one of the groups of prisoners were from the philippine army 90 first division. among them, we believe, were many american advisers. this group of about 400 captives, were walking along the jungle trail and crossing the passing river when the japanese took them into custody. the 90 first had seen a lot of action and the japanese believed them to be one of the units that had white doubt, annihilated a japanese regiment early in the battle. someone in a position of command, no one knows for sure, decided that the imperial army should take its revenge for that annihilation, and a group of 400 prisoners from the 90 first was led across the river and uphill to a waiting area by the edge of a ravine. the filipinos and the american advisers had their hands tied behind them, their backs with communications wire and they were wired together in chains. each chain of men was marched to the edge of the ravine and told to face forward. then a line of japanese soldiers and officers with bayonets fixed and swords drawn, stepped behind them and started to stab them. when the bloo

investigative reporter, and really the first full-time foreign correspondent maybe ever when i was in the philippines, and then i went to el salvador, central america, peru and the middle east. in 1981 i became the editor of the "examiner," and in the merger in 2000, i became editor of the "chronicle." i am now editor at large, encompassing many things, including figuring out this internet phenomenon. >> one thing you are doing is to try to bring the disciplines of journalism together, through the tendency of the emphasis to hold up paper and say, who wrote this? we have all experienced that. i did. how are you making out? the newspaper people, myself being one of them -- how on discipline and even the best of the internet is. thrown together. >> it depends where you look and what you're looking for. the internet is an open pipeline. that is what it is. the water just rushes through it. information, the people -- i will give you an example. tom has been writing about the bay area for the paper for decades. very well known, he writes a lot of books you will find in bookstores and supermarkets about fi

escorted and followed by armed forces of the philippine marines. so we take this trip in the true heart of darkness philippine jungle. as we leave, visible elements of civilization and get into less opulent villages and isolated realms, young kids are running out, waving and applauding and jumping up and down and hollering in their native tongue what i'm told this "is good to see you." with their mothers and fathers nodding approvingly. i saw this with my own eyes. i thought this was wonderful, terrific. ambassador said that two years ago, the mother and father would have pulled the kids back and stayed well away from the street. have there been any demonstration, it would have been unfavorable. i saw with my own eyes enthusiastic support from the citizens who had been previously terrorists are violent extremists. i believe we have made significant progress. it is a tough match. but to her question -- we have the guys there that we have now here we are going to keep them there for the foreseeable future. it is a situation we analyze constantly. we a

this was a litmus test for much of the philippine world and the impacts much of southeast asia. nearby in the southern philippines, the government is battling a long-running muslim insurgency, and islamic extremists in southern thailand have taken up arms against their own government. the group behind the indonesian bombings is known as jemaah islamiah, with al qaeda links. it was arrested in 2007 with assessments that the terror threat was being defeated. >> many governments agreed with the assessment that the threat has been reduced, but what we have seen is the terrorist threat has continued. there has been more recruitment and fund raising and procurement, and now we have witnessed another significant terrorist attack. >> this latest violence is not likely to deter indonesia's's political direction. support for conservative islamic parties is gradually eroding, and recent elections voters in the huge society opted for democracy and modernization. >>> u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has arrived in india on a four-day visit on strengthening ties between the countries.

>> i decided to start i see hope in the philippines. ternational cooperation of environmental use and hope stands for helping our polluted earth. i see hope. do you? the go green man investigation will continue. >> it will continue. and we would like to thank jonathan lee for that report. the go green man report. >>> well, i-report has contacted the fast food chains for a response and found on mcdonald's and kfc websites, they report on their effort to recycle. >>> a horrifying scene on a georgia highway. police officers pull up to a van that looks like this. engulfed in flames. people trapped inside. see the incredible rescue that came next. >>> police in suburban atlanta pulled up just in time to save two people from a van that burst into flames on the highway. and incredible rescue was all caught on tape. michelle marsh from affiliate wgcl has the story. >> reporter: it's a family road trip for the king family. everything is going as planned until a tire blew. sparks fly and this fire ignites. the king family minivan erupts into a fir

