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CLEVELAND -- Afraid of needles? Allergic to eggs? Those are no longer reasons to fear a flu shot.

This year there are six options available and there's a choice for nearly everyone.

Of course, you can still get the standard shot. It will protect you against three strains of the influenza virus, but now there are four-strain options to offer broader protection. That's beneficial for those who may work with children or the elderly. The downside is that the four-strain shot is about 30% more expensive than the standard.

Those over 65 might consider getting a high dosage shot. It has more influenza protein to better prepare older immune systems which don't always fight the flu very strongly.

Kids can't sit still or terrified of shots? They can be protected by the nasal spray. It also works for adults who have an aversion to needles too.

Those who can tolerate the needle but just don't like it, there's a microneedle now available. Really, you barely feel it and there's no lingering pain in the shot spot.

For years, people with an egg allergy couldn't get the flu shot because the flu shots were made with egg protein. Now there's an egg-free option too.

For nursing or pregnant women, they can still choose the dose free of the mercury based preservative Thimerosal. It's also not present in the nasal spray formula.

Why so many shots?

The goal is to get more than the average 40% of Americans vaccinated this year. Each year, about 20% of the U.S. population gets sick with the flu. But more options for protections may mean saving more lives and lowering the cost of healthcare for some.

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Washington, DC (Sports Network) - Clint Dempsey scored a second-half brace and Jozy Altidore added a goal as the United States men's national team hung on for a 4-3 victory over Germany on Sunday at RFK Stadium.

After a difficult 4-2 defeat at the hands of Belgium last Wednesday, the U.S.faced a daunting task against the second-ranked Germans, but rose to the challenge extremely well behind Dempsey and Altidore.

Heiko Westermann, Max Kruse and Julian Draxler bagged goals for Germany, but they weren't able to find a late equalizer as the United States hung on for the victory.

Germany had the first great chance of the afternoon in the 11th minute when defender Per Mertesacker found a loose ball in the U.S. box, but pushed his shot just wide of the left post.

Three minutes later, the United States opened the scoring with an excellent piece of play when Graham Zusi whipped a first-time cross into the Germany penalty area from the right wing where Altidore was there to finish it into the top right corner with a well-struck, right-footed volley.

The Americans were then gifted a second goal in the 16th minute as some high pressure from Altidore and Dempsey forced Germany defender Benedikt Howedes to push it back to goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, but the pass caught him off guard and the ball trickled into the far corner for a 2-0 United States lead.

After up-and-back action early in the match, the pace slowed considerably in the latter stages of the second half and Germany began to get back into the game in the 41st minute when Julian Draxler sent a ball into the box to Lukas Podolski, but the Arsenal man smashed his shot well over the crossbar.

After the break, Germany got one back in the 51st minute when Westermann worked himself free in the box and nodded a header past Howard to pull the Germans within 2-1.

Nine minutes later, the Americans restored their two-goal advantage when Altidore chipped a nice ball into the penalty area from the left wing and it fell to Dempsey, who smashed it past ter Stegen to make it 3-1.

The United States captain added a second goal in the 64th minute when he cracked a brilliant shot into the top left corner to give the Americans a 4-1 advantage.

But Germany didn't panic and answered with goals two minutes apart as Kruse scored in the 79th minute and Draxler buried a rebound past Tim Howard nine minutes from time to make it 4-3.

But the U.S. defense held it together to earn their first victory over Germany since 1999. The U.S. improved to 3-6-0 all-time against Germany and should carry some confidence into their next match when the take on Jamaica in CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying on June 7.

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(CNN) -- The suspected leader of Mexico's New Juarez Cartel has been arrested, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Sunday, the latest in a series of high-profile drug arrests.

Alberto Carrillo Fuentes, aka "Ugly Betty," was captured in the western state of Nayarit, Notimex said. The report did not describe the circumstances of his arrest, nor did it say when it happened.

Last month, Mexican authorities arrested Mario Armando Ramirez Trevino, a suspected leader of the country's Gulf Cartel.

Los Zetas known for 'complete absence of scruples,' expert says

They nabbed Zetas leader Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, one of Mexico's most wanted drug lords, in July -- marking the most significant blow to drug trafficking in Mexico since President Enrique Pena Nieto took office in December.

Notimex reported that Carrillo Fuentes is the brother of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who died in 1997 as a result of undergoing plastic surgery to alter his appearance in an effort to avoid capture.

The late Carrillo Fuentes was known as the "Lord of the Skies" because of the large fleet of jetliners he used to transport cocaine from Colombia to Mexico.

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New president Akio Toyoda outlines his vision for the company's future in his first interview with an American publication in his new role.

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Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota, at the Tsutsumi plant

(Fortune Magazine) -- Even though he has the same last name as five of the 10 previous presidents of Toyota Motor, Akio Toyoda is nothing like his predecessors.

Item: He has spent seven years in the U.S., holds an MBA, and speaks flawless English.

Item: He likes to race cars and just completed a 24-hour endurance competition with three other team members in a Toyota supercar at Germany's famed Nürburgring.

Item: At age 53 he is 14 years younger than the man he is succeeding, and he believes that his relative youth "can make a unique contribution" to the company.

Toyoda takes office two months after Toyota (TM) reported the biggest annual loss in its history -- $4.4 billion. He thinks that his family's company -- at last count, the Toyoda clan owned approximately 2% of the stock -- suffered because of a "once-in-a-century crisis" brought on by the global economic slowdown, as well as Toyota's own internal problems, some of them at its U.S. operations. He vows to rein in overcapacity, reorganize operations to strengthen control, and get the company back to basics. He especially wants to reinstill dedication to one of the pillars of Toyota's production system: genchi genbutsu, meaning "go and see for yourself."

Akio Toyoda is a grandson of Toyota's founder, Kiichiro Toyoda (the family changed the spelling of the company's name for greater euphony) and the son of Shoichiro Toyoda, now honorary chairman. After getting a law degree from prestigious Keio University, he went to the U.S., where he received an MBA from Babson College (the alma mater of another auto scion, Edsel Ford II). He joined Toyota in 1984 and returned to the U.S. for a two-year stint as head of NUMMI, the California plant that is a joint venture with General Motors (GMGMQ). At ultraconservative Toyota, Toyoda is considered a bit of a radical. In the early part of this decade he headed the development team for an Internet venture,, which provides information on new and used vehicles and which morphed into a lifestyle cybermall.

If Toyoda is fazed by the challenges awaiting him, he didn't betray it during an hourlong interview at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C., his first with an American news organization in his new role. Instead of traditionally bland Japanese business attire, he wore a blue tattersall shirt, red-patterned tie, and black loafers. On his left wrist was what he described as his lucky charm, a bracelet with his birthstone inset. Toyoda took questions from Fortune's Alex Taylor III in English and answered, in traditional Toyota fashion, in Japanese through a translator, circumspectly.

Fortune: Toyota presidents typically worry about the company growing so large and bureaucratic that it becomes infected with "big company" disease. Has that happened yet?

Toyoda: The company is a little bit infected. But if we look at our company as three 3-million-car companies rather than one huge company of 10 million cars, I believe we will be able to figure out ways to avoid being infected. A lot of conditions and situations are different, so we need to develop cars best fit for the conditions in each region: Japan, the U.S., and Europe.

Toyota has been very successful, but it is perceived as stuffy and conservative. Do you intend to change that?

Well, we do not want to be too light, but we have to be stable and step fast. I believe I can make a unique contribution because I am a young president by Japanese standards. The age difference between myself and associates in my company is smaller.

Has Toyota responded quickly enough to the economic downturn, and should it be doing more?

