the enterprise was the liveliest newspaper between st. louis and san francisco. he fit right in besides the prospectors and stock swindlers and other desert rats. the town was home to a contingent of prostitutes. and an entire regiment of gunslingers going by names like six finger peak. he spent the next two years reporting and inventing names. he joined himself at other people's expense but creative reporting got him into trouble when a rival newspaper challenged him to a duel. he preferred to avoid conflict. he had no time to fight a duel just then and he had been drunk when he wrote the offending story. instead of fighting the double the left virginia city and came toç san franciscoÑi where much against his desire, the morning call. san francisco had more than virginia city including such famous residents as the great unknown and elegantly dressed gentleman who paraded down montgomery street in funereal silence nursing a broken heart. a 1-man stock exchange. washington ii who strolled around in a powdered wig and colonial finery but without a doubt the bigges

his sister, pamala, if i recall, her husband in st. louis lost all his money also.so they were pretty depending on mark twain for money. his favorite brother, henry, who was closest in age to him was actually killed in a riverboat explosion just south of memphis in 1858 when he was beating her 19 years old. and in fact i was just in memphis last week and were talking about it. twain always blamed himself for getting his brother a job on the riverboat. and always felt badly about it. in fact, in his book, connect team yankee king arthur's court that he wrote the date of his execution in dr. the annivry of henry clemens that's in 1958. yes, ma'am? [inaudible] >> okay, considering mark twain's role as a lecturer and rock on tour historical color, who is the mark twain today? >> who is the mark twain of today? that's a good question. i was just talking earlier. there was a writer -- i don't know if you remember a southern writer named louis grizzard who wrote several books back in the 80's. he actually died fairly done. unfortunately, i interviewed him when i was a news

the spin here, you see the spin towards st. louis, it's driving the front. low pressure is going to bring some heavy rain and you can see some of the thunderstorms embedded in the system. it's going to lift through the region and that's our forecast for this evening into tomorrow before it starts to pull out of here on tuesday. we'll see a pretty good amount of rain out of this and then a good trend. not much else around it, just this system and then we have a pretty nice stretch. 39 degrees right now at the airport. humidity at 8 2%. there's an east win at 7 miles per hour. we're getting the easterly flow. the barometer will fall soon as the low pressure approaches. 32 in oakland. 44 in ocean city and 40 in hagerstown. d.c. checking in at 40 degrees. down in packs river, the winds coming in from the northeast at 13 miles per hour. we have a 6 miles per hour around the northeast and you're starting to see the development here, casting of clouds towards the region is something we see progression through the afternoon. the rain not expected to arrive until the

and the st. louis president, james bullard. >>> here's to your health care. >> on this vote, the ayes are 219, the nays are 212. >> the historic overhaul bill passes without a single republican vote. >> shame on this body. shame on each and every one of you. >>> democratic congressman, debby wasserman schultz and congressman thomas mustani bring the bill to "squawk." >>> google's big announcement, the search engine deciding whether or not to pull out of china. what would leaving the world's biggest market mean for the boys from sig silicon valley? >>> fed matters, st. louis federal reserve president, jam a bullard making a rare appearance on the "squawk box" set. >>> "squawk box" begins right now. >>> welcome back to "squawk box" on cnbc, i'm becky quick, along with joe kernen in cnbc's world headquarters and carl is in washington after a long night leading up to the historic vote on heal care reform. our guest host, indiana senator, evan buyia a lot to talk about today, and a lot of discussion. about

the orioles taking on the st. louis cardinals yesterday. a single in the right field. 1-0 o's. bit of trouble in the fourth. 2 runs into score. all tied at to a piece. the learning curve continues for brian maddox. philippe de lopez. 4-2 calls not over the o's. they gave up nine hits and three runs to the orioles. i am gerry sandusky. hope your day is off to a fantastic start. >> some boxing legend could square off. riddick bowe is talking a possible september fight against cliniclennox lewis. and the fight may take place here. we are told that lewis has agreed in principle to the fight. if it takes place, the proceeds would go to benefit 9/11 survivors. riddick bowe is 43 and lennox lewis is 45. >> you could take both of them. >> no, i cannot. they are both very big man. >> coming up in the next hour. >> major budget cuts are proposed in baltimore city. we will give you a preview straight ahead. >> things are pretty quiet. simmering to the forecast. simmering to the forecast. we will talk aboutlk [clucking] look for delicious cadbury's, reese's and hershey's products in the ea