the classic example was the love bug in the philippines where you could basically give someone the equivalent of a traffic citation. when you look at the broad effort of effective laws, that has come to a standstill. when you look at case by case cooperation, that is going better. >> james lewis, center for strategic and international studies, thank you very much. the report that you did, the commission on cyber security for the 44th president, is available online at our web site, c- span.org/communicators. thank you very much. >> book tv continues on c-span2. financial editor david smick says the financial crisis was preventable. a panel of authors talks about the current economic crisis and what to do about it. then congressman henry waxman on his 35 years in the u.s. house. on afterwords, joe scarborough on the bush administration, the republican party, and obama presidency. he is interviewed by peggy noonan. there are a lot more books and authors on "book tv." >> sunday

and the philippines. i'm just wondering if that's uncommon or if that's increasingly common. how good is that cooperation? >> guest: you know, if you talk today the fbi, they would tell you things are getting better. even in countries like russia they can get cooperation on some issues. the problem we have is that most places don't have good laws, right? so the classic example, now fixed, was the love bug in the philippines where they basically could give the guy the equivalent of a traffic citation because they didn't have penalties for hacking. when you look at the broad effort to get effective laws, that's come to a stand still. when you look at case by case cooperation, that's going better. >> host: james lewis, center for strategic and international studies. thank you very much. the report that you did for the

. >> this was a huge effort to get the philippines at the last minute, through a big decision and confusion timely gave the word we want to go all out. we don't want to high pressure these states. let them decide what they want. that thanksgiving break came and it looked like that partition went loose. go out there and get them to change their votes. >> i eddie jacob son played an important role. opening the doors to the white house who was very inflewen shal. together they exerted a positive pressure twroerds favoring. eddie jacobson was a very old friend of truman from biz they had met then. during world war i, they ended up in the same bat alian. jacob son did so. it was very successful. it helped truman get promoelted in the army. during the war, they were both kind of at loose ends and they decided to go into business together. it only lasted one or two years. then there was the depression. the two men always maintained their friendship with each other. >> this was a close friend. jacob son passed away. he was the only friend like a brother who considered him like family. he said he co

. >>> the president will hos the president of the philippines. >>> sutomayor is hopeful and face toughuestions from legal controversy as well as personal facts and views. she was nominated by president obama to become the supreme court's first hispanic justice. >>> still to come tonight on wjz eyewitness news. a swimming pool controversy protests legal action under way after a group of black children are denied swimming privileges. >>> grave sites are discovered and vandalism. it is a crime scene. >>> a first class for pets? >>> i'm jessica kartaliga. we catch up with the hall family and hear the latest coming up. >>> i'm meteorologist, bernadette woods, the muggy weather returned and we will let you know how long that will last. coming up when eyewitness news returns. >>> complete coverage continues wjz, maryland's news station. >> a pennsylvania mother of four has filed a class action lawsuit against a pool that she says practices segregation. it is under fire for racial discrimination from a philadelphia camp. some black and hispanic people said they herself racial comments. it was

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president mckinley, who heard the voice of god saying, you should be summoned from the danger of the philippines. so, they initiated a long career, we will know and you know perhaps better than i. >> host: thank you very much. eduardo galeano is the author of "mirrors" stories of almost everyone. it is a wonderful book. this one that you can't stop reading. and it has been an honor to talk to you. i have wanted to do this for many years and it is really been great that i have been able to do it. i am john dinges and i am speaking with eduardo galeano, and we will end it there and thank you very much. >> guest: thank you. i absolutely forgot that there was a tv studio. i was having a nice, talking conversation with a friend in a cafe. thank you. >> host: well, good. i enjoyed it. >> now a political consultant, dick morris, the former adviser to president clinton is the co-author of the book, "catastrophe," which accuses president obama of being too radical and criticizes his policies on the economy, healthcare and national security. mr. morris talked about the book of the book review bookstore in