We may have to slightly change some of the ways of doing business, depending on the changes of the market. Some of the good things we did, and also not-so-good things we did, may not completely fit the situation. So while preserving our good DNA, I would like to have the courage to change some things if those things have to be changed. Our philosophy of "Customer first" has to be stronger.

Several of your competitors have been speeding development of electric cars. Does Toyota need to do more?

Electric cars' battery life is limited, and that has not been solved. We would like to utilize our hybrid technology because we have accumulated quite a bit of knowledge about battery usage for hybrid cars. Depending on how electric cars are used or how they are found to be valuable, for the time being Toyota would like to focus on hybrid technology.

Your new hybrid Prius became the bestselling car in Japan after you priced it aggressively against the hybrid Honda Insight. Why are you pushing it so hard?

We have a desire to popularize hybrid cars so that more people can enjoy them. And under current market situations, we would like to be able to produce more hybrid cars. That would make us happy.

How long do you think the sales downturn will last?

There are 250 million cars in the U.S. The industry is selling 10 million units a year, which means the market turns over every 25 years. I believe 25 years is too long, and we should make efforts so that a 10-year cycle is more appropriate. The current market size of 10 million is too small and too unusual. It may not go back to 16 million, but I believe it will recover to 12 million or 13 million.

Has Toyota been growing too quickly in North America?

Toyota had a strong desire to become a U.S. car company. I believe that decision was correct, and we will try to strengthen even more. Of course, looking at the current situation, I would say our production capacity may be a little bit too much.

Today individual functions in North America, like manufacturing and sales, report back to Japan. Do you plan to change that?

In the U.S. we have a 3-million-car company, and there may not be only one person who heads the entire operation. But we would like to make sure the U.S. can complete its own operation and become a fresh American company for its own sake.

What do you think is the future of the Detroit Three?

GM has been in a leadership position for many years, and we learned many things from GM and the Big Three. We hope the auto industry in the U.S. will grow and continue to be healthy and prosperous. The auto industry is crucial, and it takes up a very big portion of the economy.

Is government aid appropriate under these circumstances?

I don't have too much information, so I am not in the position of making any specific comments on that point.

What is your outlook for sales in Japan, where the population has been shrinking?

The Japanese government launched some incentive programs for cars more than 13 years old. If owners buy so-called eco-cars, such as hybrids, the buyers get scrappage incentives. Ever since the Japanese launched this incentive system, cars sold very quickly. But concerning capacity, we need to downsize a little bit, and right-size.

Who do you most worry about as a future threat, Korea or China?

China has been catching up with very great speed. I believe that it will come close to us very quickly, and from there on we will engage in very severe competition with it.

You have had a number of jobs at Toyota. Which one was your favorite?

Rather than being in a supervisory position, sitting in an office, I most enjoyed it when I went out and worked with the factory guys on the assembly floor, when I implemented kaizen [continuous improvement] ideas and worked together with the front-line workers to implement them. That gave me the most gratitude and helped me the most in my career.

You lived for seven years in the U.S. What were the biggest differences for you between America and Japan?

Language [laughs]. Also, Japan is small, and many people live in small areas in the country. So we always have to pay attention to other people, and you always kind of have to consider others. In a way, you get tired of paying attention to others.

The U.S. tends to have a higher degree of freedom. You can do whatever you like in a way. But in Japan you have to always consider various conditions and circumstances of others. In this circumstance, of course, I am kind of nervous and not feeling too free ... [laughs].

What product trends do you see developing in the auto industry in the next five or 10 years?

We are talking about a once-in-a-century transformation of the market. I believe the auto industry is now trying to face the challenges of presenting a solution to this once-in-a-century change. And what is clear to me is that what is going to happen will not just simply be an extension of the past.

Last year was the 100th anniversary of the invention of the Ford Model T and the 100th anniversary of GM. I don't believe this was an accident. Industrial revolutions were experienced for 100 years as the position of workers improved so that they became able to buy cars. However, these conditions that supported the prosperity of the auto industry started to disintegrate. I believe it is an important time for Toyota to present some answers for the coming 100 years. It is Toyota's mission to find out how we can utilize available energy resources and technology for the future.  To top of page

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Can one be an international leader in educating people about the evils of the Holocaust and simultaneously spend tens of millions of dollars to honor a dead Nazi? The Norwegian government thinks that such moral relativism is normal.

The honored Nazi in question is the novelist Knut Hamsun, who welcomed the brutal German occupation of Norway during World War II. He also offered his Nobel Prize in Literature as a gift to the Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels. Hamsun later visited Hitler, whom he admired, in Bavaria. [1]

The New York Times wrote that in February 2009, Norway’s Queen Sonja opened the “year-long, publicly financed commemoration of Hamsun’s 150th birthday called Hamsun 2009…the queen spent a highly specific half-hour with Hamsun family members at the National Library. Together they viewed the author’s handwritten manuscripts. [2] There is more than one layer of significance to this. First, a Labor party-dominated government rehabilitates an admirer of Hitler and the National Socialists. Second, the Queen participates in this event, as if the royal family did not flee abroad when the Germans conquered their homeland in 1940.

In March, Norway became head of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research. The ITF consists of representatives of government, as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations. Its purpose is to place political and social leaders’ support behind the promotion of Holocaust education, remembrance and research. It was initiated by Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson in 1998, This Task Force currently has twenty-six member countries. It met on 24 June for a major conference in Oslo.

Holocaust remembrance requires moral choices. The whitewashing of a Nazi supporter however expresses moral turpitude. A Norwegian government spokesman said that Hamsun was one of Norway’s most important authors and added that during the Hamsun festivities his Nazi past will be mentioned. How important can such mention be in what in essence are festivities in his honor?

Has Norway built a twenty million dollar museum for any Norwegian who resisted the Nazis? A more than life size bronze statue of Hamsun is also planned. One can probably search in vain all over Western Europe for a statue of such an extreme admirer of Hitler.

The German Jewish author Max Tau, who fled to Norway before the war, tells in his biography how Hamsun—a former friend of his—was despised by many Norwegians when he showed his sympathy for Hitler-ruled Germany. The medical head of a hospital, said to Tau: “I have burned all Hamsun’s books.” Others told him they would never read one more sentence written by Hamsun. [3]

The outrageous state-sponsored honoring of Hamsun is only the tip of the iceberg of why Norway should never have been chosen as ITF Chair. A country where moral relativism is widespread among part of its elites can not lead an effort to teach the Holocaust internationally. A few examples of what is possible in Norway:  Last year TV2, Norway’s second largest TV station, was condemned by the press ethics commission PFU for an extreme anti-Semitic program by the comedian Otto Jespersen. It was so hateful that for the first time ever the PFU came out against satire. In May 2009 TV2 brought Holocaust denier David Irving to Oslo for a lengthy interview by an ignorant journalist.

In his opening speech a few days ago at the Oslo ITF conference Norway’s foreign minister Jonas Gahr Støre came out strongly against Holocaust denial. He did not mention that his country was probably the only one among the member states, where a Holocaust denier had been given the occasion to appear recently on a major TV station.

Last month Queen Sonja went to a mosque where she met the imam who supports suicide bombings. A few weeks later, at very short notice, King Harald V visited the Oslo synagogue. This was the first time a royal had done so since Jews were admitted to Norway 150 years ago. The juxtaposition of the two visits again exposes Norwegian moral relativism at the highest level.

In September 2008 a Jewish museum was opened in Oslo by Crown Prince Haakon. [4] In an interfaith debate in March the Islamist Mohammed Ali Chisthi spoke and made anti-Semitic remarks. His speech had been submitted to the organizers earlier. A picture in the daily Aftenposten captured the Crown Prince on the front row attentively listening to the inciter. [5] Comparing the two events one sees yet another manifestation of moral relativism.

