smith. >> wendell smith still needed in this neighborhood to an excellent job with limited resources we have passed to work with >> supporters of the school say cps neglected the school's current library teachers of mathematics and reading coaches at social service professionals and after-school programs again the boat of the state of wendell smith elementary school and other schools is wednesday. a beer truck and car and bought the deadly accident on the south side to delivery man of loading a truck and bus pulled along side at a stop sign at the driver of the third vehicle ran the stop sign smashed into the cta crushing a delivery man three others injured former police officer said tried to flee the scene >> chicago police car pulled up started to go westbound i chased him down >> the driver who was tackled wanted by chicago police for a prior dui. green line today keeping an eye out for suspicious groups series of strong arm robberies chicago police reporting roberts took place on the train a suspect or to the victims to get out the bulls. guardian angels handed out safety tips to

they don't want to know wendell phillips. they don't even want to know lymon trumble. and i'm saying that we ought to teach young white children wendell phillips' name, who said -- and 94 years before king, 133 years before mandela that he wanted to create a rainbow nation composed of the learned and the ignorant, the old and the young, the black and the white, paying an, christian, jew -- pagan, christian, jew, all in one great procession, marching toward a rainbow land. he said that 100 years ago. that ought to be taught if we're gog to overcome the madness in this country. going back to abigail adams, who really were in favor of the liberation of black people, we need to know black people like frederick douglass, etc. >> again, my facts may not be right on the money, but a couple of weeks ago, president inton std in front of the anderson cottage out here at the old soldier's home, $750,000 to repair it. i think he mentioned it was in this cottage that abraham lincoln wrote a lot of the emancipation proclamation, implying that's very positive, very good. kind of conn

wendell goler at the state department for us tonight.here are new and ominous signs of trouble in the nuclear standoff with iran. there is a new report out just today of deception and word that the israelis are apparently prepared to go it alone. a live report from the pentagon is next. [ male announcer ] this is the age of knowing what you're made of. why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. this is the age of taking action. viagra. talk to your doctor. >> shepard: new signs that iran and israel may be oon a dangerous collision course. the sign come as iran suprem

wendell goler live at the white house.m, what we are hearing from the building behind you, it sounds like the white house is standing firm. ship officials say they want to accommodate catholic concerns but won't move away from basic demand that every american woman have access to contra session without a co-pay. today democratic lawmakers accuse republicans of always finding a way to try and restrict a woman's access to reproductive freedoms. >> they said that it's about freedom. except apparently not the freedom to make your own health care choice. well, we have news for republics. this is about contraception. and if they think it isn't, we would love them to hear the women whose access to contraception is on the line with the battle that they are taking on. >> democrats say the president told them at a retreat this afternoon to hang tough but with defections from senators casey and mangs and tim kaine that's going to be more difficult. >> for republicans looking for traction this is just what the doctor ordered. >> it do

wendell goler following this story live from the white house today. wendell? >> reporter: this is really a get acquainted session between president obama and the vice president, on course to become china's president a little more than a year from now. it does come from a time of rising tensions. china's increased military spending. china and russia, of course, just vetoed a u.n. security council resolution on syria that really enabled as saturday to continue his -- assad to continue his crackdown. and, of course, china remains one of rapp's biggest -- iran's biggest customers. president obama stuck to positive themes, he said u.s./chinese cooperation kept the recession from being worse than it has been. he didn't mention his state of the union warning of a new crackdown on chinese trade practices, but vice president biden indicated things are not all smiles between washington and beijing. >> as we discussed, we are not always going to see eye to eye, we're not always going to see things exactly the same. but we have important, very important economic and polit

and great britain recalls its ambassadors, but the senior white house foreign affairs correspondent wendell goler reports, the brutal crackdown in syria continues unabated. faced with a spike in violence and diplomatic effort, saturday, the u.s. today closed its embassy in damascus and recalled the ambassador and 17 other divisions. >> our concern is the situation in and around damascus is becoming increasingly violent, reflecting the fact that the regime is increasingly losing control of the situation. >> the security council resolution an arab league plan for syrian leader assad to step down, but vetoed by russia and china and secretary of state clinton reacted bitterly. >> faced with annuitiered a security council, we have to redouble our efforts outside of the united nations. >> clinton suggested russia and china will eventually have to answer to the serioyrian peoe for prolonging their pain and intervene like we did in libya. >> i said at the time in libya, we would be making these decisions on a case by case basis, based on how unified the international community was, what our capacit

