our relationship continued even after i returned to the philippines, following the expiration of my six-month the set. our relationship was expansive given the long distance. when i return to the philippines, i learned my cousin, who murdered my mother and sister, and almost killed me as well, was released from prison after serving only 10- year sentence. i feared for my safety and i knew i was in danger and understood in order to meet, but -- to live, i have to leave the philippines to jay, where i would feel safe. i hired an attorney to apply for legal asylum. my application was denied, so my attorney filed an appeal to the ninth circuit court, and jay and i requested and a regular basis on theúagr status of the appeal. again and again we were told that it would take a long time before the court gets to my case. i did not know it, but my appeal had also been denied. my attorney never told me. all the while, we thought i was legal in we were waiting for the decision of the court. jay and i went about building our lives together. i gave birth to my two kids. they are the biggest joy in our li

conquered the philippines in 1898, early 1900s. and all the rhetoric was there.have a line in the book do you want to find a ghost behind the ghost writers do you go back to the philippines. the rhetoric, the language is all there. so to think about war as a culture is very painful. it's painful because it's asking very hard things about us as human beings, not about american or something. it's about us as human beings and a modern age where we have war with us all the time. the technology may change, but somehow we're out to disk loyal and it's hard to get out. do we do it above the levels of the individual in the institutions. so at the end i came upon talking about concepts of pathology, of individual pathologies and institutional, bureaucratic dysfunctions. very, very hard things to wrestle wi

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on hand and handed edwin a letter from franklin roosevelt to be delivered to the president of the philippines. the load was so heavy that he lifted off from the bay waters. he thought he was not going to clear the bay bridge which was under construction at the time. so he flew under it, guiding the massive martin m-130 sea plane between construction cables dangle beneath the structure. the rest of the flight went without a hitch. a year before the china clipper would begin carrying passengers at a cost of $15,000 appease in today's money. and as ktvu's george watson told us in this report from 2000 it was to be the beginning of a glorious but short-lived aviation adventure for those who were part of the china clipper legacy. >> reporter: 1935 pan american airways looked to open the pacific to commercial air traffic. what routes would they take? where would they land? did they have the planes capable of flying such distances? did they have the pilots, men who would be pioneers. >> well, i was the only one that made the decision where to go, how to fly it and how to miss the clouds and the volc

so the families that leave ecuador, that leaves the philippines or central europe, they are sending money back to educate their children. and now we are starting to see how aging propels globalization. and now we can turn the globalization propels aging. so when you have a newly industrial country, and young people have come to the city and women can achieve their aspirations, stay in the workforce, you also get a population, an urban population which will have smaller children. i mean, smaller numbers of children. but what do they do with their fault -- their small families no? they invest within. if you five of six children you can only provide them with so many calories, with so much education. but if you have one or two, you can pump lots of calories into that one or two child. they will be fortified five inches taliban your children would be otherwise. and you can see this. you can measure rural families against urban families. you can pump educational resources to that child, not only as the parents but the grand children's. you start to get the dynamic of a developing world, a pros

conquered the philippines in 1898 and early 1900s. all of the rhetoric was there. i have a line in the book that you want to find the ghost behind the ghost writers for george bush, go back to the philippines. the rhetoric and language is all there. so to think about war as a culture is very pain -- it's painful because it's asking very hard things about us as human beings. not just -- not by the americans or something. it's not -- it's about us as human beings in a modern age where we have war with us all the time, the technology may change, but somehow we are caught in this coil. and it seems hard to get out. and i do it at levels of both the individual and the institutions. and so at the end, i came upon talking about concepts of pathology, and individual pathology and functions. very, very hard things to wrestle with. took a long time. but that's where it ended up. >> speaking of george bush, have you or will you be reading decision points, particularly the chapters on afghanistan and iraq. >> well, i haven't read the -- i read very, very extensively in memoirs

and it's so realistic that those facial expressions of the teachers and philippines are translated onto the avatar faces on the robot so they can read books, dance along the music by bobbing heads in moving their fog like arms. the robots and the former pilot program costs about 10,000,001 which is about $8,700. still with us the kron 4 news at 5 up next.

