gerald cowan was later convicted of manslaughter for killing his father-in-law. he served only two years in prison for that crime before he was released on parole. prosecutors believe robert cowan was one of the men sear the mercks' home by the neighbor. based on forensic evidence, prosecutors say robert cowan and an accomplice broke in to the mercks' home through a back door. cliff merck probably went for his gun to defend himself, and robert cowan grabbed the pistol and turned it on cliff. [ gunshots ] >> the men bound his wife alma, locked her in the closet, and left her to die. robert cowan left his fingerprints on a tray found in the living room. and by the back door as he left. the cowans pawned some of alma merck's jewelry, then sold the gun to a drug dealer who altered the rifling mark of the gun barrel. it wasn't enough to fool a forensic scientist with his newfound ability to see inside the barrel. >> something inside says hold on to these bullets, you're going to find the firearm. lo and behold, it happened. way down the line, almost ten years later. b

back now with more from gerald philander and i want to pick up right where we left off and ask you gerald do you think we're likely to see secular and economic stagnation. no i really don't not in the sense of the secular stagnant economy in the in the sense that you know they keep revising what it really means it used to mean a low population growth and slow technological growth and then that was revised by larry summers to mean low g.d.p. yes the boom days of the united states are over you know we're in the sixth year of the great recession and the only people that have benefiting from all of the quantitative easing record low interest rates are the investors the private equity groups the hedge funds the venture capitalists the wall street players in the big banks so yes what you see now is what it is and you saw the retail numbers that came out today they were roaring high zero point one percent and they can't blame that one on the weather or so what it is now it's in america in a steady decline it's in front of everybody's eyes and no one wants to call it what it is and they of the mi

gerald tan has more. >> reporter: for years we have been warned, the mighty frozen continent is melting. and now two studies paint a sobering picture of what is being described as a reversible thaw. a glacier has started to retreat. the reason say the researchers is global warming. the glaciers sit on the continental shelf below sea level. the ices have thinned from beneath, and as it felts the ice retreat into the sea. the six glaciers in question hold enough ice to raise mobile sea levels by [ inaudible ] meters. >> we're talking about 10 to 15 feet. this will affect millions if not billions of people around the coastline throughout the world. >> reporter: and it's areas such as these that are most threatened. every year people in small eye lands in the pacific see their land gradually disappearing. the fear is that one day all of it will be underwater. most scientists agree a rise in ocean levels is inevitable. but they are urging people and governments to do as much as possible to slow down the process. gerald tan, al jazeera. >> meanwhile there is a different type of environmental

one of big-ticket item is the uss gerald ford. the aircraft carrier with state a the art technology and price tag of almost $13 billion. peter cook when a board to find out what taxpayers are getting for all that money. the uss gerald r ford, named for the 38th president is taking shape. america's newest super carrier, it is still a work in progress. >> welcome to the bridge. the first commanding officer took me on a tour. he will be responsible for more than 4600 sailors that will serve on the most extensive worship in history. it is either dramatically approved, wholesale and completely brand-new to this class of ship. >> all of the innovation to bruce -- to boost productivity while at sea. thee want to increase operation of the platform and decrease the manning on the ship. are three aircraft elevators instead of four, a separate helicopter landing pad and an electromagnetic catapult system. the changes allow the ford to launch more than 25% of flight missions a day. >> the ability to get the aircraft back in the air, rearmed,

gerald, you're going to take the shot. okay? the shotgun doesn't go in once you take your shots you back out. my name is sergeant bonilla. the time is approximately -- >> 7:08. >> 7:08 p.m. the inmate we're extracting is kevin blanco, he's refusing to come out of the recreation pen. at this time we're going to proceed. >> coming out, blanco? this is your last directive to come out. come on. >> go ahead. >> not working. >> he's too far. blanco, one more directive, you coming out, we're going to drop o.c. in the cage. everybody up. >> you guys done yet? >> coming out, blanco? >> you guys done? >> blanco still refuses to comply. forcing c.e.r.t. to escalate to nonlethal shotgun rounds. >> get down and take a shot. >> come on down, blanco. >> when you're ready. give him another one. >> coming down, blanco. >> good shot. >> i'll come down if you shoot me one more time. >> all right. >> hold up. >> medical? >> hold up. >> he refuses. >> i refuse. i'm all right. i'm 100% all right. >> hold on, blanco. >> check this out. >> yeah. >> we'

