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From deep inside your radio, ladies and gentlemen, just in time to be way too late. Here are my two cents on the debate. Two personalities, pretty indistinguishable in some ways. And clearly, on the offense, one sort of laid back, a little cool, perhaps. Nonetheless, I'm going to give my vote. I think it's Mariah over Nicky in the American Idol. Oh, the other, oh yes, all right, the presidential debate. Let me explain first that being here in London, which I am, I saw the debate online via C-SPAN. On Thursday morning, I'd already been told by a friend in America, a guy who's never liked Obama, that the president had done a lousy job in the debate. So I was set up in that way to be fair, and because I had to make breakfast, I watched

half the debate and listened to half of it, kind of intermixed, but still. Now given the incredible constraint to the system, the lovely system we live under, in which two parties have to raise a billion dollars each from a limited group of likely prospects, I thought both guys did a respectable job of making their case, also given the fact that Obama was on defense and Romney was on offense. But it also struck me, looking at the wave of negative commentary about the president in the aftermath, that he may have desisted from attacking Romney more forcefully because his handlers and maybe even his own internal political calculator told him, Mr. President, your big electoral edge according to the polls is with women. Women don't like aggressive, angry politicians. So be the cool Obama, which reminds me, when have public opinion polls?

Done anything to serve, you should pardon the expression, the public. They do help politicians to pander more precisely, which helps the public to become even more cynical and jaded about the political class. So that might be counted as a plus. And by the way, pollsters these days tend to call it dinner time, which wackily enough is exactly when telemarketers tend to call, which might explain why major poll response rates have been hovering in the mid 20% range last time I checked. That means it wouldn't take very money more of us to departicipate, to render them useless even by their own standards of mathematical rigor. Me I can't for the life of me understand why anybody would walk into a voting booth, pull the curtain, cast a secret ballot, and then walk out and tell the total stranger how they voted.

Fortunately, the networks have announced they're cutting back on exit polling this year. And for the very best of reasons, it's too expensive. We can't do very much, ladies and gentlemen, to change the rest of this bizarre political system we have now, but we could possibly, possibly lessen its addiction to polls by making them appear more worthless than they already are. By the way, having been living deep in the recesses of Richard Nixon's White House tapes for the past few months, I can tell you, at least that evidence, the president to most vehemently deny in public paying attention to polls, most slavishly follow them in private, big surprise. We could at least deny them that pleasure. Hello, welcome to the show. We have been living deep in the recesses of Richard Nixon's White House tapes for the past few

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Remember him in London, England? I'm Harry Scherer, welcome Where the shadows are lengthening It's a cool A tumble evening in London, England And I'm Harry Scherer, welcome you to this edition of the show The fucking of cool News of the worm Why don't you See, we did it 180 Soft Of course we need to be warned Or at least $1.60 Climate change is already contributing to the deaths of more than Forth, a hundred thousand people a year and costing The world more than 1.2 trillion Wiping... A percent and a half annually from global GDP According to a new study reported in the Guardian newspaper or the impact are being felt most keenly in developing countries, Natch, where damage to agricultural production from extreme weather linked to climate change is contributing to deaths from malnutrition poverty and their associated diseases. Air pollution caused by the use of fossil fuels is also separately contributing to the deaths of at least four and a half million people a year report found. The 331-page study

entitled Climate Vulnerability Monitor a Guide to the Cold Calculus of a Hot Planet was carried out by the DARA DARA Group, a non-governmental organization based in Europe and the climate vulnerable forum, written by more than 50 scientists, economist and policy experts commissioned by 20 governments. We should say what kind of scientists, I'm going tired of that. Scientists, yeah, he's a paleontologist and he knows a lot about climate. By 2030 the researchers estimate the cost of climate change and air pollution combined will rise to 3.2% of global GDP with the world's least developed countries suffering losses of up to 11% of their GDP. The Prime Minister Bangladesh, you know, I'm Sheikh Hasina, said a one degree Celsius rise in temperature is associated with 10% productivity loss in farming. It means for us losing about 4 million tons of food grain,

