mayor lee and his department heads who are here, the ta, but i want to thank the people in particular. first of all, someone who is not a bureaucrat or politician, but helped move forward a vision of the city, paul gillespie. we support you for your idea. and mr. lieutenant governor, it is great to see you back here in san francisco. thank you for working with my board colleagues and planting a goal that none of us, frankly, thought would be achieved. and i want to thank all of you from the taxicab industry. what was accomplished from this ordinance should be the model of how we promote future for rums, when we talk about the taxi world here. we had a hearing at the border supervisors about future reforms. we know there are many things we need to fix in the taxicab world. i hope it is through a model of ideas from taxicab drivers, from the industry working with city officials, to make sure that we are leading the way when it comes to taxis. thank you so much for being here. [applause] >> our next speaker is the person everyone has been referencing, a former taxi cab driver, also the p

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stockholm, reporters began calling cobb's parents in the middle of the night trying to track down the tas tern young woman the media instantly dubbed america's first astronaut. the past year had been a whirlwind for cobb. now she held another confidence. dr. lovelace tested 12 more pilots and she helped se them. the first candidate arrived in albuquerque at the lovelace foundation and more women would soon follow that spring and that summer. all women had been pledged to secrecy, but cobb knew their identities and she considered them exceptional pilots and ideal test subjects. there were identical twins from california, the youngster, 22-year-old mary wallace from taos, new mexico, air force reserve jean hickson, polite instructor from georgia, myrtle kansas city, sarah, executive pilot from houston, ria hurley, chicago, instructor from oklahoma, the sassy air race competitor from ds geraldine jerri sloan and u.s. senator's wife from michigan, janie hart. as cobb made idle conversation with james web at the luncheon's head table, she hoped he wouldn't ask her about the new mexico tests. t

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i focus on the sites that ta the broken arrow stuff is not really within my direct line of sight. >> can you explain what it is? >> what he's referring to is when a nuclear warhead gets in an accident. so it has happened, unfortunately, over the last 50, 60 years we've had nuclear weapons, where there's been airplanes that had nuclearasd. so there's sites around the country and around the world where that's happened. it's my understanding that the d.o.d. is in charge of monitoring those and the effort was made, you know, when it happened to clean up and make sure -- no time did it ever happen that a nuclear warhead detonated and there was a nuclear explosion because of one of those. but sometimes when a nuclear ou each though it doesn't detonate the way you want it to, radioactive material is disbursed. >> in brief, maryland writes in about thorium. that would eliminate some of the concerns about nuclear power being used for po

by 2020 moving forward, the federal government would pay 90% of the ta states have the right to opt-out of the medicaid program, but if they do, they would lose huge amounts of federal money to pay for care for people with low incomes. >> obamacare is going to expand medicaid and the taxpayers can't afford it. >> reporter: several dozen people demonstrated in front of the court again today against what they say is an overreach of federal power. thomas miller is a resident fellow at the american enterprise institute, a conservative think tank in washington. >> the states say we can't even afford the current medicaid program, and this would in effect give them no flexibility to make any adjustments, reasonable adjustments, maybe can cover more people in a certain way, but not under the rigid federal rules. >> reporter: people who say they've been helped by medicaid came to the mike today outside the court to tell their stories. >> as a doctor, i tell you medicaid works for seniors, kids, people with disabilities and families. >> reporter: ron pollack, executive director of families u.s.a.

. >> then the filmmakers come up with the real ta-dah moment. >> the table is set with just the table dishes. and then he dumps into the shelf and falls to the ground. >> the directors prepare for the second shot. >> with the living room demolition a success. dominic and matt bring the video into edit. >> we brought both videos together. as if sven was able to pull the table cloth out from under the dishes and the shelf was falling on mchale. >> with the magic of editing police, the filmmakers are happy with the result. however they do notice one small mistake. >> in the front you see a pin that is slightly moving so there is a mast that's not running correctly. this could be a clue that this video is faked. >> in august of 2011, the theater launches the magic show online. it tricked viewers earning more than 10 million hits turning mchale and sven into internet celebrities. >> i think it's cool. >> my father suggested we print autograph cards. >> it went all over the world so people in australia and people in south america, they were watching our video, so that was really, really exc

so they are busy in the baa ta bases doing that. we have to take down an exhibit. we just had an exhibit on why commemorate the war. so that has to come down first, which we'll do in a couple weeks. put those artifacts back into their home and let them rest. and then our maintenance crew will go in and paint and get the galleries ready because it's five galleries. it's going to be a huge exhibit. and then about mid-april a company will come in that will help us install the flags. they have built special frames for them. so we'll install the flags. and that's a big deal to move the flags because we can't just put them in a truck and do it. we have to do this proper and by museum standards and procedures and what's best for the flags. so we've hired someone to help us with that. then the final week, we'll install the other artifacts that will be on exhibit. and then we open. so there's a lot to do. we have text panels to proof and print. . we have labels for all the artifacts. people love to see tons of artifacts on exhibit, but we have to have labels made for all of

