mutanabbi street also holds cafes, stationary shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. it has been the heart and soul of the baghdad literary and intellectual community. this tragedy is part of a wider and continuing tragedy, but one that we want to isolate and address, not only for the loss of lives but also for the implications underlying the destruction of a street where books were sold. book selling on mutanabbi street is no different from book selling here. we traffic in memory, ideas and dreams. in that sense, we feel that mutanabbi street starts at the front door of all of our book shops. mutanabbi street starts here. our first reader will be sinan anton. >> when i was torn by war, i took a brush immersed in death, and drew a window on war's wall. i opened it, searching for something, but all i saw was another war and a mother weaving a shroud for the dead man still in her womb. there was a photograph of an iraqi boy on the front page of the "new york times". he sat on the edge of the truck, 8 or 9 years old, surrounded by his family, his father, mother , and 5 s

. >> how about a date at a tea shop? when they put it out it looks like it is not enough to fill you up, but we actually had to bring some home. there was one tea that actually had peppercorns in it. check out the weather across the region today. slippery conditions this morning but it cleared out nicely in the afternoon. lots of sunshine and mild temperatures. you can see the path movement of that storm system that rolled through here last night. it put down an inch or two of snow in the northern suburbs and then it was gone. the moisture left behind created the slippery conditions this morning. another one passes by tomorrow night and then an arctic front arrives tomorrow night. 49 degrees for the high today, 45 is the average. 70 is the record high set in 1990. daylow zero on valentine's was the record. columbia at 45 degrees. tonight it will not be all that cold, 26-33. light southerly winds at 5 miles an hour and cloud cover starting to come in later tonight. western maryland, if you are going out for the week any be

. >>> tea party group has apologized for sending out a e-mail that was photo shopped to make karl rove look like a nazi to help raise funds. >>> choosing candy crowley to moderate the second debate was a mistake, crowley was blasted by conservatives for challenging mitt romney. >>> in facebook town hall meeting tuesday, vice president joe biden talked about white house gun control efforts. following the school shooting in newtown, connects cut. the best thing for protection is a shotgun. >> put that double barrelled shotgun and fired two blast outside the house. you don't need a ar-15, it's harder to aim, it's harder to use and in fact, you don't need 30 rounds to protect yourself. buy a shotgun. >> all right. that's your morning dish of "scrambled politics." >>> turk now to the weather a big snowstorm is headed for the middle of the country and for more on that is bill karins. >> this continues our active february. it looks like this storm is going to hit the midwest wednesday/thursday. all eyes now are on the storm exiting california, and head through the desert southwest. this one i

the coffee shop named star boxer served starbucks coffee, tea, and smoothies. starbucks baristas came aboard the boxer to train the crew members on how to operate the starbucks machines. i mean, i guess somebody can order that coffee with extra steam. >> maybe so. so many different sizes and different ways to get it. we'll see what happens with that. storm team 4 tom huron here to tell us about the snow that may be hitting some of us? >> it's going to be some of them. not many at all. we'll have a lot of rain moving in by the afternoon. we've had a few scattered sprinkles trying to reach the ground. look at this photo of this cloud passing over maryland. this was taken by veronica johnson just a few minutes ago. it's a mammatus cloud that usually gives indication rain is on the way. send your pictures to weather@nbcwashington.com. that is stra toe cumulus and we we have a cloudy sky at the airport. mid-40s by 4:00 p.m. and little light rain into 6:00 p.m. maybe the rain coming down steadier by 6:00 p.m. down to the upper 30s by then. after that is when we may s

. >> the tea party they're teaching a class at the new school photo shopping naziism because they were hitler mustaches on obama. >> john: it comes back to the immigration. they have driven a wedge between the right wing and really right wing and it seems to be working. >> maybe there be another party. >> they're renaming it the kkk party. >> let's hear what they got to say. >> john: my panel stays with me after the break when i look at a poor, long suffering public figure who gives so much and only asks that you ignore everything that he has ever done. after this. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> john: welcome back. we need two segments for they can panels. a quick question. which person in the news is having the hardest time right now. sherrod? >> easy, blade runner. south african to do, no-leg runner. we're cheering for him u no legs and he's winning medal. now he's doing what we all dream we could do. >> what are you talking about. >> when he was representing his country. now-- >> oh, now. >> john: think oscar pistorius. >> i have to agree with sherrod. i could not think of anyone else except for

