professor strain talked about his book at the west palm beach public library in florida for about 40 minutes. >> say that i'm very glad to be here today at the west palm beach public library. i really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you all about my latest book. i'd also like to thank anya rizzo for her help in coordinating this and making it happen. i would like to talk to you a bit, first, about the genesis of this book, about how i came to write it. and then i've got some selections that i will take you through from the book and read a little bit and then leave a little time for questions and answers toward the end. but this book grew directly out of my work in the classroom. oftentimes with professors research and teaching are two very different things compartmentalized without much to do with one another. and this book derived from a course that i taught originally at the university of california and then at florida atlantic university on violence. the class began as a class dealing with violence in american history. so it dealt with war, it dealt with racial strife, it

he talked about his book at the west palm beach public library in florida for 40 minutes. >> i am glad to be here at the west palm beach public library. appreciate the opportunity to speak with you all. about my latest book. at like to think are the rizzo for coordinating this and making it happen. i would like to talk about the genesis of this book. how i came to write it. i have some selections that i will take you through in the book and leave a little time for questions and answers in this end. but this book grew directly out of my work in the classroom. often times with professors, research and teaching are two different things compartmentalized without much to do with one another. this book derived from a course that i talked originally at the university of california and florida atlantic university on violence. the class began as a class dealing with violence in american history. it dealt with war, racial strife, labor unrest and a familiar topic. it seemed as if every time i taught this course it wound up being every year for the past 12 years. something horrible happened in th

right into the northeast but a lot of sunshine to the south including atlanta down to miami and west palm beach. plenty of sunshine across the dakotas and the west as well. >>> and here's a look at san jose, we have some overcast skies this morning and many areas around the bay area seeing some plist and look at that, temperatures 57 mild degrees to start the morning. we've got mostly cloudy skies, that's a weather system that is dropping over the bay area right now. helping to wring out the areas of mist and drizzle underneath some of the clouds. as we go through the day, drizzle and mist for the first half of the day. heading through the afternoon, 60s for highs, a few sunny breaks today. tomorrow, a little more rain and 70s coming back for the middle part of the week. >>> and don't forget 24/7 you can check your forecast at weather.com. i like the rabbit ears, by the way it's the holiday spirit, isn't it, carl? >> it is. that's the easter bunny, thanks, mike. >>> in florida authorities are investigating the stabbing of a star football player for the miami dolphins. police believe he wa

the west coast. they give for joining us on this palm sunday. hope you enjoy the rest of your week. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> next, "newsmakers." then president obama will talk about the deficit followed by senators mitch mcconnell and rand paul. rand paul. >> rick mays is the congressional letter. frank, we will start with you. >> good to see you again. you talk about your concerns about cutting the defense budget and saying that you did not think it should be cut. a few months ago we spoke about this. yesterday, now you said you are talking about cutting some things from the budget in fiscal year 2012. can you talk about what kind of cut to would like to do. if you cannot give specifics, can you speak generally? >> i do not know if there are any cuts that i would like to do. it is ludicrous to think that out of $550 million that you cannot find some savings. anyone in the pentagon has said we can cut her, her, -- here, here, and here. fighting 2 wars and now in libya, it's not a great time to

the other not. >> but still a big movie. >> crazy. >> and he's married to a pop star, katy perry. so he's doing something right. >>> this comes to us from west palmeach florida where in nearby palm city the arrival of a malnourished horse at an animal sanctuary came with a special delivery. emerald was found starving and abandoned by an animal rescue group that initially thought she had a problem with her digestive system, but soon found out she was actually pregnant. she gave birth to a healthy philly and is now taking care of her newborn, a reward for a group that saved two lives with one rescue. i'm paige hopkins, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> it seems barbie may have some competition. the princess katherine doll modelled after kate middleton went on sale in london yesterday. its makers say it not only celebrates the royal wedding, but english fashion, as well, featuring kate's famous blue engagement dress, a hat and accessories. it costs roughly $50 with a percentage going to charity. >>> one man went to great lengths literally for a good cause. an english runner became the first per

the idea. in central florida it's been a rough day down there. west palm beach and 93 today. st the cool air covers much of the eastern half of the country here is what happened. this picture courtesy of a man that ticket who took this near brandon floor that east of tampa. tornadoes wrapped in rang down there. her rent is reins 5 in. on mickey mouse at walt disney world. huge amounts of rain and still raining in the sunshine state tonight. as we count up the minutes in march. we in the month at midnight tonight. this would on the books as five degrees cooler than march last year. one degree below normal not even that. the least snowy march in 11 years. we have the impression this is been quite a bad month. it could be a lot worse. but the storms in florida and the rains coming from the clouds of steam about that and sprinkle on this tomorrow but the real action is out in the east coast. thunderstorms here and in developing snow storm in the interior new england. in fact there frost and freeze advisories' in tennessee and the mountains of north carolina. these are winter storm

