he is a senior fellow and john's us from chicago. good to have you back on the program. the insurgents increase their activity recently. what are they trying to say? >> they are trying to say to their network they are still there and have not been defeated, but they have been substantially defeated. this is why we built the iraqi security forces. >> what does this do to the argument many have made that when we give them a date certain this was expected to happen? >> i think a date certain cuts both ways. you have to tell the host government at some point we are leaving and they need that as an incentive. sometimes you have to say it for the american people because our patience is limited. they have not been able to get them thus far. the u.s. will have a vital interest in iraq for a long time. tavis: we have 50,000 soldiers still left there and yet we have seen lives lost since we announced we were leaving. american soldiers have died. can the american people stomach still losing lives? >> it is better if we don't lose lives, but this is a case we will have to press thro

with us from chicago tonight, diane swonk with more on what may be behind the numbers. is this any one single incident that you're aware of? >> there were many factors that void the numbers, everything from later than usual auto closings to the census coming out and the veterans that have been coming back are not getting reemployed and reintegrated into the economy. in fact, applying for unemployment insurance. the real issue though is not only how high the numbers are -- 150,000 to 200,000 higher than they should be now -- but the sheer number of people who have been unemployed and reupping for extensions to unemployment insurance. that's up over 60% from a year ago. most of these people -- many of them d lost their jobs during the height of the recession during 2008 and the beginning of 2009. that's just sad. >> diane swonk from chicago on these bad news numbers out today. diane, thanks, as always. >>> again tonight there is new research that seems to contradict the government's assessment of just how much oil is still in the water in the gulf of mexico after that leak

from adding to or starting up a family. nbc's john yang starts us off tonight from chicago. john, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. it was a day of startling numbers, numbers on the economy and the different ways it's affecting all of our lives. amid the towering peaks of wyoming, at an annual fed conference, a sobering assessment from fed chairman ben bernanke. economic growth is too slow and unemployment too high, but he said the fed is ready to act to keep the nation from slipping back into recession. >> the concern right now for the fed is that the labor market has been disappointing, and that means income is not going to be as high as expected. lower incomes, of course, translate into lower spending. >> reporter: consumer spending is key for small businessman like chuck schwartz. he owns two party supply stores where sales continue on a downward slope. >> we have been in a downturn since 2008. i don't know how much longer we can go through that. we have cut our expenses so that i think we can survive. >> reporter: so far this year, schwartz has closed one

nbc's john yang with us from federal court in chicago tonight. john, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. when they arrested rod blagojevich in december 2008, u.s. attorney general fitzgerald said he was conducting a corruption crime spree that would make abraham lincoln spin in his grave. out of 24 charges against blagojevich, including racketeering, extortion, bribery, of those 24 charges they could only agree on one. they found him guilty of lying to the fbi. on the other 23 counts, a mistrial. this is clearly a big embarrassment for the prosecution, but it's not over yet for rod blagojevich. the prosecutors say they are ready to go tomorrow if need be to try him again on those other 23 counts. the court will meet, so the judge will decide next week when that new trial will begin. brian? >> hardly the last we'll be seeing of this case. john yang, in chicago for us tonight. john, thanks. >>> we turn now to a big story in education. think of all the american presidents in your lifetime who said their goal is a quality education for ev

which rely on excess of production asked of you head of the index futures group he spoke to us earlier from the chicago mercantile exchange. it's really changing the entire dynamic importers are becoming export ers and exporters are becoming importers i think much of this is really going to play out the real the hurt i think is really going to come from the relief agencies those that were looking to help those in pakistan or in africa those that were looking for access grain remember not only is grain now scarce around the world but capital to be able to go out and buy that grain which is now priced a little higher is scarce so they're probably going to be hurting the most out of this entire equation both russia and the u.s. have substantial grain was not does the and this is as a crisis absolutely i think that you know you've got a combination of two economies that are very well versed in making sure that their supplies are intact over the course of say the winter months and they're quite frankly i think good the russian economy was prepared for this that the russian government was prepared for this i

chris bury is following the trial and joining us now from our chicago bureau. chris, what did the judge and jury say today? >> reporter: well, george, the judge today said the jury passed him a note saying it was deadlocked. it could not reach a unanimous verdict on some of those counts. now, it is a complicated trial. there are 28 counts in all. 24 against rod blagojevich. four against his brother. so, the judge sent a note back to the jury, asking for more specific. but one thing seems clear, the jury is sending a message that some kind of a mixed verdict seems much more likely now. >> blagojevich is not out of the woods, but this is the best news he's had in weeks. >> reporter: it may be good news for blagojevich. but the thing is, we don't know x of those 24 counts the jury is stuck on. or even how many. and the judge did say today that the jury could come back and deliver verdicts on some counts, but not others. now, the jury is going to go back and deliberate again tomorrow. the judge did say there's been no shouting through the walls, that it's been a ve

