focusing on the top 2% is a more fair and better way to achieve fiscal sustainability, better for the economy and better than the impact of an equivalent amount of cuts in things like benefits to middle income seniors or into infrastructure and defense spending. we propose tax reforms that raise revenues not because we think it's good politics for us or that any of us like to do it. we propose it because we do not believe it is possible to meet our national security needs to preserve a basic level of health care and retirement security to competeeffectively without some increase in revenues as part of a balanced plan. now, we illustrate in the budgets a range of specific tax changes that could be added on to the present tax system to raise the necessary amount of revenue. but we think the best approach to get there is through would be through comprehensive tax reform. we've outlined a general set of principles that will be designed to make the system more fair, more simple, better encouraging investment in the united states. we're going to lay out in the coming weeks a broad framework

hello welcome to the thursday night sports roundup and you know the top stories. full steam ahead this hour i want to look a much excitement in search of goals. as they target and last sixteen spots in the euro can be. a give and forgets manager about summer is ready to bring back carlos tevez as his manchester city side targets a double trash you're right a league holders for tight. all the court is also trash olympiacos to reach the last eight. but first a footballing sorrow wants his side to go out and score goals as lokomotiv moscow are inspired in this those day night to take on athletic bilbao for a spot in the last sixteen of the europa league there oh i made it take a two won the first leg lead into the tie but you sara doesn't want his side to just settle for a draw while the russian side moving because i don't need to overturn a one zero first leg deficit a greek side of n.p.r. cost well those games are among the fifteen second legs taking place this thursday elsewhere athletico madrid has the lot already three one up and i guess while manchester united h

staff had also -- it looked like a box on the top of the house. i call the staff, i forget whether it was mr. cabreras and said, what is going on here? he mentioned there was a historical issue that the addition to the top of the house was not supposed to look like the rest of the house. i said, that does not make any sense to me. the fact the original design apparently had a tile shed roof and where the addition was so it looks like everything else which is mission revival in the neighborhood and to put just a box on the top without the kind of finishing is not right. at the very least, regardless of what we decide as far as the addition and how far forward it should come, i think the project sponsor should be allowed to finish that in a way that looks a program like every other addition whether it is the original structure where the other additions that have been done have all been sympathetic to the context of the neighborhood. i think even some of the d.r. requestors would agree that finishing at the right way it will look like it belongs with

up till 1986 the top statutory rate was 50%. now it's 35%, and all the pressure is on to lower that even further. this just doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. when people say, oh, we can't raise taxes on the rich, they'll go on strike, they'll move to another country, but within recent memory, it hasn't been that long ago that we had rates that were substantially higher and these people did just fine. >> when i was growing up in the '50s, the top marginal tax rate, if i remember correctly, was 91%. >> that's right. i just think that there's a disconnect between the facts of what taxes do and the sort of mythology of what they do. i think in many ways, the tax debate is a code for an attitude towards the individual visa vie government. if you think government is bad or incompetent, if you glorify the individual against the state, then taxes is sort of the territory where you're going to fight these battles. it's a signaling mechanism. it tells people you're one of us on the tax issue. you're for tax cuts and low tax rates a

real solutions to get americans back to work to create a sustainable economy the benefits not just the top one percent but all americans and to make the united states competitive once again in the global marketplace we're also here to discuss what ideas won't work and why and i will set the record straight and offer specific and popular policies that congress and president obama can get to work on immediately to get us back on track we're going to focus tonight on three main questions number one why and how we almost plunged into a second great depression a few years ago to what kind of future will americans have if conservatives control the economy and finally three how do we rebuild the american dream luckily we're not alone to find answers to find answers to these questions in fact we're joined by some very very impressive panel alongside me here in the studio robert borsak the co-director of the campaign for america's future and a center for ideas an action that works to build an enduring majority for progressive change campaign for america's future also runs an annual gathering of pro