we shall have some [inaudible], that is company and dancers group, they are going to sing the philippine national anthem. >> i am going to read 2 or 3 paragraphs, my last farewell, our national hero. and in english. fair farewell to a stranger who brightens my well. farewell to all who i love to die is to rest. >> thank you. [applause]. [ foreign speaking ] [singing]. [applause] thank you very much. >> patricia leanne caldwell born in tennessee. daughter of robert and irma. at age of 3 moved to missouri and returned when she was 12 years old. patricia grew up with segregation and injustices which she writes about. she spent many countless hours in the nashville public library. it was her family life that was bountiful and flowing with tales told by her story telling grandfather. raised with love of reading and oral tradition. graduated from tennessee state and degree in english in 1964. she married her childhood friend on december 12. they are the parents of fredrick and twins robert and john. her education continued with a master's degree in early childhood literature, and programming i

this is called, which means flash fire and a wild sharp blades of grass that grows all over the philippines. the room was soaked with the fragrance of mangos. my mind is buzzing with flies. in the other room, my mother is mumbling and crying in her sleep. every night she dreams of the young american solder, the prisoner of war she had seen as a child in the philippineses. he was a blue eyed giant towering over the japanese soldiers. his khaki uniform was torn and stained with dried blood and mud. the faded white tag across his shirt read, private d packston. the solders marched him to the river and made him kneel bite coconut trees on the riverbanks much the japanese officer drew his long sword, dip it in the running water, swung it high and one swoop, cut the american's head off. seconds before the blade hit him the american shouted something. perhaps his mother's name or a lover he had back home. may be it was the name of his god. he called out, but it did not matter. his head turned circles in the air before landing with a small that you had on the soft muddy banks of the river. my mothe

. >> the first of on our journey takes us to the philippine islands. virgin forests that once covered -- were cut down to make way for sugar plantations. what was once a green land is just an enormous field. there has been enormous erosion. this woman is showing these tree nursery employees how to the aim is to protect the environment. >> this area was covered with shrubs. we planted this area for the purpose of minimizing erosion. >> the residences are doing their bit as well, at least those that have a watch and supply. for every cubic meter, they paid the equivalent of 2 cents to the tree cultivation project. this means more trees to store water in the ground and find co2. >> this is a big step towards selling climate change. -- slowing climate change. we now go to argentina. at 4,000 meters above sea level, even summer can get frosty. it is cold and locals have to heat a lot. they use this bush for fuel, a plant carrying vast areas of the region. the supply has dwindled. -- from germany is helping the local steel was scarce fuel supplies. he works f

. >> a man in the philippines is instantly rewarded for his act of chivalry. the man was about to buy a lottery ticket when a woman suddenly cut in front of him and bought hers first of all out the computer to select the numbers, picked the winning combination for the man. the ticket is worth $17 million. and now time for the maryland lottery numbers. >> today the maryland lottery celebrates a special purple monday with a purpledrawing and ravens cash fantasy scratch-off s. >> i am angela jackson with your numbers. hold on, pick four is up next. but first, enter to win ravens club-level tickets for the game on january 2. check out mdlottery.com/ravens and enter by 8:00 a.m. on the 22nd. let yourself play. >> tony is back. we like our forecast encapsulated. >> you shouldn't use big words at the end of your shift. it will feel more like 22 or 23. in the northern suburbs, wind chills in the teens. the be surprised if you see -- be surprised to be a feat -- if you see a few snow flurries. >> issued a joint don not tonight at 5:00. tonight at 5:00.

month mother talked of the germany refugee question and asked if it was better for jews to go to the philippines or the dominican republic. pius 11th was buried. the discover of king tut's tomb also died. the italians called a call to arms to war babies the first time around. when i visited the draft board i noticed my card was filed with a crease at it's corner. farther's laughter was louder than ever. clients who decided to buy had their paintings shipped to houses in the country. i noticed lucie hiding bags of sugar in the closet where i kept my tennis racket. to mother he repeated. don't worry, she replied, i do. i wonder if they rrmed they had a son at all. yet that month seemed to pass more slowly than others. rose's presence was fleeting. i passed by father's office as she sat by the type writer in a green sweater with a hole in the elbow. i found her in the bathroom once with a black tongue as a pen had burst when she licked it's anybody. i handed her a towel and said, just ruin the cloth. to the light in the courtyard i sang along with my new american record. there is a hungry yearning

