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so long. >> reporter: and as america now prepares to so so long to dick clark, i was asking a lot ofe who gathered here in times square tonight, the word they would use to describe dick clark, and one man shouted legend. new year's eve is not going to be the same on new year's. >> certainly will not. and today, we were all remembers dick clark as we knew him. and i kept thinking back to 2001, right after 9/11. and the man who would not yield on ounce after spirit as he brought in the day. >> they are ready to look forward to the year 2002. they wondered if the crowd would show in times square. never did it doubt it. never, ever. new yorkers are resilient. they are strong. >> dick clark, incredible optimism and spirit. later, we will have more of our favorite moments from his long career. >>> but as we turn to other news 06 the day, abc news has new information about that secret service scandal. tonight, for the first time a woman who was with the i gents is speaking out. as away learned three of the agents involve willed leave the secret service. pierre thomas on this story for us ag

. >> so long. so long. for now, dick clark.ng. >> reporter: and here in times square where he ushered in the new year every year, the crowds that have gathered to honor dick clark. i asked them, what's the one word they would use to describe him and a gentleman yelled out legend. they all joined in. david muir, abc news, new york. >> so many careers he helped make. >> such an accurate description there. stay with abc news as we remember dick clark later this half hour. unforgettable memories from "american bandstand." stay tuned for "america this morning" and "good morning america" for coverage of clark's life and death and his legacy. >>> now to politics. and who republicans -- whom republicans favor as a running mate for mitt romney. a new poll puts former secretary of state condoleezza rice now at the top of the list. 26%. rick santorum ranks second. senator marco rubio of florida and new jersey governor chris christie are tied for third among republican voters overall. the poll shows tea party republicans picked rubio as th

from "bandstand" to new year's, we say so long to a true entertainment titan. >>> also this morning, new apologies from the u.s. military, all stemming from pictures of soldiers with dead insurgents in afghanistan. >>> a naked protest at the airport. what drove that guy to completely strip down with plenty other passengers watching? >>> and is that cute, little mouse right there, the cure for what concerns millions and millions of american men. here's a clue. check out the do. >>> good morning, everybody. tributes are pouring in this morning for entertainment legend dick clark. of course, it all started with "american bandstand," decades ago, where clark helped launch hundreds and hundreds of stars. >> but he also had a major impact on american culture, from how we listen to music to how we celebrate the new year. here's abc's tahman bradley. >> reporter: from times square, to hollywood, americans are remembering the legendary dick clark. he was a cultural touchstone, and like a member of the family. >> live, from philadelphia, it's time for mek's favorite dance part by. >> reporter:

then explaining why he waited so long. listen. >> i felt sorry that they lost their child, yes. >> and so you told detectives that you wanted them to convey that to the parents? >> i don't know that they were detectives or not. >> officers, i apologize. >> i didn't know if they were going to convey it or not. i just made the statement. >> okay. and then you said that you called them up or left a message for them to tell them that. >> no, sir. >> why did you wait 50 days to tell the parents. >> i don't understand the question, sir. >> why did you wait so long to tell mr. martin and the victim's mother, the father and mother. why did you wait so long to tell them? >> i was told not to communicate with them. >> let's talk about that today, a big hearing. lots to talk about. mark nejame, sunny hostin and also criminal defense attorney mark geragos joins me in new york. how do you think the prosecution did? we heard from the detectives he couldn't say who threw the first punch. were you surprised by all this? >> i thought it was

so long. for now, dick clark.long. ♪ >> reporter: and here in times square, where dick clarke ush ushered in the new year every year for america, the crowds that have gathered to honor dick clarke. i asked them, what's the one word they would use to describe him and a gentleman yelled out "legend." they all joined in. david muir, abc news, new york. >> legend is the word. so many careers he helped make. unbelievable. >> such an accurate description there. stay with abc news as we remember dick clark later this half hour. unforgettable memories from "american bandstand." stay tuned for "america this morning" and "good morning america" for more coverage of clark's life and death and his legacy. >>> now to politics this morning and whom republicans favor as a running mate for mitt romney. a new poll puts former secretary of state condoleezza rice now at the top of the list. 26%. rick santorum ranks second. senator marco rubio of florida and new jersey governor chris christie are tied for third among republican voters

