steven ainchlgts, joining us again. if this is about money and wins, when you -- we did a little research. forbes.com laying it out there, louisville basketball the most profitable in the country, is value of the basketball prom 24.4 million. when pitino showed up they were 24 -- 9 the year before. he gets a pass because they win, right. is that what we get? >> all about the pendulum. the money that he brings the program and the prestige and the cache that he brings to the program, the all americans that he's able to recruit because he is rubbing pitino, being a national championship coach at kentucky, taking providence to the final four and louisville as far as he's done. all of those things factor into the equation, but i don't think you can minimize or diminish the impact of the woman alleging these allegations or throwing these allegations out there because the fact is there's been so many holes in the story what it comes down to in the eyes of these administrators is do we sit there and disrupt our program baubs th

. >> gerry: steven hauschka 1 for 2 last year, from 54. this one from 21 and it is good. so steven hauschka puts the ravens on the board first in the preseason. >> stan: you like those tap-ins to start, don't you. >> gerry: if you're a kicker you do. the ravens strike first with 6:15 to play. john harbaugh has his first lead to operate with. though i'm sure he was hoping to see a drive that was that impressive conclude with a touchdown. >> stan: it's a shame, because on the play, the third --

steven bumbry recently got signed by the iron birds. so i went up to aberdeen to see how he's doing. when you are thinking about hometown boy does good, the name ripken may come to mind. but we're talking about steven bumbry. he's loved baseball all of his life. as a kid, he played in major league rocker rooms and on the field. but now, little steven is all grown up. his father is orioles hall of famer al bumbry. you can say baseball is in his blood. >> my dad obviously had a great career in baltimore. he was a big leagues coach and minor leagues coach and up and down throughout the system with the indians, orioles and red sox. i grew up around it and it's definitely in my blood. >> reporter: steven went to delaney high school then onto virginia tech. he's now signed with the iron birds. he also knows his work has just begun. >> i've seen what kind of hard work it takes to come up to a system and develop as a player and eventually make it to the big leagues. you know that's been something that's helped me out. i've gotten huge motivatio

steven bumbry just recently got signed by the iron birds. so i went up to aberdeen to see how he's doing. when you think of hometown boy done gone, the name ripken may come to mind. but we're talking steven bumbry. as a kid, he played in major league locker rooms and on the field. now little steveson all grown up. his father it hall of famer. p you can say baseball is in his blood. >> my dad had a great time in baltimore. he was with the indians, are orioles and red sox. i grew up around it, and it's in my blood. >> reporter: steven went to delaney high school then on to virginia tech. he now signed with the iron birds but also knows his work has just begun. >> i've seen the hard work it takes to develop as a mayor and eventually make it to the big leagues. that's definitely been something that's helped me out. i have huge motivation from those guys. i hook forward to being there some day soon. >> reporter: as a kid, steven has seen the bright lights. now it's his time to shine. >> i want to be in the big leagues, you know? obviously, a lot

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steven strasbourg, a record setting contract. some reports suggest the offer would be between 14 to 16 million dollars. he believes there is a real possibility that strasbourg may not sign. meanwhile, last night a win thanks to a pitcher. in cincinnati. yeah. a head scratcher right there. why wouldn't you sign. and mott, six innings. help from the defense. ryan zimmerman. bare hand. to first. gets him. tavarez. not fast enough. take a look. so nice. twice. zimmerman did not get a hit. snapping the 16-game hitting streak. still no score. ronnie belliard at the plate. changes that with one swing. send the shot to the upper deck in left. great american ballpark. belliard's, fourth home run. take a 1-0 lead. that's all they needed. that's not the case. last night it was. bottom of the fifth. paul janice up with two on. singles. fleiss play. second win of the season. shut out the red. 2-0, talking football now. michael vick. and clearly split. yesterday the cover of the philadelphia daily news read hide your dogs. reebok official unif

her attorney's with us as well, steven wagner.also with us, perry apptap, a security privacy and cyberspace lawyer. liskula, i want to start with you. you get the e-mail address for this person. have you had contact with them? did you have a conversation? what were they doing and why? why were they going after? >> i don't really know why she went after me but yes, i did have a conversation with her. >> what was said? >> i asked her why she did it. she didn't really have a reason for me. and i told her that if i had ever done anything in my life to her to deserve that that i was sorry. >> did she or he apologize? it's a she, right? >> she didn't. no, she didn't. >> did not apologize? >> no. no. >> was she insulting again as you spoke or was pretty silent and didn't want to talk at all? >> she was pretty silent. didn't really have a lot to say. sort of could hear the nervousness in her voice. >> okay. i'll ask your lawyer this one. steven, are you going forward with a defamation lawsuit, or has this ended the conversation? >> no, no