he joins us tonight from chicago. and from miami: tom hudson, co- anchor of the "nightly business report" on pbs. tom, so the fed puts out just a few paragraphs yesterday, and, markets clearly did not like it today. what did they see? fill in the picture for us. >> well, what they saw were concerns building in china and elsewhere about the global economy continuing to hilt the brakes. the chinese markets continue to try to price in a slower economy over there. that's awfully important for u.s. exporters. andry thinking the federal reserve assessment of the economy through the end of the year has certainly shareholders and the stock markets worried as we see lots of folks piling into the resk-off trade, and that meant buying u.s. government bonds ahead of what the federal reserve has promised to do as you detailed earlier. >> brown: now, neil irwin, what seemed to get people's attention was-- in part at least-- was a perceived change in direction by the fed. explain that. >> that's right. what -- for last year or so, t

the governor joins us now from chicago for a sunday exclusive. governor, you were supposed to come here to washington today, but instead you attended a convention in chicago called comic con where you pose with superheroes and charge $50 for an autograph and $80 for a photo. is there anything you won't do for a buck these days? >> well, i didn't really get any money from any of the photos i took, because i took probably hundreds of them. and couldn't bother to ask anybody for any money for that. those were free. i did sign some signatures. i was there because i was invited at the last minute by the promoters. it was an opportunity to get out among the people. chris, when the federal government comes down on you and the prosecutors are determined to get you when they target you, among the things they do that doesn't make headlines is they squeeze you financially. they squeeze you and your family to keep you from being able to earn a living and to force you and compel you to basically surrender and give up. and admit to things you didn't do. so par

jim warren joining us from chicago, as he is writing now for "the new york times" and the chicago newsooperative as a columnist. we will close with a tweet and wrap up. thanks so much for an interesting conversation. we will be right back. i next discussion is with marion blakey, a former member of the administration herself and now president and ceo of the aerospace industries association and she will give us her perspective on what the secretary of defense is trying to do with cutting and realigning the military and his announcements recently. we will it be right back -- we will be right back. >> here you are, senator. daniel webster used to use it. >> daniel webster is here? >> harry truman in 1939 saying he he did this movie, really despise it. at the time, harry truman was seen as a senator from but prendergast machine. i always wonder if he did not think at that point at least that the movie was looking at him and his relationship with the political machine back home. >> senate historian donald ritchie on washington movies and his new book, "the u.s. congress: a very short introd

several deaths are being blamed on the heat, and diana alvear joins us from a sweltering chicago where they're expecting temperatures well over 90 degrees again today. diana? >> reporter: good morning. overnight storms have done little to relieve the oppressive heat and humidity we're having here. had fact, temperatures are expected to climb well into the 90s here today. extreme heat is being blamed in part for the deaths of 1-year-old twins here in chicago, but the heat is only one part of what's making this summer a roller coaster for the region. it was a wild night in the midwest as rain, wind, even tornadoes pushed their way through the plains. >> oh, it was real stressful. you know, you just think you've lost everything. >> reporter: this tornado landed in the middle of hayfield, minnesota. other parts of the state received up to 3 1/2 inches of rain causing transportation chaos. 93-mile-an-hour winds bear down on kansas leaving 15,000 without power. these cows in wisconsin didn't fare much better. flash floods caused the water to rise without warning trapping them in this field.

international, a global brokerage firm joins us tonight from the cme group in chicago. welcome to "nightly business report". >> hi, how are you. >> tom: i'm well. so what's fueling the indian economy in the middle of 2010? >> hi, tom. basically it's the domestic consumption and the investment and infrastructure by the government of india. >> tom: what's the longer range picture developing? is that internal domestic consumption sustainable, the indian workers have their incomes rising? >> yes. over 50 to 60% of the indian population is under the age of 25 and we see a strong internal demand coming from within the country, and i think it's sustainable. >> tom: u.s. ins stus al investors direct access to the indian markets. what industries are attracting u.s. money? >> mostly the sectors would be media, telecommunication, i. t. sectors, and the banking sector. >> tom: you brought along some specific picks for u.s. investors to consider, in the financial space, icici bank, the ticker symbol is ibn. what makes you like this one? >> basically ibn is india's largest private se

