but burke will give us a yardstick, a box, if you will, to see whether principles or people fit and give you a way to judge how they think. you can't understand burke without understanding english history. and i think you cannot understand the origins of america and, therefore, american history unless you understand burke. so i guess what i'm really saying, bottom line, about all of that is you can't really understand american history, american political philosophy, american conservatism without an understanding of english history. i have thought for many years that american history really didn't begin to start in 1776 or even 1750. it started probably in the norman con quest of england in 1066. and that -- understanding that helps you understand burke because it is that background and that history that it all happened before edmund burke arrived on the scene in 1729. consider that just 40 years before burke was born -- that takes us, what, back to about 1970? a long time ago for many of you, not so long for me. but just 40 years before burke was born, there was an english revolution. it

nisa announced it will use a new yardstick for the design of nuclear power plants. new criteria will include the pressure exerted by a tsunami and the areas it is likely to reach. experts discussed the use of these criteria to check the resilience of safety equipment. they will also examine how frequently large scale tsunami occur. >>> workers at fukushima daiichi are trying to prepare the facility for the four decade long decommissioning process. but they're facing an extensive to do list. one of the most pressing problems, stopping radioactive water from seeping out of reactors. before they can do that, though, they need to track down the source of the leaks. tokyo electric power company engineers sent a robot inside the suppression chamber of one of the reactors in april for first time. that's an area located at the bottom of the containment vessel. the robot had five cameras and a dosimeter t traveled around much of the suppression chamber, which is 125 meters in circumference. earlier nhk world told us about the results of the inspection. >> translator: the mai

and energy hungry china works to secure a slice of the yardstick and it's sometimes mineral resources would be trying on a tour of the nordic state. we're back with more on these stories in our extended news bulletin and around fifteen minutes time right now kate is here with the latest sports and. hello welcome to the sports and here are the top stories. on hold champions and each will have to wait till it's their second straight russian premier league trophy after coming back to salvage a late two to draw. last staying alive donato moscow clinched a must win streak to victory against our god in siberia truth played in the darren cup final. score x. that lineout kuznetsova beat our advantage to bring russia level in next fed cup semi final clash to serbia. and red goes flying formula one champion sebastian vettel grabs his first goal physician of the year ahead of mclaren's lewis hamilton at the controversial plain wrong grade. but first a football and mates in petersburg aims to all but retain their russian premier league title on saturday have been slaughtered after they had to com

. >> it's one of the big yardsticks we measure to use how the economy is doing. we'll hear how the employment report is more important than usual. every communications provider is different but centurylink is committed to being a different kind of communications company. ♪ we link people and fortune 500 companies nationwide and around the world. and we will continue to free you to do more and focus on what matters. >>> it's a big week coming up for the u.s. economy. we'll be getting a very important gauge of the job markets on friday with the april jobs report. and the burning question is, whether we're headed for what's considered a double-dip recess. i want to bring in todd, managing principal at the black bay group. hi, todd, how are you? >> doing great, alison. thanks for having me. >> tell me about the trifecta of jobs, employment, jobless claims, sort of the trifecta of jobs report we're getting this week. what's the expectation for friday's big jobs report especially? >> well, wall street is looking for 162,000 jobs. now, that's critically important becaus

i know it's not a pat collins yardstick but this is as good as the weather department can afford, doug. >> chuck, i will ask you this one question. i did not wear my nbc coat all winter long. is this the first time that you have put on this coat? >> sadly, yes. we had 2 inches of snow all winter in washington. they had 6 inches in april up here. how cheated do i feel? >> no kidding. amazing. we were talking about that. the lack of snow across our area and now for us just the cold air. right now talking about cold air where chuck is he said 32 degrees. fortunately the roads are doing okay. look at these numbers though. 43 right now at the airport with winds at 14 miles per hour out of the west. that puts our wind chills in the mid 30s and then you add a wind gust of 22 miles an hour. you have the rain out there. it is nasty out there this evening. it's going to stay that way. 43 in leesburg. 46 in fredericksburg and toward patuxent river. the warmest spot today average high of 69. the warmest area 51 degrees right now. the current wind gusts across the region upwards of 20 to 30 miles p