. >> gerald tan reports >> reporter: they spent the night in the open, and during near-freezing temperatures, look over what used to be their homes and praying for any sign of life. >> translator: seven members of my family were here when the landslide happened. 4 or 5 of them were killed. i am half alive. what can i do? >> we have not received any assistance. all of the villages are digging with shovels. it is a big challenge for the people. people who survived the landslide have already left this area. as you can see, there is no excavator digging the landslide. we need more machinery. working with shovels is not enough >> reporter: days of rain caused the side of this mountain to collapse, a wall of mud and rocks swept into the village below, destroying all in its way, hundreds of homes buricked, many with people inside. >> until now, we have only managed to find one woman's body. we took that away. with regard to the aid operation, we have used all of our resources in the province and sent them to the area. >> volume you know tears from nearby villages have come to this remote area of no

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gerald tan, al jazeera. >>> secretary of state john kerry wants syria to accelerate the removal of chemical weapons. he spoke to sergeyl lavrov. stressing the release of the 8% of the asad government storing near damascus. syria missed numerous deadline since agreeing to remove its arsenal last year. >>> today is world press freedom day. people all around the globe are honoring journalists for their commitment to the freedom of expression. al jazeera is urging the egyptian government to release our colleagues. they have been inprisoned for 126 days now. stefanie dekker has more >> reporter: their seventh appearance in court ended just like all of the others: bail denied. mohammed fatni was allowed out of the cage to address the judge. he tried to explain journalists need to explore all sides of a story. >> for me, communication with the muslim brotherhood, the nora part or anyone else is routine. i work hard to get an interview with an officer. i work hard to reach my sources. >> that's what journalists do. >> saturday is also world press freedom day. our three colleagues how the out "happy

gerald tan, al jazeera. >> three people are dead in two differentplosions. the blast occurred in mumbasa. an unidentified person threw grenades into a crowded minibus. another explosion occurred at a holts possibly from an ied. no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks. >> in neighboring somalia, a bomb has killed at least seven people including a prominent politician. the explosion went off on a busy street in the capitol. somali policemen say a government vehicle was the target of the attack. no one has claimed responsibility for these attacks either. >> there is a break in the war in one of the most violent regions of syria. a 48 hour cease fire is underway. part of an agreement between government forces and the opposition. the idea is to allow families trapped and starving in a war zone for months to flee the area. we get the story from al jazeera's zana hoda. >> the last rebel strong holds in the city. some 1,000 fighters are inside. but for months, they have been under siege. now, they may be given safe pamings out as part of a deal with the go

back tonight gerald wrote there were reports of more attacks in the north of the country. militants are believed to have killed 50 people. a day after the nigerian military was holding more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped last month but using force would be too dangerous. been no sign of the girls. all very embarrassing for the military which has two played -- deployed troops. it wascrowd turned up, announced that the girls had been located. >> we know where to look. just leave us alone. back together. proceeded suggest using force would be to difficult. this is what is left of the school from where the girls were seized. a were taken in the middle of the night. a fathers who -- a father whose two girls are missing till this only made of the latest news. i used to be completely downhearted but now that we have information about their whereabouts were beginning to feel comforted. the government should do everything they can to secure their release alive. people wholenty of are reluctant to take officials statements at face value. almost 500 people have been killed by boko ha

also in a few moments we want to mention we will be speaking with gerald o'driscoll former federal bank of dallas vp along with kevin hassett former federal reserve senior economist a great group of smart people here. first come up here, let's talk about the minutes in what jumped out at you? >> that's right to read as they are starting and continue to taper on the quantitative easing they also are recommitting in these minutes and in their policy statement to keeping the federal funds in short-term interest rates low for a long long time. they say listen there is still this slack in the jobs market and the fed still has not hit it to% inflation target, so keep the stimulus going. liz: we are one point away from the high this session to the dow jones industrial to see 153 points. pretty significant because when we got the fed minutes the dow was up 138, so we piled onto higher and deeper. what are the markets like with this? >> what's happening inside this marketplace is when you have zero interest rate policy to infinity there's only one place to go to get yield and that is the equity

