the diplomats did not want the united nations to be within the influential realm of the national capital. philadelphians never thought of themselves as being close to washington d.c. we still don't. they didn't take it very well when they got this news from the united nations. they says hello mom, we was robbed rabid harasser claudio figure philadelphia again been unfairly treated by so they thought by the united nations. all was not lost. the loco and explain this because as the diplomats looked for sites and they went to decipher the numbers are here, they did find a place that they liked. but if all the hundreds of communities that want to become the capital of the world, they chose one of the few that wanted to have nothing to do with it. they chose initially a site in fairfield county, connecticut, involving parts of greenwich and purses stanford. stanford wanted to write the u.n. and the dead, but no nice to people of greenwich. the united nations encountered so much resistance in that particular location in the two adjoining counties north of new york that they had to go shopping

the diplomats did not want the united nations to be in the influential realm of the national capital. the philadelphias never thought of themselves that way. but they did not take very well when they got this news from the united nations. hello. we was robbed. here is our colonial figure philadelphia. [laughter] being unfairly treated or so they thought by the united nations. but all was not lost. and i will go back to the map to explain this because as the that the met -- diplomats look to the sites they did find a place they liked but of all the hundreds of communities that wanted to become the capital of the world, they chose one of the few locations that wanted to have nothing to do with it. [laughter] they chose initially fairfield county connecticut involving parts of greenwich and stamford it had wanted to invite the human and they did but nobody asks the people of greenwich united nations encountered so much resistance in the suburbs north of new york with a particular location than that to adjoining counties north of new york that they had to go shopping again. they went look

the national labor relations act was passed in the mid 1930's, and the national labor relations board, five members, three from the majority party and two the minority party are to act as a fair arbiter. basically the referee for disputes. and there was a ruling of the supreme court not long ago that said that two members, one democrat, one republican, both who agreed on over 600 decisions, that a quorum was not present and all of those decisions had to be thrown out. therein calls the question. the president made a pro forma recess appointment. presidents as has been stated here many times have made recess appointments to various boards and they have the constitutional right to do that, but no president has ever made a recess appointment during a pro forma session. let me read here from the senate across-the-board -- congressional record, november 16, 2007. this is leader reid, mr. president, the senate will be coming into pro forma session during the thanksgiving holiday to prevent recess appointments. the recent ruling of noel canning stated that the appointments were unconstitutio

for the work we do in the national park service, really the steward of our nation's really most cherished cultural and natural resources. we look forward to working with you through as we prepare for the second century of stewardship and public engagement which is really 2016. the national park service like all the federal bureau began formulating the '14 budget well before sequestration. before it became inevitable. we formulated our request based on fiscal' 12 level. unaware by 2013 we have to cut the operating budget by 6%. this 6% cut as a result of the 5% reduction required by sequestration followed by additional 1% of the cr. it budgets incremental changing for the '12 funding level it remains a good rent representation. it reflects some of the difficult addition we knew we would have to make in the austere budget climate. the 2014 budget requests $1.34 billion. increasing funding for emerging operational needs while ensuring fiscal discipline by some park and program operations construction, heritage partnership program and state conservation grant. it includes an estimated 4. 9 ma

nation. have we reached the point where the war on whistleblowers that you document in this movie and the national security state associated with it or the seems to be driving it if from what you're saying is actually acting contrary to the interests of the united states in terms of national security well certainly it's an important question to raise it's an important conversation to have what we know for a fact is the national security state is not just getting bigger and bigger but the profit motive. and central of so much of this back to eisenhower as a warning well there you go and there's a truth to it and then you have bureaucracy run amok politics aside it's the nature of certain kinds of bureaucracy they spread and they get bigger and bigger and bigger and they trying to take everything in and we're seeing the results of that you know the what what we don't understand and what we try to do in the film is connect it with your daily life so the ability to pick up a newspaper and read a great investigative piece exposing fraud or corruption but where your tax dollars are going that's going to

