national president, blinded veterans association. army and navy union of the usa. national commander, non- commissioned officers association. national vice commander of the american legion. senior vice commander, military order of the purple heart. national president of the reserve association. national commandant, marine corps league. national president, paralyzed veterans of america. national commander, legion of valor, of the usa. commander in chief, military order of the world wars. cochairman of the board, national association of fallen services. the retired and enlisted association. i would like to ask the president and national commanders to stand and be recognized. please join me in recognizing our veterans and national leadership with your applause. [applause] it is now my pleasure to introduce our veterans organization host, the congressional medal of honor society. it was established in 1946, and was limited to the recipients of the medal of valor, the nation's highest award for gallantry in combat. today there are 78 livin

the ce oh, of fair compare, the executive director of the national association of airline passengers and terry triplet, an aviation analyst who run as consumer website called the plain rules. just before the break, the way this could be good for all the stakeholders involved. but we have already been living through an era, have they done any of the things that terry suggests? >> i am not sure if they have. the primary benefit is they have kept carriers in business. as the market has consolidated. now, while the business -- the carriers are in business, and we want them to stay in business, we want them to make money, and provide good service, there has been to my mind, especially among the u.s. carrier as focus more on making money, rather than pleasing the passenger. and in this regard, we know that going the airport has become almost like going to a carnival, where you step up, you get your boarding pass, and then you get hit with fee after fee, and then you go through airport discusser which is a whole another story, and then you get to your gate, and finally, you get on a plane,

john de miranda, executive director, national association on alcohol, drugs and disability inc. and president executive officer, stepping stone of san diego, san diego, california. dr. barbara l. kornblau, j.d., disabilities attorney and professor, school of health professions and studies, university of michigan-flint, flint, michigan. ed hammett, consumer advocate, marbury, maryland. dr. clark, how many people in the united states have a disability? that number is not exactly clear, but we estimate roughly 53 million people have a disability, and it may be larger because, again, it turns on new classification schema. but at least 53 million. john, how do we define a disability? well, a disability is really kind of a legal and an administrative term. and in some quarters you might be considered disabled, but by another jurisdiction you might not be considered disabled. but i use the term, often, physical sensory, cognitive, and developmental disability to really clarify what we're talking about. so, barbara, in terms of a real sense, so there are individuals who may have had accidents are now

she is now the third woman to chair the national governor's association. we sat down with governor fallin to discuss her plans in her new role. >> my initiative as the chair will be to focus on jobs and our economy, and basically working with education and our employers to close the skills gap between our employers to close the skills gap. and what type of skill sets our workers have. >> governor fallin says her top priority is education. she says the national governors association wants the controversial no child left behind act will be reauthorized. fallin says that would help states for funding. >> in the meantime what the governors are doing is to work together to find the best practices, you know, what works best in our individual states and frankly what doesn't work as it relates to educational academic standards bringing more rigor to the classroom, being able to set goals and get specific results so we can have highly skilled educated workforce. >> critics question fallins' commitment to education. oklahoma, reportedly leads all other states when i

. >> darden is a leading voice in the national restaurant association, the lobbying organization that negotiated the low federal minimum wage for tipped workers. >> we've come to see if we can speak to clarence otis, the ceo? >> back in 1996, herman cain, who later tried to run for president, was the head of the national restaurant association. struck this behind closed doors deal, with congress, saying that they the nra would not oppose a modest increase to the overall minimum wage as long as this wage stayed frozen forever for tipped workers. at 2 dollars and 13 cents an hour. >> could you bring somebody down, please, because we need to speak to somebody about this. we've been trying for several weeks. >> so for the last twenty-two years as the regular minimum wage has continued to rise, the minimum wage for tipped workers has stayed frozen. basically this industry is saying we don't have to pay these workers at all. they should work for us, but we don't have to pay them at all. you should pay them as customers. >> with tens of thousands of tipped workers, that adds up to a great de

