all the way from the philippines, as soon as they if one of them is elected pope, they don t go home, okay. they don t go home and pack up. and then come back to the vatican. it s done. they re here. reporter: and the conclave will begin this afternoon. they ll do just one round of voting today, and then we expect that the smoke signaling if a pope has been elected by somewhere between 1:00 and 3:00 eastern. rob and diana, back to you. > all right, marci gonzalez live in rome for us, thank you. and count on abc news for complete coverage of the conclave. diane sawyer anchors a special report live from rome at 11:30 eastern time this morning as the conclave begins. and we also have breaking news from overnight. a deadly chopper crash involving u.s. forces in southern afghanistan. a black hawk helicopter went down outside of kandahar overnight killing five american troops on board. hostile fire, though, does not appear to be the cause. initial reports indicate that weather may have been a factor. and that crash followed a deadly insider attack in the eastern part of the country. two american troops were killed yesterday when an afghan police officer opened fire at a military base. president hamid karzai had given u.s. special forces troops until yesterday to withdraw from that province. all right. back here at home and the looming budget battle on capitol hill. republicans and democrats reveal their spending plans later on today. and then there s the presidential push to get both sides to agree to a deficit reduction deal. abc s devin dwyer is joining us from washington with more. hi, devin. reporter: good morning, rob and diana. after months of partisan gridlock over how to fund the government, there is hope both sides have actually turned the page. it s a budget battle blitz. president obama making the first of three rare trips to capitol hill to meet with rank and file lawmakers. today it s senate democrats, tomorrow, house republicans. on thursday the president s back again for meetings with house democrats and senate republicans. our focus now is on working with congress in regular order on the budget process and through that process hopefully produce a bipartisan agreement on deficit reduction. reporter: so will mr. obama bring his overdue budget blueprint along? well, i don t have a date certain for you on the president s budget. it will you know, it s being worked on. reporter: president obama has been on a face time offensive. he hosted a swanky dinner with top republican senators and huddled with key players at the white house. among them house budget chief paul ryan, who today will unveil his latest proposal, a plan potentially more controversial than his last. we think we owe the american people a balanced budget. it s a means to an end and the means is to get to a good, growing economy to create jobs and opportunity. reporter: the ryan plan to cut the deficit is entirely spending cuts leaving the sequester in place turning medicare into a voucher-like program and yes, our budget does promote repealing obama care and replacing it with a better system. reporter: now, those ideas are all nonstarters with senate democrats who want to a mix of spending cuts and tax increases. tomorrow they ll unveil their first budget plan in four years, rob and diana. all right. devin dwyer live for us in washington, thank you. and switching gears now, take a look at weather from across the country on this tuesday morning. it ll be rainy along the east coast from boston to savannah. central florida could see thunderstorms. meanwhile, fargo, des moines and omaha could see a few flurries out there today. a new storm, though, brings rain to seattle and portland and snow to the mountains. the southwest is warmer than usual with phoenix above 80. warmer too in the northwest with new york and boston in the 50s but the upper midwest is still colder than usual with chicago in the mid-30s, albuquerque, dallas and new orleans are all in the 60s. and coming up after the break, the average cost of a wedding, no shocker here, going up again. we ll reveal the cheapest state to get hitched. aha. plus, the secret financial files of a-list stars and politicians allegedly leaked online. more celebrities hacked overnight. and creating a doughnut store drive-through where one never even existed. and welcome back. new york city s controversial ban on big sugary drinks will not go into effect today. a judge says the 16-ounce limit on such beverages didn t fairly apply to all sugar sweetened drinks and to all the places that sell them. it s a victory for the beverage and restaurant industries. the city says big servings of sugary drinks are a major cause of obesity and it will appeal the ruling. the stock market has now gone up seven days in a row. the dow added 50 points yesterday to close at another new high. the other major indices also were up. the dow has now gained more than 10% this year. and taxpayers no longer own as much of the automaker once known as government motors. last month the treasury department sold almost half a billion dollars worth of gm stock. the government has now recovered about 3/5 of its $50 billion bailout, but it is unlikely to break even with the remaining shares until gm stock doubles in price. well, you may not like what your likes on facebook say about you. british researchers say those clicks can reveal your age, sexual orientation, how you vote and even whether you abuse drugs. last year there were almost 3 billion likes on facebook. now for some reason the study also found that people who like curly fries have high intelligence and in other news say what? that means i m brilliant. love a curly fry. the cost of a wedding is getting back up there begin. newlyweds and their families last year spent an average of 28,000 bucks of that s the most, though, since the start of the recession. almost half was the cost of the venue. now the most expensive place to hold a wedding, no shocker here, manhattan here in new york, $77,000. alaska was the cheapest at $15,500. wow. i don t know why people don t take that money and spend it on the first home as opposed to the wedding. a party for other people to drink? me, that s just me, though. i m married. you re not. that s true. got to keep you all happy. i didn t say that. coming up next on this tuesday, the nfl gets serious about studying concussions. and the video that is pretty tough to watch. a toddler smoking from a drug pipe. police, as you can imagine, taking quick action against the mom. it seems our angels have been busy building a new, stronger so it holds up better, kind of angel soft®. it s now built with two softshield™ layers. when wet, new angel soft® is one, two, three times stronger than the leading value brand. well done, angels! stronger, holds up better. all wrapped up in a value you love. new angel soft®. now stronger than ever. not financially. so we switched to the bargain detergent but i found myself using three times more than they say to and the clothes still weren t as clean as with tide. so we re back to tide. they re cuter in clean clothes. that s my tide. what s yours? 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airport delays are possible in charlotte, d.c., philly, new york and beantown. all right, we have some breaking news to tell you about that happened overnight. the justice department is now investigating an elaborate hacking scandal targeting some of the biggest names in hollywood and in politics. a-listers here. a website has posted what appears to be private financial information from a long list of stars including ashton kutcher, kim kardashian, beyonce and jay-z. it allegedly also includes michelle obama s credit report and on top of that, personal information on vice president biden, hillary clinton, even the director of the fbi. what makes it even worse is that it s financial information that was stolen, not simply a login and password to a social media site or twitter account. this is very serious stuff. it s still not clear if the social security numbers, phone numbers and banking information are legitimate or just a huge hoax. one more shocking, gun violence out of chicago. a 6-month-old baby girl is now fighting for her life after being shot five times. jonylah watkins dad was changing her diaper in a parked van when a man walked up to them and opened fire. after five hours in surgery, the little girl remains in critical condition. her father, who was also shot several times, is also in the hospital, and the gunman did get away. in colorado now, the accused shooter in the aurora movie massacre is due in court today. james holmes is widely expected to plead not guilty for reasons of insanity. it left 12 people dead and 70 people injured. if holmes enters that plea the judge says he can be given truth serum, drugs designed to lower inhibitions during interviews. a washington state mom is in trouble after cell phone video shows her toddler smoking pot. take a look at this. man, all right, the 22-month-old little boy is shown with a lit bong held right there to his mouth. now, his mother says it all started out as a joke, which didn t turn out to be that funny, yeah, the little boy is now in protective care. mom is behind bars. and watch this frightening incident from philadelphia. a car in reverse drives right into a dunkin donuts. a man who had just been served his coffee was knocked to the floor by the impact. the woman driving said her foot got caught on that gas pedal and also blamed an existing medical condition. thankfully and amazingly no one was seriously hurt. medical news now. in a new study which finds most women with ovarian cancer don t get the right treatment, researchers found only one-third of those diagnosed get the kind of care which relieves suffering and could prolong life. they say it s because women don t seek out experienced doctors who know how to treat this disease. the nfl is teaming up with ge to speed up research into concussions. commissioner roger goodell announced the $60 million effort which will also work to develop new helmet designs to help protect the brain from traumatic injury. critics say it s just, though, another nfl attempt to show it s doing more to protect its players. the league is being sued by thousands of retired players who say it hasn t done that for decades. and now some basketball and more march madness. automatic bids being handed out. we get the highlights now from our friends over at espn. welcome into your sportscenter update. i m chris hassel. number one gonzaga tried to knock off st. mary s in the wcc championship game and possibly earn a one seed in the tournament. kelly olynyk following up a miss with a dunk. 42-18 gonzaga would outscore the gaels in the paint. st. mary s needing a win to ensure an ncaa tournament berth. olin nick, 21 points, 12 rebounds. gonzaga by eight. second half, zags up by 17. david stockton to olynyk for a filthy one-handed stuff. 