host: let's go to gerald waiting on the line for republicans in oklahoma. good morning, gerald. caller: good morning. i just want to respond a little bit to this. obviously, i'm a republican, and you know, not necessarily a tea party but certainly conservative. but i think the best examples of presidents and the different congresses are really the ones that can, you know, someone like myself, a good example would be bill clinton and newt gingrich. certainly polar opposites and they were able to get -- achieve a great deal of reform and they did a great deal of -- they passed a lot of legislation. so the affordable care act, there was not a buy-in at all from one republican. now, ultimately president obama won the battle on that, but he lost the war in the sense that he didn't have the buy-in from the republicans. no, you know,, you cited lyndon baines johnson, and i'll agree, they accomplished a great deal. ronald reagan, tip o'neill. those are the -- that's what you want to see is the best -- you want to see leadership from the executive branch, the president, and you want to s

a celeb author trend forecaster extraordinary and publisher of the trends journal so gerald welcome to the show and first and foremost you know i want to ask you on this show i've described the conflict in the ukraine as warring we close to civil war essentially warningly is a guess the best word that we can use but how do you see the conflict there having developed and you second can it be one i'm sorry the first part of the question was how you see the conflict there having developed. oh having developed is very clear and by the way in our winter trends journal back in january we said it would devolve into a civil war it was the cover story it developed it's very clear if anyone takes that saw i'm so listen to these systems secretary of state victoria nuland on december thirteenth two thousand and thirteen at the national press club in washington d.c. sponsored by chevron and she's talking about how when the demonstrations first began there and how that the future of ukraine is with europe which is news of course of the people that are closely allied with russia and that the path

i thought i was going to die. >> instead, the gunman strikes gerald cole on the head, knocking him to the floor. >> he hits me on the right side of my face. at one point, i just thought that my life that was just over. >> i personally thought that they were going to rough him up because he was trying to get out. >> terrified, cole stays face down on the ground while the gunman continues to rob the other customers. >> my friends that were sitting in front of me, she had hid a purse behind her back and he saw that and came and snatched her purse and put it on the table and told her, empty out this purse. i'm guessing she was still in shock, because she was moving in slow motion, just taking it out, one by one, piece by piece. >> they wanted money. wallets, jewelry. he came up behind me and patted me on my wallet that was in the pocket of my pants. he is like, give me your wallet. i said, buddy, let me give you all the cash i got but let me keep my wallet for my i.d. and my social security card. >> he was like yeah, sure, keep that stuff, it's hard to get back. >> they were screaming and

prior to carter was gerald ford who never won the presidential election. then prior to that you had richard nixon who, of course, resigned in disgrace. prior to that, lbj whose presidency went so bad that he declined to even pursue his party' renomination for -- pa party's renomination for president. lbj replaced a president who was killed in office. if you go back before eisenhower, harry truman talked about the presidency like the great white jail, a prisoner of the presidency. truman had the highest disapproval rating of any president, basically, until george w. bush. go back to the oh 20s -- to the '20s. woodrow wilson's two-term presidency ended in despair. he had two or three strokes in the final 18-24 months of his presidency. go after reagan. george h. west desw. bush got en 1988 largely because as anybody in here over 30 would remember, largely because it was the best people could do, they thought, to get a third term of reagan, right? he won one term, that was it. he lost in 1992 to bill clinton. clinton wins with 43% of the vote roughly. that wa

i am steve and representing the owners of an existing storage sight in the bay view on gerald avenue. we think the goals are of the legislation are laudable. creation of this space is critical to maintain blue collar jobs in san francisco and cross subsidy with other uses is the most efficient way for the city to construct new space. in 2011 my client submitted a planning application for mix use pdr and storage facility to do just that and create 28 spaces averaging 1400 feet along with wholesale and public storage on a site that contains 68,000 feet of public storage. the new storage would make it affordable and provide flexibility space for the manufacturers raw material and equipment and inventory. over 50% of the existing facilities are loosed to pdr uses. we strongly believe that a mixed use pdr and storage facility would provide a economic viable model for the space in the proper ratio. unfortunately the proposed simple replacement policy for these projects is not feasible. if you really want to create this type of pdr space we request at the very least 1/3 to two thirds pdr to