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>> kathleen sebelius is the former president of national association of insurance commissioners. i keep -- you're not going to invite me to this program anymore because i keep asking the same question. who is advising this president when it comes to how the insurance markets work? i don't get these guys. >> join the crowd. i get that, too. no quarterback. brad, let me go to you, congressman. yesterday we had these revelations from mr. chow, from the hhs. he says 30 to 40% of the website is not brok is not built. specifically the back payments and the purchasing. my question is even if you got renewals, bob says you have to get it in by the first half of december, how are they going to work this through if you can't pay for it and connect the website to the insurance company? that's the part i don't get. >> that's the big question, right? we can't turn back time and wish it was another day before this all started taking place. people are prepared for this for three years at least on the provider end and people in the insurance business that planned for this for three years and now

and also ben nelsson, coe of the national association of insurance commissioners. after the president announced his fix, you put out this statement changing the rules after health plans already met the requirements of the law could destabilize the market and cause higher premiums. you met for more than an hour on friday, did you change your mind or do you fill have the same concerns? >> i felt it was a good decis n discussion. we have the same goals and we're working to get people into affordable coverage. that's what americans want. the question is what happens, who will join the the markets. will it be the young and the healthy balancing out the old and the sick which is absolutely important to make sure that whomever buys they'll have affordable coverage. >> so it could still destabilize the markets. >> we have work to do, no question, but we have an interest in doing it together and working together on that. >> senator nels, your insurance commissioners also put out a statement and you said the fix threatens to undermine the market and lead to market disruption

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my first meeting at the national association for the advance of colored people the naacp i was very, very young. there were a lot of members of the community there. alex was the president at the time. i raised my hand and proposed an idea and was shot down all of a sudden out of no where this petite young yelled we support young people and listens to this child she's our future and she went on and on. i said is that ms. rogers? i asked that because her name had been in honor household grouping. my grandmother would tell us stories about how ms. rogers did this and that. low and behold it was ms. rogers. when i had an opportunity to be part of the redevelopment allocation i made a phone call and rooerd jones but ms. rogers said this will be great for the community but you have to do what you think is best for you if you can be an advocate for the community then i support you. i was able to be on this great committee where that folks were at the forefront of approving affordable housing and we were all at the table to name this facility after ms. rogers i was proud to be part of the pr

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. >> addressing the county district attorney the national association for the advancement of colour people, the nwacp, demanded tougher charges. >> they were motivated by racial hate and planned in concert with intentional premeditated offenses rising to the leftof a felony hate crime. >> despite the election of our first afghan american president. they are the most frequent victims of hate crimes. >> the president of the university appeared alongside the nwacp. >> somewhere in the process our decision-making fail. as part of it i failed that student. within that we failed all of our students. >> the white students reportedly had a confederate flag in the dorm and nicknamed the blackman three fifths, a clause that used to count black americans as a three fifth of a person. they had a bike you-lock around his neck, shocking in california. >> the fact that this happened on my camp u i'm almost embarrassed to represent my school - it's what we are known for at this time. the 18-year-old boy could have been my little brother. >> i think the kids were going it as a joke. still - not okay. we ar

this is the national association of black military women. tell me, this is colonel with the u.s.rmy nurse corp. tell us how important is this parade. >> it's very important, as women being together, as you can see we have all nationalities. i've been in the military for 25 years. we have women that reached the ranks of general. so this is very important to us. >> thank you. and we have colonel osborn, thank you for being with us, and for your service. now you're recently retired, and just returned from kuwait. you tell me, you have seen the evolution of women over 30-year career service. tell me what you've seen in terms of women rising in the ranks. >> good morning, i feel we've raised to the ranks where now you can see we're now going to be in the battlefield. that's very big in the military. no one would ever thought that a female--we have female gunners. we have female pilots. we have female generals. one of the generals three-star generals will be our grand marshal today. you can see the big evolution in the military. >> big change, sure. so you guys, you've got your sign re

she holds a leadership position in the national association of counties as their second vice president. she will tell you help pass a county has been hit hard by wildfires and flooding in the past two years predicament he has has shown memorable courage and resilience. they have begun to rebuild from these terrible disasters. thank you, sally, for being here and thanks to all of you for being here. it is an outstanding panel. >> i have a little midwestern up eight. -- update. south dakota, you said north dakota. for mr. troxel. >it's a midwestern thing. [laughter] it's like me confusing colorado and wyoming. [laughter] up?did i screw that [laughter] all right, i am now pleased to turn to the panel. take it away. thank you very much again for being here. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today and share my thoughts ,bout the beetle outbreak ensuing fires, and my perceptions of the u.s. forest service and their ability to adjust to these changing conditions. being born and raised in new mexico and colorado as a second- generation owner and operator of wolf creek ski area

lobbyists showing up from the national association of manufacturing, the chamber of commerce, the folks from microsoft and zuckerberg's operation. to demand amnesty. where are we headed with this? >> well, if their demand is amnesty, they're going to be very disappointed. i think where we're headed is kind of where we were back before the fiscal issues knocked everything else off e map. i've spoke to chairman goodlad who i think is doing a fell ol natural job from virginia last night. we're going to start having hearings again, and the house is going to pursue a step by step, comprehensive, not throw everything in, not hide stuff in a big bill, a step-by-step process where the viewers, the voters, the people we work for who say this is about agriculture. this is about internal enforcement. this is about the border. and we'll either pass it out of the republican conference because the democrat s are not going to left a finger to help us on house bills. they keep thinking the senate bill is going to come to the house floor. that's not going to happen. so the republicans are going to say w