of that the proposed tax plan would cut taxes at the top and cut social programs at the bottomy extending the bush tax cuts, revealing the estate tax and proposes paying for all of those tax cuts to cuts to so-called domestic problems. in other words the safety net. at the prayer breakfast this morning, the president said the country has a moral obligation to strengthen the safety net. >> it's about the blib i will call to call for the least of these, the poor for those at the margins of our society. to answer the responsibility we're given in proverbs to speak up for those who could not speak for themselves. >> it was a clear jab at romney who made the comment he wasn't very concerned about the very poor. here is maria who is the senior fellow at the center for american progress, and we're alsoed from new york by charles blow of the "new york times." well to both of you thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> take you. >> let me start with maria because you have got your own political consulting company as well and worked in the clinton house with and if you put on your hat

those drillers had ways to drill through the formations on top of the hill. they started in october of 1900. and they got down to rock right before christmas, and they all went home for the holiday, and they came back and just started putting everything back in the ground again, and they dropped e and started drilling and the drill bit got caught crevace. they tried everything to get it out. they promised to go to 1200 feet. they were at 1020, trying to go down to 1200. and they got about 700 feet of pipe into the hole, and all of a sudden, the whole derrick started shaking, the ground shook. first, water came out of the me a horrible mess. and then it quieted down. water a began bursts and rock, pieces of rock coming out. fortunately no one got hurt, it is a miracle, but they waited after it calmed down and they went out and they were standing on the platform, the derrick platform, and our favorite driller, al hamill, that guy was so interesting, he was the youngest, the single guy, he comes over and there's this hole. and he hears something, the drill pipe,

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and a group of 20 businessmen decided that it would be better if the top of the hill remained for the public. so they put their money down and they bought four lots at the top of the hill and they gave them to the city. lily hitchcock coit died without leaving a specific use for her bequest. she left a third of her estate for the beautify indication of the city. arthur brown, noted architect in the city, wanted for a while to build a tower. he had become very interested in persian towers. it was the 1930's. it was all about machinery and sort of this amazing architecture, very powerful architecture. he convinced the rec park commission that building a tower in her memory would be the thing to do with her money. >> it was going to be a wonderful observation place because it was one of the highest hills in the city anywhere and that that was the whole reason why it was built that high and had the elevator access immediately from the beginning as part of its features. >> my fear's studio was just down the street steps. we were in a very small apartment and that was our backyard. when the

the top red line is the president's budget. using straight forward accounting techniques. that's what probe's plan could claim if you use the bush administration's accounting. so secretary's acknowledged that we've got a lot of work to do. ten years and beyond. >> that tells me your ensmiemy omb. >> well -- except for in this case, omb actually did it the way i think we want them to do in terms of calculating the likely outcome. i just want to end with this. i do have. [ no audio ] >> i have to leave early because i have positive sign the payroll tax cut conference. you raised the issue. the chairman raised the issue. fundamentally we have to figure out a way to come together to resolve these issues. we believe it's important in the short term to continue to take measures that are described in the president's budget to boost the job growth. i remember more than a year ago a lot of our republican colleagues were pointing to the new government in the uk as an example of how we should proceed here. we should have an austerity budget. they're not very good. it's a good thing w

at the top, good. we're going to say that this is the glass from here on down, so how would you break it? do i just want to take it like this and smash it this way? no. the end of the board, going to use the end of the board, but i'm also going to remember that the glass can hurt me. if i were to hit it like this, the glass could slide down, cut my hand. so you want to start at the top like he said, hold this down, turn your head away, you start at the top and smash the glass this way down like that. if it does slide down, it's going to go away from you and not towards your hand. real simple. use a long-handled tool, stand to one side, strike up at the top and you want to clean it all out before you go in there. in this part of the lecture we're going to talk about structural damage. we're going to talk about triaging buildings now, believe it or not. we're going to talk about how to look at structural damage and tag these buildings either light, moderate or heavy damage buildings. we're going it talk a