particularly early changes in the aart ta. that puts them at higher risk for aortic dissection and they tend to die very young. smoking in adolescent slows the development of lung function and teens who smoke can end up as adults that don't reach their full functioning capacity. another finding shows that marketing and advertising to young people have been very successful. the scientists use epidemiological studies to show causality. the more youth is exposed to marketing and advertisements, the more likely they are to maintain and start smoking. in the united states alone more than $1 million an hour, over $27 million a day is spent on targing messages and images to portray smoking as an acceptable or appealing activity. we know that prevention is the key. 99% of smokers began smoking before the age of 25, so we want to prevent the next generation from starting to smoke. if we can get them from smoking, less than 20% will start. we know what works, when we enact smoke free laws, we support healthy decisions. we know when we in

and the s&p 500 finished higher by three-tths of a percent compared ta we ago. for the s&p 500 and the nasdaq, it's the eighth week of gains out of the past nine. as for today, the energy sector was the biggest drag on the market. this energy exchange traded fund shed a little more than one percent on the back of weaker oil prices today. but the volatility within the sector was with coal stocks. peabody energy fell 6.5%. alpha natural resources was down almost 6%. and consol energy shed almost 4%. here's the up and down wh oil this wee pricesooled tad today, dropping below $107 per barrel. this recent rally has stalled out around $110 per barrel so far. we learned a little more about sara lee's plan to split up its company. it will spin off its coffee and tea business with shares that will trade on the amsterdam stock exchange. that news helped its big board listed shares, rising more than 7%. volume jumped five fold with the stock rising to a new 52-week high. this is part of its plan to split into two publicly traded companies. speakingf foodwe mentioned the in

>>> later, in a winter that hasn't had much snow in the east, a unique run down a mountain. ta >>> the federal government today launched a new ad campaign designed to get people, especially teenagers to stop smoking or avoid starting. the cdc says tobacco-related diseases kill under half a million americans each year. there's been a disturbing uptick in the rate of teenage smoking. they say these ads are graphics and disturbing because they need to be. our report from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: for anyone who hasn't gotten the message about the dangers of smoking, the government's new ad campaign is designed to shock and horrify. >> reporter: gruesome testimonials from former stoking living with cancer, heart disease and vascular disease. >> first it was my left leg. after my left leg it was my right leg. >> reporter: 31-year-old brandon carmichael started smoking when he was 15. >> if you're going to start smoking, it can affect you now, not necessarily woe you're 70, 80, 90. >> reporter: the ad campaign is targeting those who smoke or haven't started. >> ads only work i

what you are doing is you are changing the way in which the irs is collecting tas, and doing it in a rational way that is infinitely more fair. >> it took yeaears to do the reagan reformer plan. taken away loopholes in theory but it is not going to work out that way. no cuts to defense for theand for the poor, t the disabled, the middle classes, structural things for the country -- i suspect that is not something people want. >> anyone who was had a serious lo of the budget has said the same thing. you cannot have only tax cuts. inde -- you need revenue enhancers. ryan is being true to his principles. this is not a disservice to romney. this is what romney wants, toooo.. they rely heavily on cutting discretionary spending, which wouldld make it harder on the poor they want to increase defense spending. the same old thing we saw -- >> with all due respect, that is completely wrong. when you say there are no revenue enhancers liberalals think that if you t rates, you cut taxes. it is completely revenue neutral. the irs stands up with exactly the same route. -- same amount. marginal rate

what the white house says is ta he's not necessarily against the pipeline.n to jay carney. >> the president believes that it is wrong to play politics with a pipeline project whose route has yet to be proposed, a fact that the company involved affirmed again this week that they have not yet identified a route for this possible pipeline. therefore, it cannot possibly be reviewed adequately since it does not exist. >>. >> reporter: the problem that the white house has is there are a good number of democrats either those from oil-producing states or those who are potentially in the route of the pipeline that could see some jobs come to their state. they feel that this is something that it's hard to vote against. and the republicans know full well that this is dicey politics for democrats. that's why the house speaker came out and said this about the president. >> personally lobbying against the keystone pipeline means the president of the united states is lobbying for sending north american energy to china and lobbying against american jobs. >> in an election y

