but they listened to me today and i got the green light. first i want to say thank you pho my boss, phil griffin, also andrew lock and the other suits that had to sign off on this and i realize this is a very expensive, very difficult ask. but i asked and they said yes. so here goes. commercial breaks be damned. you probably heard today that the first lady, michelle obama, gave a big speech. you might have seen clips about that speech, you might have read headlines about it, but if you were at work or at school when this happened, if you have not actually heard it the way she gave it, you should. i have a favor to ask. i want you to change your plan for how you were going to watch tv tonight. just trust me. stop what you were doing, hit pause if you need to to get organized because you won t want to get up in the middle of this. i have cut out of this speech, i ll tell you, the partisan part, the part about promoting hillary clinton s candidacy.
shooting today outside a jewish school in southern france. french president nicolas sarkozy said the shooting was an obvious antisemitic attack. the new york police department said special attention is now being paid to synagogues. do we have a significant jewish population in this city, and we have to take that into account. we know that we re at the top of the terrorist target list, so we are concerned about the so-called copy cat syndrome. mary snow is following this story from outside central synagogue here in new york city. mary, what sort of extra security is there? reporter: well, erin, you ve seen a visible police presence outside of this synagogue and several others that we pass in the city today. the police commissioner is saying basically he s stepped up uniformed police outside more than 50 locations throughout the city. you heard him say there isn t any specific threat or intelligence they have of a specific threat but they felt it was prudent to step up th
cat attacks in the united states. at this hour, increased security at american jewish institutions from san francisco to washington, d.c., and new york, following a deadly shooting today outside a jewish school in southern france. french president nicolas sarkozy said the shooting was an obvious antisemitic attack. the new york police department said special attention is now being paid to synagogues. do we have a significant jewish population in this city, and we have to take that into account. we know that we re at the top of the terrorist target list, so we are concerned about the so-called copy cat syndrome. mary snow is following this story from outside central synagogue here in new york city. mary, what sort of extra security is there? reporter: well, erin, you ve seen a visible police presence outside of this synagogue and several others that we passed in the city today. the police commissioner is saying basically he s stepped up uniformed police outside more than
we re only a day away from a crucial primary that could determine where this republican marathon is headed. fresh off a run away win in puerto rico, mitt romney is now looking to score big in illinois. rick santorum needs a strong showing as he tries to deny romney the nomination. the two rivals have long since taken off the gloves, but now they have put on some brass knuckles as well. our national correspondent jim accosta is in chicago with the very latest. the top two gop contenders are practicing their own brand of chicago style politics on this day before the illinois primary and both rick santorum and mitt romney are proving to be untouchable. reporter: the battle for the gop nomination has come to illinois and in the land of lincoln the republican party is a house divided in an uncivil war of words. i m somewhat experienced in the economy, i m not an economic light weight. president obama is. we re not going to be successful replacing an economic light weight wit
apple holds almost $100 billion in cash reserves. this morning the company announce wad it would do with some of that cold cash. apple announced a $10 billion stock buyback that would begin in october. it also would begin giving shareholders a quarterly dividend for the first time since 1995. and espn s chris mortenson a reporting that peyton manning will sign with the denver broncos. four-time nfl most valuable player had been deciding between tennessee and denver. indianapolis colts released the quarterback just two weeks ago after injury forced had i am to miss the entire 2011 season. well, in 2006 manning led the colts to a super bowl championship. all right. didn t do my brackets any good but north carolina state upset georgetown in the ncaa tournament. that happened this weekend. it was one of several big march madness upsets. the 11th seeded wolf pack ran away from the number 3 seed down the stretch. lorenzo brown sealed the game with three free throws in the last