area take a look at the top three ok look at the median household incomes they are six figures in the top three counties all around washington d.c. listen this man puts it pretty clearly as far as what this is like. you know the part of the country where people can speak consider locally rich someone here making a hundred thousand was just median for just median you're just right in there for making six figures all the top fifteen richest counties are in the d.c. area the top fifteen if you what more evidence do you need about the people sucking on the teat of government then that well yes courageous because the money gets redistributed to d.c. i think it's absurd i can't stand to see and i live here so that's when i was the thing i got this i don't i mean the fact that they make that much money. this this city is really slow place to be compared to new york so i'm shocked at that make them whole i think one thing that you find is all of the contractors and a lot of the people that benefit from business the government are all around here and they've all done quite. forgot about that o

what rick santorum believes he has that will put him over the top. >>> another storm is winding up out in the pacific. we'll tell you what that means for our wits tomorrow. in the meantime it's windy tonight big chill for monday. we'll haveal the detail when we do weather in what will seem like micro seconds. . >>> hollywood celebrated the best of the big screen tonight with newcomers young and old taking home the big prizes. >> reporter: good evening. the most talked about movie on the red carpet among celebritys was the black and white film artist. george clooney called it himself e. told me before the award show he expected to lose the best actor oscar to the star of the artist and unfortunately for george clooney he was right. the artist captured academy voters hearts while barely saying a word. see let film took home five awards including best picture, director and best actor. the most nominated performer in academy history meryl streep won her third oscar. this one as best actress in the iron lady. >> i had this feeling i could hear half of america going oh, no. oh, why her, agai

states. >> stephen: . >> jon: what's interesting to me about it is a lot ofth rhetoric on the race to the top and the respect initiative is about innovation and creativity. but what i hear from the teachers is that there is an infrastructure that has been created that is actually more confining because it is causing the schools to teach to the tests that they must have to qualify for grant money. and that, and the three teachers here today-- are-- i think it tends to frustrate them rather than free them to be creative and powerful innovative teachers that you are looking for. >> right, so i actually agree with that and the president addressed it. >> jon: so there we g so we're done here. >> the president addressed it directly in the state of union. he said we have to stop teaching it to the test. i lived on the other side of the law for seven and a half years when i ran chi public school. that is the biggest complaint i hear as i travel the country. yes, reading and math are fundamental, foundational but science, social studies, dance, drama, art, music, foreign languages, pe, all those thing

this line is the top one one hundredth of one percent. this is tough but this is where all the money is going now if you were to chart productivity and here you would see productivity goes like this and historically if you go back pre reagan wages and productivity went up together but ever since the reagan revolution no wages of flattened out and all the gains all the profits from productivity there go to the top one tenth of one hundred the most percent the top one to do a tenth of a percent and the top one percent that's a you know theft is now legal even promoted thanks to reaganomics we need to roll back the reagan tax cuts close the tax loopholes for job outsourcers empower unions those these are all of things that are popular individually and proof that america is not conservative it's the america is a progressive nation and a pretty straightforward still after the break with the fight for workers' rights in high gear across the nation students at the university of virginia are taking the fight into their own hands what are they figh

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called touch from the top story. on the go. video on demand. old girls and streets now in the palm of your. question on the dot com. the u.s. defense secretary is hailed afghanistan's involvement in peace talks with the taliban president hamid karzai has confirmed u.s. and afghan efforts at negotiating peace but all these military contribute says cause i continues to avoid the real issues that prevent stability in the country. interview to a wall street journal was the most important public relations event for the president of afghanistan it was rather strange where mr karzai during this interview quoted unwittingly the former soviet president gorbachev referring to afghanistan as the moving war in full display of poetical correctness mr karzai was carefully spared from answering to most important challenges facing afghanistan right now that is there rampant corruption. that is suffocating the country. and the narco aggression. two leading factors there who precipitated the implosion of ghana's stand from within. russia and china came under int