they shop for beverages, they might buy pepsi, gatorade, lipton tea, root beer, energy drinks, bottled water, if there health-conscious they might buy naked juice. for breakfast they might buy captain crunch breakfast cereal, and jemima, meals and snacks they might buy lay's potato chips, sun chips, cracker jacks, burritos or ruffles. what the consumer probably doesn't realize is all of those brands are owned by pepsi. pepsi is the largest food company in the united states if you want to call those items food and it is the second-largest in the world. they might buy a nasty product. and won't go through all the nasty --nestle brands. they had $10.5 billion in profit. patty had $6.4 billion in profit. nestle is the biggest producer in the country. we have just a few companies that are controlling all of those brands. 20 companies controlled highest percentage of brands in the grocery store and of those, 14 of those brands control organic food. so big food is controlling what people see. then the grossly conglomerate, walmart leads the pack along with kroger, wal-mart is by far the large

so yesterday the tea party patriots, a well established group within that muchlovement,t out a message with this photo shoppedn a nazi uniform. the e-mail subject line read "wipe the smirk off karl rove's" face. the tea party patriots say this was a mistake purpoerpetrated b vendor and have since apologized to mr. rove. but it is much more serious than a mistake. it is reprehensible that anyone in full possession of their faculties would employ naziism for political purposes, except, that is, this is something that the tea party and a number of other conservatives have been doing for ages. you may recall this billboard which was designed and paid for by the north iowa tea party and featured the president alongside hitler just over two years ago. and this was rush limbaugh during the presidential campaign last year. >> what was hitler more concerned with? propaganda. did hitler succeed for a time? yeah. he did. what was clinton more concerned with, truth or propaganda? what's obama more concerned with, truth or propaganda? >> so, it would appear that invoking hitler and the philosophy that led directly to the

since they shop for beverages, they might buy a pepsi, gatorade, tropicana, lipton tea from the sierra mist, mug root here, it can't energy, bottled water if they're health-conscious they might die choose peer for breakfast they might buy cap'n crunch, quaker cereal, and jemima's, puffed wheat free meals and snacks. raisa rony, lays potato chips, sun chips, cheetos, cracker jacks, dupree does a ruffles. but the consumer probably doesn't realize, that all of those brands are owned by pepsi. pepsi is the largest food company in the united states if you want to call those items to and it's the second largest in the world. or they might imsa product. i won't go throughout the nestÉe brands, but nicely peddles about 6000 brands. they had 94 billion in sales and 10.5 billion in profits. pepsi had about 6.4 billion in profits because nestlÉ is the biggest hoot company in the world and not just in the u.s. so basically in every subset sector as the food industry, we have just a few comp names that are controlling all of those brands. 20 companies control the highest percentage of grants in the

corners but now they have debuted the first shop on a navy warship, sailors on the ship can enjoy starbucks coffee at "star boxer" with the signature coffee drinks, tea and smothie and run by the navy with profits going to the welfare and recreation sunday. starbucks employees trained the officers as barristas. >> police in the south bay find bombmaking material in a man's home. what neighbors are saying about his bizarre behavior. >> the manhunt for christopher dorner leads to a shoot out and a fire. we are live >> live from the kgo-tv broadcast center this is abc7 news. >> good morning, everyone, 5:00 a.m. on wednesday. it has been a busy news overnight. >> we will begin with the developing news, investigators have located char human remains in the debris of the burned out southern california cabin where they believe a suspected police killer was holed up. and now, live from los angeles with the latest. randy? >> good morning, authorities not confirming if the remains found at the scene belong to christopher dorner but many are hopeful the terror could be over. >> it is a volatile situation. >> the manhunt for christopher dorner centers on a burned

as they shop for beverages they might buy pepsi, gatorade, tropicana, lipton tea, sierra missed, and energy, michael phoenix, bottled water. if they're health-conscious they might buy juice for breakfast, by captain crunch, quaker cereal, and jemima, for meals and snacks they might buy rice are ready to my respited chips, chips, cracker jacks, hickory sticks, ontario's to more ruffles. what the consumer probably does not realize is that all of those brands are owned by pepsi. pepsi is the largest food company in the united states if you want to call those items food, and it is the second-largest in the world, or they might buy a nestle's product, and that won't go through all the brands. the panel about 6,000 brands. 94 billion in sales. pepsi had 64 billion in profits because leslie is the biggest food company in the world, not just the u.s. basically in every subset, sector of the food industry we have just a few companies that are controlling all of those brands. twenty companies control the highest percentage of brands in the grocery store. of those, 14 of those brands control or