from st. louis through springfield through peoria. light rain south of chicago currently. and indianapolis, you have a good chance of wet weather today also. here's how the forecast looks. the middle of the country, tennessee and ohio valleys, you need the umbrella as you head out the door. nothing too heavy, but you will see some rain. the eastern seaboard will be warm with clouds on the increase. if you're watching us on whdh 7 news in boston, walk among the free-flying residents of the butterfly garden filled with exotic plants and a variety of living butterflies from across the globe at the museum of science. that's your "early today" event of the day, lynn. >>> thank you, bill. >>> and now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. slbts often get in trouble with the law, but it doesn't usually involving tweeting. well, yesterday the manager of teen heartthrob justin beaver was charged involving an appearance he made last year. it seems when the crowd of teenaged girls came to see the star bake unruly, the cops asked his fans to announce it was

st. louis today got to 86. that's the air mass headed in our direction. 42. clear. cool. breezy tonight. tomorrow two-degree temperature 77. sunny skies. beautiful blue skies. tomorrow night we are talking at 47 or so. clear skies. not quite as chilly tomorrow night. look at the seven-day forecast. a lot of people with big travel plans for easter weekend. i think you look great for that. 80 friday. dry roads. then into saturday more good stuff. maybe a few more clouds saturday. so we drop the temperatures to 78. 80 on easter sunday. that is going to be good weather for all those easter egg hunts. >> thank you, wyatt. >>> the o's took on the boston red soxs this afternoon as they wind down their spring training schedule. sox jumped up to an early 2-0 lead and never looked back. jason gave up five runs in two innings. brian roberts went one, two with a double. less than a week away from opening day against the tampa bay rays. >>> ravens announced preseason schedule. thursday august 12th they'll take on carolina panthers. friday august 20th or saturday the 21st. they'll face

midwest regional in st. louis. the glass slipper just didn't fit as northern iowa is knocked out of the tournament by michigan state 59-53. the panthers' rags-to-riches run is over. >>> tennessee can't be called the cinderella but it was clearly the underdog last night against ohio state. but the volunteers up for the challenge pulling off a stunning three-point win. buckeyes' leading scorer evan turn her a last chance at the end but check this out. amazing blocked shot right there. the vols reach the final eight for the first time in school history. >>> take you up to the nba for our play of the day. the denver nuggets trailed the toronto raptors by a point. final seconds ball works around into the hands of carmelo anthony and there's your game-winner. looks so simple. just knocks it down and the denver nuggets get the victory. >>> finally, if i were a college student at lsu i'd love this. there's talk of the school opening a microbrewery on campus. however, here's the rub. fans will not have a sports bar to hang

. >> look at this video of a peacock trying to break into a soda machine at a zoo in st. louis. the peacock kept trying to get his beak in between the glass doors to open it up. the photographer says there weren't any sodas in the machine, it looked like it was being used for storage. >>> all right: jesse james sex scandal is starting to rival tiger woods. >> more and more women are coming out saying they've had an affair with sandra bullock's husband. >>> good morning, in today's moneyscope report, social security reaches a tipping point. the new york times reports social security will pay out more in benefits this year than it receives in payroll taxes. something that wasn't expected to happen until at least 2016. soaring unemployment has led more people to apply for benefits sooner than expected. there are fewer pay checks to tax. experts say this is the first step towards insolvency unless the law changes. >> retired couples would need an average of $250,000 to cover their medical expenses. that's up more than 4% from last year and more than 50% from 2002. some of the factor

the jubilee, melinda st. louis and her organization and tom havert -- hart of the one campaign and they have highlighted the need in haiti and many other impoverished countries. the first measure we can take other than the american volunteers and government efforts, to ensure that all of haiti's remaining resources are devoted to reconstruction and not to development loans, that it is unrealistic to expect can ever be repaid. and this legislation is a part of that step. haiti's impoverished condition dates back to its origins under french colonial rule, 1804, 205, 206 years ago, when haiti citizens won their independence in a revolution, similar to our revolution, from the french colonial regime, france imposed a blockade and imposed and extracted a promise of a 21 billion reparations and that's $21 billion in today's currency. that is greater than the debt incurred at that time by the united states. a much bigger government. when they were born as a country, they were immediately -- their enslavement continued. an

finally, st. louis fed president jim bullard, a rare interview about the economy, and the power of the fed. a big session of skwk and we'll see what markets do today on this historic morning, ross. we'll see you in about 11 minutes' time. >> we look forward to it. thanks, carl. have a good day in d.c. >> okay. >>> well, tiger woods is returning to golf circuit next month at the masters. but after the recent scandal surrounding the biggest golfer in the world he's admittedly a little nervous about getting out in front of the crowds. before we go to break have a listen to what he had to say in an interview he did with espn yesterday. >> i don't know. i don't know. i am a little nervous about that toish honest with you. >> how much do you care? >> it would be nice to hear a couple claps here and there. but also i hope they'll also clap for birdies, too. hi, ellen! hi, ellen! hi, ellen! hi, ellen! we're going on a field trip to china! wow. [ chuckles ] when i was a kid, we -- we would just go to the -- the