sixteen again sixty three fifty eight the result however unix still top group with three wins and just that one defeat. to winter sport now and the russian city of sochi will host the winter olympics in exactly two years time and its new to build biathlon course has been described as one of the toughest in the world the course of clubs now by the ana is set to host its first serious test event this weekend and the president of the russian biathlon union believes the athletes will find it tough millionaire be called rocket of inspecting the venue ahead of the russia cup and warns that high differences of up to sixty metres between peaks and troughs will make it exhausting while the climbers will also take its toll. at the start. it's the most difficult course in the world what the temperature differential between the snow in the air is only four degrees celsius we don't have this anywhere else in the world for the ski lubricator for the people who prepare the skis this is a huge problem but this makes the competition all the more unpredictable by city and finally it's a boxing day

has been pretty cooperative this weekend so as you mentioned, crews are going to be able to re-open the top deck way ahead of schedule. >> thanks to great teamwork, great support by motorists, and great weather, the bay bridge is going to open tonight. >> reporter: on the second full day without traffic flowing over the top deck of the oakland bay bridge, crews continued their work on the westbound approach and made great progress. so good the bridge is opening more than a day ahead of schedule. most of the really complicated work on the project was done by sunday morning. caltrans says the sunny weekend has been one of the biggest factors in the progress. >> the work is going well, things are on track. we have been able to do the work we planned for. >> only a few odds and ends neat to get done before the westbound deck is re-opened. >> the bridge opens at 7:00, and i mean we're going to begin picking up cones at 7:00. >> even if construction crews made quick progress, this closure created a squeeze on the other bridges. traffic on the san mateo bridge was not an issue for most of the week

but i want to remember her when she was at the very, very top, because we all love stars like this. >> simon, if you could hold on the line for one moment. we're going to go back to don lemon in atlanta. he's going to give a quick news update. >> piers and simon, thank you very much. stand by, everyone, who is watching around the world. i'm don lemon in atlanta. thank you for watching. breaking news tonight. one of the greatest voices of her generation, whitney houston has died. the grammy winning entertainer was just 48 years old. we've learned that from the beverly hills police department, and we have been honoring her all evening here, as soon as we got the information and mourning the loss to the world in general. i'm joined by piers morgan, my colleague here on cnn. if i could ask simon a question. i'm noticing on twitter and from the reaction i'm getting, a lot of young people looked up to whitney houston. she meant to much to so many young people, especially performers. >> you know, it was interesting, and i was thinking about this tonight, is that i started -- as i said, i've

there is a look at your average speeds, 59 and 60 on the top and the west side. there is a live look at 83 at ruxton road, the harrisburg expressway still problem free. we can say the same thing for the top side of the beltway at hartford road a beautiful sunrise there. this is brought to you by your toyota dealer. >>> and now it is time to send it over to manic monday. ♪ [ music ] >> all right. ronnie, good morning, how goes it? >> it goes just great. goes great. you guys doing all right. >> uh-huh, doing fine. >> excellent, glad to hear it. manic monday at fell's point, a bright fell's point this morning. we are so happy to have this group back. the national association of social workers. great to see you guys. and in the back there don and marty, the green terror from mcdaniel college. welcome. he actually got here early for fell's point halloween celebration next year. all right here is daphne. good morning. >> good morning. how par you? >> we are doing great. we have a big month coming up. right some. >> right. >> it is social month work. >> social month wor

