>> steve: not at all.maller percentage of body fat than half the guys on the team. >> matt: very intense coach for 16 seasons. cougars head coach. has done a great job with this program. one of the best seasons ever with him at the helm a couple of times. won 48 games. hosted a season regional for first time ever. houston got world series back in 1967. lead by tom pachorick. right field. for a base hit. coming around to store is oregon seoulless. heading to third base is pugh dammit an rbi single for ratterree. it's not how hard you hit it most often where you hit it. and in this case off the end of the bat. it was almost like a queue ball. >> steve: it's where you place that 18 hopper. >> matt: killed a lot of worms with that one. it's 5-0. >> steve: tough break for hammack there. made a great pitch. >> matt: that's about -- >> steve: creel did all he could do. >> matt: hammack wanted to throw his glove at it. stop it. that was the -- here's rendon. 1-2 in this ball game. brought in a home. >> steve: he c

. >> steve: we'll see if graham keeps him in the game. if i'm wall i would be pleading my case to stay out there. he's only given up one hit. >> matt: bottom of the seventh and new pitcher out there for the houston cougars. and the new pitcher -- >> steve: tanner shiflett. >> matt: a sophomore out of texas. east junior college. his numbers his fifth appearance on this season. he has not been used that much. shiflett no record. 1.17 e.r.a.. five hits allowed. three walks. three strikeouts. hitting .192 against him. third pitcher used by the cougars tonight. >> steve: has diego going to the expects this from a guy you are looking for a specialist is awesome. >> matt: >> matt: s looks like he got a piece of his jersey. going to have a pinch runner for him right here. >> steve: he doesn't run well. >> matt: exactly the point. he does not run well. the tenth runner will be much anymore. usually the definition of a -- the pitcher has to show distance and direction on that kick off throw. >> matt: houston has six walks three overteem by foodnigh

part of the catchers body. >> steve: take acolouser look. i'm surprised that doesn't hurt a guys hand as often. i'm surprised they don't break a guys fingers on that. >> matt: runners at first and second for creel. creel has been a surprise for rayner nobles team. hitting -- making his seventh start. he is a newcomer to the lineup. 6 for 17 and now pitch coach for the rice owls. coach david pierce will go out there to talk to jimmy wall. he has encountered his first jam of the night >> remind wall he swings a good stick. doesn't to give him anything too good right here. you gen li the dugout. pierce now in his eighth season with the rice owls. you have mike taylor in his tenth season. there are coaches that have been here awhile with graham. 1-0 pitch hit into right field. will be caught. final out of the inning. the cougars threaten here in the top half of the second but are unable to push anything across. played an inning and a half with no score. faye wh're yng? - musiing 'm nna nite eas hea, w whoa.. lafa ju to throe da do yp th ing o do

strikeouts has been for fuda. >> steve: goodnight comes odni >> steve: kind of a tough night for go guys a run. s >> nice job by ratterree. 1-1 count. ratterree trying to stay ahead in the count. he took it ahead rbi's and frequented. >> matt: it means good night for michael. good night. he is done. >> steve: you were waiting to say that. >> there are so many things you can do with his name. the possibilities are endless. not so much with taylor hammack. goodnight is done here in the b he is allowed only 21 hits. 21 hits are the second fewest among qualifiers in conference usa. opponents hitting only .241 against him. >> steve: obviously one of rayner nobles go to guys here. the only thing that scares you is that walk total. obviously has good stuff. he has tall orders right here facing anthony rendon. >> matt: the bases loaded with the rice owls or the corners loaded. ratterree down another first. and the run in. the walks that's probably been the biggest problem this houston cougars pitching staff the entire season. came in with 143 worst in the conference. he had five here tonight. >>

steve? >> meanwhile, newly released 911 calls from the morning when joseph stack iii flew his airplane into an i.r. s. building in austin, texas and allegedly set his house on fire before he did that. this is the call a neighbor made when the family arrived at their burning home. you can hear stack's wife crying in the background. listen carefully. >> the owner -- >> ask if anybody is inside the house? >> do you know if anybody is inside the house? >> is anyone inside? >> we don't know. >> try to calm her down and find out for me. it's very important. >> stack and one other person died and more than a dozen other people were hurt when he crashed his plane into that building. all right. a workplace privacy case with huge implications got its day before the supreme court. they cannot expect a right to privacy when they send personal messages at workplaces, workplace owned computers. cell phones and other devices like blackberries. now, most of the judges appeared to agree with this notion. wit