a huge path of the asian continent was swallowed in darkness, stretching from the philippines to south korea, bangkok to beijing. in some parts it lasted as long as six minutes and 39 seconds. at a zoo in japan, a sea lion and excited school children were the last to see the moon upstaging the sun and the last time the world will witness such a spectacular eclipse for another 123 years. charlie d'agata, cbs news. >> imagine that. i was just looking up the next lunar eclipse that will be happening, not for us to see, august 6th, i believe. going to be in africa and europe. >> how are you doing. >> i felt humid this morning. is it just me. >> you see my hair pulled back. high humidity. doppler is getting a post-lunch ouworka t. ketawoa lo r. roiansadadcharles tyunco, puung inshin into akokeek. doing some inshfi g,hopefully the weather radio and they are aware of it. haven't seen much ligh ng tiin . thit time lapse tower cam. showing you a view of the monument. murky skies at times and the more humid air is in place and i know you feel it. southeast winds at nine. humidity is 53%. tempera

. >> the japanese peso was -- that was issued by the japanese government when they occupied the philippine islands back in the 1940s. this is the united states of america trade dollar that was minted back in 1877. and it has -- according to what i've been able to find on this, it is fairly valuable, actually very valuable, about 1500 and up. >> reporter: investigators say jerome and tina heran hit so many homes, that they apparently can't remember where they pilfered the world war ii era currency. and no one has reported it stolen. the only thing certain is that it did them little good in financing their prescription pill and subsequent heroin habits, which police say was the motive for the burglaries. >> like painkillers or something. that's what i figure. nothing really much really. went past everything value like the tv, like the flat screen tvs, and everything else in here. >> reporter: investigators have already tied the coupe toll more than a dozen burglaries, and that the owners of this unique money surface, they could add one more victim to the list. in carroll county, jeff hager,

. >> currency was issued by the japanese when they occupied the philippine islands during world war ii. >> reporter: state police are trying to reunite these unusual bills with their owner. they were recovered when police arrested a couple for at least 21 burglaries in towns all over carroll county. they say jerome herron has admitted he did commit the break-ins, and his wife tina faces charges, too. >> he would go to -- usually in the area of a cul-de-sac or more of a rural area, just sit, and just sit, sometimes for hours. if the looked like there was no one at theme, he would final just go up, just start knocking on the door. >> reporter: police say he admitted most of his burglaries were easy because the doors were left unlocked, but if not, he told them wee break a window or force a sliding glass door. police say the goods taken include electronic devices, video games, guns, and jewelry. but more often, cash and coins, he is special prescription drugs. they're now reviewing all burglaries in area since last fall. >> they come up to our window, come inside, stole a couple hundred d

some of the stolen property including currency issued by the japanese during the occupation of the philippineswar ii and a silver u.s. coin from 1877. if you think your property was stolen and you would like to recover some of it, call 410- 386-3000. >>> it's 5:03 right now. in anne arundel county, an armed robbery is under investigation in the 7800 block of quarter main road. the robber walked in with a sawed-off shotgun, demanded cash and then took off. >>> it is a $40 million lawsuit filed against a baltimore county pool and management company three years after a 15-year-old nearly drowned. he suffered massive brain damage from his brush with death. his family says he needs constant care and the $40 million will help pay for the mounting medical expenses. the pool and drd pool management are both named in the lawsuit. >> essentially, we lost our son as we knew him. he's trapped in a body that's not his body. >> i did not. i've. drd's corporate counsel for years. >> reporter: an attorney for drd says the company did nothing wrong and plans to fight the lawsuit. as for the beckers, they plan

. >> the threat we see overseas in countries like indonesia, pakistan, saudi arabia, the philippines, it is a much higher threat profile here. >> reporter: and that was lindsey mastis reporting. >>> things are starting to return to normal at a greenbelt apartment complex where three people were shot on thursday. the victims include a u.s. capitol police officer and a 12- year-old rlgi grazed bygi a str bullet from a shootout. digital correspondent audrey barnes is joining us live from the scene with more. audrey? >> reporter: u.s. capitol police officer eddie thornton junior was coming to this complex to visit his mother when he encountered a man with a gun in the parking lot. they exchanged gunshots and both were hit. so was a 12-year-old girl inside of her apartment. police say the shootout started after a civilian police officer from ft. myer got in to an argument with his roommate. the police officer ran outside to call for help and his roommate grabbed the gun and followed him. that is when off-duty officer thornton exchanged shots with the man. the gun battle rattled the nerves