. >> reporter: he is the president of the rockville branch of the national association of letter carriershe didn't represent barnett or the area where he was killed. but he has been the loudest voice in trying to get postal workers off the streets before it gets dark. >> i'm outraged. more than angry. and it didn't have to happen. i told them what the problems were. and they chose to ignore it. >> reporter: he's been outspoken about the dangers of delivering. he brought it up again last week in a meeting with the postmaster. last year with the district manager, he made a grim prediction. >> and he said something that somebody was going to or worse. or worse and that happened. >> reporter: the routes are longer as they are understaffed. they say after the tragedy, that something, it must change. >> reporter: and it is bound to happen again if there is something not done about it. >> i've been out at 10:00 at night. and i have co-workers out until midnight. >> it is pitch dark out here. nobody should be out here delivering mail. i think it's wrong. >> reporter: surae chinn, wusa9. >> friend

liz: national association realtors says largely due to an inventory shortage. we have to look deeper than just the headline number here. not enough homes that people want to buy. previously-owned homes fell 3.5% to 12.5 million units. economists were expecting a drop of 2.6% to 13.5 million units. david: deere reported better than expected out look this morning with the shares up more than 4% after the company saw a 17% jump in profit. the company earned $2.11 a share in the fourth quarter. analysts were expecting a $1.89 a share. we have busy afternoon including earnings coming up. "after the bell" starts right now. liz: green mountain coffee roasters numbers are out. dennis kneale has them. dennis? >> yes, wow, green mountain blowing the doors off wall street expectation,9 cents a share, vastly -- 89 cents a share, vastly higher than 75 cents a share wall street expected. revenue line coming in over a billion dollars. that is really nice 5% revenue growth instead of the 1% revenue growth wall street had been looking for. the company announces extra billion do

. >> reporter: inside the center at the national association of realtors convention, dozens were turned in. no more room to hear the keynote speech by hillary clinton and people who came from far awry not happy. >> we got to e-mail our president as well as hillary clinton. this is horrible. >> but once you are in the building, you have to have permission. >> reporter: also cut off. the media. banned from all clinton speeches in san francisco. the realtors who did hear hillary's speech said she sounded presidential. >> she dressed amazing. presidential looking. she talked about politics in asia more than home. >> reporter: tonight at the regency ballroom fund raising for the clinton foundation, a speech, and no media allowed. politics professor cory cooke says clinton is walking a thin line between citizen and candidate. >> she says she just having a fundraiser and it is not press worthy. >> reporter: professor cooke got in. he said clinton talked about childhood obesity and women's rights but nothing about running for president. >>> three days in talking ended in geneva with no agreemen

i'm with the national association of social workers. question is both on a micro and macro level for katy and matt. are either of the agency level or at the association level collecting data about the turn away rate in the not expansion state? katy, you mentioned there about 3000 inquiries after clinic in the last two months. if there's any data as to how many of those were people below the poverty line, who could not get coverage because you're in a not expansion state. >> we are collecting that. i don't know the number of the top of my head but we are clucking and we are seeing quite a few. and we know that we're going to be seeing a lot more. we are an hiv service provider and we have about 4000 hiv patients, and we know just by our data that about 1500 of those patients will not qualify. would qualify for medicaid expansion but not the other. but we are tracking it. the short answer is yes, we are tracking it. spent the at -- and the short answer is no. we are not talking. we represent the medicaid directors. we've got a third of ou

the national association of realtors blames higher prices and fewer homes on the market for the slowdown. as diana olick explains, one region of the nation, the west is getting the blunt of it. >> reporter: it may be the warmest region in the nation right now, but home sales in the west are in a deep chill. >> in the west region there is a significant shortage of inventory. you have buyers looking for the right home unwilling to commit. >> reporter: while supplies of homes for sale are down across the nation, california is one of the leanest. the number of homes for sale in san francisco fell 26% in october from a year ago. in san diego supplies are down 12% and los angeles, down 6%. those lean supplies are pushing prices skyward. the median california home price in october was $357,000, up over 25% from a year ago. that was the 20th consecutive month of annual price gains and the 11th month the gains exceeded 20%. >> i think people feel. >> reporter: ceo of real estate site red fin says higher prices hit not only consumer pocketbooks but consumer confidence. >> you have home prices drop

