so you want to keep it right here on "espnews" and we will take you live to southern california. before we do that, we have to talk about albert pujols. >> he has been absolutely on fire, especially in interleague play. he has seven home runs leading major league baseballs with home runs in interleague play. and cardinals down 3-2 and pujols with one on and he has himself a home run. the second home run of the game. and that's the sixth multihome run game this season. and now the twins down 5-3 and kubel down the line and pujols getting it done. a gold glove in 2006. and four r.b.i.'s and two home runs and the cardinals end a three-game losing streak and st. louis scoring three runs and they get five today. and albert, of course, a big game. but he played it off as if it were no big deal. >> some day i am going to miss those pitch, some day i am going to have a good day like i did today. i wish they could come more often, but all the time it isn't going to happen. it isn't going to happen. because if it does happen, why you even play this game, it wouldn't be fun to you. so you n

oh, you're so lucky to have lived in an age in southern california when the air was so clean. and now it's so dirty and all of us are destined to die and to be infected with this pollution in our lungs. well, the fact is, that is dead wrong as well. someone continues to misinform our young people, perhaps for political reasons, whatever, but the fact is, when i tell them that they are 180 degrees wrong, that in fact the air is so much cleaner now, that there's almost no comparison to what it was when i was a young person in high school, they are incredulous. many of them don't believe me when i say that. but they know afterwards when they check up on it that they have been lied to. well, whatever the reason, whatever the motive behind this misinformation that's being provided to young people, whether it was jacques cousteau or whether it's the education establishment or any of the other people we're talking about who have ties to the radical environmental movement, whatever reason they are misinforming our students, it's not just the students. it's our general population as we

the reason they become wet is because of el nino that causes excessive rain in southern california. so one could have checked gore's statement to see if indeed the frequency of rainy winters in california has been increasing. this is about five mouse clicks away from the united statess÷ national climatic data center. you can see a very interesting thing. first of all, most winters are pretty dry around 10 inches and you can see the el nino poking above the mean here where you either have a very dry winter or a very wet winter and it's those that predispose southern california to massive fires. this period here, by the way, of the current era obviously pales in comparison to the early 20th century when california was sold as a green paradise as was arizona, et cetera and that began or continued some of the great migration to california and it was a green paradise, of course, in the summer it exploded but nobody lived there. eventually, they moved in there and paid the price. gore, in response to the ten-year question. this is a real whopper. you know, even a 1 meter sea level rise,

right now at the university of southern california, a genocide am staple of the profit mohammed or allegedly of the prophet calling on muslims to murder jews and exterminate them as a condition of their redemption is on the university of southern california web site. put up there by the muslim students association, which is part of the muslim brotherhood network and supporters of jihad. so i don't look to private schools. of the one thing since i've been so negative on universities, i had a very -- i had two really good visits, of course, i was there only a day, went to kenya, which is a liberal college and the other to reid, which boasts that 85% of its students are leftists. that's what i said. they're both in my view, very good schools, because tier very traditional, and when i discovered, i mean, by just asking questions, with you're in a literature course, do they teach you have literature or do they teach you about imperialism and racism an sexism and getting the answer they teach us, the literature. i then asked, do you have a women's studies department here? no. do you have a black s

it is outside los angeles, in southern california. we have a big history department. teaching history at hillsdale is our big thing. it is our largest department, which almost no college can say. he came to visit, and he was there over the weekend of september 11, 2001. he was there on that day. we got to talking, and i told him about an ambition i had. i want to see the great biography of churchill completely finished. i worked on it. he has been working on it really since 1962. this great biography is very large. it is almost too large to read, although he would keep me for saying that. it is many volumes of documents. what is not finished is the document volumes. the narrative volumes are finished. most of those are out of print. i have always thought that it was something i should do if i got the way to bring all that back into print and to help him finish those document files. we are doing that together, and it is a very big job. we are up to volume 5 now. very soon, volume 5 will come out. volumes 1 through 5, you can order from hillsdale college. it is kind of

she is actually a productive, energetic young college student in southern california now. when the civil rights division went in, they didn't just liberate her using the f.b.i. and the immigration service from the torture she was going under, they worked with nongovernmental organizations and civil society and a lot of those good groups in southern california have helped her put her life back on track. to me, the encouraging thing is she's going to have a great, productive life in america, and the people that did this to her are in prison. host: we're talking about human trafficking and the trafficking of persons report released by the state department this week. we will put the numbers up again if you would like to get involved in the conversation. tell us, how much of this human trafficking revolves around cultural acceptance of buying and selling human beings as opposed to just straight up criminal activity? guest: it is interesting. there is a remnant of that. that is something we try to deal with in the report. one of the things we look at in the other countries is wh