this is a conversation that i had with him on the campaign trail in st. louis. take a look. >> folks are losing jobs. we've got to put people back to work. that's why i want to give a tax credit to every new company that creates a job here in the united states. we've got to create the kind of infrastructure and improvements and put people back to jobs, making sure that money is in people's pockets. that's the next important thing for the next president. >> that was obviously, something that you're part of that you heard, the rhetoric during the campaign. yet another thing that i heard is, i don't care about health care or anything else if i don't have a job. talk to me about that. >> i think that he underestimated how important employment was and overestimated how important health care was. i also think that he would have, as dylan suggested, that he would have more concurrence for the congress on health care. he peck the to get that done this summer. but the health care thing, most presidents, as they've been able to put their hands around it, there's so many d

the winner advances to the sweet 16 in st. louis. terps would love to see more from the -- of the sfram their big man jordan williams the freshman, big was great. 21 points and 17 rebounds in the first round. seniors who combined for 56 points. now maryland focused on michigan state. a team they know very well. >> we know their system and they know our system. i mean all i have to say, it's going to be a great game. two great coaches and it's going to be you know one of those games that you can't really make that many mistakes. you have to execute your offense and you have to play good defense. >> sometimes you hope you play a team that won't be ready for you. won't play hard. whatever. that's not the case in this situation. they're coming after you. hopefully we can get after them and that's why we've had great games when we've played each other. >> gy williams and the terps playing at 2:30 tomorrow against michigan state out in spokane, washington. did you get a chance to watch any of these games today. >> i did i got a chance to s

tonight, he speaks in st. louis with clear mccaskill. secretary of defense robert gates is in the saudi capital after three days in afghanistan where he knew the crossed that with the iranian president ahmadinejad. mr. gates accuses iran of playing a double game in afghanistan and working to undermine the security u.s. forces are trying to help build. the secretary is in saudi arabia to meet with king abdallah and senior leaders on how to respond to in grandpa's nuclear program. a woman who has been in u.s. custody since october, a convert to islam, said that she was willing to be a modern. she called herself jihad jane online and is accused of recruiting fighters in moving to europe to kill a swedish artist. intelligence officials say the number of names on the no-fly list has doubled to about 6000 people, the increase coming after the christmas day bombing incident. the names included the al qaeda in yemen. more on the resignation of new york congressman eric massa. steny hoyer spoke earlier and said, some people are trying to politici

florida, the orioles continue to play in a grapefruit league, brian matt tis to face the hot hitting st. louiscardinals. orioles up 2-0. he shoots one in the right field corner off of brian ma dis and right behind him is jason larue, the game is tied at 2 on the 2 run double. on the bottom of the 2, felipe lopez sent another one off of matmatisse. and from first to score, giving the cardinals a 3-2 lead. the bottom of the 8th same score, this time he doubles to the gap in the right center. that is going to ride in rap pa port at 91. he is going to make the club. matisse allowed three rounds on 5 hits. his era this spring is 3.10. that is very good. the double and an rbi and the orioles fall at 8-14 this spring. they will host the yankees this afternoon in sarasota. meanwhile it appears that we will be seeing brian roberts very soon. he took batting and fielding practice again yesterday and said he felt great. it's expected he will make the debut either friday or saturday. that word from b rob himself, roberts has had trouble with the back issue. he got an epidural last week and has been feelin

st. louis was in the 80s today. 42 tonight. clear, cool, breezy weather. not bad. tomorrow even a better day on tap. 77 degrees. beautiful sunshine. warmer weather than we have today. tomorrow night 47. crystal clear. not as chilly. seven-day forecast. easter weekend, we are talking 80 on friday. not much different through the weekend. we'll hover 80 through monday of next week. great looking forecast. >>> now with a look ahead to the news at 6:00 tonight i'm kelly swoop. >>> gearing up for a rematch. robert urlich wants to take on incumbent martin o'malley. >>> president obama says he'll allow more offshore oil drilling. possibly off the coast of virginia. what maryland environmentist are saying about the move. those stories and much more coming up tonight at 6:00. [ male announcer ] how do the editors of consumers digest determine if a car is a best buy? first they drive it in the real world. and put it through its paces. they rate its fit and finish. and the amenities inside. they factor in purchase price and operating costs, fuel economy and resale value. in sh

