along with sydney thomas. the president of iran says he thinks osama bin laden is in washington, d.c. mahmoud ahmadinejad sat down for an exclusive interview "good morning america, coke and he was asked about rumors that osama bin laden is living in iran. >> if you did note that osama bin laden was in tehran, would you show him hospitality? >> i heard that osama bin laden is in washington, d.c. >> no, you did not. >> yes, i did. he he was a colleague of mr. bush in the old days. mr. been lawton -- mr. bin laden ever cooperated with iran. >> he said iran will defend itself against any hostilities. >>> and look at these clashes in the streets of athens today. tens of thousands of greeks are protesting harsh new spending cuts aimed at saving that country from bankruptcy. some protesters threw rocks at police, who then responded with tear gas. meantime, a massive strike has paralyzed that country, stopping all flights, trains, and even ferries. the imf and others are giving billions to keep grease from toppling in

rothschild, an heir to the banking family fortune is about halfway on his voyage from san francisco to sydneylia, a voyage meant to focus attention to the damage plastic is doing to the oceans what is this? >> it's a plastiki. >> the plastiki was still being built in a san francisco warehouse when we first met him largely composed recycled plastic water bottles. >> we have 12 and a half thousand of these bottles. >> reporter: in all, de rothschild spent more than three years designing and building the plastiki. before it was ready for testing on sa san francisco bay. >> it doesn't get much better than this. a beautiful sunny day in san francisco. >> reporter: originally, the plastic bottles were going to provide the entire flotation for this boat. that didn't quite work out so about 70% of the buoyancy of the plastiki comes from these recycled plastic bottles. you're in a war against plastic but this is a plastic boat. >> that's correct. the water bottles, the soda bottles, liz, what we're trying to advocate is smart material, smart use of plastic. >> reporter: now, 10 weeks into the voyage a

an amazing journey comes to a close in sydney as a 16-year-old girl returns home after being the youngestor to circle the globe by herself non-stop and entirely unasitted. watson had these words for young people the world over -- >> you don't have to be someone special or anything special to do something amazing. you just got to have a dream, believe in it and work hard. >> that's a wrap on the fox trip around the world in 80 seconds! >> ainsley: tomorrow, 220 miles above our heads, the space shuttle atlantis is docking with the international space station. but atlantis' final mission hits a snag ahead of the rendezvous and now there is word something else flying through space might be heading ward the space station. that -- heading toward the space station. that's coming up. they risked as much as the male counterparts and now there is a fresh push to serve their needs long after their service to the country ends. giving female veterans their just dessert. that's next. >> ainsley: the crew of atlantis just settled down for the night after the six astronauts on board spent their first ful

i put on my reporters hat and interviewed some folks, sydney cooper, the jewish store owner from back in the neighborhood. i interviewed his aunt, aunt laura and aunt rose who's no longer with us to fill in the gap. i interviewed his first wife give some color for their wedding and fill in some of the blanks and to describe anna the woman who gerald left his first wife sheila for. and sheila put on her journalist hat and graciously answered my questions. i did a little work. but it was for the most part gerald's book. these are his words and his story. >> it sounds a little tricky some of the interviews you had to do. >> they were a challenge. but all in the name of good journalism. >> tell us about yourself, robin stone. >> well, i'm a journalist. for about 20 some odd years in the business. and gerald used to say i couldn't keep a job. i worked at several newspapers including the "new york times," the "boston globe," the "detroit free press," magazines including "essence" magazine and health magazine, developed "essence" website, essence.com. i've done a number of things. i'm an aut

my daughter was a talented writer and while she was living on julian street, sydney a chapter from a novel she had been running which gave me a parental idea. as she finished the novel, it might be the path to better paying career. one with health benefits, which were sorely lacking in her present job that even as she was able to our clinic as a novelist, there were other jobs, editing, teaching, to which this could provide a day would. so i called her and told her my plans, and also urged her to write faster so she could produce a volume of work, which i knew from my own experience was what agents and publishers were looking for. when i suggested this, it was a silence on the other end of the line. i realize i probably pushed too hard. i discovered how hard what i didn't get to see another page of the novel for the next 20 years. i discovered why, when she told me about a story she had written and read in public. and i asked her why she hadn't shown it to me. there was a silent beep, and then she said, right after. rabbi lou was her counsel and guide and in helping her to wrestle wi