amounting to about 2.5 billion dollars, this is about 2% of our GDP. Major economies, though, will also take a hit as extremes of weather and the associated damage, droughts, floods and more severe storms could wipe 2% of the GDP of the US by 2030, while similar effects could cost China 1.2 trillion by the same day. While many governments have taken the view of the climate change as a long term problem, there's a growing body of opinion that the effects are already being felt. Scientists have been alarmed by the increasingly rapid melting of Arctic sea ice, which reached the new record minimum this year. We reported that to you earlier. The European Union's climate chief, Connie Hedigard, warns extreme weather is becoming more common as the effects of climate change take hold. Climate change and weather extremes are not about a distant future, formally one off extreme weather episodes seem to be becoming the new normal Thursdays on NBC. Oh, it's not about that. Anyway, that's that report. News of the Warm Ladies and Gentlemen, copyrighted feature of this broadcast.

Do it the way you will. It reminds me, I mentioned, I think on last week's broadcast, apropos of New Orleans and the Corps of Engineers and blah, blah, blah. Rob Virtchick at Loyola University in New Orleans wrote a book a couple of years ago called Facing Catastrophe and one of the main points in the book is that one reason we're so apparently, and by we, I mean, you blase about losing stuff, you know, as these reports predict, is because we have no way of putting a dollar value on the services provided by nature. And so when outfits like the Army Corps of Engineers, just to pick one, does a so-called cost benefit ratio, they can never calculate in the benefit of not losing a value to us like the buffering from hurricane ferocity that coastal wetlands provide in Louisiana,

just for an example. So why did I bring that up? I don't know. Because I'm sitting here with an open mic, Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your brain on the war on drugs from the Boston Globe state. That would be Massachusetts state drug lab chemist Annie Dukeham labeled the vials as containing THC, the active ingredient in marijuana. But when another chemist ran the vials through a machine to confirm her analysis, one had little THC, the other was mixed with two other drugs. The second chemist sent the vials back to Dukeham to resolve the discrepancies asking her to repeat the screening test. When she resubmitted them, the machine showed the vials contained pure THC. This incident to tell in 100 page, 100 page Massachusetts state police report obtained by the Globe last week illustrates one of the many ways in which she lab state drug lab chemist Annie Dukeham was able to circumvent safeguards intended to ensure that drug evidence is properly handled and analyzed by workers in and now closed lab

formally run by the Massachusetts state Department of Health Forensics specialists say the lab's procedures appear to have been fairly standard. But they were still not enough to prevent an ambitious chemist's rampant breaches of lab protocol apparently to boost her performance record. In the process investigators say she has jeopardized the reliability of drug evidence used in 34,000 cases during her nine year career. The 34 year old chemist was arrested Friday in charge with two counts of obstruction of justice and want to falsifying her academic record allegedly outlying under oath about having a master's degree in chemistry. I got one of those. That's no big deal. She was dry-labbing her screening tests. That is to say putting a dry-labored or no put simply she was skipping a critical first step according to her admission to investigators and instead often made a preliminary investigation of drug simply by how they looked and by the type of suspected drug that was checked off on a control card that accompanied the sample.

Typical lab protocols require an initial screening test call a color test in which a chemist a price applies a specific liquid to each drug sample determined its identity by the color returns. That's how I determined my identity each day. Went myself and see what color I'd turn. While colleagues were suspicious of her shoddy work habits and unusually high output and reported concerns to supervisors, little action was taken for more than a year according to the police inquiry. This is Andy Dukin's brain on the war on drugs and the new F-bomb ladies and gentlemen foreclosure. You may recall Eve Smith on this program a couple of years ago now. Yeah. Many of the things she said then now being found by judges as these cases lumber on to trial. Deadline New York, something scary has been haunting a homeowner facing foreclosure in Brooklyn. According to Reuters, a living dead bank that a judge compared to