tavis: how have been known over the years, you have been so good for so long, but even the great have off nights. how have you known over the years when you did not deliver what the audience expected of you? when you were off your game, so to speak? >> it happens. sometimes wonderful golfers play and something goes wrong. look at what happened in the masters. yesterday. he said, i did not have my best game. sometimes, from day to day, no matter how well you prepare, something happens. something was wrong. something was wrong in preparation, or nerves, or too relaxed. booing, i had thein same experience the first time i worked with the american ballet theater. she did a piece where frank sinatra sings with his daughter. it was a little duets, it was a huge success in her career. but that first performance, instead of me dancing my bread and butter, so to speak, we worked for weeks with -- on this little duets. when we finished, we were booed. strange, unexpected. but that was not the first time. if you are not booed, you are doing something wrong. everybody loves what you are doing, th

so long. >> so many memories.ually a memorial that took place last night at branson, missouri, of course, a well-known music town. that's where the "american bandstand" theater is located which dick clark founded there. you can see a loving tribute there and across the country as america really remembers its oldest teenager. oldest teenager. . . . female announcer ] think your kids are getting a dependable clean in the bathroom? [ gasps ] think again. try charmin ultra strong for a clean with fewer pieces left behind. its diamondweave texture is soft and more durable so it holds up better for a more dependable clean. fewer pieces left behind. charmin ultra strong. >> announcer: "world news now" delivers your "morning papers." >> real quick before we get to "morning papers," we have a special prize for all of you. tomorrow and friday's "world news now," a special prom segment, so, we want to know what your favorite prom slow song of all time is. go to wnnfans and weigh in. >>> let's get to it. a twist to wife swap.

but, you know, it's been going on for so long and we have done so much work since the release of sleeveless -- slaves and have had to do the dirty work in some jobs we don't like and accepting things we don't like and once you have been the underdog so long it is easy for everybody else that came into the country to treat that attitude also come and went on, and the country has modern tools to work with, and we should be way past that stigma point where the bad guy is always the black guy and told you are a bad guy over the years people would really start thinking you're the bad guy. he had to lose his life, you know in order to for things to change >> could we see just a run of the size around the rebellion we will talk about trayvon martin and the remaining time can you take us back to the dalia side. there is a korean merchant in the property of the midst of the rebellion and the right. >> its people faugh -- people were fed up. >> this image comes from our collection of malcolm x papers and dehere this is a response to a police raid on a race of islam temple in 1962 when two african-ame

for all of us at cbs sports, so long from the texas hill country. >> jeff: tonight spring storms, a nor'easter crawls up its east coast which terrell brown says will bring heavy rain and in some places more than a foot of snow. new information on the secret service scandal, with word one of the agents was a guest at the same hotel where the president later stayed. whit johnson has the latest. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." we begin tonight way huge storm that could impact at least a third of the nation. from florida to maine, potentially as far west as michigan, and because of the unusual timing there are concerns it could be a rerun of a weather mess just six months ago. starting us off, here's terrell brown. >> reporter: last october a surprise storm dumped record snow on the northeast. nearly 20 million people were left without power. that winter storm arrived in the fall. now there's a spring storm just like it, taking aim at the northeast. >> both producing heavy, wet snow. and both happening at times when we have a lot of leaves on the industries which will c

did you wait so long to tell mr. martin and the victim's mother, the father and mother, why did you wait so long to tell them? >> i was told not to communicate with them. >> reporter: the martin county attorney's think zimmerman's apology was self-serving. >> why today? when he made all of the statements to the police. why not show remorse there if he was sincerely apologetic for killing this unarmed child. >> reporter: zimmerman said he shot trayvon in self-defense after the 17-year-old slammed his head against the sidewalk. zimmerman's attorney surrendered his client's passport to make sure he's not a risk. >> zimmerman's wife testifying by phone because of death threats said her husband is not in danger in the community. the prosecution brought up other incidents. one, an arrest for battery against a police officer and anp assistance when a girlfriend once accused him of attacking her. >> you were not aware of that incident? >> i'm aware he had to protect himself from being attacked by her. >> reporter: testifying

. >> why did you wait so long to tell mr. martin and the victim's mother, the father and mother, why did you wait so long to tell them? >> i was told not to can communicate with them. >> reporter: that was the exchange that took place just after george zimmerman had made the apology to the family and the man doing the grilling there is bernie de la rionda. he's the prosecutor in this case. clearly he was not happy with george zimmerman getting on the stand. many say it was not a good day for the statement they didn't look like they were prepared or that they had much of a case against george zimmerman, but, of course, it is extremely early to make a judgment like that. >> we also heard from zimmerman's wife and parents and his family. what about trayvon's parents? are they responding to this? how did they react to zimmerman's apology as well? >> reporter: i think the biggest statement was the fact that they've made no statement at all. they've been extremely vocal and spoken at every opportunity. yesterday they did not. they