by the time april 1st rolls around in southern california, there's not a cloud in the sky. the marine layer is thick. and it does not rain until next october or next december if you're lucky. to the point that normally you can support decent fires but the fires become enhanced if the previous winter or the winter before that was very wet. thl9m=9 they become wet is because of el nino that causes excessive rain in southern california. so one could have checked with to warming. this is the intergovernmental panel on climate changes. temperature history for the world. we have two periods of warming in the early 20th century that couldn't have anything of carbon dioxide because we haven't put enough in the air and the period where it cools a little bit and then here on out where we see warming beginning in 1977, a very interesting period beginning in 1998 where it doesn't warm which i'll talk about in a second. but let's compare this to wheat yields and corn yields. corn yields have quintupletled. paul ehrlich right around hero predicted they would begin to cross immediately.

you know you're on the right track and what happened to me and my home in southern california in eight our time i get one phone call from my friend who lost a job who came up and got a new job and suddenly they were working for the chairman of the democratic national committee ron brown who became the secretary of commerce. she asked me, could you photograph some of the upcoming campaigns that ultimately that's how i became president clinton's photographer during the 1992 campaign in. then within hours later i got another phone call from the horatio alger foundation also in washington d.c. from the close up foundation and they asked me would i be so kind to photograph president reagan when he was coming out to southern california and also back in washington d.c.. so in a single day i had my breakthrough and since then i never stopped photograph in. every president from jimmy carter to currently president obama. so finally and was like to start to wrap this up where if all roads lead to democracy ultimately the journey would take me to charlottesville to monticello. for years i have hea

but it's all been trumped by breaking news out of southern california, and the college basketball team at u.s.c. >> that's right. so unexpected news as tim floyd has resigned this afternoon. according to the clarion ledger, the basketball course at southern california a month after being accused of giving $1,000 to man who helped steer sharpshooter o.j. mayo to u.s.c. floyd submitted a one-paragraph letter of resignation to u.s.c. athletic director make garrett. this is what it says: >> senior college basketballteom writer for espn "the magazine," espn.com andy andy katz., lesta andy, let's start with this. a how big of a shock was it for floyd to resign today from.c u.s.c.? >> the fact that he is apparently making the decision, that comes as a surprise, nota , the fact that he's out at u.s.c. for weeks there's been rumorsdng that he's out, but coming fromad u.s.c., as they deal with allegations about whether or not he paid o.j. may yes's handlerar rodney guillory for walkingmo around money for the nba w all-star game. that was part of the larger o.j. mayo investigation.uris i talked t

california and northern california. these are all the same families. these are all the same people looking for work and looking for jobs. the fact of the matter is, you devastate this water system they all pay the price system of now we're trying to recover from eight years of mismanagement, from eight years of illegal activity, from eight years of throwing science out the door, and now we're left with that wreck aling, -- wreckage. there's a lot of cleanup to do after the bush administration and this is one of those projects this project has to be rehabilitated, it has to be brought together so the central valley project can serve its clients and serve the needs of the whole state of california, not just one part of the state of california. if it doesn't happen that way, it's not going to work politically, it's not going to work environmentally, it's not going to work scientifically and it's not going to work economically. we've just been telethrough eight years where people tried to segment this state-wide project int

and what consideration placing in a place like taxes or even southern california? i did not know if they had allowed with l.a. -- and that is my only question is of thank you mr. chairman. >> well, i am fascinated that the laboratory issue comes up so much here because it's such a key issue and in my past experience as a public health official it's often the laboratories that is the under appreciated the component of public health needs so this is very encouraging to remain. at the present time we don't have any plans to expand that basic, you know, network of laboratories that you mentioned in, although as i have sent to congresswoman harman with additional resources and expanding needed that might be a possibility. we will be creating some additional high throughput laboratories, and in all honesty i am not an certain about the process by which those laboratories are being developed and cited in. it is something i need to go back as a very new fda commissioner and learn more about. but the laboratory issue is one that is essential as we discussed. >> i guess the