joining the conversation now is steven pearlstein. i know you heard what art said about his wedge between the consumers and the provider of health care and his deep skepticism, i may be underestimating it of a public option. i know that you look at both sides of this issue. how can a public option make sense? >> well, let's just remember that a public option is one very small part of the plans that have been proposed by the house and senate. they're not the same. there's lots of different proposals. so the idea that art knows what the public option is, i'm glad he does, but he's the only one in america who apparently knows because they're still fighting about it and whether there even will be. there's probably a 50/50 chance there won't be a public option in the final bill, but a public saupgs just an insurance plan. have you ever heard of medicare? that's a government-run insurance plan. it covers a lot of old people, most of whom really like it. and as a matter of fact, when it competes against private medicare plans and there are s

either steven tyler or the octomom, i'm not sure.r c murder is on trial in louisiana for murder. [ laughter ] if his name is c shoplifting it would be for that. it centers around a nightclub in 2002. right now the prosecution is calling witnesses. here's the highlight from today. >> testify continues today in the trial of a rapper in new orleans. cory miller is charged with the murder of a fan and if convicted miller could spend the rest of his life in prison. did you see c murder murder? then what? >> c murder murder. yeah. >> did you see murder c murder? >> no, i didn't see murder. >> did c murder? >> no i didn't see it. >> what about you, did you see murder? >> c murder. >> see like c murder or see like yes? >> si, i see c murder murder. but i didn't see nothing, sir. [ laughter ] >> you know what? it's going to be the who's on first of our generation right. there very nice acting, guillermo. very, very nice. if convicted c murder faces detention and/or electrocution. in future criminal news, there's a show called "toddlers and ti

steven, i start with you. give us your six-month, one-year, and five-year look at this economy. >> there are three negatives on the economy that would hold back growth and won't create the bullish expansion. one is rising tax rates. barack obama has said next year the tax cuts go away. i think those hurt the economy. higher interest ralts, and we pay for a lot of that that we're talking about. i think all economists agree interest rates are as low as they go. the third is higher inflation. they dampen the normal recovery process. >> you think we're looking a bit better than we are now and maybe a year? >> normally we have 5% or 6% growth out of a recession. i think we're looking at 2%. >> your biggest concern is the five years out. you think we're not going to be a whole lot better off? >> look, when you're talking about $10 trillion of new borrows, that's like putting a milestone around the neck of the economy. >> i think we'll be berlt off in six months and a year. it's not until then that it will get easier

now, steven, i'm imaging if the imagenning list.house start getting messages from david axelrod. let's say karl rove. what do you think the left would have done. >> i'm so surprised i haven't gotten my email from the aclu announcing an investigation on this or try to raise money from. this. laura: privacy concerns. >> in the whom scheme of things i do, think this is a huge deal and there is some big white house campaign to obtain emails of people who might be skeptical and send them propaganda? probably not. in the whole scheme of things, when you think about trillion-dollar deficits and wars that we are not fighting and winning, is this a huge deal? probably not. but what struck me about that segment is robert gibbs and his hostility to actually getting a difficult question. he is so unaccustomed to getting tough questions and follow-ups. he doesn't know how to answer it then he insults him by saying you are going to impugn my motives? laura: fishy information that might be out there about the health care debate. please email us ab

steven, thanks for your time here. interesting piece.that particular moment in his legislative career? >> well, richard nixon at the time thought he might be running against ted kennedy into the 1972 presidential election, and he knew that kennedy was coming out with a single payer plan, which he didn't like, so he asked caster weinberger, who was then his secretary of health, education, and welfare as we called it at the time to come up with a plan, and the funny thing is the plan they came up with is remarkably similar to the one that democrats are now talking about in washington. it involved requiring everyone to have insurance and it would have the government help to subsidize that for those who couldn't afford it. >> wasn't it like a 75/25 percentage thing they got into over this that they couldn't compromise on? >> well, i don't really think it got down in the end of the day. they did back and forth. by the way, nixon proposed it, it went nowhere, we know what happened there, nixon won. it was after that that the dealmaking really