Brat Dracula in a decision this week involving an apparent case of Robo signing. Judges justice Arthur Shaq questioned how the failed financial institution Indie Mac federal bank could have initiated a foreclosure on a half million dollar mortgage. When the bank ceased to legally exist three weeks before it filed the foreclosure. For Indie Mac to have standing to foreclose on homeowner Mendel Meisel's property would be the legal equivalent of a vampire. The living dead, the judge said. The judge is a frequent critic of mortgage servicing abuses. He also chastised the law firm that brought the action fine such in green. The firm paces faces possible sanctions from Shaq for quote engaging in frivolous conduct. Don't you be doing that now. Leave that to the civilians. Shaq compared the law firm, judge Shaq, just as Shaq compared the law firm fine shut such to Dracula's servant Renfield in the 1931 film. Similar to Renfield throughout his papers and at oral argument they demonstrated

their loyalty by not betraying its client and master the living dead Indie Mac. Shaq wrote. There was also lack of proper documentation against the charges amidst the changes that Indie Mac it went bust in March 2009. They lawyers that find such file the foreclosure case. The justice said Indie Mac ceased to exist at that point was unable to be named as a party in the lawsuit. He cited a 19 2009 opinion which said that after a merger the acquired bank ceases to exist and can't be named as a party in litigation. That seems fair. The judge also faltered the numerous defects in how the mortgage and note were assigned to Indie Mac by MERS. Eve Smith was the first to tell us about MERS. Mortgage electronic registration systems. The privately held electronic mortgage registry set up by banks to among other things

avoid having to pay those pesky transfer fees when they transfer real estate from one trust account to another thereby depriving counties around the country of millions of dollars. Even if Indie Mac had existed the law firm did not present documents authorizing MERS to assign the mortgage and note to the bank the judge said. The assigner for MERS was a robo-signer, a bank official who signed off on foreclosure documents without ever reading them. Same way I sign my checks. News of the F-bomb ladies and gentlemen. And now… The Apologies of the Week. Darling up an apology here from Alan Jones who is the Australian equivalent, I guess, to either Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck. He's on the…

As they call it talkback, we call it talk radio for about three hours a day. And said recently this past week I guess that Prime Minister Julia Gillard's father who had just died had died of shame because of her lies. Cute. There was an uproar and here's Alan Jones. Which I shouldn't have repeated. To repeat them was wrong to even offer any impression that I might seek to diminish the grief that a daughter would feel for her father, independently who that daughter might be, is unacceptable. I had a very close affiliation

of my father and I know the kind of grief that attends that person's passing. Of course, I can intend to do this but that's irrelevant. What is relevant is it may have sought to diminish the grief that a daughter felt for a father that is unacceptable to that extent. Any comment that might lead to that feeling by the daughter is unacceptable. And there's no other way of putting it. You just have to make that honest observation and I was taught as a young kid by my father that if you're going to eat crow you should eat it while it's hot and therefore I felt that this matter should be addressed today. And so in the light of that I repeat the comments were in the light of everything unacceptable. They merit an apology from me and you're just going to be big enough to admit that you got it wrong. It shouldn't have been said. No matter who it is, the fact that it's the Prime Minister I suppose adds an extra dimension to it but I think any daughter,

you'd actually come to the same conclusion. Get on with it. Because it may well be that those sentiments sought to dilute the grief that a daughter feels and I'm now very mindful of that that there's a said the comments shouldn't have been repeated. And I don't regret that I apologize for what's more than regret. I could have expressed that in a sentence in a press release and I didn't. I'm simply through you are publicizing for those statements being made. Okay, all right, thank you. Alan Jones, I'll straight talk radio host who clearly knows how to fill three hours a day. Clearly. Teary Guillet, the French fashion designer and founder of the Zadigan Voltaire label, what that is, has apologized for saying that Chinese tourists won't be welcome at his new luxury hotel in Paris. That's cute. That is cute. Guillet, Guillet, in the interview with Women's Wear Daily, had said his hotel will be selective with its choice of guests.