i think by that yardstick, by that measure that detoquevilleian spirit is missing in action, at least in washington. >> warner: so this is an obvious question but let me end by asking it anyway. did you conclude these two years reporting on this optimistic or pessimistic about america's prospects? >> i am pessimistic about its ability to stop others from growing and it's going to mean america's share of the global economy is going to keep growing. it was about a third of the world economy. that's not going to change. but america always has the capacity to surprise. i can't put my finger on what or when it will be but america isn't going to continue on this trajectory and if it does continue on this trajectory, namely taking threats that make that relative economic decline worse rather than responding pragmatically, if it does continue on this this trajectory things will get worse. but i don't believe americans will stand for that. i don't quite know how they won't stand for that. >> warner: out there reporting did you find evidence of that? >> i find evidence the whole time of america

with respect to the disco yardsticks, the effects on spending and deficit spending those are the few things that the left and the right have agreed on. we need to bend the cost curve downward. host: our next phone call is from california. a democrat, you are on the air. caller: good morning. i am sitting here watching the program and it is scary because i am on dialysis. medicare has done away with everything and i will not be able to live because i will not be able to afford my treatment. it is important to me that health care stay intact as well as social security. i just wish you would rethink it because it helps me when i get dialysis to afford it. thank you. guest: beyond a very compelling story that the calder just gave, this is very important to the point of my paper. medicare finances are in important part of this equation. there is a bipartisan commitment to upholding the solvency of medicare. one of the effects of the affordable care act is to extend the solvency, the measured solvency of the hospital insurance program from 2016 to 2020 for. what it means is that the measur

some of the yardsticks don't seem to be working as well as they normally do.creates confusion and volatility. >> what's your take on the apple sell-off? it wasn't only a decline in apple yesterday as well as for the past five sessions but apple crossed below the 20-di moving average and approached the 50. what do you make of the move? >> i think when you have a stock that's had a phenomenal run these things can feed on themselves a little bit. as you know it came baseman a mystery. people thought it was the reweig reweighting. that didn't make sense because microsoft and intel rallied. you get a mystery. you own apple. you have had a fantastic ride and everybody keeps saying, you know, no tree grows straight to heaven. now you see it pull back. you have nervous selling. that's what we're seeing. >> what does your experience tell you in terms of dealing with things you haven't seen in terms of movements? >> again, i think it's going to breed nervousness and volatility. if the market were to rally sharply enough to reassert all of those trend lines and whatever,

with respect to the fiscal yardsticks, the effects on spending and deficit spending those are the few things that the left and the right have agreed on. we need to bend the cost curve downward. host: our next phone call is from california. a democrat, you are on the air. caller: good morning. i am sitting here watching the program and it is scary because i am on dialysis. medicare has done away with everything and i will not be able to live because i will not be able to afford my treatment. it is important to me that health care stay intact as well as social security. i just wish you would rethink it because it helps me when i get dialysis to afford it. thank you. guest: beyond a very compelling story that the caller just gave, this is very important to the point of my paper. medicare finances are in important part of this equation. there is a bipartisan commitment to upholding the solvency of medicare. one of the effects of the affordable care act is to extend the solvency, the measured solvency of the hospital insurance program from 2016 to 2024. what it means is that the measures t

nuclear safety officials say they'll set new yardsticks for the design of power plants. they say the area will include the force of a tsunami and how far the water spreads into plant facilities. they'll also study how often japan is hit by a tsunami. >>> officials signed off on a long awaited deal to shift the u.s. fighting force in the asia pacific region. it means thousands of troops will leave the southern island of okanawa. the announcement comes days before prime minister yoshihiko noda visits washington to meet president barack obama. the bilateral agreement called for the transfer of 9,000 marines to guam and other regions in the asia pacific. around 10,000 u.s. troops will stay in okinawa. >> we think it breaks a very long stalemate on okinawa that has plagued our politics. >> the transfer of u.s. marines to guam is expected to cost $8.6 billion. japan will pay about a third of the tab. the united states will also return 13 military facilities in okinawa to japan. both sides are presenting the effort as a way to quickly alleviate the burden of the american milita