but the nationals are a trendy pick. thing about the romance of baseball, the radio has a lot to do with it. baseball is the one sport where you can drink a glass of lemonade on the porch in july, list ton the game on radio and follow along. the other sports you think you got to watch. >> can i ask a question of you. have you ever seen, when is the last time you saw a yankees team with this many question marks or potentially this bad? >> well i was in six in 1965, that's the last time the yankees were morific, that was the great team that was so good from 25 to 64 and then 65, they marist got old and the yankees are a terrible teex. i'm a yankee hater. >> howard how does that make you feel? >> we've had 20 years of really outstanding successes. i really can't complain. i grew up in the city as a yankees fan. i grew up becoming a fan when they were bad. i got to see them when they were good in the late '70s when we consistently beat the red sox. >> like 70 years running when they beat the red sox. >> and in the last joe t

lived right across the border there and. that was a national security state gone you know run amok you know east germany everybody was spied on everybody else everybody was there all the. while how did we get there or how why are we moving in i mean i don't think there's any american who doesn't want us to have a secure nation. have we reached the point where the war on whistleblowers that you document in this movie and the national security state associated with it or the seems to be driving it if from what you're saying is actually acting contrary to the interests of the united states in terms of national security well certainly it's an important question to raise it's an important conversation to have what we know for a fact is the national security state is not just getting bigger and bigger but the profit motive as a central of so much of this or back to eisenhower as a warning well there you go and there's a truth to it and then you have bureaucracy run amok politics aside it's the nature of certain kinds of bureaucracy they spread and th

the national guard is securing the crime scene.eads the investigation and the search for suspects. >> a massive effort under way this morning to find out who was responsible for the deadly attack. >> fragments in the exploded bombs will be key to determining how these crude device were put together. abc's senior justice correspondent pierre thomas following the investigation. >> reporter: it is dramatic videos like this and this, captured at the scene of the horrific blast that investigators will be combing through for clues of what happened. two bomb bombs exploding within seconds of each other and only 100 yards apart. the bombs were small, portable devices that could have been carried in a backpack, he's lis concealed among the thousands of spectators. that's what makes this investigation so difficult. authorities say there are no suspects, the bombs caused terrible injuries and hospitals reported seeing shrapnel wounds. >> there's a lot of small metal debris. some people have -- have asked already about whether these were bbs o

>> yeah, i wanted to comment on operatability within the california national guard. they worked really well within the framework that we established with cal fire and then beyond that throughout the national guard and the army, all of our aviators train to the same standards so really we're able to integrate any aircrew from any state, any component, into our program at any time because we're operating you noah cording you know, according to the same standards. back in 2008 we had a very large fire event here in california and we aircraft from 22 states responding to that. there is capabili

obama spoke to the nation twice within 24 hours of the attack. he told his staff he didn't want to wait before speaking publicly and the white house posted photos on flickr of his oval office meetings with national security advisors on the investigation. on thursday, today, he and first lady michelle obama -- >> we'll leave this here and take you live to the capitol. speaker john boehner will talk to reporters. the house expected to gavel back in shortly. live here on c-span. >> the president's up there today and i add my prayers to his. here in the nation's capital envelopes of -- full of ricin were sent to congress and to the president. all of us who serve and work here in the capitol, that would include members, staff, reporters, i think a special thanks to the capitol police, the sergeant at arms office, and our chief administrative officer . thanks to the skill and dedication of the men and women who work here, and their outstanding teams, the system worked as it was designed to work. as a result potentially deadly went nce was detected and

that's been the strength of the national rifle association. successful political movement. it is something we must all do all the time, in every way we can. no political movement worth its -- whims of the day. a successful organization meets the needs and the policy goals. there this last election, n.r.a. was criticized, particularly in the media because wayne lapierre and i and chris cox eerns went around saying if -- and i went around saying if barack obama won a second term he would threaten the rights of american. we were told that was a ridiculous view. chris mathews suggested on the air that wayne lapierre was insane to suggest that. during the campaign, the president said i will never take your rifle, i will never take your shotgun, i will never take your side arm, i'm a believer in the second peament i why i did not like that comment, it meant he had to go against everything he ever said in his political life and every action he has ever taken, even before he was elected to political office. i did want think he believed it. i received l