. >>> and on this day in 1975, president gerald ford formally declared an end to the vietnam era. in ho chi minh city, formerly saig saigon, the viet kong celebrated its takeover. >> saigon is the symbol of victory won by these people, but many analysts believe that despite their joy at winning the war, they will not be unified with the south for some time to come. north vietnam, despite the may day firecrackers and dragons is a tightly regimented society. it will take some time to bring the easygoing southerners up to the regimented standards of the north. >> i'm frances rivera. thanks so much for watching "early today." have a great wednesday. let's face it, most people don't know how to choose a new dentist. that's where we come in. we've helped over 8 million people find the right dentist, and we can do the same for you. call 1-800-dentist today. ♪ ♪ >>> good morning everyone. >> lots to get to this morning let's check in and say good morning to christina. wednesday you made it to the middle of the week. we have significant changes coming your way including showers in the

he just shook his head and kept his mouth shut and stayed silent and said he couldn't explain it. >> gerald cowen was also arrested for the murders but he was later released because there was no forensic evidence linking him to the crime scene. he was later convicted of manslaughter for killing his father-in-law. he served only two years in prison for that crime before he was released on parole. >> prosecutors believe robert cowen was one of the men seen near the murke's home by the neighbor. based on the forensic evidence, prosecutors say robert cowen and accomplice broke into the murke's home through the back door. cliff murke probably went for his gun to defend himself and robert cowen grabbed the pistol and turned it on cliff. the men bound his wife alma, locked her in the closet and left her to die. robert cowen left his fingerprints on a tray found in the living room and by the back door as he left. the cowen's pawned some of alma murke's jewelry and then sold the gun to a drug dealer who altered the rifling marks of the gun barrel but it wasn't enough to fool a forensic scientist wit

valuations, joining me now is kleiner perkins gerald partner matt murphy. how competitive was this inside seven term sheets is pretty unusual. at least from where our initial offer was. one of the most competitive ever in terms of how the price move again. >> but you were willing to pay it. why? >> it starts with the company growing 100% year-over-year. reimagining enterprise applications and had to change workflows and modernize them. it really took analytics. if you took a work flow and made it more analytic and things that could help to make better decisions, you could them pre--- you could increase that and on top of that, had a dynamic ceo i know you've met and we really believe he can take the company to be a big public company. upvaluations are kicking across the board. do you feel like it's getting too high? do you feel like we are in bubble territory? >> the private markets seem to be willing to pay more. some of that based on historical hedge fund like fidelity and t rowe coming down and they have a growthnt thing with funds. that's one of the dyn

. >> gerald weinstein still has his father's collection from world war ii. >> my dad went to the air force photographing school near denver, colorado. the group he was assigned to flew in b-24s. when the germans had a high priority target that they knew the allies would be bombing, they protected by laying a smoke screen produced by smoke generators, and the targets here were the goring aircraft factory. >> but not every location got bombed by the u.s. air force, particularly sites that contained precious art and architecture like the city of venice. >> venice was a protected area. >> he never imagined he would be part of it. >> my father and a group of his officers were in a field in france. one of them stepped on a land mine. with the aid of a french civilian, my father went into the mine field and rescued the rest of his group who were in there and pulled them to safety. as a result received the soldier's medal, which is the highest award that the army gave for noncombative services. doing this all day, my feet and legs got really tired. so i got dr. scholl's massaging gel work in

gerald weinstein had his father's collection since world war ii. >> he is a fine artist. my dad went to the air force photographing school near denver colorado. the group he was assigned to flew in b 24's. they used a bk 20 it could take 200 photographs on a 4 by 5 roll of film. when the germans had targets they had a smoke screen by smoke generators. the targets were the aircraft factories. >> not every location see more weinstein photographed from the air got bombed by the u.s. air force particularly sites that contained precious art and architecture like the city of venice. >> one of the photographs is of you in a b 24 over venice. i am sure it was a restricted area. he once said he thought photography wasn't an art. i guess he believed that. he thought photography was a medium for recording history. >> he never imaged he would be part of it. >> my father in a group of officers were in a field in france and one of them stepped on a land mine. they were not marked off. with the aid of a french civilian a young teenaged girl my father went into the minefield and rescued

gerald tan, al jazeera. more to come on the al jazeera newshour including... >> i am nick in chile where conditions are perfect for peering into the astronomcal past in a search for traces of the early universe. >> in sport, rafael nadal books a spot in the master's follow. he will be here in just a moment with that story and more. >> i'm joe berlingerr >> start with one issue education... gun control... the gap between rich and poor... job creation... climate change... tax policy... the economy... iran... healthcare... ad guests on all sides of the >>>guests on all sides of the >> there's something seriously wrong... >> there's been acrimony... >> the conservative ideal... >> it's an urgent need... and a host willing to ask the tough questions >> how do you explain it to yourself? and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5 eastern only on al jazeera america >>> hello again. robin is here with an update on all of the day's top sports stories. >> formula one uses in where