the proposed sunrise power link at southern california will connect the region to existing and proposed renewable energy sources. whether they be wind, solar, or geothermal. perhaps as much as 2 million megawatts of geothermal power in the area. without new power lines the clean green energy could not be delivered to its customers. studies show that the line will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1.3 million tons. various environmental groups are fighting it. the remote areas are often the best. transmission lines are needed to get energy to consumers. it's a mistake to legislate a costly renewable mandate without addressing the transmission issue. with all of that said, we must also recognize that many ru e renewable energy sources are unreliable and can bring instability to the grid. transmission lines cannot distinguish between the green electrons or the brown ones. we just can't be planning the transmission system for renewables. we have to take all sources into account. wind, nuclear, coal, everything else. changes need to be made to the current regulatory system. we must also be

california or north dakota and pr, and that breaks down walls and creates more understanding. >> most of those places have the first amendment. >> as you know, john, when you are preparing the guests on the show, you tell them to remember these are students from all over the country. it keeps the politicians honest. they have to answer these questions. >> it is challenging for them. they make assumptions about the audience and the ideas they have. >> we have a student here. welcome to close up at the newwseum. >> since you have been around for over 30 years, i know you have experienced a lot of changes in administration, congress, and it to american history. i was wondering, what was one of your most memorable stories about american history that you covered through the 30 years that you have been here? >> that is a good one. the fall of the berlin wall, it is hard to beat that. we were actually there covering history as it unfolded. most of the time, our show is not a news show. we look at things with prospective an analysis, and we have discussions. we are not cutting edge news. we w

in many cases, they are roommates for the week, two kids from york, two kids from southern california or north dakota and for recovery -- and puerto rico. that creates more understanding between the students. >> most of those places have the first amendment. >> as you know, in the green room, when you are preparing the guests for the program, you tell them to remember that these are students from all over the country. it keeps the politicians honest. they have to enter these questions. >> it is challenging for them. economic assumptions about the audience and what kind of ideas they have. it is never monolithic. >> hello and welcome to close about the newseum. >> i am from washington, d.c. since you have been around for over 30 years, i know you have probably experienced many changes in administration, many changes in congress, and many changes to american history. i was wondering, what was one of your most memorable stories about american history that you covered through the 30 year you have been here. ? >> the fall of the berlin wall and that story -- it is hard to beat that. we wer

then the women's movement came along and i was teaching in southern california and i did not know how to do women's history. there were very few bucks if you went to a bookstore 30 years ago and looked on a shelf of woman's books there were very few. the only way i can think to do women's history was to write a biography of able men. i looked through who were the possible well-known women in that era? and bradstreet, but she was a poet and i don't do poetry. there was mercy warren who wrote the first history of the american revolution, but she left very few papers as well. and and hutchison of course, but no paper, no archives left in your own words everything we know about her has been written by men but then there was abigail adams and she laughed letters price as they started reading her letters, it was love at first letter and realized i could work on abigail adams. and there were very few biographies of her at the time that had been sit-in at in recent times there were some around world war ii but no contemporary biographies. i started out writing a biography of abigail adams thi

california and i didn't know how to do women's history. there were very few books. if you went to a bookstore 30 years ago and looked for a shelf on women's books there were very few of them. the only way i could think to do women's history was to write a biography of the woman, and i looked through to where the possible well known women in that era. .. and of around world war ii, but no contemporary biographies of abigail. so i started writing a biography of abigail adams, and this was a good 30 years ago, and finished it and it was a chronological history of her life from birth to death, and just about the time i was ready to publish a couple of biographies did come out about her and i realized my biography was not different than the other biographies that came about about her. and this salient thing about all of them was that all of her biographies had as its protagonist main character, the hero, john adams. and the reason is john was involved in all of the great historical events of the period so that when you start writing a chronolog

california, and i didn't know how to do women's history. there were very few books, if you went to a bookstore, 30 years ago, and looked for a shelf on women's books there were very few of them. the only way i could think to do women's history was to writes a biography of a woman and i looked through the -- who were the possible well-known women in that era, there was ann brad street but she was a poet and i don't do poetry. there was merciodis warren, who wrote the first history of the american revolution but i didn't -- she left very few papers as well. and there was ann hutchinson, of course, but there is no paper, there are no archives left by ann hutchinson in her own words. everything that we know about her has been written by men. and then, there was abigail adams, and she left letters, and as i started reading her letters, it was love at first letter. and i realized, i could work on abigail adams and there were at the time very few biographies of her. that had been written in recent tim times. there had been biographies around world