It won't be open to Chinese tourists, for example. He said there is a lot of demand in Paris. Many people are looking for quiet hotels with a certain privacy. French newspaper Librarians say Guillet, Guillet later asked the magazine to change his quotation from quote Chinese tourists to quote busloads of tourists. An statement released later as Guillet apologized and said he'd wanted to emphasize that the hotel wouldn't be for the mass tourism market. Maura Mox with a doubtless clumsy. No, I understood they might have heard my friends from China, France are elsewhere, and I'm deeply sorry for that. He said according to Ajahn's France press. They lies all like city police there say they raided the wrong house Wednesday, while executing a no-knock search warrant. These things never happened, do they? Police chief Chris Burbank held a news conference, Friday to discuss the raid. He said officers made a mistake and had the wrong address while serving the warrant during an narcotics raid with DEA officers. Our joint narcotics task force served a search warrant there at the scene of the dress. In fact, it was the wrong address. A 76 year old woman was inside the home and police broke down her

front door with guns drawn. It's something that does not happen in the police department that I know have said chief Burbank is something that we just don't experience. It's an unacceptable mistake. He said he sat with the woman in her family the following morning and apologized adding police department to fix the damage that occurred during the raid. Neighbors in the area said they were shocked to see police at the woman's home and even more surprised later find out it was a police mistake. They should have done more homework in the situation and thoroughly checked out their sources instead of just hitting an elderly lady's host home said one neighbor. Yes, they should have. You be the police chief, buddy. The founder of the free Gaza movement which uses flotillas and trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza tweeted that scientists were responsible for the Holocaust and has now apologized. Greta Berlin. Greta Berlin. Interesting choice of names tweeted that she meant to post the tweet to her private Facebook account rather than the organization's Twitter account. Ah, I see a former high school student who had only his name and the word fag printed beside his 1970 yearbook picture says the

North Vancouver school district. This is in Canada. Canada has agreed to apologize personally to him over the incident. Robin Tomlin said that as he waits for a liver transplant, he's gratified to finally have the school recognized the hurt he suffered long ago. When you're sick in your old and you've got your bucket list and you cross that one off, he said I wanted to get a message out to the kids that you can stand up for yourself. Tomlin said someone from the school board phoned him this week with the news after he rejected as insufficient and earlier email from the board expressing regret over the incident. The email, sorry, the school district's communication manager in an email did not confirm that an apology would be issued just dangling it out there like the liver itself. Swedish furniture giant Ikea has apologized for removing all the women from their Saudi Arabian catalog following public outrage and Sweden, including the European Union minister slamming the action as medieval in the Saudi version of Ikea's annual furniture booklet, all the women who appear in the catalog published in other countries have been removed via

photo retouching and all the furniture has been renamed Ibn. These altered images caused us, no, that latter one was natural. The altered images caused a stir when revealed in Swedish media prompting an apology from Ikea's head office in Sweden. We apologize and understand that people are upset said Ulrika Engelsen Sandman, a spokeswoman for Ikea. This is really unfortunate. We've been in contact with Saudi Arabia to discuss this issue. It should be possible to balance Ikea's values so that we don't discriminate against people. At the same time, we try to adapt to the cultures and the legislation that are there. The removal of the women, including a young girl who is studying at her desk in the picture has prompted a strong response from many women, many prominent women in Sweden. Elsewhere around the world in Apologies, the Iranian news agency apologized, quote, to all our veer, no, the television service, quote, would apologize to all our dear viewers from the mistaken release of a fake opinion poll on our website. Unfortunately, an incorrect item was released on our website, which included

a fake opinion poll on popularity rate. President Umudinajad and U.S. President Obama, the news item was extracted from the sigiterical magazine, the onion by mistake, and it was taken out down from our site in less than two hours. We offer our formal apologies for that mistake, said the editor-in-chief of Iranian English service in almost good English, lots of service, KitchenAid. The home appliance brand was forced to apologize for a mix of by an employee who sent an anti-Obama tweet from the official account. The tweet read, Obama's grandmother even knew it was going to be bad. She died three days before he became president. This guy should meet Alan Jones. Obama, of course, referenced his grandmother during Wednesday night's debate. The tweet has since been deleted from the account and the brand later tweeted out a multi-tweet apology. And finally, Apple chief executive officer Tim Cook has apologized for the faulty Apple maps app and suggested that users turned to rivals Microsoft, Google, Google, and Nokia.