and st. louis 41 degrees. so a nice cold shot coming.his is where our system is developing on that contrast of temperatures and it will be moving through our area tomorrow. in terms of our max hd futurecast, notice what we're seeing at 11:00. how nicely it's picking up that band of snow. what's going to happen for the morning rush hour? d.c. has some showers. in pennsylvania we may see that snow and a little bit of sleet mixing in in between the system. and by 1:00 noon, look at how we're seeing a little bit of even wet snow mixing in across our area. rain to our south and east. this is going to get out of here by 5:00 and possibly you'll see the sunshine before the day ends but it will certainly be chilly. saturday we're back to more sunshine staying chilly but check this out. sunday more rain is back in the picture. and it looks like it could get in here in the middle of the afternoon. so saturday is our dry day. the weekend definitely staying cool and sunday is the day to get those inside chores done. how much rain are we talking abou

the game just completed in st. louis, michigan state over northern iowa.y will play tennessee on sunday. and tom izzo spoke with bill raftery after the game. >> bill: i want to hear the halftime talk. what went on? >> coach: the main thing, we started in the second half and had to go back inside a little bit. we were taking fall away jump shots. and i thought summers had good shots he passed up but then we went inside. >> bill: can you remember a game where you didn't get break outs and turnovers into baskets? >> coach: that's a good team. well head coach coached. they -- well-coached, fundamentally sound and we just missed scores and delvon roe, the kid just sucked it up is this guy here, hung in there. >> bill: and with the injuries, what is it that you get them to play so well? >> coach: i love march. >> greg: and greg, this time of year, michigan state has an inner toughness. >> greg a.: and defensively shut down northern iowa. they took a 10-minute sketch where they didn't allow one field goal and also korie lucious replacing kalin lucas. >> greg: and

an historic river boat in st. louis, missouri has been destroyed by a fire. investigators are trying to find out how the robert e. lee river boat caught fire yesterday while docked on the mississippi river. nobody was hurt. >>> now to a new situation on the jersey shore. the mayor of seaside park was arrested this weekend in a bar room brawl. thomas conners was at a night club saturday evening whith his 23-year-old son and 22-year-old daughter. something happened inside and the family was being escorted out by a police officer when the son and daughter allegedly tried to hit the officer. the mayor tried to intervene and was also arrested for disorderly conduct. he says he'll be exonerated when all the facts are out. one news report suggested it all started because someone was coming on to the mayor's daughter. >>> people for the ethical treatment of animals is fighting mike tyson the former boxing champ who has raised and raced pigeons since he was a child and he plans a show called "take on tyson" about pigeons. peta says the races are cruel and urges a canc

today was a little bit of a unique day for meame because the president came to my district in the st. louis area, and he wanted to deliver speeches and tell everybody that he they should vote for the health care bill. he and i have a difference of opinion on the bill. i think his opinion is that if people just know more about this bill, they'll like it. my opinion is, is the more we've looked at it, the more that people have taken a look at it publicly, the uglier they think it gets and the more they hate it. unfortunately, the polling data seems to be on my side and the more you look at the bill me more -- the more it seems to have problems with it. we have joining us distinguished colleagues from all over the country. we have two doctors and an attorney and just, i think, a businessman and an engineer. it almost sounds like the start of some sort of joke but this isn't a joke, unfortunately. this is a very serious subject indeed. so i'm going to recognize dr. brown from georgia, a gentleman who has spent a lifetime practicing medicine, and then got elected congress, and now he's trying to

that is the case of the japanese encephalitis and st. louis encephalitis i mentioned. i shall also clarify this is not in any way connected to the sleeping sickness and africa. that is another question i forget. that was spread by again this encephalitis doesn't seem to be spread by anything other than another disease. other questions? yes. >> what research is going on today in this regard? >> for this not a lot. they seem to be doing more of the research and england. i think they were very hard hit by this epidemic as was the u.s.. most major cities in the u.s. that sleeping sickness but they spent all but a lot more there. that is why most of the researchers the studies i was reading are coming out of england. there are some here. a lot of the researchers overlap with the 1918 flu studies. some of the researchers that were looking at the archived brain tissue from 1918 have been looking for encephalitis, evidence of encephalitis in those patients so there has been some crossover in america and in the studies in england. yes? >> where did you go for most of your resea

havity treasury boosted and -- have its treasury boost the and as a result the expedition began i st. louis and the united states was able then to take the rest of this nation, once again haiti had a tremendous part of this wealth. i guess i will have to yield back the balance of my time. thank you, mr. chair. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. miller: i continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman continues to reserve. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. meeks: it is my honor to recognize the chair of the subcommittee for the western hemisphere, the gentleman from new york, the honorable eliot engel, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for two minutes. mr. engel: i thank my good friend and fellow new yorker for yielding to me. i want to commend him for the work he's done and i want to commend my friend and colleague, the gentlewoman from california, ms. waters, for this bill and i rise like all my colleagues in strong support of h.r. 4573 which pushes for the cancellation of deb