steven hawking. when he was in cambridge, this guy, he would complete his term papers in one night, and his roommate actually saved his term papers because he would just scatter it out and then throw it away. his roommate would look at them, and say, steven, what are you doing? do you realize what you're doing? steven hawking didn't have any kind of appreciation for his intellect. well, he started falling down the stairs. he fell down the stairs i think on the third time at cambridge and he thought well, something is wrong. he got it checked out. he was 21 years old. doctors told him he would die from a.l.s. in two to three years. hawking now is almost completely paralyzed. he has survived for 46 years since then, but even more importantly, when he was down, literally down on the ground after falling down and being told you don't have much time to live, he decided to pick himself up. he decided to use his intellect and actually do something with his life. he became one of the leading scientists disco

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meanwhile steven strassburg will meet the media friday and you can be there. the team is holding a 2:00 p.m. press conference to anyone that buys a ticket to friday's game. 2000 tickets will be sold for $1. the gates will open at 1:30 p.m. >>> it is a bargain. no excuses not to go. check out the new face of the nationals franchise. we will have much more on the redskins coming up tonight but for now we are live out at redskins training camp. by the way, tomorrow the last two a day session. the the players will be celebrating. >> i can see the excitement now. >> we will be celebrating

it's funny when you think how they drafted steven stratsburg and they'll get it done. here we ar literally 30 minutes they have to accomplish this goal. the nationals have reportedly offered a deal worth as much as $17 million for first overall draft pick steven stratsburg but here we are less than an hour from the deadline and still no deal is done. he has an important decision to make. he can either listen to his agent, scott boras, and sit out an entire season, or take the deal. the right-handed pitcher has a 100-mile-an-hour fastball, has all of the skills really to become a superstar. but if strasburg and the nationals don't agree to a deal, he will have to wait another year to play in the majors. woe have to re-enter the draft and the nationals would get the second pick if they could not sign him. bottom line, the nationals still have about 55 minutes and we will just have to wait and see if they can get a deal done. >> 52 minutes and 40 seconds. >> they're on the clock. >> and counting. >>> coming up -- a young child killed after getting caught in the blinds. no

nats fall 4-3. >>> steven strassburg signing a 15 behind 4 million deal, four years.ll arrive on thursday. press conference expected friday. he will not make a big league appearance this season. his debut likely 2010. while fans can't wait neither can his teammates. >> this is where it starts. he is going to be foundation for our team in the future. so it is exciting and starting now we are playing better ball an i think we will be really good in the fecks couple of years. >> orioles taking on the rays. up 2-1 in the 4th. no longer. two-run home run. the os fall. >>> brett favre joining the minnesota viking conveniently just days after they broke camp. he arrived in minnesota this morning immediately hitting the practice field. espn reports he will get a two- year, $25 million deal. he is expected to start in minnesota's preseason game against the chiefs on friday. >> as a lot of friends and family have told me, you won't know unless you take the changes. everyone who i have talked to, former players, coaches, just people in general said if you were to go back this is

steven's church where kennedy's mother rose was baptized and her funeral mass was celebrated. from there it will cross over the rose filgts jerrold kennedy greenway, a park ted kennedy

spot now where the officials spot the ball will determine whether or not the drive lives or we see steven hauschka for the first time. >> stan: it's too bad he didn't see todd heap in the back of the end zone. he was wide open. >> gerry: i'm a little surprised they're not going bring in the field goal kicker here since you're looking for a new kicker. >> stan: something's wrong with the communication system here. he had to run over, cam cameron had to run. here comes john harbaugh running down to call a time- out. >> gerry: ravens facing a fourth and inches.

spot now where the officials spot the ball will determine whether or not the drive lives or we see steven hauschka for the first time. >> stan: it's too bad he didn't see todd heap in the back of the end zone. he was wide open. >> gerry: i'm a little surprised they're not going bring in the field goal kicker

