but as for steven harper, he took a road trip. here's harper in february, getting front page treatment on his visit to china. prime minister harper, can you imagine if that ever happened in america? china knows canada is an energy superpower. chinese companies spent $10 billion buying canadian energy assets becoming what the eia calls a potent presence in the oil sands. there's uranium deals too. we know president obama seen here with bo is a dog guy and prime minister harper fosters cats. here he is with one his many felines. it seems like prime minister harper told president obama how he felt about him, though. one night when he performed a famous song. ♪ i get by with with a little help from my friends ♪ ♪ i get by with a little help from my friends ♪ ♪ i need somebody to love ♪ i want somebody to love >> maybe president obama should try looking at steven harper the way he looked at the world's most famous canadian, justin bieber. dan keesh of the energy institute for energy joins us now along with susan casey-lefkowitz. susan,

and our president. >> steven harper is looking for jobs, just like president calderon and president obama. the fact is that in choosing to shut down the keystone pipeline, at least the northern part of it, this president has eliminated an opportunity for 20,000 jobs in this country, as well as jobs and revenue for transcanada and canadian workers. so my suspicion is they won't take it up, but it's certainly important subtext, as is the fact that the united states has a significant trade decifit with both countries, primarily because we import 40 percent of our energy from canada and from mexico. shannon: from what i understand, canada has the third largest oil reserves in the country behind saudi arabia and i believe venezuela, but we know that the canadian prime minister has visited other markets that may be very interested in that oil. >> specifically china. specifically china, trying to work a deal with all the oil shale crude that would be pumped into indonesia, at the same time, contemporaneously, the canadians are working with big oil companies to set up a pipeline and port fa

. >>> president obama hosting steven harper and president felipe for the summit in dc.he meeting focuses on energy and climate change efforts among the countries. >>> katie couric is returning to good morning america. she has her own talk show starting in september. >>> it is blustery. 20 miles per hour, 20 miles per hour dc, and over on the eastern shore, 15 rs we have gusts up to 30, pa 35 miles per hour this morning, that's going to continue in to the afternoon. a blustery day on tap for us. we have a windchill, this is the way it feels. see the blues tricklingful 37 i don't go, 38 baltimore. 39 frederick. satellite and radar, picking up on fog in some spots. the clouds around, but we are seeing peeks of sunshine and many as we go in to the afternoon. future trend going to pick up on just that, that system is working off in to the atlantic as of now. in its wake the sun will rule that will continue each in to tuesday morning, tuesday afternoon, the clouds will be on the increase a bit. we have a chance for isolated shower in the folk, for the most part we should stay

steven harper was not happy that the administration held up the first half of the pipeline. the president said it's not over. transcanada and reapply and make that happen down the line. but the republicans forced his hand. i want to hear the dance between those two leaders. and of course whatever mexican president has to say about that issue as well. >> turn back to domestic politics. three gop primaries on tap for tomorrow. what is the expected outcome here. and will we be just that much closer to a romney nomination? >> reporter: you know, i just left, tyler, a meeting with a senior advisor to the romney campaign. they're expecting to win all three, district of columbia, maryland, wisconsin, perhaps lose a congressional district or two in maryland and wisconsin, but win those and then their hope is that rick santorum will re-evaluate his campaign and maybe not go onto april the 24th when pennsylvania will vote and santorum with reason to think he'd do well, but stands to be wiped out in many other states on that day. the romney campaign, which of course was very badly like

canadian prime minister steven harper and the mexican president calderon in washington for a summit, talking about on-going cooperation between the u.s., mexico and canada on several issues, including economic growth, security, energy, and climate change. >>> we're going back to the breaking news that we're following in oakland this morning. these are live pictures as you see. police are storming into a building. this is in oakland near edgewater and roland way, close to the airport. they have the building surrounded. our chopper is live over the scene. what we know is two people have been shot. there could be reports of more. we don't know the extent of their injuries so far this morning, but it is an active scene. no doubt, streets on the 7800 block of edgewater by roland way are shut down as you don't see a lot of traffic. you see officers at the center of the screen, seen them multiply in numbers. looks like they're carrying something out now. >> looks like possibly a person on a sheet or some stretcher. >> we're going to follow this. we're bringing live pictures behind the scene