. >> when we met gerald mccullough at the river bend national security institution near nashville, tennessee, he was halfway through a 12-year sentence on a sexual offense charge. >> there's no way out. there's just nothing to do. this is just a total waste of someone's life. >> despite his pessimism, mccullough had found a productive outlet to express his pain. ♪ they say it's raining in denver ♪ ♪ that it's really kind of cold but i'm just pulling time in nashville ♪ ♪ how am i supposed to know ♪ >> in a prison in nashville the home of country music, we decided it would be great if we could find a country singer, and so we kind of made a callout to the other inmates and officers and they came up with mcculloch and he turned out to be pretty good. ♪ said she never talked about me ♪ ♪ how it never did seem right ♪ ♪ i've been pulling time in nashville ♪ ♪ wasting days and wasting nights ♪ >> writing music in prison is just my life. i don't sit down to write a song. something hits me and my best songs come with about two minutes and about two or three minutes i hav

my name is gerald. i am a past commander, retired. i also am married to a vietnam girl. i brought her back here to the united states. an honorable veteran. i received in 1997 -- no one is talking about this, but i received full compensation of 100%, disabled. they reclassified me as 60%. now they want me to pay them back $253,000. i talked to the american legion representative in indiana. they told me i would be punished because i married a vietnam girl and brought her back. i should have never married her. i should have married somebody in the united states. this is what i was told and i am very upset about it. d talking about his situation in indiana. it's good to roger in des moine s. caller: good morning. i have been listening to everybody say more money, more money. the last four years, there has been $1 million each year carried over. millionr, there is 500 that is being carried over. $4.5 billionears, that has not been spent. also, do you realize -- i just heard this. obama just met with shinseki for the first time in two years, and that is when he accepted his re

. >> we met gerald at the penitentiary in iowa where he was serving two life sentences for murder and attempted murder. 11 years earlier he opened fire at the factory where he worked. >> i was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and didn't know it at the time and my family was trying to get me committed and i refused to go to a mental health place because i was afraid they'd take away my guns. i was a gun collector. i had a lot of guns. i knew once they found me mentally incompetent, i wouldn't be able to have guns anymore. and it developed to the point where i got delusional and hallucinated. i imagined my wife had been kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed by these guys at work. i thought i'd take vengeance into my own hands. and that's what i did. i shot two employees in the head, then i also shot two in the leg. >> riefland's symptoms have been treated with medication for several years. he now works in another factory, the metal shop on prison grounds. >> here you are back in a work environment. your fellow workers, did they know what your crime was? i was curious how that playe

corner of utah has become the latest flash point of rising tensions between rural americans and the gerald government. atv riders near the town of blanding road through federal lands to protest what they say is government overreach. the flareup comes on the heels of an armed stand off of cattle grazing on federal territory. we come from denver with the latest on this story, paul? >> reporter: what this boils down to, tensions between rural western residents and the agency called blm, bureau of land management. in the eastern half of the country people don't interact with the blm that much, but in the west it's a huge agency that controls massive amounts of territory. in utah it's 42% of the state. in nevada it's almost 80%. people say this land is theirs, and they want it back from the government. engines revving, flags flying. these atv riders say they're sending a message and taking back what's theirs. >> that's what we're here for, to do the hard thing and stand up and do what is right, and tell the federal government we've had enough. >> reporter: fueling the anger here is access to a

