the comic's alliance blog wrote about it today and noted the way allen moore got around this problem in "watchmen," that this plot point had been done before in 1963, the way allen moore got around it was he put in a hat tip in the book, randomly one of the characters happens to be watching the tv show, allen moore's way of saying he's not stealing from the tv show. my favorite part about the idea that fake aliens can make real humans do the real thing, my favorite part is not just the bad movie in 2009 or the great novel, my favorite thing about the idea is ronald reagan talked about it all the time. he raised the idea of a fake alien attack on earth frequently as president, i think, without ever knowing that he was being kind of cartoon-y in doing it. >> i couldn't help but in one point with our discussions privately with general secretary gorbatov when you stop to think we're all god's children, wherever we live in the world, i couldn't help but think how easy his task and mine might be in the meetings we held if suddenly there was a threat from some other planet outside in the un

the author of "watchmen," the brilliant allen moore told "entertainment weekly" that while he was in the middle of writing "watchmen," he found out the same idea had been done and done very well in a 1963 episode of a tv show called "the outer limits." >> gentlemen, monday's near miss was a incident since the nuclear age began, so much as the nations on this earth are armedd against each other we're bound to have more such accidents, and eventually, soon, one must prove fatal. these nations must unite. we, we must make them unite. and. gentlemen, we can make them unite. >> and their idea for making the nations of the world unite is fake alien attack. earthlings need the threat of a fake alien attack in order to get us to do the right thing on earth. the comic's alliance blog wrote about this today and noted that the way allen moore got around this problem in "watchmen," that this plot point had been done before on "the outer limits" in 1963, the way allen moore got around it in "watchmen" is he put in a little hat tip in the book, randomly one of the characters happens to be watching

and i met people like allen moore, a jeweler, and i went to see what was left of his shop. he spent 35 years building up his business. and you know all that was left was the safety deposit box standing emits rubble. and statement i visited the ledger center in tottenham and that was an inspiring site because actually it was about people volunteers coming out to say we're going to help people who need to rebuild young people who represent the vast majority of young people right up and down this country law-abiding young people and politicians need to say that because we don't say it enough. saturday i heard from people from hackney shopkeepers who had seen their businesses atacked and people searching for answers. so i've seen and heard as i'm sure you all have done, anger aggressive and fear but also seen -- grief and fear but also seen home and determination as well. but also as laura said, i've heard nothing but condemnation for what happened, no excuses, no justification because nothing excuses and nothing can justify and that's why it's right tough punishments are being

their own versus lost moorings. but it looks like that may be get towed, this one. there is a capital been on board, though, so at least that's a good sign. we're going to stay on top of this. the receipt of where it is in connecticut, massachusetts a. well. it's a big storm. we'll be right back. and you see this... it's the end of the road. the last hurrah. it's when ford's powertrain warranty ends. but in this ram truck, you've still got 39,999 miles to go. ♪ guts. glory. ram. ♪ my son and i never missed opening day. but with copd making it hard to breathe, i thought those days might be over. so my doctor prescribed symbicort. it helps significantly improve my lung function, starting within 5 minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. with symbicort, today i'm breathing better, and that means... game on! symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be taken more than twice a day. symbicort may increase your risk of lung infections, osteoporosis,

ron has been that you coulding about the potential loss of a boat possibly losing its mooring and -- he says it's a protected harbor. he make the point it's not protected right now from either the winds or the rains. bill karins, if you're standing by, let's talk about where ron allen is in new bedford. where is that relative to the tropical storm irene. is that getting hard? >> that's what's interesting about the storm, alex, it's actually pretty far away. the center of the storm is still near new york city, but far away, the winds in both evan right now sustained at 33. let me just change my graphic. in the gusts right now in boston are up to 40. so the strongest winds are well away from the center of this storm. that's what we're going to be continuing to track on the radar. you can see the bright yellows are where the strongest winds are. the highest winds are heading to the north. the danger from the winds is mostly concentrated over massachusetts, and right along that 495 loop, as we go around especially boston. let me go to my tracking computer. let el now what we're going to