nick and val or ashford & simpson. when nick ashford passed away, barry gordy said, i will remember him for the wonderful songs he left us with. i will be celebrating his life forever. whether you knew him personally, or were just touched by his music, his life and legacy will live on. good night from los angeles, and as always, keep the faith. >> ♪ make this world a better place ♪ until then end ♪ ♪ reach out and touch somebody's hand ♪ place this world a better ♪ to give encouragement ♪ >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a consersation with the former mayor, kwame kilpatrick plus "sex and the city"star kristin davis. we will see you then. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where wal-mart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and answer, hel

. >> about to buy tickets from a val 'or, but i don't think they're legit. >> they're a val 'or running around? >> we're being told there's a handful of tickets are people are being advised to come early. basically what they are is v.i.p. upgrade tickets and each one of those tickets will cost $180 to buy. so, again, concert is in full swing. everything seems to be going fine. but people are warned to watch out for someone selling counterfit tickets. reporting live at golden gate park, abc-7 news. >> alan: state senator and san francisco candidate lelande lashed out at b.a.r.t. for cutting off cell phone service they turned off the underground cell phone network after police learned a group was planning to use cell phones to coordinate a protest. critics say it jeopardy teased public safety and cut off their ability to call nine one. the protest never took place. >>> in the north bay, firefighters are battling a 100-acre fire burning near lake berryessa. it's a remote area of northern napa county. there are no report office any buildings being threatened. at least three calfire helicopt

val was with him. figured he'd just pop into an fbi safe house to pick up a bureau car, he'd take her home, and that would be that. but headquarters called taking the car "unauthorized use of government property." >> i think what happens in the fbi, it's a very militaristic society, and you have to... if you're being investigated by opr, office of professional responsibility, and there's a question, they don't want to promote somebody that's got a cloud over them, even a minor thing like a vehicle. >> narrator: bear bryant had retired. louis freeh promoted his longtime friend, tom pickard, to deputy director. it was not good news for agent o'neill. it was pickard who decided o'neill would not lead the investigation in east africa. and now, pickard and freeh decided john o'neill would not get the big job in new york. >> my daddy always said, "don't kill your mavericks; they might save your life someday. and they're the ones that will always have the great ideas, so try to take care of them." and john wa

the act would val provided a path for legalization for those brought here as children, like andrea garcia. >> it's like this emotional roller coaster. there's no real stability in my life because i really don't know what's going to happen. >> there are an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. >>> a popular animal shelter threatened with closure raised the money it needs to stay open. the valley humane society in pleasantton saved hundreds of cats and dogs each year. community donations are keeping the doors from closing. >> we were getting donations from little kids giving us their piggy banks. $13.11, all the way up to $125,000. >> the society relies mainly on volunteer labor. the economy caused donations to fall, costs and animal rescues are on the rise. the reprieve may be only temporary. the staff is still figuring out how they can stay afloat past november. >> the royal mascot of burger king is being dethrowned. the struggling fast food chain is kicking out its creepy -- you know that guy? it's going to air a new commercial beginning

goldman's val tough measures in response to the street may have sold more than one thousand six hundred arrests the country's prime minister the us a nice cheese for advice on how to tackle gun violence. fresh iraqis against the rising cost of living are expected around israel with ten counts having already been in the streets for months now but african refugees living in tents permanently claim the israelis are now the stunned with a lot of decisions just just really. on a corner of the lao tzu americans do former u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld over allegations of torture they were illegally imprisoned and beaten by u.s. troops was what is private security contractors in iraq. on a false arrest report on russia's far east where echoes of the soviet era mix of the sentries old stay with. sharing of times and will strain the situation just a few kilometers from the chinese border abortion isn't exactly a short shot from moscow possibly john mind a bit of jet liner you're going to enjoy one of the most treasured cities in russia's far east. of forests because the region's administ

warm in the desert, very warm in the interior val es. on the coast, we continue to be on the cool side. especially around san francisco. only 70 today. l.a. on the coast 74. but once you get closer to the valley, closer to the mountains, you'll probably be in the 80s or 90s. tomorrow looks more of the same. we're slowly warming up. saturday will be the warmest day of this next period for a while. >>> if you're watching us in los angeles, california, head to nearby riverside for the final day of the family friendly concert series featuring a top 40 cover band at rhythm of riverside. >>> now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. hollywood schedulers have come up with a battle of the big screen titans later this year for christmas week. in one corner will be the opening of johnny depp's "the lone ranger" and then brad pitt's geopolitical zombie thriller "world war z." elsewhere, mercedes johnson, the 19-year-old sister of bristol palin's ex levi johnston will appear in the next issue of "playboy." besides posing