. >>> the north american summit will include the president and as well as steven harper. we will go live to our washington d.c. newsroom to find out about one issue expected to loom over today's talks. >>> sal is still watching the roads and bridges, right, sal? >>> that's right, we are looking at highway 4 because it does get busy.$♪ highway 4 looks pretty good and highway 4 is busy much earlier than that in antioch as you drive through the two lane section. also the morning commute is talking up and it is a small delay and the lights are not on. it should be a nice drive checking in as that looks good to the peninsular. let's go to steve. >>> good morning, some upper 30s showing up, santa rosa and livermore there is some cold air moving in later this week, mostly sunny today, fair temperatures coming up and yesterday it was left behind from a good system on saturday, a lot of chilly temperatures 55 in san francisco, lower 60s almost everywhere else. today not a big jump near the coast, temperatures up to 70 degrees and that will be there for santa rosa and it looks like

freddie earlier a press conference with steven harper from canada, a lovely country.lso collective collaborators in the g-20 in response to the global recession and instability of the past few years. [ speaking french ] >> greg: a friend of mine gavin points out the problem with bilingualism. it makes everything last twice as long including boring press conferences. that went too long because we had to listen to the french part. >> dana: president obama is like can we go? freddie i only hear it if i am ordering dupe. >> kimberly: give them the wrap cue. irk irk? >> eric: you know how president obama said i'd open this up. friday i opened the blackberry and check out what i found. see that? barack obama. i went oh, my gosh, barack obama. he e-mailed me. when you open out, do you have a full screen of what happened when you open that? it's a donation. asking for a denation to re-elect obama campaign. >> juan: i thought he sent you a bill. >> dana: the e-mail above that, from kirsten powers. she was not e-mailing you personally. it was her column. >> kimberly: clarify th

he raised an important point that prime minister steven harper raises. shall we? >> canada places the highest value on the friendship and partnership among our three countries. we form one of the largest free trade zones that has been of great benefit to all of our nations. we are also effective collaborators in the g-20 and responding to the global recession and instability of these past few years. [speaking french] >> the lesson here is, take something boring and you make it bilingual, twice as boring. is that incredible? >> you have to listen to it twice. it sounded like he was talking about croissants. he was making me hungry. >> the only thing about speaking french is it makes everything sound frenchy. >> they may have had a congressional group from new orleans there. >> what is the point of the press conferences ? the only thing we have in common with canada and mexico is we have foreign born presidents. >> bill, taking it right back to what matters. very good. >>> from the border to disorder. you know summer is almost here when a dead man is found in an occ

steven harper who judges from this picture has found cat snip.ose involved attending a fund

some of the big stories, monday, president obama is scheduled to welcome steven harper, canada's primeers in maryland heading to the polls to make the pick in 98 delegates up to are grabs that day. and department set to release the numbers, unemployment lowest level in three years, but the projected the rate will remain above 8% until 2014. and on this day in 1976, steve jobs and his friend steve wozniak founded apple computer, the company that brought us the ipod, iphone, i think pete's is ringing right now and the ipad got its start in a garage. and at the home of steve job's parents in silicon valley and the original apple computer hand built went on sale within months of the company's creation and paved the way for the iconic macintosh computer in 1984 and ipad which apple released a couple of years ago, but two high school buddies open the garage door to new innovation, and 36 years ago today. it is what makes this country an amazing place to

reports say canadian prime minister steven harper is upset with president obama's decision to kill the keystone excel pipeline which would go from canada to the gulf coast. the three leaders are also planning to discuss citizens security as mexico has seen a drastic rise in gang violence against residents. >>> we have tom kierein with us now to talk about our weather. it is nice out there with the sunshine. chilly. >> yeah. march acted like april. now april is acting like march. and we are all confused. the -- plants are certainly confused. we have got some azaleas even trying to bloom now. and in addition, of course, everything else that bloomed early in march, there is the sky over washington. live view from our high definition city camera. and the temperature right now at reagan national, 54 degrees, mostly sunny. wind out of the north gusting to around 30 miles an hour. sustained at around 15 to 20 miles an hour. it certainly feels chillier than that. yes, we had a record warm march in washington. reagan national airport the average temperature for march 2012 was 56.8 degrees. that