the california national guard as mentioned is the largest in the nation under 54 states and territories. we're the largest by far. and we have a broad spectrum of capabilities that range from on the low end manpower where we can deploy troops for either security missions or firefighting hand crew missions all the way up to the high end where we have a wing, we also have space station systems we can employ and support civil authorities at the direction of the governor. we're the experienced national guard force. we do some sort of civil support emergency response system every three days in california. we support the governor, mainly law enforcement and the fire services here in the state. we tend to do more emergency missions every year than any of the 53 states and territories combined. so, we have quite a bit of experience. with that experience has come a wealth of relationship building that's key to success and any disaster response is being able to work with the inter agency. we're in a unique position because in addition to my federal responsibilities for commanding both the army an

a mess on tap here across the nation's midsection. broad upper level low pressure system, a pocket of cold air moving eastward running into the warm humid air bottomed up in the plains. typical setup for severe weather outbreak is what we're expecting. today, tonight, the storms in the central and southern plains on into the tennessee valley into wednesday. damaging wind gusts and large hail and tornadoes all on the table here. this while we're dealing with snowfall moving out of the front range of the rockies into the northern plains spreading eastward here through the day. traffic going to come to a standstill in many cases. up to two feet of snow expected from this system, especially wyoming into nebraska. john and marci, back to you. >> thank you, jim. >> time now for the rest of the weather from across the nation. up to 25 degrees warmer than normal here in the northeast. summer-like in the south. showers around detroit and chicago. chilly rain in the twin cities, scattered showers around seattle, windy in the southwest from south

the resulting national debt is at more than $16 trillion. stephen bell, a senior director of the bipartisan policy desk says that the debt has been accumulating so much that the economy is at a high risk. >> our debt is the percentage of gdp. in the last 30 or 40 years, it >> our debt is the percentage of g inr yearst has en less than 40%. itly in recent years that we have seen it climb. the fact is we are entering dangerous territory. >> deborah solomon of the "bloomberg view" says that the policymakers are arguing and debating over causes but missing the main culprit -- a shellshocked u.s. economy. >> joshua gordon says that the deficit is continuing to expand because of job loss, causing less revenue and more spending on aid programs. >> you have a large deficit for four years because you have low revenues and people don't have jobs, or they're getting paid less. but also we have this mandatory spending program, which grow on autopilot. unemployment compensation, food stamps programs, medicaid-- they

>> yeah, i wanted to comment on operatability within the california national guard. they worked really well within the framework that we established with cal fire and then beyond that throughout the national guard and the army, all of our aviators train to the same standards so really we're able to integrate any aircrew from any state, any component, into our program at any time because we're operating you noah cording you know, according to the same standards. back in 2008 we had a very large fire event here in california and we aircraft from 22 states responding to that. there is capability to respond within the national guard alone and we have started developing relationships with our title 10 partners, we do similar academics every year like they do so i think that helps generate interoperatability amongst the title 10 and title 32 assets within the state as well. >> well, i don't know about you all but i feel pretty comfortable going into this fire season. it sounds like we have a pretty integrated group not only within the military capability you but state and l

it captures the imagination of the nation. through the turbulent history, it has been movement and the power of movements. franklin roosevelt was moved by later movements. lyndon johnson had the civil rights movement. i think we begin with that. this book comes out at a moment when the country sees the power and possibility of occupy, 99%, and how that has shifted. it is still evolving. it has shifted the center of political gravity of our dialogue. the issue has been off the radar for so long. >> roosevelt surfed and harnessed those movements. he used them to get legislation passed to initiate programs. obama is still getting on his wet suit. to read the essay she wrote in 2008, there was a sense of exhibits -- exuberance. you say that hope is not optimism that expects things to turn out well. it seems like he confused those two things. >> i will come back to what i write about in the book. the expectations were so great and high. go back to 2008. the back to the election and year when we are fortunate region were fortunate en