land here. 20 minutes later, air min gerald mcclellan waved his first huey on the flight deck with a lot of refugees. the following night, which would have been the 30th of april, of 1975, commander paul jacobs, co of the ship, received a cryptic message from at the task force commander. he was ordered to dispatch the whale beach to pull along side a ship and take aboard a mysterious passenger. that passenger was a man named richmond armitage, a 30-year-old civilian. when he came aboard, he dressed for the south china sea at that time of year, dressed in a sports coat, tie, and he had 45 automatic in a shoulder holster. and captain jacobs said to him, i'm not used to having armed civilians come aboard my ship in the dead of night, upon which armitage anged in a very gruff voice, i'm not used to coming aboard armed in the dead of night but i have a job to do. i work for the secretary of defense. armitage then outleonides what would be a secret mission for the kirk. the remnants of the south vietnamese navy, 32 ships in all, would gather just off the south vietnamese coast. their job w

gerald tan has the details. >> reporter: they are big. [ ♪ music ]. >> they are bold and sold at ultimate symbols of swag. the beats headphone is the center phone, founded by dr dread, and music mogul jimmie iovene. eight years since launch, it's lodged in pop culture. supported by musicians, celebrities and athletes, and driven by a savvy aggressive marketing campaign. it's so trendy that tech titan apple wants a bite of the action. >> a pair of beets head phones cost upwards of $150. it's set to deliver inferior quality. beats owns between 55 and 60% share of the lucrative market. it helps to explain why apple is reportedly offering 3.2 billion for the company. >> if the sale goes through, it would be apples biggest acquisition yet. a sign of what industry watchers say is an attempt to revise flagging sales. it operates a new and pop u laws dreaming surface, something apple has not had much luck in. >> beats is the coolst thing, they have a coolest executive. they have a great brand and rapidly growing consumer base for the hardware and digital subscription side. apple is trying to keep

we have more on the badakhshan disaster from gerald tan. >> reporter: they spent the night in the open, and during near-freezing textures, looking over -- temperatures, looking at what used to be their home, and praying for anyone sign of life. >> translation: seven members of my family were here when the lapped slide happened. four or five were killed. i'm half alive. what can i do? >> translation: we have not received assistance as of yet. all the villages are digging with shovels. it's a challenge for all the people. people who fived the land -- survived the landslide left. there's no excavator digging. we need more machinery. working with shovels is not enough. >> days of rain caused the site of this mountain to collapse. a wall of mud and rocks swept into the village, destroying all on its way, hundred of homes buried - many with people inside. >> translation: until now we found one woman's body. we took it away. with regard to aid operations we have used all resources and sent them to the area. >> volunteers from nearby villagers came to this remote area of afghanistan with crude

joining me is father gerald murray, david silverman and rab rabbi spero. why have a chaplain for atheists? >> people need counseling and they need it in private and need not to be pros elytized in the process. more humanists were declared than any others. but 76% of the chaplains are evangelical in nature. these humanists have the right to speak -- >> i have an alert right now. unfortunately the president -- not unfortunately but for our panel unfortunately, president obama has started the medal of honor recipient ceremony. we'll listen to the president right now. >> today we present our nation's highest military declaration, the medal of honor, to sergeant kyle j. white. kyle is the second sky soldier to be recognized with the medal of honor for service above and beyond the call of duty in afghanistan. today he joins staff sergeant salvatore junta and members of the medal of honor society, some of whom are with us here today. we have a lot of vips here. but i'd like to acknowledge the most important, kyle's parents, cheryl and kurt and kyle's girlfriend,

scores gerald ford. it's 1-1. the beast would fix that in the sixth. michael morris, his seventh of the year makes it 2-1 giants. two on, two out for sergio romo. strikes out upton looking. his eighth save. giants win it 2-1. >>> a's in boston. a's start dennis eckersley in the house. one time giants a.j. pierzynski. sox take the lead. in the third a.j. cannot handle the pitch from clay buchholz. passed ball. john scores. 1-1 game. to the sixth. ryan cook, bang it! justin pedroia, a grand slam off of cook and that broke the game wide open. red sox win 7-1. nfl news. >>> the 49ers have picked up the option on alden smyth's option that will pay him a guaranteed $9.5 million for the season. a monster on sundays, but he's had three brushes with the law ranging from gun charges to dui to a bomb threat in the airport. he may be facing a suspension by the nfl, but the niners want to keep him and hope he can get straightened out. >>> if you are an nba fan, round one has been amazing, loaded with game 7s, included warriors and clippers coming up in l.a. no way

