one city hit the hardest in the recession is lansing, michigan.keeping tabs on how people there are doing. the marriage is back with us again. mr. mayor, it is great to see you. what do you think? when ben bernanke, fed chairman, says the recession is likely over, are you seeing sinsz of recovery in lansing? >> some signs -- look, i hope he is right. and gm certainly is doing well. as they -- as they right size. we have been fortunate to be adding shifts and work. but we are working to diversify our economy. look, there's a long way to go. president obama is to be credited with doing a lot, saving the auto industry, tackling health care. reregulateding wall street which needs to happen. needs to be commended on all those fronts. i would say it is premature at this point to say the recession is over. it ain't over for a lot of our people. it is not over for working people. it may be over for wall street. but i will tell you, there's still a major disconnect between wall street and main street. even in the banking crisis. the way that was handled. t

well, if you're watching wilx, news 10, lansing, michigan, discover the differences between atoms and molecules and build your own on connecting with chemistry in the impression 5 science center. >> thank you, bill. >>> now here's a look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. if there's any player who is a box office lock these days, got to be tyler perry. his second number 1 movie of 2009 as i can do bad all by myself took in $24 million. he not only wrote and directed but stars as his nasty cross-dressing al ter ego, madea. the horror flick sore report row sixth with a disappointing $5.3 million. kate beckinsale whiteout just washed out in seventh place with just over $5 million. well, finally kanye west has taken his notorious bad sportsmanship to a new low essentially. at last night's mtv music awards when taylor swift won and was mid speech, he jumps up and protests in favor of bope yann say's video. he was booed by the crowd. she called up swift to finish that speech that west had interrupted. justice served. >>> this from knsd in san diego, where in nearby del mar doingy

the shooting happened outside a high school 30 miles from lansing. no students were injured. all schools if the area were under lack doup for several hours. michigan state police say the suspect is linked to another deadly shooting. this morning the second shooting took place at a business and neighboring community. prosecutors believe the shooter singled out the victim because of his anti-abortion protests near the school. >>> it looked like a scene from a movie. an out of control car slams into a gas pump and triggers a fire ball while someone on the other side is gassing up. the whole iident is caught on tape. it happened in british columbia. you see a man getting gas for his car. getting out there and suddenly from out of nowhere, another car comes barrelling into the gas pump right across. fire erupts but the man pumping gas is able to get away unscathed. the driver and passenger in the other car escaped the inferno. that driver says he lost control of his vehicle when another car cut him off. >>> still ahead, tracking the flu. how you can monitor how bad it is in your p

room is vital to homeland security and now every town and village wants one and they are getting it lansingn. >> it isn't them saying they know their district but the country better than a bureaucrat in washington, patently false. >> reporter: this year congress raided the homeland security budget for 51 emergency op centers and now want twice the money for 75 more. some in small towns, like white fish montana and forts gibson, mississippi, 7 cons and 2 doctors people and south orange new jersey wants one, as well, newark, morris county and union county and hackensack have one, $3 million tor five opes centers in a 20 mile radius. >> it is way out of control and any time you put those two rdz works homeland security into the appropriation bill then you automatically have less. >> reporter: especially true when it comes to another pork-barrel program, the disaster and terror preparedness. in 1970 the government built the federal law enforcement training center in georgia, to train first responders. yet, this year alone, congress earmarked $160 million for 17 similar centers. including the na

got a call in from lansing, michigan. susan, do you have children?? >> caller: i would be very upset. there are so many doctrines and religions in the united states that's a right for a parent to make the choice of where their child goes to church and what the child does. for the school to make that choice and take them on a field trip to any temple, synagogue, mosque, any church, this sort of thing, it's infringing on my right as a parent on how i teach my child and how my child is brought up. they're still of the age of needing a parents' guidance. >> thank you. deon, one of the mothers said they felt like her child was being brainwashed. what do you think? >> caller: i don't think it has anything to do with brainwashing. i just have a problem because baptism is something serious. it's not something that you just go do. there's a meaning behind it. there's a reason for doing it. i'm wondering if that was explained to the kids what baptism entails and what it's really about. that's the problem i have with the whole issue. >> that's an excellent poin