it's friday and time for the "rtm" top ten countdown "right this minute." it's a sunday motorcycle ride along a winding road. >> that has some pretty major canyons. >> see the panic as one rider flips right over the railing while his horrified buddies watch. >>> this some kind of sign that -- >> we are not alone. >> so, is it something from a ufo or something else altogether? >> god blowing smoke rings. >>> a tv host wears a boa around her neck. but not the feathery kind. >> he's in her shirt. >> and down her sleeve. >> get me out of this. >> okay. wait. >>> and meet the mom who had a baby stuck in new york traffic. >> did you ever think oh, my gosh, not in a cab? >> no. i was like pull my pants down, there's a head there. >>> it's time to get our countdown started. we begin with our number ten video of the day and christian has it for us. >> a group of buddies enjoying a nice motorcycle ride on a sunday afternoon, pretty awesome. this is on mulholland drive or highway in the los angeles area. very curvy road and this video comes from a gopro camera from the

very, very light from the top, so it run down all the way.o her headdress, her jewelry, everything just embedded, almost, with the background. i could never imagine i could have done this in china, because of the way i was trained. i like to surprise myself. that's why i think it's a sense of liberation, of freedom. another day, another dollar. another day, another penny, but i feel great. i was somehow energized by the other painting. sometimes i feel like the writer's block. i have a painter's block, too. i felt yesterday i just couldn't do this anymore. today i came in the morning, and somehow i just felt i changed my attitude. i was not too frustrated. also, i i felt i was ready this morning. it's good i don't have a phone here. i don't need the interruptions. the dog and the train sounds enough for me. i want to finish this painting in time for the new york show. [ sighs ] hello. everybody, i'm home. okay. all right. how did you feel about what you did today? i'm proud of myself. i went back to the big painting, the triptych, today. i st

on the pressure while china combines with russia's. solution by sending a top diplomat to damascus. on whether russian should be an official language the motion which is likely to fail was put forward by the russian minority which represents a third of the population complains of state. european impartiality is under scrutiny at a number of schools accused of brainwashing your values into children they claim to teach multiculturalism but tied to the e.u. control of the curriculum raises questions about how much propaganda is being taught. those of the top stories here in our next max and stacey discuss who are the wealthiest americans come from and where they reside balog more kaiser report that's next. or this is a cause a report where do the one percent really i mean what do they really live. max that's our first headline here where the one percent live the fifteen richest counties in america and this is from census bureau data and my answer is that pretty much they live within an hour's drive of washington d c ten of the fifteen are within an hour's drive of washington d.c. either

only the third top seeds to exit the first round in the event history sunday beaten by ernie els five and for the south african working the greens and new to play for westwood east past belgian nikolai call says three and one and u.s. open champion mcelroy defeated george gets a two hour ride to the events from under a stunning upset tiger woods was. useable and to the end howard is finding it had his nose in front with four holes to go but the american former world number one meant to come back to when their final. however down and open champion darren clarke they both went at. the back and that's all the bison. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of kenya that. operations are over they. are. tightening the noose around the assad regime further calls for a military invasion and threats of sanctions seen by many in syria as obstacles on the path to a possible political solution to the crisis will be there.

she said most of the top apps don't have them and the new policy will protect consumers.ers are now on notice, violating the new rules can cost them five hundred thousand dollars peruser per violation. >>> the folks myth busters back in the bay area tonight but this time it's not because of a cannon basement the stars of the show went to dublin high a engineering academy open house. they didn't talk about the cannon ball that crashed into a house and a van two months ago. instead they got students excited about science and technology. >> since the -- really my inspiration to be engineering i it was cool to see them. >> tonight's fair is part of national engineers week. >> think about your favorite foods, turns out even after eating them for years you can develop an allergy against them. this is happening to more and more adults these days. a doctor on the symptoms that are easy to dismiss. >> living her dream at the time that she lost her life. >> reporter: donna's daughter was 20 and happy when her life ended. she was a student and dancer and working as a waitress when s