every year at the end of our national convention, we have the leaders of various national civil rights groups join us to talk about what they have done and we have done in the preceding year, what we have not been table

and the nation. third i think secretary steven to i think if he's brought new ideas and new ways of doing business. and finally my family for their steadfast support and in particular my wife who we have already met. i would now like to take a moment to describe for the committee some of the experience that if confirmed i will apply to the missionaries under the secretary of energy. i've been at the faculty since 1973 as a sissy director and the office of science and technology policy and as the dod undersecretary and these have given me a very deep appreciation to the importance of american leadership and science. if confirmed i will work with the community and the congress to ensure to the researchers have continuing access to cutting edge research tools for scientific discovery and training the next generation. energy technology and policy. since 2001 when i returned to mit from the department of energy my principal focus has been at the intersection of energy technology and policy especially rese

the u.s. national archives since it owns searches to the wood where he weeks following that revelation we've looked closely at what else was going on and in fact as kristen said from two thousand and six. it became apparent that the u.s. national archives had reversed course of the case over fifty five thousand pages of material that in the great analysis done by the national security archive say a group run out of george washington university we have pulled together two million documents two hundred fifty thousand documents from a previous release cable guy one point seven million documents pulled from the national archives and put them together. into an integrated format so does he who controls the past also control the future well i was joined by wiki leaks post spokesperson kristen robinson earlier today and i asked him to break down what these leaks actually mean and why they're so important take a listen. well i mean they are declassified in these documents but they are very hard to access so the

at the united nations, the global arms trade treaty passed calling for all nations involved to keep recordsf all arms transfers and suggests these records include information of end user ors private owners or as we call them in this country, citizens. the records would be kept in what the united nations calls, a, quote, international secretary yat, sparking fears that information on american gun owners would be publicly available around the world. congressional republicans have vowed to block ratification. meanwhile, congresswoman of new york pushes congress to pass a bill to require gun owners to buy insurance policy or face a $10,000 fine. similar proposals have failein the states of california, connecticut, maryland, massachusetts, new york, and illinois, all traditionally left leaning states. also, re tonight, the dow jones industrial average and s&p 500 moving to record highs. wall street veteran joining us to give us an analysis of how high the market will go, one of the country's leading hedge fund executives. a bomb shell in the case today as well. the wrongful death trial of michae

the national debt is that more and $16 trillion. the senior director of the bipartisan policy desk says that the debt has been acutely living so much that the economy is on hiring. >> our debt is the percentage of gdp. in the last 30 or 40 years has in less than 40%. it is only in recent years that we have seen a client. the fact is, we are in dangerous territory. that thesullivan says policymakers are arguing and debating but missing the main shellshocked u.s. economy. >> joshua gordon says that the deficit is continuing to expand because of job loss, creating less revenue and more spending on aid programs. >> you have a large deficit for four years because you have low revenues and people don't have paid or they're getting less. but also we have this mandatory spending program, which grow on autopilot. food stamps programs, medicaid, based on a limited economy is bad. >> the entire financial crisis is unclear. >> i think that the underlying issues of the financial crisis have not been fixed at all. maybe they can never be fixed. to

the last thing the world needs is more nuclear nations at the very time the nuclear nations are trying to reduce their current number of nuclear weapons and control this danger. secondly, we face the question of iran. iran knows very well it has an opportunity this weekend. the iranian people are great people. they have a long history. many times longer than the united states of america. thousands of years. they have an ability to rejoin the community of nations to get out from under this isolation. if they will choose the simple ways of proving, as other nations proved, that they have peaceful nuclear energy. it is that simple. it is not complicated. our hope is that that initiative can begin in earnest this weekend where we will have a team prepared to negotiate and in the days ahead we can reach an understanding that will also move as we are trying with respect to the caribbean peninsula -- korean peninsula to make the world safer. that is what this is about. we have no ambitions there, and i think they know that. we want to see a peaceful community of nations treated with each othe