In March 2007 Finn Graf was made a knight in the prestigious Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav by the king for his contribution as an artist. [6] In one caricature Graf had depicted then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as a sadistic Nazi camp commander. In March 2008, when Julius Paltiel, one of the few Norwegian Auschwitz survivors, died King Harald V attended the funeral. The juxtaposition of the two events is symbolic: honoring a dead Jew as well as a living inciter to Jew-hatred.

One cannot expect the small Norwegian Jewish community to lead a fight against Norway’s chairmanship of the ITF. The community is heavily dependent on the government for its protection. Therefore the other member states and NGOs should bring pressure to bear to depose Norway of this position. Perhaps that would make the country’s leaders understand that there are no free anti-Semitic lunches.

[1] Walter Gibbs, “Norwegian Nobel Laureate, Once Shunned, Is Now Celebrated,” New York Times, 27 February 2009.

[2] Ibid.

[3] Max Tau, Ein Fluchtling findet sein Land (Hamburg: Hoffmann & Campe, 1964), 88, 89. [German]

[4] Nina Berglund, “New Jewish Museum opens,” Aftenposten, 9 September 2008.

[5] “Også  Chisthi er norsk,” Aftenposten, 4 April 2009. [Norwegian]

[6] www.kongehuset.no/c26951/nyhet/vis.html?strukt_tid=26951&tid=34236 (the official royal website).

Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld is Chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He is an international business strategist who has been a consultant to governments, international agencies, and boards of some of the world's largest corporations. Among the fourteen books he has published are Europe's Crumbling Myths: The Post-Holocaust Origins of Today's Anti-Semitism (JCPA, Yad Vashem, WJC, 2003), Academics against Israel and the Jews (JCPA, 2007), as well as the just published Behind the Humanitarian Mask: The Nordic Countries, Israel and the Jews (JCPA and Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, 2008).

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The stock market had its biggest sell-off in five weeks Wednesday, thanks to more evidence of meager job growth. The official March jobs data come Friday morning as stocks are just below all-time highs.

Don't confuse the record high stock market earlier this week as proof the U.S. economy has healed from the Great Recession. Instead, for many Americans, household budgets remain under significant pressure, nest eggs remain shattered and job security is tenuous.

There was a time when half of American households made more than $52,000 per year, the unemployment rate was about 4.5%, we were paying an average of $2.76 per gallon for gasoline and the stock market was hitting record highs. That's not today. Except for the stock market. But are you better off now versus 2007 when the Standard &Poor's 500 last traded at these levels?

Compared with the fall of 2007, median household incomes have dropped 4%. Home prices are down 16%. And gas is well over $3.50 a gallon. While a new strength for the stock market is worth celebrating, it changes little for most households.

Slow recovery

Sure, America and Americans are showing signs of healing from the deep financial wounds of the Great Recession. Home prices are climbing again. Unemployment is dropping. Even U.S. manufacturing is enjoying a boomlet after a decades of decline. But the real economy is not reflected on Wall Street. After all, it is a market of stocks. And with corporate profits at record levels, who wouldn't want to own a small slice of that pie?

The majority of Americans, that's who.

While the statistic varies slightly from source to source, most surveys suggest roughly half of households have a financial interest in the stock market. Those that do don't have much invested. The Economic Policy Institute finds a third of "small investors" really are small. Very small. They own less than $10,000 in stocks. Though that might be big money to them, it's chump change on Wall Street.

This rising stock market tide is not raising all boats because most Americans aren't more than ankle-deep, if that.

Even so, the halo effect of record high stock prices can't be denied. It's much better living in an economy with an upward sloping stock chart than the cliff dive and subsequent financial devastation that happened between September 2008 and March 2009. Household net worth now totals $66 trillion, driven by the twin recoveries in the real estate and stock markets. Both of those rebounds have been staged with cheap money courtesy of the tally keeper of Americans' net worth: the Federal Reserve.

Lower interest rates

The unprecedented action by the central bank to drive down the cost of cash with lower interest rates has driven up stock prices. Though the virtue of the effort (and its yet-to-be-seen consequences) will be studied for decades, it has succeeded. Mortgage rates are dirt cheap, helping re-inflate housing prices. Companies' bottom lines have ballooned partly because of cheaper borrowing costs. And even the federal government itself has saved hundreds of billions of dollars thanks to low interest rates.

Critics argue that the money created by the Federal Reserve's strategy is phony. But the stock gains partially driven by the effort aren't. It's too bad more Americans aren't directly profiting.

Tom Hudson is the former co-anchor of Nightly Business Report on public television.

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WebVision is very focused on quality and “best-of-breed” solutions. We have partnerships with leading and proven players in the advanced IP services industry, such as:

  • Sun (Enterprise Class Systems)
  • EMC (Storage)
  • Oracle (Oracle Database)
  • Microsoft (NT Operating System, MS Exchange, MS SQL Server)
  • IBM (EJB Servers and DB2 Database)
  • ADIC (Any Media Library Tape Backup Systems and Vaults)
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  • BEA Systems (Java Tools and EJB Servers)
  • Desktalk (Trending and Proactive Support Software)
  • Intrustion Detection Systems (IDS) (Security Software)

These companies are leaders in their respective fields. For example, with EMC as our partner for the storage devices, WebVision is offering storage on demand and remote storage facilities for redundancy and business continuity needs. Our Storage Area Network (SAN) spans multiple data centers so our customer in any one location can backup and access data from another geographically distant location. It provides a high-speed storage network that is not only extremely scalable but is designed for uncompromising availability. WebVision has a relationship with Cisco for their expertise in routers and switches for IP routing, ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) and MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) pieces of our infrastructure and platform. The company works very closely with F5, Cacheflow and Arrowpoint for their caching and load balancing products.

Another partnership WebVision has is with a company called “InterNap”. With this partnership we basically “compress” the Internet by shortening the number of hop’s to the destination servers. Combining this service with our caching and load-balancing services is a powerful proposition.

By being selective in our partnerships, we have been able to architect our Data Centers and MPLS network as well as our e-Commerce software components to be compelling but yet on the safe-edge.

The three major trends other than the obvious that are influencing our partner selection and our focus on engineered solutions are first, the increased demand for bandwidth, secondly, the componentization of software, or rather the maturity and simplification of software standards to build components that are re-usable in developing business software and applications quickly, and thirdly, the emergence of IP as the Optical Transport on the major backbones, especially MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) and VPN’s (Virtual Private Networks) to allow clients to use our data center as if it was their own private data center. Notice that 90% of WebVision's partnerships fit into one of the three trends that are prevailing in IT and Global communications infrastructures.

A basic summary of relationships follows. Almost all of these vendors have committed to help us ramp up our business in one form or another through referrals, joint marketing, PR, press-releases etc.

  • ArrowPoint (now owned by Cisco) - WebVision has partnered with ArrowPoint in utilizing its Communications' intelligent Web switches and related software. These devices route incoming requests to optimize content delivery and give security protection to Internet service providers, e-commerce sites, application service providers, and other online businesses. Its products also let users direct preferred customers through specific routes, and track Web site performance. ArrowPoint has agreed to be acquired by networking giant Cisco Systems.