gerald benjamin from the university of in new york. good to see you. >> good to be here. >> i want to examine this a little more. on one hand it sounds very american. they are used locally and they should be decided locally. some how it sounds like it's out of hand. >> the most recent is the tax limitation in the 70's and 80's. local governments were constrained in their taxing to deliver services. >> why are these not constrained? >> because the constraints were directed as general municipal governments for the most part and existing school districts, it didn't contemplate this development to the degree that it has occurred so you can avoid the limitation by creating another entity that can then tax. >> a work around, a loophole, if you will. generally in your opinion good or bad, that this loophole was created. that someone created a way around restrictions? >> well, i'm going to say that it's even worse than you described. there are layered purpose governments as well, and layered school districts and so on. so my view is that compl

scores gerald ford. 1-1678 the beast would fix that in the sixth. michael morris, his seventh of the year makes it 2-1 giants. two on, two out for sergio romo. strikes out upton looking. they win it 2-1. >>> a's in boston. dennis eckersley in the house. one time giants a.j. pierzynski. sox take the lead. in the third a.j. cannot handle the pitch from clay buchholz. john scores. 1-1. to the sixth. ryan cook, bang it! justin pedroia, a grand slam off of cook and that broke the game wide open. red sox win 7-1. >>> the 49ers have picked up the option on all den smyth's option that will pay him a guaranteed $9.5 million for the season. a monster on sundays but he's had three brushes with the law ranging from gun charges to dui to a bomb threat in the airport. he may be facing a suspension by the nfl but the niners want to keep him and hope he can get straightened out. >>> if you are an nba fan, round one has been amazing, loaded with game 7s, included warriors and clippers coming up in l.a. no way the warriors would have gotten the win in game six withou

we're going to switch from moment to meritage gerald. tripoli.so there in >> i want to ask about a group that is considered -- it has gotten a lot of attention here in the u.s., supposedly behind the attack on benghazi that led to ambassador stephen's death. your reporting on how the level of popularity, what is been happening with that group? >> what is interesting about this in the last year or so is how it has evolved from being the armed group of some 250 to 300 men under arms in 2012 to what is essentially a broader social movement in benghazi right now. what they've tried to do is concentrate on charitable works and preaching in an effort to gain hearts and minds in the city. they're very much focused on trying to give the sense they're very much part of society, part of the population in the city. this has made the debate here in libya over how to tackle the issue very difficult. there's been a very contested debate in recent months. it usually flares up after there .as been clashes in benghazi a debate over how to tackle this. sh

gerald chandler. they havell me what said in other countries -- iraq, egypt, and so on -- in the political media and social media about this development of democracy in iraq that is not violent but at least is going in the right direction? do they write in their social media and so on that this is a trend that we should have? >> quite obviously the answer is no because it is still a violent place. but i think we should not been achievedhas inside iraq. you should be clear where i stand. i was against the war. i think it is the biggest strategic error that we have done as a country, and to this day that is where michael and i disagree. we have had the debate respectfully, and it is important to have it. even as we see more gains, more pluralism taking root despite all of the violence and terrorism inside iraq, it is hard for any country in the middle east to look at any other country at this point and say that is the model. the only one that sometimes comes up a little bit these days is tunisia, becaus

some many congress don't want to know the truth, just like vice president gerald ford during watergate. >> to me it's the equivalent of what was discovered with the nixon tapes. >> yes or no, is this worse than watergate? >> here's the answer, no it isn't. this isn't watergate. the only scandal here is the gop obsession with scandal. joining me now is e.j. dionne. thanks for come on the show tonight, e.j. >> good to be with you, reverend. >> e.j., please explain for some of our friends on the right why benghazi is no watergate. >> well, you know, i think republicans have had watergate envy ever since watergate happened. they've been looking for a scandal that would bring down a democratic president. and they keep looking and they keep looking. i thought maybe they could get over this after the clinton impeachment. i thought all right, they evened the scales. but no, i don't get what why they think what the talking points were for susan rice that sunday at a moment when lots of people including the intelligence agencies said that famous depiction, you know, oof that famous tape was real

