we'll try. >> thank you. >> larry: t-boz watkins, marty caldwell, and dixie bickel.s it for this edition of "larry king live." we hope we've provided you with

we'll try. >> thank you. >> larry: t-boz watkins, marty

instead we head from general watkins of the maryland national guard. and commander of the maryland state police. the advice they are giving is just to stay off the roads in this situation. they don't believe even that if you have all weather radios on your car that'll get through the snow we are expecting. they are looking for tomorrow to be the biggest impact. high winds possibly blizzard-like conditions. state government already closed tomorrow. they have extended the state of emergency, which was put in place for the last storm. it continues now and will continue until thursday. what that does is allows the state to continue using those national guard units which have been in use moving people around. helping with rescues in baltimore city and other places. maryland national guard says by tomorrow 180 vehicles will be out working in jurisdictions around the state. we are still expecting the governor to arrive here at mema at any time. when he does we'll speak with him and bring you an update on what the conditions are. as the work here continues the

watkins, contributor to msnbc companion website thegrio.com.'s the one single step families can do to save their money? >> well, you have to cut the fat. you have to rethink how you perceive money. you may want to reconsider the difference between the things that you want and the things that you need. i'm telling families to go through and do a line-item analysis of all the things you're paying for every month and determine whether or not you can afford that lifestyle. and if you can't, it's okay to downsize. it's okay to reconsider how you live. it's okay to dig deeper into your resources. remember, you don't have to get a job in order to have an income. if you like to bake cookies, sell tumer ware, whatever it takes to bring in extra money, i recommend people explore all those options. the goal is not to just get a job but enough money to do what you need to do. >> so many americans essentially are underwater on their mortgage, in other words they owe more than their home is currently worth. what should they do? >> first of all, think about w

. >> the watkins' family said joel was a special-needs student. >>> a prince georges county neighborhood is on edge after a home invasion. a woman told police three men posing as comcast employees forced their way into her home on norwood court in largo. investigators say they were armed and took off with home electronics in a red-colored sedan. fortunately the woman was not hurt p the suspect is still out there. >>> d.c. school chancellor said a dozen teachers have been fired over the years because of sexual misconduct or the use of corporal punishment since 2007. in a letter to d.c. council chair, ten teach wers fired for shoving, slapg or arm twisting students. two were fired for sexual misconduct. >>> it certainly seems like a woefully long winter in d.c. and we had the snow and ice and traffic jams and now come the potholes. >> reporter: montgomery, wisconsin, the kind of jaw-breaking pothole that turned our roads into obstacle courses. >> they're big potholes. >> that one would eat you alive. >> reporter: they call that a smart car, but in these conditions, maybe not so much. >> th

ronald reagan, jim watkins, admiral watkins was in the room when ronald reagan moved towards seekingfense initiative as a flanking maneuver as a way out. burke has something going for him in adding agility, which we lost. in the strategy. he ended a second term as cno. burke stated it was obviously time for him to retire. ike would have none of it. it was his third time however and you was disappointed with himself and his own leadership. he opened up to me here at csis was a failure to the bay of pigs. he felt he had let himself down. he felt he had not performed the way he had performed previously. he went over this privately with me again and again. he would never write it up because he said he didn't want to hurt anybody now that it was over. he served as acting chairman of the joint chiefs during this period. he would be invited into these meetings, allowed to take no note and b. and criminal change made, no capability or allies whether this was a work of our operation were not. burke regretted that he did not go to president kennedy and blow the whistle. this is not going to wo

watkins elementary in southeast, happy kids. >> the snow is fun. >> seemingly happy parents. >> is just beginning. it is the first hour of saturday. talk to me when he has scooped out -- talk to me when he has been cooped up. >> one of the busiest places was this hardware store. a truck full of ice melt out front, and no sooner could they take off that the customers lined up and were carting off. >> i have been to four stores to get rock salt. >> this is our third truck today. we cannot get it fast enough. >> customers came from everywhere, including down the street at the capitol, the house minority leader among those getting ready. >> it is snow. get used to it. relax. what are you going to do? >> i am going to sit at home and read a book. >> mayor fenty was busy, handling another snowstorm. >> government will close at 2:00. >> he said the city will have 270 trucks on the streets with employes working 12-hour shifts to handle the snow. the mayor declared a snow emergency beginning at 9:30 this morning. i understand that have been a fairly liberal on that but they will start enforcing

ronald reagan, jim watkins, admiral watkins was in the room when ronald reagan moved seeking strategic defense initiative as a flanking maneuver as a way out. burke had something going for him in adding an agility, which we lost. by the end of the secretary term as cno, burke stated it was obviously time for him to retire. ike would have none of it. it was his third term, however, and burke had -- his deep disappointment with himself and his own leadership. he opened up to me here at csis he was a failure at the bay of pigs. he felt he had let himself down. he felt he had not performed the way he had performed previously. he went over this privately with me again and again. he would never write it up 'cause he said he didn't want to hurt anybody now that it was over. he served as acting chairman of the joint chiefs during this period. he would be invited into these meetings, allowed to take no notes. and there would be incremental change. and no capability to analyze whether this was a workable operation or not. burke regret that he did not go to president kennedy and pillow the whistl

