>> as i said, they have whittled down the charges now to this weekend in munich during the oktoberfest it involves an amount of money less than 800 euros, so he is actually being charged with a misdemeanor in office, rather like somebody perhaps not declaring a few hundred euros on their income tax return, so it is not a very serious charge, and even if he is convicted, his lawyers have already said they will appeal the judgment. >> as ever, thank you very much. >> we will stay in germany but moved to a very different issue -- the turkish community is demanding a fundamental overhaul of the security services in response to their failure to stop a neo-nazi cell from allegedly mounting a decade-long spree of racially motivated murders. >> last week, the parliamentary commission slammed the security services for neglecting the threat of the far right and bungling the investigations. victims' families are calling for some far-reaching consequences. >> the trial of a member of the neo-nazi terror cell that allegedly murdered her father. she has asserted that for years, german investigators

there are 10 different designs of camouflage uniforms used by our troops and congress is looking to whittle it down to one because it could save money. the lawmakers, they're looking to find ways to trim costs under the sequestration process. it would also affect future contracts for the 23 clothing manufactures nationwide that are benefiting from the various designs. and fiscal 2011, the pentagon spent about $300 million procuring new camouflage uniforms. are you tired of your sky high cable bill? if so, you're not alone. "u.s.a. today" said many are likely to cut the cord. the reason, there are so many other options. pay tv providers have lost 22,010,000 subscribers from april to june of this year. you may see more customers at starbucks packing heat as gun owners plan to show their appreciation for the coffee chain. coming up in the next hour. linda bell reporting for abc7 news, back to you. >> you know we're talking food with linda. >> friday, food, that's the way we like it. >> thank you, linda. 75 degrees, 4:35 your time. >> still to come on "good morning, washington," a big-name stor

you have whittled them down. you picked 18 historical moments that basically turned this country during the civil rights era. i know we cannot go through all of them. my question i guess is how you settled on these 18 monumental moments in our history. >> well, first of all, i have to say that since i had to eliminate 95% of what i wrote, there was a lot of blood on the floor, and it was not easy. what i tried to do was to pick moments that delivered the fall span of this transformative era, when movement became the watchword of politics. now, it is "spin." i started with dr. king's first speech, where he had 15 minute'' notice, and he groped for a message, because that was like the birth of the movement. the nuns and the people who went there were dealing with the president, the congress, governor wallace, the fbi, all of the branches of government, trying to hold the movement together and enact the voting rights act, so the movement to expand its a lot. dr. king is by no means at the heart of all of the chapter

after a serious critical look at the list, you know to know what that number got whittled down to?82,000 to, oh, 2,600. then it was pared to 198 which i'm not sure is quite to scale because i'm not sure we can show that small of a number compared to that large of number with any accuracy on your tv unless your tv is giant. once it got down to 198 from a number roughly 100 times that size, the local election officials concluded and i'm paraphrasing, this is ridiculous. this is made up, we are not doing this. and governor rick scott's efforts to purge the voter rolls in florida was suspended. that was last year right before the presidential election. rather than learn a lesson from that teachable moment of failure, governor rick scott emboldened, they're going for it again. they're trying to do the same thing. the governor's top election officials now creating a new list of suspected noncitizens among florida voters using a data base maintained by the federal government and cross checking it with a data base maintained by the state which florida lawmakers have not been allowed to see

>>reporter: jessica says a destination wedding whittle the guest list down by almost half. >> i have had brides who were actually december president to get the guest count down. >>reporter: she's a wedding planner who says she's not surprised with the number of people who decline destination wedding invitation. >> truth be told fv it's an open secret in the industry that if you want to keep the cost of a wedding down you should consider a destination wedding. >>reporter: recent poll by american consumer credit counseling shows 43 percent of americans have declined to attend weddings because of the cost of travel and accommodations. but smaller wedding also made it more personal for jessica. >> i had a realizeship with every person that was in attendance so it was really nice for them to share in that moment. >>reporter: wedding planner say destination weddings are trending and there's twofold benefit. less expensive and they are more personal. in san francisco, allen wong 7 news. >> well you have heard that there's an app for everything. sadly there's even one for bricking up now. th

>>reporter: jessica says a destination wedding whittle the guest list down by almost half. >> i have had brides who were actually december president to get the guest count down. >>reporter: she's a wedding planner who says she's not surprised with the number of people who decline destination wedding invitation. >> truth be told fv it's an open secret in the industry that if you want to keep the cost of a wedding down you should consider a destination wedding. >>reporter: recent poll by american consumer credit counseling shows 43 percent of americans have declined to attend weddings because of the cost of travel and accommodations. but smaller wedding al more personal for jessica. >> i had a realizeship with every person that was in attendance so it was really nice for them to share in that moment. >>reporter: wedding planner say destination weddings are trending and there's twofold benefit. less expensive and they are more personal. in san francisco, allen wong 7 news. >> well you have heard that there's an app for everything. sadly there's even one for bricking up now. the same com