tropical storm unleashed heavy winds and drenching rain across southern china after hammering the philippines. flights were canceled or diverted. thousands of fishermen evacuated, and part of hong kong disneyland was forced to close. >>> to the world of sports now, the british open is the granddaddy of golf tournaments. it's been around since 1860, but for play whose compete in the open, the rule is usually the younger, the better. today long-time golfing legend tom wattson took a shot the breaking that rule. nbc's john yang has that story. >> reporter: it was one for the ages. two months shy of his 60th birthday, tom watson was the leader as he played the final hole of regulation play. on the path to his sixth british open and a place in the record books, the oldest player ever to win a major championship. watson hadn't won a major title since the 1983 british open and hadn't bon won a pga tournament since 1998. most of his play recently has been on the seniors tour. >> for tom watson to have almost won a major championship at 60 years of age, it's inconceivable. the next oldest player to ha

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. >> president obama will host the president of the fill philippines at the white house discussing securityde. tonight, sonya sotomayor is preparing for her meetings. the quizzing range from racial clikt to legal controversy and her personal facts and views. she was nominated to be the first hispanic justice to the supreme court. >>> the space shuttle launch delayed for a third time. space shuttle endeavor. there was lightning strikes near the pad, crews will meet to determine if endeavor is cleared for takeoff tomorrow. >>> one year after major brain surgery, jesse hall is now back in baltimore. we have the latest on the little girls condition and how parents are reaching out to other families in similar situations. >> she that why the spot. >> reporter: yeah. >> that's my scar. >> aside from a scar on her head and a brace on her left leg, 7-year-old jessie hall looks like your average soon to be second grader. >> night and day. left here doing fairly well and couldn't walk yet. and now hopping and skipping all over the place. >> reporter: when dr. ben carson first met jessie, had encephal

we go live to our fox business correspondent in the philippines. we have coroneted bombings, the first in several years. it followed a time when the government had made progress in tackling security threats from militant islamic groups. what can you tell us about this? >> that is true, it has been about four years since there have been any bombings in indonesia. that brings that to an end. the immediate suspicion falls to a local muslim terrorist network linked to al qaeda. nobody has put the linked together, but that group has been very active. the bali nightclub bombing was the first linked to that group. there have been active. there have been a number of arrests recently. three of those convicted bombers were put to death last year. it had been very quiet up until this point. these bombings today which targeted the marriott which has been hit before and the ritz carlton bringing an end to the peace that indonesia has known, and raising questions about whether this terrorist network has been dismantled or has been reconstituted or of this is anot

a huge path of the asian continental was swallowed in darkness, stretching from the philippines to south korea, bangkok to beijing. in some parts it lasted as long as 6 minutes and 39 seconds. at a zoo in japan, they were the last to see the moon up staging the sun. it's the last time the world will witness such a spectacular eclipse for another 123 years. >> within on island it was enough to confuse the calculate. villagers say cows headed for feeding troughs thinking it was dinner time despite the early morning hour. >>> a bit of a step back wad on wall street today. the dow was down by the nasdaq was up. the dow ended down 35 points. the nasdaq was up 10. let's go to new york right now. >> reporter: it's day two of the fed chairman's congressional testimony on the economy. ben bernanke reiterate that had any recovery will be gradual and interest rates will remain low for some time, enticing some homeowners to refinance. mortgage applications jumped northeasterly 3% last week. and chrysler is upping the ante in the government's cash for clunk, program, matching the $4,500 the governmen

late this afternoon during a meeting with the president of the philippines, the president tried to get away from the term beer summit telling reporters "it's a clever term but this is not a dede he's fascinated with the fascination about tonight adding he hoped the media would make his meeting with president arroyo the lead story instead of the non-summit free beer. bad news, mr. president. we just heard the latest magazine, obama's beer diplomacy. one surprise after the less than happy hour. a press conference dliven under the influence of a few beers. >> i think what you had today was two gentlemen agree to disagree on the same issue. i don't think we spent too much time dwelling on the past. we spent a lot of time discussing the future. >> that wasn't the first. the professor and i ebb countered each other on individual tours of the white house and the professor approached me and introduced his family. i introduced my family, and then we continued on with the tour, but as a group. two families moving together, and that was the start. so it was very cordial. i'm still not, haven't ca