>> a final thought from steven pope at cantor fitzgerald. he's been with us for much of the past hour. one of the hot topics of the day -- not the day, maybe the year -- is the bonus culture, particularly in the banking sector. where do you stand on the debate? looks like governments around the world increasingly embroiled in this issue. >> right. understand where governments have taken an investment stake in the bank and are a majority shareholder. they want to keep an oversight role. that's what an extraordinary shareholder would do. where you have an institution not engaged in taking government money, they have to be allowed to pay what the market is dike imitatitatimitatin imitating. if people have performed well, they need to be rewarded. the minute we start cutting back, the people will see compensation elsewhere. >> however, if there are players in a certain industry, like the banking sector, where they've had government intervention to keep them afloat, surely if you say, governments can get involved in pay of banks but not in others

justice stevens, in his concurrence -- his dissent in the decision in fcc versus fox says broadcast and expletives, according to the fcc, in violation of fcc broadcast policy, are not always in the center -- in decent. as he said, as any golfer who has watched a shanked short approach go, it does not mean that the profanity uttered is in decent under fcc rules for describing sex or excrement. but i will return to the first amendment, a first topic. just a few overall observations about the past term. number one, it was not a term for making constitutional law. the only real strict constitutional case in this term was about a tonnage clause. there was a statutory evaluation. the first observation about the term is it that if you edit a constitutional case book, as i do, you are hard pressed to find any cases that made new constitutional law as opposed to avoiding it. it is striking to make that observation when we see that the hearings we just included in the judiciary committee on the nomination of judge sotomayor focused almost entirely on constitutional law. so the first observation t

please welcome, ray stevens.ay, it's good to have you hear or did. [ applause ] >> mike: have a reputation in the music business that has been offered today as one of the nicest guys in the business. it's her last proven true cynic that's nice to hear. thank you. >> mike: i listen to your songs everything from guitars and industry going back to ahab the arab and although songs from way back. some very politically incorrect things. but the song that we want to do with you today is so timely, and have resurrected it and it's available on itunes. i already downloaded i'm having a blast listening -- listening to tonight you're the guy. >> mike: i'm not the only guy. after tonight thousands of people across america. i want them to not only listen to it i want them to get copy and e-mail it. if 10% is good enough for jesus. that's the song. to tell me about the song tonight i first recorded about 20 years ago. and they came out and it was mildly successful, but no big deal. and then time marches on, and so they called

it's my way or the information superhighway. [ laughter ] steven!orrect answer using bing, wins. you got it? good. tonight's question is from the health category. it pertains to one of my major pet peeves around here, the act of calling in sick. now contestants, please take your seats while we all learn a little bit more about calling in sick. ♪ >> calling in sick has been the favorite excuse for ditching work for well over a century. the first recorded instance of calling in sick occurred in mulberry grove, illinois, in 1876, when a young jebediah snow phoned his boss at maxwell saw mill, complaining that he had the whooping cough. but that very afternoon, jebediah's boss' wife spotted him attempting to deposit a sack of fools gold at the first national bank in nearby derbyville. but jebediah's plan failed. he was arrested. thus, losing his freedom, his job and, eventually, his mind. he died a penniless pauper, a babbling lunatic, shunned by society and no longer able to properly distinguish between human being and animal calling in sick? nice try,

eyewitness, arnold stevens, was with us a moment ago.tually staying at the w hotel which has the perfect view of the search-and-rescue. and you also sadly, arnold, had the perfect view of this midair collision between the two aircrafts. so once again give me an idea what you saw. you were on the balcony enjoying the great weather there in lower manhattan. and then you saw this collision. >> yeah, that's right. i was out on the balcony, it is a gorgeous day. partly cloudy. and heard this crash. people started screaming. i looked out and there was a plane with half the wing missing, corkscrewing the into ground, sorry, into the water. and the helicopter just dropped like a rock. and there was debris. and the debris disseminated, over a period of 20 minutes. now you can't see any debris at least from the balcony. i happen to be directly across from the collision site. maybe no more than 300 yard. it was just spectacular, and surreal to see it. >> and the search and -and-resc mission still squununder way. they rescued one person. unclear how

steven colbert. >>> a wildfire rages through a dry forest in los angeles. governor arnold schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency and southern california. more than 1000 firefighters are battling at least five fires the got a handle on the fast-moving blaze but are still battling fires in the san gabriel mountains. >>> students and professors at the university of virginia are taking precautions after several cases of swine flu were reported. four days into the fall semester, nine cases of the virus have been reported on the charlottesville campus. students are being quarantined. >> one of my professors address the issue in class and said if you feel sick, don't come. >> health officials say they will do everything they can to keep students held a great university plans to administer the swine flu vaccine as soon as they get it in mid-october. >>> inspection records for the water in that burst and flooded a bethes wrote last year were thrown out. the broken 66-inch pipe sent a wall of water ross -- washing down river road, trapping people in cars. inspe