. >> today's case was about foreign workers from the philippines. the government would like to cut the number of visas issued to regain control over the immigration system. this woman is a qualified care worker. a job that many british workers will not do. so worried about restrictions, they have a court challenge. 28,000 skilled the general work visas are issued. in july, a cap of 24,100 pieces was set -- visas was set. a new cap will be permanently introduced of 21,000. the high court said that when the new immigration rules were drawn up, the actual interim figures were not clear making it easy for the home secretary to change them in the future. the gun against -- the government's immigration website did not say what the numbers would be. in long, there has been no limits for since july. >> there were no limits. these are actually on lawful. the decision to refuse them are unlawful and therefore those certificates will be reinstated within -- by the u.k. border agency. >> home office officials hope not. they believe that new rules on precise limi

i never thought i would be able to tour in the philippines, but we paved the region we played a tor inwe played a tour in manila. it depends on the venue. >> when you came out, and i am not going to mention his name -- but when you came out, you were introduced was his daughter, and now people just know you as norah jones. i assume you are cool with that. >> my father and i are very close. we have a unique history. when i first came out, it did not make sense for me to be known as somebody's daughter. he is amazing, but it was weird a first. it was confusing. do i go with that? nobody wants to hear my personal business. they do, but i do not want to tell it. tavis: we do. but is what myspace is all about. >> people are always looking for an angle or a story, and that was interesting, but that is not my whole story. it is tough when you get headlined as something that is not necessarily everything you are, but of the same time, it does not matter. it is a headline. people get to know you anyway. >> what is with the dogs? they are nice dogs. >> it was his idea to shoot with all the dogs.

these are pack from the philippines and those are what made the things.here's an oil drum that was the precursor. this beautiful angel was once an oil drum and that's outside haiti. they do amazing work. this you can see is a seat and part of the oil drum process is they flatten it out and hammer and this we have beautiful scarves. >> yeah. i want to make sure we show these because you have jewelry to ornaments to scarves and bags. all of them handmade and all of them really benefiting other people in other countries. >> these are some beautiful hand made scarves from cambodia. >> scarves are big right now. >> they are. >> the interesting thing about you is you can't buy it in a store. tough go online or go to a particular place. >> right i come to you. i sell very local and sell at both farmers markets in baltimore city. i guess there's more than two. waverly market on saturdays for one more week and the jfx under the jfx on sunday on the west side at j-fx. >> what do people say to you when they come across night they love it. and i have a great customer

at one point and that in the philippines at the turn of the century when the u.s. 98 or the early 1900's and all the rhetoric was there. i have a lion in the book if you want to find the coast between the ghost writers of george bush you go back to the philippines, the rhetoric for languages all their. to think about the culture it's painful because it is asking hard things about us as human beings. not just americans or something, but it's about us as human beings in the modern age where we have war all the time, the technology may change but somehow we are caught in the squeal and it's hard to get out. and i do that at the levels of the individuals and the institutions. so at the end, i came upon talking about concept of pathology of individual apologies and institutional bureaucratic dysfunctions. a very, very hard things to wrestle with. took a long time. but that's where it ended up. >> speaking of george bush, have you or will you be reading decision points particularly the chapters on afghanistan and iraq? >> well, i read it very, very extensively and memoir

down into the philippines, further to the south here, we continue to get very, very strong northeastonsoon coming in. and that is really kicking up the wind and the thunderstorms. very heavy rain here, particularly for eastern luzon. so the potential for flooding and landslides as we head into the weekend, 32 degrees forecast for manila, 21 in taipei, 14 in shanghai, all kind of moderate. but as we head up to the north, really, we are cooling down here. seoul, 0, you're going to be struggling to get above freezing, actually. and the same goes for beijing into the weekend. we see that coming down even further, minus 19 in ulan bator. if we look at tokyo, ahead of that storm system coming in, 18 is forecast with sunshine. enjoy that over here. let's head to north america. we've got a storm system pushing in further towards central locations of the u.s. this is going to be spreading snow across the northern plains and down into the midwest, too. you can see about 30 centimeters in wisconsin. as that storm pushes further in towards the gulf, it's going to be mostly rain down here, of cou

on the other hand, more so southeast asian economies, including indonesia, the philippines, thailand, they have no capital controls. and they are affected by large inflows. >> currencies -- >> currencies have appreciated substantially. nearly 12% vis-a-vis the dollar in this year alone, on top of the appreciation made the last year. so some currencies have appreciated substantially while some others are not. so this is a kind of imbalance between emerging currencies in asia. >> do you think this trend will continue into 2011? >> i think the trend would basically continue. however, one thing, that is the u.s. economy recovery which is very strong and better than many economies expected, this means that capital from the u.s. would be contained and subdued. that means that although capital inflow to emerging asia may continue, but may not soar so much in coming months. >> the chinese economy grew at a great speed this year. they're likely to become the second largest economy with gdp growing at close to 10% a year. the financial crisis following the 2008 collapse of lehman brothers slowe