they photo shopped his face on to one of a real nazi. five hours after the tea party patriots sent out that picture of karl rove as a nazi, the group said of course they didn't mean to send out a picture of karl rove dressed as a nazi, and it was all just a big misunderstanding. apologies. but the intraparty fighting on the right is starting to feel like it's more typically hyperbolic and entertaining. it is starting to feel like it might be important, if only it seems like it is not ebbing. it is not going away over time. it seems to be getting worse, and because it is starting to crawl out of the danker right-wing corners of direct mail and the internet to start showing itself under the bright lights of the morning network news shows. >> i was very specifically saying that in a newsletter people can get at gingrichproductions.com, that the idea karl rove has of creating some superpac to go out and basically pick republican senate nominees, for example, is a terrible idea. we don't want to become a party in which a handful of political bosses gather up money fr

a tea party group is apologizing to rove after a fund raising e-mail went out that showed him photo shoppedzi uniform. they say it was a vendor error and the image was inappropriate. while we may have strong disagreements with him on future of conservatism, we want to be clear this imagery is absolutely unacceptable and are working to ensure this type of mistake doesn't happen again. let me bring in former pennsylvania governor and nbc news political analysts ed rendell and republican strategist and santorum senior strategist john braybender. >> the republican party has to understand it's been two months since the election and mourning period is over and it's time to stop the infighting. second of all, a lot of this is miscommunications, he is misrepresenting what karl rove actually said. what rove is saying, we no longer should pick a candidate because they can check off the box they believe everything that the tea party does if they are not going to be a good candidate. we have to find conservative candidates who can win in november. our messaging is way off, instead of fighting each othe

tea, that's all i eat. >> you better go shopping today. >> anyway, brian shactman's here. >> i don't want to interrupt thisod. maker's mark reversed their decision, by the way, on alcohol, and there's no indication of any horse meat in the u.s. ikea meatballs. >> thank god! >> so they say. >> so you're telling me i'm going to have to go to europe if i want horse meat? so let us finally lower the flag on american supremacy. market down, 8:36, east coast time. >> there's a class action lawsuit in california and a few states are expected to follow against ab imbev, the maker of becau budweiser, claiming they're watering down their beer, and basically saying it's an institutional decision, that they're aware they're deceiving customers. they say that they have anecdotes from employees, but they don't have scientific info. they're looking for at least $5 million. and amb imbev just reported their earrings, actually, and for the first time since 2008, they reported increased volume. this could be a really bad story for their trademark. >> so who did we sell -- what country took over budweiser? >> brazil, isn't i

shopped image featuring karl rove in a nazi uniform. the e-mail subject line read "wipe the smirk off karl rove's" face. the tea party patriots say this was a mistake purpoerpetrated b vendor and have since apologized to mr. rove. but it is much more serious than a mistake. it is reprehensible that anyone in full possession of their faculties would employ naziism for political purposes, except, that is, this is something that the tea party and a number of other conservatives have been doing for ages. you may recall this billboard which was designed and paid for by the north iowa tea party and featured the president alongside hitler just over two years ago. and this was rush limbaugh during the presidential campaign last year. >> what was hitler more concerned with? propaganda. did hitler succeed for a time? yeah. he did. what was clinton more concerned with, truth or propaganda? what's obama more concerned with, truth or propaganda? >> so, it would appear that invoking hitler and the philosophy that led directly to the holocaust is perfectly fine when it's applied to the president but not when it comes to karl

. >>> the tea party patriots are apologizing to karl rove after sending out a fund-raising e-mail. look at this, it feature as photo shoppedzi uniform. the group opposes rove's plan to defeat conservative primary candidates who he believes can't win in general elections. rove says that he accepts the apology. >> just kind of one of those thing that's never okay. >> no. >>> 36 after the hour. vice president joe biden working hard to advance new gun control legislation including a possible assault weapons ban, but he's not opposed to americans keeping a shotgun for protection. in fact he recommends a 12 gauge model. listen. >> if you want to protect yourself, get a double barrel shotgun, have the shells a 12 gauge shotgun, fire two blasts outside the house. i promise you, whoever is coming in is not -- you don't need an ar-15. >> this is a story he's told before. in and online chat, the vice president says he does not support any changes to the second amendment of the constitution. >>> and coming up, senator john mccain uncut. >> but occasionally i get adrift. so thank you. >> find out what the testy exchange is about just a

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