The letter published last Friday states that everyone Apple is at Apple is quote, extremely sorry for the quote, the frustration that the new software is causing. Apple's employees are working, quote, non-stop to turn around the maps. All I want to know is where the hell I am. See, I don't ask much. The apologies of the week, ladies and gentlemen. It is a copyrighted feature of this broadcast and now news from outside the bubble. And this involves somebody you've never heard of if you're living in the United States. But I can, I can stop the music for a minute. No, I won't. And just say that this is a scandal finally that I can weigh in on personally because way back when I was starting in radio.

Radio. It was at a station played a lot of rock and roll and there were a lot of rock and roll DJs there. And the audience was, you know, kids. Kids used to listen to rock and roll. I know, sounds hard to believe. And there was one DJ there who used to brag about, oh, I'm going to be really delicate about this now. Being having some young listeners, young female listeners, young female listeners admitted to the station through the lack security door. And having them going to be delicate now, service him under the console. If you see, if you get my drift. So with that in mind, here we have Jimmy Savile, Sir Jimmy Savile, died last year. Very popular host of television programs aimed at kids. Guess what? It was this from the independent today in London. It was an open, dirty secret, say, some regardless of who knew

almost nobody actually did or even said anything about it. The BBC is mired in sorted allegations surrounding Jimmy Savile. It faces a crisis that threatens to provoke a uproar that it may not be able to solve. The corporation is until now and denied it knew about any misbehavior, it had not received any complaints about Savile's behavior. But in less than two weeks since the independent television network, ITV screened a documentary detailing, detailing, in some detail, allegations that he abused young girl fans. More than 40 of the presenters alleged victims have contacted police to claim they were molested by the DJ and TV personality. The fallout has destroyed the reputation of the presenter of Gimmel Fixit, who raised money for charities by regularly running marathons. It has also embroiled the BBC in claims that Savile's assistance lined up young girls to visit him in his dressing room. You know, like percures. One national newspaper has alleged that, very fact, a woman has claimed she was raped by the procurer on BBC premises. The corporation was already reeling from the

accusation of women were assaulted by Savile, as well as Gary Glitter. Would you stop playing that song now at sporting events, please? The viewer continues this weekend as a former Radio 1 DJ, that's the BBC's main rock and roll radio station, shed light on the culture that prevailed at the BBC. Liz Kershaw said she was routinely groped by another presenter as she was broadcasting, much like the guy I knew serviced under the console. On the air, adding to the belief that there was a culture of such behavior at the organization, Radio 1. She described the atmosphere at the station as intimidating and said that when she tried to complain, she was asked if she were a lesbian. She still works for the BBC. Now for six music radio stations. And she said at that point when she went there in 1987, Jimmy Savile's behavior, he was then at Radio 1 was an open secret. The rumors there were there. The jokes were there. It was an open secret around Radio 1. Everyone

joked about Jimmy Savile and young girls. It was like walking into a rugby club locker room. She says of the atmosphere there and was very intimidating for a young woman. There was one presenter who routinely groped me. I would be sitting in the studio with my headphones on, my back to the studio door, live on air, and couldn't hear a thing except what was at my headphones. Much like me. Ow! But now. And then I'd find these wandering hands up my jumper, British for sweater. I couldn't say anything. I couldn't even explain because I was broadcasting to the nation. The BBC's at least four women say they were molested by a searcher, Jimmy Savile at a school Dunkroft in stains. That's a community. That's a school for girls. The Metropolitan Police Force is leading an assessment into the allegations. And the Times of London in addition says charities that were named after Jimmy Savile are now

trying to get his name removed from their charities, finding it a bit unseemly. Don't you know? News from outside the bubble later said I'm going to copy right feature of this broadcast, but on a somewhat related topic. While we're misusing youngsters, this from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sentinel. You heard about this a few years ago on this broadcast. Now it's a documentary. Deaf boys sent by their parents to a Catholic boarding school in Wisconsin where they were molested again and again by a popular priest who stalked them in their dorm rooms at night on trips to his Northwoods cabin, even in the confessional. Described as mentally retarded, they were often not believed or worse ignored for years by the archdiocese of Milwaukee police prosecutors in the media. This is the late father Lawrence Murphy. The couple of the victims Gary Smith and our buddhist ski budzinsky are reaching a new and potentially wider audience with a release of a documentary by Alex Gibney. It will be