two down in the inning. >> steve: great move by wall. presley was going on the first move. he moves toward the ball to create a little bit of a lane to throw in. a lot of times first bases will stand with they are. he did a nice job of moving. >> matt: that's the third team leading pick off. wall led the staff in innings pitched last year with 94 and strikeouts as 77 starts with 15 and that was his freshman year. so the fact he's doing it here in his sophomore year is his followup. he is 0-4. wayne graham will be the first to to tell you he's pitched better than 0-3. >> steve: nobody feels better. >> matt: erase that error he got. three balls and two strikes that's the coach wayne graham in his 19th season here with the rice owls. 3-2 pitch. a six pitch walk for chris wallace. >> steve: good patients right there. see what they

>> steve said i am not going to participate. i had privileged access to wall street because of liars poker and other things. people were willing to talk to me who weren't willing to talk to other people. i developed relationships with these people over a long period of time. it became an intimate experience. it was just me and him hanging around talking, and yeah a book was going to come out of it. they didn't think much about it. the book is by him, and i trust him. now the book comes out, and they are getting calls from 60 minutes. steve is technically employed by morgan stanley, and they don't want him to go on the hair. he doesn't want to go on television. and charlie may and hawkins, the young man at cornwall capital, who i had to badger to let me write about them, i think they are on an island. the last thing they wanted was to be on tv. they spoke to the producers and said i will explain things to you, but there is no way my face is going on television. >> why did mike, who you characterized in your people as shy and not

that was the story. >> steve: it was a pleasure to watch.ou don't see many baseball games go under 2.5 hours. >> matt: let me ask you one more thing. you are 2-2 in conference usa. graham preached to the team enjoy yourself and embrace the pressure uncharacteristic start for rice. do you feel it might be a spring board type victory? >> the past two games we duoout and have fun. you're not having fun throwing the ball. go out there and have fun throwing the ball. that's what i was doing. it worked. >> matt: i'm guessing a one hit shutout is fun. thanks for being with us. enjoy tonight. >> i appreciate it. >> matt: a big victory for the rice owls. maybe this is a victory that gets them going. >> steve: offensively they looked pretty potent today. you get moussing go at the top of the order. protecting rendon. what a shot in the wall. >> matt: roger will be on the hill tomorrow. houston trying to even up the series tomorrow night. we will have game two of the series coming up tomorrow night for those on com cast sports southwest at 6:30 central

>> steve: we did not. knows. >> gretchen: let's start off your morning with a fox news alert. crews now are searching for trapped victims investigating the damage after a deadly earthquake rattled mexico and three u.s. states, including arizona, nevada, california. this is surveillance from a salvation army showing the power of the tremor. let's go live to l.a. with casey stegall. what's the latest on the daniel, injuries and where did the quake have the most impact, because it was so far reaching? >> yeah. it really was far reaching. in this situation, it is very fluid. a lot of the numbers are changing as crews are out once daylight will come up and they'll be able to get a look at the damage and get a better feel for what exactly happened. the epicenter was inside mexico, about 19 miles south of mexacali. and a town that sits along the u.s.-mexico border, 120 miles east of san diego. a lot of damage done in mexicali and another city. a lot of products fallen off with the jolted store, bricks have fallen

>> steve eisman said, im not going to participate. all of the characters were -- i had a very -- i had a privileged access to wall street because of liars poker and other books that people were willing to talk to me who werent willing to talk to other people. and i developed relationships with these subjects over a long time and then they want me to be very -- write about them very intimately. but it became a kind of intimate experience for them. . reduced to 20 minutes or whatever it is. but you don't because you said really don't know what's going to come out of it. activity is total self boredom. anybody be interested in me. i just bored myself for six boring 20-minute piece. >> i had a reaction, the one to ask you about, they only focused on one of your characters. >> mike burry. and but i wondered reading the book he was an interesting character but so was steve eisman and so was -- >> charlie ledley and greg lippman. >> but why did they -- did they tell you why they were only steve eisman say i'm not going>> steve eisman said, "

pamela brown, abc7 news. >>> and steve rudin is back with a look at the 7-day forecast. >>> and steveudin is back with a look at the 7-day forecast. >>> the worst is over. >> the worst is over. tomorrow, not such a bad day. morning clouds. there could be the development of thunderstorms tomorrow in the evening hours, and there could be a potential for some small hail and gusty winds. all of the showers will move on out of here, and by wednesday, thursday, and friday, just in time for the upcoming weekend, temperatures will warm into the upper 70's -- middle bam opera 70's, by saturday. >> middle 70's. >> mid to upper 70's.