and arduous, and the redirect of those witnesses would be so long and arduous that it would be more considerate of the witnesses' time to call them in and do it live. we can ask them to do that if that is the commission's decision, but we do not think it is fair to the witnesses or that it is the most helpful way for the commission to reach its decision. >> mr. keith, a few questions, and then i will open it up to my fellow commissioners, as well, and then we will hear from others and perhaps begin you. the mayor has suspended the sheriff without pay. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> and so, presumably, he did so on the basis of known facts. in other words, the complaint was not filed as a notice. this was -- >> he absolutely did, in what he did not have and what he still has are documents that would help to pertain to things like telephone records. for example, telephone records of the various communication on january 4 that the mayor alleges constitutes witness persuasion. the records will tell us which witness called which witness when, and it will help us map out the comm

even to summarize each of their careers with highlights would take far too long, so i'll be very brief. justice sandra day o'connor was nominated to the court by president ronald reagan on july 7th, 1981 and she was confirmed by the senate on september 22 t2, 1981. she retired on january 31, 2006. justice ruth bader ginsburg was appointed to the court by president william clinton on june 14th, 1993. she was appointed and confirmed by the senate and assumed her role on august 10th, 1993. justice sonya sotomayor was appointed by president barack obama on may 26, 2009 and assumed her position on august 8th, 2009. the following year justice elena kagem by president barack obama on may 10th, 2010 and assumed her position on august 7th, 2010. we are honored and grateful to bring all of them together to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the ground-breaking tenure as it began of justice sandra day o'connor. i'd ask everyone to turn off cell phones and blackberries, and with that i turn the program over to jim duff. thanks very much, jim. >> thank you very much, greg. we're delighted that the s

they don't last so long and the high comes to a load after wears off if felt to me like everything was just muddy dark waters feels like swimming in a in a big well we've referred to in the marine corps as a shit hole and. you find yourself. looking forward to the next. mission or for combat role. you get all right if it's like over. time i don't know why you do it but it's first kill is same hard you should think about especially. if you have to kill that close quarters. it up and you know where i killed with. weapon i think. my boys would build in our forty's people and i wanted to kill. i felt good at the time when i when i did it bother me if i. didn't get a chance to kill someone it went beyond answering the call of duty and it turned into something i said. that i hate that i had had growing up in the sol i think had expanded. because of what was happening in vietnam because so knows and people. i feel i've become an animal i. feel no remorse. i literally saw young men turn into psychopathic killers. but the great thing about the marine corps is the training process that the young

so the question is, what took so long. and that has lead me, then, to a whole new layer of investigation in which i set out to find out how did it happen. this thing that took so long. >> rose: and? >> and. >> rose: how did it happen? >> it turns out we just haven't been looking in all of our arguments about what's the main force, what's the main circumstance that preoccupies anthropology about humans and the like. we should have been looking more carefully first of all at all of the social organisms in the world to see if there's a general law. just the way we look at gut bacteria to find out the basic of molecular genetics, just as we look at these little round worms to figure out how cells are put together in brain. we should be looking at all of the different spashz o species s who made this huge leap up in evolution to find out what it was they held in common. in a nutshell, it is this and it explains the rarity and why it took so long. they have to go through a series of steps leading up to the threshold before they

he testified at both the previous senate hearings of racial profiling and sorry it's been so long since we've resumed this conversation. but it's an honor to have you return a few years later to bring us up to date. at this point, chief davis, the floor is yours for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good morning, mr. chairman, and distinguished subcommittee members. i am ronald davis, currently chief of police for the city of east palo alto, california. i am humbled to provide testimony at today's hearing, as mentioned i did have the honor testifying at last senate hearings on racial profiling in 2001. when asked to come before the committee today, the first thought that came to my mind was actually a question. what has changed since my testimony in 2001 when president bush then stated racial profiling is wrong, we will end it in america? my testimony today is based on three diverse perspectives. first, as a racial profiling police reform expert, second, as a police executive with over 27 years' experience, working in two of the greatest and diverse communities in the nation, oa

so they obviously have because ruth followed, took too long. elena and i followed shortly thereafter. >> this is fabulous to have all these women on the court. [ applause ] >> i will say for president reagan, when he was campaigning to be president, he didn't think he was doing too well with the female votes. he started making statements about, if i'm elected president, i would like to put a woman, a qualified woman on the supreme court. and he made enough of those statements that then about four months after he had become president, potter stewart, justice stewart retired. there he was faced with what to do. >> well, he was a man of his word. >> he was. justice kagan, where were you in your career when justice o'connor was appointed? >> i was still two years shy of going to law school. hate to rub it in, you know. but even i knew enough to be impressed. i had just graduated from college actually. and i remember the announcement and thinking, what a stunning thing. >> did it have particular meaning to you? had you thought at that time about goi