800 people that care about politics in the middle of a wednesday, wednesday morning at 10:00 in st. louis? and when the beginning of the town hall started, we had over 1,000 and by the time it got going, we had 2,200 more people. you couldn't get more people in the room and their sentiment was what we sense here, we really don't like this bill. and they were begging, what can we do to stop this thing. and so my sense is that we aren't the only people who are thinking like this in this country. my good friend from texas, congressman gohmert. mr. gohmert: there is great wisdom in what president obama said that's on the chart right behind you and that is reconciliation therefore is the wrong place for policy changes. in short, the reconciliation process appears to have lost its proper meaning, a vehicle designed for deficit reduction and fiscal responsibility has been hijacked to facilitate reckless deficits and unsustainable debt. the president called that exactly right. and i need to ask my friend, i can't see the date there, was that last week that he said that? when was that? mr. akin: t

idaho, san diego, pepperdine, st. louis. finally getting the head job. what a job that he has done.lege basketball for his father. two more for samhan. 26 points, 10 rebounds. that is one below his average. i like his chances of getting another one. here is martel. that is a three. and richmond says we are not going away. bill: i would not expect that at all. this is the problem on this end, stopping the big guy. directing traffic to hold off. verne: harper has the responsibility now. bill: good footwork leading him. verne: again, dellavedova. and martel -- they are pretty to watch, aren't they. bill: they sure are. verne: ncaa march madness on demand is streaming every game online for free. watch any game from the tournament live at ncaa.com. bill: generally his guys are good team rebounders. collectively they get after it. verne: gonzalvez with the rebound. that is only the 10th rebound for richmond in the ballgame. bill: nobody cutoth drive. verne: pretty good footwork by steindl. we have seen him on the offensive end. you do anything to help your team. i mentioned earlier in the

st. louis 68. springfield 65. across the boundary it quickly falls into the 40s and 30s. for cooler temperatures eventually but not before we get through a nice warm weekend with temperatures in the 70s. 63 monday. a little cooler there. then back tothe middle 50s into tuesday. looks like we warm back up a little bit the later pa of next week. high and dry. lots of high pressure. very, very nice from here down to the keep south. but things are changing as this spring storm is brewing and really getting stronger. look at the snow through the rockies and pulling out into denver. they may get 6 to 8 inches. some places could get a foot. this moved into kansas, nebraska, parts of iowa. it's blowing, too. eventually they could have snow in the next ts -- texas panhandle. here we are on the warm side of the nation with lots of high pressure and very, very nice. tomorrow morning, 8:00 a.m. loads of sunshine. we warm up tomorrow again then for sunday we expect a few clouds late in the afternoon. the rain should stay to the north of us. i know you see little rain up in pennsylvani

it came in a pro-health reform speech he delivered in st. louis.earlier in the day in washington, his health and human services secretary, kathleen sebelius, delivered her own message to a meeting of insurance executives. >> the trend line for the health insurance system is as unsustainable as the trend line is for american consumers. and yet over the last year, we've seen tens of millions of dollars by the insurance industry spent on ads and lobbyists to help kill health reform. i am hopeful that you will take the assets that you have an the influence and the bully pulpit that you have and use it to start calling for comprehensive reform to pass. >> lehrer: the industry's trade group, america's health insurance plans, released a new ad today. >> what's inside the health care cost pie? some in washington say it's all health insurance. but health insurance is one of the smallest slices. health insurance companies costs are only 4% of all health care spending. doctors, hospitals, medicine, and tests are the biggest slices and the government report sa

governor kevin parsh speaks about central bank independence at 4:30 in the morning and at 4:00, st. louis fed president james bull yard speaks in washington. fed governor tarullo speaks at the same forum at 6:00 p.m. >> and ahead of all that data, as far as fixed income markets are concerned here in europe, the market has been fixed under the eu summit and the greek plan. the 10-year bund yield is nudging up 3.61%. also, of course, a big eye on the treasury markets. 3.85%. remember, we hit the highest, the 10-year bench. we gave the highest in nine months yesterday after the last auction. it was fairly disappointing, nicole. >> yeah. ross, let's get more on the bond markets with kit jukes. kit, as you know, there has been a really weak showing for treasuries this week. are you surprised by the weak showup or do you think this is where we should be in this cycle? >> i think if you'd asked, you know, lined up all the economists in the world, for once, you've got a consensus that yields should be higher. there is just so much supply coming from governments to finance their deficits. and the