[applause] i would like to bring you back to the podium, val. >> i was thinking the same thing about the dental clinic. i was thinking i wish my dental office was as nice as this. i, too, am going to speak about redevelopment, but i do not want to be too repetitive. we have talked about the importance of the financial investment that the redevelopment agency has in this community facility. what i want to talk about a little bit is what great staff partners we have in the redevelopment office. it is not that often high in many other cities where we have collegial and mind-expanding teammates in this office. in the case of the redevelopment agency, and i am likely to forget somebody, so to all of you for the agency sitting over there, i apologize ahead of time here ultimately, the deputy director who is a longtime partner of ours and with and we do some of our best thinking and best work, but this advantage to work on this project for many years, phil o'brien, chris harris, derek smith, the asset manager, mike rizzo -- did i forget anybody? you guys are just awesome. we love working wi

so, marilyn, with the raleigh we've seen lately in-- with the rally in fixed income, still good val-- value for investors. >> i don't think they are good value because the nominal yields, the actual yield that you can earn is pretty darn low. if you want to buy a aaa ten year bond you get a paltry 2.3%. that really isn't that enticing. >> tom: but the argument is after considering the tax exemption status that is a much higher yield then say, investing, in government debt. >> and that's a good argument. but here the big but. the municipal bond issuance is down about 40% this year. so not only do u have state, cities and counties kind of stretched financially, very, very limited new issuance and the demand continues to artificialically hold prices up and yields down. >> tom: so if you don't think that moneyies still provide a bit of value for investors would you sell the municipal bonds if you own them? >> no, i would hold on to them but make sure that they are really still great quality with no little glitches, you know, underneath the roof of them. and i would, i just wouldn't be a b

prime minister david cameron val to end the violence that was sparked after police shot him and that in tottenham north london independent journalist patrick henson who was himself caught up in the mayhem so the government stop playing political games and address the important seems. to be on his is one of the most shocking things i've ever had the displeasure of seeing was in brixton early monday morning about one am. gangs of youths who were some of which had fled from the central brixton into the surrounding areas like stockwell barricade in the streets with rubbish bins or anything they could find in order to stop cars and try to pull drivers from the cars and take the cars in one instance this happened one man came to help the driver and he was beaten by a gang of six or seven young black youths in brixton very frightening i was barricaded in a pub for part of the time because we couldn't go out and the pub sieged about an hour after the incident so no police to be found. if you dial nine nine nine the police said sorry we can't help you just stay where you are now if the leader

moral services have been held across the republic with the biggest insult the city is capital seen val hundreds of people came to light candles and pray for those who died in the conflict releasing white balloons and their memory bodies made it a question over reports from the republic where the scars are still fresh from what happened in august two thousand and eight. i come here almost every day i sit and talk to my son so i know i will lie next to my dear boy. for the last three years stacey sidney has come to this cemetery where her son is birds five days to norco's two thousand and eight split her life into a before and after. as when her son daughter a medical college graduate heard there were public's capital teen vall was under attack from georgia he rushed home to help the injured he died in her arms as they lay trapped for days under the rubble of their apartment block that was in the georgian alterian firing line. as the only thing that makes her life worth living now is her twenty year old daughter they now live together in a newly built house to rounded by families with si