the national association of insurance commissioners have come out and said we don't know how this is going to work. more over, we view having a different sets of rules going into the marketplace that is detrimental to the overall system. >> would you agree there are those who say, look, the best course is to just stay the course. every plan for the benefit of everybody must have these requirements, the ten requirements that were in the piece we just saw, in the end that's better for everyone because then it makes the system work faster? >> well, there is certainly an argument to be made in that along those lines. i don't believe it's clearcut. the argument in favor is that if we had very bear bones plans, the healthy people will gravitate to those plans and leaving the unhealthy people in the comprehensive plans. and so in the extreme you don't want to happen. you do want people who are fortunate enough to be healthy now to be helping out the people who are not healthy now, vice versa when fortunes change. on the other hand, how much do you want to take it? how much do you want to re

she was the key note speaker at the national association ofç realtors foundation.s even a q and a segment. >> they asked if she would run, she said she hasn't decided yet1 >> outside the center, the group wants the former first lady to run for president in 2016. >> people are fired up. to support hillary, and we are organizing early,)we are excitd to be out here today. >> there were a lot of people inside that wanted and paid to see clinton. couldn't, because of capacity issues. issues. >> they put me in an overa room and said i couldn't go in. >> we don't want a video conference. >> this passion for a woman who has yet to show a sign or nod of what is to come. >>> how would clintonzv do if s ran for president and faced chris christie? hillary would find more support in new jersey, to the 43% christie would get. national polls have clintonç leading by 5%. >> homicide investigators are trying to determine if human bones discovered buried under a home in houston are those of a woman who grew up in the bay area, wendy marshall8 graduate in 1987. they are awaiting t

the national association of realtors reports home prices have risen nearly 16% in 25- cities over the past year. while financial website interest-dot-com reports incomes rose about three percent. discouraging, to luisa fonseca's sister. "she has to scale back. she's looking at cheaper homes that she can afford." putting home-buying on hold for others. "waiting and getting money together, hoping it goes down." san francisco, an expensive market already, got even pricier. when the median home price last year of 552-thousand, 600- dollars...rose this year to 706-thousand, 300. an increase of more than 150-thousand dollars. a big bounce, unlikely to repeat, next year. "it's gonna be less than 16%, next year. so you're better off saving, maybe paying a slightly higher rate but be in a stronger position." and there are options. "there are program with 10% down, there are programs with 3% down, but your credit drives that 10% product." "if yout want to own your own home, you're going to have to have more liquidity because your wages aren't going to keep up to the market." in a related survey

as "home prices" rise across the country-- the national association of home builders reports american's ability to "own a home" is becoming more challenging.. according to the report-- the most affordable cities include indianapolis, syracuse, youngstown, harrisburg and buffalo. california cities rank as the least affordable, along with new york city. still to come..... it's a traders unplugged friday-- with the guys chewing over ways to invest in breakfast.. . and-- later in chart talk... new "options" for investors looking to make money on twitter. we'll be right back! still to come..... it's a traders unplugged friday-- with the guys chewing over ways to invest in breakfast.. . and-- later in chart talk... new "options" for investors looking to make money on twitter. we'll be right back it's time to get real-- as dr. phill would say. joining us from the floor of cme group traders alan knuckman and james ramelli are here for another round of traders unplugged! good morning we are good to go at topic number 1 1)cereal killer - kellogs and general mills are cutting jobs on soft cereal d

. >> reporter: we asked the national association of chain drug stores for annterview but the group declined saying it couldn't comment on the pricing practices of its members. but in a statement e-mailed to the "newshour," the group said instances of customers paying the full retail price for a drug u.s. yaoing no insurance accounts for only 8.5% of prescriptions dispensed by pharmacies nationwide. and there are many factors involved in product pricing. costs of the exact time when the drugs were purchased from the supplier. the laws of supply and demand and some of the components that determine drug prices. we also asked target why it would charge $455 for my mom's cancer drug. if it would apparently be willing to match the much lower price of $11. in an e-mailed statement, target didn't answer the question directly. only saying factors that impact prices include, a guest insurance plan, price changes from manufacturers and the guest deductible's in response to the "consumer reports" survey last spring, cvs said in a statement, random price check of only five drugs is too small to draw mea