>>shepard: thank you from the white house, wendell. a new report is out today and facebook, the social networking giant with reported 800 million users will soon take its first step to becoming a publicly traded company. according to several reports, facebook can file paperwork by today for the initial public offering of stock. and now gerri's two cents from the fox business network. normally, the i.p.o.'s regular folks, regular investors can not get in but it is my understanding in this i.p.o.'s regulars may be able to get in on a "twist." >>gerri: well, this is a twist because that is new. usually individuals cannot play because they do not get the offer price and this place it will be $45 a share but the people who are going to get wealthy are the really wealthy, the venture capitalists who invested, and the guy who started it and the friends of the bankers they will make a lot of money. >>shepard: how do i meet a banker. >>gerri: have to go to the right parties. let me tell you what the media is saying. reporters are saying it coul

and wendell is live at the white house. by any definition, this is a compromise but compromise is a dirty word. >>reporter: the folks call it "an accommodation," because it provides free care to the teachers and doctors and nurses at catholic hospitals and universities b but insulates the institutions. they do not have to pay for their care. but, instead, insurance companies must reach out to women and tell them they can have contraception at in cost. >> this is a win-win situation where employers do not have to pay for coverage. don't have to refer to coverage or offer coverage if they have objection. on the other hand but we know with this benefit contraception which lowers costs insurers can offer it to their customers free of charge. >>reporter: the president said it was his intention all along to take the next year to immoment the rule in a manner the catholic church can live with. >>shepard: how are catholic groups reacting? >>reporter: the archbishop, soon-to-be cardinal ahead of the u.s. conference of bishops is stu

." >> wendell has the news at the state department. when goal, what are the "friends of syria," accomplish today? >>reporter: not much. the group announced a proposal for unarmed arab league and united nations peacekeepers to go into syria if president assad, and opposition groups stop the fighting and if the u.n. security council gives its blessing. the group could not agree on proposals of whether to arm the opposition leaders. in a one-on-one meeting with secretary of state, hillary clinton the saudi arabian foreign minister said arming the syrian opposition "is an excellent idea," and in a written statement senators lieberman and john mccain said the syrians should be given enough aid to defend themselves saying "this should include access to weapons and intelligence, and communications equipment and financing and medical supplies," but for now the obama administration disagrees. >> we remain convinced we do not want further military intervention. >>reporter: secretary of state, hillary clinton said there is little doubt the opposi

./ wendell goler explains why theeplan has sparked heated debate in downtown baltimore and across theor workers that covers contraception. sot - yotte says: "what the administration has done is really unprecedented in terms of both parties have reepected religious liberty." white house officials promised instiiutions on how to - implement the policy... ready to compromise. jay ere - carney says "the president is committed to insuring women have access to contraception without copay or any extra work.. catholic churches are exempt from the requirement but hospital and university insurance policies would be required to pay for birth control pills for workers, which they now only cover for medical reasons other than contraception. likewise, they might have to pay for tubal ligations for women of childbearing age. democratic lawmakkrs say the religious freedom ccaim is a smoke screen... the issue is women's rights.sot - gillibrand says: "... the power to decide whether or not to use contraception lies with a woman, not her boss.. but liberal commentator mark shields, himself a catholic, s