fans four, braves tied in the fifth, freddy freeman scores gerald laird, it's 1-1. michael morse, his seventh of the year makes it 2-1 giants. in the ninth, two on, two out for sergio romo. strikes out upton looking for his giants win it 2-1. a nova scotia boston. former a's and red sox start, dennis eckersle in the house. >>> second inning. >>> if it comes down to it. >> rockets and blazers, tied with seconds left in game six. robin lopez, stanford man can't grab the rebound. look what it found, houston by two, .9 of a second to go, game over, drive home safely, damian leward, the pride of oakland wins it for the blazers, 99-98. that's how they close out a series. wow, damian lillard is a bad man. and that's a wrap on morning sports. have great day, everybody. >>> next, a royal visit, prince william and prince harry pop by graceland as they prepare for today's main memphis event. >>> here are the winning numbers from last night's $81 million. 1, 18, 26, 35, 40 and the megamillions is 13. and nobody correctly picked all six. tuesday night's grows to $92 million. >>>

gerald tan with al jazeera. >>> still ahead on the program, a preliminary deal has held but what about the next phase of nuclear talks between iran and six world powers? analysis coming up. and we examine the rule of so called killer machines and being debated at the united nation. in sports joe closes in on a major milestone at the masters and details coming up, in at 20 minutes and do stay with us. ♪ ♪ welcome back and you are watching the news hour with me and reminder of the top stories, the u.s. started flights over northern nigeria looking for more than 200 kidnapped school girls and the nigerian government says it will not negotiate with boko haram after the group offered to swap the girls for its jailed members. former prime minister has been sentenced six years in prison over a multi million corruption case. he was convicted of accepting bribes leading to property deals. and 26 people have been killed in a series of bomb ings in iraq baghdad and several car bombs exploded in predominately sia neighborhoods. and release of the ambassador to tripoli and he was kidnapped by g

even after he had gotten beaten by gerald ford in 1976, reagan went up on that platform at the republican convention and gave a speech that put him right back in the running for 1980. i spoke of how bill clinton, even after getting beaten for re-election as arkansas governor went out campaigning the next day and ended up getting re-elected four times. now another guy got beaten for u.s. congress in chicago and then drove out with nothing but a map sitting in the passenger seat to parts of illinois where people had never voted for someone like him, least of all someone named barack obama. i told the ohio state graduates that whether it's a wedding you're invited to or a reunion that's come up or a job you want, you should show it with all the gusto you can muster. life is for people that are there, not sitting at home waiting for the phone to ring or their e-mail to get a reply. you've got to the in the other person's face, that nobody is coming door to door to see what you're like, what talents you have, what dreams you have when you put your head on the pillow at night. nobody is coming.

gerald tan, al jazeera. >>> for more on what's happening in antarctica, here is richard >> reporter: thanks. i thought we would take a look at the situation in antarctica. as you look tes great land, you can see the situation. there is west antarctica and there are the dmrashi the gras . the temperatures remain very much as they have been. i have been looking tell japanese station, an elevation of 3,800 meters. the temperature is minus 64 degrees celsius as we speak and the temperature tonight will probably go down to about minus 74 degrees celsius. so, if that's the coldest place in the world, where do you think the warmest place in the world? where are we going to? libya? ethiopia? doha, someone says in my ear. correct. the hottest place in the planet, at least a couple of hours ago was the military base out in the desert. here in doha, itself, the temperature was a mere 35 degrees because we get the breeze off of the desert and it will cool off a little tomorrow. so here, we are going to enjoy it. a glorious day of sunshine and 35 degrees. >> richard, thank you very much indeed. >

michigan sent gerald ford. texas sent sam houston. alabama sent helen keller. wisconsin sent this great one, a fighting bob la folette. in statuary hall, each state gets to send two statues. by the 1930s, there were o so many statues stuck in there, they were stacked up three deep, so congress decided they would impose some order on statuary hall and set the terms by which the states would get to send stuff, and that evolved, eventually, to today's current rules in which every state gets two statues. and you can switch them out as often as you want to, but at any one time, every state only gets two. congress gets to make the rules for statuary hall, because statuary hall is in congress. it's part of the u.s. capitol building. so it's not just u.s. government public property, it is physically part of the capitol. we own it. and congress controls it. it's like the equivalent of the rose garden at the white house or the ceremonial east room at the white house. it's an integral part of that iconic facility, that iconic building, which is both the symbol and the phy