for southeast asia, still looking at tropical showers and downpours across the philippines as well as the mainland peninsula and parts of the southern areas of the indo-china peninsula as well. here's a look at highs. 32 in manila and 19 in hong kong. 2 for seoul and 13 in tokyo. a little bit on the cool side. now we head into australian and we do have an update on the flooding situation in new south wales. let's start with a look asome of the scenes coming out from the area. this would be on tuesday in new south wales. widespread flooding. you can see here a very, very serious situation. it's been an ongoing story for the past week or so. much of the state is under floodwaters and residents definitely struggling to cope. officials are warning that more rain could fall, up to 100 millimeters in fact is possible. and that's really overflowing these rivers as well as dams here. very serious situation. looks like a lot of damage to crops as well. so not good news. in fact, for the next 48 hours as well more showers expected to move in through impacting much of eastern australia. and that

let's head into southeastern asia, lots of moisture over the philippines especially towards the east, dealing with hefty showers here, and also for the southern end of the ma lay, bouts of rain and showers pushing into southern vietnam. looking at the temperatures, 31 degrees in bangkok today, 20 in hong kong. the cold area dominating the northern end of china, 3 degrees in beijing and it will continue to creep its way further south, dropping temperatures in places like shanghai on thursday. now, into north america then, the east is recovering quite nicely, still quite stormy and wintry up in the northeast, for places like maine and eastern quebec dealing with heavy, blowing snow, poor visibility and very strong wind gusts as well, but things are generally looking much, much calmer overall. now down towards the south you can see some showers blossoming again over texas, things becoming quite severe today, we'll see more thunderstorms on the cards for you and then out towards the west, winter storms really kicking up, will be affecting a wide area this entire section from montana down

quite you unstable through the philippines. lots of showers and cloud about. manila is 33.tays mild in bangkok, 33. 11 in shanghai. turning wintry for bay joinieij minus 2 degrees. 16 degrees on tuesday. taking you over to europe. the wintry weather is continuing to griffp central and eastern areas. places like germany and po land, the ukraine and into western russia. the cold air is spreading down into the balkans and has been affecting much of turkey as well. here's it's stormy and wintry for the past few days. we've got footage coming out of the area, the middle east. this was taken in lebanon. getting the first snowfall of the season up in the mountains. roads became blocked. workers got busy trying to clear roads of all the snow. strong winds impacting coastal areas with rusty conditions. the wind said to have do you understand a tree, killing one woman. in turkey, dealing with heavy snowfall as well. it looks like some people did enjoy the wintry scene. of course, in the middle east, it has been dealing with lots of stormy weather in the area with sound storms as well

particularly unsettled for the philippines. that mill la coming in at 33 degrees today. mild in bangkok, 32. it is going to be very nice and warm in tokyo, 16 degrees for your daytime high but in seoul, minus 1. pretty chilly out here. let's look at what's happening in north america. middle part of the continent will stay dry and settled but over towards the west and towards the east, containing lots of wet and stormy weather. now eastern canada is due to pick up some more significant snow especially eastern ontario, quebec, looking at up to 20 centimeters of snow and it will be blowing snow and lots of lake-effect snow over towards the northeastern side of the u.s. new brunswick set to pick up lots of torrential rains on tuesday. now as i said, it is going to be largely dry across the east and central portions but lots of cold air ushering from the north, dropping temperatures dramatically again. down towards the southeast we've got freeze warnings in effect for you. then towards the northwestern corner dealing with lots of showers. it's been raining here for days now s

but we run into some problems as we hit the philippines, indonesia, and down through malaysia and singapore. pretty heavy rain behind our nhk world side. towards the koreas, there's going to be some rain, likely be falling as snow. pretty cold conditions here, and that'll also be falling as wintery precipitation across western japan over the next 24 hours. this is on top of the heavy snow we've seen since basically last friday. temperatures are going to be quite chilly in seoul, beijing, tokyo, though, on the pacific side, not too bad. 12 degrees, starting off with a sunny day. looking a little bit on the cold side, minus 18's your high, you're looking at snow. about 9 degrees in shanghai, overcast for you, 10 in chongqing, 30 degrees in manila and 19 in hong kong. what about north america? what about the northeast? talk about a very intense blizzard right now moving through new england and all the way into atlanta, canada, we have some severe weather warnings here. winter watches. we've got blizzard warnings in parts of new york, into boston, all the way up into even new brunswick area. lo