reports say canadian prime minister steven harper is upset with the decision to kill the keystone excelipeline. the three will discuss citizen security as mexico has seen a drastic rise in gang violence against non-gang members. >>> a new poll says more women are supporting president obama than before. the latest survey shows the president leads republican front-runner mitt romney 51% to 42% among registered voters. a month ago, mr. obama trailed romney by 2% points. the biggest change came from women under 50. in mid-february, under half of those supporters supported obama. now more than six in ten do while romney's support among them has dropped by 14 points to 30%. >>> 6:36. the "today" show is up next at 7:00. let's check in now with matt lauer. >>> nice to see you. good morning. coming up on a monday, will the winners of friday night's record mega millions jackpot come forward today? and what awaits them if they go public? we'll talk about that. >>> also, new court documents that question why the police didn't arrest josh powell in the days after his wife susan disappeared and befo

canadian prime minister steven harper and mexican president felipe calderon will join mr. for summit talks. leaders will discuss the north american free trade agreement and efforts to more aggressively integrate the economies of the three countries. >>> 6:54 right now. in southeast asia, officials are confirming the opposition party has won a landslide victory in a landmark election. speaking to thousands of supporters, democracy icon aung sang suu kyi called the election a triumph of the people. she hopes the vote marks the beginning of a new era for the long-repressed country. myanmar is emerging from a ruthless era of military rule. >>> it is 6:54 right now. the "today" show is next. matt lauer showing us what they're working on this morning. >> john and laura good morning, coming up on monday on "today," will the winners of friday's record jackpot come forward today? and what awaits them if they go public? we'll talk about that. >>> also, ahead, new court documents, the question why police did not arrest josh powell in the days after his wife susan disappeared and befo

by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> steven harper visits washington tomorrow for a summit meeting with president obama and philippe de colder around. yes this is down for an interview about relation -- he also sits down for an interview about the environment and national security. live coverage at 4:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> not an oversight hearing of security measures by the security administration. after that, and house hearing on security on the korean peninsula. now a house oversight hearing on security methods used by the transportation security administration anthony the use of body scanners. officials testified at this joint hearing held by the house oversight and transportation committee. quite the committee will come to order. the oversight committee exists for fundamental principles. first, americans have a right to know that money washington takes from them as well spent. americans deserve an efficient and effective government that works for them. our duty is to protect these rights. our solemn responsibility is to h

. >> meantime brarack obama is meeting steven harper and felipe calderon today in washington to discussen the three countries at the north american leaderssummit. joining us to talk more about investing in the region is carlos, from exclusive analysis. let's talk about investing in latin america for the investors that are looking at some of the global trades. some of the richisks are heatin up. how do you play it? >> i think the americans a mixed bag, but immention brazil, colombia, pay rue and mexico. very different stories. brazil is a strong middle class. monetary policy has been eased. there will are some concerns about china for brazil, but i think brazil is a relatively closed economy. i think we'll see faster economic growth this year. in the case of peru obviously is mini mining, the president is more pro business than expected and this has well received by the market and by the foreign companies. in the case of colombia, it is an economy that is booming, oil and mining again, the country has already gone through the $1 million that they have very stable business environment. an

steven harper and scald roan sit down for a working lunch at the white house they are hosting a joint press conference this afternoon. tomorrow will be a big day for the congressional seats. incumbent is facing his first re-election, the re-election of republican congressman bart let is getting attention his sixth district was drastically redrawn giving it northern montgomery counce is considered to be much closer. >> a check of the mornings other top stories. four people are dead six are hurt after a violent weekend in dc and prince georges county. they happened in suit land, land over northwest dc all within 72 hours so far there is only one arrest in the shooting in dc, police in prince georges county say they are close to making arrests in some of their cases from the weekend officials are expected to have more information later on this morning. >>> officials in stafford county are looking for whoever set a school bus on fire. stafford sheriff's department says two other buses were also vandalized, spray paymented with images of marijuana leaves -- spray painted with images of mar

energy, oil, all expected to be on the agenda as the president meets with steven harper and mexican president felipe calderon. when the three get together starting at 11:15 in just about ten minutes, when they get together everybody calls this -- these the three amigos summits. the last time they got together the three of them, was in august 2009, and obviously a lot has transpired since then. the white house says the official agenda will focus on trade, economic growth, competitiveness, citizen security, energy, crime at change. let me translate energy into canadian for you for prime minister harper. pipe r-r the canadian part that the president turnekeystone pipeline, president obama says he will consider it again after the election. presidenprime minister harper says he's distroyed waitin not waiting around. he is going to try to sell it to china canada is our number one oil supplier, ahead of saudi arabia, and number three is mexico. so we have leaders of two of our three largest oil suppliers here at the white house today, maybe they might be able to help us out a little bit on $4 gasoli