hello, steve. >> good evening, larry. the envelope, please, with so much fed-speak and so little time larry mire annually gives awards to members of the federal reserve who had the most fluent and moved markets. no surprise on ben bernanke winning the "i moved markets" awards. he has the most overall influence, the movement of the two-year note. but when it comes to impact for speech. philly fed chairman charles plosser takes the surprising award here. >> he was one of the earliest to be extremely clear and forceful with the view that the fed should tighten sooner rather than later, and to depart very significantly from the central tendency. >> which way do the fed officials move markets? turns on you janet yellen actually moves rates up. she's followed by plosser a hoenig. as for the doves, nobody moves rates down more than retiring fed chair donald kohn. my guess, watch hoenig. he'sing calling for higher rates than colleagues. it's not hard to assume he's a major contender for next year's "power player of the year." >>

steve mentioned bunnatine greenhouse. those of you who don't know bunny, she was a predetermined official in the pentagon who came to nbc news and i worked primarily with lisa liars at nbc, and told us that her colleagues, other federal contracting officials had bent the rules regarding handing out contracts to halliburton. and, while mac, i don't know if you remember, donnie was so nervous during that interview. we rolled a 20 minute beta tape. we never used one sentence from it. she just was so nervous and she had never been in this position before of essentially talking out of school regarding what had happened with her former employers. but she warmed up and she did a great interview, but she suffered as a result. it was very hard for her. another former government employee we interviewed is a woman named jane turner. jane was an fbi agent. she came to us and told us that during the cleanup at 9/11 at ground zero, if the eye agents had repeatedly removed rubble and artifacts that they have been handed out as souvenirs

thanks, steve. we are talking about the orioles home opener and how it will affect traffic today, because you know the deal there will be thousands of people downtown. as a result of that utah street will be blocked at camden. camden will be shutdown at alpa alpaca and washington boulevard will be shutdown at alpaca as well. just be sure that this will take place around 12:00 and go through the afternoon. the police will be directing traffic throughout the area. cooperate with them as you travel this morning and even into that afternoon. as far as the main lines are concerned, checking in right now 95 right at the that fort mchenry tunnel getting a bit congested on the southbound lanes all the way down toward the beltway but no problems to report on the northbound stretch up toward 695, moving through rosedale. that's a look at morning travels, patrice, over to you. >>> 6:03 on fox 45 morning news. a fire breaks out at an annapolis bar forcing the evacuation of the governor and dozens of other state

so, let's start with you, steve. >> erin, thanks very much. cnbc has learned that the government has testimony from a former top paulson official appearing to contradict a part of its own case, specifically, cnbc has reviewed documents that questions the government's contention in its case against goldman sachs that the wall street firm misled the insurance company aca about paulson & company's intentions to short the deal. the government's complaint reads "unbeknownst to aca at the time, paulson intended to effectively short the rmbs portfolio it helped select." however, cnbc has learned that a top paulson official, paolo pellegrini, told executives that they intended to short the portfolio. they asked him about a meeting with laura schwartz -- "did you tell her that you were

candace. >>> thank you, steve.idents but we have had a lot of volume. here it is at 895 at the harbor tunnel. you can see it's a bit congested but no brake lights to talk, so far things are looking good. that is the same deal for 95 as well. the southbound lanes from the fort knack henry tunnel all -- mchenry tunnel all the way down toward the beltway, 8 minutes at 54 miles per hour. it slows down on the beltway as usual. 95 toward 83, 21 minutes at 29 miles per hour. look at this 52 miles per hour with an 8-minute ride of 83 up toward 795. it dips down 39 miles per hour with a 16 minute clip from 795 all the way down toward 95. that is a look at your morning travels. patrice and megan, back over to you. >>> we are following breaking news just into our newsroom. authorities are searching for up to a dozen missing workers after an explosion on an offshore oil rig in the gulf of mexico. the explosion happened last night 50 miles south of louisiana with 126 workers on board. at least 7 people were critically injured i

