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A high profile unveiling tomorrow by first lady michelle obama and joe biden. mcchrystal was fired last june after a "rolling stone" article quoted his staff civilian leadership. ceos of top companies are seeing significant increases in their pay. 200 major companies shows a 12% increase in ceo compensation from 2009. the median pay among those execs was $9.6 million. ceo pay is on the rise at companies like capital one and goldman sachs who received taxpayer bailouts. deliberating the faith...

Government and tepco should act more responsibly. he and nearly every merchant in japans famed fish market feels it. the rage from the financial pinch. nuclear crisis is scaring customers and tourists domestic and international away from all fish in japan. it doesnt even matter that all of this seafood has been be checked and cleared for radiation. its all perfectly safe to eat. these merchants say they still have seen a drop of business, of 80%. japans fishermen are on the offensive, bringing c...

Japans fishermen are on the offensive, bringing cameras with them to confront tepco executives. they call the release of radioactive water into the ocean an unforgivable action and they said they held, quote, strong rage against this irresponsible behavior and that tepco will destroy the nations fishing industry. "i apologize from the bottom of my heart" says tepco execs. it says they are making progress on plugging the leak into the sea. tepco says its doing everything possible to limit the dam...

Recorded the best year in safety performance in our company history. to warn them not just boosting salaries, they are giving bonuses to the top execs. did we forget about the worst oil spill in u.s. history? transocean owned one killing 11 people. now theres an s.e.c. filing that shows that the ceo is going to get a bonus of $374,000. safety accounts for about a quarter of that bonus and getting a $200,000 bump in his salary as well. that brings his salary to just over $1 million. i have to be ...

I apologize for that. were up about 7.5 points, not bad. always good to see it in the plus category. transocean is the company that brought us the worst oil spill in u.s. history. now its handing out big bonuses to top executives and praising its safety record, calling 2010 the best year in safety ever. allison kosic is at the new york stock exchange. for a second i didnt think we were going to you. >> thats okay. theres so much to talk about transocean. i mean, this is a real head scratcher, ...

Executive service received raises just before president obamas proposed federal pay freeze was supposed to go into effect. but those same execs already received pay hikes in january last year. which violates the one raise per year rule. the president of the senior executives association one level below political appointees said, "i dont think there was anything tenacious about it -- nefarious about it." she said the employees would give up raises for the rest of the year but would not be require...

Members of the senior executive service received raises just before president obamas proposed federal pay freeze was supposed to go into effect. but those same execs already received pay hikes in january last year. which violates the one raise per year rule. the president of the senior executives association one level below political appointees said, "i dont think there was anything tenacious about it -- nefarious about it." she said the employees would give up raises for the rest of the year bu...

Classrooms, less access to medicare, for example. as people come alive as to what the content is, its going to be a bigger deal. theres a big election in this state. the supreme court justice, april 5, and county execs running all around the state. so in a real sense theres a showdown date that could determine the course of wisconsin politics. >> right. and there are talks of protests on april 4, the day that martin luther king was killed. he was, of course, there for a sanitation strike in memp...

Leadership. there have been various reports that she was forced out, but an npr spokeswoman said she could not confirm those. this, of course, comes just one day after nprs former senior vp for fund raising, ron schiller, not related to vivian, was calling the tea party racist and scary among other things. it was also announced today ron schiller will not be taking a job at the aspen institute, a prestigious research think tank. was he pushed into that decision? i asked a spokesman for the aspen...

Including zuckerberg. >> president obama will meet with facebook founder mark zuckerberg. i think its great that the most important person in the world is going to meet president obama. [ applause ] because president obama apparently is having trouble defriending joe biden. well, the chairman of the democratic national committee moves closer to deciding on whether or not he is going to run. our own ed henry, part of the best political team on television, live from the white house. tell us what...