chicago. >> joining us exclusively, also from chicago, rod blagojevich's attorney. we heard the prosecution saying they are feeling confident after what we heard from the jurors 11-1 in their decisions on the other 23 counts. looking forward to this retrial, how are you feeling about it? >> i feel great. 11-1, we have to look at the numbers. the one juror i heard talk about 11-1, they said specifically they were hung 11-1 on the other counts, a much stronger split. and what's interesting is that they didn't talk at all about what the number breakdown were on the aller to counts. there were a total of 24 counts. i think we are missing a lot of the story as to exactly what the breakdown was for all of these counts. we feel great because as we have always said, the governor did nothing wrong. and they could not prove it at all. and here we have another $10 million to $30 million of a retry after man they could not prove their case the first time. we can't pay for health care. we have two wars. people are dieing on the streets of the city of chicago and not putting any

chicago streets have become a battlefield. and the casualties are kids. lester holt takes us to the chicago streets where teens are often armed and dangerous. >> from last septemberto this past june, 218 chicago students were shot. 31 were killed. not in schools, but on the streets of chicago. even hardened locals say the killing has to stop. derrick brown, aka shotgun, used to rule his west side neighborhood as a gang leader. who would defend this area? >> me. who would protect it, me. who would start the trouble, me. who would win the battles, me. >> now, after spending most of his youth in lockup, he wants to steer kids away from the violence. >> 18 of my best friends got killed. don't think because y'all kids, it won't happen to you. because it can and it will. >> this past may, with shootings wreaking havoc around the city, shotgun hit the streets. only now, he was on patrol. looking to stop trouble. not start it. >> a little like a gang fight that broke out. >> on this particular night, two mobs of teenagers armed with sticks head towards each other. >> he don't call me up and we going fight. [ bleep ] >> ain't nobody going to fight. it, i tell you what, yo

chicago tonight. it's his 49th birthday, but it's kind of an unusual one. his family is nowhere in sight. nbc news white house correspondent savannah guthrie is traveling with the president and joins us from the windy city tonight. savannah, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. well, the president is here in chicago for some democratic party fund-raising and an event at a ford plant tomorrow, but he will have a birthday dinner with friends tonight. no family around, though. daughter malia is at summer sleep-away camp and the first lady and daughter sasha are on a lavish trip to spain. the president flying solo tonight, heading to chicago to spend his 49th birthday as a bachelor with only first dog bo to keep him company. mr. obama did get a serenade at the white house today from winners of citizen medals at the white house today. ♪ happy birthday to you >> reporter: but the union group he addressed earlier in the day did not let him eat cake. >> i'm disappointed there wasn't a cake, though. i'm going to have to talk to the secret service about that. >> you talk to those guys, because they nixed the cake. >> they're probably eating it right now. >> they are. >> reporter: right

. >> susie: joining us now with more analysis, diane eastabrook, our midwest bureau chief, live from the c.m.e. group in chicago. >> hi, diane, a big day for g.m. >> a big day for g.m. >> susie: you heard david menlow, and he is very positive on this i.p.o. and the stock offering. i know you've been talking to a lot of analysts. what are they telling you? how well-received will this i.p.o. be? >> g.m. is a household name. it is doing much better than it was doing before it went into bankruptcy. it is building better product, it has paired its costs. it is doing better in emerging markets like china. but i think you have to keep in mind that the economy is still somewhat weak, and some would say very weak, and this is a company that has had a revolving door of c.e.o.s, four in just the past year. so i'm not sure how that will play with main street investors. >> susie: there certainly are a lot of issues, and even general motors listed in its offering memorandum there are risks. tell us about the risks they identified. >> right. there was a whole laundry list of risks, among them, sales volumes. going into the ye

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from atlanta. he hits the road again wednesday for chicago where he's going to celebrate his 49th birthday but also use the occasion to do some fund-raising, brian. let the campaign season begin. >> chuck todd at the white house tonight. chuck, thanks. >>> our nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is back in iraq tonight, a place where he spent much of the last eight years. he's with us from baghdad for a closer look at the fragile state of things, again, after seven or so years of war. richard, i talked to you today and you had the rare distinction of hearing the president's speech from baghdad. what is the state of life there these days? >> reporter: many people here don't share the same kind of optimism that was expressed not only by the president but by analysts across the united states today. life in baghdad right now is very difficult. this is not what you could consider a normal or a stable city. just coming in from the airport this morning and driving to our bureau, it's about a 12-mile journey along a short stretch of road. we had to pass through six different checkpoints. there i