watkins became roosevelts indispensable envoy during the second world war.aveled to talk to churchill. he traveled to talk to stalin. and hopkins was quite free and hopkins although he shared his paper with sherwood here to sherwood was a brilliant writer. and his book is exceedingly good great impact as one of the most important accounts, one of the most important sources for what roosevelt was thinking. because roosevelt would talk to hopkins and hopkins would come back to sherwood or hopkins would write it down in a journal. the surface that i used for the book were the obvious presidential papers, correspondence and the like. but franklin roosevelt didn't reveal himself very much in letters. he never kept a diary. so i had to rely to a greater sense than some of my previous biographies on roosevelts public, i will call them, performances. franklin roosevelt understood that politics, especially presidential politics was a performance art. i one point, orson welles came to the white house. this wasn't orson welles was in his prime, the great actor and dire

. >> harold watkins, and just a question to go to what you opened with, talking about structured finance and the need to restart it. what do both of you suggest as the strategy to get structured finance to come in and play something similar to the role it was playing two years ago? >> well, i'll give you -- there are three points that need to happen. one is everybody needs to have skin in the game, and that's in the house bill. we can't have originators of loans selling loans to the secondary market, with no risk of loss, because they don't have the right incentives to do the due diligence. second of all, we had this terribly complex structure off-balance sheet where -- and you see this in the investor community. you need simple transparent structures in which people really know what's happening. people don't want to buy the stuff, because you had second, third, fourth tier, you know, cdo squared, cdo to the third or cubed and -- so we need simple structures, much better disclosure. the s.e.c. can do a lot more on that. the third thing; you know, a lot of investors depend on credit ratin

i hear that the watkins hornets, are some of the hornets here? stand up. i know you are bored. [applauding] they are barely hanging in. so we want you here. this is really about all of you. we have got other kids, but these guys are the national football champions, right? [applauding] congratulations, guys. you guys can sit. we are almost done. hang in there. just think, you could be in school. but we are all here today because we care deeply about the health and well-being of not just these kids up here, but for all kids like them all. clearly we are determined to finally take on one of the most serious threats to the future. obviously it is an issue of great concern to me, and and just as the first lady, but as a mother. as is often said, we begin by setting a sobering statistics like the ones we have heard today. we can't say enough because we have to drill this and. over the past three decades childhood obesity rates in this country a tripled. one in three of our children. the truth is these numbers don't paint the full picture, and it's important to say this. the words ove

watkins? >> he was a syracuse professor of finance and economics, and he made some comments that -- he criticized bill o'reilly and bill o'reilly and fax -- fox news asked him to be dismissed. he was refused tenure at university. >> well, and mr. watkins isn't the last person. look at mark hill on fox news being fired because he had a picture on his twitter page. the right-wing media began to attack him saying he was a supporter of a cop killer. i thought fox news invited him on to be the liberal. so i'm confused here. but what we've seen, i'm confused here, the left wing having the kind of media machine, where it's in radio or television. so when we saw what happened to van jones, he was crucified for weeks. it wasn't something that happened over a weekend. it was day after day after day on fox news, right-wing radio over and over again. and i didn't see anyone on the left say this is who he is, this is why he was brought into the cap -- cabinet, this is why president obama thought he was via

i hear that the watkins hornets -- are some of the hornets here? all right.ed. just barely hanging in. but we want you here because this is all about all of you. we have other kids, but these guys are the national football champions, right? you guys can sit. we're almost done. just so you couldn't be in school. but we're all here today because we cared deeply about the health and well-being of not just these kids up here but for all kids like them all across the country. and clearly we're determined to finally take on one of the most serious threats to their future and that's the epidemic of childhood obesity in america today. and obviously it's an issue of great concern to me, not just as a first lady, but as a mother. and as tiki said often, when we talk about this issue, we talk about the sobering statistics like the ones we heard today. and we can't say it enough because we have to drill this in. that over the past three decades, childhood obesity in this country has tripled. nearly 1/3 of children in america are now overweight or obese. that's one in thr

i hear that, the watkins hornets, some of the hornets here? >> yeah. >> stand up. i know you're bored. [applause] this is barely hanging in. but, we want you here because this is really about all of you. we've got other kids but these guys are the national football champions, right? [applause] congratulations you guys. you guys can sit. we're almost done. hang in there. just think, you could be in school. [laughter] but we're all here today, because we care deeply about the health and well-book of not just these kids up here but, for all kids like them all across the country and clearly we're determined to take on one of the most serious threats to their future, and that is the epidemic of childhood obesity in america today. obviously an issue of great concern to me, not just as a first lady but as a mother. and, as tiki said, often he with talk about this issue we begin by citing sobering statistics like the ones we heard today and we can't say it enough because we have to drill this in. that over the past three decades childhood obesity rates in this country have