and meantime at the white house, president obama hosts canadian prime minister steven harper and mexican president felipe calderon for a north american leaders summit. >>> and finally one airline in canada took sunday's april fools' day to a whole new level with a commercial that hopefully didn't trick any exhausted parents. check it out. >> effective today, we're introducing child-free cabins on board select flights. your child will be whisked away in a magic carpet ride and your work is done. >> well, moms, sorry, that is an april fools' joke. no you will not be putting the kids into the luggage hold. it is now 7:07. back to matt, ann and al. it also boasted a state-of-the-a state-of-the-art -- >> they need to put the do not try this at home. that is clever, though. savannah, thank you very much. welcome back, mr. roker. >> i could have used that yesterday on my trip home. >> how was your vacation? >> we had a great time. good to see everybody back again. as we show you what's happening for today, risk of strong storms from texas all the way up into kansas. a chance of hail, isolated t

the president hosting canadian steven harper and caldarone for the north american leader's submit talkingimate change energy and they are then they are going to have lunch. after lunch, they will have a press conference in the rose garden and then after that, the president will continue his day with closed-door meetings with secretary of state clinton and senior advisors. mitt romney mitrick santorum are campaigning in wisconsin in anticipation of tomorrow's primary. there are 42 delegates. it's a big one. romney is in front of santorum in all of the poems, about 5 to 10 points depending upon which one you read. santorum says he was going to stay in the race at least until the end of the month. april 24th is the pennsylvania primary. that is his home state. you have heard bill talking all morning about the trayvon martin case and the latest developments. cnn reporting theat trayvon martin's parents are asking the u.s. justice department to review the behavior the night of the shooting. they want to foe if if the investigateor wanted charges. this this. they want to know if the state attor

white house is the topic of discussion today with president obama and the canadian prime minister steven harper the mexican president. they will talk about economic issues. the house and senate are on break. looking at the race for the white house, preparations are being made in wisconsin, d.c., and maryland and you can follow what is happening on our web site and see our coverage at 7:00 tomorrow. we are interested in what you think of the idea for an extra year of high school students, disadvantaged students specifically. you can give us a call at the numbers below -- if you want to send us an e- mail, you can do that, too. you can send us a tweet based at a baltimore but ranyard kingston is the president of grendell college. -- grinnell college. this is the thought that we want you to weigh in on this morning -- we will examine the options that he lays out. the question for you this morning is about an extra year of high school for disadvantaged students. we will divide the lines for parents, teachers, and others. you can send us an e-mail if you wish and twister is always available. let's g

we will have more from canadian prime minister steven harper. he will discuss the political relationships, energy, the environment, and national security. that is live from washington on c-span2. that starts at 4:00 p.m. eastern. >> we ask students to create a video telling us what part of the constitution was most important to them and why. today we're going to california to talk with the third prize winner. she is an 11th-grader at walnut high-school. why did you choose to focus on the 26th amendment for your documentary? >> we wanted to pick an amendment that directly related to youth. we decided to go with the youth the amendment. we wanted something to empower people who do not exercise the right to vote to get out to the polls this year. we wanted to empower youth to use the right to vote when it is granted to them. >> you interview the mayor. what did you learn from him? >> he is the mayor of lahabra. he is also a professor of political science. he had a lot to teach us about the actual amendment and the fact that youth do not know enough

c-span.org as we take you live to the wilson center for a discussion with the canadian prime minister, steven harper>> i'm the trade directer here and want to recognize the prime honorable stephen harper, honored guests, and diplomatic and business communities here today. i'd also like to welcome and thank the host of today's program, the woodrow wilson center for international scholars. the reagan building is a mixed use facility along with special events and hospitality services, pride ourselves on being an active hub for trade policy promotion with various signature events throughout the year and serve as the world trade center for washington, d.c. connecting us to our world trade center partners in hundreds of countries throughout the world. we have a wonderful network to promote events that take place here in the trade center. our partners include various government agencies, ngos, and think tanks that foster dialogue, various education opportunities, and educate here in the nation's capitol. this afternoon offers us better insight into u.s.-canada relations as we're on the heels of the trilate