political and economic ties with china, including russia, cuba, venezuela, saudi arabia, iraq, iran, the philippinesand vietnam. >>> meanwhile, in stockholm, sweden two japanese winners of this year's nobel prize in chemistry have spoken about their research and its future uses. elichi negishi and akira suzuki lectured to about 1,000 students in stockholm and around the world on wednesday. negishi is a special professor at purdue university. he began his speech by saying that his 50-year dream came true when he won the award. >> we all are organic. and if you look around, especially in this room, that's organic. you guys are all organic. and the floor's organic. flowers are organic. most everything is organic. and as organic chemists, clearly our goal is to be able to synthesize them all. >> negishi said their cross-coupling may help develop green chemistry, which tries to solve food and environmental problems. suzuki is a professor emeritus at hokkaido university. he explained the way they discovered stable coupling and how it works. >> in the near future if you use our cross-coupling reaction i'll

two connections through the midwest she made it to san francisco in time to board a flight to the philippines. >> another 16 hours ahead of me to fly. >> reporter: the storm is expected to move north. in new york, city workers got the salt trucks ready. they issued a blizzard warning starting at 6 a.m. tomorrow morning for parts of the northeast. al is supposed to take a red eye flight to boston and hopes to get in right before the storm hits. >> you've got to be careful. you never know when the weather will get in the way. >> other passengers in oakland were happy to wait out the storm here in the bay area. >> we are lucky we got out on time and everything was on schedule. >> but these travelers from philadelphia say they are not looking forward to seeing their snow packed driveway when they return. >> this has happened before. and that's what the shovel is for. so got to make the best of this. >> now at the southwest counter in oakland they told me dozens of flights for philadelphia scheduled for tomorrow have already been cancelled today. but it is always best to check directly with your a

. >> the first of on our journey takes us to the philippine islands. virgin forests that once covered -- were cut down to make way for sugar plantations. what was once a green land is just an enormous field. there has been enormous erosion. this woman is showing these tree nursery employees how to plant seedlings. the aim is to protect the environment. >> this area was covered with shrubs. we planted this area for the purpose of minimizing erosion. >> the residences are doing their bit as well, at least those that have a watch and supply. for every cubic meter, they paid the equivalent of 2 cents to the tree cultivation project. this means more trees to store water in the ground and find co2. >> this is a big step towards selling climate change. -- slowing climate change. we now go to argentina. at 4,000 meters above sea level, even summer can get frosty. it is cold and locals have to heat a lot. they use this bush for fuel, a plant carrying vast areas of the region. the supply has dwindled. -- from germany is helping the local steel was scarce fuel sup

army and navy nurses were serving in the military field hospitals in the philippines, and in may 1942 when they, the nurses, were taken prisoners of war. congress argued and the legislation dragged. when a version of the bill passed on 15, may, 1943, the women's army auxillary corps was established. women would serve with the army, not in the army. this meant that members of the wac had no official military status, they would have a separate system of grades and ranks different from men, they could not be placed in charge of any job or mission that involved men, and they couldn't give orders to men, and they did not rate a salute. it would soon be apparent that the women in the waac -- just like the women in the army and navy nurse corps -- could serve in combat zones but were not afforded the military protections, privileges and rights enjoyed by males in similar situations. meanwhile, legislation to create the women's sea services had come to the attention of congress. this bill would establish women's branches in the u.s. navy, marine corps and coast guard. edith north rogers along

in the southern philippines wounded at least six people, including the priest holding the have. -- theervice. snow is continuing to paralyze transport in parts of western europe. 2,000 people were evacuated from the main paris airport because of too much snow on the radio. icy conditions also disrupt travel in other countries. >> christmas 2010 at charles degaulle airport. once again beds and blankets have been brought in for stranded passengers. >> we've been asked to arrange basic comdation for people stuck in the airport tonight. many don't have hotel rooms or relatives live is close by. >> the authorities say there is a shortage of de-icer. to add to their problems, passengers were also asked to leave part of a terminal earlier while staff removed heavy snow from the roof. it was a precautionary measure because in 2004 parts of the roof collapsed. >> i'm very tired at the moment, tired and worried, especially for the babies because they haven't slept well. we flew for 13 hours and now have to sit on seats. >> >> companies have apologized to the passengers and staff. >> i must say h