showing London here. I think soon it debuted at the Milwaukee Film Festival. Murphy worked at Saint John School for the Deaf from 1950 to 1974 is believed to have molested as many as 200 deaf boys before his death about 14 years ago. Bishops had known about the abuse for decades but did not move to defrock him until he was near death. Well, you can watch the documentary, probably good thing to do. But in the meantime, you can listen to the song. Now they're in the closet. Between me and the broom. Half a dozen deaf boys. Nice little crowd. They can be quiet. I can be loud. Four and twenty deaf boys. Take me all day.

Rarely got the time to eat and to pray. Deaf boys can't hear me coming. Deaf boys don't today call this month. It might be a chunk of my priestly points. But how can I resist? A hundred deaf boys. Got a head steam. I could be a coach. They could be the team. 88 deaf boys. One for each key. On the piano of my longing. They play a hushed melody. 150 deaf boys. This could get tight. A few dozen in the morning. And all the rest at night. Deaf boys can't hear me coming. Deaf boys. Got my heart strings

coming. Make me make such a joyful noise. Just can't get enough. Just can't get enough. Now if I had a deaf boy. For each day of the year. 365. That would be dear. How many deaf boys. Have there actually been. Why not ask how many. Dance on the head of a pin. The world is one of deaf boys. And I'm only one man. All that God expects is. Do all that you can. Deaf boys can't hear me coming. Deaf boys. Got me him in and humming. A shepherd with a closet full of toys. Let's hear it for those here. Deaf boys.

This is Lysho from London. Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to present. Let us try. A ballad of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The Federal government spent more than $100 million to build and maintain locks on the Chattahoochi River in Georgia. In the Atlanta Journal of Constitution to handle fleets of commercial barges bearing supplies back and forth and millions more to deepen the river system for the boats. But the flattilets of vessels floating into Columbus never materialized. While those who did fly the river caused tension with some Atlantic politicians and complicated Georgia's fight with its neighbors over water rights.

Now the prospect of barges powering upstream into Georgia's river towns could be dashed for good because in a money saving move the Army Corps of Engineers plans to stop manning the decades old network of locks to lift or lower the big boats so they continue along the river. We'll operate on an appointment only basis. Hello, Mr. Lock. A disruption of commerce won't be an immediate problem. The locks haven't seen a commercial vessel pass through in three years. Columbus hasn't handled a barge since 2000. Watchdog Group said it cost as much as $20 million a year to maintain the channels of frequent target of environmental advocates and fiscal analysts. The commercial route was also flashpoint among Atlanta politicians. Since they said the water flow needed to keep the shipping route open strained Atlanta's main drinking water source Lake Linear. The commercial traffic on the Chattahoochi never came close to meeting the 1.8 million tons of commercial activity the Corps once predicted for the route, the bulk of which was fertilizer and agricultural products.

Shipping traffic steadily declined to virtually nothing by 2006 by then much of the traffic that was moved along the river was sand and gravel dredged from the system itself. Let us try. Ladies and gentlemen, let us. F and try now news of the Obama this along with the the revocation of the terrorist designation for the MEK group that talked about on this program a couple of weeks ago just shows you how malleable is talent terrorism thing really is. How kind of fluid and dynamic it is all it's not a static definition is not a you know it's not we're not our feet aren't in concrete on this the Obama administration is refused for the first time to declare that Pakistan is making progress toward ending alleged military support for Islamic militant groups or preventing al-Qaeda. The Afghan Taliban or the extremist from staging attacks in Afghanistan we're not going to certify that this year. Even so Secretary of State Clinton has quietly informed Congress that she's waived the legal restrictions that would have blocked some $2 billion in US economic and military aid to Pakistan.

So it's okay you can not be certifiable as having cut your links with the Hakani network and al-Qaeda and you can still get the two bill. Congratulations guys. I think you won. And now it's German catching up on something. It was a couple of weeks ago where was announced that Jimmy Kimmel live the ABC late night chat shows I say in England talk shows we say in the United States whatever it is. Jimmy Kimmel would be moving to from its 12.05 a.m. time slot to 11.35 p.m. Eastern and Pacific times.

