let's agree i don't know. >> this is from wolfgang puck. wolfgang says keep your feet on the ground, even though friends flatter you. i'm going to keep my feet on the ground. >> all right. >> thanks so much. wolfgang puck. congratulations on you award. >> it is just the beginning of my career. they give it to me in the beginning. i have 30 more years to go. >> you better keep going because we are all hungry. it is 11:27. coming up in the next half hour of "news4 midday," bad news from metro and reaction from passengers. >> off the red line. i was late to work every day and getting to the point of being ridiculous. >> plus, it is turning a little cooler for the weekend. tom kierein will be back to tell us what other changes we can expect. i just had it with cable. it just got more frustrating and frustrating. a lot of times, the picture would break up. for the amount of money that i am paying, my cable company should take care of me. [ male announcer ] stop paying for second best. move up to verizon fios tv, internet and phone for our best p

i was talking on friday about wolfgang puck and the governor's ball. gave you a sneak peek.lebration. where oscar night ends and the ultimate party begins. the governors ball is heaven for oscar winners, they can eat, drink and even get their statues engraved. >> can i get that guy -- >> the name on it, make it official? >> that way, you can't take it back. >> reporter: it all begins in the kitchen with master chef wolfgang puck and his team of culinary heavyweights. ♪ he may have 1,500 mouths to feed, just days before the ball, wolfgang is still shopping. >> you can believe we skill need 200 pounds of this. like if angelina's going to be there, we're going to need 500, no? does everybody know what we need? >> reporter: in the blink of an eye, it's game time. >> but them in there, mac 'n' cheese. that's why we have chefs everywhere. >> reporter: just because we came to the kitchen doesn't mean we don't see the show. >> we have tv here. but not to watch all night. i know when it comes to best actor, best director, we better get ready. >> reporter: when the last statue was han

. >>> wolfgang pucks restaurant empire says millions of the diners every year, but one of the favoritetings for him is a table for two. we'll get tips for a valentine's day, a little spicy, a little sweet and all heart. >> forget too many cooks in the kitchen. this is many kitchen, one cook. >> wolfgang puck is the name, the face behind a massive restaurant empire but one kitchen seems to trump them all. >> making something at home, it is really the perfect way to celebrate valentine's day with somebody you love. >> 70 million americans dined out for valentine's day last year at restaurants like pucks and while he would be happy to welcome you to any of them he encourages you to share his passion. >> cooking comings front heart, from the inside. you show somebody how much you love them by doing something yourself. >> there are many theories as to which food inspire this and more about what you do with it. >> passion leaves something really you can bring out from the inside to the outside and i think having food with strong flavors is really that. >> that plays well with puck for asian

wolfgang, hello.fire. literally. >> don't burn me up here, thank you. whoo. >> that's fire. 1500 guests greeted with over 18 dish. from one-bite wonders. and they're bite-sized. >> yeah. >> that is good. to his new shanghai lobster with coconut curry. >> that is great breakfast, huh? >> the seasoning. you make me do the happy food dance. he even showed me the secret to his chicken pot pie. a down home favorite with one decadent twist. >> you know, chicken pot pie, people can do at home. >> i like the big chunks like that. >> what i do is here, i cook the chicken stock. and then i made a little roux. you're from mississippi, you know what it is. it's a little flour, a little butter or oil. you cook it and add the stock to it. we're going add a little black truffle. i just put the most beautiful truffle. we have a little truffle slicer here. we chop that up. >> truffle slicer! truffle slicer! >> be generous. >> how long do you bake it? >> for about 40 minutes. >> how many do you have to make? >> about 1

twice this week, wolfgang schauble has called reset bottomless pit. he is questioning parliament's promise of reforms. in a radio interview he said, even now i am not sure that everyone in greece pose a political parties is aware of the responsibilities they bear for the situation the country is in. the greek president reacted angrily. as agreed, he said, i do not accept wolfgang schauble insulting my country. who is he to insult my country? many greeks say the austerity measures demanded by the eu are too much, too soon. >> they should give us some time, you see. it is not very easy to change things for monday to the other. it is impossible. the people have a very hard time here. >> the greeks say they have taken their medicine. now they want europe to deliver the second bailout. >> all right, let's get our correspondent nina. she is on the story in brussels. what are you hearing there? two other eurozone countries a truly trust that greece will the with the promises when it comes to cutting spending in the budget? >> well, it is true that we have he