. >>> val hoe voters have a chose of two for their next mayor, ozzie davis will face off against sighably in the next election. valet hoe is emerging from bankruptcy after three years. a proposal to raise sales taxes by 1 cent will also appear on the november ballot. >>> city businesses in oakland are staying closed for an extra day after the weekend due to budget cuts. city officials say the services affected on monday include street sweeping, animal services, and senior centers. the closures are part of an agreement by labor unions to help cut city costs. officials say emergency services will not be affected. >>> several people are in the hospital tonight after an accident in petaluma. two pickup trucks crashed into each other head on around 8:40 last night on lakeville highway near old lakeville road. eight people were taken to the hospital. at least one suffered major injuries. the accident shut down lakeville highway for two hours. authorities say alcohol may have been a factor in that crash. >>> the pacifica man whose wife was mauled to death by the family's pit bull calls it a frea

. >>> wildfire is burning and it started near the town of calf val low.fighters say this fire is growing quickly because of the dry conditions and the terrain is rough. at this point no homes are threatened and the cause is still under investigation. right now it is 637, i want to go and check on traffic. >>> if you were driving around the bay area, the traffic looks even and this looks like the fog is lifting and clouds do continued to set airplanes back so we will watch and you should, call your carrier incase you are taking a flight in and out of that area today. taking a look at 237, we have stop-and-go traffic there. no major problems out of the ordinary blocking lanes. in the south lane 101 and 280 is getting a little more use approaching the interstate 880 connector. 638, let's go to steve. >> we have a huge fog bank which has moved inland and wind gusts over the southwest and it will cool all the way to the sacramento valley with a low dropping in right near eureka and crescent city. breezy low overcast, probably maxing out but we will have sun an

it's like politicians live in a car val game trying to get as much money as they can. politicians at the rated they spend, america will soon become like this country. people rio when politicians spend so much there is almost nothing left. >> when there is no more money, there is no more money. >> the unions elect people who give them money and if there is any left these lobbyists want it. >> funding for housing. >> american ford foundation. >> the politicians say no get boo'd. >> we've taken a scapel to the budget rather an machete. >> maybe we need to take one of these because we don't make big cuts. >> john: if you can't pay workers' salaries. what is our future going to be? cuts so draconian you need a chainsaw to make them or sweat shops. we have choices to make. >> john: our government keeps spending. we're already $14.5 trillion in debt but you could say, so what. look around, america is doing pretty well. what is the worst that can happen? >> well, this could happen. these protests happened when greece with was so far in debt they had trouble borrowing money. an

>> this lumbee tribe maker runs one of the biggest true val hardware companies in the nation.umbees are doing well. >> great survivors. great example of how you can continue to persist even under the absolutely the worst, the worst treatment that you could help. >> john: they divorced themselves from these government handouts. they have done well without. >> individuals have done well. >> john: exactly. individuals free of special government. a rae developer who you saw in the sacramento king. jack lowery an original owner of the cracker barrel restaurant or civil bullard who owns granel. >> we had to fend for ourselves and do what we had to do to survive. >> we don't mind getting our hands dirty and getting the job done. we know we will be rewarded for that. >> what helped the lumbees is know they had to become entrepreneurs and support them sfrls. >> they haven't trained to be capitalists trained to be communist. everything needs somebody's approval. >> manage most indian land. indians compete to serve on tribal councils because then they can give out the government's money.

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according to police they walked into the bank in val dasa, georgia, shooting several bullets into theng, ordering everybody on the ground and fleeing with cash. with started in florida, where the three had been living most of their lives. they were involved in a high speed chase, where a cop pulled them over for speeding. they ran from the cop, going 100 miles an hour, and according to police, they turned around, two of the siblings, shooting several rounds, at least 20 bullets at that police car, disabling it, knocking out a tire but did not hurt that officer. the mother contacted by local news and with an emotional sound bite she says she wants her kids to please turn themselves in and surrender. >> you've made some bad mistakes, but so far, no one has been physically harmed. the only safe thing, the only right thing, the only good thing possible thing to do is for you to turn yourselves in. i love you. >> reporter: according to police, the only contact any of the siblings have made with anyone that they're aware of is a text message that the youngest doherty, 21-year-old ryan, sent