in florida to an undocumented workers, excuse the migrants were found near west palm beach. pproaching the group asking questions. they believe about drop them off. they are a custody of border protection. they were tipped off by guess who saw them get off the boat. coming up a boat ran aground near ocean beach, we are live, how police think it got there. a live look outside the golden gate bridge, traffic is doing fine this friday morning. temperatures look fine as well. we'll update you after this. >> reporter: topping our news police are rest an intoxicated man after they find him inside of a stolen boat inside of ocean beach. will tran is live with details. >> will: 5 hours after it washed ashore, or ran aground it is still here. they're deciding what to do with this boat. they don't know what to do with whether not to push it out to sea or drag it across the sand and haul it away. it will be here until well into the afternoon. this is six-figure boat. it was stolen from vallejo about 2:30 a.m. that's when they reported it missing. they are not sure how that all your new

my written testimony, and we found examples such as brain cancer children and adults that the acreage in west palm beach florida which was brought to the attention of this very committee by center bill nelson a year ago. birth defect sand in california including 20 babies born over less than two years with birth defects and for children with birth defects so severe that they've since died in a town of only 1500 people. there are numerous other good samples including the cluster of male breast cancer as well as childhood cancer and birth defects at camp lejeune north carolina where more than 60 marines the glove on the basis been diagnosed with breast cancer. this is an extraordinary alarming finding. it's almost impossible that could occur by chance alone it deserves urgent attention. some of the much needed tools to solve disease clusters are found in 76, the legislation known to many of trevor's law. this legislation would direct and fund federal agencies to swiftly assessed state and local officials to investigate community concerns about disease clusters and other causes, but it would also cre

the way into southern new england. here's where we've got a risk of storm this is morning. from west palm beach into the carolinas a line of thunderstorms firing up along this line from florida on into the carolinas. we have tornado watches until late this morning. rainfall amounts anywhere from 1 to 2 inches of rain, strong winds behind it, and colder air comes in behind that. meredith? >> thank you very much. >>> now to washington and the looming threat of government shutdown. president obama invited congressional leaders to the white house today in hopes of hammering out a budget deal. nbc white house correspondent savannah guthrie has the latest. good morning to you, savannah. >> reporter: good morning. one aid said this morning this is a decisive moment. the president plans on telling congressional leaders, get this done. meanwhile the administration is already telling federal agencies to prepare for a shutdown. republicans and democrats have already agreed to a top line number for spending cuts and there is no reason other than politics the two sides can't get a deal. the president

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the palm of your. comb a new york jury has found a russian pilot guilty of conspiring to smuggle drugs into the u.s. constantine yara shango was arrested in a sting operation in west africa last year and brought to the u.s. he denies all the charges are he's anastasio churkin a reports from new york. words not deeds landing foreigners behind bars in the u.s. russian pilot constantine you're shango has been found guilty by a manhattan federal court jury of conspiring to smuggle drugs across borders the man was scooped up by u.s. officials in liberia last year and promptly taken to america along with three other suspects from africa what he or she faced in the u.s. was a ten month wait for a trial a month long hearing and now a guilty verdict the pilot and his family maintained his innocence. part of the facts were fabricated all the tapes were distorted by the prosecution of u.s. officials played a leading role in the arrest of the russian citizen posing as drug dealers american secret agents conducted meetings with the four resulting in hours of recordings the prosecution then put forward as proof of the ocean goes intends to conspire to smuggle tons of cocaine to

jammed, the driver was pinned under the steering column, the driver was treated for injuries alive. >> darya: severe weather slamming west palmeach, winds whipping up debris, dark clouds rolling in, people taking cover. trees were completely uprooted, crews started cleaning up and nobody was hurt. >> mark: we will be right back into minutes as the morning news continues. a pretty morning but we are waiting for the winds to pick up. [ male announcer ] hi lauren and greg, what's up? we're getting the day started with athenos greek yogurt. later we're gonna ride bikes and go to the -- [ male announcer ] wonderful! let's see what yiayia thinks. are you two married? um, no. but you living together, ah? yeah. you are going to hell. [ male announcer ] don't worry, kids. at least yiayia approves of you eating athenos greek yogurt. mmmmmm! because athenos is made the traditional greek way, never using preservatives or artificial flavors. athenos. maybe the only thing approved by yiayia. that was quick. no envelopes to lick. no deposit slips to fill out. a lot less paper to deal with. i like that. i just feed in my check... feed the ca

nursing service, she is right in the number of ways, but i would have to disagree with -- i am try to put this in a way that i do not get in trouble because i work in west palm, but it just went out of my mind. what is your concern? caller: my concern is frivolous lawsuits and the reasons why hospitals have to make money is that you cannot reinvest and hospital and have better mri machines because people do not want old machines. this costs money, and you cannot do that if you are not making money. guest: certainly the point you make about lawsuits, defensive medicine as it is called more broadly, definitely adds to the cost. it was a major feature not discussed in the legislative debate, a feature that we believe very firmly needs to be addressed. it is a highly political and contentious issue, but your point is exactly right, it definitely adds to costs. all study showed that. we have to figure out the right balance between appropriate patient protections, but also incentives to allow conditions to do what they feel needs to be done, but not overly so in order to protect themselves from some potential lawsuit. it is striving positions out of practice, whic