besides feeding hollywood stars, wolfgang puck has several restaurants around the world including theshington. he is also the recipient of the 2012 james beard foundation's lifetime achievement award. that salutes people who, quote, have a positive and long-lasting impact on the way we eat, cook, and think. as far as food is concerned, congratulations to him. >>> well, check out this hair cut, the one we'll show you right now. a taiwanese man needed to cheer his father up so this is how he did it with a hello kitty hair cut. the 50-year-old man says his father gets sad when winter comes so the man's son got this hello kitty hair cut to make his 84-year-old dad laugh. it took a barber about two and a half hours to shave the japanese character into his head. the man's dad gave the hair cut a thumbs up. he even called his son courageous. you could call him that. >>> take a look at this. this is our viral video of the day. it's got everybody talking here about the pingpong baby. oh, boy. what a forearm. that is a toddler named jamie who appears to have a real future in pingpong or table t

way for the greek people potter heads are speaking up one being this guy german finance minister wolfgang schauble you see when we're talking about bailouts for greece i should say bailouts for banks years have invested in greece no want to lose their money we're essentially talking about german as primarily who's footing the bill for these bailouts along with the nordic nations and shargel the german defense or finance minister is getting fed up after all it's his job to make sure that the german money is invested wisely and shovelled doesn't see greece with its capital city of athens on fire suicide rates skyrocketing and unemployment at twenty percent as a wise investment so before folks forking over the money szabo is making some outrageous demands of greece the main one being the greece should postpone their elections so a new government will come to power that may do it iceland has done in two citizen referendums say hello to the banks toure's including the german banks there's a think about that for a second here's one sovereign nation in europe germany trying to prevent another so

. >> reporter: wolfgang puck is the name, the face, the taste behind a massive restaurant empire.ut one kitchen seems to trump them all. >> i think making something at home is really the perfect way to celebrate valentine's day with somebody you love. >> reporter: about 70 million americans dined out for valentine's day last year, at restaurants like puck's. and while he'd be happy to welcome you to any of them, he also encourages sharing his passion. >> to me, cooking comes from the heart. cooking comes from the inside. you really show somebody how much you love them by actually doing something yourself. >> reporter: there are many theories as to which foods inspire passion to this chef, it's less about a single item, and more about what you do with it. >> passion means something really you can bring out from the inside to the outside. and i think having food with strong flavors, it's really that. >> reporter: that plays well with puck's pension for his bold flavors for asian cuisine. suggestion and spicey, tart and tangy, and hot and cold. >> the i didn't yin and the yang. it's

and wolfgang puck and bobby fa lay on lessons they learned to help small businesses. how you too can run a restaurant coming up next on "your business." >> small businesses are revitalizing the economy. and american express open is here to help. that's why we are proud to present "your business" on msnbc. >> hi there, everyone. i'm j.j. ramberg and welcome to a special edition of "your business" where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. today our entire show is devoted to starting and running a restaurant. it's an industry that has so many lessons to share with small business owners. the entrepreneur we introduce you to first jumped at the chance to set up shop in a building she'd always admired. unlike many small business owners she saw not one, not two, but three different concepts existing side by side in one space. ♪ >> i'm pretty crazy but i'm not crazy enough to just want to open up three businesses that close together. i'd like the idea of having three smaller concepts. >> restaurateur ashley christensen had always admired the building at th

[laughter] wolfgang, age 12, sparks, nev.. >> say thank you to kira shira. have been asked to stay just a couple of words about hope. i do not want to take a lot of time. it is something worth talking about, especially in times in which we could cautiously remark about the dark. wars, a lot of turmoil, a lot of struggle. some people think about hope as a wish. i wish i get a new bike for christmas. i hope this, i hope that happens. actually it is quite powerful and there is a rational reason for believing in hope. will we think about the situation that we would like to say, there are only three things that could happen. it could be all the way we want. to go in a way that we do not care about, or eight ago negatively. so, when we talk about hope, if we say, well, i really want this to happen and i want to contribute my energy to making this happen, the hope is actually the energy that will get this out and commit us to doing this, because it is hope that will make us feel happy. it is hope that will make us feel curious about the outcome, it is hoped that wi