even if they currently owe more than their property val value. 33% of the homes there are currently inlosure. places here in santa chair are county fair quite a bit better with foreclosure rates going down actually from last year. now if those homeowners can refie, they can fake advantage of the lowest interest rates in 50 years. right now the interest rate on a 30 year mortgage as of last week was 4.22%. so that could be good news for a whole bunch of homeowners if this plan goes through. again, the obama administration expected to at least hit the plan maybe as soon as next week. reporting live in san jose, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> time now 6:37. well this morning we find out who bart will name as its next general manager. former seattle transit direction grace has been selected. bart's president is called the special meeting for board of directors at 9:00 a.m. that's when an announcement is expected. bart has been without a general manager since april. that was when dorothy resigned. >>> right now it is 6:37. could be busy out there. roads starting to get a little crowded. >> it is

they are losing the val you of a retirement accounts, savings. i think the president needs to act here. >> dana, why shouldn't congress and senate and everyone go on vacation? it seems that sanity and patriotism and caring about people that don't have work and people that are 99ers, they've been on vacation a while. i don't know what we're looking at here. we're looking at the country, whether we have questions or not, and i'll get to that about s&p or not, it is fruitless to question it. we had a 630% drop today on the impact. it is impacting us. do these people get it? 634.76 points to be exact. we are dealing with, since the debt ceiling was signed, 1057 points and these people are rung around trying to play the blame game rather than understanding they are sinking the economy of this country? >> well, the approval of congress right now is looking to be about 14%. that raises the question of what are these other 14% doing other than finding out what's going on in the news here. the object of this are terrible. first they left town leaving the

there was not a lot of fanfare in the rose garden, just a simple signing in the ooh val office. lawmakers have been scrambling to beat the deadline and yes, they did do that. don't pop the champagne cork, not yet. there is grim news, wall street is taking a beating. u.s. investors are clearly not celebrating. and there remains the question of our nation's credit rating. much more on that, straight ahead. but first, we caught up with mitch mcconnell, just a short time after the senate big vote. all right, senator. senator harry reid went on the floor and said that as part of part 2 of this debt ceiling bill that taxes will go up. actually used the word revenue. is that true? >> the joint committee can look at tax reform which both the president and virtually every republican is in favor of. we are in the race, trying to do something about the preferences. but the issue of raising taxes, from a republican point of view, is no more on the table later as it was up front. in the basic bill, there are no tax increases at all. the joint committee's also going to focus on entitlements.

we are just three days away from texas governor's rick perry's public prayer val rally called, the responsebig a national event to restore faith in america. but it turns out, perry's having trouble filling seats. organizers say only 8,000 people are signed up. that barely fills one section of the 71,000 seat reliant stadium where the event's being held. it is about half the people expected at the hunter's extravaganza expo going on in the reliant center right next door. the low turn out might just be because of all of the extreme and haitful endorsers who signed on to the event. just listen to them preach. >> the homosexual agenda will become to intense that before the lord returns, marriage will be outlawed in various parts of the earth. >> one of the good example says minimum wage. party's been fighting about that for about 60 years. is jesus for or against the minimum wage. just as a hint, jesus did not like the minimum wage. >> there is statue in new york harbor called the statue of liberty. you know where we got from from? french free masons. listen folks, that's an idol, a demonic ido

. >>> finally, huge 1250-point val ra willy led by insurance companies as investors breathe a sigh ofief as many had feared. now back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." if you watched anything on television this weekend other than the coverage of harry contain irene you probably noticed the re-emergence of both former president george w. bush and his vice president dick cheney. joining me now for a postgame wrap-up of the bush administration intramurals, lynn sweet and david corn, an msnbc political analyst. allow me to say first what dick cheney said in his memoir. the former vice president said he hoped powell would be success at secretary of state but disappointed by powell's terms and abcs and wrote, as though he felt the proper way to express his views was by criticizing administration policy to people outside the government. and what president bush accepted powell's resignation i thought it was for the best. so now colin powell hit back yesterday in an appearance on cbs's "face the nation." he takes issue with the former vice president's portrayal of condoleezza rice