iii and bryce harper, the stud in waiting, national stud in waiting will make his major league debut tomorrow night at dodger's stadium playing left field behind another young athlete, steven straussburg. a harperless nats facing the dodgers. scoreless in the first until this, andre ethier, see you later. hanging breaking ball. just got launched. that was his fifth of the year. 2-0. dodgers. right now, the dodgers are up 4-0 in, excuse me, 3-0 in the fifth. go to the right coast. first place orioles. hosting the athletics. the fighting showwalters. bomb to right. he was a late addition to the line today. that paid for the athletics. up 3-1. you guys like defense? >> defense! >> check this out. grounds it, flips it. >> awesome. >> that was pretty. >> take another look at that. flips it. that's what you call a web jam. orioles can't come back this time. as win, 5-2. end the birds' three game win streak. all right, psyched about this. hockey coming up tomorrow. caps/rangers. game one eastern conference semifinals. in the big apple. the caps have knocked off the rangers. in the playoffs twice. in the past four years. frying trying to do it again. john erskin waving the stick i

harper will make his debut against the dodgers. the game is going to be full of young stars. steven strasburg gets the start for the nationals. >>> let's go to football. the redskins use their third round pick to draft josh leribeus. he was all conference in 2010. >>> the orioles lose 5-2 to the oakland a's. same two today at 7:05. >>> big day for the caps. they take on the rangers today at 3:00 right here on nbc 4 in the eastern conference finals. guys loose at practice. they hope to get bodies in front of ranger goalie henrik lundqvist. that's pretty much the only way to score against one of the league's best net minders. face-off at 3:00 on nbc 4. have a great day. >> thank you, amber. >>> this is shaping up to be one of the biggest sports days in recent washington memory. >> we want to know what you think is the biggest sports news today? is it rg3 or perhaps it's bryce harper's debut? tweet us today and you could share on our facebook page. then we will talk about them throughout the morning. some responses already coming in. >> we've got a lot of people saying rg3. i guess the

with harper, but injuries to zimmerman and morris and a desperate need for offense has changed the plans, so he's going to be in the lineup tonight against the dodgers. guess what, ladies, steventraussburg pitching tonight as well. so it's a huge week, day, night in sports. we'll have it all coming up at 11:00. back to you guys in the studio. >> very exciting for washington sports. thank you, dave. >>> get out of the rain. back to annie. >> yeah, we'll see the rain continue tonight and possibly into the overnight hours. definitely a chilly night tonight. but then we're looking dryer tomorrow, andrea. we'll become partly to mostly sunny by the afternoon. temperatures close to 70 degrees. so definitely warmer on sunday. and then a big warmup into the middle of the week. 80s. >> we look forward to it. thank you, annie. >>> thanks for joining us. we'll see you back here tonight at 11:00. have a great evening. blood pressure

harper. the nationals stud in waiting will make his major league debut today at dodger stadium playing behind stevenasburg. it was a nats facing last night. it was scoreless if the first until that andre ethier. see you later. the hanging breaking ball gets launched. it's 2-0 dodgers. and the dodgers go on to win. and it's going to be bryce harper making that debut tomorrow. look for him. >>> let's go though right coast. orioles and the athletics. not anymore. the bomb to right field. he was a late addition to the lineup. up 3-1. >>> well, if you like defense, check out this. nick markakis to weeks. to pennington. and you've got to be kidding me. that is an absolutely unbelievable play. the other look looks better. the o's can't come back this time. end the birds three game win streak. >>> let's go to hockey. caps-rangers. all goes down today. game one of the eastern conference semifinals at madison square garden. the capitals have knocked off the rangers twice out of the past four years in the playoffs. at practice yesterday, capitals were pretty loose. waving the stick in front of our cameras. and

bryce harper signed some autographs for the fans out there in l.a., got some last minute instruction. watching steven strausburg putting on a phenomenal outing. adam laroche has had a hot bat for the nats all season long. it's 1-0 nationals. later in the 7th, harper's first at-bat, he gets it away. straight over matt kemp's head, digging at him. harper's so far one for three in the game with that double. and then later in the seventh, a.j. ellis singles off to left field. harper's charging, he's coming home. jerry hairston trying to score. perfect throw from harper, look at hairston, the wylie veteran knocks the ball out of ramos' glove. right now we're tied at one going into the eighth inning. >>> in baltimore, the legendary frank robinson honored with a statue just beyond the fence in left centerfield. those due in big part to 24 guy, chris davis. get that stuff outta here. off the warehouse in right. man, his fourth home run of the year. the o's win with big, 10-1. >>> talking hockey now. game once against the rangers, got sloppy for the capitals and it cost them. a botched line change and below a