use the term step migrants. >> meaning they stopped along the way. they might have come from europe, and then lived in new york, maybe chicago, maybe in the dakotas, before they made their way or if they were coming the other direction, my pet topic is that they came from england to australia or new zealand then came west but these were people who had experience building other jewish communities. >> i was going to say in addition, when they got here, at least those who came early on, there wasn't a pre-existing hierarchy or structure they got in on the ground floor and because many of them were merchants they moved into communities where others were miners or farmers depending on where in the west we are talking about and those people, needed places to buy and sell goods so they became kind of a center piece of a huge number of small towns up and down the west coast. and performing a really essential function. they really got in on the ground floor, came civically and entrepreneurially, prominent quickly. >> so different from the east they were the founders of these communities rather than interlopers on a community that was already established. >> how i

use of high-tech tools to fight crime. >> this is the operations center. >> reporter: from a control center that resembles the starship "enterprise," chicago's city officialseep watch over the 232-square-mile urban area with a massive network of cameras creating a virtual eye in the sky. officials refuse to give actual figures, but some estimate the number of publicly and privately owned cameras targeting chicago to be around 15,000. >> you can zoom 32 times optically and up to 184 times digitally. >> reporter: what does that mean? could you see that person's license plate? >> oh, we can get license plates... i'm not going to pull up the specific one there, but yes, you can see the license plate. >> reporter: on the day we were in chicago, officials were keeping a close eye on crowds gathering for a tea party protest. can you identify the people who were there? can you actually pick out faces of who were at demonstration? >> we're very strict on how we use the cameras for protecting privacy. >> reporter: nicholas beaton is a paramedic assigned to the operations center. >> we'll never zoom in on windows or look into buildings. also, we're very, very careful

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from my house. i lived on langley avenue in chicago, and they were on cottage grove where the streetcar ran up and down. and i usedl the time and break bottles up against the wall and stuff like that, you know. hey, i was a little boy, too, you know. i liked to see a coke bottle splatter, you know. so i did it. and so they asked me-- when i went to vee-jay, they asked me, says, "what kind of music is it?" i said, "i don't know, man. i'm just playing it." "well, we don't-- we-- "we don't like-- we don't know what to do with something like that." so i left. tore my little heart down. i mean, i was like, i was 26 years old, and i said, "hmm. okay, i'll go back home." and i had a little old tape recorder. we used to have a wire tape recorder. this is going way back, had wire on it, you know? and i went back, and i said, "i'm gonna make me a tape dub." then the lady across the street sold me a webco disc cutter, used to make 78s. and i didn't have no money, so i took another record that i had found in the alley and went and bought me some lacquer, paint lacquer, you know. and i laid it down flat, and i took the can and

chicago architectural firm, with one of our most renowned architects working on the detail. the addition will be setback and made of a different color brick. the building will be changed from office use to a mix of hotel, time share and residential units. that is the story on the old chronicle building. >> we have a question over here. hold on. >> when is it due to be complete? >> my guess is, i don't know for sure, but on the order of a year and a half from now. >> this is affordable housing? >> surprisingly what it did was generate the restoration of another landmark two blocks up designed by the reed brothers, all the affordable housing component will be two blocks up the street in a landmark building. >> when people do development, there is trade-off for affordable housing. it is not always within the ritz carlton itself. it can be relocated or paid into a fund and used another way. >> we will walk a block down this way down commission street. we are down here at the corner of third street and mission street. there is lots of construction going on. some old buildings. this is not necessarily a historic walking tour. this is to talk about buildings and earthquake issues. let me me

chicago. >> time to turn in. that's our broadcast for this wednesday night. thank you, as always, for being here with us. i'm brian williams. a reminder, we'll see you tomorrow night fromew orleans. a reminder, we'll see you tomorrow night from new orleans. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> no need for the air conditioning repairman now. big changes moving into the bay area. >> good evening, everyone. >> we're about to beat that heat in a big way. yes, that is the fog. here it comes. a live picture shot. you can see a huge fog bank rolling in. >> jeff, any records today? i guess we're going

use. >> we have other cities, seattle, chicago are also trying some version of this. i think the most complicated version of this texting with a photo. they can take a photo of the person they booted from their club and it gets sent out so other clubs can visually identify a problem walking down the street. it's a good thing. commissioner joseph: yeah, it's a great idea. it's a great idea. i think years ago we eyesed to do like telephone trees in the area. if the guy's out front and he's supposed to be patting people down and he's on the text -- i mean, it's a great idea. we just have to refine it. >> send on some information on to a supervisor. anyway, i saw it and thought it was a great idea. commissioner joseph: great idea. >> this is the last thing. commissioner joseph: this is the last, last thing? >> we've been talking about readers. they're expensive. i was wondering if we could get some people from the industry -- people that use them and the manufactures that come in and talk about what -- you know, what the positives and negatives are about how much they cost. commissioner joseph: we could do that. commissioner allan arranged for a presentation here a number of years ago when