  • CacheFlow - WebVision teams with CacheFlow to offer its caching area network (CAN) service, which improves content delivery for customers worldwide. Working with CacheFlow, WebVision has expanded its managed service offerings with content caching technology, to improve load handling and scalability for better end-user experience. This technology provides high-performing, easy-to-manage caching appliances to 3 primary WebVision customer groups: enterprises, service providers and e-commerce businesses. These solutions speed online content delivery by serving the most popular Web pages from the network edge. Enterprises deploy CacheFlow to improve organizational productivity, reduce bandwidth costs and simplify network management. Service providers install CacheFlow appliances within their networks to improve subscriber satisfaction, better utilize carrier bandwidth and offer premium hosting services. Finally, e-commerce sites utilize CacheFlow solutions to offload their back-end server farms, resulting in improved customer transaction times and reduced equipment spending.

  • Cisco - WebVision is partnering with Cisco in designing and building out its network. Our data centers are being designed with Cisco MPLS technology in mind. The company controls more than three-quarters of the global market for products that link networks and power the Internet, including routers and switches. It also makes dial-up access servers and network management software. WebVision is in the process of getting “Cisco Powered Network” status.

  • EMC - EMC is establishing WebVision as a Strategic Partner and a Top Tier 5-Diamond Partner in EMC’s Proven E-Infrastructure Program. EMC makes RAID (redundant array of independent disks) memory storage and retrieval systems for larger mainframe computers as well as UNIX and Windows NT systems. Other products let users manage remote data and share information across networks of different computers. EMC continues to boost its presence in software and related services, with an emphasis on overseeing corporations' Internet data.

  • ADIC - Adic is establishing WebVision as a Strategic Partner for their ADIC AML (Any Media Library) Backup Solutions. Their Tape drives will be located at each one of our Data Centers as they come on-line.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Is your pooch the next Benji? The search is on for a new canine superstar.

Brandon Camp, whose father created "Benji" nearly 40 years ago, and veteran movie trainer Mark Forbes, are looking for a medium-sized, mischievous mutt.

They've created a Facebook page so pet owners and shelter workers can post pictures of their would-be Benjis.

The original Benji was adopted from a Southern California animal shelter.

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NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Police Department will no longer confiscate unused condoms as evidence of prostitution by people suspected of being sex industry workers, abolishing a practice criticized by civil rights groups for undermining efforts to combat AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday.

Advocates for sex workers and civil rights groups had long pushed for the policy change, noting that the city spends more than $1 million every year to distribute free condoms.

For decades, police in New York and elsewhere had confiscated condoms from sex work suspects ostensibly for them to be used as evidence in criminal trials, even though the overwhelming majority of prostitution cases never go to trial.

"A policy that inhibits people from safe sex is a mistake and dangerous," di Blasio said Monday. "And there are a number of ways you can go about putting together evidence" without condoms, he said.

A 2010 study by the city's Department of Health surveyed more than 60 sex workers and found that more than half had condoms confiscated by police. Nearly a third said they had at times not carried condoms because they feared getting into trouble.

Two years later, the group Human Rights Watch interviewed 197 sex workers in New York, Washington, Los Angeles and San Francisco and found that many limited the number of condoms they carried or went without because they feared police attention. The report concluded that transgender teens, street-level sex workers and immigrants were especially targeted because of their appearance or behavior.

Prosecutors in New York's borough of Brooklyn and in San Francisco decided last year to no longer use condoms as evidence in prostitution cases.

Measures to formally abolish the practice across New York state have been introduced in the Legislature for nearly two decades and last year passed the Assembly. Similar legislation has been introduced in California.

The New York Police Department makes about 2,500 prostitution arrests a year.

One respondent in the Human Rights Watch study, identified as Brooklyn sex worker Pam G., told the researchers she has had condoms taken by police.

"The cops say, 'What are you carrying all those condoms for? We could arrest you just for this,'" she said. "It happens all the time around here. I may be carrying eight condoms. If you have more than three or four, they will take them."

