sinclair wanted that money back. in this letter, united argued the animal had a pre-existing health condition. still, the airline agreed to pay if she remained silent. the investigative unit requested an interview with united. the airline declined and released this statement in part saying we regreet that sedona did not have a good experience. we offered to compensate miss sinclair by fully reimbursing her vet bills, but unfortunately she declined to accept the terms of the agreement. >> i mean the only reason i can do this interview is because i didn't sign that and i won't sign that. >> reporter: and she's even taken her frustration to social media. within 24 hours of launching this facebook page, thousands began supporting her cause. >> i still want to be reimbursed, but i'm not going to be quiet. >> she spent almost four hours in conditions well above 85 degrees. >> reporter: in the last year the investigative unit has talked to other pet owners who have lost animals and uncovered that more than 300 pets have die

. >> and upton sinclair is in your book. >> upton sinclair was 26. he represents our younger generation. an interest in a quality among the races and sexes. that was also about women's race and women acquiring the vote. >> and jack london and grover cleveland. >> jack london is a friend of upton sinclair. they are both sources. >> where did future i just? >> my idea came because i came to live in princeton and i read some biographies of woodrow wilson. i perceived in the biography a portrait of a person much different from the sort of received notions of woodrow wilson, this novel person to isolated many flaws and i saw his self-righteousness, his condescension towards negroes, he called black people negroes, and towards women. i thought really needed to be examined. >> joyce carol oates, do you have any ideas how many books you have sold? >> i have no idea. >> been him an award you have one? >> i don't sit around counting them. no, i don't. >> what is your writing process? >> i tried to write very early in the morning and i basically love to write.

sinclair but unfortunately she declined to accept the terms of the agreement.closure agreements are common among airlines she doesn't think passengers should sign them. >> you have to go public, you owe it to travelers, passengers, sets. >> reporter: united airlines did refund janet's fee for flying her pets and we checked with the department of transportation about janet's incident because airlines are requifrd to report pet injuries and pet deaths to the federal government. they did not have any information involving sedona's incident from july. scott mcfarland, news4 iteam. >>> for tips on traveling with your pets logon to nbcwashington.com and search pet travel. anybody traveling with a pet tonight is probably not too happy. >> no. getting a lot of people on my facebook and twitter pages saying when can i take my.org out? he's got to relieve. i can't go outside. it's too wet. we're dealing with the heavy rain and that heavy rain continues and it will continue as we move on through the rest of the night. >> that's why you went to meet rol ji school. >> so i

. >> host: and upton sinclair is in your book. >> guest: upton sinclair was 26 years old. e represents a younger generation. he's sort of rising in the rise of interest and equality among the races and sexes. the novel's also about women's right and women acquiring the vote. >> host: and jack london and grover cleveland are also in the book. >> guest: yes. they're both socialists. >> host: where do you get your ideas? >> guest: my idea for that novel came because i came to live in princeton, and i read some biographies of woodrow wilson and read about princeton. and i perceived in the biographies a portrait of a person much, much different from the sort of received notion of woodrow wilson as this novel person. i saw that he had many flaws, and i saw that his self-righteousness, his rectitude, his condescension toward negroes -- he called black people negroes -- and toward women i thought really needed to be examined. >> host: joyce carol oates, do you have any idea how many books you've sold? >> guest: no, i don't have any idea. >> host: do you have any idea how many awar

sinclair wanted that money back. in this letter, united argued the animal had a pre-existing health condition. the airline agreed to pay if she remained silent. the investigative unit requested an interview with united. the airline declined and released this statement in part saying, we regret that sedona did not have a good experience. we offered to compensate miss sinclair by fully reimbursing her vet bills. but unfortunately she declined to accept the terms of the agreement. >> the only reason i can do this interview is because i didn't sign that. and i won't sign that. >> within 24 hours of launching this facebook page, thousands began supporting her cause. >> i still want to be reimbursed but i'm not going to be quiet. >> i spent almost four hours in that plastic kennel in conditions well above 85 degrees. >> the investigative unit has talked to pet owners that lost animals. more than 300 pets have died, been injured oregon have gone missing due to the airlines. nondisclosure agreements are common. but more impo

sinclair wanted yipted to pay for it. the airline argued the dog had a preexisting condition.n though she received a clean bill of health prior to the trip. >> they would give me $1,000 if i signed a nondisclosure agreement. >> reporter: sinclair refused. instead going public, creating a facebook page called united airlines almost killed my greyhound which now has thousands of supporters. the next day united agreed to pay the bill but still wanted a disclosure agreement. >> the only reason i can do an interview is because i didn't sign that, and i won't sign that. >> reporter: in an e-mail united said we are committed to ensuring safe and comfortable travel of all the the pets that fly with us and regret that sedona did not have a good experience. we offered to compensate mrs. sinclair by fully reimbursing her vet bill, but unfortunately she declined to accept the terms of the agreement. carter says while nondisclosure agreements are common among airlines, she doesn't think passengers should sign them. >> you have to go public. you owe it to travelers, to passengers, to pets.