. >> the nations that is the most significant problem. >> when you have a total national government debthat is the size of the national economy, you have a problem. our debt exceeds the size of the economy. it is over $16 trillion of gdp. of the problem is what has happened over the last several years with the recession. the recession led to declines in tax revenues. congress introduced tax cuts that caused the deficit to grow and we had federal government spending -- the newest spending that was -- stimulus spending that was higher than was the case before the recession. >> the recession hit and the debt skyrocketed. what caused the debt to reach a high point russia mark >> -- to reach a high point? >> the american people. we want welfare spending. we won all of the spending of the government spending and we do not want to pay the bill. >> this is like going to the mall with your dad's credit card. it is fun. you go shopping. maybe there are limitations, but in the end you are not the one paying. you have to think of it differently. you are going to the mall with your grandchild's credi

the nation's stability based on the economy. how often have we faced acts of sabotage, disruption of supplies, planned sabotage on prices all the time has come to overcome the negative phenomenon of economic warfare. i extend to work together as the discussion went with business community yesterday. if you want to work, we have the resources to do it. we have the resources to support you come to bring you board. let's create economic areas inspired by commander chavez. we have studied experiences throughout the world such as verdana in shanghai and china. we have models we are now finishing up so they can attract public, private, international investment to promote industry and our countries with the greatest tactical flexibility possible, with the greatest strategic vision, with the greatest economic vision. we need to build an economic government. when he took cover the economy. to do that, we need to have the workers who are the major producers of wealth. the plan for producing includes working with the business community, sm

is in the national interest? is it good for american society? uestion becomes after tenures why do we have these answers? gerri: if you don't have the answers i don't know who would. >> thank you for that. what we tried to point* out is precisely that that so many of these issues how much benefit to be derived from immigration what will it really cost to follow a pathway to citizenship and the gang of 8 plan? we don't have those answers. what is funny and all of this today the media matters' left-wing activist group said that lou dobbs is anti-immigrant because he is asking questions. they'' to a fellow who was very nice and i am sure a good man out of ucla who just happens to be a chicano activist who opens all sorts of numbers we cannot rely on just as you cannot rely on the numbers from the federation for immigration reform. the government is in the one providing these answers. did not have the answers for their own committees, congress the sete or the president. gerri: will we get them? is there a sense that some day somebody will come across

so i'm a big fan of the national security cutter. you're right, sir, it's been my number one priority since i've become commandant. the capital investment plan should be up here. if it's not i really can't talk about the next year's budget, but what i would say is last year i was answering questions to you why national security cutter number seven was not in the f.y. 2014 budget as exhibited in the five-year plan. >> the program of record has not changed then has it? >> it has not ced, no sir. >> so are you telling this subcommittee that we should feel optimistic and comfortable about the eighth cutter? >> yes, sir. i need to make a correction. it's the construction -- long lead money for number seven. you said long lead -- that was put in the f.y. 2013 budget so we have that already. we got the construction money for number seven in the 2014 budget that's before the congress right now. >> true. it was actually the long lead for the eighth that caused me concern because i don't see it there. >> yes, sir. and you're exactly right. it's

it's a summer day in yellowstone national park; the nation's first national park. gateway cities like west yellowstone bustle. traffic snarls yellowstone roads as if a major city. the park resembles anything but the tranquility sought. animals that make a brief appearance find an adoring crowd. they are the rock stars of the national park world. rocky mountain bighorn sheep walk precarious cliffs oblivious to crowds below. yellowstone's elk are accustomed to traffic. they blend in as if just another tourist themselves. scenic wonders like artist's point are crowded with tourists. natural beauty is an attraction. early leaders of the wilderness movement saw development of the national parks as commercialization. is this conservation or is access simply a part of american democracy? it's an enduring question of the great debate. wilderness wouldn't be wilderness without the animals of the west. controversy continues regarding the endangered species act and specifically grizzly bears and wolves. wolves are the most controversial animals in the wilderness war. wolves we