numbers dropping with westerly wind. 73 sunny val. close to 60s in san jose but feels warmer out there with all of our sunshine. winds primarily out of the west now. sustained winds at 21 miles per hour through downtown at this point. gusting in the mid-20s. even though the pollen levels are low now with the winds kicking up, it is aggravating allergies. as we have been previewing a cooler thursday coming our way with the jet stream taking a dip, talking about 70s. cooler than average pattern we've been stuck in is also conversely related to the hot weather in the central u.s. without this bulging the heat in the central u.s. is not going to budge either. the heat wave in the central u.s. continues. if you're doing traveling to the east, we want to bring you your attention here to tropical storm emily. this looks to stay parallel to florida as we head into the weekend. not a direct landfall expected but a storm to watch. we'll have more in tomorrow's weather forecast later on in the show. back to you. >> thank you, jeff. >>> still to

going to be hot in the val centrally, 102 degrees in fresno, in the central valley. 97 sacramento. 82yosemite. 64 monterey bay. around our bay we'll keep things sunny and bright toward the afternoon. 82 santa clara. 78 san mateo. 68 half moon bay. east bay temperatures should be hot in spots. 94 brentwood and livermore. about 39 degrees in pleasanton. and 91 degrees in pleasant hill. as you get inside the bay 60s and 70s in toward oakland. plenty of sunshine there by the afternoon. and the north bay also looking very nice the latter part of the day 81 in san rafael, 88 in novato, 84 napa. today the hottest day of the week for a bit as we'll see high pressure weakening more low clouds and fog over the next couple of days, temperatures bottoming out about the middle of the week. then high pressure builds back in and looks like more warm temperatures as we head in toward next weekend. let's check the roads with gianna. >> accident northbound 280, vehicle over the embankment. crews cleaning it out of the road. we are seeing a backup, traffic sluggish as you work your way there northbound

and we val new congress in there that will pay attention to what is going on all across america.'m confident in the power of your voice. i'm confident in your values. thoisz those are the values that we share. i don't care whether you are democrat, republican or independent. all of us here are patriots and everybody cares about our country and puts it first. and if we can have that kind of politics, then nothing can stop us. thank you very much, everybody. god bless you. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. snez president barack obama in decorah, iowa, speak at a town hall. he talked about a lot. he talked direct. he was very passionate and fired up, talking about infrastructure. he talked about job creation. talked about education. can he get any of this through congress? he also talked a lot about broken government. how do we get anything through your colleagues? >> they had the national extension program there, he keynoted it. working all over the country working with communities. what president is do doing is talking about what the role of government really plays in creating

>> this lumbee tribe maker runs one of the biggest true val hardware companies in the nation.es are doing well. >> great survivors. great example of how you can continue to persist even under the absolutely the worst, the worst treatment that you could help. >> john: they divorced themselves from these government handouts. they have done well without. >> individuals have done well. >> john: exactly. individuals free of special government. a rae developer who you saw in the sacramento king. jack lowery an original owner of the cracker barrel restaurant or civil bullard who owns granel. >> we had to fend for ourselves and do what we had to do to survive. >> we don't mind getting our hands dirty and getting the job done. we know we will be rewarded for that. >> what helped the lumbees is know they had to become entrepreneurs and support them sfrls. >> they haven't trained to be capitalists trained to be communist. everything needs somebody's approval. >> manage most indian land. indians compete to serve on tribal councils because then they can give out the government's money. >>

it's not like it's val kilmer and keanu reeves. >> jimmy: this is before he invented facebook?n. and this like older -- really old woman came up to him and was, like, i just got to thank you because i don't get to see my grandkids every day and because of your website, i do. [ applause ] >> jimmy: he probably gets that a lot. was this -- was this your first, like, action movie? >> yeah, it's the first -- you know, there's no like car chases and stuff in "parks and rec." it's in the office, chilling out in parks and stuff. this is like we're robbing banks. there's car chases. it's really cool. and car chases, it was interesting because it takes so long to film a car chase. it's so complicated. there's like one big car chase in the movie and it took us almost like a week to film it. you watch a movie like "fast and the furious" you're like, whoa, this whole movie is a car chase. did they start filming this 30 years ago? was vin diesel 6 when theyy started production. >> >> jimmy: no, i think they do it faster than you guys. >> faster and more furiously. >> jimmy: i know you have