surprised if the media had made the chat more important than its meeting with the president of the philippines and the news broadcaster to leash with it. president obama has been dealing with fallout since saying at his news conference that police, quote, acted stup piddidly in t end quote. >> it's interesting to watch the video there. >> it is. >> for one i want to remark that yesterday they said they were going to be at a picnic table outside the oval office and i do not picture a picnic table. i don't think that's a picnic table. president obama says he wants this to become a teachable moept. we're blogging about this meeting at cnn.com/robin, so go there. already let's read some of your comments. go ahead, richard. >> we have lots of interest, even overnight people telling us what they thought. jeffrey in virginia said it's not about race, quote. if the professors was asked to show id, if he did not do that at that moment, he is guilty of a crime. it is not a racial issue. and from james in kentucky, president obama created the situation. he needs to clean it up. there you go, robin. we'll

it is the daily intelligence briefing, the sit down with the president of the philippines, a meeting with treasury secretary tim geithner. then there is the beer summit. outside the white house today, a special treat for tourists. >> the beer summit? >> that is right, the sit down between the president, the cambridge cop, and the ivy leag instructor who will gather around a picnic table and pop open some cold ones. goal is to smooth over accusations of racism and the rest of harvard professor henry gates. when the police received the call of the break-in, even though he was trying to get in, the situation escalated. then the president said this. >> the cambridge police acted stupidly. >> being a police officer 17 years, that may have been a good thing not to say. it and it seems the president agrees and hopes that the beer will help. even the choices of beer are being be rated -- are being berated. >> should be sam adams. >> even that would draw the ire of this protester. >> while some subs are not likely to solve race relations, some people say it should not hurt. and maybe this one

there were a huge effort to get the philippines to vote for partition. there were some not so veiled threats to cut off aid. at the last minute, there was a big division in the state department. truman finally gave the word that we want to go all out. he first said that we did not want to high-pressure the states. let them decide what they want. the things giving break came and it looked like truman would give the word to his people to lobby and get them to change their votes. >> what role did eddie jacket supply? >> an important role -- what role did eddie jacobson play? >> an important role. together, they exert a positive pressure toward favoring -- >> you to explain who he is. >> he is a very old friend of truman's from missouri. they had met when eddie was 14 years old and truman was 21. they did not see each other after that. during world war one, they ended up in the same battalion and truman asked jacobson to help him set up a canteen and it was very successful. it helped truman get promoted within the army. after the war, when there were coming b

a huge path of the asian continent was swallowed in darkness, stretching from the philippines to south korea, bangkok to beijing. in some parts, lasted as long as 6 minutes, 39 seconds. at a zoo in japan, a sea lie on and excited school children were the last to see the moon upstaging the sun. it is the last time the world will witness such a spectacular clips for another 123 years. >> the eclipse the longest since july of 1991, when a total eclipse lasting 6:53 was visible from hawaii to south america. >>> still ahead, a dramatic crash. a pilot survives an amazing plummet to the ground. >>> starbucks looking to broaden the base. what could soon be found in the famous coffee shop. >>> more of the much needed showers. >>> first, today's report from wall street. >>> hopefully a chance for showers tonight. >> starting with the ocean, this is what we have going on. muggy weather is going to continue through the entire forecast. looking at the chance of cat i did thunderstorms thursday and friday, not all day rain event. a break on saturday, then again late sunday, that would be closer to s

. >> reporter: the president is just wrapping up a meeting with the president of the philippines at the white house, and someone asked a question of the president about this upcoming beer summit. the president says that this is opportunity for everyone to listen to each other. we hope to get more from those comments, wolf, once we get the tape of that event. >> for that tape. as soon as we get it, we'll play it for our viewers. let me get this straight, dan, some sense tiff stuff, especially for the news media and a lot of american who is want to see this. the three guys are going to sit down in the rose garden, you're saying, but they're not going to let the cameras get anywhere within earshot or hear what they're saying? just going to be a little picture we're going to get of this meeting? >> reporter: that's exactly what it is, wolf. they will be at the back end of the rose garden. there is a patio area with a table and some chairs around it. that is where they will be having this meeting. they're not going to be talking when the media is allowed to go in. they're just going to stand