every year at the end of our national convention, we have the leaders of various national civil rights groups join us to talk about what they have done and we have done in the preceding year, what we have not been table do, and then what we commit to doing in the coming year so that we are held account to believe what we say. it is not enough to just convene, talk about things, show how smart we are, give our best sound bites, we must measure what we do, what we do not do, so that people will know that we are serious in our service to people. this year, we added, though, that wth

of the year -- >> for washington, d.c., because we have so many events here and because this is the nation's capital the combination of law enforcement resources here on daily basis with the united states park police, metro transit police and our partners we have a lot of assets and resources here and everything that needs to be in place is in place. >> while officials are confident in security measures they do of course encourage the public to be vigilant and if you see something say something. that's what they've been repeating over and over. latest on capitol hill, brian, shawn. >> lauren. the attacks have left a lot of people feeling unsafe. >> coming up we'll talk with a terrorism expert about preventing future attacks and securing an area like the district. >> stay with us. fox 5 news at 10:00 will be right back. >>  iffed real investigators -- federal investigators. security around the country is being heightened as we've told you. joining us is terror expert larry johnson. thanks for coming in. what did the ball bearings tell you about the people about th

as the commander of the army national guard you would think i know what forces are available in the army reserve in california. but i don't. i don't even know who their general officers are. i have no visibility on what forces are available at camp pendleton depending on your deployment cycle what fleet week can bring to bear. and we need to find a way, perhaps dcl, north palm being the broker of that, to maintain a better capabilities database so we know what is immediately available because under our old constructs, if we needed additional help in the national guard in california, we would go to the national guard from other states and that may be 1500 miles away. and that capability could be right down the road or down in san diego in one of the reserve components or in the active components of the marines or the navy and we need to sort through that so we can better respond. with that also will come changes that may need to be statutory changes so we can better accept the title 10 forces in particular the reserve forces. it is very frustrating during fire season when our black hawk h

i remember writing an op-ed piece before the national con vedges. in fact on what they needed to do. but even then in many ways almost too late for the perceptions that had already been embedded about the republican party which many of them are realistic. i mean too rigid. too inflexible. too intolerant. too, you know, exclusive. certainly as a republican at the republican member of the senate and having been a republican almost all my life i'm seeing what's changes in the republican party. it wasn't the party that i joined obviously. or served during mytime in office. but that doesn't mean to say it can't change. they're recognizing that. it's going to be more communications absolutely. it will be the policies. they've got to understand what the average person needs in america. they've got to be more tolerant. and not... and be more inclusive in reaching out to people. obviously that's why they've lost women and hispanics. we know the list. not surprised by it. just because they know they've been intolerant of diversities within the party. how is it

response, we've developed a very sophisticated common operating picture that has become to be the national standard by using both the doctrine that we have in the military and in the army for the way the commander wants to see the battle field or in this case see the disaster by defining information requirements and then putting out requests for information down to our subordinate units and to our adjacent units or inter agency partners whether in law enforcement or fire or emergency management to bring in and collect all that information to a central node and our emergency center that filters the information i need to make decisions. now, our common operating picture, we developed initially based on military platforms. but we've migrate it had to a web-based solution that is open to all of our inter agency partners. it's on the dot-gov domain, it's password protected but it's not on our military proprietary systems. so, we can share the common operating picture that we have with cal ema and we've developed the ability to import data from every allied organization whether it's usgs, the la