our next call is from southern california. caller: first of all, i respect judge walter is a very much for taking this issue on. it is something that disturbs me greatly. i am greatly opposed to putting inmates who are in new therefore misdemeanors -- who are in there for this -- in their for misdemeanors, mixing them with violent criminals, and that happens sometimes. for example, folks who are in there for repeatedly having drug possession, i see that as somewhat of a disease or if you want to see it as a weakness, ok, whatever. i am actually opposed to incarcerating folks for that. that is a big debate. we don't have to get into it right now. but i don't think that those folks should be in their comic incarcerated -- should be in there, mixed in with a violent individuals who are prone to attack them and write them. host: thank you. guest: we totally agree. one thing we indicated in our proposed standards is there is a very aggressive classification system that assesses individuals who are potential predators and individual

we would like to go to graduate school in southern california. [laughter] the promised land. so, amazingly they got visas, got accepted to school and they came and then they started going through culture shock and whether shot in food shock. they felt disoriented. their marriage started breaking up and then his wife thought, met some christian wimmer who invited her to go to church. and she became a follower of jesus christ. her husband was not that happy with her. as a radical american, that to america kind of guy. but he thought, she is nicer now. maybe i ought to go visit this church and find out what the heck is going on. so she goes-- he goes and becomes a follower of jesus christ. [applause] and, he now has a television ministry, and satellite ministry where he broadcast the gospel and prime-time television at 10:00 in the eye ran in farsi, the native language. he is preaching to 79 million muslims a night on primetime television. he is the sean hannity-- [applause] of the revivalists. god is taking radical muslims and bringing them into the kingdom. he is taking nomina

hey, i'm from southern california where we have fires and we have horrible fires, loss of life and property is something that regularly takes place there. it's a very, very important issue. it's an issue that should be considered under the regular appropriations process under the leadership of my california colleague, mr. lewis and mr. obey, not in a troop funding bill. then we listened to our very good friend from detroit talk about the automobile industry. a serious challenge that we as a nation are trying to address. i personally believe that the notion of continuing to see the government more and more involved in this area is not the right thing to do, but it's a debate that will go on. and yet, our friend, mr. levin, was talking about the issue of the automobile industry in this troop funding bill. then i listened to our friend from texas talk about, from houston, talk about darfur. one of the most troubled spots on the face of the earth, an issue that does need to be addressed and the challenges of meeting the needs of children in texas. very, very important issue. but not as part of

california, mrs. capps, one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is recognized for one minute. mrs. capps: madam speaker, i rise with great pride to support the american clean energy and security act. we built a record on energy and climate policy that indicates that the time for action is now. america is ready. the world is watching. we must transition to clean energy economy and jobs so that we can create jobs, achieve energy independence and protect our planet. we have before us a powerful and thorough and effective bill. it includes a nationwide renewable electricity standard. it contains critical investments in energy efficiency. it requires immediate significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are harming the health of our people and our planet. the bill also makes substantial investments in domestic, international, natural resource and public health adaptations that are crucial to the continuing prosperity of our nation and our world. madam speaker, to pr

. >> you lived in southern california, lived in northern california and now live in charlottesville, virginia. are you able to get around on public transportation. >> i am able -- not to get around here, this is a very rural county and i was able to get around in public transportation in san francisco and oakland and also in l.a., i walked a lot. where i lived. here, it is very rural, i mean, really is not, you know, it is gorgeous but not to my mind the look of the most sustainable development patterns with large lots, we have a beautiful large lot with trees but it is far away and i try to combine my trips and i try -- do telecommute. i don't deputy my job and spend a lot of my time in front of my computer at my desk which saves my daily commute but i would like to be more on foot and be closer invent chilly. >> do you know where the picture on the front of the book is taken. >> i believe -- i need to check, i think that is the border crossing to mexico. >> and who is your coauthor, daniel sperling. >> i have known him for 25 years, you see -- at u.s.-davis and i spent so much time