. >> this currency was issued by the japanese when they occupied the philippine islands during world war ii. >> reporter: state police are trying to reunite these bills with their original owner. they were from at least 21 burglaries all over town in maryland. they say jerome heron admits to the break-ins. and his wife, tina heron, faces charges, too. >> he would go to, usually a cul-de-sac or more rural area. and sit for sometimes hours and watch. if it looked like there was no one at the home, he would finally go up and start knocking on the door. >> reporter: police say heron admitted most of his burglaries were easy because the doors were left unlocked. >> police say the goods taken include electronic devices, video games, guns and jewelry. but more often, cash and coins, especially prescription drugs. they're now reviewing all burglaries in the area since last fall. >> they come up on kind of every window screen. coming fast. stole a couple hundred dollars of money from me. stole my wife's pain medication for her back. >> reporter: west mip ster -- westminster police say they di

on president obama's radar tomorrow, he's going to be meeting with the philippine president at the whitew also, like you mentioned, the beer summit with president obama, professor dpaets and sergeant crowley. they'll throw back a few brews on the south lawn of the white house at about 6:00. >> i fumbled your last name. a ii apologize for doing that. will this be it? after thursday, now you've got the woman who made the 911 call, these two men with the president. having a beer. do we even know what types of beers they're drinking? is it done after thursday, at least the political implications of what happened after? >> we'll see if it's done. we've seen the left and right both kind of come out on this. you've seen our poll numbers today and we've seen a partisan divide even in the poll we had. you know, the bigger question for me is i'm wondering why they're not drinking sam adams. maybe harpoon or

mid spring and early summer, the mild epidemic went through western europe, china, india, and the philippineslands and it struck spain and the west indees. in early march, the epidemic resembled the typical flu, affecting the sick and elderly and healthier people recovered easily. in august, when the second wave began in france, sierra lee i don't know, and the united states, the virus mutated into a deadlier form. when the pandemic ended in 1920, up to 100 million people had died worldwide, and another 400 million people had gotten sick t has been called the greatest medical holocaust in history, comparable to the black death, and that's the great influenza in a nutshell. here's why i'm talking about this. first of all, i notice in the paper they are not tracking it at the w.h.o. anymore and i thought that's weird. it is either really good or really bad. the second thing is the doctor will say should i test for swine flu and he will say no, don't worry about t the third thing, have you meardz about chickenpox parties? where you get your kids together the history of the influenza in 1918, i

the philippines and indonesia. l countries rathke's organized citizens in as chief organizer of community organizations international, formerly known as acorn international. why the name change? rathke writes this on his chief organizer blog, quote, changing our name, especially in the u.s., not to be confused with acorn. i know of no plans whatsoever for acorn to change its name, but you'd have to ask them, end quote. rathke was likely pressured by acorn to rebrand because it doesn't want to be associated with him anymore, at least publicly. remember, wade was fired last year after an 8-year coverup of his brother dale's million dollar embezzlement. his wife, however, beth butler, remains on acorn's senior staff, and both of their two children now work for the organization. name change or not, the group formerly known as acorn international remains an acorn entity, and if allegations are true that money is being funneled between the 200 acorn affiliates than ath i can still has access to -- then rathke still has ac

. >> this currency was issued by the japanese when they occupied the philippine islands during world war ii. >> state police are trying to reunite these unusual bills with their owner. they were recovered when police arrested a couple for at least 21 burglaries in towns all over carroll county. they say jerome heron has admitted he did commit the break-ins. and his wife tina heron faces charges, too. >> he would go to, usually in the area of a cul-de-sac or more of a rural area, just sit and sometimes just sit for hours and watch. if it looked like there was no one at the home, he would finally just go up and start knocking on the door. >> reporter: police say jerome heron admits most of his burglaries were easy because the doors were left unlocked. but if not, he would force a window or break a sliding glass door. police say he would take electronic devices, video games, guns and jewelry. but more often, cash and coins, especially prescription drugs. they're now reviewing all burglaries in the area since last fall. >> they come up on every kind of window screen. open a window up, st