the whole insurance mod st. louis based on overseuss. eare giving everyone insurance and the sim criminals throughout will still win. >> geraldo: are you disappointed this bill is not perfect? the good instead of the perfect or the mediocre instead of the perfect? >> i would like to have seen a public option. is a center of the road bill. things that republicans should like. we are cutting the deficit. republicans have always been about trying to do more with fewer tax dollars. we are getting to near universal health insurance in the country. reducing the deficit. we are paying for it. we are providing tax cuts to many middle income families and small businesses and we are actually as i said before we are actually cutting the cost curve on premiums according to the congressional budget office. would i like to have seen a bolder bill? i would like to have seen tort reform and some republicans come on board. >> would you have wanted a bigger bill? >> i would have wanted a bill with tort reform. a smaller bill, not a bigger bill. >> the law

butch respects the tenth amendment through the st. louis -- through the constitution.ernors who want to lead the citizens to have their voice heard with the obama care scheme coming down the pike, abhorrent that is unacceptable and legal tools must be used. >> glenn: it's not just healthcare. i mean they are taking education, too. you are not going to get any private dollars for education. i mean that's just, that is so much control. what do you think of the idea, for instance, that the states are not going to be giving out -- they'll be giving ious. if i paid my taxes and i overpaid, i'm going to get an iou from new york saying sorry, we can't pay you back for that money. too bad. we'll pay you some day. that's not going to sit well with people. we're sitting here on a powder keg. >> yeah. try the reverse, there, glenn, try to tell the irs i i -- iou, the check is in the mail. the powder keg you are talking about, that's what the people down there in kenai were manifesting, too, in their frustration that is understandable, and it's legitimate frustration. but let's pa

butch respects the tenth amendment through the st. louis -- through the constitution.overnors who want to lead the citizens to have their voice heard with the obama care scheme coming down the pike, abhorrent that is unacceptable and legal tools must be used. >> glenn: it's not just healthcare. i mean they are taking education, too. you are not going to get any private dollars for education. i mean that's just, that is so much control. what do you think of the idea, for instance, that the states are not going to be giving out -- they'll be giving ious. if i paid my taxes and i overpaid, i'm going to get an iou from new york saying sorry, we can't pay you back for that money. too bad. we'll pay you some day. that's not going to sit well with people. we're sitting here on a powder keg. >> yeah. try the reverse, there, glenn, try to tell the irs i i -- iou, the check is in the mail. the powder keg you are talking about, that's what the people down there in kenai were manifesting, too, in their frustration that is understandable, and it's legitimate frustration. but let's

friday but you can see decent rainfall across parts of illinois, parts of missouri, just west of st. louisoking at decent rainfall. all of this moving along a frontal boundary, that will take our temperatures down a bit. as we get into the week. and also bring us the rain. looking at 60 degrees right now in downtown baltimore. 56 in d.c. 45 in salisbury. slightly cooler out in western maryland at 46. it looks like for tomorrow. expect to see the clouds gathering through the mid-morning hours into the afternoon. breezy. and we will get the temperatures in the mid 60s and then the rain moves in late in the evening and then it will be for part of the weekend. not all the weekend. details in that coming up in the forecast. >> thank you, vytas. you can inner harbour charge of your own personalized forecast. i-radar is available at foxbaltimore.com. use the interactive tools to track coming storms down to your street. go to foxbaltimore.com/i-radar. >> and when it comes to news, in your neighborhood, see it, shoot it, send it. you can upload pictures and videos to our website. go to foxbaltimore

i had the fun of doing it in the big outdoor arenas like kansas city and st. louis.e never had the desire to do broadway, isn't that silly? i just enjoy -- well, i've been a television kid all my life. so recently, in the past few years i've done big screen movies. and that was very exciting. >> larry: one other thing, the secret in television, in all those great sitcoms you did is the writing, right? >> you can't do it without the writing. actors will take all the credit, but it's got to be on the page or it doesn't work. >> larry: and "the mary tyler moore" show was the classic. >> yes, it was wonderful, and so was "golden girls," the greatest writing staff in the world. you would go in for the monday morning read around the table. and you would laugh -- you would have trouble getting through the script because it cracked you up. >> larry: great seeing you, betty. >> wonderful, as always. >> larry: can't wait for saturday, may 8th. >> thank you. and happy anniversary. >> larry: don't forget the show, it's called "hot in cleveland." it will air on tv land. >> thank

in the middle, new information on that crash of a police cruiser in st. louiser was killed. trying to figure out the details of exactly what happened here. and on the bottom, relatives of the seaworld trainer say they will suffer harm of the surveillance video of that attack is released to the public. a temporary injunction was issued last week, and the judge now has to decide whether to make that permanent. jon: u.s. new home sales falling to a new record low. the commerce department reports they dropped by 2.2% last month to a seasonally-adjusted annual pace of just 308,000 making it all too clear the trouble that our housing market still faces. james rosen is live from d.c. with more. this drop in new home sales, that came as a real surprise to a lot of economists, right, james? >> reporter: it did, jon, not only because new home sales were expected to rise, but because they publicked, as you said, to a record unseen since records first kept since 1963 marking the fourth con sective -- consecutive monthly decline. analyst had been optimistic because the mort