the country. it's much easier to go into a country, than to leave it, and we have paid dearly in tas the those places are still uncertain ft it's very upsetting that the head of iraq, maliki, is pro-iranian. that's very troubling. it seems to the extent we can be clear eyed and focused together on a mutual set of red lines. using military force if nothing else works. it's the best way to change the policy in iran. >> now i hope we can cross to jerusalem. some on the ground insights. we can go live to the diplomatic correspondent. what threats most concern you? morning, david. >> good morning, rafael. of course, everybody is talking about ooimpb, and we are very well aware that the ahmadinejad regime is inching towards a nuclear weapon, and we are keeping an eye on the situation, and of course, we're looking toward to what's being discussed at the conference and the meetings between president obama and prime minister netanyahu. and the camp is split between those who feel israel needs to launch a strike or perpetuate a way decided in 1981, when israel established it will not tolerate the hostile neigh

the 16th century. missionaries like diego de landa trietowith ta ierpret the hierogl was t fst ttry orlate them with the spanish alphabet. (david stuart) it was a fundamental sunderstanding of what mayariting is cause the maya never used an alphabet. landa only knew alphabets-- that's all that he could really imagine writing could be. and so he wrote down an a, b, c but he was writing down signs that made no sense as an alphabet. the glyphs were associated with maya rigion directly. he saw thelyphs as a reflection of that idolatry that had to be destroyed. and so he's very famous, for gathering together these... these manuscripts and having a bonfire-- destroying them all. (narrator) only three or four codices survived-- manuscripts made from the bark of fig trees. cracking the maya code has been a long and painstaking process. scholars gradually have identified sentence structures and realized that the mayan language was far more sophisticated than any other mesoamerican language. it's a complex system based on more than 500 hieroglyphs. it has sentences. it has verbs. it has adjectives. just like any

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conditions in such argument against that, the states make in their brief is, we have to draw the line somewhere. in tas v butler, the united states said, if in lieu of compulsory regulation congress could invoke the taxes and spending power to accomplish a forbidden end, then the spending power would become subversion of the government powers reserved for the states. that's clearly true. you can't say it is a fair exchange when the highwayman says "your money or your life." and the same thing is true of the federal government's relationship to the states. federal government can't -- we all know from the coercion cases that the federal government couldn't force the states to do certain things. new york v united states, congress can't compel a state legislature to pass certain laws. well it also shouldn't be allowed to say, you have to give us your money. you have to give us federal income taxes and taxes for us to spend as we will, and we'll give some of that back to comply with our demands. and our demand exceed our constitutionally authorized powers. that is an unreasonable way of interpreting the con

they found that the new i ta pad can get as hot as 116 degrees while video gapes are being played. it is 13 degrees more than the ipad 2. the story comes after hundreds of comments were posted on the support website, complaining about the device getting uncomfortably warm. the new device operates within the thermal specifications. >> remember the first bike you ever had and the joy of ride something later your car became the main form of transportation. >> bikes can be essential for those with little transportation. a man makes sure people keep riding. >> that's right. jim gardener is an engineer by trade, but a few years ago after he was 0-4 in start ups, he took stock of his and doesn't like what he saw. service to others is what is about and he took an interest in bikes and bike repair and started doing just that. it's tonight's bay area proud. >> this is going to be some very major surgery. >> for someone who swears up and down it's not about the bikes -- >> it's cross threaded. >> jim seems to know a lot about how they work. >> let me try. i think i can fix it. i think i can fi

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. >> denise, a university of arizona freshman says the ta takeover was the culmination of years of frustratedr way? >> we tried talking through letters. we went to meetings with them and they wouldn't even all meet with us. >> after that confrontation security at school board meetings was dramatically increased. school board member michael hicks says the added security applies to everyone. >> we felt that it was so volatile that the atmospheres that we were dealing with, people want to make it more than what it is, but it is all about safety of the individuals in the meetings. >> rodriguez says the response is over the top, that the guards now out number the school board members. >> these students didn't come in with weapons. they said we will speak for ourselves, you know. this is about education. >> both sides say the other side over reacted. >> they have established a sentence of us versus them and rather than working with one another. >> both sides would say unfortunately this photograph is a sign of the times in arizona. >> nine-year-old boy. want to bring in thelma live in los angeles,

the students did as they'd been ta taught. when the earthquake struck, they ducked under their desks and when it was over they came out here to the playground into the open to be safe from wereshocks. they were all lined up here as instructed when the tsunami swept in, washing 74 children and ten teachers to their deaths "how could this happen" naomi hiratsuka wants to know. she channeled her grief and rage into searching for her daughter's body. she learned to operate a heavy excavator so she could search more places. even after her daughter's body was found, she continues to search for others. "nobody wants their child left in the mud" she said. heyomi shito focused her anger at the school. "why" she demanded "were the children not protected?" official told them it was their destiny. that so destiny. that so enraged parents of the dead children they did something not often seen in japan. the they shouted at school officials. in in this video of one heated meeting shot by a parent, this man slammed a shoe on the table. "that's