my concern is -- and i've said this to steve personally. is that my concern is that a lot of the discussion is about preserving business models. steve, you told me that a lot of the -- a lot of the folks have come up to you and talked about, well, how do we save our copyright. how do we make sure google doesn't link to us. how do we get google to pay us for it. i'm concerned if we're really talking about saving journalism, let's talk about that. let's not talk about preserving business models because business models have to change when you have disruptive technologies. >> i have to say i didn't hear anyone say that they didn't think business models should change. i think there was a real connection here. anybody else want to respond to that? >> i just think that you can't talk about how you're going to maintain journalism without talking about what's the business model going to be? for how you maintain journalism? okay? so that's why people are talking about business models. they're not talking about business models in the sense of, oh, we

on the couch were michael martin and steve watters. morales was explaining how the stem cell treatment would go. hey, steve, michael. mr. stowe, mr. morales, i'm scott pelley. i'm with "60 minutes," and i'd like to ask you a few questions on the record about what you propose. i understand that you have had patients that have stood up and walked away from wheelchairs who have a.l.s. >> stowe: there have been patients that have improved to that extent. >> pelley: you reverse the condition? >> stowe: yes. >> pelley: you know, mr. stowe, the trouble is that you're a con man. >> stowe: really? >> pelley: you're lying about this protocol. you've lied about your association with the university of texas. you've lied about your work with the f.d.a. and now, you're lying to these gentlemen about what they can expect. >> stowe: now, why do you say that? >> pelley: nobody at the f.d.a. knows anything about any of this. and the university of texas is not going to be starting a regenerative medicine clinic with your name on it. >> stowe: really? >>

>> steve, let's back up here.he government saying, of course, the aca had no idea that paulson was going to short here. this testimony, obviously, seems to contradict that. so, might the government be looking at something else that, that would -- i would have to assume that would give them pause to think that aca had no idea. >> i think that's a good idea, trish. could be looking specific or only at the offering documents which do not apparently state that paulson was involved in helping to select the portfolio and other testimony or other evidence to that effect. >> if aca knew, in fact, that paulson was going to short this, should they have had an obligation to tell their clients then? does aca bear some of this responsibility? >> interesting question. what we need to remember about this, trish, aca ended up being a major investor in this deal. of the total size of the deal, aca took about $900 million of it. i think that's a good question. did aca have other disclosure but it is hard for them to argue as an inv

candace. >> reporter: thanks, steve.og is the big story coming in through howard county and could barely see cars in front of me. traffic lights and it's even difficult to see parking lots. wherever you travel this morning, it's going to be a tricky ride. look at the actual speeds 21 miles per hour right now on the beltway at harford road. it's 6 miles per how on 95 traveling through whitemarsh. we do want to show you what it looks like out there. let's show you exact actuall exe in clarksville. it's going to be foggy and that person has the headlights on. definitely something to keep in mind for this morning's drive. let's take a look at route 100 and take a look at this. you can barely see the cars on the southbound lanes and the northbound direction. i it kel you that it's going -- i can tell you that it's going to be a congested ride throughout the area and that's the same deal through the beltway. let check on frederick road at the inner and outer loop lanes, those cars are throwing freely. that is at least the bett

so this might be it for steve esmonde. he has been a utility pitcher for georgia. closed out for lsu on saturday. >>> esmonde is one of those guys that can run at full- times. an emergency runner fielder. so, if clemson pushes one more across, it is 3-0. you feel okay there. you don't want to see a 6th or 7th throw out there. we talked about a stretch where georgia was giving up big numbers. a loss to alabama in a nonconference game in birmingham. it was a big inning that really doomed the bulldogs. again, georgia lost so much fire power off of last year's team. this ball club not quipped to put up those kind of huge offensive numbers. >> and here is esmonde. a start for georgia. swegman couldn't get it over the plate. you see boyd, one of the toughest players on this team to strike out. he struck out only 14 times. here is the 0-1 pitch. that ball is hit right to the 2nd baseman. get the first out. and to schaus and parker. >>> that was a tailor made ball. they would have easily had parker. you could see parker was only half way between 1st and 2nd when the ball g

it is his blood way of getting that point across. >> let's talk about steve asman. >> i met steve through meredith whitney. he was a new york, going and bred, student at harvard. -- going and bred student at harvard. -- going and bred -- born and bred student at harvard. his parents were brokers at oppenheimer secure letters -- securities. his mom got him the job. in the mid-1990s, when he joins, subprime mortgage markets are beginning in the early form. these were people who were looking for borrowers. someone asked him if he wanted to be an analyst. he became one of the first two or three analysts on wall street. pretty quickly, he is the world expert on the subject. >> hal old is he? >> he is in the mid-40s, now. when this first happened, he was in his early '30's. >> he seems-and angry about everybody. >> as a character, it did not occur to me that one of his colleagues pointed out that when "curb your enthusiasm" came to hbo, he said that they just told that, that is larry david. his own wife says that her husband is a brood -- is a brood and there is nothing that she can do about it