in a picture-taking session with the philippine president, mr. obama says what the media is calling a beer summit is just three guys something ing having a beer at the end of the day and not trying to get gates an crowley to apologize to each other. >> it's an attempt to add some personal interaction when an issue has become so hyped and so symbolic that you lose sight of just the fact that these are people involved, including myself, all of whom are imperfect. >> the p president also hopes this beer summit serves as a book kend to this controversy so he can stop talking about it and return the country's focus to healthcare reform, and it might, unless professor gates sues. bret: we will see what comes out of it. thank you, wendell. the big story in town is healthcare. one of the big losers in healthcare reform could be the insurance industry. we heard today that that would be just fine with the speaker of the house. but what would it mean for you? here is correspondent shannon bream. >> nobody is talking about some government takeover of healthca

. >>> to the philippines, time to check up on the prison population there as "oddball's" celebrity tributeday continues. these convicts obviously have way, way too much time on their hands since they've choreographed yet another homage to michael jackson. with multiple cameras and costumes complete with gloves it lacks some of the original whimsy their first hit "thriller" garnered but in a very literal interpretation here now are a bunch of outlaws performing "dangerous." ♪ >>> does being forced to line dance to michael jackson qualify as cruel and unusual punishment? the prisoners aren't sure what song they will perform next but a reasonable guess would be "smooth criminal." >>> coming up we've seen the last of that turkey obviously. but have we seen the last of sarah palin as an elected official? in 332 days she goes from governor of alaska to vice presidential nominee to resigning her office as the head of her state. we'll look back at a year even hollywood, even i couldn't have imagined. >>> yet another shocking headline from deep inside the mind of dick cheney. he wanted to send u.s.

the philippines and indonesia. l countries rathke's organized citizens in as chief organizer of community organizations international, formerly known as acorn international. why the name change? rathke writes this on his chief organizer blog, quote, changing our name, especially in the u.s., not to be confused with acorn. i know of no plans whatsoever for acorn to change its name, but you'd have to ask them, end quote. rathke was likely pressured by acorn to rebrand because it doesn't want to be associated with him anymore, at least publicly. remember, wade was fired last year after an 8-year coverup of his brother dale's million dollar embezzlement. his wife, however, beth butler, remains on acorn's senior staff, and both of their two children now work for the organization. name change or not, the group formerly known as acorn international remains an acorn entity, and if allegations are true that money is being funneled between the 200 acorn affiliates than ath i can still has access to -- then rathke still has ac

you can get to the white house from the philippines, north korea from russia. it is a mess. when you tried to investigate these cases, not every government as cooperative. you cannot get the kind of cooperation that you can get in europe from russia or third world countries. it makes it difficult for the investigators in makes it difficult to find out who was responsible for all of this. shepard: i am led to believe that the pentagon offenses deflected this. in these other places that i talked about, they actually got in. what did we -- what did they do? change the menu for the white house, or something bad? >> this was one of our biggest fears after 9/11. one, a virus could mess things up, shut you down internally. two, they could shut down the entire system. that could be government agencies, private sector, whenever it is. third, they could infiltrate and get inside, causing havoc and problems. that is what we worry about in law enforcement and with air traffic control, nuclear facilities and the water supply. we worry about whether or not someone could get into the system

fascinated by the fact that obviously this would be the lead over his meeting with the president of the philippines. not sure if the president really meant that literally or was just kind of working the media, but this is a big event that they want to handle and sounds like they want to tidy this thing up and go away. >> right, and there is actually something they don't want to cross. obviously, there is a lot of media attention that we're giving it and everyone else is giving it, but i also don't think that a lot of americans out there want all this focus where it seems like the obama administration and the white house just sees this as a pr stunt to kind of be able to move along the story. you know, they really want this to be about president obama seeing this as a teachable moment, bringing these two people together and trying to turn lemmoons into lemonade her. this story has gone on for eight days. we'll see if this finally brings an end to it all. >> thank you very much. make shusure to check out first read first thing every morning. check back often. you can logon to firstread.msnbc.com. we