says that every republican will vote against proceeding to an

cynee simpson is live in the satellite center with where the deal stands tonight. >> a final vote could come as early as tomorrow. after that it will move on to the house which could be the test of whether this plan sinks or swims. even before the test vote was complete, president obama claimed victory. >> this proves that both parties can work together to grow our economy and look out for the american people. >> are they really working together? >> in an unusual alliance, the tax cut -- the tax package has support from congressional republicans and the white house. some democrats are concerned the tax package is not the way to stimulate job growth. >> there is no reason to give tax cuts to the wealthy when there are no benefits to anybody. >> time is running out for the congress. president obama says compromise is the only way. >> i recognize folks on both sides are unhappy with certain parts of the package. i understand those concerns. i share some of them, but that is the nature of compromise. >> this economist believes tax cuts are criminal -- are critical to growth. president obama

mark simpson, bbc news. dublin. >> now a bigger, stronger bailout mechanism is is to be discussed in plus bals. now the meeting -- in brussels. now the meeting itself comes when spain and portugal may need it. >> when the heads of state of the e.u.'s 27 governments meet here later. top of their agenda will be making amendment inserting a line of text which will allow for the establishment of a permanent mechanism offering support to cups getting difficulty which caused greece and ire land to seek bailout. now diplomatic sources say these changes will not lead to competencies and poust being transfered from the parliament to the e.u. and therefore diplomats say it's not going to be the case that ref ren dumbs will be needed in cases -- country that is normally have to have them when changes are made in the e.u. they are to be ratifying the change. the mechanism will be available for use from january 2013. the exact nature of the mechanism, however, is not being debated but very much being debated what form it

she turned her students including jessica simpson into stars. and when it came time for the production of a lifetime they didn't forget. we've got a front row seat for a truly inspiring performance. >>> perfect harmony. this teacher uses popular music to bring hope to his fifth graders, and millions more. the inspirational story of a school choir with soul. we've got the songs that will leave you speechless. >>> and, yuletide pleasures to keep you warm when it's cold. the british queen of the kitchen, nigella lawson, shares her specialless peels in a hold dale edition of the "nightline" plate list. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news with cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city and terry moran in washington, this is "nightline," december 24th, 2010. >> good evening, on this christmas eve, i'm terry moran. we're going to begin with the musical. it's back on the national stage. just look at the smashing success of "glee." but in high school theater departments across the country, the musical never went anywhere and in one p

somebody better call the bowles- simpson team back to washington. we're going to need them again.listen, we need more short-term stimulus, but this was more like a drunken, debt-financed bonanza. and by not combining any short- term stimulus with a budget fix, we failed to enact the model of spend now, save later that is watching washington last week was like watching a junkie promising this hit will be the last. let's just hope our creditors don't stage an intervention before we can get this borrowing addiction under control. i'm maya macguineas. >> susie: and finally, will it be elementary for watson? that's what fans of the game show "jeopardy" will find out when two of its best players compete against an ibm supercomputer. the name "watson" comes from ibm founder thomas watson. the computer will answer questions by sifting through a database compiled by more than 20 ibm scientists. tom, ibm hopes this technology will have practical uses, like solving customer problems at tech support centers. >> susie: that's "nightly business report" for tuesday, december 14. i'm susie gharib

john simpson, bbc news. >> the bbc's aaron mckenzie is in washington and he says the wikileaks revelation reflected the special relationship between the u.s. and the u.k. >> these latest revelations won't change the way the u.k. and the united states work together, the memos make it very clear it's more the british media and chattering classes feeding the idea that the special relationship was fading. the politicians, it seems, were much less jittery. however, a potentially embarrassing picture of senior conservative politicians effectively bending over backwards to please the americans, promising much closer political ties, even offering honesty to keep things sweet. but in the end the men ultimately conclude the special relationship at least have some strategic value for the united states. for that reason, they say it's important that the u.k. public and british government are both made to feel valued. >> president obama has now left the main u.s. air base in afghanistan after an unannounced visit. he had been there to meet the afghan president hamid karzai but the white house said bad

mark simpson, bbc news, dublin. >> this is bbc news. these are your headlines. julian assange, the founder of wikileaks s. in custody in london. he's wanted in sweden and claims that he sexually assaulted two women. a british man accused of plotting to kill his bride in south africa has been arrested in the u.k. shiryan darani's family described the claims against him as ludicrous. this region has suspended the membership of the -- said that president bakbul is illegally hanging on to power after losing last week's presidential election. mr. bakbul says he intends to stay in office and has just appointed a new cabinet. and so too has his election challenger. leaving the country with two rival governments. >> 10 years after he was first elected president loan bakbul is determined it should be business as usual. his title remains unchanged. the state media and army remain firmly under his control. so too his newly appointed cabinet. but outside the corridors of power, this is a bitterly divided country. >> it's true, the situation is difficult. but we do believe a