meteorologist steve fertig is here with a look at our weekend forecast, hi, steve. >>> good morning, patrice. yeah, a pleasure to tell you about this kind of forecast. 53 degrees, rather mild even though we had a lot of areas with less cloud cover. you would think we would get radiational cooling, but because yesterday it got to warm, it starts mild. 86% relative humidity. and the forecast is looking very nice, sunny getting up to 81 degrees. a 1-foot wave, see the high tide at 1:53 and low tid. the high pressure bringing us a very nice day. 52 in dr.d.c., and 56 degrees in hagerstown, 63 out in oakland, rather mild there. again we're getting more of a southeasterly flow, today so we will be cooler by the bay and the ocean front. a high pressure will bring us the southeasterly flow. and the frontal boundary will be moving closer to us by saturday night into early sunday morning. esteither mornineaster morning r pushes through. we will get the southwesterly flow to push through and we remain mild through the weekend, looking good through the entire weekend, and into the next workweek

candace. >> reporter: thanks, steve. good morning.ng out the actual speeds and so far moderate congestion other some of the main lines. right now we're at 58 miles per hour on the jfx, but then we do have a very slow go on southbound 95, 13 miles per hour right near the beltway near whitemarsh. it's all due to an earlier accident on the corridor. now we have a new accident to talk about. it's moving through baltimore's southbound 295 right near water view avenue. we will continue to keep you up-to-date on this one. as for now, not showing any significantly delays. on 95 traveling through the area no problems to report there from the 695 exit all the way up to 395. eventually up toward rosedale. on the top end of the beltway, let's check it out, moving through baltimore county at harford road and the outer loop lanes incident free but not free of that volume, look it all of those cars congregating. that's the same deal down toward providence road. that's a look at the morning travels. patrice, back over to you. >>> thank you, candace.

steve, is it factually accurate or not? >> well, let me just give you a little reporter's notebook edition, andrea, because i was reporting this story from both the democratic and republican camp. talking to republicans week after week, i did not hear a word about this kind of criticism that eventually exploded out into the -- into the public space, which was that this was some kind of big bailout for wall street. my understanding, andrea, was that substantial parts of this resolution authority or bailout part were written by republicans and that it was sort of corker from tennessee who was involved with dodd. -in writing this. >> exactly. >> it was really weird for me to read this in the papers as a huge political talking point when, in fact, none of the republicans i talked to -- and i believe that corker eventually called this lewd krousz and judd gregg was a little more politic and says he thinks it goes a little bit too far. so i don't think that qualifies as sort of registers on the truth squad or truth meter very hig

steve is there. i want to get your instant reaction to the bond auction, which at the top of the hour, priced bonds at 3.9%, the ten-years, and bid to cover indicating demand for the bonds pretty strong. what is your response to that, and what do your fellow traders see and say? >> reporter: if you looked at the guys interpreting it in the pits, they said okay. but we rallied since then. >> so do you think that it shows at the very least the idea that yields on bonds, i mean, if higher interest rates are a threat to stocks, and the interest rate on this ten-year was 3.9%, that suggests that interest rates are fairly quiet right now, right? >> reporter: that's absolutely correct. and i think, you know, it sounds a little blanket coverage when i say this, but i think no matter how you slice it, equities are going higher. >> where do you look for the trade to be in the rest of the day, in the next two and a half hours? >> reporter: the more these headlines trickle out with mr. bernanke, i think the mark

maria. >> yeah, sure will, steve. steve liesman. and now a look at the other stories we are following on the ticker. palm has hired goldman sachs and frank petrone's partners to explore possible sale of the company. and the rival smartphone maker htc and lenovo are both interested in bidding for palm. the stock has been rallying for the speculation up 17% again today. and texas instruments upgraded from a neutral over credit suisse which is raising the price target on the stock to $32 up from $24 due to strong demand for chips and over blown demands for lead time. >>> and merrill lynch, the analyst doubling the stock to $22 on the fiber optic gear maker could have substantial upside to earnings. ciena is ahead of the earnings release up 17%. >>> is china closer to letting the yuan appreciate? we will talk about china's trade surplus and the potential benefit being overblown. answers coming up. >>> and we will explain how you could feel a pinch if the government closes tax loopholes, and fine out how much money chicago cubs' fans are