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the city. >>> koran controversy. a florida minister's plans to burn the holy book condemned by the u.s. government and others. pastor terry jones insists he will set fire for the koran on september 11th. we'll talk to the man at the center of the controversy. >>> and close call. a lion at a popular vegas resort tries to take a bite out of his trainer. and it's all caught on camera. "early" this wednesday morning, and it's all caught on camera. "early" this wednesday morning, september 8, 2010. captioning funded by cbs >>> and a good wednesday morning to you here from "the early show." i'm erica hill. >> good morning. i'm harry smith. it is wednesday. >> halfway there. >>> there's a lot to get to this morning. we'll talk about that wild attack we just saw in the video. we want to get to politics and the economy as well. oh, there's the lion again. i can't imagine witnessing that firsthand. the video's rough enough. >>> as we take a look at politics and the economy this morning because president obama is off to cleveland where he'll unveil business tax breaks. he is also signaling taxes
material. >> where was the treasurer? >> angry candidates like anthony muse, whose picture was used without permission on the fake mailer suggesting he endorsed a long list of candidates he doesn't. >> when you have to break the law to become a lawmaker, every citizen should have problems with that. >> one county council candidate endorsed in the fraudulent mailer is jerry mathis, who is quoted by the gazette saying, i think it's good political strategy. the state's attorney general appears to be serious about prosecuting. >> this was completely illegal and in violation of state election laws because there is a committee that is put on that ballot which doesn't exist. >> i'm bruce leshan in loudoun county. yes, virginia, there will be christmas here in leesburg. the board of supervisors voted overwelmingly to throw the doors open to everyone religious displays, not religious displays, all allowed here at the courthouse. >> merry christmas. >> for decades on the courthouse grounds, a tree, a nativity scene, and in recent years, seek prayers and a sign celebrating atheism. some
looking for in a dance partner? what arthur murray never told us. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. he's heard the complaints, the outrage if church groups, the military, even world leaders. but today florida pastor terry jones insisted he will go ahead with plans to burn copies of the koran on saturday to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. in response, the state department ordered u.s.'m be sis around the world to assess their security and brace for possible protests. general david petraeus, the top u.s. commander in afghanistan, met today with afghan president hamid karzai, both warned that jones' plan could endanger u.s. troops. and the cat van said "this act would only call for new hate and violence." kelly cobiella is in gainesville, florida tonight. kelly, pastor jones is getting lots of criticism from many quarter bus he's claiming a lot of people are actually on his side. >> he does say that, katie. and he says they're simply afraid to speak
through neighborhood lawns and yards, any one of us could be outside, you know at any moment. >> nobody would know. >> neighbors speculate the suspect could have hidden. that wall should be removed. as for johnston, she'll watch her back the next time she's waiting for the bus. >> reporter: now that brick wall has been here since this neighborhood was first established in the 1950s. we made several calls this afternoon to find out who now owns this property. the county does not own the property, nor maintain that wall. v-dot may own the property. we called them. they now say they will investigate as to whether or not they can tear down that wall and neighbors say that will possible make the area a bit safer. the lights are sufficient. they are worried right now about that wall. the victim we can tell you is recovering with her family right now and police, of course, are still on the search for that suspect, anita. >> good to hear she is recovering. was she able to id her attacker? >> a very vague identification. we have a brief description of a heavy set man between 25 and 40 years o
erupted in afghanistan and the top u.s. military general in the country, general david petraeus, fears american soldiers will end up paying the price. still, jones doesn't believe he should be held accountable. >> we're not pulling the trigger. we're not the one doing it. i think the finger should be pointed at them. >> reporter: here in washington religious leaders have all pressured jones to back off and called for an end to what they say is a growing anti-muslim sentiment across america. >> i say, you bring dishonor to the name of jooesz jesus christ. >> reporter: despite the sharp criticism and more than 100 death threats, jones insists he'll go ahead with his plans, though he continues to pray about his final decision. >> the only thing that could cause us to change our mind is if we felt really a deep conviction. we felt like god really wanted us not to do it. >> reporter: gut tbut the gover is holding out hope between now and saturday americans will stand up and condemn the church's plan. and jones has faced controversy before. he left a church in germany after allegations he wa
lanes in both directions so use caution if you are heading this way. we want to take you to 95 southbound in more where we have construction going on. taking away two lanes here at 216. 270 southbound you are doing fine out of frederick making your way to the spur. as we take a live shot here, nice and quiet live shot at 121. 395 all clear from the beltway to the 14th street bridge and 95 in virginia looking at a one hour commute from fredericksburg to the mixing bowl. back to you. >> a commuter alert for drivers in the tysons corner area. you will find new traffic patterns on route 7. the laness have shift. you can only turn left at intersections with traffic signals. you can fiend out more on the work on the where you live section of our website. click on change and choose the mclean neighborhood. >>> the waiting game continues in prince georges county this morning where a wanted man is holding police at bay. it started around 2:00 this morning when prince georges county authorities tried to stop the man wanted by dc police. they say that man took off and hid inside of a home
tell us the victim was able to fight off her attacker, scattering evidence, including her eyeglasses on the ground. the young woman was catching a bus to work. it was 4:30 in the morning. >> anyone who is commuting or jogging or out at darkness early in the morning or late at night, certainly needs to take precautions. >> it's scary, because a lot of us go out all times of day or night, depending on our jobs and to think that someone could be lurking in the neighborhood, it's upsetting. >> earlier this afternoon, a canine was brought in to sniff for leads on the suspect, looking at a possible route that he traveled throughout the neighborhood to get here. he is described as a heavy set man between 35 and 40 years old. back here live on the scene, neighbors wonder if the suspect may have hid behind that bridge wall before he attacked this morning. that brick wall, we can tell you, has been here since the neighborhood was developed in the 1950s. neighbors want it torn down now they say. we made several calls this afternoon to find out who owns the property and who maintains that wal
us in the 70s. cool spot reston at 70. we are at 77. going up to near 90. upper 80s by noon and also for 5:00 look for for sun and some wind. go over to angie goff. >> rev up the engines folks, we are getting geared up for a new hour. one issue out there we are dealing with. a water make main break on 410 where it meets 295. one lane on the right side getting by in both directions. moving to 270, take it outside. it is a problem free commute past father hurley to the split. as we move to virginia, 495 in virginia from the wilson bridge to 95 up to 66 looks like drivers are moving at speed. the same situation for those of you traveling 395. no incidents or accidents along the way past duke street toward shirlington. that's a quick look at traffic. andrea, back to you. >>> it is about 3 1/2 months until christmas but today we should learn whether loudoun county will allow any holiday displays in front of the courthouse. the debate has been going on since last year, and supervisors got final input last night. 9 news now reporter kristin fisher is live in leesburg, virginia, with more. g
>>> hello. thanks for joining us one week after the discovery headquarters standoff, police had another dangerous situation in southeast washington. this time it ended peacefully. our 9 news now kristin fisher was there and has the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: it all started 4:30 this morning when a woman walked in to the street, flagged down an officer and told them there was a man pointing a gun at a woman inside of this home. >> our officers responded to the scene, secured a perimeter and summoned our emergency response team [ sirens ] >> it was more than 40, maybe 30 police cars 5:30 this morning. it was a pretty good number of cars. >> reporter: the suspect held the woman hostage four hours inside of this home. finally at 8:30 the suspect surrendered. no one was injure and no shots were fired. police are trying to find the suspect's alleged gun and trying to figure out a motive and the relationship between his suspect and hostage. both are safe and in police custody. neighbors say they are relieved the standoff ended peacefully but are quick to point out all of
building in the 300-block of 56th street. frankly they don't want us to see what is going on. at about 9:00 tonight, they got a call for a disturbed man. went to this apartment building, knocked on the door, we're told. the result of that knock they heard something inside that led them to believe the person inside that apartment was either going to harm himself or someone else. simultaneously, they began to see smoke coming from within that apartment and began to permeate the apartment building. immediately the other people in that apartment building and frankly we don't know how big the apartment building is because we can't get that close, everyone in that apartment buildings has been evacuated. the presumption now is that person is barricaded in his own apartment with no hostages. that is the working pre sums although we don't -- pre assumption although we don't know that for certain. the best guess now is that fire is apparently gone out because dc fire says it has not yet extinguished the fire. in the woods between 56th street and 56th place, we have been able to see dc special oper