you are looking at some of the cell phone video pet owner janet sinclair shot this past summer. sinclair was relocating from california to boston and had to fly with her dog sedona and cat alika. she says she saw her two animals sitting out on the runway in 90 degree heat and claims one of the handers kicked their crate. her cat suffered dehydration, and her dog barely survived. >> sedona's entire crate was filled with blood, feces, urine. sedona was in full heat stroke. all of her blankets were filled with blood. she was urinate and defacating blood. she was dying literally right in front of me. stwloo tonight more on what happened to the animals and what the airline is saying about this incident. watch the full investigation tonight at 11:00. >>>. >> construction on apple's new headquarters is expected to get started today. the city council approving the plan for the new 2.8 million. this happened last night. it also means more green. the city cutting the annual tax break that it gives apple from 50% to 35%. that translates into cupertino giving back nearly $2 million every ye

sinclair addition to accept if it produced a breakthrough between german chancellor and end up with conservatives and the sense in that sense the democrats. the country's two biggest political forces negotiate its two on tuesday night in a bid to reach agreement on forming a grand new addition. but the need is expected to present details of the deal with it now as it comes two months often that this election victory and if the spd gets approval from party members that will enable had to form a government by christmas. when the park opened up the italian government on late night confidence nation in the senate on tuesday supporting budget announced the twenty fourteen and he was an indication of the stunt prime minister and reconnect as kurdish and surviving even up to sylvia pakistani center right party to hold out on the eve of effort to expel the media magnate from parliament at the tax for conviction. this kitty is fighting to the mosque has told senate says he has new evidence that would exonerate it. but even his lawyers believe what it states that spoke against him on to preparing for the l

sinclair was relocating from california to boston. had to fly with her dog and cat. she said she saw her two animals sitting out in the runway in 90 degree heat and claims one of the handlers kicked their crate. her cat suffered dehydration and her dog barely survived. >> her entire create was filled with blood, feces, urine. she was urinating and defecating blood. she was dying literally in front of me. >> tonight more on what happened to the animals and what the airline is saying about the incident. watch the full investigation tonight at 11:00. >>> it is 5:21. coming up on "today in the bay" a possible new setback for skier lindsey vonn's quest for another olympic gold medal. >>> good wednesday morning to you. it's 5:24. we are less than 80 days away from the winter olympics in sochi, there's questions about whether skier lindsey son will be able to defend her downhill gold medal. vonn reportedly injured her knee in a training run earlier this week. she is being evaluated by a doctor and will know soon how bad that injury is. earlier in february she tore two ligam

it makes you despair what has come of our current-- this is maybe even before upton sinclair. >> they'refloating around at the same time. they're all at one magazines and the legends of journalism, they are given two years to do their research, so that they can come out with stories that are factually based, that are like mini historieses. so tarbell come wowtz something on standard oil, and it leads to the disintegration of standard oil. >> jon: they break up the monopoly. glai break up the meat business. >> isn't that great? wouldn't you love to live in that time? >> jon: and the people of the country are following these stwrs greacenters with great ind it has a great efficacy to it. >> people would read these and press their congressman. they felt if you reg lailtedly the economy the economy will fall apart and this was the beginning of government having a real role. it just makes me sad to see where we are today. our attention span is limited-- is that your attention span? ( laughter ). >> jon: i was just thinking, oh, you know what i love? ( laughtelove?laugh ( laughter ) you're dea