One hour earlier in the central times of course to compete on an even playing field for the first time with J and Dave. And what this meant was that night line was kind of going to go by by all they'd have a prime time hour every once in a while on a Friday night if you weren't watching. But basically was sort of the end of the line even though night line has been kind of beating the talk shows and the ratings but you know. They can make more money I guess with Jimmy show that with night line because it's the old duffers who watch night line in it. And it just reminded me of you know it all could have turned out so differently for that story show. And from the Roon Arleaged Theater in New York City where none of the anchors has barnacles this is late night line with Ted Coppon. Tonight use man Aaron Brown former national security advisor doctorate's big near Bridginski and Paul Schafer and the ABC News Symphony.

And now a man who's more serious than his hair Ted Coppon. Thank you very much. Welcome to this new incarnation of night line this program started out as America held hostage. It's ending up as Ted Coppon held hostage. No I I kid the good people at ABC but we are in this beautifully refurbished theater and we're going to have a very good time getting to the bottom of today's news Paul. I'm glad to be on ABC I've now been on every network in the United States and Canada except for global.

Yeah it's a Canadian thing. It's a swing in little syndication setup. Paul Schafer you are totally steeped in show business. Well Ted let me just say for my daughter's bot mitzvah yes we are building a green room in the temple because. Paul do you do follow the news at all I love the news you do I love the news and then I have the feeling I'm being set up for something here. No they don't write for me on this show either. Well at least he's reassuring our first guest tonight is a one time sometime occupant of this chair. He was a long time anchor of his own broadcast over CNN where he enjoyed great success until his enjoyment was brought to an end. Please welcome my friend Mr. Aaron Brown.

And so thank you for venturing back into a television studio to visit with us. Ted it is so difficult for me to believe how this show has changed. There are clones on the dressing room toilet. There are indeed and there's Irish coffee at this night table. Yes it is impossible to not notice that. Aaron like this broadcast your CNN program was born in crisis but yours seems to have been ended by a crisis as well. Specifically Hurricane Katrina and its wake you seem to have been left in the wake of a former colleague. Well that's right Ted and I also have to say that that's a perfectly written introductory sentence. And that former colleague Anderson Cooper was like a younger brother to me but in a broadcast sense he was the heart and I was the brains and I think in our brief time together we made up almost an entire human personality.

Well Aaron you are no slouch yourself when it comes to writing your ad-libs. But even before the disaster you were losing viewers to your competition on Foxley, suddenly monominous Greta. Thank you. This sounds like an audience that would appreciate Anamata Pia but yes Ted that is correct and in fact as I look forward to new opportunities to practice a more leisurely conversation. The more leisurely thoughtful approach to television news. My agent and I felt that we need to meet the competition head on. So yesterday afternoon I had and this is very awkward for me to say this. I had some eye work done.

You did an idea. I brought a before picture for you. This is unreal. Well Ted this is the most interesting part of the story. We videotaped the surgery and it's on my demo real as a six-part deeper look thing. Thank you. Now again Aaron we do speak as old friends and this is a question that did come up frequently in the van suster in case. Are you sure it was only eye work? I swear to you Ted nothing but a minor tune up around the corners of my eyes. Well but to tune you the truth Aaron something is different around the mouth too. Well I don't know Ted maybe it's just the accumulated strain from saying a headline please a half thousand times a night for the past four years. Well it did become your trademark phrase didn't it before the network made you drop it favor us with it one more time if you would.

All right Ted couple a headline please. Thank you. All right what's the what's the prognosis Aaron are you going to have more of this type of surgery? Ted I seriously hope not I pray that this was an aberration and not the start of a process. They say it can become addictive only to manage with. Seriously Ted I prefer caffeine. Aaron stay with us if you can. Our next guest is a most distinguished scholar and practitioner in the field of international relations he was Jimmy Carter's national security advisor and a long time friend of this broadcast. Please welcome Dr. Zbigniew Brzynski. Dr. Dr. Brzynski good to see you again.