. >> you lived in southern california and you lived in northern california. you now live here in charlottesville virginia. are you able to get around on public transportation? >> i am able not to get around here, this is a very wrote out the. i was able to in san francisco and oakland and also in la. i walked a lot where i lived. here it's a very rural. i mean, really, it's not, it's gorgeous but not to my mind the book of the most sustainable to build patterns with large lots. so we have a beautiful large lot with trees, but it's far away. i try to in a trip combine my trips. i do telecommute. i spent a lot of time in front of my computer in front of my death. but i would like to be more on foot and be closer and eventually. >> do you know where the picture on the front of the book was taken. >> i believe -- i need to check. i think that's the border crossing in mexico see that who is your co-author daniel sperling. >> i have known for 25 years. he is from uc davis and i spent so much time at berkeley and a northern california. i knew him very well. five yea

in anthropology from the university of southern california in 2005 and prior two that he earned his master's in anthropology from the university of nevada las vegas and in english from the university of missouri kansas city. he has talked on wide-ranging subjects including human evolution, cultural linguistics, magic and witchcraft, and world poverty and underdevelopment, as we to stenographer he is currently working with administrators and library faculty at rutgers university to redesign the library is web interface. is currently a visiting assistant professor of anthropology at james madison university in harrisonburg, virginia and is one of those that has a fabulous time dividing it between, he devised with his partner in the highland park. i divide my time between my credit little office in my tiny little apartment -- that is fabulous enough for me i suppose. todd, can you please introduce your book to "pre-gay l.a.: a social history of the movement for homosexual rights". hot off the presses. ouch. >> thank you. i want to research the history of the gay-rights movement and how surprise

. >> nefcom month professor murphy from the university of southern california. >> thank you chairman frank. we are here today in large part because we are angry that merrill lynch and aig paid huge bonuses after the bailout funds. our anger coupled with their suspicions that the culture is the root cause of the ongoing financial crisis has led to an effective prohibition on cash bonuses for tire percipience and is leading us today towards more sweeping regulation of compensation in financial services firms. i agree there are problems with compensation structures in the financial firms and most other sectors but is my opinion the constraints already currently on tire percipience will likely destroy those organizations unless they can quickly paid the government and avoid the constraints. margaret is my opinion that regulating compensation and financial-services more broadly will cripple one of our nation's most important historically most productive industries. the heavy reliance on bonuses has long been a defining feature of wall street compensation going back to the days when they w

the last one, i move from southern california from san diego to nashville tennessee for one simple reason. california has a 10.5% income tax rate and nashville has a 01. i hope i am not going way over your heads a day but did you have two locations a and b if you raise taxes in b and lowered them in a manufacturers are going to move from-- to. that is all this book is about. unfortunately this administration is going the opposite way and peter i thank was the guy who thought of the title here. and comment you know but unfortunately it is coming true. what we have tried to do is lay out all the examples than they did it in a usable form. this is not and an academic form. is just trying to lay out the stories of many examples of when people did the right things and when they did the wrong things. i want to stress again it is not about nice people are bad people. does not about partisanship. this is politics but it is not republican, it is not a democrat, it is not liberal, it is not conservative. it is basic math and economics. thank you. [applause] >> we can take some questions. >> on the

california looks like a southern state. there is a world difference driven largely by a handful of extraordinarily good academic medical centers that are in urban areas. that is not automatically the case that urban hospitals outperform rural hospitals. in general, you also see gradients aligned in ways we don't understand. there appears to be some linkage of quality. we can have a separate conversation about what quality i have in mind. we have highly effective care that is very cheap including flu shots, medicare beneficiaries, mammograms. if you look at those measures of quality, it also appears to be the case that areas of the united states that have greater specialists relative to generalists, in an absolute sense, the composition of the physician work force is biased towards specialists. those are the areas that do poorly in terms of delivering high-quality care. how does it line up? there's something about the physician work force, even given specialists may be better treating a particular condition, it is possible t

for the purpose of this analysis, california looks like a southern state. its

most of the covered jurisdiction is texas and arizona, 3 boroughs in new york city and california and elsewhere, places of no history of black disenfranchisement or hispanic disenfranchisement felt by southern blacks. and all these distributions covered the burden of proving that the submitted changes are not motivated by racial enmisis on the jurisdiction itself, a city that has submitted a change in voting procedure for preclearance has to prove a negative, an absence of discrimination. when a state or other jurisdiction fails to prove to the satisfaction of the justice department that a new districting plan cannot be suspected of discrimination, suspicion being sufficient to condemn a plan, that jurisdiction must go back to the drawing board. the justice department generally insists that maps contained as many majority/minority districts, safe black districts as it is possible to draw. in my earlier work, i stressed the high cost of race-based districting to make sure black votes were not diluted. to make sure they carried sufficient weight to elect black candidates. enforcement of