wolfgang has his work cut out for him. even if you do not win anything, you will not have to go home hungry. bbc news. >> very appetizing, indeed. have a look at these pictures. they are from brazil. they are trying to find out why this helicopter disintegrates after it lands. this footage was taken by the fire department. the copter is shaking of vigorously. officials believe, there is an official term for this, it is brown resonance. it is when the road aaa -- ground resonance. it is when the blade continues and causes unbalancing. >> you have been watching newsday. >> i am in london. a reminder of our main news. kofi annan has been appointed as a special envoy to syria. he will represent the un and the arab league. an organization says his mission comes at a critical time for the people of syria and bringing an end to all violence. there were many more deaths as the syrian army continued its onslaught against the opposition strongholds. there will be a meeting in tunisia. they will call for an immediate cease-fire. than

wolfgang puck will design the menu. he says the focus is on lots of small dishes. 50 of them, in fact. rather than one jumbo main course. they have like three tons lobster. >> a little something to dine on. we've got surf and sun, the city, but what about california. >> apparently plenty. why our state topped the list of people's least favorite places. >> and jeremy lin and his knicks take on the heat last night but lebron james and his team too hot to handle. we'll have the not so lin-sanity highlights next. >> 880 looks smooth out of the south bay but going flew the south bay we're following an accident. now two on 101. >> this is a live look outside, the port of oakland. a big ship pulling in. folks getting work done perhaps early. get a jump on the weekend. >> there is nothing short of a tough night on the road for local guy jeremy lin and his new york knicks. the team tried to keep lin-sanity going against miami and the heat but lin struggled. lebron james says jeremy, let me have the rock. take this one down. two

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. >> the german finance minister, wolfgang scheuble, also recently suggested that greece is a bottomlesslout money would be wasted. greek leaders were outraged. >> we all have a duty to do everything we can to overcome the crisis. i cannot accept that mr. scheuble insults my country. i simply cannot accept that as a greek. who is mr. scheuble to dare insult greece? >> the incident has caused tensions in relations between germany and greece. >> on our part, we will try to do everything to help it is agrs that most want to take this road and implement reforms. we cannot do that for them. there's no way around reforms. >> despite all the hurdles, chancellor merkel says she is confident that greece will comply with the rules and the tough fiscal measures needed. >> for more, let's go live to our correspondents brian williams in athens. at times like this, they look for scapegoats. is there a feeling in greece that germany is to blame for the country's economic misery? >> well, probably, naturally, germany is seen as the leader of the group that is pushing it greece for these austerity measur

actually wolfgang schauble cording to this article he was actually quoted caught on tape anyway talking to a portuguese finance minister in which he said to the portuguese minister don't worry we're not going to do this to you this our treatment of greece is in order to appease our population at home right exactly this is amazing it's coming through now that the policy makers in germany that are applying their scorched earth policy to grace are doing so to appease their local constituents who want blood for some reason they're just bloodthirsty which then brings up all kinds of other questions about who is this to germany of all is this to germany we remember from world war i want to know is this the imperial genie out of the bottle once again. simplified transparent and more competitive elections the purpose behind a new parliamentary bill introduced by president medvedev the draft proposal envisions an election process with less bureaucracy and more representation that will also take into account the country's vocal online community our correspondent peter all over has more on the pro

the captains had taken it upon themselves, which i really like, to work very closely with robert wolfgang, our head of our transit fare inspectors and work with them. i would rather have the people who are most comfortable with the fare inspection doing the inspection, and our officers are doing that. to answer your question, no, they ask everybody. this slide is a typical picture of our fare evasion -- one of our saturation. you can see that the officers are in a supporting role and the inspectors are the ones that bore the trains or buses and ask for proof of payment and so forth. this is an example of our fare inspection calendar. as you can see, they are in a different district every day. the highlighted sections are where we are conducting our saturation is for this particular month. i think this was actually the month of december. you can see they are kind of everywhere. i am really trying to move them along. supervisor avalos: commander could you explain how this would work? what are we seeing exactly in the slides? are these folks who were on the bus who would come off the bus to