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and i'm going to say, happy birthday to val. >> oh, happy birthday, val.al looks like she's about 29. [laughter] >> and why cannon falls? >> why cannon falls? [laughter] [applause] well, i had heard that cannon falls has some of the smartest, best-looking kids around. [laughter] and you have confirmed the rumor about the outstanding children of cannon falls. so thank you very much, everybody. god bless you. ♪ ["stars and stripes forever" playing] >> present obama continues as midwestern bus tour tomorrow in iowa at what the white house is calling or rural economic forum. the event is in debut in the eastern part of the state. he will be joined by agricultural secretary tom ball vilsack. >> good morning, everyone. i want to thank you for joining the call. obviously with president obama embarking on this taxpayer funded campaign tour, we are here to launch a campaign of our own called obama's debt to are, to remind the people of this president's failure to create jobs and of his failed policies that have only made things worse. but we are doing as we have ha

america's jobs governor, rick perry learned the val iewfer hard work, patriotism and faith in god asf tenant farmers. he wort uniform our country as an air force captain before return together family farm mashying his high school sweetheart anita and starting a family. megyn: michael reagan is a political consultant and chairman of the reagan group. tell us what you think about the latest poll numbers showing perry shooting to the top. do you think the comparison to your father is more apt or he's more like george w. bush. >> i'm not surprised by the poll numbers for perry. i think there are a lot of people looking for someone else to rights out of the ashes to take that away from mitt romney. you have michele bachmann in there, great race and winning the straw poll over the weekend. i think it ends up being a three-person race. michele bachmann, rick perry and mitt romney. megyn: you say he won't win in he's george w. bush or ronald reagan. he has to be rick perry which seems more like john wayne. >> everybody is trying to say he's like george bush or ronald reagan. that ad you just

it happened during a severe storm at a music spheft val last night. see concert-goers literally running for their lives. five people were killed. there was a similar stage collapse in indiana last weekend. we are learning another person injured in that accidents has died, bringing the total number of those killed to 6. starting our power panel early on this friday to make room for rick ander to how many is coming up at the bottom of the hour. christine o'donnell walked off the set. she says she was berated with what she said was sex iewlg harassment and downright creepy. roll tape. >> do you support gay marriage. >> you are borderline being a little bit rude. i obviously want to talk about the issues that i choose to talk about in the book. >> do you answer that question in the book? >> i talk about my religious beliefs. i absolutely do. >> do you talk about gay marriage in the book. >> what relevance is that? is there a piece of legislation? >> it's obviously as you know because of michele bachmann and others, it's a highly contentious political issu

. >>> president obama is saying the nation faces unprecedented economic val challenges.g time to deliver his long awaited jobs speech to a joint session of congress. in a letter to the speaker of the house and senate majority leader mr. obama said he would like to do it in prime time one week from today at 8:00 p.m. eastern. he'll lay out proposals that lawmakers could act on immediately to continue to rebuild the economy. he says the plans would strengthen small businesses, help the unemployed get back to work and put more money in the paychecks of middle class and working americans. he says his plans would still reduce the deficit. >>> his speech couldn't come at a better time. take a look at this. thousands of people lining up for a jobs fair in los angeles today. all of these people are waiting to get into an event organized by the congressional black caucus which offers help to unemployed members of the african-american community. one of the hardest hit groups in this down economy. >>> the justice department is suing to block at&t's deal to buy t-mobile. the governm

but more importantly, i had to tawaken the vals of wher .. wanted to be hack for the republican party, and i decided that not only did i want to return to journalism but my voice could return as a voice of integrity. i realized i wasn't doing it for anybody else. it wasn't about anybody else. it was about me. about my truth and my getting grounded again. so i started back going to church. being alone with god, getting back to the kinds of things my parents taught me about honesty, about trying to be good, and sometimes being good, we say these things about being good but it's not enough just talking about being good. it because of this i decided i needed to reawaken the virtues of my life. and things started coming around, and i also realized that things were not as bad as i thought they were, and even though my legal fees, even though i lost 80% of my business, i managed my business well, i managed my money well. i did not spend frivolously. bud but i did not have much overhead and debt, and the i had people who wanted to help me out financi