residents recommended the ban after the county received an increase in requests to use the space. the county board established a policy that allows up to ten groups at a time to install displays on the courthouse grounds but now that same commission that started it all is now asking the board to reconsider. andrea? >> before you go, as you said we have been talking about this almost a year now. what can we expect at ted's meeting? >> well, today we are expecting the big vote. this is what we have been waiting on for several months now. the county board, the loudoun county board will be voting today. right here in this building at t 30. last night, of course, they listened to the temperature from residents at the public hearing but today is the big day that we should be getting a vote. back to you. >> finally a vote that is an answer. >> i know. >> all right. thank you. >>> new this morning, police investigate a bomb threat on an international flight. while you slept, the fbi scoured its high airways flight. the threat was found scrolled on a bathroom mirror. they searched the plane and spoke
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. >>> and in just one day, hockey season begins for the caps.  >>> the tsa will remove the controversial full body x-ray scanners. more than 100 scanners showing naked i am manuals of passengers are being yanked from all airports. the tsa learned new less intrusive software can bedeveloped. the tsa says that pulling the machines will not weaken it ability to fight terrorism. >> we face a terrorist group that is innovative in their design, their construction and the concealment of devices. that's why tsa provides security at the airports. >> the tsa says they will not get rid of the scanner that shows the generic images when a passenger walks through. the tsa touts the success of its program that allows passengers to keep their shoes and belt on if they give up certain personal identifications >>> aviation experts in the u.s., europe, japan and india grounded it fleet of dreamliners. they have been plagued with issues such as battery fire. toyota settles what has to be our at least the first of hundreds of wrongful death lawsuits. the suit involves problems with sudden acceleration. toyota rea
tsa viper team policed rails here, i'll have the story next. >> incredible video from london. why police calling what followed a miracle. >> a task for rover curiosity trying >>> we're used to seeing tsa inspectors at airports but teed a team made its presence known. >> that is where abc 7 news is this afternoon with a story only on abc 7. hi, laura. >> hi, larry. well, train stations are difficult to secure because they're so wide open. but today, tsa showed up unannounced to let the public and potential troublemakers know that they are keeping an eye on the rails. >> we've prepared. >> this passenger says she noticed them right away. the many black cladoç,j inspecs at the amtrak station. and it's a presence she appreciates. >> would you like to see them more often? >> yes. just in case. >> part of the team effort, the spraigs put about a dozen agencies at the station to see and be seen. we've blurred faces because some also worked under cover. >> the deterrent is making a presence known at the station, talking to skpaengz letting the bad guys know we're here and passengers kno
flight back to san francisco. the tsa confirms that the reported altercation happened in one security check point when romo couldn't provide an id which is routine for travelers. sources tell us romo was quote, disruptive and got into a verbal altercation with one agent. that is when police intervened. the police department told us, and i quote, airport police notify that had notice that the individual engaged in the dispute with a tsa officer. the security of other travelers not compromised. police say romo stood in an agitated position, pacing around. with clenched fists. now, romo cited with a misdemeanor from violatingá'm airport rules and any if the da decides to file charges police tell us he'll have owe to show them in court. after given a citation, he was released. police say he did not appear to be drunk or on drugs. at 6:00 tonight what some of the fans say about all of this. >> thank you very much. the giants popular. and sergio romo is one of the most popular players on the team. the pitcher is a power house and always comes through. you can see here in game fou
. [ laughter ] and the president is dropping the ball on homeland security. >> the tsa is removing the body scanners that produce a naked image of the passengers bodies. you remember those? they're being removed bc the company that manufactures them couldn't meet a deadline to install the privacy software. they're going to be replaced with other scanners that produce a generic outline of the passenger's body. >> stephen: a generic outline of the body? [ laughter ] how can i legally show the tsa my penis now? [ laughter ] i used to write them little messages in lead-based paint. [ laughter ] like "good morning" or "all evidence to the contrary, i do "not" wish to have a kosher meal." [ laughter ] or on a particular chilly day, "hi." [ laughter ] the tsa's just caving to pressure because the scanners were criticized for being too invasive. oh, please! what is invasive about a technology called, and i think i'm pronouncing this correctly rape-i-scan? [ laughter ] this is a mistake, nation. now, we'll never complete our national database of radical islamic naughty parts. [ laughter ] we'd alrea
thought. sometimes longer. sometimes four days of long, wrong, and strong. i went through t.s.a. recently in san jose where i live. i was born and raised in oakland, i went to jail in livermore. here is the part. normal people don't laugh at jail there. i worked there. god bless you if you worked there. i couldn't do that job for two days in a row. i can do it for an hour. an ex-felon who is an extraordinary father. i can become an ex-drunk who is an exceptional citizen. there is a transition necessary for a convicted, afflicted person the and it involves payback. i owe so i go. but i'll tell the incarcerated, hey, if life was fair, you wouldn't be in here right now. you would have parents that cared and gave you the road map to success and they stuck around. they didn't hurt you on wait. they go yeah. if life was fair, you wouldn't have been busted when your partner wasn't. yeah. they love that one a lot. and then i'll say this well, if they locked you up for everything you really did do criminally, when would you get out? they don't like that one at all. so i'm blessed to be here for a
students find a special way to honor martin luther king, jr. >> plus no more baring it all foot tsa, what changes -- for the tsa, what changes are coming to airports nationwide. >> this is fox 5 news edge at 11:00.  >>> in honor of the late martin luther king, jr. and the inauguration students from watkins elementary school in the district recited his i have a dream speech. they read the famous message on the steps of the lin on memorial today. fox ever -- lincoln memorial today. fox 5's photojournalist steve jones was there today. >> but 100 years later the negro still is not free. >> it does make the speech fun because you get to learn about all the people who made your life better. >> soldiers have come fresh from their jail cells. >> and some of you have come from areas where a quest, quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. >> lots of them came from areas where they wanted to be free, but the people got in their way. >> let freedom ring from the snow capped rockies of colorado. >> let fre
in their design, their construction and their concealment of devices. so that's why tsa provides security at our 450 airports. obviously, we don't provide security overseas, as you all know. but the notion is how can we use that information in an intelligence-based way. so what i wanted to share with you here is how we have changed our one size fits all approach that was stood up after 9/11, aware of all the threats out there. if you hear anything about risk-based security, it's the notion that we cannot expect to provide a 100% guarantee. we screen 1.8 million passengers an average every day, over two million carry-on bags, so nearly six million people or bags every day that we screen. and so what we try to do is buy that risk, mitigate or manage risk just as you do in your jobs as mayors. you try to manage those situations. so what this is is a recognition of that and how we can work in partnership with the traveling public to say if you're willing to share some information about yourselves wuss, we can do pre-- with us, we can do prescreening so we can do expedited screening. we are operating
to security checkpoints at airports. tsa is removing those body scanners, all 174 full body scanners. they are ending the contract with the company that makes them. peter doocy has the latest from washington. >> tsa pulled the maker of those scanning machines that took revealing photos to fix their software so flyers looked more like cartoons this the photos, but that company couldn't do it. it says congressman dated back in june that all scanning machines need the target recognition or technology that produces the more vague images. tsa by june 1st travelers will only see machines that have atr that allow for faster tlu put, faster lanes for the traveler. they paid them $40 million for their machines and rapid scan has to take them out at their own expense. >> fourth amendment says you can't be searched or seized or person can't be accepted without a warrant. what they are doing is pulling back here is making something that is in line with the fourth amendment and not in violation of people's rights. >> the khair man of the house committee john mica he didn't even know the if the co
back to san francisco. the tsa tells abc 7 news the incident happened at one of the security check points. the agency says a male passenger was unable to provide identification required of travelers. at the tsa document control station. that's when you show the i.d. before being screened. although the tsa spokesman would not identify romo by name we have confirmed through other sources it was romo. those sources tell us he was disruptive and got into a verbal altercation with at least one agent. tsa said further during the document identification process the airport police noticed the individual engaged in a dispute with a tsa officer and took action. security of other travelers was not compromised. metropolitan police department tells us officers saw romo in agitated posture. police say sergio romo was pacing around with clinched fist. officers policed him in handcuffs. police say they kept him cuffed until he calmed down. and was deemed not to be a threat here's some of the reaction outside at&t park dug out stor store. >> they stopped him because of that. he has no iden
crisis. >> kelly: and a major turn around for the tsa to find out why they're now getting rid of those controversial body scanners that create nude-like images of passengers. >> jamie: plus, a battle with washington d.c.'s teacher's union sparked a national controversy. coming up we'll show you how a former school chancellor is fighting for the rights of students everywhere. >> this is a country of equal opportunity, this is the country where if you work hard and you do the right thing, you're supposed to be able to live the american dream. i have the flu... i took theraflu, but i still have this cough. [ male announcer ] truth is theraflu doesn't treat your cough. what? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus severe cold and flu fights your worst flu symptoms, plus that cough. [ sighs ] thanks!... [ male annouer ] you're welcome. that's the cold truth! a. alright, another one just like that. right in the old bucket. good toss! see that's much better! that was good. you had your shoulder pointed, you kept your eyes on your target. let's do it again -- watch me. just like that one... [ mal