>> voters in detroit head to the polls today to whittle down the little of mayoral candidates. they caution ruls may not be known for weeks because of several write-in campaigns. >>> chelsea clinton is leaving the door open for future political ambitions. while working for the clinton foundation in africa, she said following her parent's footsteps is still an option for her. >> i hear my grandmother's voice in my head every day. life is not what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you. i led a private life for a long time. and i'm atemed to leading a purposely public life. >>> and mark zuckerberg is calling for immigration reform. students will be tomorrow's s p entrepreneurs. >>> a water park in texas has found a really inventive way to keep their patrons cool. look at that. they created an ice dump where staff dumped a full ton, 2,000 pounds of ice on to swimmer. >> they are chanting "we want ice reques ice." >> let's take a look. the problems out there this morning is in missouri. we have flash flooding that's in mostly rural sections of missouri. on i-44, a

>>reporter: jessica says a destination wedding whittle the guest list down by almost half. >> i have brides who were actually december president to get the guest count down. >>reporter: she's a wedding planner who says she's not surprised with the number of people who decline destination wedding invitation. >> truth be told fv it's an open secret in the industry that if you want to keep the cost of a wedding down you should consider a destination wedding. >>reporter: recent poll by american consumer credit counseling shows 43 percent of americans have declined to attend weddings because of the cost of travel and accommodations. but smaller wedding also made it more personal for jessica. >> i had a realizeship with every person that was in attendance so it was really nice for them to share in that moment. >>reporter: wedding planner say destination weddings are trending and there's twofold benefit. less expensive and they are more personal. in san francisco, allen wong 7 news. >> well you have heard that there's an app for everything. sadly there's even one for bricking up now. the sa

now, using the age and the gender of our suspect, i was able to whittle down the search, and that yieldednt. the red dots represent 33 boys between the age of 10 and 17 who became wards of the state this year, all abandoned at major hospitals. the state safe haven law. wait a minute. i thought the safe haven law was so that women could leave unwanted babies in hospitals instead of leaving them in dumpsters. that's correct, but initially there was no age limit in nebraska. he's right. the law now just covers infants, but we still get teenagers left at hospitals with a note pinned to their jacket. some are even driven in from out of state. now, monica archer, our first victim, worked at this hospital, northern omaha medical. if the unsub's parents abandoned him there, it's probably where they met. [kids all talking at once] oh, bummer. hey, did you get "god of war"? no, but i heard. i heard it's awesome. jeremy, will you dial your home number? i'm just gonna leave a message saying that you're staying here. yeah, sure, but like i said, i don't think she'll check the home messages. oh, just i

. >> we'll whittle it down to 20. the 8,000 intuit employees will vote, come down to the final four, then america votes and then a commercial in super bowl. you can't ask for more than that. thank you for letting us know about that. thank you for all the advice in this segment. stick around because we need you for the elevator pitch. >>> if you have a question for our experts, all have you to do is go to our website. the address is openforum.com/yourbusiness. once you get there, hit the show link to submit a question for our panel. again, that website is openforum.com/yourbusiness. or e-mail us your questions and comments. that address is yourbusiness@msnbc.com. >>> now, we like to check out twitter from time to time to see what's trending about small business. here's some of the latest tweets. next street, which funds small businesses tweets, how much does credit matter for small biz? a lot. new study reports loans increase chance of survival. "usa today" small biz columnist says nothing is as frustrating as clients

forward or that have been put forward to the task force and they will be using the remaining time to whittle down some of these into recommendations but you will see some of the things that we reference here. the transportation sustainability fee and other things i think director ram mentioned development pays roughly for 30% of the cost of development -- the cost of the impact to the transportation system, so it does leave a pretty significant hole for us to fill, and i will just close by saying kind of reinforcing the growth is coming to san francisco; that the people that are here aren't leaving and more people are coming and more jobs are coming and those are good things so we really have choices that we need to make. i think we got away for a few decades with not making investments and not just our transportation system but the road system and the water system and the sewer system, a lot of city buildings, but we're beyond a point where we can get away with that anymore, and i guess what i would leave you with is if failure to figure out how to solve this, and it's a big problem to solv

