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. >>> shooting in venice for the johnny depp/angelina jolie film, it was shut down yesterday due to fans who showed up trying to take their own pictures. >>> and finally for those of o you who feel kim kardashian has already had her 15 minutes of fame, get this, after five years of keeping up with the kardashians, the show may die, not due to the lack of ratings but because the network can't afford to pay her. it's not because of bad ratings. >> you'd be surprised to know i have watched a couple of episodes. >> of course. people think you're a professional meteorologists. >> my wife watches it and i happen to be in the wife. >> don't blame your wife. that's not sure. >> this comes to us from wptv channel 5 in west palm beach florida. blustery weather apparently blew the three great horned owls from their nest and they were found hungry and emaciated so an animal sanctuary took them in. toll minimize human contact, a foster mother is raising one of the young ones so she'll teach them social behavior and how to find food until they're eventually released back into the wild. i'm lynn berry,

i live in venice. and nobody had the word venice, so i took the word venice. host: let me get a response. guest: sounds like what john has access to is pretty exciting. it was not available 10 years ago. we shouldn't take it lightly how far we've come in this country in a very short period of time. one thing i like is the way it kicks off by saying 25 years ago we didn't have this thing called the internet or broadband. this is an ini thing, 25 years ago this week is the anniversary of the first dot-com address that was awarded on the internet. we have to think about the fact that in our lifetimes, we have come a long, long way. and, yes, we need to get more access to broadband to more folks out there, especially in rural and impoverished communeties, but the reality is let's not lose sight of the fact of how far we've come. host: art brodsky? guest: yes, we've come a long way, but the point is how do we improve on that? that's what the fk did. saying, look, we have come so far. we'll go further. host: does john's story about the ability to speak on the phone

along the red river can be excused today for thinking they might have somehow been transported to venice overnight. as you can see over my shoulder, street signs that normally would be on streets. that would normally be carrying traffic are completely under water. they have been for days here as the red river continues to creep up. it's come up about two feet over the last couple of days. there is some good news to report today. that is that the predictions for the crest of the red river are mitochondria lower than last year's 40-foot redded river surge that caused a lot of anxiety up and down the red river, especially in the fargo area, on the other side of moorehead which is where i'm standing. when this thing crests tomorrow, that measurement has been dropped further to another half foot down to 37.5 feet. they've got sandbags on both sides of the river. people living on both sides are saying they're very kfld tconfi the work they've done is going to hold the red river back. people who live in rural communities because the basin is so shallow, they are actually being cut off by floodw

are delighted to be participating in the launch of perry's book, my paper chase: true stories of venice times peer the book covers and i started reading, it covers a huge amount of ground from harris childhood in northern england and for a time you read notice you were living in eccles a few hundred yards from where julia to later grew up in clinton. then on to professional career as a journalist, editor, publisher and author. but this isn't just another autobiography, this is also a biography of the newspaper industry, have many many significant decades. and the book describes one that almost industrial process of producing a newspaper when is really the best part of the last of the century. all of that in one way has vanished but the book is decidedly not an obituary for printing journalism. mark twain said amnon and then as revenues paper and show always try to do right in the goods so that god will not make the one. [laughter] harold evans is 14 year tenure as editor of the sunday times and then for a year as the editor of the daily times of london. he produced a work of really extr

. >> there are places when i was in colorado recently or california on venice beach saying the doctors here and will write you a bripgs rigpres right now. pharmacies don't look like pharmaci pharmacies. >> do you know how many questions we raise? we never get answers. i get the answer for $4.20 with medical composition or something. >> take a look at this picture in the new york post today. that picture was taken. the pilot said if you want to look at your left window right now you'll see a volcano exploding. the entire plane ran over to that side and this is about a month ago. this is in the british west indies and that plane full of passengers got this view out their windows. >> worse than it looks or looks worse than the actual explosion. >> what a force we live on. that's crazy. >> heating up. >> when we come back, a market trifecta you won't want to miss. later on, florida's attorney general calling the health care overhaul unconstitutional and tell us why the bill tramples on state's rights when "squawk" continues. >>> a market trifecta. the dow making a run at 11,000. three mar

the walk-through metal detector at checkpoints so that when a passenger shows up, the security of venicee have is that when a passenger shows up in the line, they will be directed by the officer to go through ether technology. they will not know. the bench to us is that somebody could not protect the bacon "-- -- the advantage to us is that somebody could not predict which line baby should go through. long term, we hope to drive the industry to actually provide us with the technology with -- where the walk through metal detectors could be comparable to the a i t. >> you have a combined machine? >> that would be a great set up force down the road. >> why haven't we done that? >> we are pushing the industry to do that but the industry has not gone to that point yet. >> if you put out a specification, you get some bids. >> i believe we are asking for that and the laboratories and we are working with the science and technology lab to help us push the industry towards that. >> let me know. >> i will. >> there is the machine and then there is the separate room where the images viewed by an ope

this on venice where we aggressively target people to sign up at a young age and then pretty aggressively tell them they can't serve, the comment was made earlier that whether it had been 13,000 since 1993, most of them were in the earlier years of their service. are they throw ways? we went after them at that young age. how does that fit in to the whole idea of fairness that we aggressively recruit at a time when folks are trying to sort out the intimate aspects of their person? >> i am not trying to sound like a broken record, but i am hoping that the review, the assessment that is ongoing and just started will be addressing what you're talking about. when i joined the military over 40 years ago, those issues of fairness, equity, they were with me then and they are with me today. i left for a few years, i am now back in a different capacity. the issues of fairness and equity, i would go without saying that they are absolutely important. the vital role of readiness, our nation -- there are hypothetical that we don't know right now. i hope it would be obvious that we are looking forward t

this on venice where we aggressively target people to sign up at a young age and then pretty aggressively tell them they can't serve, the comment was made earlier that whether it had been 13,000 since 1993, most of them were in the earlier years of their service. are they throw ways? we went after them at that young age. how does that fit in to the whole idea of fairness that we aggressively recruit at a time when folks are trying to sort out the intimate aspects of their person? >> i am not trying to sound like a broken record, but i am hoping that the review, the assessment that is ongoing and just started will be addressing what you're talking about. when i joined the military over 40 years ago, those issues of fairness, equity, they were with me then and they are with me today. i left for a few years, i am now back in a different capacity. the issues of fairness and equity, i would go without saying that they are absolutely important. the vital role of readiness, our nation -- there are hypothetical that we don't know right now. i hope it would be obvious that we are looking forward t