dated a comma in high school. [ male announcer ] muller. the european for yummy. >>> the tsa will remove those controversial full body x-ray scanners. more than 100 scanners show naked pictures of passengers yanged from airports across the u.s. the -- yanked from airports across the u.s. the order was made this week after it was learned less intrusive machines have been developed. tsa said pulling these machines will not weaken its ability to fight terrorism. >> that's the challenge we deal with. we face a terrorist group that is innovative in their design, their construction and concealment of devices. so that's why tsa provides security at our 450 airports. >> tsa says it will not get rid of the body scanner that shows a generic image when a passenger walks through. the administration is touting the success of its tsa precheck program that allows passengers to keep their shoes and belts on through security if they give up necessary personal information before the flight. >>> talking weather. you heard mr. bratman talk about inauguration. what you got for us? >> isn't he in the enclosed
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are predicting a big jump in cases this month. and tsa agents say they could smell it on him. what's happening to the pilot accused of being drunk in the cockpit. >>> it's still a mystery. how a bright young woman from the north bay ended up dead on the side of a snowy road in south lake tahoe. she was last seen leaving a music festival just after midnight new year's day. alisa harrington is in petaluma where a memorial was held tonight . >> reporter: tonight a crowd gathered at her former high school, lighting candles and leaving messages for their lost friend. >> i'm going to miss her a lot. [ crying ] >> and i can't believe she's gone! >> reporter: violet always thought her friend alisa, outgoing and independent, would be famous one day. [ crying ] >> reporter: instead, it's the headline she never imagined. the 19-year-old from petaluma, missing since new year's eve, was found dead. a utility worker in tahoe discovered her body on a snow bank around 8:30 am this morning. tonight people gathered forward a memorial. >> because she just loved turtles, it was something everyone knows. ♪ [
you. >>> you'll be happy to learn, some of those full-body nude image tsa scanners at the airport are going away. they were designed to show if a passenger was carrying a weapon, but they also show everything else, even though tsa policy strictly regulates who gets to see all them naked images of all those passengers. there were still privacy and security issues. and so the ones that reveal a little too much detail are going away in june. >>> here's the new look for the second term. the president has released the new official portrait showing the newly re-elected president sporting a broad smile in the oval office, which we note is the same room where all the problems of the nation wind up. not that much smiling goes on in the course of an average day in that room in the life of an american president. >>> some former presidents are in the news. starting with 43 and 41. both bushes say they will be unable to attend the inauguration. george w. bush 43 says he can't attend due to his father's health and his recent long hospitalization. and president clinton has gone public about some
human body that the new airport security scanners will display now that congress has mandated that the t-s-a replace the old x-ray scanners at u.s. airports. the old ones reveal graphic images of the naked body which concerned many travelers here in the bay area oakland international is one of two airports still using the old scanners and passengers there tell kron4 they welcome the change >> i think that it is a good thing. it shows that t s a actually shows a bit of sincerity. >> i think that it is good if you did not have anything to hide. they both worked effectively. >> because they have the privacy borders sybarite's. >> san jose mineta airport also has the old security scanners at both of its terminals. congress has given the t-s-a. a june 2013 new scanners nationwide borders -- several writes. -- >> pam: civil rights-cal- trans will begin repairing the bay bridge fender system which was damaged earlier this month, this coming tuesday- january 22nd. this is video from our helicopter partnership with abc 7 news. of when the bridge was struck by an oil tanker. crews will replace the da
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on -- the new numbers on weapons seized by tsa agents in airports. >> no, that's what the families are now saying about showing up for the upcoming event hat that colorado theater. we have details on what the theater is doing and why they're saying they want no part of it when "good morning maryland" continues. like a lot of things, trying to find a better job can be frustrating. so at university of phoenix we're working with a growing list of almost two thousand corporate partners - companies like microsoft, american red cross and adobe - to create options for you. not only that, we're using what we learn from these partners to shape our curriculum, so that when you find the job you want you'll be a perfect fit. let's get to work. >>> 5:46 right now. the restaurant in federal hill is facing some pretty serious charges this morning. matthew lasinski is accused of raping a woman in the bathroom on new year's eve. according to police the woman said she had self-drinks at light street at the restaurant. while in the bathroom she claims she was sexually assaulted by the 29-year-old. police say
's permission. maybe he will let us come over and watch the super bowl. >>> a specialized tsa security team boards the trains in emeryville. we will explain why in a story you will see only on abc 7 news. >>> 7 on your side's michael finney on a call for a federal x >>> good evening, once again. we are used to seeing tsa screens at our nation's i-s but today a specialized unit made an unannounced top at a train station in emeryville. laura anthony with a story that you will see only on abc 7 news. >> reporter: they are part of a specialized unit of the federal transportation security administration known as the viper team. vipertands for visible intermodal prevention and response. we have blurred their faces because some of the tsa inspectors also work undercover. >> this morning we are at the amtrak station in emeryville as a visible deferent. if anybody thinks about maybe wanting to do something to the amtrak so it derails we are out here and it is unpredictable and people don't know when we will be around. >> they make a quick sweep of the train. while the unit will look for obvious sign
. >> the tsa has gotten rid of the so-called naked image scanners and more will be gone by summer. they had a man date to fix the soft wear and so the naked body images look like stick figures with the apr technology. but couldn't do it in time. they said by june 1st. travelers will only see machines that have atr that allow for faster threw put and faster lanes for the traveler and enhanced security. the tsa's move here makes sense. >> the fourth amendment requires that you can't be searched or seized and obviously the scanner is not a warrant. they are making it in line with the fourth amendment and not a violation of people's rights. >> back in march house transportation committee chair said the tsa was spending a lot of money for scanners that he didn't think were keeping >> it is going for unfortunately theater security and not real security and we have to stop paying that price before we pay a huge proprietary with another successful attack by terrorist . >> tsa is still going to use full body scanners that create generic images of bodies, but travelers have always been able to opt ou
many normal travelers uncomfortable because of what they reveal . now the tsa has a new plan for the body scanners. we'll tell you about it. >>'s lot of hard earned taxpayer money to go for theater security and not real security . we have to pay that price before we pay a huge price with another successful attack by terrorist. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] you don't have to be a golf pro to walk like one. ♪ when you walk 10,000 steps a day, it's t same as walking professional golf course. humana. health and well-being partner of the pga tour. humana. if your a man with low testosterone, you should know that axiron is here. the only underarm treatment for low t. that's right, the one you apply to the underarm. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18. axiron can transfer to others through direct contact. women, especially those who are or who may become pregnant, and children should avoid contact where axiron is applied as unexpected signs of puberty in children or changes in body hair or increased acne in women may occur. report these signs and symptoms to your
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7 news. laura anthony sl live tonight. laura? >> hi, carolyn, tsa out here earl tli morning and a surprise visit of sorts. the spokesman likely to send set up a dui check point saying if quote, bad guys know tsa might be here, they might decide not to launch an attack on amtrak. they're part of a special unit of the viper team. viper stands for visible intermodal prevention and response, we've learned their -- blurred their faces because some also work under cover. >> this morning there is a visible deterrent if anyone thinks about maybe wanting to do something to amtrak or rails we're herement it's unpredictable. >> in this case, the tsa works with amtrak police officers to make a sweep of the train. the unit will look for signs of trouble this is more about being seen. at least once in a while, by those who travel on amtrak. >> think should know we're out there looking at rail safety and we're trying to make sure everyone remains vij lebt. >> never times they'll randomly screen luggage and bring in k 9 units. and this is an environment that is wide open. >> like my first t
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. >> t.s.a. released this statement today. "by june 2013 travelers will only see machines which have a.t.r. that allow for faster throughput. this means faster lanes for the traveler and enhansed security. as always, use of this technology is optional." >> i don't mind as long as the flights are secure. >> the t.s.a. have not given us a date when the old scanners will go here at dulles and the new ones will come in, we just know by june it will be done. >> thank you. prince george's emergency personnel are mourning the loss of a canine officer. thunder died today after a battle of cancer. the dog served with the department for nine years before being retired in suspect. they call thunder a dedicated partner and a beloved family pet. >> it is the confession that has the cycle world reeling tonight. >> yes or no, in all seven of your tour de france victories did you take banned substances or blood dope? >> no. >> that was part one of his interview with oprah winfrey where he came clean about using performance-enhancing drugs. he still has a long w