looking at a live picture from the top of our building here at rockefeller plaza. d trade. >>> let's get a look at the weather from the man who is back from vacation, bill karins. >> that was no vacation. sleep training and a 2-year-old birthday party at my household. >> i've been to many 2-year-old birthday parties. >> yes. that was no vacation. >> bring a flask. >> daddy juice. we are watching a winter weather event in the middle of the country. we have slight snow for many areas. but it's not a blockbuster storm. slippery travel, in missouri and little rock. snow will fly in st. louis. chicago, later tonight, you'll get a tiny bit of snow yourself. you know how cold it was yesterday. it was very cold in new england. windchill only 4 in boston. but we're warming it up today, in many areas of the mid-atlantic, the east coast. i know florida's chilly, too. today's high temperatures, upper 30s to low 40s. florida recovers nicely. just the middle of the country, we have winter weather. this is it, willie. this is by far, the coldest day we'll see in the next seven to

no delays to report on the beltway. topide from bel air to providence 6 minutes and 7 minutes on the west side from 795 to i-70. back over to you. >> 6:32. the trial of a former antive virginia lacrosse player george huguely accused killing his ex- girlfriend continues on wednesday. abc2 news sherrie johnson is here with the twists in the case and what happens next. >> reporter: yes, it's been a very difficult and emotional trial for a lot of people. jury is expected to get to thiscase on wednesday. the defense and prosecution rested saturday in the murder trial of george huguely who chose not to take the stand in his defense in this trial. the jury that will decide the fate must dissect the death of the huguely's former girlfriend yeardley love. the task is to determine if he intended to kill her in may of 2010 when he' midst he had a heated and physical encounter in her bedroom. trial watchers have been riveted to the case and it brought jurors and the prosecutors to tears. med k58 experts offer -- medical experts offer t

since she's homeschooled, she's able to travel the world for the top competitions. lakey's mastered some amazing techniques -- like this one. >> where you're going on the wave and then you launch into the air and grab your board and do a 360 and then land back on the wave. >> that's called an air reverse. like just about all individual sports, surfing is judged on a combination of factors. >> to judge competitive surfing, it's on a scale from 1 to 10 -- 10 being the best, 0.1 being the worst. it depends on the wave and what the wave offers you. but most of the time, it's how well you surfed the wave, so if you maximized every opportunity you got. they would want to see someone do, like, a turn and then go straight from that into an air reverse, like we were talking about earlier. >> surfing comes from hawaii. early boards were made out of wood and were rather heavy. today, most boards are made out of lightweight foam. the one lakey uses is a new design. >> it's super-, super-wide. the tail's really wide, as well, and it's thicker than normal. it goes really, really f

and so this is the top. >> this is the top of the plateau.r 360-degree view. >> paul, that's science the hard way. >> yup. but if you want to learn about the climate, you've got to get here and you've got to experience the place. >> one of the reasons you work so hard to get to a place like this is because it's just about as remote as you can imagine. just listen for a second. nothing. dead silence. we're up on the warsaw plateau. it's about 1,500 feet or so from sea level on king george island in antarctica. the other reason you come here is to see some of the most dramatic evidence anywhere in the world of climate change. over the past 50 years, this region-- the antarctic peninsula, the northwestern part, and the islands around it-- has been going up in temperature about one degree every decade, and that makes the region the fastest-warming place on earth. mayewski is here to drill an ice core, because when ice is laid down, it captures everything in the air. drilling down is drilling through time. >> well, the ice cores are really the onl

>>> and we'll tell you the top ten foods that contain the most salt and some health warnings. but first up to new york and get a look at the latest business news. >> reporter: good morning. better odds for finding a job. the number of jobs available in the u.s. jumped in december to the best level in three years. that means for every open job there is an average of four applicants down from almost 7 a few years ago. possibly a look the positive jobs look, borrowing is up for the second month. and the so-called food police want the whole truth about the whole grain claims. and the center for science in the public interest is demanding that the fda define the terms of whole grain and whole wheat. if you've thrown nutritional claim to the wind, there's a 24- ounce version of this milkshake. it has a thousand calories and 24-grams of fat. that is the breakfast of champions. i'm rob nelson. ♪ [ male announcer ] for our families... our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices. developing smaller portion sizes and more