thanks to a gentlemanly act, a 16-year-old man in the philippines is a millionaire. he was about to by a lottery ticket when a woman suddenly cut in front of him and bought her ticket first. both used the lucky pick method to place their bets. a computer randomly selects the null. the man got the winning combination, scoring $17 million. >> wow! >> and you think the brady bunch had it rough. this woman is in brazil. she has 50 kids. four are hers naturally and she adopted the rest. >> too bad she's not a wednesday's child person. >>> coming up in sports, lindsay is live as the team tries to explain another tough loss. >>> and some elementary school stent got to neapresident and >>> some students at a boys and girls club got a surprise. they moved the event to southeast d.c. >> the president was honoring the los angeles lakers for winning their second saight championship but instead of the traditional ceremony. jo schriffen has more now. >> reporter: it was certainly a once in a lifetime opportunity for these kids. not only did they get a chance to meet the presiden of

certainly took aim at government and he was particularly inferenced about the war of expansion in the philippines that it was basically a false pretext that they were fighting there, that there were commercial interests at stake and he felt that the government and big business created were corrupt. >> he also didn't much care for bankers. he said -- what was his problem with bankers? >> well, i don't know a lot about his opinions about bankers, but i know that in general, he didn't think much of the abuse of power, the accumulation of wealth and costs, especially the unethical imaginations that went on. >> if anything, the residents of these quotes and nature of our current debate, whether it's criticism of our own war policies, some see them now, the relationship between large business and the government and banks, it seems the more things change, the more they stay the same. >> well, that certainly seems to be the case. i couldn't speculate on what mark twain would say today, but i think that we can all see parallels between the issues of his day that he took aim at and the problems we're deali

15 people are dead and 12 are recovering from injuries after a fire ripped through a hotel in the philippines this morning. fire fighters frantically rescued dozens of guests from the burning build. some were moved to tears upon finding 15 burned bodies on the top two floors of the five-story hotel. of the 15 people killed, nine were nursing students, the rest were members of the family that owned the hotel including three children. at least 12 people were sent to the hospital with minor burns. it's not yet clear what caused this fire. >>> eight people are recovering from injuries this morning as well after a tour bus flipped over in the rocky mountains. a bus carrying a texas church group apparently rolled off the road on to its side making a turn on an icy highway. the accident happened just after 8:00 near the town of gunson in colorado. eight people were injured in the crash, two seriously, everyone is expected to recover. >>> rain isn't stopping construction crews from reaching a milestone on the bay bridge span this weekend. crews finished installing the third set of the tower sections

he was finally released when americans liberated the philippines, came back to the united states and lived in west virginia until the age of 102, mr. speaker. 102. he worked the farm. you know, he chose probably the occupation of america's past, the hardworking individual that works american soil. and that was frank buckles. works the soil. today, frank buckles -- and here's his photograph, mr. speaker -- is 109 years old. it's an honor for me to call frank buckles my friend. this photograph was taken in front of the d.c. memorial to world war i veterans, which i'll get to in a minute. so he's 109 years old today, and besides his remarkable life that continues, frank buckles is the lone survivor, the lone survivor, the last dough boy alive that served in the united states army and military during world war i. there are two other survivors. they're both british individuals. they're 109, but he's older than they are. he'll soon be 110 in february. so he's the last survivor, the last living dough boy that served our country. now, he'll soon be 110, mr. speaker. you know, 110 is old. to