let's turn to meteorologist steve fertig. did you have any good pranks played on you. >> no. >> you know around here we have a lot of jokessters. >> theater >> that's true. as far as sounding off you do not have to object anything neg. >> you don't want to be negative. >> it should be a terrific next several days. take a look at what we have as far as the sky watch hd radar. you're not seeing a whole lot in the way of rain, that is for sure. nothing in fact, there but nothing much in the way of cloud cover, a few clouds moving through. we will start with partly cloudy to mainly clear skies. we will be talking about the outside chance. see the rain in the central part of the country, maybe overnight saturday, into early easter morning, you might see a light shower passing through. most of that will be steering to the north of us, all we will be dealing with a few more clouds out there. temperatures that will still be rather mild. 50 degrees starting today, with mainly clear skies, partly cloudy in some spots. 68 degrees with s

and steve, tell us what tonight's winner will be taking home. >> steve: well, jimmy, tonight's winner. sing along to your favorite songs and follow the lyrics on the built-in monitor. includes a microphone and av cable. ♪ jimmy >> jimmy: wow. [ light laughter ] take a look. this is the most technologically advanced karaoke machine of its kind. it's kind being 1991. >> steve: ahh! yeah! >> jimmy: let's get started. contestant number one, you're up. now, remember, you can sing however you want, as long as you're singing, not talking. you can dance, whatever you got to do to get the audience on your side. but look -- you've got a great song, i don't think you'll need it. your hit song tonight is by none other than glenn beck. it's all about his reaction to the health care bill. it's called "this is the end." [ light laughter ] there it is. and here this is. it's your microphone. whenever you're ready. roots? ♪ [ laughter ] ♪ this is the end this is the end of prosperity in america forever ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ an assault on our republic it's the end of america ♪ ♪ the end as you kn

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unclear on the desk here what caused it, maria. >> thank you, steve. we will get back to you as we continue to follow thchlt i'm maria bartiromo, and we are here on the "closing bell," a market deteriorating here,

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steve liesman with the headlines, two, one, go steve. >> pretty significant minutes coming out here,he fed making a play for flexibility and the language how it defines extended period and extended period language. members are noting that language does not represent a fixed time. several fed members said publicly that it does. now they are kind of dialing that back. extended period language does not limit the ability, say the limits or some members of the meeting to tighten policy. don't get excited. they are going to say extended language doesn't keep us from keeping the monetary policy in place longer if it worsens or declines. the risk of early tightening exceeds the risk of a later start. the staff, fed staff marked down gdp outlet because of lousy housing data before the march meeting and local state and government spending numbers. the staff marked down inflation outlook for 2010 and '11. members said inflation data came in lower than they had originally expected, despite the q1 pickup in consumer spending they still see the consumer as restrained because of the lackluster jobs

. >> i think steve jobs is right. and i think publishers think he's right too. i mean what the publishers are doing, belatedly and too late, by the way, i mean they've been late to this party. but i think what traditional publishers are now feverishly working on is to try and make the book itself the ebook a multimedia device. >> rose: also michael end of "politico", what he writes in playbook every morning on-line is what a lot of people in washington are reading. >> well, charlesie, everybody in the political media, broadcasting, financial community wakes up and we all want to know the same ten stories. we all want to know what rahm said on charlie rose last night what vice president biden's op ed in "the washington post" is. who dick cheney's going to endorse, what the news nugget in david remick's book is, but to find those ten stories we have to read a thousand stories. so the idea of playbook is we do that for you. we pull out what people are going to be buzzing about, what people are going to be talking b what is going to be booked on cable. what is going

steve asaph, do you know who osama bin laden spiritual adviser was? dale watson: can recall. -- can't recall. this was not the pentagon papers or even a case in taking on the white house, but i thought it was important. access to this whistle-blower -- our access to this was the lord gave us access to the videotapes and shed some light -- are access to this whistleblower gave us access to the videotapes and shed some light about what was going on. they can be very difficult, but it is worth it. it is worth the effort that you have to put into it because they can produce some of the most meaningful stories and they're good for our democracy. >> thank you very much. i just want to say one thing. i very much appreciate your remarks because for the whistle blowers that are listening to this and you will be listening to this, it is extremely important to understand how the press views you, what you need to do in order to have a credible presentation. i think jim was very straightforward and is analysis is really helpful. i thank you for those words. our ne