the nationals are in miami tonight. they are hoping to beat the team they slept in the opening season. the braves shut up and that yesterday 9-0. gnat's shut out the yesterday 9-0. ut out theves shou nats yesterday, 9-0. >> we have some video we want to show you. this was sent our way in boston. >> look at that crowd. >> have you ever been to the boston marathon? it is a huge cultural thing. the whole city of boston basically shuts down to celebrate and watch this. you cannot live online. i have been watching it a little bit this morning. 30 degrees is the temperature right now in boston. it may be a little cool. last year they had record heat. they are happier to see this this time around. let me show you what we have here. 60's.atures in the a little bit of light rain and mist and drizzle in washington. for the most part it's to the south and west of that. take a look of the rainfall totals, it hardly amounted to anything. everyone under a quarter of an inch. had 600th of an inch in culpeper. if you spots drizzly at th

most of the nation seemed to be experiencing an era of unprecedented prosperity. then could force tens of thousands of farmers to abandon their land? 1932, the depth of the great depression. while many of the poor went hungry, why were farmers dumping thousands of gallons of milk? since 1933, we have subsidized farming in america. is that a good idea? and who benefits? the small farmer, big agribusiness, or, at the end of the chain, the consumer? the story of the american farmer is one of the great ironies of the modern era. incredibly productive, but frequently unprofitable. it's a story that too often ends like this. "perfect competition and inelastic demand: can the farmer make a profit?" economic analyst richard gill and i will examine that question on this edition of "economics u$a." i'm david schoumacher. you can see the forces that control a farmer's economic wellbeing at work here at this farmers' market. taken together, it demonstrates a concept that economists call "perfect competition." in other words, every farmer who raises, say, tomatoes, is in compe

here is what the national institute of justice said. and again, this is the research arm of the united states department of justice. that first the ban on so-called assault weapons which many of you know are only different in superficial characteristics such as where the grip is on a gun and whether the stock can be adjusted, the national institute of justice said this does nothing, these guns are rarely used in crime. there is no point in doing this and of course this con firms the study that was done by researchers, not one of the top progun cabinet officers in history to conduct a study in 2004 for fine sign the ban.-- feinstein ban on so-called assault weapons and on magazines and that report issued with preliminary reports over the years and a final report in 2004 said that ban accomplished nothing. no lives were saved. it didn't change how many shots were fired in confrontations or anything else. they could find after ten years no benefits from the laws. and yet president obama after giving that very good speech at sandy hook in ne

that's about the national average. it is an awful situation, and for the reserve component, for the card, these soldiers have to travel for a base with is an active duty searching, doctor, medical doctor that can make the determination. it is a blow to morale. it is incredible that we have a loud the system to deteriorate in this way. and so my question is what you doing about it and what can we do to help if you need legislation? and again i'll be happy take it for the record but i don't want to let this slip by something that we have to address. i'm astonished it has gotten to the point where you have the soldiers who are being almost literally jerked around have to travel sometimes halfway across the country to go and be evaluated and then come back and after tournament and go back again and take years to get the question answer. this affects of course the ability to be retained and it's an important part of the process. on another subject, because with it an awful budget pinch which were talked about, and we've seen

a call for restraint from the united nations today. secretary-general ban ki-moon once the korean peninsula crisis could spiral out of control. he made the comments after p'yongyang announced it was restarting its nuclear program. >> washington has condemned the move as extremely alarming and is calling on russia and china to do more to rein in the unpredictable regime. >> in 2008, the north koreans blow up the cooling tower a year after the nuclear facility was shut down, but the government in p'yongyang plans to restart the plutonium plant as soon as possible. the reactor is capable of producing just 5 megawatts of power compared to state of the art plants capable of churning out 1,000 megawatts. analysts say north korea already possesses enough nuclear material to produce eight nuclear bombs. with it back on line, the material could multiplied in the years ahead. the united nations secretary general warned against further escalation on the korean peninsula. >> nuclear threats are not a game. aggressive rhetoric and military posturing