> don't ever use a wire service like western union, those, you can't find the company, they are probably off- shore, philippines -- >> good luck getting money back. >> the lock on the bottom right corner -- >> yes. >> gift cards -- >> i thought there was no expiration date in california, give it and use it 20 years from now? >> yes. except, if it's a bookstore -- single store, macy's department store, there are no expiration dates. once you are down to $10 left if you want the $10 in money you can have that. you can. if it's a multiple kind of gift card from a bank, american express card, you can use in lots of different stores have expiration dates, charge you a fee to buy the card. there's a dormancy fee, those get racked up if you don't use it for $12 months, they can take a dollar a month off. the fine print is on the card and should be contact number. one other point, susan: prepaid phone cards are really not gift cards. some of these laws do not apply. >> buying online you often get counterfeit gift cards. >> this time of year, if you are looking for something, don't use a website for the first time if yo

ceremonies is afghanistan, colombia, egypt, russia, kazakhstan, cuba, morocco, iraq, iran, pakistan, the philippines, saudi arabia, serbia, sudan, the genocide government of sudan, tunisia, ukraine and venezuela and vietnam. and when their lobbyists come up here next year begging for help, remember, they were not willing to go to oslo even to stand up for human rights. here we're giving the moroccan government $9 -- $697 million in a grant and will not go to oslo. some will join china in a shameful boycott. this year nobel prize winner is representative, not just of it but of the thousands of chinese prisoners that remain languishing in prison and labor camps due to their political and religious beliefs. chinese authorities continue to crack down on the protestant house church, on catholics, on tibetans, on buddhists, on muslim uighurs and members of the fall ungong. they -- falum gong. they are sending a message for those being persecuted around the world. the people of the united states stand with those in a jail cell day after day, week after week, year after year in the quest for freedom. robert

is it similar to the philippines? does it look like in the in the former soviet union, which are very aggressive in pursuing these kinds of illegal activities, or are they moving toward the sort of italian-style organizations? for example, mafia in sicily with conflict that [unintelligible] this is a point that i would like to stress in terms of competition that could be a very dangerous and development for the europeans, the u.s., and in general for the countries involved in this area. it is a bit strange. al-qaeda in the islamic maghreb is also involved in the shipment of drug loads from morocco, the southern shores of the mediterranean, toward europe. in spain, there are some italian groups that are operating as a means to transport the drugs slowly in italy, and germany. as we saw two months ago, in naples, there has been a judicial inquiry begin -- jim al-qaeda in the islamic maghreb scored a meeting with local criminals in order to get documents. it was already present in another inquiry. so, what about the possi

had my history profitser in college, wrote a book, apocklipts undone, recounting his capture in the philippines, the death march and time as a slave labor in japan for four years. an incredible account. i spoke recently to a 96-year-old veteran at the mountain home v.a. medical center in johnson city about his experience before there was world war ii, when the u-boats were sinking our ships, taking supplies to england. he flew missions to bomb those before there was a war and i looked at his record and that part was inked out. that's a history that would have been lost without this. my own father-in-law flew combat missions in burma supporting during world war ii. i was in a hardy's one morning campaigning, shaking hands, and sat down to talk to two gentlemen and who did i talk to but two veterans who had survived the battle of the bulge and they shared their stories with me. and one veteran in the same blingt, the very same day had, won a silver star after having a severe head injury and i asked him how he was doing and he said, well, he was cutting back on his farming a little bit, he was 87

include other countries in the southeast region, asia region, such as indonesia, thailand and the philippines. one way we ought to deal with t.p.p. and free trade agreements is a way to cash in on the peace dividends created in that region from our efforts in world war ii. the t.p.p. will open asian markets to the united states exports in a way we've never seen. we are already the world's largest exporter. we can build on that and create millions of jobs and better income for our farmers by aggressively competing in markets abroad and by rejecting isolation here at hoefplt now, madam president -- here at home. in closing let me put these considerations in larger context. in the 24 years i've been in the united states senate, in the 8 years prior to that when i was governor, i traveled around the world. i have seen in that time frame -- and i tell these young people who are pages things have changed a lot in the last 40 years. there have been remarkable changes that came after the fall of the soviet union, with the fall of socialism in communist countries, the other countries around the world

to do more with special forces with a smaller footprint in terms of going and look so much of the philippines, but in the middle east at a do you think saudi arabians seem tolerant of this kind of? >> guest: well, i don't know saudi arabia is enthusiastic about they realize they have been funded over which i of radical islam on may well have ended up as a significant threat to of the world of islam, there are so many sunni and shia so, the different shapes beddoe lead to the kinds of stories that came out of the british press and this president has been more critical on foreign soil than any american president in history. and that creates the impression that he somehow thinks he is about america and its history or there is something he needs to distance himself from. i think that's a mistake. harry truman and dean acheson following the second world wars that america would adapt a new strategy. having tried isolationism and having drawn two world wars despite that, they said book, america needs to be active in the world, but we also need to promote our values: human rights, democracy, free tra