Good to see you Ted first first time in the circumstance though. I should explain we're going to have a little fun with Dr. Brzynski tonight we will discuss some of the more intractable trouble spots in the world as you can see. He's suspended over a large tank which we happened to have filled with oatmeal in the first of what we're calling a series of stupid professor tricks. It looks like very good oatmeal Ted. Well, these prices I should hope so. All right Dr. let's start out with a very difficult situation between India and Pakistan. All right Ted India is a regional superpower.

Pakistan is a problematic regional forefront nation. The world between the Hindus and the Muslims. Well that's very well done sir. I hope that that isn't one of your good suits. Well it isn't anymore. What about Central Africa Dr. Brzynski. Do we just have to wait for the Rwanda Congo tribal conflict to burn itself out? I don't think so Ted and let me tell you why. Well the next thing you know you've got another rubber mugabe on your hands. For another Joseph Mubuchu. Well I'm the one getting wet. Let me use my example. All right fair enough. And finally because we are running out of both time and oatmeal.

Give us a roadmap if you can of how we get from where we are now to peace in the Middle East. Ted the kids the Iranians. The Saudis are trying to steal a march on them at the moment. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm going to do a bona fide in peace process. Dr. Brzynski thank you so much for participating in our first stupid professor trek. It was my pleasure Ted. Stupid professor trek. Thank you Paul. And the transcript of Dr. Brzynski's full comments will be on our website so you can actually find out what's on his mind. What's on my mind is thanks to Aaron Brown. Dr. Brzynski and of course our own Paul Schaefer. Yeah thank you Ted. For helping me through this first broadcast. Change is never easy.

We do hope to find this a more comfortable fit as time goes on. Tomorrow night Dr. Anthony Fauci of the Centers of Disease Control and our list of the top 10 pedophile priests. That's our broadcast for this evening. Good night. This has been ABC News late nightline. For a video recording of this program call a friend to his TV. More people get their news from ABC News than is good for healthy democracy. Good night. And now it is gentlemen. Can't go through the whole litany we don't have enough time but and we don't have enough time for Addy.

Now the utility to runs California's troubled Santa no for a nuclear plant is in the midst of unprecedented upheaval as it works to try to get this. One of its two reactors up now come. Come internal documents one report one company wide survey in a series of management emails revealing in past few months. The owner Southern California Edison has a few problems. It's firing a lot of folks. But apparently according to the latest survey only of its employees. Only 39% of its workers agreed that Edison rewards people who follow its ethics and compliance standards. Only 54% said they could question management's decisions without fear of retaliation. 38% said Edison does not reward questionable actions compared to a 61% in a national survey that asked a similar question. Says Carleen Roberts and expert in workplace culture at UC Berkeley. About this survey.

Those numbers are bad that companies in trouble. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Thursday it has placed the Sharon Harris nuclear power plant in southeast Wake County, North Carolina under increased oversight because of internal safety violations linked to the operation of ventilation systems for facilities of the plant that would be staffed during emergencies. Officials said there was no media safety concern because no emergencies had happened. That's a relief. Hundreds of defects have been found throughout Europe's nuclear reactors. And mostly in France according to a European Union stress test report leaked the German and French media. So be lucky you don't live in Europe. Be grateful. Duke Energy's Oconi nuclear plant in South Carolina faces more flood risk from an upstream dam than earlier estimated according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Workers at nine point nuclear station unit one in New York upstate New York have yet to determine the source of the Tritium leak discovered in August of the plant water. The Tritium waste water is leaking into the plant.

That's that's a new one. And the Department of Energy is not doing enough to prevent a buildup of flammable gases in radioactive waste tanks at the facility that's trying to clean up the former nuclear weapons production center at Hanford. This is according to the Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board. A significant flammable gas accident would have considerable radiological consequences in danger personnel, contaminate portions of the tank farms and seriously disrupt the waste cleanup mission said the Defense Board. It calls on the Department of Energy to work faster to upgrade the ventilation to remove ensure removal of flammable gases from the space in the double shell tanks. You're welcome. Clean safe, too cheap to meet our friend, the Adam. Addy had a cold anyway.

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