the winner advces to the sweet 16 in st. louis. the terps would love to see more of the same from jordan williams their freshman big was great. 21 points and 17 rebounds. the majority of the rest of the scoring done by the terps trio of seniors who combine for 56 points. now maryland looking at michigan state right between eyes, the team the terps know well. >> we know their system and they know our system. so, all you got t say is it's going to be a great game, two great coaches and it's going to be, you know, one of those games you can't make that many mistakes. you have to execute your offense and play good defense. >> sometimes you hope you play a team that won't be ready for you, won play hard. that's not the case in this situation. they are coming after you. hopefully we can get after them and that's why we've had some great games when we've played each other. >>> if your brackets aren't busted you're lying. the upsets are rolling. the biggest so far happened yesterday the panthers of northern iowa knock off the top overall s

the front driving this rain and the low pressure with it now down around st. louis. and the front is meandering across the ohio river valley and up to the northeast. it's going to get here after sundown or so and linger until dawn. before we start to see the temperatures really drop behind this. the back edge of this is responsible for snow in the eastern great lakes. we'll see colder air filter in here. and while the weekend does start to dry out, it does definitely cool down. we'll talk about that in your updated first warning forecast. >>> let's check in on the roads with sharon gibala. >> hi. despite the nice weather out there, we have plenty of problems to talk about, unfortunately, this afternoon. one of those problems on the 83, in the northbound lanes. past mount caramel. it is causing a big delay, back possibly to the beltway. meanwhile, in edgewater, we're following a problem with the plane. solomon's island road. the right lane blocked there. watch for an accident. another in middle river. wilson point at cypress drive. another in randallstown. that one on

. >>> in st. louis, a delta flight was heading to san francisco on tuesday from new york. passengers on board were able to get off the flight safely. officials say it is unclear where the smoke came from. >>> this american morning a flood alert. historic water levels across a large part of the northeast. ground zero, rhode island. this is what it looked like on tuesday providence. the governor calls it unprecedented with water approaching 100 year levels. thousands were evacuated from their homes with little warning. >> they bailed us out. can be -- didn't have time to grab anything to eat. >> reporter: it's this same scene across most of new england. the river in connecticut is well over its banks flooding neighborhoods. it could hit a record high. while in massachusetts floodwaters are damaging roads. the governor there is urging people to take mass transit if they can. >>> admit it, just about all of us speed while driving and a lot of us think as long as we are going a few miles over the limit we are okay. well, not so according to our partners at "usa today." it finds

butch respects the tenth amendment through the st. louis -- through the constitution.overnors who want to lead the citizens to have their voice heard with the obama care scheme coming down the pike, abhorrent that is unacceptable and legal tools must be used. >> glenn: it's not just healthcare. i mean they are taking education, too. you are not going to get any private dollars for education. i mean that's just, that is so much control. what do you think of the idea, for instance, that the states are not going to be giving out -- they'll be giving ious. if i paid my taxes and i overpaid, i'm going to get an iou from new york saying sorry, we can't pay you back for that money. too bad. we'll pay you some day. that's not going to sit well with people. we're sitting here on a powder keg. >> yeah. try the reverse, there, glenn, try to tell the irs i i -- iou, the check is in the mail. the powder keg you are talking about, that's what the people down there in kenai were manifesting, too, in their frustration that is understandable, and it's legitimate frustration. but let's

this show and since it's been talked about on-line, we've had cities like new york and atlanta and st. louisblem. we're not sure what the solution is -- nor are we, really. we can't tell you exactly what to do. but we can stir it up a little bit. so, yes, it's spreading which is great news. >> larry: jamie recruited everyone he could to the food army including the local clergy. the man who calls jamie a god send after this. >>> just recently in 2008, center for disease control report came out. huntington in our area came out as the most obese city and the most obese region in the most obese country in the world. what, my friends, does that tell us about our culture? if we don't think anything about being the worst in the entire world? >> larry: joining us now from new york, pastor steve willis of the first baptist church in west virginia. and from huntington, west virginia, marissa clayton. a 17-year-old high school senior, one of six young people jamie picked to be part of his army in this food revolution. pastor, how did you get involved? >> well, our church began this about a year ago bef

they would face northern iowa in the sweet 16 in st. louis.s going to end soon, right? that's a look at sports. i'm pete gilbert. that's a look at highlights and post-season reaction from maryland's game in spokane. >> the time is 5:56. 45 degrees on tv hill. here's a look ahead to our next hour on "11 news sunday morning." >> two baltimore police officers wounded after a shootout with a suspect. i'm kerry cavanaugh. we'll take you live to shock trauma. >> we know rain is out there. the question is, how long can we hold onto the sun and mild temperatures. >> welcome to "11 news sunday morning." i'm deborah weiner. lisa robinson is not here today. let's go first to john collins. >> we had a winter somewhere out of this world, but we are done with that. even those piles of snow. there are probably a couple out there in parking lots some place, but most of it is gone. let's look at what we're looking forward to next. all right. we have a storm out there. we were talking about this yesterday morning. it is still there. there is less snow involved