i support the bulls-simpson plan, subject to a number -- bowles-simpson plan, subject to a number oft running again. [laughter] the fiscal course of this country simply cannot be sustained. you know it. i know it. the american people know it. there is too much at stake to make inaction an option. the plan proposed calls for many things. in that sense, is different from the other agreements we have work done years ago. we succeeded once by balancing the budget for the first time in 30 years, and i believe we can do that again today. the plan before us does call for some hard choices, choices made harder by tilting too much towards saving cuts and not revenue increases. i have my doubts about the achieve ability of some parts. substantial cuts in medicare on the heels of cuts made through health care reform are disconcerting. one cannot help but noti the irony of extending tax cuts one day and the ne day proposing a 65 page report to eliminate $3 trillion-$4 trillion of deficit and debt. this shows that this is just an exercise in complex choices. there is no easier way out. it does no

and former republican wyoming senator alan simpson. they sat down with the budget, came up with these suggestions, which are being hashed up, hacked apart and debated. but as they see it, they have a job to do and every american has to face up to this. we talked to both men late today from washington. >> this is a haircut greater than any hair i have left on doing something with everybody in the united states in a balanced, fair way, and getting rid of $1.2 trillion in these tax cuts. most of them go to the top 1% earners in the united states. >> this is the moment of truth. every business, every family, every university, every city, every state has faced these problems. washington hasn't. this is the moment of truth. the path we're on today is completely unsustainable. if we don't get this debt under control, this country will go bankrupt. >> here's a question for either of you. if these cuts go through, though not exactly as you've called for, as you would like to see them, if there's a process that gets us more or less to the same p

where i think you could have a deal done even early next year with some small tweaks to what alan simpson and erskine bowles put forward. >> so social security obviously one of those big kahunas that we have to attack. and then there are the other entitlements. how do you do that? what is your vision in terms of really getting our arms around this deficit? >> well, over the long-term, social security is a problem. it's not actually the main problem. the main problem involves health care cost growth. but on social security, the proposals are relatively straight forward. for example, bowles and simpson put forward a combination of additional revenue in the form of, for example, raising the cap on where the payroll tax applies and then also indexing benefits or indexing the retirement age to life expectancy. there is a variety of changes that are possible here, and a combination of revenue and benefit changes is the most plausible scenario in terms of addressing the deficit in social security. >> and what is possible in terms of addressing the high cost of health care? >> well, there i think

i wrote "saturday night live" and "the simpsons." >> larry: now is it like you pinch yourself a littleyou ever think this would happen to you? >> i have moments like that. i have bad qualities, good qualities. one of my better qualities is that i am eternally grateful for what i have and i've used the word "grateful" more than any other word in the last year. people come up to me oh, it's too bad what happened and i'll say i'm grateful. i am a very lucky person. i'm never jaded about my success. i am very thrilled every day that -- and i've had amazing moments in my life meeting people. i'm sure you've had the same thing. you've met every single famous person in the world including erik estrada and you get to constantly -- because you get to constantly just say to yourself, i can't believe that this is happening to me. >> larry: if you don't say it there is something wrong. >> yes. >> larry: you should say it. >> you know what's interesting is that people looking at the show right now, they look at you. you're larry king. they believe you've always been larry king and you're used to th

when i was a writer on "the simpsons" before i ever got into this late night game we had, and it was just after johnny carson stepped down from "the tonight show" and he wasn't doing anything and he agreed to be a voice on "the simpsons" and he came in and he was a voice and we were all in awe, all the writers were just in awe. i'll never forget. he walked in the room carrying a file and pack of cigarettes and he drove up to the show in a white corvette, immaculate, and he had dark glasses on and he came in and i remember he was very shy and reserved for a while and then it took a long time but he warmed up and then he started telling us stories and after the recording which didn't take long and you could see that, again, i mentioned this before, but a lot of these performers who are really great, they're not what you think they are. they're not that person right away. they're highly intelligent. shy. and maybe uncomfortable around people they don't know. and so it doesn't surprise me that maybe he was that way with guests. >> larry: back with conan o'brien after this. book a hotel w

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i support the bulls-simpson plan, subject to a number -- bowles-simpson plan, subject to a number ofhis country simply cannot be sustained. you know it. i know it. the american people know it. there is too much at stake to make inaction an option. the plan proposed calls for many things. in that sense, is no different from the other agreements we have work done years ago. we succeeded once by balancing the budget for the first time in 30 years, and i believe we can do that again today. the plan before us does call for some hard choices, choices made harder by tilting too much towards saving cuts and not revenue increases. i have my doubts about the achieve ability of some parts. substantial cuts in medicare on the heels of cuts made through health care reform are disconcerting. one cannot help but notice the irony of extending tax cuts one day and the next day proposing a 65 page report to eliminate $3 trillion-$4 trillion of deficit and debt. this is an exercise in complex joyces. there is no easy or painless way out -- complex choices. there is no easy or painless way out. i can su

watching another saw at this hour starting to funnel in onshore along simpson beach we are getting heavier downpours right around point reyes that means places like san rafael, petaluma, are in for a year rain within the coming hour. storm tracker 4 worldwide and in and out all the moisture sitting off the pacific just waiting to moving to the bay area. continuing seeing what whether for good portion of the morning in fact keeping chances around for a good portion of the day you can see how bad the system as a center to the north of us bringing cloud stretching all the way to the pacific this is lit funnels all the moisture written to the bay area. as we take into morning hours we expect heavy stuff to the north about same goes for the 8:00 hour by 9:00 it looks like the peninsula and the south bay and cajeput of a break up by the time we hit the afternoon these cells rolling again rain through the peninsula through san rafael,. by the afternoon, under shade of green indicates the letter rain. we will start senior rain taper off as we head into the afternoon and into the evening. 7 day aro