. >> some young people just don't buy it. 20 year old haley sinclaire is a madison u student active in young americans for liberty, staunchly opposed to the new healthcare law. >> you are being taxed or fine if you don't sign up for healthcare. and that's frustrating because it's mandated for healthcare. >> under the affordable care act the penalty for an individual not having insurance is $95 in 2014. it goes up to $325 in 2015 and $695 in 2016. >> i would like to pay no premium. >> according only to estimates because she couldn't get into the on-line marketplace curry's insurance premium for 2014 for a mid tear plan would be $2,428 a year. but because of her income, she could get a government tax credit of $2, 888, making is her premium $240 a year. >> i will venture who guess who will not buy insurance the first year and have the penalty but as the penalty increases year to year i think you get to a point where it's worthwhile to just pay and have the coverage. >> the choice that people think they would rather pay the penalty, but i think especially starting in 2016 the penalties wi

he cuts these deals with harry sinclair, huge amounts of money. there are some cattle which are shipped in from new jersey, which the neighbors become concerned about. at first the case goes nowhere. it unravels. he is convicted and becomes the first cabinet member to go to jail. that is in 1931. this case is a slowly unraveling case. sometimes the drip can hurt the reputation more than if it is just over and done with. these things drip with harding after his death. whether it is the britain book or the indictment of fall or people in the veterans administration or the alien property offers or is attorney general. >> it isn't clear that harding knew. >> no. i do not think he did it all. >> the caller suggests the hardings were aware of it. i do not think there is evidence. >> i would say absolutely not. to make a larger point, i do not think there is any credible evidence that harding is involved in any of these scandals. >> not at all. >> will have more time to get to these scandals later in the program. we are in her preparation years. i want a

. >> host: and up ton sinclair is in your book? >> guest: he was 26 years old.ise of interest in equality among the races and sex is. it's about women's right and acquiring the right to vote. >> host: and john and governor -- grover. >> where do you get your ideas? >> guest: my ideas for that novel came because i came to live in princeton. i read some biography of wilson about prince son. i perceived in the biography a portrait of a person different from the sort of received notion of woodrow wilson as a novel person. i saw he had many flaws, and i saw that his self-rich useness of his is rectitude, his con desks -- he called black people negro and women needed to be examined. >> host: do you have any idea how many books you have sold? >> guest: no. >> host: any idea on how many awards you have won? >> guest: no. i don't sit around counting them. >> host: how do you write? >> guest: early in the morning. and basically love to write. to me it's very exciting. it's literally exciting to write. ism that i'm organizing thoughts that may be incoherent or chaotic and

sinclair was relocating from california to boston and had to fly with her dog sedona and cat alika. she said she saw her two animals sitting out on the tarmac on 90-plus degree heat. and claimed one of the workers kicked the crates. her cat was suffering dehydration when they arrived and her dog was barely alive. >> sedona was in full heat stroke. all of her blankets were filled with blood. she was urinating and defecating blood. she was dying literally right in front of me. >> just awful. >> tonight, we'll have more on what happened to the animals and what the airline is saying about that incident. watch our full investigation tonight at 11:00. rog, jess? >> americans supporting americans helped pack care boxes for troops deployed in afghanistan. they're filled with comfort items. they're saying it's troops way of letting them know they're not forgotten over the holidays especially. about 300 holiday care boxes were packed just today. >> before we go, we want to tell you about breaking news unfold on the peninsula. the cal tran service is stopped in both directions because of downe

>> broadcasters have combined, sinclair has done a great job. >> stocks have done great. >> they've donely well because they're playing a migration. secondly, there's a wild card in terms of the spectrum values. media general just closed today. warren buffett and i are largest holders, young is merging with them, i think they'll do another deal. there's some vitality left. i also like viacom. dish was up 2.50 today. what is ergen going to do? i got $4 brl billion of debt and earn $3 billion in ebida. he was talking about making t-mobile today. and doing it at a time in which they're doing underwriting. lots of things going on. >> you talk about making love in the media sector. are you expecting more deals? >> yes. european consolidation is ongoing. we're actively involved in that, whether it's buying a company that's -- synovick owns, and -- avendi owns a company, sfr in france that someone wants. vodafone is getting a slew of money from verizon. a lot of mergers taking place there. >> how does a taper play into all of this? a lot of talk today the federal reserve may taper sooner rather

people don't seem to remember sinclair and the jungle 100 years ago when he exposed the meat industryled why people don't think there is a minimum responsibility of the government to make sure that we're not fed products that will make us sick, and the other thing, too, it's important to realize -- >> there is a difference between contaminated meat and trans fats. >> thousands of lives we're talking about is what the scientists believe, trans fapts are putting at risk every year. they are thinking about regulation, here, too. you have to remember the food industry is incredibly fiercely competitive and there are among them companies that want to do the right thing and when they do it unilaterally, it's a difficult thing because competitors will swoop in and take their space on the grocery shelf. if for no other reason to give them coverage from each other and production from investors because they are incredibly beholding the profits. >> how quickly do you see this? it's inevitable. >> the fda is timid about these things. they feel science is at their side. we're at a tipping point of