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. >>> we're back with an update on steven tyler of aerosmith. he's still recovering in the hospital. wednesday night, he fell from the stage at a concert in south dakota. the 61-year-old, we're told remains in good spirits. >>> and they managed to keep a big smile, a big secret from police. while proving there's some cracks in the intake procedures out there, the man was arrested earlier this week by houston police officers. the man was taken to the city jail and spent a day before being transferred to another jail. after going through intake procedures, he's then taken to the showers. the final step before going to a cell. there the man then tells police he has a weapon. several searches and mees had missed a large gun with two magazines. why? the 600 pound man had the gun tucked away under his layers of fat. >> see, officers lift up and look under. if it's there, it needs to be searched. >> the 25-year-old is now charged with having a prohibited item in a constructional that silt. >>> let's get back to the breaking news. we take you to new yor

this night playing out very favorably for steven hauschka.me after getting treatment for a putt on his forehead. those are stitches you don't mind seeing your offensive lineman earn. >> stan: he's been impressive with his strength, his ability to stay with blocks, his intensity. of course we know he's a great athlete and a big body. >> gerry: hauschka kicked off for a third time. across the 20, and he is lifted up on a pile of ravens and dropped down at about the 23- yard line. antwaan barnes who has shown some great aggressiveness in this first half. and a quarterback change now for the redskins as todd collins, a 15 year veteran, will take over the washington offense. >> stan: i think antwaan barnes has got to show some things. he hasn't quite been able to show those high hopes yet and he's getting more and more competition. >> gerry: it's almost intercepted by antwaan barnes, just singing the praises of how well he's played here in the first half. >> stan: for a 15 year veteran to throw the ball late to the flat, boy, you shouldn't do that

on-line poll and is eager to see if launch. >> this is steven colbert saying, i am go to launch. let's light this candle. >> a sentiment shared by many but when that will have to wait until at least friday morning. >> we are getting a look at the official coast guard report on the water taxi accident. five people were killed. the report says the accident followed an unsafe decision to dock. five people drowned. coast guard investigators say the boat capsized due to a number of reasons. a possible gasoline may be to blame for an underground explosion that sent four manholes into the air. sky team 11 was over the scene downtown. the department of public works were investigating what caused the explosion. tomorrow morning, drivers should be where said utah will be closed at baltimore and lexington streets, and fayette will be closed at howard street. baltimore police are hoping city watch cameras will give clues to a deadly shooting in northwest baltimore. just after 2:00 this afternoon, a man was shot multiple times in the street. authorities say they have very few details, and tha

when steven tyler fell offstage landed in the crowd. tmz posted new video from last night's show in south dakota. tyler sang love in an elevator and fell off the catwalk. the 61-year-old performer broke his shoulder. the band's next show has been postponed. >>> a new doll from a spanish toy company not your betsy wetsy. the toymaker says the doll is to promote breast-feeding and comes with a shirt for girls to wear and the doll latches on to nipple look appliques and makes a sucking noise. some parent say it is not appropriate for young girls. right now only sold in spain. >>>en ocean cyit a man could make a klingagging a giant mainng. he broke a 20-year-old a record, ing inre the 1,062 pound blue iinherl tn white marlin open championship. took him more than three hours to pull it in. thproriz fe f snagging the biggest fish at thi on o tournament is $550,000. >>> so some german tousts in norway took in this sight. a ram got stuck 20 feet in the air. he was grazing with his friends and horns got caught on a wire. as he struggled to get f