so how long did it take to get down there and in what. >> we built a sub t took us seven years. > stephen: so you are an invent tear. >> apparently because it worked. is so how long did it take to do the drop all the way down. >> the whole idea, the sub is like a vertical torpedo so it hauls ass through the water column so that you can spend as much time on the bottom as possible and hauls ass back up so it is a very unconventional design, that was the concept. >> stephen: so the entire time, it is all dark, right. >> pitch-black. >> stephen: how long are you in the darkness down there. >> pretty of the whole time, because you know, anything below 500 feet, we're going down to 36,000, anything below 500 feet pitch-black. so i'm at that depth in like a minute and a half. and so-- . >> stephen: are we talking like three hours, five hours. >> about 10 hours for the whole thing. >> stephen: 10 hours. >> yeah. >> stephen: how big of a thing are we talking. >> it's actually smaller than this table, the diametre is about 43 inches. >> stephen: you didn't drink a lot of iced tea before y

the hundreds of families that have been waited for so long -- waiting for so long. this is how the society comes together, moments where we can celebrate and recognize there is no difference among all of us. this is a family, in large part, for humanity. congratulations. [applause] >> of what like to point out, the u.s. conference of mayors, these that they have taken to brought in the constituency. i want to have the mayor for his leadership in that effort. and mayor jerry sanders from san diego. he was a witness in this case, and we owe him a tremendous debt of gratitude. >> if i hadn't mentioned it, gavin newsom was brave 8 years ago. that was something that i have been very fortunate to take up, it is a cause that we will continue. [applause] >> we are very lucky to have a tremendous support of supervisors that have been supportive. and i would like to invite supervisor scott winer an -- wiener and newly appointed supervisor chrstine olague. [applause] >> i know i am speaking on behalf of the board to talk about how incredibly excited we all are today. i can say

and why it took the utility so long to find the this memo. some people say that problem is disturbing as the content of the memo itself. >> the memo also shows ... >> pgd did not know what was under the ground. they did not have a real good idea of what its systems problems could be, based on what it should have known if they had really researched. if they had good records. >> pgd told cbs 5 that with new leadership in place the company's main focus is operating system safely, including improved processes and more strength testing than ever before. >> thank you. there will be another step tomorrow in the efforts to oust a bay area sherrif. the san fransisco ethics commission will decide if misconduct charges against ross mirkarimi will stand. here is what is expected to happen next. >> we have seen a case in the court system and the drama unfold at city hall, now the ross mirkarimi saga heads to the ethics commission, at stake is his job. >> these are not legal process these, although they are legal in the sense of being connected to the city

♪ they waited so long for these bonds ♪ ♪ bring it to them chairperson chu: thank you.uestion for the budget office, in terms of a number of equipment, i notice there are a lot of vehicles being purchased. it typically is in terms of this equipment program. i wonder, after your thought process and your evaluation, generally, has it been that you are authorizing the purchase of cars to replace those that are out of service? i know there has also been an effort to reduce the size of our fleet as well. >> that is right, supervisor. we are using this process to purchase replacement vehicles as vehicles go out of service. but we have also been over the last several years making a concerted effort to reduce the size of our fleet. if we were to take a look, we would see that although we are replacing some vehicles, we are not replacing all of them. that process is something we are continuing to look at this year with fleet management. to figure out if there are better ways for the city to share vehicles, to find other kinds of cost savings so we do not need as many. chairperso

so you will end up needing your sunglasses. we'll come back don't put your umbrella down too long. we'll tell you when you need it next. >>> would you eat at a place with rats? me neither. tomorrow night on 9 news now, we launch the restaurant report, revealing dirty secrets of washington area dining. dead rats and all tomorrow night at 11:00 p.m. >>> moving on to tonights health alert, a new pill currently being tested would prevent hiv infection. the university of california has been awarded $12 million to see how this new drug works. it is designed to prevent hiv from taking hold in someone not infected with the virus, an international trial of the pill shows it has been proven effective in gay and bi-sexual populations considered high risk. >>> we are learning more tonight about what that shuffle at dulles airport will cost the taxpayers. nasa says the bottom line will be $11 million and that costs the cost of the trip. >> now that the shuttle is here the switch is supposed to take place with enterprise some time tomorrow. right now the shuttle is being taken from the 747 jumbo