15th straight tournament appearance for the zags. in the nba, thunder, spurs, a win by ok krchc would tie them for first in the conference with san antonio. leonard behind the back and dunk. 35-18, the spurs would outscore okc in in the second. third quarter, spurs up by 6. danny green, the steal and dunk. san antonio by 8. later, okc down 5. westbrook shot it 27 times. kevin durant would only shoot 13 times. later, westbrook pulling up knocking it down. he only made 11 of those 27 shots. fourth quarter, spurs up 11. thiago splitter, a team high 21 on 9 of 11 shooting. fourth quarter, under a minute to play, spurs up 11. danny green putting it away. 16 points for him, 5-game winning streak snapped by the thunder, 105-95. nfl free agency beginning today at 4:00 eastern. i m chris hassel. have a good one. coming up next this morning, the pulse and a final farewell to one of the biggest villains in tv history. and the baseball blooper that didn t involve a player but rather a hooters girl. we ll be right back. start with the best. use only natural ingredients. make something original. genuine. real. so peel it open. stir it up. and raise a cup to the real. there s a lot i had to do. 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man who legendarily played him. and now we dare turn to the big tv event here on abc last night, the finale of the newest season of the bachelor. the moment fans have been waiting for. bachelor sean lowe got down on one knee and proposed to 26-year-old graphic designer catherine. they are still together. and they haven t set a date for the wedding just yet. up next, the new bachelorette, she s desiree hartsock, a favorite from the just ended bachelor season. fans can t help but recall her brother s infamous visit at the home episode. i m sure it will end happily forever. as they always do. yeah. baseball spring training in florida. a major oops, it happened while the rays were playing the phillies. the batter smashes a drive down the third base line, it is a fair ball, but, oh, no, there s the hooters girl who fields it and proceeds to hand it off to a fan. a major oops right there, but she did remember to take off her sunglasses for her closeup. she got that part of the play just right. i m sure those dudes really minded. i m sure they really cared. and someone clearly forgot to put out the slippery when wet sign on this one. take a look at these adorable baby seals struggling to climb onto a surfboard. ethan janssen captured the persist sent pups with cameras mounted on his windboard. they were weaned recently and looking to explore their new surroundings. we re told the slip and slide continued for an entire 30 minutes. hey, they re persistent. wow. and they re, oh, so cute. they are cute. i m not a big animal person but those are some pretty cute critters there. they look like puppies. they re adorable. you have a dog. right? i do, well, my parents, she s a cutie. hi, cookie. there you go, cookie. well, for some of you your local news is coming up next. i ll say hi to the hooters girl. for everyone else, what it takes to find a true miracle. takes to find a true miracle. what makes your family smile? backflips and cartwheels. love, warmth. here, try this. 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and she said, i would quit. i thought she would quit the job. but she said no, i would quit smoking, i have to because i need my job. the mayor is going to appeal that. so he has another shot at it we ll see what happens. speaking of drinking, it s booze-day tuesday. we have these drinks. what is hudson common, you guys? it s a liquor. no. it s a restaurant, and this has been sponsored by them or inspired by them, which is an inside joke. it s got a lot of a blend of liquors, vodka, champagne anyway. thank god i don t like this stuff. can you imagine if i liked even more stuff? you like enough stuff. i like enough stuff. so the view made an announcement, a couple of announcements yesterday, one that elizabeth hasselbeck is staying. there has been a lot of press that she was leaving. i m really glad, i happen to know elizabeth really well and happen to adore her. she is one of the best people you know her, hoda? i don t know her as well as you know her. she s a doll. another announcement is that joy behar is leaving the view. while she was on the set with everybody, she was announcing her top ten reasons to leave the view. here s one of them. i have my top ten reasons for leaving the view. would you like to hear them? okay! number one number ten, i mean, number ten. abc won t let me drink on the air like hoda and kathie lee. yeah. there you go. what other reasons do you need? this is the place to be. we want to wish everybody the best and i have known joy behar for so many years, and it goes back do when i first came to new york 31 years ago and worked at a different network and worked at a different morning show. she was the receptionist for the executive producer at that show. at the time. and literally, was doing stand-up at night. so whether you agree or disagree with her politically or you like her or dislike what she does on the air she worked hard. she has worked really hard and we wish her all the best and i m glad that elizabeth is going to stay. i think the dissenting views are important and we have to learn to live on the same planet with one another, hoda. look at you and me. oil and water. i predict a blow-out on friday. yeah. i m going on record and making a prediction for friday that you and i are going to have a major blow-out. it could happen any day. you know what could happen today? what. a landmark. today? on what? on facebook. we are so close to reaching half a million. we ve not that close. we ve been saying it for months. people aren t liking us. they are liking us. they aren t liking us on the facebook page. maybe it s because we haven t begged. we ve been begging, shaking a can. in is no longer working. i don t like the foam thumb. no one is interested. so i m going to get down that s right. please like us on facebook! please! please like us! it would really mean a lot to koda-bub. she s very insecure and she thinks people don t like her and i know some of you don t like her. but please, like us on facebook. i know three people who do like us and like you and me and are standing right over there. cameron, holly, and holly s daughter caroline are high school friends of mine. not the daughter, obviously. we all went to high school and they re just here visiting. we ve got three likes. only attractive friends. they are every friend of yours is like really attractive. thank you. not all their husbands and boyfriends, but all your friends. all right we had 497 and 47 likes so far. hoda, you re terrible at math. that s very close do half a million. we ve had 490-something thousand for four months. because you think you re too big, you re too important to beg. people like begging. they don t. yes, they do. it makes them feel powerful. if we hit half a million you ll beg for a million? i ll beg you for forgiveness. how about that? you need to do that anyway. sheryl sandberg has opened up quite a can of worms. here s the thing, she s the coo of facebook. she s 43 years old and she s talking about a lot of things we ve been talking about for a long time. especially in light of melissa mayer, who is the head of yahoo. so this is why i didn t want to do this in the first place. why? because i think we ve made, i don t know why this is a big thing now. we ve been discussing these issues forever. she s saying all of these young women are graduating college and the number of ceos and people running companies are so small and she s saying you guys have to lean in and don t opt out before you have a chance to get it or not get it. some people are opting out because they ve had a chance to try. they opt out because they might have kids and they make all of these decisions. where men go ahead and say, i ll do it they might not be as qualified but they jump in the deep end. do you think men lie more than women on their resumés? yes, i do. i think women feel more afraid of getting caught. i think guys have more confidence. i learned a lesson yesterday. i was with a friend and he was telling me that he was, driving near a school and he saw this woman standing in the middle of the street. and he was very concerned about her. because she was erratic and she was, you could tell she was very upset. and he thought maybe she needed help. this wonderful guy. he goes to her, rolls down the window. she starts screaming, screaming at him. you told me to meet me here. you told me you would meet me here. it was some guy she met, she was supposed to meet some guy on from online. he realizes he can t help her, he s trying to roll up the window. she smacks the car, leaves a huge hand print on the window. why am i telling you this? i don t know. i m lost. i tuned out, but what what happened? what happened to the lady. lying, that s why. she lied about what she looked like online, so when the guy showed up, he kept going. what does that have to do with sandberg and coos? this is a woman who is not leaning in. that s a wrap, that s good, that s a nice story. hoda, there s a lesson to be learned from this. is that joanne? that s my goal every day, is to get joanne on the floor, laughing into her depends. ready? for what? i don t know. she went from dating wait, wait, before we go, our facebook page is on fire. we re almost there, if we re there by the end of this show what no, no, it s 944, 949, 950, 955, 99 we did it! we did it! let s see the number. we did it! klg, you re all right. we ll be back with the woman from meatballs. she lost 42 pounds, you guys. but when you wake up ay, in the middle of the night it can be frustrating. it s hard to turn off and go back to sleep. intermezzo is the first and only prescription sleep aid approved for use as needed in the middle of the night when you can t get back to sleep. it s an effective sleep medicine you don t take before bedtime. take it in bed only when you need it and have at least four hours left for sleep. do not take intermezzo if you have had an allergic reaction to drugs containing zolpidem, such as ambien. allergic reactions such as shortness of breath or swelling of your tongue or throat may occur and may be fatal. intermezzo should not be taken if you have taken another sleep medicine at bedtime or in the middle of the night or drank alcohol that day. do not drive or operate machinery until at least 4 hours after taking intermezzo and you re fully awake. driving, eating, or engaging in other activities while not fully awake without remembering the event the next day have been reported. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations, or confusion. alcohol or taking other medicines that make you sleepy may increase these risks. in depressed patients, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide, may occur. intermezzo, like most sleep medicines, has some risk of dependency. common side effects are headache, nausea, and fatigue. so if you suffer from middle-of-the-night insomnia, ask your doctor about intermezzo and return to sleep again. she is a 4 9 reality star that s always been larger than life. nicole snooki polizzi has turned from party girl to proud mama. six months after having lorenzo, she s dropped 42 pounds. she s flaunting her body on the current core of us weekly. and also wrapping up the second season of her jersey shore spinoff and it s a family affair. take a look. first the umbilical cord. and then the poop. now the social security card. he s growing up. what s next? i m not ready for this. and she s it doesn t matter if you re ready. it s going to happen any way, right? can we talk about how cute that little baby is for just one second? right? i m not just saying it because he s my baby. but he s so cute. is motherhood what you thought? it s even better. i mean i was definitely a little nervous, because i wasn t good with kids in the beginning. but everything came so naturally and he s such a good baby. he s always smiling and laughing, i got lucky. how did you learn how to hold him, how to feed him, how to change him? it was an experience. i got thrown into it. holding him. it came naturally. did you have a few mess-ups? oh, yeah, i hit his head a couple times. it s amazing what babies survive. he s okay. how about your man? how is he taking to fatherhood? he is amazing, he s a great father. only because i feel like he s grown up with kids, his family is huge. he s always been around kids. so he s like the awesome one and you know i m still learning. and how is your relationship changed as a result of being parents to this beautiful baby boy? well there s no romantic stuff any more. it s all about the baby, obviously. well, the baby does sleep at times? not really. now when we were doing the interview, they were saying on the notes that we ve always called you snooki. we never knew you had another name. but in interviews you like to be called now by your given name, which is nicole. it s nice to hear my real name once in a while. snooki is what i m known as, but i like nicole, too, so i think it s cool to use both. are the party days gone, is that it? i have no motivation to even go out and party. but i do once in a while, when i do like to drink, i like to go out with my girls and have a glass of wine. but not like the crazy days. are you concerned at all that the new nicole polizzi who doesn t party and isn t known for all of her wild antics and stuff that you ll still be appealing to same audience that you once had in the jersey shore ? i think it s different and my fans are growing with me and they re proud of me and my parents are proud of me and my friends are proud of me. i started at 21, drinking and partying. now i m a mom and everything is just changing. i m maturing. i m still funny. how did you lose the weight? i lost 20 pounds from breastfeeding, that was awesome and i waited six weeks until i could work out. and i got a trainer, got my butt into a gym and i ve been working hard for four months. do you watch everything you eat? yes. no carbs, no dairy. trying to be gluten-free. are you going to well, once the kid discovers french fries, it s a new challenge. everything kids like taste so much better than everything we eat. chicken nuggets. it s great to see you. and give lorenzo a smooch for us. our girl sara heads up the river with a paddle. up the river with a paddle. up the lazy river hey. they re coming. yeah. british. later. sorry. ok.four words. scarecrow in the wind. a baboon. monkey? hot stew saturday!? ronny: hey jimmy, how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? jimmy: happier than paul revere with a cell phone. ronny: why not? anncr: get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues. with three strains of good bacteria. 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[ bell ringing ] that s ahead. this is forward, that s good. leave it where it is. and now he wants full, so pull it all the way out. that s it? no. there you go. after a passenger safety check, it s time to signal our departure. it s full steam ahead as we say good-bye to neorleans, and the big wheel keeps on turning. left a good job in the city working for the man every night and day and i never lost one minute of sleeping worrying about the way things might have been big wheel keep on turning proud mary keep on burning rolling rolling rolling on the river rolling rolling rolling on the river woo woo woo woo woo woo we cruise along at about seven miles per hour while passengers wine and dine and relax and take in a show before bed time. at the crack of dawn, we approach the historic oak alley plantation and i help the deck hands dock at their first stop of the journey. grab here. what we do is pull on the line. they re pushing, we re pulling. these ropes are weighted down with a small steel ball to keep the boat from floating away. i m towing the line, chains couldn t handle it. i ve got it. let s see you throw it. okay. while i apologized, the passengers are free to explore or just enjoy the view of the mighty mississippi. some new friends from oak alley join me to wish everyone bon voyage. and then, almost as quickly as she came, the proud american queen just keeps flowing down the river. nice. that looks like so much fun. it was a blast and the food is one of the perks. fried chicken and champagne is what the culinary director swears by. nothing is better than champagne. please mayor bloomberg don t say we can t have any fried chicken anymore. we have a lot of stuff coming up. the perfect pair of jeans to fit your body type important! announcer: today s style is brought to you by yoplait, learn how to take your look from good, to so good, with tips from today s style experts. that fried chicken was so delicious, half of it is on my face. we re back on this tuesday, with today s style. and we re going to help you find the perfect pair of jeans, you know what it s like. you get into the dressing room with 15 different kinds of jeans, none of them make it past your knees. or they re so low in the back i hate that. i don t like those kind of jeans that all of your assets are hanging out. that s what happened to lisa marsh, she tried on 74 pairs of jeans, before finding some that fit her curves, lisa is a writer for good housekeeping. nice to see you, you re bound and determined to get a great pair of jeans. it was not 74, 73 1/2, because one only went up to my knees. a lot of people look at labels. the sizes are so different. you know what, you have to walk in with an open mind. i am a curvy woman. you would think that curvy jeans would fit me. curvy jeans look terrible on me, skinny jeans look good on me. you have to have an open mind. you have to say, do i have to have this pair of jeans? do i have to have this particular brand? no, i want a pair of jeans that fit me right. jeans, can you pay a price, for them, they have to be comfortable. what matters is where the pockets sit. that makes all the difference. if they too low, they look terrible. i like jeans that are made with no pockets. slimming. you don t put anything in them, anyway. the pocket situation you have to have the pockets that fit correctly. you don t want them too big, they make your butt look weird, you don t want them too small. you have to take somebody with you. what are these jeans? these are coldwater creek trouser jeans, i love them, the back looks good. they have a little spandex action in them? almost every jean has a little spandex in them. these are great, i wear them with a jacket, a good pair of shoes,ky go to dinner, go out, i can sit with my kids on the floor and hang out. let s bring our models. kim is very petite what did you find for her? kim is wearing talbot s heritage jean. what s great about these is they are sized for a petite woman. she s only 5 2 , she s tiny. she doesn t have to hem them? she would have to hem them if they weren t the right proportion. but these are the right proportion. it s really good for her. thank you, kim. crystal is up next. she lost 100 pounds and she wants to dress properly for her body. hello, crystal. way to go. crystal is conscious of her midsection, which she doesn t need to be because she s as skinny as can be. these are yummy tummy jeans, they started as a foundation maker. they have an actual like a control panel in there. so she feels skinny. they re very comfortable and she looks incredibly sleek, because the dark denim loses ten pounds for you. you like dark denim. that s your thing. i want very light or very dark, nothing in between. mona is next, she s very tall and you wanted to make sure she fit well in hers. she is wearing seven for all mankind. it s as hard to fit somebody very tall as it is for somebody short. for someone like luna. i would suggest she go to bloomingdale s, because they have so many kinds of jeans on the floor. if you can t find something there, you re impossible to fit. chances are, you ll go to bloomingdale s and find something. and are they all basically the same price point. these are i think $158. they re more expensive. these jeans that i m wearing are i think in the $60 range. a big range. is lucy here? she doesn t like the ones that fit too low in the back. nobody does. nobody looks good in those. the crack jeans, not even plumbers like those. lucy is wearing old navy and they are skinny and they fit her perfectly. thank you! you guys, thank you very much. she ll definitely get you into your skinny jeans. we re talking biggest loser trainer, jillian michaels, she ll show you how to keep the weight off for good. n way to sl. where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep, and lunesta eszopiclone can help you get there, like it has for so many people before. do not take lunesta if you are allergic to anything in it. when taking lunesta, don t drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving or engaging in other activities while asleep without remembering it the next day have been reported. lunesta should not be taken together with alcohol. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations or confusion. in depressed patients, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide, may occur. alcohol may increase these risks. allergic reactions such as tongue or throat swelling occur rarely and may be fatal. side effects may include unpleasant taste, headache, dizziness and morning drowsiness. ask your doctor if lunesta is right for you. then find out how to get lunesta for as low as $15 at lunesta.com there s a land of restful sleep, we can help you go there, on the wings of lunesta. i m up next, but now i m singing the heartburn blues. hold on, prilosec isn t for fast relief. cue up alka-seltzer. it stops heartburn fast. oh what a relief it is! this is fast food. this is the express lane. and this is the fast track. this is the fastest in-home wifi. this is xfinity internet. xfinity. the future of awesome. she s the no-nonsense, tough as nails trainer on nbc s biggest loser but jillian michaels hassent is that more than 20 years helping people reach their weight loss and health goals. she has a new book slim for life. and i was driving in this morning with christine, and she was still crying from last night s show. she said it was so powerful and so moving. a lot like the bachelor. but that s another, for other reasons. i never heard of that show. what show? you ve written books, done things, what makes this book special for people? gosh, this is really my simplest, most accessible and affordable approach. because after becoming a mom, i realized how unrealistic it was to be cooking every meal and buying all organic and going to the gym five times a week. it changes your perspective. but there is a way to do it. how? simple strategies like okay, these foods never, these foods 20% of the time. 80% of the time, make the better choice, these foods boost metabolism. here s a schedule. free foods, which are the healthier stuff like the veggies. all the carrots you want. pretty much. and kale, all day long. but it s about how these people find the balance. here s the eating schedule, four times a day every four hours, just really simple strategies and common-sense stuff that clears up all the misinformation it deals with diet dilemmas like cravings, hunger, plateaus, emotional support. i feel so bad about those chicken legs we had. we shouldn t have eaten those. i feel terrible. they were so darn good. you re going to show us some exercises in a minute with sara. how has motherhood changed you? whoa? how has let s just how hasn t it? it changes you in every way. i have to say, it is the most challenging thing that i ve ever done. and i struggle every day to kind of find my footing with it. but it s also the most amazing thing you could ever do. so will you show us a few moves we ll get sara, the young one to do it. so, all right, i designed these moves, you can do them any place, any time, anywhere. so these are a little workout that i m going to be doing, i m going on a speaking tour this summer. where are you going? across the country. 40-some cities? yes, across the country, across canada, i m on a tour bus with the whole family. you think you re tired now. i know. this is the kind of stuff we re going to be doing. we start with jumping lungs, come on, here we go. intensity, cardiovascular. if you have knee problems, you do regular lungs, don t jump. all the way down. we re going into crab kicks. this is fine. come up. you see how she s working multiple muscle groups at the same time? shoulders, triceps, tush, legs. trying to sell a book here, she s happy. stand up, buddy. wow, that was fun. what i like to do is i like to do 30-second intervals of repetition. so you don t get so exhausted that you get bored. and you can max out your absolute best performance. this is called the surfer get up. jumping into a plank and popping up like a surfer on a surfboard. jillian, we wish you all the best. everything you need for your next road trip. but first, these messages. good girl, sara! good morning. i m meteorologist crystal everythinger. your forecast for the week ahead. we ll start out later today looking at scattered snow showers around the lakes. lake effect snow showers coming in. especially for western new york, western p.a. drying out for the i-95 corridor. we re done with the rain. the rest of the country looking pretty good with the exception of the northwest. we re tracking yet more rain moving in which will stick around through thursday. here s the cold wedge of air that takes us all the way down to louisville. only 37 for the high. 50s still holding on across the east. and warming up significantly for the desert southwest. we could have our first 90-degree day in places like phoenix. first 90 of the season. then we ve got another system to track tomorrow as it moves across the upper midwest. the high plains there and around the we were lakes with a chance of some snow. 36 degrees in chicago. light snow with no accumulation expected. temperatures starting to climb here behind the system. we ll see a rise in our numbers with each day. and eventually getting all the way to the canadian border, we ll feel that warmth. 60 in billings, only 39 in minneapolis on friday. 48 in chicago by friday. so there s your warm-up. we get to near 50 there in chicagoland. 44 on saturday. gets colder here behind the next systemn the northeast. but stays warm in the southeast. 74 in atlanta how many about that? by sunday, tracking rain showers for the ohio valley and down into the tennessee valley. 44 in d.c. all the southern states staying pretty dry there and another system that swings across the country will bring more snow showers, more winter weather for the lakes. this is one to watch on monday. as we see rain cross areas to the south and the north. it could be another big storm. keep it right here on the weather channel. we will update you, wake-up with al at 5:30. it s time for today s tech, if you re planning on hitting the road for your next vocation. don t grab your keys without checking these must-have gadgets. joe greenberg is the author of gadget nation and he s got good gadgets to make your trip more enjoyable. prove it! this is neo, it creates an electronic leash for people who lose their keys. like if you leave your phone at the restaurant. when you re separated from it, like i m going to separate right now. in a couple of seconds after you move away. an alarm will go off. just what we need, more alarms. but it s a great thing. but it s more noise pollution. this will rock your world. isn t it a great idea, you won t leave your phone in the cab. i need it for shoes. for bowling balls, everything. i love this. this is a travel mug, but almost like a magic trick. you can t knock it over, but yet you can pick it straight up. it s the magic of, you can push real hard. but, look, look, look at that. you are really trying to prove him wrong. she s tough. she s tough. you got to want to knock it down. otherwise they lift right up. mighty mug. really cool. oh man, oh man. next up this is called the go pillow. this is a pillow, so it s for when you ve got a baby in your arms. you ve got a baby in your arms. a built-in blanket. you can keep the baby nursing, built into the pillow. invented bay mommy. it s great, darling. gopillow.com. that s a great present. for jillian. next, you have this is called the tag-along teddy. if you go on a trip and the child leaves their toy at a rest stop or a restaurant it can ruin your whole trip. it can ruin your life depending on how attached the child is. this is a little backpack for your teddy right there it stays right there. is that cute? ella. i love it. isn t that adorable. a tag-along teddy. why is it called tag-along teddy? that s what they re calling it. you have to go with that. it look like a monkey to me. this is called the scrub that you can do laundry on the road. it s hot. it s filled with hot water we these two set up. you take the bag, you add some water to it, and a little bit of soap, the clothes, a little bit of soap. and it seals up. it s got a built in washboard inside the bag. what are you talking about? you put the clothes in here and you roll it up just like this and that seals it up. why don t you just wash it in the sink. first of all, if you re backpacking or camping. it comes out clean? what about rinsing it? you do the same process with clean water and you rinse it out. i don t think these ladies do laundry. and you could also call room service. there you go! this is an app for your phone called i-exit. this shows you the road of all the exits ahead of you for hundreds of miles. you can click on each exit. and see what s available at each exit. what kind of food or gasoline or what-not. you can set filters. for example if you want mcdonald s at the playground or a pet-friendly hotel. that will show you the exits. this is called drive safely. this actually, it will do your text messages and it will read them back to you. so whoops? i need that. it reads it to you so you don t here you go. you have to trust me on that. how is the today show segment going? not good at the moment. but drive safely. it s a free app, it s for android and blackberry. and when you get some place, you re going to want to use your bike to get around. a terrific fold-up bike. it has only two steps involved. the handlebars come up. this part swings around and you re set to go. and it locks right in. and you re good to go. and we re fixed. things that will sell out fast at your next bake sale. careful, steve! every year we pick a new city to explore. but thanks to hotwire, this year we got to take an extra trip. because they get us ridiculously low prices on really nice hotels and car rentals. so we hit boston in the spring even caught a game. and with the money we saved, we took a trip to san francisco. you see, hotwire checks the competitions rates every day so they can guarantee their low prices. so, where to next? how about there? h-o-t-w-i-r-e. hotwire.com in the middle of the night it can be frustrating. it s hard to turn off and go back to sleep. intermezzo is the first and only prescription sleep aid approved for use as needed in the middle of the night when you can t get back to sleep. it s an effective sleep medicine you don t take before bedtime. take it in bed only when you need it and have at least four hours left for sleep. do not take intermezzo if you have had an allergic reaction to drugs containing zolpidem, such as ambien. allergic reactions such as shortness of breath or swelling of your tongue or throat may occur and may be fatal. intermezzo should not be taken if you have taken another sleep medicine at bedtime or in the middle of the night or drank alcohol that day. do not drive or operate machinery until at least 4 hours after taking intermezzo and you re fully awake. driving, eating, or engaging in other activities while not fully awake without remembering the event the next day have been reported. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations, or confusion. alcohol or taking other medicines that make you sleepy may increase these risks. in depressed patients, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide, may occur. intermezzo, like most sleep medicines, has some risk of dependency. common side effects are headache, nausea, and fatigue. so if you suffer from middle-of-the-night insomnia, ask your doctor about intermezzo and return to sleep again. he time for today s kitchen. and time to jazz up your kitchen with some new desserts. instead of the same old rice crispies. susan westmoreland. we are having a good housekeeping day today. so good to see you. let s get started with cake mixes this is cake mix made to mix filling these about two-thirds full. a clever idea. easy to carry. you can put them in a muffin continue to carry. then our next thing is we ll go to this with not much time. we re going to pipe this around. how long do you bake these guys? 20 minutes at 350. and you they don t burn? you can put them in muffin cups. and we can do it the easy way and do that. so they re really fun. and i have to show you this one. it s fashion black and white. isn t that cool? this is adorable. that s adorable. then this is my favorite. rice crispy treats with peanut butter in them. push, push. where s jillian michaels when we need her? you do that. and then you can look at the ones over there that are already cut. you want this shamrock? here you go. and over here, we also took where s the peanut butter portion of it? in and on top. and then wow, that s a bite. wow. the cake mix with the cookies on a stick. so cake mix without the water in it. piped into cookies and you frost, put it on a stick. be the martha stewart of your kids bake sale. try this, sarah. all right. those are good. that s a wrap. we have an update, guys on our facebook page. okay. before we started the show, we were at 497,000 and some change. not that you guys are change. but now we are well above 500,000. 503, sara? tomorrow morning we ll tell you how high we ve gotten. because i begged! klg went on her knees, and not sure what she ll do tomorrow. it ain t the first time. tomorrow actress jennifer esposito. and jennifer gourder with paint tricks. and weight loss. enjoy your tuesday booze-day, everybody. tomorrow it is wednesday wines-day. i ll keep talking until they say stop. bye! jeff: from lord of the rings and and lost, dominic monaghan. now you re doing reality, which is tougher? the real element of reality is harder. jeff: real man is the reality star. that looks like survivor. why not just come and do it? jeff: then inspirational story of amazing outreach. sports was your outlet. it was my life. [applause] hello, hello! a little about me. i m recently married. i work with my wife on the show and i m learning how to be adad to two amazing kids in a blended family. i m hosting a talk show because there s a lot to talk about. this is an adventure. welcome to the show! have a seat. thank you for the nice welcome. lord of the rings, lost, dominic monaghan is here! 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black, unmistakably, so, no pope yet. the conclaves have been held in the sistine chapel since 1492. this is how it begins. devotion, the holy spirit is implored to guide the choice they make. they heard a sermon. they are deeply divided and seek unity. looks down on them and reminds them that the pope is surmountable to god, not man. one by one, they took the oath to uphold the secrecy and rules of the conclave. of brazil,al now the world s largest catholic country. many believe he could be the first non-european pope since gregory ii in syria in the eighth century. they took their seats in strict order of seniority. each man knows is knows his place. there will be no open campaigning. no lobbying in the sistine chapel. that happens, but elsewhere, when they retire for the evening. there will be little groups the number of votes that people got and where we go from here. lobbying is not quite the word i would use, but certainly, great interest. earlier, they return to the hearts of their faith. the first pope, st. peter, anointed by jesus christ, to be the rock in which the church of the world is built. the man they choose will be the latest in an unbroken line of succession that reaches back to the apostles. haspoint of consensus emerged. many of the cardinals here talk about the need to restore good governance to the church. pope benedict himself calls it the culture of bitter fighting. cardinals from around the world want to narrow the gap between what happens within those walls and what goes on out to their in the church of the world. with the cardinals of the vatican bureaucracy and insiders facing a sustained challenge to their power, the cardinal electors retreated from view, locked in until they have made their choice. .bc news after the vatican for the latest from rome, as a st. peter s square. an exciting day. very much a so. certainly, for the people in this square. at the crowds grew and grew, despite the rain. the mass that was held, before the beginning of the election of the pope. cardinals in their crimson robes standing side by side. it was just and the square right here. everyone waited with bated breath when the big screen turned into chimney tv. featured there on the screen to see whether the smoke would be black or white. yetnow the pope has not been chosen. most people said they would be back again tomorrow and this next day, until the new pope would be chosen. of course, a lot of discussion in the crowd as to who the next pope should be. joining me now is somebody who has some very strong opinions on the vatican. you are known as an investigative journalist who has looked at the dirty laundry at the vatican and hung it out in public. yet you are a catholic yourself. how do you reconcile those two things? i grew up in an environment in new orleans where my grandmother in mexico took me to church often. my parents were quite at ease with the faith. i was educated by jesuits priests. when i stumbled onto these of these cases in louisiana in the mid 1980 s, i had to go back to my own spiritual life. it has been a struggle, but i would rather stay then leave. you have had criticisms from within the church aimed at you as well saying that we should not talk about these things in public. there s the financial scandal within the vatican bank. that is true. you have to remember, this is the largest organization in the world. within any organization at large, there are bound to be problems. some of them have crumbling columns. for a journalist, it is almost an endless topic. pope benedict, one of the last things he said to his cardinals, is that he wants them to act together like an orchestra, as opposed to the kind of fighting we have heard about and that he talks about as well, actually. can be onek there cardinal now elected who can solve these problems? many of them said that is what they really need to see in here. i think what the next pope had to do, if he is going to be considered a success in the global media, is basically two things. he will need a strong secretary of state, which is basically a cheap of staff bring these scandals to heal. he needs to be a figure of peace on the global stage. he needs to recapture that primary role of the pope which is that of a moral statesman. someone who espouses peace. he can do that. i think it is possible. it really depends whether the cardinals are able to go on and get down to hard bargain over who will be the most flexible. a look this is a church that is octave mentally conservative and pastore early liberal. thank you. when you look to the letter of the law, it is possible for the cardinals to call for a new of them.amongst it be just anybody who is catholic. it is thought that they will certainly choose one of their number and, of course, everybody is waiting to see who that will be. a fascinating. later, we will have more on the conclave. one of the cardinals taking part in this historic process. north korea stands as a serious threat to the united states and nations in east asia. that is the assessment of the national intelligence director today. announced that it was scrapping the agreement which ended the korean war. today, the country s a leader was pictured visiting front- line troops as tensions arise. for more on the situation, i spoke a brief time ago with the heritage foundation s asian is that he sent her. how high are tensions at this point? they are always high but they have gotten higher because of the annual military exercises. also, as a result of the recent un resolution. the rhetoric is high, but it has gotten higher more recently. what s we have seen different from the past is that north korea is now claiming it has a nuclear warhead that can hit the united states. south korea, its neighbor, is much more vulnerable. exactly. they