more germany's finance minister wolfgang schauble it has declared that promises aren't enough anymore saying that greece will have to implement reforms to prove it's not a bottomless pit but investment advisor young says whatever happens in greece there's no saving it from a collapse that will be felt across europe. in every possible respect greek greece is not a tragedy and it is due and the reason for that is simply because the reason no way that they are going to be able to implement whatever austerity they're talking about against such a backlash of public opinion whatever happens there the problem for the rest of the euro zone is that not only we have to basically be prepared to defend the whole integrity of the euro and actually if you read what's been said behind the behind closed doors you can see there's a spirit that you know what we may have to do three so we may even have to end up ditching portugal from the euro zone but we're we have to defend is italy and that's really going to fall on the shoulders of the technocrat mario monti government and this is going to be our ho

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well actually wolfgang schauble cording to this article he was actually quoted caught on tape anyway talking to a portuguese finance minister in which he said to the portuguese minister don't worry we're not going to do this to you this our treatment of greece is in order to appease our population at home right exactly this is amazing it's coming through now that the policy makers in germany that are applying the score. earth policy to greater doing so to appease their local constituents who want blood for some reason they're just bloodthirsty which then brings up all kinds of other questions about is this to germany of all is this to germany we remember from world war i want to it's just the imperial genie out of the bottle once again. israel wants washington to batter roman tougher sanctions before its nuclear program reaches what it described as a point of no return it came in response to tehran's demonstration that its atomic project is progressing iran says it's willing to restart nuclear talks with world powers but only after announcing it can out of domestic we produce nuclear

option i think that i suspect that the greeks greeks here's me the german finance minister minister wolfgang shortly wants that i think he is the one pushing hardest for the austerity measures without a plan to rebuild greece and i suspect that's what he wants and that's what the germans are pushing for i don't think it has to happen it would be unnecessarily painful they have to reconstitute the demand and if you just call for hysteria the u.k. . kills it it kills the economy i mean they're caught and he's falling like a stone right now because of that incident and so it doesn't they don't need to do that they don't need to kick it out of the euro. it's a do to plan for redevelopment and if they can get out of the euro would that not result in the collapse of the euro zone and indeed have a huge negative impact on europe itself indeed german chancellor angela merkel has said she really wants a united europe she said that if the euro fail so will the e.u. . yes i believe there's a psychological factor there but it's such a small part of the eurozone merkel's counterpart gearhart sure you kno

renegotiate the terms of the bailout after elections also adding insult to injury german finance minister wolfgang schauble said in a radio interview that nothing short of a techno craddick government like that of monti's in italy may be required to stem the crisis in greece great politicians are going along with creditors did.

renegotiate the terms of the bailout after elections also adding insult to injury german finance minister wolfgang schauble said.

well actually wolfgang schauble cording to this article he was actually quoted caught on tape anyway talking to a portuguese finance minister in which he said to the portuguese minister don't worry we're not going to do this to you this our treatment of greece is in order to appease our population at home right exactly this is amazing it's coming through now that the policy makers in germany that are applying the scorched earth policy to greece are doing so to appease their local constituents who want blood for some reason they're just bloodthirsty which then brings up all kinds of other questions about who is this to germany of old is this to germany we remember from world war one and two is this the imperial genie out of the bottle once again each failure is a scribe to lack of moral fiber not the design flaws in the currency project that shall bill himself helped create and forced on the german people against their wishes belief that e.m. you fall out from greek exit or great in market slang can be contained by fire walls and more fiscal austerity assumes that greece is a special

is granted to debt servicing payments at their predators get paid before anybody else we've heard wolfgang schauble talk about how greece should postpone its elections perhaps and maybe a technocratic government needs to be imposed we heard that recently dimitri has an interesting idea about where this could be headed and why so so this is this this could might sound like improbable but if you think about it one hundred years ago in the us we took away markets determining interest rates and we gave it central banks and people just got comfort with that idea and that people just think it's crazy that the market would determine the interest rate that it would price it it's normal you know the normal people think and the fed that's crazy the market said the interest rate that's crazy not our gas right means that the mainstream conventional wisdom so all these years we've also been used to the idea that the markets or individuals price elections through their votes but now we've got technocrats in greece we have a technocrat in greece of a technocrat in italy and they've suspended elections an