it's bigger than treen, or it doesn't quite fit into that, and it's carved wood in the most wonderful style-- - a mystery object so far. - yes. i want to look at the stand in more detail. so tell me what you think it is, anyway. - it just got a bit of black glass in there-- - i have no idea. i've asked lots of people for several years - and they have no idea what it is. - really? i thought i'd bring it along here today to see if you could throw any light on it. i'm very glad you did. how did you find it? where did you find it? it was in a box of goodies that belonged to my former husband - and i just had it restored. - whoever did it is to be commended because he did a first-class job-- it's what i would call sympathetic restoration. but the fineness of this is reminiscent of the bushey school of art. um, herkomer is the man responsible for leading that movement. we look under here, these lovely big fat fleshy leaves which are beautifully carved-- look at the kick in that scroll. and then when you come down here, you've got this sort of tudoresque style with the finest possible little

accused sexual predator dominique strauss-kahn kun see why he would smile being taken away from the ped treen home to the latch luxury. a guilded cage of a townhouse, nearly 7,000 square feet complete with a gym, heated floors, a state of the art theater room with reclining leather chairs. a skylit living room and rooftop deck tore sunshine. it was a quiet little tribeca street unless strauss-kahn showed up and the media of the world followed. >> i mean, hope that all these guys aren't permanent residents. >> reporter: neighbors were curious. dominique strauss-kahn is the former head of the international monetary fund charged with a sexual assault of a maid in his $3,000 a night hotel room. he was released on a $6 million bail package that requires home confinement. his billionaire wife, anne sinclair who provided bail also provided the townhouse. >> besides family members, strauss-kahn can receive up to four visitors at the time while under house arrest. >>> john edwards is ready to to fight any charge, looming over whether edwards misused campaign money to cover up his affair. edwards' atto

treen na says a third neighbor harassed her 6-year-old daughter at school. pleasanton police have increased the patrol in an effort to keep the peace but it's important to communicate early and also when to let go. >> if something had gone through the proper channels and properly permitted and everything, now you really don't have a whole lot of choice to move on. you're going to be neighbors. you need to do what you can to repair any damage that you've done from an interpersonal stand point and you're going to be there a long time. you've got to make it work. >> reporter: that's the plan for the lopezes who decided to add on instead of move away it's our dream. we still have wonderful borrows here. >> reporter: eventually there will be a second floor on this home. now, we did reach out to the neighbors who seem to be the ones that are objecting the loudest to the lopezes. one did not have time to comment and one did not want to comment at all and the third was not at home. in pleasanton, kris sanchez, nbc bay area news. >> this story was sent into us by one

you just heard from ben edwards and cat treen yeah.d in the housing industry and now he's in the auto industry. you're seeing this influx from overseas, foreign automakers, hyundai, vw, pouring money into the south, mississippi, tennessee, to build plants and create thousands and thousands of jobs for folks. >> that's wonderful. i remember reading about vw, saying that they are going to put the money there. but beyond, poppy, some of the companies that you rattled off that are hiring, there are some industries that are hiring as well. who are those folks? >> so many folks are out of work. we have millions of americans out of work. take a look at these industries. health care, 1 million jobs in health care. if you take out the postal service which is in dire straits, 779,000 jobs. education, 300,000 jobs added there. i would be remiss, we all use energy, they have done extremely well throughout the recession. and a lot of people start cutting back on what they are using. they are going to continue to. north dakota has a 3.6 unemployment

partnerships and that is whether through grant funding, training, i think entities, agencies that treen perform together. we also get to the issue of it isn't a question of if but when there will be attacked in the homeland so how do we prepare for that attack and how can we respond to it. information sharing is a key part of that and i will try to keep my answer brief. >> yes, sir. as the grand ministry work with a lot of partners, but i have to for your benefit, for the chairman's benefit, i cannot express how glad i am that john pistole took the position as the administrator of tsa. i think we have a stronger relationship obviously when we are working with our locals. it's important the dhs speaks one place since the of experts to and i think john has been a strong partner and improving the relationship. i cannot give him enough credit. he was instrumental helping us get with tsa and fema to make sure we are working with them. >> [inaudible] >> we have an excellent relationship with tsa and fema and we also have a close relationship with federal law enforcement intelligence communiti

i'm happy to say for what we had prior to katrina treen. the systems were partially complete and despite a 12-foot surge, it performed as design. it will take time for people to realize the benefits of the system that's in place now, but it was due to floodplain walls, and we vamped the standards and put a lot of resiliency in there for a 500 year event so if they were topped again with a big enough storm, that system holds. back to the mississippi river flooding, that flooding is another resilient system. where an amount of water, the levees are overtopped and there's back waters that cannot drain out because of the amount of water. we're seeing the system is resill yept. we have our corp. of engineer folks out there 24 hours a day looking for seepage, anything that could be a vulnerable spot, and together with the local levee districts, local authorities, they do a flood fight to detect any vulnerable area with the water up there. this is a 24-hour a day operation. we do the best we can to minimize the effect to the public. >> host: flori

[cheering] >> treen noeth little dreams and i've always taken that to heart.a country worthy of the hopes and dreams who say no to the same old cynicism to the negativity and of usual and yes where anything is possible and no one is left behind. so my friends, it's time to roll up our sleeves and let's not stop until the job is done. thank you very much. [cheering] >> the historic am i for the ndp and for jack layton. saying that he will be aggressive in opposition opposing when it needed but he also wants to reach out spending to show that he's ready for the next four years as the leader of the official opposition. jack layton, olivia talking to the reporters in downtown toronto, waving the cane that's been the symbol of his campaign of what looked like first a major problem for him, but it would indicate some sign of weakness. however, the last three or four weeks he has waived it like a weapon and certainly use it to pick up seats in different parts of the country, just especially in the province of quebec. let's try to put this together in terms of some me