and wendell is at the white house. the president acknowledged and talked of a headline saying "republicans are licking their chops over this." >>reporter: the wisdom is that it is the economy that drives american votes and gas prices on the rise you are right the president can feel the crosshairs on his back saying the republicans are licking their chops and coming up with plan he advised the americans to be skeptical of. >> you pay more they are licking their chops. they are already dusting their two-point plan for $2 plan and when you accept one it is to drill and step two is to drill and then, step three, is to keep drilling. >>reporter: he has been strongly criticized for push wind subsidies to develop renewable energy but he says all of the approach is the method to take and, by the way, in all of the above approach is the method that republicans pushed early. >>shepard: before the president talked the republicans issued a prerebuttal. >>reporter: he says the proposal to take bag the subsidies takes away the advan

senior white house foreign affairs correspondent wendell goler has that story from the golden state.on a west coast swing devoted to fundraising, president obama greeted by unfriendly signs but mostly welcome economic news. the number of people filing for unemployment last week fell to the lowest number of four years. mortgage delinquencies are falling though it's higher than what the association considers normal. housing starts fell slightly, permit were up. reasonable news, but not where it counts. >> we need more sustained job numbers. 250,000 new jobs a month. >> on his way out west, mr. obama stopped at a plant in wisconsin to spotlight u.s. manufacturing improvements. >> for the first time since 1990, american manufacturers are creating new jobs. that is good for the companie companies. but good up and down the supply change. >> the budget includes tax changes to encourage companies to bring jobs back to the country and punish them for shipping jobs and profits overseas. but they have little chance where it's more of a campaign platform than spending plan. the president checked

>> bret: wendell goler live at the state department. thank you.alis are taking part in operation to fight piracy in and near their country. fox news recently went along with the maritime police force in an overfly of pirate flotillas and land bases. unit also conducts operations on the ground. it was set up with the help to united arab emirates. member of the house is allegedly not keeping up his own family's house later in the grapevine. here is tonight's infinity sponsored text to vote question. should the u.s. arm syrian rebels? text sr1 to 36288 for yes. text sr2 for no. we'll bring you the results at the end of tonight's show. p@?ñó >> bret: the price of gasoline is up another penny tonight. the national average is now $3.58 a gallon. that is six cents higher than this time last week. crude oil was up just 3 cents to close at $106.28 a barrel. we expect to hear president obama's ideas on what to do about all of this thursday. chief white house correspondent ed henry tells us what he is hearing right now. >> reporter: since december alone, ga

wendell goler live at the white house. wendell, what do we expect to hear from the president? >> reporter: we expect to hear according to aides what the president will characterize as an accommodation with catholic hospitals and universities that the affordable care act requirement that all employers provide contraception for their workers but not a compromise on the goal that making sure contraception is available for all women. uproar as you say pretty much drowned out everything else coming out of the white house for more than a week. the catholic church calling it attack on religious freedom and religious rights groups say nothing less will end gender discrimination. catholic hospitals and universities that see contraception as violation of their faith will not have to pay for it but their insurance companies will have to reach out directly to women employees and offer contraception free of charge. catholic officials say there is no way their organizations can contribute to contraception even though most catholic women use it. people are already saying this accommodation m

>>shepard: thank you, wendell. and a monster storm is now slamming several states. forecasters say they expect it to dutch more than 2' of snow in colorado. beautiful thing buff it moves east. and now, it is supposed to -- look at you; you have the best camera guys. that is beautiful. tell me about it. >> this is how denver folks. because it is not going to stop snowing here until tomorrow morning. and because of that, and all the wind has been coming along with all of this, there have been blizzard like conditions, including kansas, and so is nebraska, and i-70 in and out of kansas is shut down right now so there are hotels that are all filled and parking lots filled on the eastern part of colorado right now just because it is so bad. additionally travel is not just a mess on the road but denver international airport tells me this they have canceled 600 flights, a third of the business they do every day. the airport is not closed entirely but they are working on the runways to get the snow off and de-icing flames and it shows downdraftly. they have had snowplows ou