we're not a done show we're a dance competition and i think the viewers forget that and we have to whittle it down whether we like it or not but we've always listened to the viewers in truth larry if you think about american idol and so you think you can dance there were both built up on what america thinks and how america votes or this is america's best dancer favorite dance or not but you know we can never say this is better dancer than that down so it was you play a part in the cast and yes it makes the whole really i guess yeah it has very strong opinion that's about it that is that is personal i mean people sometimes the absolute almost part does. as an example as part does personality play a great deal in everything it's not just dance it's in actors and actresses and any performer at star quality and that's what we're looking for you know you have a hip hop dancer twix who was rejected right for a while great at all times you know warlord mated for him. he just came back and got stronger and stronger he learned more than just what he first presented to us he actually trained he did

tell us about your business, your story, we'll whittle those down to 20, all the employees will vote,wn to the final four and then america votes. >> and then a commercial in the super bowl. you could not ask for more than that. >> it's as big as it gets. >> thank you for letting us know about that. stick around, we need you for the elevator pitch. >> great. >> and if you have a question for our experts, all you have to do is go to our website, the address is openforum.com/yourbusiness. once you get there, hit the ask the show link to submit a question for our panel. again that website is openforum.com/yourbusiness. or if you'd rather, yo uh can e-mail us your questions and comments to that address is yourbusiness@msnbc.com. we like to check out twitter from time to time to see what's trending about small business. here are some of the latest tweets. next street tweets, how much does credit matter for small biz? a lot. loans increase chance of survival. usa today columnist rhonda abraham says nothing is as frustrating as clients who want to stand over your shoulder. keep perspective an

years in prison after we can classified documents to wiki leaks now his defense team is trying to whittle that sentence doubt we'll have a report on today's proceedings coming up. and an encrypted e-mail service used by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has been shut down the owner of the site says that he's legally barred from even saying why and a second web site has also closed its encrypted e-mail service is this a case of the u.s. government trying to stop the messenger more on this just ahead. and in georgia a fifteen year old boy was initially denied a heart transplant because of a history of noncompliance and the child's family claimed it was because of his history of low grades and trouble with the law more on this story later in tonight show. hello there it's tuesday august thirteenth eight pm here in washington d.c. i marinate and you're watching our two. we start our newscast tonight in fort meade maryland where brother lee manning's defense team continues to deliver their case in the sentencing phase of the court martial of army private first class manning was convicted of

years in prison after leaking classified documents to wiki leaks now his defense team is trying to whittle down that sentence we'll have a report on today's proceedings next. and an encrypted e-mail service used by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has been shut down the owner of the site says that he's legally barred from even saying why and a second web site has also closed its encrypted e-mail service is this a case of the u.s. government trying to stop the messenger more on this ahead. and in georgia a fifteen year old boy is denied a heart transplant because of a history of noncompliance with the child's family claims it's because of his history of low grades and trouble with the law more on this story in today's show.

years in prison after leaking classified documents to wiki leaks now his defense team is trying to whittle down that sentence we'll have a report on today's proceedings. and an encrypted e-mail service used by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has been shut down the owner of the site says that he's legally barred from even saying why and a second web site has also closed its encrypted e-mail service following this case is this a case of the u.s. government trying to stop the messenger more of this ahead. in georgia a fifteen year old boy was initially denied a heart transplant because of a history of noncompliance the child's family claims it was because of his history of low grades and trouble with the law.

home, so i did a quarter every day to go out for lunch in the hot docs in a chicagoan hannemann whittled the neighborhood gangsters. even at that young age, seventh and eighth grade in my neighborhood we had an understanding of what organized crime was. as a teenager in high school i went to work at my uncle's grocery store and we had a regular parade of gangsters that would come in there because we made italian sausage and they come for the sausage. there is one christmas i even delivered it to the many different homes. it's a funny story. add 100 pounds of italian sausage come in the christmas special with tomatoes and provolone cheese in the truck of the car and 10-pound packages. my uncle gave me his chrysler imperial in the head gangster for the northside gave us a list and i went from door to door and all these homes ringing a doorbell, saying grass fed meat. i handed them 10 pounds of synesthesia. when you grow up that way, something safe with you. so once i became a police officer -- [inaudible] >> it was quite a bit. it was only natural for me to gravitate towards that type of w