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of the traffic through livermore and through the dublin pleasanton area. 19 minutes coming out of the at ta through livermore east bound out of the area, that might be a concern earlier because more folks might head to the sierra. the recent snows made reception for the skiers but we talk about the avalanche risk and what potential for snow affecting your local smaller roadways. potential. we're looking here to hayward. a smooth drive through the castro valley so we'll focus on downed wires. allen has been out there at the corner of kelly and bay view. they have been repairing this all morning. a car went into a power pole. you see traffic getting through but the power may be out until about 330 chock. you'll have to slow through the intersection. looking at the possibility of alarm clocks being out so if you have friends in the area, give them a call. a live shot, the bay bridge toll plaza with the backup. we have well, first we have a crow here. we have cars off the 880 over crossing, very slow here, 880 moves through oakland up to the toll plaza. back to you. >> a bird lover, mike. bay a

for all of the gardening that was done previously, things could be killed. i hate to say ta, we have the freeze warning that's in effect for all the light blue color. for southern baltimore, also arundel county sp howard county, viewing area here, under a freeze watch as we go through late evening in to tomorrow morning. things aren't looking so good. i will show you the freezing temperature in a second. we are not looking although any type of freezing. we are mild this morning as we step out and about. the temperature at 51 baltimore. future trend, not picking up on a lot. plenty of sunshine for us, continuing in to tuesday, and then wednesday approaches with another cold front with that, that's where we will have the chance for showers and a rumble of thunder to work in to the picture. this is what we have for hour by hour, lunchtime, the temperature around 57 degrees, it will be breezy for today. this 60 i'm forecasting is going to feel chillier that that. the winds will be becoming out of the north. great picture time, walter sally of manchester sent this in. one of my w

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for more on the issues that have sparked a national conversation, we turn to ta-nehisi coates, a senior editor for "the atlantic." reihan salam, a columnist for "the daily," a newspaper for the ipad and lead writer of the agenda blog at "national review" online. donna britt is the author of the book "brothers and me," which is in part about the shooting death of her brother by police in gary, indiana. she's a former syndicated columnist for the "washington post." and, florida state representative dennis baxley is a republican legislator who co- authored that state's so-called "stand your ground law." he joins us from orlando. ta-nehisioat, i'lltart with you. there's been a lot of calls for the police chief to step down, he's done that at least temporarily now. what's your reaction? >> i think it's a good first step. i think over the long term we'll have to see how much it actually means for the investigation. i think what's important is that people were not simply calling for him to step down just because there has not been an arrest. people were calling for him to step down because the

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went around and asked republicans back nb 1993, they were just for the individual mandate, ta were dying to tell you how much they loved it. the bill's author, i and the majority of republicans strongly believe the route to go with is an individual mandate. bob doyle, we have an individual mandate in our plan. you have an individual mandate where all persons would have the responsibility to have coverage? is that correct? >> senator bond answer, that's correct. senator don nickels of oklahoma. we have an individual mandate. we say everybody in america has to provide insurance for themselves. they put out a plan that features an individual mandate as its main component. newt gingrich was for the mandate as recently as 2008. mitt romney not only clean upped an individual mandate as part of a health reform that he signed as governor of massachusetts, he came out in favor of a federal health care individual mandate back in 1994. back when it was a republican idea. he wanted the republican individual mandate idea not just fr massachusetts but the whole country. now that it's president obama w

number of our senior ncos who looked over the fence, if you will, at what the contractors were providing and decided to kind of make ta leap at the time. however, i will tell you our experience within special operations is most of those folks regretted that move. and while it is only anecdotal in terms of their service, i can tell you the few that did get out, and while -- while we had a trend, we were able to correct that trend through appropriate bonuses and pays, but the fact of the matter is when we were able to correct that trend and talked to some of the soldiers that was airmen, marines, a lot of them said, hey, we prefer the service. when you look at it from a cost benefit analysis, we talked earlier about the retirement benefits. let me tell you, sir, you're much better off staying in the military over the long haul. the retirement benefits, the retirement package is very sound. it is very good. a lot of these young fellows really just didn't do the basic calculation early on. >> there's -- as you know, i'm troubled by this. but also our presence now with the turn of events in afghanistan, i'm understanding n

will are the reports that saudi arabia and ta r march begun t n town -- what is the possibility that saudi arabia and other arab countries are arming the rebels and are we communicating the position about what our position is on army new rebels and could thattine mean to the pow emerment and cladia all at one. i was in the chair during the some of this. but if you could answer that, that would be great. >> senator, we've been very hesitant about pouring fuel on to a con full grags that asaid himself has set. we're very consensus on political tracks, diplomatic tracks, in order to kpet to the consultation earlier. >> there this is right decision. but we would like to use the political tools that are at our disposal and that includes the security council in order to advance the tipping point because it not clear to us that arming people right now will either save lives or lead to the demise of the afff questions. the i don't think when you hear them talking about arming the opposition they're talking about somehow betting men are serious implications. >> if you have any thoughts on tha