from what we knew as cheap oil, when i pump gasoline in ray smith's sinclair station on hinkley streetlahoma, 11¢ a gallon, that's gone. >> $1.50 a gallon? >> we won't ever see $1.50 a gallon. no, that's--that's gone. >> right around the corner from fort mcmurray, you can still see oil being produced the traditional way. it's picturesque now. the wells are still pumping, but they belong to the past, like the iron horse that once rode across these prairies. the future? up here in alberta, they're convinced it's in the dirt. [horn honks] >> since we first aired that story, the demand for oil extracted from canadian oil sands has only grown in the u.s., and it's now the single largest source of imported oil, far more than from any opec country. to meet that demand, a new pipeline has been proposed to bring the oil directly from canada to refineries in texas. but there is growing concern about the environmental impact of that pipeline and of the oil sands in general. [ticking] our next story takes us to the continent of antarctica. scott pelley uncovers startling physical evidence of how g

sinclair broadcast group, which is the nation's biggest owner of stations, $1 billion for seven more stations. one analyst calls it a renaissance of the local television business. he says, it's the best it's been in a long time. more big companies buying more local news stations. but is it good for the country? >> well, the fact of the matter is that what has made local television boom in recent years is political ads. that $10 billion we talk about, roughly $6 billion of it goes into political ads. these folks aren't buying those stations because we really want to help democracy. they're buying them to make money. >> and political advertising. >> among other things. but here's one of the things we chart in the book that just absolutely blew our mind. in the 2012 cycle there were local stations in big battleground states where they actually shaved minutes off the local news so they could fit more ads in. in one circumstance we looked at a situation where they expanded in one circumstance set aside local news. and you're, like, great. we had this intense election. you must really want

they did the articles on standard oil or the railroad abuses or the meat packing plans with upton sinclair, they mobilized the public opinion. that's the triangle that was different. the mcchrystal thing happens, it's president obama and mcchrystal making a decision he's going to leave, it's not mobilizing the public to force the congress to do social and economic legislation. >> ray standard baker. who is he? >> he grew up with a father who was in business but loved telling stories. listening to stories orally mattered so much to him. he was supposed to go to law school. he goes to michigan state. he takes a course -- one of the first courses in journalism called "rapid writing." i like to think i missed that course somewhere along the line. he became enunanimous mored with the idea of journals and started working for the chicago record and got interested in the pullman strike, a lot of the violent stuff that was going on in the 1890s. it's a turbulent time. and some of his articles, then, were attracted to mcclure. mcclure gets him to come from there to mcclure's magazine. he said it was

most people are expended to spend less this year than they did last year robert sinclair is a spokesman and he is here with us. >> that's right, in spite of the heavy wind and rain. so it's interesting. this headline, there are fewer americans traveling this year and they're spending less. >> yes, last year was the peak since the recession. 58 million people traveled. in 2007, a year later a couple of months after the economy tanked, it was down to 38 million. people traveling is a direct reflection of what is happening and we probably need five or 6 million and that is where we are seeing these numbers. >> how does it come to the fewer miles of their traveling or fewer dollars? >> that's right, they are spending fewer dollars and traveling slightly more mild. but this is the holiday that most holidays are about. so people tend to hold forth with their plans, in spite of the bad weather that we are seeing, that's not where we were those years ago. >> we are moving this over the east coast. >> 90% are slogging along in traffic and it doesn't make that big of a difference. i recommend tha

smoky the bear and sinclair the dinosaur yesterday, to spiderman and snoopy today.yer of thanks at our tables. and the oldest will give silent thanks for another day to be proud of the very youngest. and we will watch this parade, hot chocolate smiles and high flying heros, parents released from work and children from school. equally liberated and today we all give sincere thanks freely and fully. to the bus drivers who bring us here, to the teachers who explain us our history, to the farmers who feed us, to the night shift who protects us every night, to the nurses and dorks and care givers who heal us in life and console us in our deaths. the chain of gratitude is as unbroken as our american cycle of progress and as unpredictable as the line of march here at this parade. from gety gettysburg, we thank those who gave their lives so we could lead our lives today. thank you. is it a mindless, meaningless reflex? no. it's much more here in america. see it in an airport waiting room erupts in gratitude for a returning veteran. feel it when a stranger's kindness provoke