again. got your attention. in a moment the t.s.a. finally getting ready to get rid of full body scanner. the brinks truck robbery caught on camera. they ambushed a guard but he was not afraid to fight back. his story next. >> bill: the fbi is hunting for some robbers who held up a brinks truck driver at gunpoint in the state of florida cameras captured all of it as it happened. >> the driver was walking into a credit union in sunrise when the robbers jumped out of a car guns drawn. >> approached by two males dressed very similar who laid him out on the ground and attempted to take his weapon. they were unsuccessful. >> bill: they gave up on trying to get his gun and made a run for it. that turned out to be a mistake. because the guard then pulled his pistol and opened fire. >> i heard at least 15 to 18 shots. >> bill: investigators found the get away car a frew blocks away riddled with bullet holes. >> it appeared that the get away driver may have been hit. and it appears it could have been in the leg. it appears he hit his mark. >> no word tonight on how much money they got. brinks is
speaker. we're going to your current tsa administrator john pistole. he served in that position since july 2010 when he came to tsa is a 26 year veteran with extensive national security and counterterrorism experience. after september 11 was put in charge of the fbi's greatly expanded counterterrorism program and eventually became the executive assistant director for counterterrorism and counterintelligence. in 2004 was named deputy director for the fbi. administrator pistil comets are honored to have it this morning and we look forward to your comments. please. >> thank you mayor parker for the opportunity to be here today to share a few things with you in terms of what tsa does, why we do that and how that impacts you as mayors of cities. many of you because we have a large workforce at work in 450 airports, some of your constituents 80 tsa employees. for those who have large cities may be dozens if not hundreds of constituents in your city. there's just a couple things that they could touch on them than if we have time for questions or comments, one is the reason we do our work. after t
. a reported altercation between tsa agents and romo. by don't know where romo was new year's eve, but do know he was celebrating december 30th. near a crowded holiday venue at the hays nightclub. he was celebrating with other athletes and celebrities among them, a 49er wide receiver michael crabtree two. days later here is what abc 7 news learned about new year's daichl he arrived to board a flight back to san francisco. the tsa confirms that the reported altercation happened in one security check point when romo couldn't provide an id which is routine for travelers. sources tell us romo was quote, disruptive and got into a verbal altercation with one agent. that is when police intervened. the police department told us, and i quote, airport police notify that had notice that the individual engaged in the dispute with a tsa officer. the security of other travelers not compromised. police say romo stood in an agitated position, pacing around. with clenched fists. now, romo cited with a misdemeanor from violatingá'm airport rules and any if the da decides to file charges police tell us he'll h
the scandal. >>> still ahead here at 6:00, naked no longer. coming up, the tsa makes the call on those innovative body scanners at your local airports. >>> good evening. i'm jeff ranieri in the nbc bay area weather center. the weekend is just upon us and the weather continues to look great for saturday. here is a sneak peek. plenty of sunshine and upper 60s. thinking about mavericks this weekend, also sun and warming temperatures for sunday. your full weekend forecast and the next chance of rain coming up in a few minutes. >>> those controversial body scanners that show a naked image of travelers will be removed from airports across the country. congressman da mandated they be changed or removed. the tsa has confirmed that it's getting rid of the machines because the company that makes them couldn't come up with a fix. travelers will still be asked to get a body scan that creates a generic image. sfo never installed the machines. oakland has five scanners and eight are in operation in san jose. all the scanners in oakland and san jose will be removed before the deadline in june. >>> th
at the airports -- >> you already have -- [crosstalk] >> you have 65,000 tsa agents. how many more do you need? >> as we put new technology at the airports, we needed to hire people to work that equipment. >> you have 65,000. i need to know how many more people going to take. >> it is not worth buying equipment we don't have people to operate. >> thank you. i would love to year -- would love to answer your other questions. >> if you could get to the gentleman in writing because we want to watch your time. >> you can watch this and other events online on our web site, jack lew served during the clinton and obama administration that was chief of staff to president obama. >> if you ask how many are self- described libertarian, depending on which poll you look at, you might get between 10% and 15%. if you ask people like if you give them a battery of questions that different ideological things like the believe an ax or do you believe in why, you track this to different ideologies and depending on which poll you are looking at, you get to 30% of americans calling themselves libertarian.
between a tsa agent and romo. tsa officials tell me romo was unable to provide identification required of travelers. this is a picture posted on new year's eve showing sergio romo at a nightclub in vegas called haze. in the photo you'll see that he's alongside 49ers football player michael crabtree. sources say romo became "angry and aggressive" with tsa security on new year's day. he was handcuffed and temporarily detained by police. >> he was in a verbal altercation with the t s a agents. when he calmed down we found that he was in violation of airport rules. and he was allowed to leave the airport. i do not see anything in our report that indicates that he was under the influence of a drug or alcohol. >> reporter: there are further witness statements that sergio romo had his fists clenched at one point during this argument with tsa security. do we know what exactly was said during this argument? >> it is still up in the air what they're arguing over. outside of the identification. >> catherine: thank you. >> as you can imagine.a lot of giants fans, and haters, reacting to romo's arr
for chuck hagel. tsa criticism from republicans than he is not sufficiently pro- israel or tough enough on iran and they worry about his support for cuts in nuclear weapons. he says if confirmed, he will focus on insuring the u.s. military is prepared for any contingency. today hillary clinton will give their final speech as secretary of state. she will deliver remarks on american leadership before the council on foreign relations. tomorrow is her last day on the job. she says that she has no immediate plans for the future. >> virginia beach native jack douglas made history at the 2012 london games. now some of the items associated with that special time will be on display in the district. later today the national museum of american history will install a number of objects donated by gabby douglas including the leotard that she wore in 2003 her mother's ticket to the 2012 olympic games, and other items that she used in london. the exhibit opens to the public tomorrow. >> i look forward to seeing that. apparently she has a lot of personal photographs from her experience as well. 4:35. is
checkpoint. as he was waiting for a nearby elevator, a tsa agent and other officers just happened to walk by and just happened to smell alcohol. as the pilot headed in the cockpit of his american eagle regional jet, the worried officers notified airport police. they caught up with 48-year-old captain kolbjorn kristiansen after he finished pre-flight checks. it was before 6:00 a.m., just before 53 passengers would have boarded the flight from minneapolis to new york. police say kristiansen failed a preliminary alcohol breath test. he was arrested. >> the reality is, there's no excuse whatsoever for having alcohol in the bloodstream of a pilot. none. >> reporter: the airline scrambled for a replacement pilot. the flight took off late. it landed safely at laguardia. some were shocked when they learned why their flight had been delayed. >> i'm feeling very unsafe. >> reporter: the faa says incidents are rare, about 12 allegedly drunk pilots arrested a year. in one case in 2002, two america west pilots were caught drinking on surveillance tape the night before their flight. and tsa screeners s
to drink, way too much. american airlines captain kolbjorn kristiansen was caught by chance. tsa and other officers smelling a whiff of alcohol as kristiansen was waiting for an elevator. by the time airport police arrested him, he had completed preflight checks for his commuter flight to new york and the 53 passengers were getting ready to board. kristiansen failed an initial breathalyzer test. today, we learned that it showed him way over the legal limit for pilots. that limit, .04, half that for drivers. >> we're going to roll it. >> what do you mean it, "roll it"? >> reporter: one of the current hit movies "flight." focuses on a drunk pilot who saves a plane load of people, but then is found out. >> an initial report shows that you had alcohol in your system. >> reporter: pilots are tested after any accident and face random alcohol tests as well. in the past decade about a dozen pilots a year have been caught. in one case, in 2002, tw0 american west pilots were caught drinking on surveillance tape the night before their flight. and tsa screeners smelled alcohol on their breath the next
the tsa today on the controversial airport scanners. that is coming >> i view this situation as one big lie. i repeated a lot of times. >> part two of the interview with disgraced cyclist lance armstrong airs tonight. admitting that he lied for years is not satisfying many critics. >> armstrong's confession set a record for her network with 4.3 million viewers. the union says it's an important step towards repairing. abc 7 news has local and national reaction to the admission. >> all of the faults and blame here falls on me. >> lance armstrong made his apology. lance williams, the journalist who helped uncover balco scandal says it's less than stunning. >> he admitted stuff, deny smd other sthauf is well documented and won't talk about the quote, unquote, army of enablers. >> he told oprah winfrey he didn't feel he was doing anything wrong and did not feel bad about it. >> i didn't feel that way. as viewing it as adds a level playing field. >> olympic cyclist isn't satisfied with that. >> we haven't even scratched the surface. oprah isn't an expert on ins and outs of cycling. >> the wor
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