. >> sydney milken's of the university of west virginia recounts theodore roosevelt's campaign for theundation in washington d.c. coasts the hour and a half event. >> welcome to the heritage foundation. i'm director of lectures and seminars and it is my privilege to welcome you. we welcome those who did join us on the heritage.org web site so they can submit questions in the presentation e-mailing us at

. >> sydney mills this is rather of the president and the party, assistant director of academic problemst the miller center of public affairs. a politics professor at the university of virginia. >> author and columnist and five time presidential candidate pat buchanan on conservative ideology in today's political climate. he will take your calls for three hours on sunday live at noon on c-span 2. from newsweek's los angeles times festival of books charles kessler, editor of the claremont review of books discusses

and three or four chapters and have the books circulated the manuscript among my colleagues and the sydney to splinter this off and do the book on just reagan's face. so that became god and ronald reagan and then later about three years after that we released a crusader ronald reagan and the fall of communism which was more generally about reagan's role in the end of the cold war and that term the crusader was also surprised because i found out in reading soviet archives and soviet media archives the soviets called them the crusader and the call them that because he knew he wanted to crusade for freedom. crusade in the sense how fdr used the word and eisenhower used the word so that was i guess one of my ronald reagan's closest adviser on the judge william p. clark ronald reagan's b5 top hand here's somebody still alive, he is 78-years-old, 79 this year, lives in california, has parkinson's disease and he was reagan's it sounds dramatic but he was the secret weapon so to speak. he was a man who for all of 1982 and '83 worked at reagan's national security council and laid out the paper trai

on to a trailblazer of a different kind. 16-year-old jessica watson sailed to sydney harbor after spending z ining seven months a and is now the youngest person to sail solo non-stop and unassisted around the world. the journey took her across the pacific, atlantic and indian ocean. >>> today is armed forces day, which is celebrated the third saturday every may. armed services day created in 1949 to honor five branchs of the u.s. military -- army, navy, marines, air force, and the coast guard. earlier in week, afghan president hamid karzai visited arlington national cemetery where many of our american warriors killed in his country are laid to rest. mike emanuel looks at the human toll of the afghan war. >> reporter: at articling top national cemetery, afghan president hamid karzai paid respects to fallen american troops. karzai and other v.i.p.s walked section 60, what is frequently called "the saddest acre in america." where troops killed in afghanistan, and other conflicts are laid to rest. the afghan leaders spent extra time at the graves of two of the almost 1,000 american troops who

then carl invited me to join him at church and it was there that i met my future wife, sydney was 15 and i was 17 on our first date and our first date was with carl white and his future wife, frances. and those are special memories. we've been in each other's weddings, we've bn dear friends now for almost 40 years and, madam speaker, i want to say what a profound impact that carl white has had in my life and how we thank him for the service to his pastoring the folkses in his church and may god -- folks in his church and may god bless him. the speaker: t chair will entertain up to 10 further requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from oregon rise? >> address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> america has tremendous potential for renewable energy protection. these are the jobs of our future. one of the most important renewable energy sources for oregon that binds rural and urban communities is forestry and agricultural byproducts, otherwise known as renewable biomass. unfortunately it would

. >> youngest person to sail by herself around the world. 16 year old jessica watson returned to sydneye traveled 23,000 nautical miles and she was gone for sen months and knocked down by waves. >> unbelievable. cane years old. >> where are her parentings. >> mom and dad i am going. >> the weather had to cooperate to make that happen. >> it didn't if you were gone for seven months. >> totally by herself. >> wow, and we wonder about the kids doing dances. >> she is like columbus. >> they were keeping an eye on her. >> here is the weather picture. eastern part of the country looking nice. we have troubles in the atlantic. these areas down south. we had a crout in texas. that is wiped off. that is the rainy spot. out west things are looking good. we have more trouble for severe weather. monday, all of the problems in hit in oklahoma. today we'll see it in areas of texas . have tornados likely . parts of the midatlantic as the day heats up. this front is talled and that's why all along the area we'll see more rain and storms and couple of areas of flash flooding in texas and arkansas as wel