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us who you are and actually ask a question in the spirit of aspen. we'll start with the gentleman right here in the black hat. >> thanks, general. i'm jason from chicago, thanks for coming. i want to ask the question and i need to set it up just a little bit, but i won't take long. both afghanistan and iraq are very resource rich and an integral part of the reconciliation process is business stability. we know that chinese corporations and russian corporations are going into these areas and trying to capitalize on the stability, limited stability that's been created so far. my question to you is, do you think that congressional policy towards u.s. corporate culture essentially handcuffs american ability, american business ability to participate in the reconciliation because we're not allowed to play on local terms? >> i'm not aware of specific congressional policies that limit u.s. business involvement. >> hart-scott-rodino and sarbanes-oxley, things that don't allow us to, you know, to be blunt, bribery, for example, which is part -- which is the chinese are willing to, you know -- [laughter] >> -- corporate guests, things of that nature that we can'

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us who you are and actually ask a question in the spirit of aspen. we'll start with the gentleman right here in the black hat. >> thanks, general. i'm jason from chicagothanks for coming. i want to ask the question and i need to set it up just a little bit, but i won't take long. both afghanistan and iraq are very resource rich and an integral part of the reconciliation process is business stability. we know that chinese corporations and russian corporations are going into these areas and trying to capitalize on the stability, limited stability that's been created so far. my question to you is, do you think that congressional policy towards u.s. corporate culture essentially handcuffs american ability, american business ability to participate in the reconciliation because we're not allowed to play on local terms? >> i'm not aware of specific congressional policies that limit u.s. business involvement. >> hart-scott-rodino and sarbanes-oxley, things that don't allow us to, you know, to be blunt, bribery, for example, which is part -- which is the chinese are willing to, you know -- [laughter] >> -- corporate guests, things of that nature that we can't

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chicago on tuesday was carrying 14 puppies in the cargo hold. after that plane arrived at o'hare, seven of the dogs died. apparently from the heat. cbs news travel editor peter greenberg joins usis morning. i would think the number one piece of advice is, be careful in the summertime. >> that's right. it's all about the temperature and the time waiting on the tarmac. now, in this case, the plane took off an hour late from tulsa. american airlines has a corporate policy they will not fly pet in the cargo hold when the ground temperature's above 85 degrees or in winter months when it's below 45. in this case the weather service was reporting the temperature was actually about 87 degrees and rising by the time that plane took off an hour late. >> we've seen what the weather's been like in that area. dave's been keeping us abreast of that all week long. that's american's policy. across the board, what are the regulations when it comes to traveling with a pet? because you would think if they're going to take your dog, that it must be okay. >> every airline is different. frachl, jetblue and southwest won't allow any pet to be transported. delta has a monthly moratorium between may 1

chicago on the democratic line. caller: good morning. these corporations are un-american that move those to china. they took jobs from a democratic country, us, and sent them and put them in a communist country to boost their ability to control the world. i mean, they have no allegiance, no alliances. and right now they are shipping all of the white collar jobs to india but india is a democratic country. but i don't understand how these corporations can consider themselves to be based in this country and dismissing the workers and putting everybody out of work. why are they propping up a communist country. can you answer that? guest: i think the companies are focused on the bottom line, which is sort of like it or not the way they tend to work. there is some question about whether we have policies that subsidize the behavior we may want to get rid of but in general companies will focus on profits. host: do the companies consider themselves a global company rather than a u.s. company? guest: i think most of them probably do. and they look -- you look at g.m., they see the chinese market as being not a place to produce things but to sell thing

us who you are and actually ask a question in the spirit of aspen. we'll start with the gentleman right here in the black hat. >> thanks, general. i'm jason from chicago, thanks for coming. i want to ask the question and i need to set it up just a little bit, but i won't take long. both afghanistan and iraq are very resource rich and an integral part of the reconciliation process is business stability. we know that chinese corporations and russian corporations are going into these areas and trying to capitalize on the stability, limited stability that's been created so far. my question to you is, do you think that congressional policy towards u.s. corporate culture essentially handcuffs american ability, american business ability to participate in the reconciliation because we're not allowed to play on local terms? >> i'm not aware of specific congressional policies that limit u.s. business involvement. >> hart-scott-rodino and sarbanes-oxley, things that don't allow us to, you know, to be blunt, bribery, for example, which is part -- which is the chinese are willing to, you know -- [laughter] >> -- corporate guests, things of that nature that we can'