typically underestimates the cost of these regulations and leave out -- i know how the game works -- daily val little things that are important. one regulation says you must train your employees and we estimate it will take half an hour. it's usually more like two hours. obviously half hour of time as a cost impact for any employer concerned about any level of productivity at all. in a fiduciary regulation, the pension benefit of doubt multiple areas such as iras and small pension plans which would have to comply with new regulations and assume we cannot figure out, so it is the zero. under the posting regulation, which i will talk about a little bit, it covers nearly every employer in america. except for those hit with the immunization campaign. i cannot come back and say this is what the costs are. but typically these agencies underestimate the cost, and that is normally the course of business. but in this economy, it is particularly troublesome. we will be going through those as we comment on those regulations, but i want to bring it to your attention. i think is -- it indicates the arrogan

good morning, val, you are on the air. caller: yes, good morning. this question is for professor rosenfeld. i would like you to speak to a position i have regarding walter. walter called earlier and spoke about white flight, how in the beginning his family, hard working, they noticed an increase in minorities entering their communities. they left, and he went on to say that his family did that three or four times. what he wanted to say is that education and parenting and peeing -- excuse me -- on the streets and poor schools were problematic. but what about the crime for the white male? you have scott peterson, the police officer with five wives who are missing, the white woman from california who kidnapped and killed -- it seems like we are only talking about minorities who cause horrific crimes, and yet story after story we see so many white males who are engaged in such horrific crimes and no one ever talks about that. we had a caller who talked about white collar crime. those are two separate things. why are minorities the only ones who are look

and more val tilt is expected in the wall street trading today after the dow dropped 600 points monday0 for the first time since november. >>> meantime the fed may announce another round of monetary easing. former international monetary fund chief, dominique facing a hn is nowcc1: civil lawsuit from the hotel maid who accuses of him of sexual assault. she filed suit against strauss-kahn monday for the alleged attack that she claims has left her life in shambles. strauss-kahn's lawyers say the suit without merit. >>> the remains of 30 american servicemen arrive at dover air force base in delaware today after their hoik was shot down over the weekend in afghanistan. 22 were members of the navy's elite s.e.a.l. team 6. >>> at least one person has died in the riots sweeping across great britain. a 26-year-old man shot in his car in the city of croyden. chaos erupted again overnight with protesters setting cars and buildings on fire. 500 people have been arrested since saturday and prime minister has ordered 10,000 more officers on the street to put an end to the violence. >>> a somber memo

young people in particular are more val about the obama administration. host: you're not hearing from anyone yet. guest: those people historically will not move and shake elections. i do not think there is an appetite -- to spend resources on college campuses. ron awaken his big policy address on college campuses. -- ronald reagan gave his big policy addresses on college campuses. but it is about reaching the next generation about ideas of freedom. host: there is talk about the conservative tea party being responsible for this. what do you think? guest: the s&p did not blame the tea party but outlined what we already knew. when you have a one-year nation's credit card, you have problems on your hands. we need to stop. -- going on vacations for having worked today. the tea party is why the trajectory is about what to cut, not what to add. we should be thanking the tea party for that. they did point to our entitlement crisis clearly they will be insolvent, especially medicare. the s&p acknowledges this. many tea party members, but not democrats. host: alexa

want to end with the next generation can lead >> i am vaness pier.ea i want to say happy birthday to valshe is 29.s likeshs and why cannon balls? -- cannon falls? [applause] >> i had heard that cannon falls has some of the smartest, best- looking kids around. you have confirmed the rumor about the outstanding children. thank you very much, everybody. god bless you. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] ♪ ♪ >> near this park where the president spoke the associated press reports the chair of the republican national committee reince priebus rallied a few dozen tea party members and the college republicans. he also spoke with reporters today on a conference call along with the chair of the iowa rnc. here is that conversation. >> to launch a campaign of our own called obama's dead end to war, to remind the american people of this president that a failure to create jobs, failed policies that have only made things worse. so, what we are doing is we are what -- launching web ads, radio ads, text messaging camp