already have 800 or so missiles that could hit south korea. perhaps 300 that could hit all of japan. possibly 100 that could hit u.s. bases. the u.s. has a military alliance with south korea. you think that could be tested soon? it is always tested in a way. deter north korea or, if necessary, to seek any kind of incursion. the u.s. has pledged it will extend all necessary means, including the nuclear umbrella to deter or, if necessary, defend south korea. what exactly does the youthful leader want at this point? he is just continuing the policies of his predecessors. then he had hoped because he studied for a few years that he might be different. he might be more willing to implement economic reform or moderate his fathers and grandfathers foreign-policy. that has not been the case. if anything, we have seen the belligerence and aggression has increased. he oversaw three acts of violence of the un security council resolutions last year. only gottenhave worse. he wants to maintain the regime in power. he wants recognition of north korea as a nuclear weapon states. it s not a return in negotiations to its own terms, receiving benefits. do you think the latest sanctions passed last week will make any difference to the situation? incrementally. unfortunately, it is an incremental improvement over the many resolutions before. one could argue that the time for incremental his nation has passed. of north korea s history conducting acts of war and terror against its neighbors. thank you. thank you for having me. now to a new scientific discovery. mars could have supported life billions of years ago. that is according to u.s. scientists who unveiled evidence brought back from the rover u.s. curiosity. they say at one point water and minerals provide a potential place for microbes to live. earlier i spoke to the geologist at the center for planetary studies at the smithsonian here in washington. dr., are you excited by this discovery? absolutely. this is the most important thing that the curiosity rover was sent to mars to do to find out whether it supported a habitable environment in the past. what kind of life maybe could it have supported? most microbial life. very small things. the bacteria that could have lived in the surface or near surface materials. could do something bigger have eaten those? very unlikely. may have beent wet, but not for a length of time. marshall s not have an ozone layer, so there is no protection of the surface mark s mars does not have an ozone layer, so there is no protection of the surface from radiation. the curiosity is in the rover in the basin. , right now, is very near the base of that stack of sediments. older rocks are located near the bottom. younger rocks are deposited on top. as it drives off to the south, it will be climbing up a big mountain called mount sharp. it has layered sentiments into their. it will be reading those layers like the pages of a history book. that is where it could find out if there was actual life there. yeah. it could be. looking for evidence of past habitability. this is not a life-detection ocean. this is not to show that there was conclusively evidence of life on mars. if they find organic material, that will be a result. what are the chances we will discover there was life on mars? i think we will at some point. it will take a lot of exploration. it is a big place. it has much it has as much land to base as the service the 3/4 , given that earth is water. do you think the secrets have been released? i think the important ones are. mars had a warmer climate in the past. there was flowing water and rivers. it does not seem like that climate was sustained nearly as long as it has been on the earth. just briefly, if we did know there was life on mars, how important would that be? that would be the important that could be the discovery of the century. that is what nasa is doing at this time. trying to figure out whether we are alone in the universe and of life has originated in other laces, it would be an incredible finding. indeed. thank you for joining us. you are watching bbc, world news america. it still to come, from humble beginnings to the whole of the vatican. the first cardinal. now in his native country, they are rooting for him to become pope. a staggering one in 10 medicines around the world are fake or contaminated. in some countries, nearly half of the drugs available to not do what they promised to. that is according to the international police organization. it s created a new unit to deal with the new problem. it will be funded by pharmaceutical companies themselves. we have more. they are demons. every year, millions of how to , andablets, vaccines medicines are sold around the world. medstingly, they pick up that they believe to be the real thing. interpol wants to do something to stop it. counterfeit medicine sales are believed to represent 10% of drugs worldwide. interpol has announced a coordinated effort with 29 pharmaceutical firms which are contributing a grand total of $6 million. it is so the general public can be made more aware of how to represent how to recognize a counterfeit drug from the real thing. they want to train customs officers so they can cut the trade in substandard products. such schemes are already up and running. an entrepreneur recently told the bbc his idea through which genuine brands of medicine are given a unique code so that the consumers know the source of what they are buying. the code to aext toll-free number and it tells you whether the drugs are genuine or not. the pharmaceutical industry is big business. every time fake meds are sold, they lose money. no wonder they are injecting their own cash to try to undermine a huge and sometimes deadly black market. bbc news. let s bring you more on our main story. the process of choosing a new spiritual leader for 1.2 billion roman catholics. the roman catholics are in the sistine chapel. he is credited for helping to avert a violence following his countries contested election. some has picked him as a potential pope. our correspondent has more. an extraordinary journey began here in the western region of ghana. peter was born in 1948, the fourth of 10 children in what was a british colony, the gold coast. the students were getting ready to mark the anniversary of independence day when peter was here in the 1950 s. they marched full of pride and excitement on the very day that ghana was born. it is a small mining town. teacher s mother sold food in the local market. his strict father worked as a carpenter. the family lived in this simple building which belonged to the mine. one of peter s younger sisters said when they were growing up, there was a distinct color divide in the community. [indiscernible] the whites have this and the blacks have the whites have this and the blacks have the parents tell them to go to church and study hard. there were games of in kong on the bench. the fourth bourne created his fair share of mischief but excelled in the classroom. his lifee of just 12, took a dramatic turn. by chance, he saw a poster on a notice board in fighting young students to apply to become trees. he scribbled down the address on his hand and not long afterwards he ended up here. family was stunned by the decision and wondered if he would coax with all the discipline cope with all the discipline and dedication. he has plenty of talent, strong in science and math. within arm to archimedes, he gave himself the nickname archie. he used to play the guitar. [indiscernible] the music of the day. the music of the day, yeah. they formed a group called the incredible echoes. were they incredible? corexit yes and no. [laughter] yes and no. [laughter] after going to new york, he returned here to be ordained as a priest in the 1970 s. at the age of 44, he was ordained archbishop here. one decade later, pope john paul ii named him a cardinal. his sisters remember people singing on the streets. [singing] they were praising his father for producing ghana s first ever cardinal. he does not veer away from the conservative doctrine but adds some flair to the catholic church. many are quietly hoping and praying that the vatican s white smoke comes with him as pope. .bc news, ghana finally, he is one of the most famous naturalist the world has ever known. john james portraits were a sensation in the 19th century. they are priceless now. it celebrate the acquisition of newwork 150 years ago, the york historical society has a new exhibition and a book on the famous artists. roberta gives us a to her. a tour. is thebirth of america finest color series ever produced, certainly and national history. this is the apex of the golden age of etching. i am the curator of drawings at the american historical society. john james was the legendary naturalist. he would ve market himself as the american woodsman which was very successful in london. very successful in paris. very successful in liverpool and manchester. the old world wanted to see the new world. he was the embodiment of that. he was really america s first watercolorist. he invented so many series of levels of media. he just kept mixing up things so that everything was different. he wanted to freeze life. you would see the bird smile, move, and interact. if you look at it frequently, you blink and expect the birds to be gone. whether hee about always drew from life. he did not. to feel that he did, embedded in the swamps and perched in the trees. today, there are devices to euthanize birds. there are various kinds of guns or tracks or whatever. he also frequently referred to things that have been killed by other creatures or animals. the significance of autobahn today is very far reaching. he wrote quite profoundly about how he saw civilization being eroded and the wilderness disappearing. industrialization was taking over and poisoning what he had considered to be a pristine environment. this book reproduces all 474 of our watercolors. he places his contribution securely in the artistic and scientific fields. you can really see this young man develop from his teenage years all the way to his mature years. that was the curator on the exquisite works of john s james john james audubon. you can continue to watch bbc news for constant updates from around the world on our 24-hour news network. check your local listings for the channel number. to reach me and the rest of the team, simply go to twitter. thank you for watching. please, tune in tomorrow. funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman s own foundation, union bank, and fidelity investments. your personal economy is made up of things that matter most, including your career. as those things change, fidelity can help you readjust your retirement plan, rethink how you are invested, and refocus as your career moves forward. wherever you are today, a fidelity ira has a wide range of investment choices that can fit your personal economy. fidelity investments. turn here. bbc world news was presented by kcet, los angeles. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions woodruff: house budget chairman paul ryan offered his blueprint for federal spending today, but a white house spokesman dismissed it, saying the math doesn t add up. good evening. i m judy woodruff. brown: and i m jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the republican proposal, as president obama begins a series of meetings with members of congress to restart a bipartisan dialogue. woodruff: then we turn to the conversation sparked by facebook executive sheryl sandberg in her new book about women juggling careers, family, and leadership roles. brown: spencer michels reports on a gold mine of information stored in a gene data bank that could help revolutionize medicine. a large group of people about whom we know everything about their medical history. we can look across diseases and see, are there common elements in these diseases? woodruff: and on the daily download, we look at the gap between what twitter followers think, and what polls reveal. like talk radio we shouldn t fall into the trap of thinking it s like a public announcement. it s certainly what people are chattering about. woodruff: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us.
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hampton pearson in washington. as hampton pointed out, health care costs were a big focus in the house proposal, coming up, we ll talk to howard dean and journalist steven breaux about proposing costs. the winning streak extended to an a little session in a row. it sent the blue chip average up nearly three points closing at 14,450. that s another all-time high and the nasdaq lost ten points and the s&p down four points ending seven straight days of gains. blackberry was the most heavily traded company on the nasdaq today. more than 80 million shares changed hands while above the average daily volume there. shares were off theerly 3% this on a day when pre-orders where the company s z10 smartphone began. some are looking that the product as a potential make or break product for the smartphone pioneer. john ford explains. the blackberry, it used to be shorthand for coolest phone in the world. wall street types were obsessed with them and government workers, too. less than four years ago fortune named it the fastest-growing company, and now blackberry is on the ropes with the hopes pinned on this phone, the z10 which customers can pre-order online and come pick up at these at&t stores on march 22nd. what happened? the mainly the iphone. when it came out six years ago the iks phone started small, unlike the blackberry and every other smartphone it had a big touchscreen and one button in front. now the iphone is the best-selling model in the country and every other popular phone looks a lot more like this than like this. the names to beat in today s phone game are apple and google who together took more than 90% of the smartphone market last holiday season. blackberry managed just over 3%. the company hopes the z10 gets it back in the game, but there are bigger challenges. the new phones won t bring in the same highly profitable services revenue investors have come to expect and it s not yet clear whether blackberry will be able to sell new phones to make up the ground the old phones are losing. we don t deny that internationally this has been a successful device, it sold out in the middle east, and sold out in asia. doing very well in europe and surprising a lot of critics and we don t expect the same response in the u.s., but a better-than-expected launch. have you ever had a blackberry? no. did you ever think you would get a blackberry? no. why not? what do you think a blackberry is for? nothing negative. i just wanted something unique. blackberry hopes that s what this phone will deliver with its corporate friendly security features and new software for sharing photos, videos and apps. by next month, t-mobile and verizon will be offering the z10, too, and then we ll see whether blackberry can regain its cool. for nightly business report i m john ford. shipments of apple ipads will fall behind the growing variety of tablets running google s android platform for the first time this year as smaller sized devices catch on, ipads are expected to account for 46% of the pad market while devices running android are expected to grow their share to 49%. apple shares down more than 2% again today. big box retailers are at the top of tonight s market focus. walmart s chief financial officer saying it hasn t seen any drop in spending related to the payroll tax increase, though higher taxes are showing up as a concern in customer surveys. shares rose fractionally today and they re up about 8% year to date. strong earnings from costco up 39% and that s thanks to an increase in quarterly profits and helped by increasing sales and gained market share during the quarter. shares more than 1% to more than $103 a share. two dow component pharma stocks headed in opposite directions. continuing the okay to continue the safety and effectiveness of vytorin as the cholesterol-busting treatment. this made by pfizer can cause fatal irregular heart rhythm. merck gained 3% on the day while pfizer lost ground. president obama s nominee to chair the securities and exchange commission says she ll be an investor advocate. mary jo white questioned by senators at her confirmation hearing this morning said that if confirmed the american public would be her client and that she would not back off if there was any evidence of wrongdoing at major institutions. assuming you found wrongdoing, i think you d proceed quite vigorously against effectively anyone that you find evidence of wrongdoing on, but certainly financial institutions at the sec, which of course, doesn t have the criminal powers, those consequences are not taken into account before charging decisions are made so that the sec, there s no institution too big to charge. white is expected to get the okay for that sec job especially after republican senator tom coburn of oklahoma announced he would aggressively support her nomination. there s not a lot of support for h & r block today after a software snag has delayed the returns for a lot of americans who have already filed their 2012 taxes. sharon epperson joins us now with more. what went wrong here, sharon? a lot of folks are disappointed that they re not going get refunds as quickly as anticipated. what h & r block is telling us that between february 14th and february 22nd that a number of filers who were applying for education tax credits were unable to do so because of the way they answered certain yes and no questions on the form. these are folks that were claiming the american opportunity lifetime learning credits and 10% of the total returns claiming these credits were impacted according to the irs. h & r block tells us that any problems that occurred with the form, the form 8863 had been fixed and their clients had no immediate action to take and if they wanted to find out when they could get their refund, they can go to where is my refund.org and it can take up to eight weeks and that means they need as much as four to six weeks in order to process the refund. so a lot of folks will be that s terrible news because a lot of people count on these refunds especially students to pay their bills. a lot of students and potential students are waiting to apply for financial aid until they get the returns done and that is causing problems and they should go ahead and apply for that financial aid. sharon epperson, thank you very much. thank you. meanwhile, coming up, how airlines are making it harder for you to cash in on those frequent flier miles and we ll tell you what you need to know. now let s take a look at how the markets around the globe closed this day. it s report card time for the nation s 16 largest airlines and regulators say average on-time arrivals during january fell slightly and there were more complaints about mishandled luggage, but on the bright side, there were fewer canceled flights and only five reports of tarmac delays that lasted more than three hours. the high marks went to virgin american and hawaiian a airline, rather and pinnacle airlines were often at the bottom of the list. meanwhile, if you re the kind of traveler who racks up airline frequent flier miles, not so far, some big changes are coming and they may make the perks that you get a lot less frequent when you fly. phil lebeau has more. reporter: for frequent fliers change is in the air. it s quickly taking more flights and more money to achieve higher status with certain airlines, and increasingly, cashing in your miles for an upgrade or a free ticket is becoming tougher. gone will be the days when you re measured by how many miles you fly. hello to the days when you re measured by how much money you spend. right now virgin america, jetblue and southwest award frequent flier miles based on how much you spend on a ticket and not how far you fly. it s a move delta will also be making next year. so delta frequent flyers who achieve different levels of status after flying just 25,000 miles will eventually need to not only fly that far, but also spend at least their 2500 with the airline to reach the highest level of loyalty, diamond status, you ll need to fly 125,000 miles and spend at least 12,500 in a year. now you can t earn based on models flown on cheaper tickets. it will take more expensive tickets to earn the higher levels required for elite status. why are airlines making it tougher to become an elite flyer or cash your flyers. blame it on carriers having fewer seats and frequent flies are. you re competing not just with frequent flier, but for frequent buyers and that makes it difficult for anybody to be called an airline s best