the move could save millions of dollars to whittle that down to one look. lawmakers should look for ways to trim costs. this would affect future contracts for the clothing manufacturers nationwide. the pentagon spent about $300 million preparing new camouflage uniforms. stocks were higher yesterday, not by a lot. we had three down days in a row for the dow and s&p. this morning it is looking flat for the start of things today. theme parks are fun but standing in long lines is a drag. they try to give patrons pagers to tell them when it is their time to ride. some parks even despise entertainments where lines are extra long. that helps drive the traffic. at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king, bloomberg news, for wbal-tv 11 news. back to you. >> thank you and have a great weekend. >> a tax break for maryland shoppers is just a few days away now. maryland shoppers will not have to pay the 6% tax on clothing and shoes that cost less than $100. peter franchot helped kick off tax-free week at towson town center. it begins this sunday and runs through next

once we whittle it down from 550-pound, get it down to a 100-pound slab, then we can start working onwith fives. and we cut and block, slice our own cheese, and we go right into making the grill cheesed sandwiches. >> tell me, where do all the proceeds go? >> every penny goes directly to support the fair and the fairground. because everybody here is a volunteer. we use about 140 volunteers during the fair. >> let me talk to melanie. >> jen. dell me, what's the key to making the perfect grimed cheese? >> the putter. >> the quantity or the quality? >> the quantity are you saying more is better. >> i am saying less, just the right amount is better. >> what is the right amount? >> well, you see we have this butter right here. and this is -- this is pretty good, but then we have this butter right here, which is not so good, because it weighs down, in the middle and then the bread all cracks. so this piece will go in the trash. >> who knew. the key is the right amount of butter. you can have too much. so very fair like weather here. and of course you will feel the humidity, county fair star

and look-- something he whittled. [chair squeaks] [chair squeaking] you still mad?ng. and...i didn't want it to be that way again. you know, i wanted us to be a team. an unstoppable team that competed against other teams. look, that's not what i wanted, okay? i just wanted to go on a sales call. screw gun! the sales call! [gary glitter's rock and roll] ♪ [tapping in rhythm] ♪ hey (kevin) ♪ hey mr. coselli. [imitating bill cosby] hey, hey, hey! the cos! what's going on? do we have a deal? deal or no deal? let's make a deal. so what is the deal? establish time frames. keep the phrase "real dollars" in their heads. and always keep the power in the conversation. that's why you're losing them on the cold calls. because you say the word "please" too much. wait, can you go back? michael always says k-i-s-s. "keep it simple, stupid." great advice. hurts my feelings every time. okay, i'm gonna establish time frames. good. i'm gonna put everything in terms of real dollars. right. i'm gonna ask a lot of questions that all have sort of positive answers. so they'll say "that wou

. >> there's incentive for him to try to get this whittled down? >> plenty incentive, and plenty incentive he serves to get back on the field. he's owed a total of $100 million of this massive contract he signed with the yankees. >> thank you for being on the program. i want to dig deeper now into this case. by the time federal agents showed up at his door, he was supplying 300 ballplayers with peds. thanks for being here. >> no problem. >> what was your reaction to what happened today. >> it's typically rod's superstar, fight, fight, fight, let the lawyers take care of everything. >> fight because of the money? >> yes. because of the money and ego. these guys are ego driven. >> how easy is it to get around the testing. if you know your body and the schedule of testing. >> if you understand youred aboutdy body and know how drugs react in your body, it's not that difficult. if you want to do something that will give you that edge, it's out there. there's plenty of people out there to help you do routine blood work every day, as you take the injectio

you had all sorts of charges against you that were eventually whittle down from almost 20 to a couple could argue back and forth whether there were death threats -re not. >> nonsense and we get rid of them. neil: the bottom line is you're not allowed back in the united states for 30 years. >> that is not the case. of course it is not fair. no part of it was. persona non grata in the u.s., but at the moment they're is a good world beyond america. neil: if you came to new york right now -- >> it would not let me out of the airport. neil: year of a very complementary book about american have the -- as you have in the past. richard nixon ronald reagan and fdr. so you have done all of this. you speak of this country and america. this is the same company -- country that has united getting canada. >> not exactly hiding out. i'm staying in the house that has been my address for 61 years neil: but that's a little rough. >> look, i'm not all that affectionate to the country as it is now, but let us try and keep perspective. kind enough to say. we have to try and do that. but the fact that the c

i think i whittled it down to three.ted episodes that were terrifying and were the kind of trauma that we mean when we define post traumatic disorder, the kind of trauma you don't escape for years. smells, touches that come back to you years later when you're away, the twilight zone in sleep and sometimes you feel you're going crazy because your mind is working in a way this is not a normal memory. this is different type of circuitry. it's medical. it's physical the. it's extreme anxiety. they have that. that was terror induced state of mind. they had an entirely different dimension which i would call degradation, defilement, dehumanization. not quite the same as being placed in shock but being treated as an animal. being systematically and relentlessly deprived of your sense of self, your sense of dignity, your connection to others. and that has to do with not having access to sanitary facilities. the way you're fed, your chained for a long, long time. then finally they were deprived. they were deprived of mother, of fa