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wendell goler at the state department.ou so much. >>> gasoline shot up nearly 4 cents a gallon overnight. the national average is $3.65. that is the highest ever for this time of year. that is up 12 cents in just the past week. crude oil jumped nearly $2 a barrel. to close at just under $110. president obama and his advisors are keenly aware of the correlation between fuel prices and re-electability. tonight, chief national correspondent jim angle looks at the obama record on oil. >> the president and the white house haven't been shy about claiming doing everything possible to keep gasoline prices low. >> it's higher than in eight years. >> it's rising not because of president obama but in spite of him. >> today on federal land. the area where the president has control, production in the gulf of mexico is down 30%. lease sales in rockie mountains on the federal land are down 70%. >> he says the president put 85% of the outer continental shelf off-limits and is only making 3% of the areas under his control available for dev

>> bret: wendell goler live at the state department. thank you.alis are taking part in operation to fight piracy in and near their country. fox news recently went along with the maritime police force in an overfly of pirate flotillas and land bases. unit also conducts operations on the ground. it was set up with the help to united arab emirates. member of the house is allegedly not keeping up his own family's house later in the grapevine. here is tonight's infinity sponsored text to vote question. should the u.s. arm syrian rebels? text sr1 to 36288 for yes. text sr2 for no. we'll bring you the results at the end of tonight's show. i'm a marathon runner, in absolute perfect physical condition and i had a heart attack right out of the clear blue... he was just... "get me an aspirin"... yeah... i knew that i was doing the right thing, when i gave him the bayer. i'm on an aspirin regimen... and i take bayer chewables. [ male announcer ] aspirin is not appropriate for everyone so be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. so h

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week after week at the smithsonian, horace greely, wendell holmes, ralph waldo anderson and others spokemerica that joseph henry, the secretary of the smithsonian and science adviser to the president said i will not allow a black man to speak in the rooms of the smithsonian. frederick douglas was denied his place in the national museum. the irony was that secretary henry's most reliable staff member was a man named solomon brown, an african-american poet, self-educated science. he built the exhibits at the smithsonian and he served here for 50 years. he guarded the treasures, carrying out the research. developing programs and helping to lead the institution. the historical record is checkered. notably in 1891, the smithsonian's national zoo opened its grounds to african-americans on easter monday, given that the community was not allowed to participate in the celebrations on the white house lawn. well into the 20th century, curators purposefully excluded african-american history. in 1947, the descendants of christian fleetwood tried to integrate the smithsonian's collections by donating

>> jon: wendell goler at the state department. fox news has obtained a report from nuclear watchdog group claiming iran has in the last few months rapidly accelerated nuclear program. the report also claims certain parts of that nuclear program appear to be specific to nuclear weapons. as you know, iran has repeatedly claimed its nuclear activities are strictly for peaceful purposes. much of the world is skeptical. most notably israel. the israeli government has warned it could attack iran if it believed it was in danger. the united states also has not ruled out military action. today the white house said iran has failed to convince the world that it has nothing to hide. and now a retired british businessman is heading to the united states to face charges that he tried to sell missile components to the iranians. mike emanuel is live in our washington bureau with the latest. mike? >> well, john, good evening. christopher tappan says he has done nothing wrong. before being handed over to u.s. marshals for extradition, tappan told re

. >> wendell goler with the news live at the white house.ds like what they are saying is we don't think this ought to be the law but it's the law for everybody. >> you are right, shep. the president has complained about the amount of money that super pacs raise but his biggest complaint has been that they don't have to disclose the names of their donors. aides say his will, he and the vice president won't actually address the super pac functions and aides that do won't actually ask for money but still it's clear from press secretary jay carney's comments that the president is holding his nose about this. >> is he not saying that the system is now healthy or good. he is saying he is making a decision, his campaign is making a decision that the rules are what they are. they will not -- they cannot play by a different set of rules than rubs are playing. >> the president's campaign will almost certainly raise more money than his republic challenger. the super pac may eventually tip the scales overall in the republic's favor not just in their que