it's a wake-up call for the nation. take care of your infrastructure before you have the kind of problem we had. biedrzycki: by no stretch of the imagination do i think we're out of the woods. recent cdc statistics indicate that up to 32 million cases of waterborne disease occur each year in this country. roy: but the vast majority of waterborne outbreaks go undetected. when people first get ill, they think, "oh, it's something i ate last night." they don't think, "oh, it's something i drank last night." narrator: the milwaukee incident pointed out the potential vulnerability of our drinking water infrastructure in controlling the spread of illness. biedrzycki: it's incumbent upon us to try to stay ahead of the curve, but it's very, very difficult. there's always another bug on the horizon. narrator: in 2008, the associated press reported that water quality testing across the nation uncovered trace amounts of pharmaceutical compounds in the drinking water supplies of millions of americans. the health effects of these low

he was a runner up for the national player of the year award. today john tofhompson iii doesn expect him to be sitting around too long. porter is looking forward to the next step. >> it did take a long time. it wasn't something easy that comes to your mind but you know it took till now. i woke up this morning called my mom, called my dad. you know i talked to them for an hour so and i made my decision. >> i think he's ready and i mean as much mentally emotionally as i do as it relates to basketball. i thought he went about the process in an educated manner and didn't make a rush decision. he had two good choices. >> maryland all links -- alex lent will announce he's going nba. >> wiz down three. john wall to martin hits four. his fourth 3-pointer of the game. ties it at 101. less than a minute left taylor drives it. put back and the foul. he would miss one from the free-throw line. final seconds taylor hits a three. seals it. wizards fall one '06 to 101. season finale wednesday in chicago -- 106. >> the n.b.a. draft months away but the wnba draf

you don't realize in 1788 as a fledgling fort that help the state of the nation. basically the british are interested in capturing the higher hudson river because they wanted to cut off the rebellious new england states from the rest of the nation and that was effectively, as george washington said that on the revolution if they were able to do so. so what the americans did, we construct a land-based defense. benedict arnold knew how valuable this wise. so he concocts a plan to sell it for approximately 26 million in u.s. dollars today. where the story gets most interesting when you look at his co-conspirators who are less known. john andre was the reddish head of intelligence under general clinton admin joshua hadden smith. so when it came time for benedict arnold to betray his country, he met with john andre to formulate the plan of attack and gave him the plans of west point and let him know where my dad attack from in order to quickly win. they met on the side of the hudson downriver from west point in a wooded area. they were bickering the whole night about ho

the braves lead the nates in the national game east. check out what happened during the president's raise. the mascot maley broke out. they tried to get in on the fun. the capitol's mascot was one of them as well. >> thomas jefferson won the race. >> my good news. look, see? >> there you go. he managed to get around that mess >> someone can poke out an eye with that kind of mess. >> that is not a real eye. >> all right 4:51. time for weather and traffic on the one's. is it going to rain or end soon? >> not for a while. grab an umbrella. what a great weekend we had. this was in frederick county. with that warm weather we had last week. everything greened up quickly. post your pictures to nbc weather.com. facebook friend me and i post a lot of those photos that send in. we have this light rain falling moving from southwest to northeast across virginia into maryland the district getting few showers across much of west virginia. this is a weak system to the south to give us scattered showers right now. high definition radar. and the district

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the separate foundation part is separate from the national archives really. it is like the other presidential libraries in some ways but the institute makes it different. also, the institute gives george and me a way to work for the rest of our lives really on policies that are most important to us when he was president. >> i would like to say this, i think our institute will be different rather than just turn out paper, we're putting programs in place that will deliver result, where it is ribbon -- pink ribbon/red ribbon. we have programs that people support and here are the results many women involved in the political process of egypt. we wrote a book about how to grow the private sector. we have specific programs that are yielding results. i've always being a resulted-or oriented guy. >> it is also research based and that is part of the institute and that is the fellows that we have doing the research that shows what we're projects andhe programs that we're doing are effective and how many lives are ribbon/red pink ribbon. how many women aring with treated