steve kroft, the interviewer, who was fabulous but i never met him before really wanted to do it.and when he showed up at my house in berkeley he said, you know we tried to do you two years or three years when the the blind side came out a book i wrote about football and other things. and he said, but you said, you told your publisher you wouldnt talk to us because we just steal all of the material and not mention the book. and i think i did. they had called before and i had been so used to these news magazine shows basically appropriating material and helping them do their piece and then you got forgotten. that they forgot where they got all of the material. and i just thought this is a waste of time. and so i think i told 60 minutes no once. and so they came back to the publisher, i guess, and said, no were actually serious were very interested in his book hes doing and we just want to talk to him about his book and so i caved. in a moment of weakness i caved. and i thought it was going to be a small and trivial piece on this book. i didnt know what it was going to be actually a

your thoughts on this, steve?he establishment of the democratic party, bob brady, the governor's behind him. can the suburbs come out against him, or the rural areas and pick a guy who's been a democrat perhaps more authentically in the past? >> i think of what you said and what alex just said, and i agree. i'm thinking back to 1992, we thought that was the end for arlen specter. this was just a guy, you don't bet against. he's so enduring. i was talking about earlier, we can't find any dumt who face contingent generally elections, i tell you, just one this year. he's off by if there's one exception to the rule, it's i don't think it's going to be harry reid, i do think it could be arlen specter in pennsylvania. it's incredible to watch. >> as young as you are, you know your stuff. thanks, it's great to have you on this friday night. when we return, they're goi i'l about illegal immigration, there is a right way to deal with it. many people agree. you're watching "hardball." tou. ♪ we make them legendary. we make

so today's subject, steve... hi, steve. >> steve: how are you doing?uric: has not slept all night. >> volkow: correct. >> couric: dr. volkow's study shows that ritalin works in a healthy brain the same way it does in the brain of someone with an attention disorder. in these areas, marked by red, stimulants trigger an increase of the chemical dopamine. and what does dopamine do exactly? >> volkow: dopamine is like a messenger. it activates the rest of the cells in the brain to pay attention. >> couric: so they make you more alert? >> volkow: they make you more alert, focused, interested, motivated. >> alan desantis: what are we observing? >> couric: alan desantis, a communications professor at the university of kentucky, says he was so baffled by his students' casual use of adderall, he decided to study it. >> desantis: when we asked the students why they use a.d.h.d. stimulants, many refer to it as "a steroid for the brain." >> couric: in a survey of nearly 2,000 students at the university, desantis found that 34% of undergraduates overall had taken at

steve jobs held all the cards. obscene like an interesting deal but ultimately the record labels wound up giving away the store. they made a deal that seemed really good for them. the song that the itunes store sell for $0.99 apiece. record companies get $0.70 for each download and steve jobs gets $0.29. not a bad deal. that deal, so far they hold four billion download. it is pretty good. not a bad business but it is not like selling a bunch of copies of michael jackson's thriller for $18 on cd. so you have two curves. you have digital music sales going up mostly through the itunes store and compact disk sales, $18 and now cheaper going down. as a result since this started happening apple's stock has been going up and the record label stocks have been going down. one important thing record labels missed. the ipod is the thing which is usually filled with pirated music but that is another story. the ipod makes a lot of money for apple. it sells from $300 and there are lots of ways to put music on the ipod. you can r

steve hartman, cbs news, tampa. >> couric: the kindness of strangers.nd if you would like to open your home to a veteran, we posted information on our web site at cbsnews.com. that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight with thanks to the jones day law firm for this beautiful view of the capital, i'm katie couric in washington. thanks for watching. see you tomorrow from new york. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs >>> tonight at 7, peaking news right now out of the district. the bicyclist was hit and killed by a car. this happened at 12th street, just a few blocks outside the perimeter of the nuclear dc convention center. and the driver did stick around on the scene. and no word yet on the identity of that cyclist. we'll have more on that story as it becomes available. also in your only local news at seven, much adieu. the biggest story to come out of the nuclear security summit, might be what did not happen to our downtown traffic. just 12 and packing heat. a middle schooler brings the semiautomatic weapon to school. none of his classmates speak up.