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alexander eventually escaped from the slave catchers and returned to st. louis where he would live out the rest of his life. his biographer, elliot, ended up on the commission deciding what type of statue would go into lincoln park. the commission wants a real escaped slave to model for the statue, and elliot gave the sculptor a photograph of alexander. alexander was pleased when he found out that he would be forever connected with lincoln through the statue in washington. quote, when i showed him the photographic picture of the freedom's memorial monument soon after its inauguration in washington and explained to him its meaning and that he would thus be remembered in connection with abraham lincoln, the emancipator of his race, he laughed all over, elliot said. so right now this statue is the only statue of an african-american man on public land in washington d.c. now, of course, this will soon change. on the national mall, soon there will be the dr. martin luther king jr. national memorial. the city of washington, d.c. is also working on a statue of frederick

. >>> fire destroyed an historic riverboat in st. louis. the robert e. docked on the mississippi river when the flames broke out sunday afternoon. the boat was a replica of a 19-century riverboat that had once been a popular restaurant. no word yet on what caused fire. >>> authorities believe they arrested the ringleader behind this brazen poker tournament robbery in germany. four attackers armed with a gun and machete stormed the tournament in berlin and got away with $327,000. a 28-year-old lebanese citizen is now in police custody. police think he drove the getaway car >>> need motivation to replace that old washer or drier? coming up, a consumer alert that will save you energy and money. >> after giving his first interview since his november car accident where does tiger woods go from here? our sara walsh has what is next for the golf superstar. >> pretty big thunderstorms now on live doppler. we'll take you out with live doppler. you'll see hail with the storms. on the west side of 270 get ready for rain and small hail. >>> the truth is very painful

and during a cnbc exclusive interview this morning st. louis fed president warned against parts of the regulatory reform bill that would take away from the fed the ability to loan to banks in a crisis. listen. >> so you've got this lender of last resort role. and there's no getting around that no matter what you do in the legislation. everyone will run to the central banks. so you have to be ready to handle that. >> yeah. joining us now is director of financial regulatory studies at the cato institute. >> no one is saying the fed can't open up the discount window, steve? where is that coming from? >> steve, explain to us. >> my understanding is they're going to take away the ability to do extraordinary lending to an individual bank. that's, i think, one of the concerns that he has. getting back to that discussion -- that great discussion you and i had last week, larry, about the back door bailout thing sheila bair was so concerned about. >> i heard dodd say, first of all, as steve said, sheila bair attacked a dodd bill for allowing back door ba

. >> one other optimistic note the president of the federal reserve bank of st. louisold the "wall street journal" this week he expects unemployment to tick down throughout the spring. trace? >> the king of tricky, james rosen live for us in d.c. james, thank you. it looks like there could be another one-man stalemate in the senate over extending unemployment benefits. oklahoma republican tom coburn says he will refuse to support a short-term extension unless the senate finds a way to pay for it we're told he is prepared to launch a one-man filibuster that would basically be a rerun of what kentucky republican senator jim bunning did last month in the end, however, democrats passed the extension despite bunning's objections. well, the weather over an active volcano clearing up another for scientists to get a closeup look at the eruption. it's our top story as we go around the world in 80 seconds. iceland. research crews discovering the volcano's opening is more than 500 yards in length. that's where all the action is taking place. authorities have allowed nearly all th

. >> our facility in st. louisof-the-art facility working on the products. >> i can see how well made it is. >> the yankee backup catcher had the second concussion in the spring training, and they were concerned about it, because the second concussion in less than a year in spring training. so you are telling me that this would offer tremendous protectiprote protecti protection. >> yes. it has undergone rugged testing. >> and not just consumer things, but when you look at coleman and bicycle playing cards and other brands mr. coffee, so are you seeing any changes in terms of behaviors given this recession? >> look, the consumer behavior is still looking for a number of things and first of all anything with a value proposition has been doing relatively well is continuing to do well. staycations, and people end up doing home entertaining which happens to be a sweet spot for the company, and the reality is that, that is where the consumer is still at the strongest. do i think that will develop further and people are g