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let me read what "washington post" columnist steven pearlstein. "the efforts have been some misleading and disingenuous that they can always bring from a cynical ever to gain partisan political advantage. by poisoning the political well, they have given up any pretense of being a local opposition and have become political terrorists willing to say or do anything to prevent the country from reaching a consensus on one of its most serious domestic problems." >> i think we have to be -- i think that is too broad a brush. there is an element of that. i appreciate what charles is saying. i think code pink does not have a great reputation. these people will not either, this segment of them -- swastikas burning an effigy, horns on the members' faces on big posters. those are the people taking it too far, the ones that steven pearlstein is talking about. beneath that, though, there are real concerns about what this means, and the democrats have not done a good job of making that case. the only now getting their act together, and you'll see if they can pus

let's go to detective lieutenant steven rogers of the nutley, new jersey, police department.k at this timeline again, detective lieutenant. and when you look at it, what would you as an investigator be thinking about from morning to afternoon till 2:26 when he was pronounced dead? and what would you do with that timeline? >> well, i'd actually go way before that timeline. i'd like to know what that doctor was doing, what type of communications was going on, was there any interaction with other doctors. that's what i would be focussing in on right now. >> all right. to dr. joshua perper, chief medical examiner of broward county, i just want to ask you a couple of questions here. if at 12:00 to 12:10, the chef is saying that the doctor came down the stairs yelling and screaming for prince, that is the son, of course, and then not until 12:21 is 911 called, isn't that valuable time right there that allegedly one could say was being wasted? >> absolutely. i think that the moment when they found jackson unconscious, then they should have immediately called the medics and should ha

we have justice ginsberg here, as well as justice stevens. [applause] so i just want to thank both the justice stevens and justice ginsberg, not only for being here today, but for your experience on the court. i know you will give her some good tips. i also want to thank everyone who has worked so hard to bring us to this day. i'll especially want to thank our judiciary committee chairman, senator patrick leahy. [applause] as well as our senate majority leader harry reid, for their outstanding work to -- [applause] for their outstanding work to complete this process before the august recess. i want to thank senator schumer, senator dole brand, both of them home state senators for sotomayor on behalf of their extraordinary work. i want to thank all the members of congress who have taken the time to join us here at the event and want to acknowledge all of the advocates and groups who organized to mobilize in support of these efforts from the very beginning. your worked maybe absolutely -- your work was critical to our success, so pat ourselves

here with me to discuss this is lieutenant steven speaks. general, welcome back to the show. >> it is an honor to be here. >> let's start with what was fcs. on the vehicles secretary gates had them stripped down because he was concerned that the smaller lighter more agile vehicle might not as well suited for an i.e.d. future. what kind of vehicles is the army leaning toward developing for the future? >> i'd like to focus on the importance of what he told us. he affirmed critical elements of our strategy. he said spin-outs were the way we ought to deal with the force and spin-outs for those, we're taking capabilities and giving them into formations before they go into combats. they train and deploy those capabilities. he said the network was important he wanted us to accelerate this new way to communicate and expand the number of brigades it will go do, get it done faster. the other thing he told us was to take a careful look at mrap. to make sure we had a plan to put it into the force. although we're using extensively in iraq we didn't show

. >>> aerosmith's front man steven tyler may have been living it up too much when he was going down on the concert stage. ironically, he had been singing those lyrics from "love in an elevator" when he fell. this was at the sturgis motorcycle rally in south dakota. he was airlifted to the hospital with minor head, neck, and shoulder injuries. it's not clear how serious they are. a security adviser though says the 61-year-old was dancing, fell backward off the stage and fell on to a couple of fans, apparently. >>> john edwards' former mistress is testifying before a grand jury today in north carolina. federal investigators are looking into the campaign finances of the former senator and two-time presidential candidate. edwards had admitted having an of pe affair with her. his political action committee paid her for photography work. she arrived today, carrying a young child. edwards has denied that he is the father of that child. >>> if it's freedom of speech or a violation of church and state ? how one name in a city council invocation resulted in some heated words. . >>> the city coun

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from mexico city, the bbc's steven gibbs. >> he was brought from church straight to police custody. miguel angel barrasa here on the left was at a mass with 40 members of his family and associates when he was captured. he is accused of being a key logistics man in the hugely profitable business of the trafficking of methamphetamine to the united states. >> threats of latroka was functioning as the top operator introducing the synthetic drug known as ice or crystal meth from mexico into the united states using the routes of tijuana to san diego and then later, los angeles, el paso, texas, houston, and from there to atlanta. in one month, he sent up to half a metric ton of crystal or ice to the united states. mexican drug cartels are increasingly diversifying their operations into the production and export of methamphetamine, which has the advantage of cocaine, but it can be produced locally. its supply is believed to be a core business of the familia cartel which is based in the western state. last month after one of its leaders was arrested, the cartel went on the offensive, targeti