there's an advantage, incentive for him -- on many level, incentive to get this whittled down? >> plenty incentive and incentive with the end of a suspension he serves to get back on the field. he's owed a total of close to $100 million from this massive contract he signed with the yankees. >> a lot of money on the table. t.j., jason, thank you. >>> and digging deeper into the athletes have with performance-enhancing drugs and have had for years. started as a bat boy for the new york mets, when federal agents showed up at his door in 2005, supplying to hundreds of athletes. thanks for being here. what was your reaction to what happened today? it's typically rod's typical superstar mentality. fight, fight, fight and let the lawyers take care of it. >> fight because of the money? >> yes. definitely. because of the money and an ego. these guy, ego-driven. that's why they're good at what they do. >> how easy is it to get around testing? if you know -- talking before the show started. if you know your body and understand the testing. >> if you know your body, understand the reaction

they want to be able to whittle those down. to be able to do that, you need to have fewer debates. would make the point in 2008, there were some 20 or more democratic debates. that did not seem to hurt the party in that presidential election cycle. >> all right, mark murray from d.c. have a good weekend. >> thanks. you, too. >>> the pentagon announced a new plan to combat sexual assaults in the military, but some lawmakers say it does not go far enough. among other things, it calls for expanding legal advocacy programs in each branch to give sexual assault victims legal representation. it also calls for ensuring pretrial investigative hearings that are actually conducted by a military lawyer. enforcing policies banning inappropriate relationships between recruiters and trainers and their recruits and trainees. gives commanders the option to reassign or transfer a unit member accused of sexual assault. it also calls for regular reports from an inspector general. in a statement, new york senator kristen gillebrand said in part, quote, these are positive steps forward, but it is not t

those will whittle quite quickly as she steps further and further -- >> by the way, then we're going cheap political stories that will show up in certain political news sites that say, oh, look, hillary clinton's ratings are falling, and it's simply because republicans and independents who are republican leaning will go away as she becomes more -- >> if she doesn't look at the primary process as one that's shortened for her as being a very good thing. remember, bill clinton got into, because we ran primaries very late in the earlier '90s, you know, he gets in in the fall of 1991 for a 1992 election, and i would have thought that would be the path she would more use. >> and she basically has the power, right -- >> absolutely. >> to breeze -- >> she actually can do that. not many front-runners have that power. >> newt gingrich sat in your chair not long ago and said i don't know if republicans have anybody that can really take on hillary clinton. this week changing his tune a little bit. on wednesday, he said the coronation's not starting now. here's what he said. >> she's proven an ab

>> [scoffs] i have seen my employees whittle away at the integrity of la dogworks...by stupidity, byiness. by not--not coming to work. you hire people...and that's where your problem starts. the personalities, the laziness, the bad work ethic-- all these variables drive me crazy. how many times do i have to ask you to do something? how many times do i have to ask you? it's like the water torture-- boom, boom, boom. we're working together here, we're a team, we're a hierarchy. we're just like the dogs. who's the top dog, who's the alpha male? me. you gotta do what i say when i say it. i mean, if i could fire the entire staff and start from scratch, i would do that too. >> so who wrecked the van? >> well, neil. >> what do you do, just yell at him? >> i don't talk to neil, as a matter of fact. >> why? you don't like him? >> i hate him. he's a [bleep]. he's a--i'll give you $8.50 or $9 worth of work and not a [bleep] penny more and not any more effort. okay? that's neil. >> when he got bit by the dog and was bleeding, were you concerned about him or the dog? >> ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! o

ultimately this new republican law is expected to whittle down the number of clinics in the state ofto maybe eight? half of them gone. you think they'll stop there? since the november election, so less than a year, republicans in state governments have been passing laws to shut down abortion clinics from coast to coast. texas had 42 clinics that provided abortion services. republicans passed new restrictions this summer that will probably shut down 37 of those 42 clinics. wisconsin had four clinics. republican governor in wisconsin is slated to bring that number from four town to two. mississippi has just the one clinic in jackson. that one, the republicans are fighting to close that one down as well and it seems like they may be close to doing it. in north dakota, same deal. there's one clinic for the whole great big state. this spring republicans passed a law that aims to shut down that one last clinic. in alabama, there are five clinics that provide abortion services. republicans passed laws in the spring that would close three of the five clinics. in virginia, the number of clini