-- hal simpson.hat is a rarity, and i am grateful. the couple of weeks ago, it seems like years ago now, we got a little at more attention than i thought we might. it probably deserved it. you know, in the chairman's report, we take $4 billion out of a deficit over the next nine years. we cut the deficit in half by 2015, and by three-quarters in 2020. we take the deficit to gdp down to about 2.2% of gdp in 2015. the president asked us to get 3%, and we get it down to 1.2% in 2020. i think we can all be proud of that. i can tell you that if al travels through airports he gets more thumbs up than he does other digits. from my viewpoint, i usually go to the liquor store when i leave here. but when i go to the grocery store, here is what people in north carolina tell me. 100%, i do not care who they are, they say stay strong. do not without on this. get that deficit down. that is what we will do regardless of the vote. you all have been great. i have never been involved in a more non-partisan -- this is

i want to personally thank my pal al simpson, my co-chairman. we would not be here today without him. i want to thank the brain. if any of you have ever had an been asyou have never high as this guy has been every day. [laughter] i walked out of the first meeting, and i said, "bruce, i think we can do something here, but the guys we just met with, they think we are crazy. are we crazy?" getaid, "no, we're going to this done." that is the kind of party has been all along. thanks to the -- kind of partner he has been all along. thanks to the wonder twins and the staff. i also want to thank conrad. if you were not there to push this forward, america would not have had the focus on this deficit. i want to thank my two new friends, senator crapo and senator coburn. i cannot respect you more. and my old friend dick durbin, thank you, sir. i have been honored to serve with you. director rivlin, the godmother of fiscal responsibility, who taught me my first thing about the budget, mr. cote, who somehow found the time to come to every meeting -- all of e

opened for those who cherish drinking in the middle of the wild was named after the play by jessica simpson in the jeep's it has a music venue but still hoping to shine the hollywood inspiration the median price by these daily from six pm you can enjoy rock music inside typical energetic and fun filled dancing on the box here. in moscow it might be freezing cold outside now the fashion designers are always thinking ahead and showcasing their collections for the next spring summer season one of russia's top designers eager support and to showcase his new creations to women featuring minimalistic silk dresses jackets with geometrical prints and cheap suits made of floating fabrics bright yellow green and pink dominated the catwalk as this collection has been inspired by russian os from the beginning of the twentieth century must a piece by mill a bitch and candid ski. crazy collections in bright rich colors for space this time the amazing russian art for the beginning of the twentieth century has spotted me such beautiful combinations of colors is actually what is needed these days. cupcakes

simpson, the chase. >> peter jennings. >> jimmy: do you guys remember this?baba booey to y'all." and peter jennings goes, "okay, thank you." he had no idea what it was. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. and then, who was it? >> al michaels. >> jimmy: al michaels had to say, "and that's from the radio show, where --" >> exactly. >> jimmy: it took off. people were pranking everyone saying "baba booey." >> been on "30 rock" twice, on "saturday night live," on "the simpsons." you know, i thought it was going to go away. i said, "this joke is over." and july of this year was the 20th anniversary. we did a big celebration. >> jimmy: 20 years? >> 20 years. >> jimmy: they have been calling you baba booey? amazing, man. always good to see you. i know from listening to the show and from knowing you that you are a big music fan. >> i am. >> jimmy: you have been on rock 'n' roll jep' -- short for "rock 'n' roll jeopardy." >> i beat weird al yankovic and casey from the sunshine band. >> jimmy: i mean, that's good right there. that's a good battle. [ scattered applause ] we're

i support the bulls-simpson plan, subject to a number -- bowles-simpson plan, subject to a number ofnot running again. [laughter] the fiscal course of this country simply cannot be sustained. you know it. i know it. the american people know it. there is too much at stake to make inaction an option. the plan proposed calls for many things. in that sense, is no different from the other agreements we have work done years ago. we succeeded once by balancing the budget for the first time in 30 years, and i believe we can do that again today. the plan before us does call for some hard choices, choices made harder by tilting too much towards saving cuts and not revenue increases. i have my doubts about the achieve ability of some parts. substantial cuts in medicare on the heels of cuts made through health care reform are disconcerting. one cannot help but notice the irony of extending tax cuts one day and the next day proposing a 65 page report to eliminate $3 trillion-$4 trillion of deficit and debt. this shows that this is just an exercise in complex choices. there is no easier way out. i