the national association of realtors reports a .6% drop in homes sales in october. the government shutdown hurt the industry. but also the inventory of available homes on the market is shrinking and the amount of affordable houses is becoming limited. sears chairman -- and activist investor -- eddie lampert is reportedly considering selling a big chunk of the company. the new york post says lampert is considering selling sears canada and is interviewing banks about the possible transaction. sears canada posted a quarterly loss of $46.3 million and recently closed its toronto flagship store. amazon is accustomed to getting good p-r this time of year -- primarily because of all the holiday hiring the company does. but now comes word of some hits to its reputation. amazon workers in germany are striking today to protest their low wages. add to that a bbc investigation where a reporter took an amazon holiday hire position. the work was reportedly stressful enough to cause both mental and physcial illness. amazon refuted claims that its workers are subjected to undue str

in the studio, douglas kidd director of the national association of airline passengers, and from minneapol minneapolis, terry trip letter, analyst who runs a consumer website called "the plain rules." rick ceni let me start with you. this was not looking good, and then suddenly the clouds parted, the inpediments disappeared and they were back in business. what did the two carriers have to do to get attorney general holder's blessing? >> well, i think they started picking at it at the state level. they went after some of the state legislators, the attorney generals got them to flip some of their positions on things, based on things they wanted to handle with them and then slowly but surely you could tell pretty much last week when southwest filed a friend of the court free they were really talking turkey on the kind of settle they would have. i didn't think it would be this soon. i thought it would go up to the wire, into novembe into the end. >> why would they be happy right now? >> well, in the case of american, i live in dallas where american is based, there has been acrimony between lab

the national association of realtors predicts home sales will remain flat in 2014, compared with the big gains from the last two years. but that isn't stopping developers who are in a condo building blitz in florida. the same place hit hardest bythe housing crisis. jackie keenan takes us there. it's dejavu in tampa, florida. condos are a hot segment in real estate again. just five years ago a glut of condos littered the skyline here and in other florida markets like miami and orlando. now, 30 percent of new home sales here are condos - and new towers are under construction. vice president of real estate for smith and associates dave traynor says the market is on a roll. what we're seeing is prices going up so developers are coming in and starting new projects. or in this building's case, a reversion. in 2007 this condo building, grand central, was one of many across florida to open as the housing market was crashing. so this developer turned half its urban-chic units into apartments. now, many buildings like this one are reverting back into condos. traynor says the timing was right t

we also partnered in a formal way with the national association of underwriters. they did all of our broker training. that helped a lot. we also partnered with business associations like the d.c. chamber of commerce the restaurant association. that is held a lot in terms of not only educating people about the affordable care act, but also being trusted messengers. those business partnerships are helping us in the moment as well. >> thank you. lmi, more toms, this discussion, i laid a let a foundation program where we tested voluntary subsidies for the working uninsured. interested, mila and those of you have had a chance to look at these plans, some of them will have to have narrow were networks. i would report that there are no easy ways to make health insurance affordable. these from lot of purchasing cooperatives to subsidies to narrow were -- narrower networks. those early projects help to mend the laws in smaller markets. uninsured were not unwilling to use their own networks. they wanted a range of care from hospitals to ambulances and so forth. i'm wonderin

she talked about senator nelson, that's ben nelson, the former senator at the head of the national associationinsurance commissioners, state regulators for these companies. they spent three years thinking obama care was going to be the law and building up a structure to deal with that. now, with the president's news conference on thursday, that all goes out the window. >> chris, this has reached truly crisis proportions. is there any indication from your interviews that it's going to go back in the direction it was intended to? >> no, i mean, they're just dealing with what the president has told them. and some companies, some regulators have said they're just not going to play. they're not going to reinstate these policies. they have gone too far. there are other companies and other state insurance commissioners who have said they are going to try to reinstate them. again, even if you get policies reinstated, that means a lot of people who obama care was counting on, the obama administration was counting on joining the exchanges and joining the risk pool and providing some balance for the olde

i'm with the national association of social workers. my first question is both on a micro and macro level for katy and matt. are either of the agency level or at the association level collecting data about the turn away rate in the not expansion state? katy, you mentioned there about 3000 inquiries after clinic in the last two months. if there's any data as to how many of those were people below the poverty line, who could not get coverage because you're in a not expansion state. >> we are collecting that. i don't know the number of the top of my head but we are clucking and we are seeing quite a few. and we know that we're going to be seeing a lot more. we are an hiv service provider and we have about 4000 hiv patients, and we know just by our data that about 1500 of those patients will not qualify. would qualify for medicaid expansion but not the other. but we are tracking it. the short answer is yes, we are tracking it. spent the at -- and the short answer is no. we are not talking. we represent the medicaid directors. we've got a thi