here is meteorologist steve fertig.hat is what you're here for. >>> we're going to have a decent day today and then the showers come in and the thunderstorms on sunday. the general message enjoy today. >> live for today. >> exactly. >> temperature wise 54 degrees in baltimore. cooler in hague easy town but ht much. there are clouds will be filter in later tonight and especially tomorrow as the warm front approaches. with the warm front a chance of showers later tomorrow and the thunderstorms on saturday. mostly sunny skies today. we should enjoy a high, near 70 degrees. we will be ripe for showers tomorrow as we said and shorms for sunday -- thunderstorms later on sunday in the day. >>> we are been talking about trouble on the beltway. it's at 795, there's double trouble an accident on the outer loop lanes at the 795 location. there's also one on the inner loop direction involving a tractor trailer. here is what has happened. the tractor trailer was carrying bricks on the inner loop lanes. it hit a barrier. the bricks s

steve, do you know the differences in religion between shiite and sunni muslims? not technically, no. again, this is not depending on -- the pentagon papers or even a case like rich in taking on the white house, but i thought it was important, and our access to this whistleblower gave us access to these videotapes and shed some light on what was going on with the fbi at a critical moment. .. i've always said that for an investigative journalist, there's there is kind of like a bug, there's something there that this terminal is once to get to the truth in the root of the story no matter what and charge. and from a whistleblower perspective, that's who you want on your case. i think for any investigative journalist, that's the character trait that makes someone into a top-notch world-renowned successful investigative journalists. but from a whistleblower, that's what you need. john has done just outstanding stories, both in cases that we've worked with him on, but also just watching the stories he's done. it's an absolute honor to have him here. in his formal biogra

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. >>> and now steve hirschhorn has an update on our midday traffic. steve? >> we're going to start with the map. you can see three cones. two cork zones on the inner loop of the beltway on either side of the wilson bridge and inner loop at van doren street. in the other direction on the outer loop, also have roadwork there. let's switch you over to montgomery county. there's a work zone here. this is river road near bradley boulevard where you're alternating traffic one lane at a time. springfield not too bad. southbound 95 building back into that work zone. back to you. >> thank you, steve. >>> toyota agreed to pay a record $16.4 million for failing to properly notify the government about those sticking gad pedals. the government says toyota knew about the defect last september but didn't issue a recall until january. a recall that involves some 2.3 million vehicles. the law requires any defect to be reported in five days. transportation secretary ray lahood said "toyota put consumers at rick by failing to report the safety problems." this fine is the large

candace. >> reporter: thank you, steve. it really did come down last night and unfor at any timely we're talking about -- unfortunately we're talking about the after effects of that weather this morning. it's on the southbound lanes approaching cold spring lane. we can show you what the area looks like and well, there's a police cruiser that is blocking it. the cones start here and unfortunately it does shutdown two right lanes, only the left lane is squeezing by there. you will want to use falls road as the alternate route. we're also talking about utility work this morning in downtown baltimore. here it is, you're taking a live look near lombard street. this traffic pattern is in effect for the next two weeks there. so it's going to be a tough morning rush i'm sure today and again coming forward as well. as far as the main lines are concerned right now we don't have any incidents to talk about, so we hope that it remains that way, but there's a lot going on this morning. that's a look at the morning travels, patrice, back

steve, let me start with you. you are in the belly of the beast of chicago.achine, chicago style politics. is this one more twist in the curvey road with blagojevich to try to now bring the president into all of this? >> i think the part of blagojevich's defense in everything is that this is how things were always done in chicago and in illinois. and there was horse trading that went on. but what the government has done is they have got a number of witnesses who say that we talked to blagojevich's people and then we went and we talked to obama or obama's people. the smart move on his part. the government may not want to present that evidence because they may not want obama coming in. a defendant has the right to present any and all relevant evidence that evidence that will help in his defense. if there is something that obama can shed light on it's relevant and reliable. the fact that the president will not shield him from something to testify. he may not have to come to chicago and do it. they may do it through a video deposition, but he may not be able to g

she has the traffic edge. >> reporter: thank you, steve. well, we're checking in on those numbers and liking them much more than we did yesterday that is for sure. right now 51 miles per hour on 95 traveling through the whitemarsh region and it's 60 miles per our on the jfx. we are of course, talking about downtown baltimore, because we do have the ongoing utility work. it does drop two right lanes of wright street, and also three lanes of lombard are closed at the same intersection. this is video from yesterday, crews have a lot of work and cars unfortunately have a lot of sitting in traffic to do. you will need to allow yourself extra time if you're headed into the area. on the main lines, let's check in on 95, moving at ka catonsvie this morning. no problems to the beltway. once you hop to the beltway, check on route 144, frederick road this morning, we haven't had any issues to complain about and that continues to be the case. inner and outer loop stretch. just note that the roads may be a little wet this morning, use extra caution as y