customer. meanwhile, if they cut capacity by eliminating flights or using smaller jets, there are fewer seats open for award redemption. remember, airlines are trying to max mriez fit from every seat on every tliet. so getting an upgrade or free ticket will be tougher. for the average person, even though they ve been trying to save up miles for the low redemption awards they ll have to plan enough to redeem at the medium or the higher level of redemption rewards. with frequent flyers holding 9.7 trillion unused miles, there are plenty of people with plenty of miles. in pack, it s estimated 307,000 frequent flyers have at least 1 million miles in their account. phil lebeau, nightly business report, chicago. flying those friendly skies. earlier in the program we reported on congressman paul ryan s gop budget proposal which takes aim at spending. he spent sen months putting u.s. hospital bills under the microscope to find out why health care american style costs so much. his findings are in the march 4th issue of time magazine. howard dean is a physician who during his six terms in office kept costs in check. gentlemen, welcome. i look forward to this conversation. thank you. you spent 21,000 words, longest article in time s history. it was an amazing piece with some amazing reporting in it, but i ll ask you to boil those 21,000 words down to about 20 and tell me why you think principally health care costs as much as it does. i think i can blow it down to four words. the price is too high and the reason the price is too high is there isn t a free marketplace. the typical health care consumer whether it s the person who is uninsured or even the largest of the insurance companies doesn t have the leverage in the marketplace. we live in a world where we think this is a free market. we like everything to be a free market in this country and there is no free market when you go to the emergency room. there is noey from market when you have to buy a cancer drug, and i m sure that governor dean will testify to that from his experience. governor dean, let me ask you that question in a different sort of way. in so many industries we ve seen costs trend down over time and the price we used to play for a flat screen tv or for a cell phone, those prices are a fraction of what they used to be, but not so in health care. why is health care different? the more facility you had to deliver the higher the price goes. the problem is that the fee for service system that we have encourages us to spend as much as we possibly can. we only get paid, we get paid when someone is sick and we don t get paid to keep them well and in order to fix this problem you have to do away with the current way we pay providers and pay them by the patient and not by the procedure and until that happens it doesn t matter what kind of supposed health care cost control you have, it s not going to work. i would like you to pick up on what the governor just said, but also address one of the things i found fascinating in your article. a lot of the political conversation lately has been about raising the eligibility age for medicare. you argue conversely that if we really wanted to reduce overall cost and though not the kind of government pays you would lower the eligibility age for medicare. explain why and what you think the effect would be. it would reduce the cost that the government is going pay under obama care, too. the only efficient buyer of health care is medicare and if you moved more people into medicare and away from either not having insurance or using the insurance companies that they have they would be paying a premium to medicare that would be much liss because medicare s costs are a fraction of what everyone else is forced to pay. the reason being that medicare a lobe has the market leverage to buy health care at a reasonable price, and it s sht a matter of moving people away at fee for service and the way you do that is you have a balanced market or you have to intervene in some way in that market. governor, steven keeps talking about market forces so let s talk about the market and the role that the consumers and the american people can play in all of this. do you see that the health care industry is going to bring the consumer along or are consumers going to be pushing for the changes whether it s on price or any other innovation? first of all, i don t agree with steve about putting people in medicare. i do think it s a good idea for putting people in the lower age because it s true they re a lower cost provider and they re efficient. the problem is their costs are out of control, too. as long as you pay us to do procedures we ll do a lot of procedures and that is the fundamental problem. i think it s great if you put people over 55 into medicare instead of 65. it s cheaper for the insurance companies and the government pays more than 4% instead of 20%, but that is not the ultimate solution. it does not work because you simply pay us to do as much as we possibly can. as long as you have a system that does that, it doesn t matter what consumer pressure is on. they can buy insurance well. they can t buy health care well. the fact is though, you re talking about one aspect and what the doctors do. if you talk about the cost of drugs, and the cost of durable medical equipment and the cost of so many other things and just to stay in the hospital room. you really have to get away from a situation where it s a seller s market and a seller s market only. i think you have to do both, but i think you have to start by looking at the prices which is what i did with this article. the simple fact is that we live in two economies in this country. all of them lived in one economy which has had a lot of trouble over the last decade and then there is the medical economy which has been booming, just going hog wild booming, and the reason, there is no con proehl on the profits and the prices, and i don t come from i m a left-wing perspective. i look at it from the standpoint of the consumer which & they have no leverage under the marketplace. under the obama care there is hope for this because they ll be big nufr, how health care is the unit price. they all have to be built by the patient. i m not sure we solved it, but we made a veiliant effort and i hely recommend steve s piece and it is one of the best things i ve read on the spiraling cost. court tv founder and former governor howard dean. coming up, catholics around the world waiting for a new pope. why it would be beneficial for him to be a man of god with a head for business, but first, let s take a look at how treasurys, currencies and commodities fared today. on the radar for tomorrow we ll learn how retailers coped in february given higher gas prices and higher taxes, eating into consumers wallets and the weather, the business round table releases its ceo survey of expectations for the economy and we ll get a report from speaker boehner about the president s lunch date with house republican sfoos looking forward to that one. the market for high end art forgery is a $5 billion a year illegal business. with that kind of money at stake, a recent crackdown on selling phony works of art has come up with some surprising results. scott cohn has more. what is a miami pastor with his own you tube channel doing in a manhattan courthouse charged with a temped grand larceny for trying to pass off half a million in counterfeit art. how does a pastor get into the art-selling business. 45-year-old kevin sutherland wouldn t say and his lawyer says there s a logical explanation. the truth will come out and we are confident in our position. sutherland pleaded not guilty to charges he tried to pass off these paintings by british artist damian hearst to sotheby s in new york even though he knew they were fake. sutherland closed the deal at this hotel not knowing the person across the table was an undercover new york city detective. cyrus vance who prosecuted art fraud cases as a young assistant is cracking down. the same art s being stolen the same way as it has been stolen from generations. now our tools to build cases are more sophisticated than they were 30 or 40 years ago. robert whitman who founded the art crime team and now works for private collectors says even with mod eaern technology these cases are tougher than they seem. you have to prove knowledge that this person knew the material was fake and that he meant for it to be sold and he was trying to pull the wool over somebody s eyes. these are some of the damian hearst paintings that sutherland tried to pass off even after prosecutors say sotheby s specifically told him in an email that one of these spin paintings was not authentic. sutherland allegedly told investigators he didn t really read the email. he s due back in court next month. i m scott cohn for the nightly business report. one of, if not the greatest art collections belongs to the vatican. the magnificent frescos by michelangelo, the cardinals cast their votes for a new pontiff. the black smoke signaled no pope was selected. earlier today the cardinals filed into the chapel singing for the saints to help them make their decision. there can be as many as four votes in a day when one cardinal receives two-thirds of the vote, tyler, he becomes the new pope and you know what s interesting about all of this it s not like they re looking for a spir inch all leader and this is almost like a ceo search and the vatican has this vast empire and it has a lot of the same issues as any other vast empire. financial transparency and budget issues and deficits and all of those things we talk about. they have real estate and billions and billions served as customers around the week. and it s an economy unto itself if you looked at that time that way. we have facts here that we ll point out just what we re talking about there. $7.5 billion in the vatican accounts and it doesn t rank among the largest banks in the world, but it certainly has global sweep. they also have a mini hedge fund cha is conservatively invested which means they might have missed out on some of the stock market rallies. i suspect maybe they have. that s it for our nightly business report for tonight and this is the time of year your public television station that makes nightly business report possible. on behalf of the station, thank you for your 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