did you know that during the civil war, oliver wendell holmes wrote an extra verse to this melody?de. okay how does frances scott key get involved? first of all it's interesting, not only do we see a picture of his mother-in-law, he was born in 1779 which seems to be a year of publication. in england. it says poems of the late frances scott key. he certainly was a poet, he was gentleman poet. if you go through this biography written just after his death, you'll read lots of poems about friends and family, domestic poet poetry, but something got him going in 1805. in 1805 he went to a dinner. the tripolitan wars. a big dinner was being thrown for sfooechb-either someone asked frances scott key or he came up with the idea that everyone's singing, adams and liberty. i'll write one for deindicator, and that's what he did. i draw your attention to the third verse. ♪ and pale beams the crescent it's splendor obscured by the star spangled flag of our nation ♪ ♪ 1805, nine years before ft. mchenry. ♪ the ter binned heads bowed to its terrible glare and now mixed with the olive the laurel s

gregg: wendell goler at the white house. thanks.enate republicans are vowing to keep fighting the contraception mandate until the white house, quote, backs down and reverses that policy completely. u.s. catholic bishops rejected after giving thought on friday afternoon president obama's accommodation. we'll speak with a cardinal about this coming up in a little while. that accommodation shifted the burden of the paying for birth control to the employer's insurance company forcing them to offer it basically for free. that pits republican lawmakers in all of this against the white house. >> this is about the free exercise of religion. under our constitution you don't take a poll to find out how people feel about a constitutional freedom. in fact the bill rights are designed to protect minority views. so what the overall view on the issue of contraception is has nothing to do with an issue about religious freedom. >> it does not force an institution that has religious principle to offer or pay for benefits they find objectionable. but

agitators who thought president lincoln moved too slowly and who, as wendell phillips wrote, won't be flattered. can only be frightened and bullied into the right policy. to simplify drastically, one can practically hear in the background complaints of the nonviolent snick, even dr. martin luther king about the slowness of martin luther king and moderates. when i arrived at princeton and years working together he was working on his books. he was working toward what jim referred to, jim oakes referred to as the broader understanding of the politics of the war. part of that understanding involved a new appreciation of how fully military history, which figures much less strikingly in jim's earlier works than it has in the later ones, how thoroughly military history enmeasured including abolitionists. but it also involved an enhanced appreciation of lincoln's enormous political skills deep ma hatred of slavery. they did did not pull them his way, he did not compromise bedrock principles, manipulated abolitionists, held the union together so slavery could be abolished. two quick points i w

wendell, why is this getting so much attention this morning?this is really a recognition that few states are likely to meet the 2014 deadline and the answer is probably not simply declare the schools to be failures. the president signaled he was headed this route in one of the weekly internet addresses a few weeks ago. addressed a back to school address from the east room last september. the president said goals of no child, accountability, closing achievement gap, were admirable but in its implementation the no child left behind has flaws that are hurting children instead of helping them. >> teachers too often are being forced to teach to the test. subjects like history and science have been squeezed out. and in order to avoid having their schools labeled as failures, some states perversely actually had to lower their standards in a race to the bottom, instead of a race to the top. >> reporter: states that get waivers will still have to set performance goals for their kids but poorly-performing schools won't be closed which is the most extreme

hi wendell.el making the statement that will not give the us us a heads up. >> patti ann, this is the latest in a series of u.s. and israeli pronouncements intended to convince iran that it faces a genuine military threat if it won't give up its nuclear program, even if the u.s. and israel are completely in sync about when to pull the trigger. remember joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey said recently it's not yet prudent at this time to decide to attack iran. the israelis making clear today they don't necessarily agree with that. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is headed here for talks with the president next week and for a speech to the main jewish lobby this weekend and the rally -- israelis won iran to know they are not looking for anything like permission from the u.s. before launching an attack. this also serves to decrease the likelihood that other countries will blame the u.s. for the attack, though iran certainly will, patti ann. patti ann: wendell goler reporting live for us