. >> it's called the kalamazoo promise.into the city and get free college tuition for your kids. >> people are like, you're crazy. i said someone will always want to live in the suburbs, but i want my kids to go to college without debt. >> that story and more as "real the stream is uniquely interactive television. in fact, we depend on you, your ideas, your concerns. >> all these folks are making a whole lot of money. >> you are one of the voices of this show. >> i think you've offended everyone with that kathy. >> hold on, there's some room to offend people, i'm here. >> we have a right to know what's in our food and monsanto do not have the right to hide it from us. >> so join the conversation and make it your own. >> watch the stream. >> and join the conversation online @ajamstream. >> kalamazoo michigan has become a model of how philanthropists and businesses and other cities can motivate students to go to college. in the last eight years 3,000 kalamazoo grads have received a total of $50 million in full or partial scho

and another video shows patrick at a hotel here in kalamazoo. about ten minutes talking with employees and then she walks away. police say it's the last time she was seen. >> the future of drones in america getting clearer today. the government today announcing six sites across the country where drones will be tested. they include texas a&m and virginia tech. we're told two dozen states came up with proposals on how to fit drones into american air space. >>> and just two more days until colorado becomes the first state to legalize retail sales of marijuana for recreational use. thus far, only about 14 businesses in the denver area have received licenses to tell pot to anyone over the age of 21. >> 30 percent of the new business is going to be from out otstate, and then we're going to have people like soccer moms coming in who would like to smoke a joint after their kid is in bed, and then a lot of people who don't have an ailment who can get a card who are now able to come in and shop legally if they want to use marijuana. >> did he just say soc

from kalamazoo, michigan, y'all give it up for pala copeland! let her hear it!o your daughter, she gave you something very specific about coming on this show, i believe. >> yes, cedric, she did. she's very fashion-conscious, and she advised me, "mom, make sure you wear a shaping undergarment."

. >> reporter: the family has now hired a private investigator in the kalamazoo area to look in the kalamazoo see if there are any further clues to help the authorities locate this missing woman. again, a young girl, apparently disoeriented in the hotel lobby and then disappears. obviously a lot of people are concerned. >> kevin tibbles reporting from chicago for us. keep us up to speed on any updates, we appreciate it. >>> "the new york times" benghazi investigation has reignited the debate over last year's consulate attack there. >>> and lone star senator ted cruz and this is 2013 antics. >>> and the red state/blue state divide. is it producing competing americas. those are the topics for our agenda panel. irin carmon, victoria soto, also an msnbc contributor, and corey dade is a contributing editor for theroot.com. corey, i want to start with you and "the new york times" because it's this report that they have disputing mainly republican claims that al qaeda was involved in last year's attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi that killed ambassador chris stevens and three other americans.

if you want to look at kalamazoo, michigan, people in mayflower r arkansas, i think my people don't knowt the economic loss is for the communities and for the vivid people that have been affected. so sometimes, no amount of money can replace what's been damaged. and we are certainly very concerned about our water. if this pipeline would go near an irrigation well, and god forbid any of the tar sands would get down into our irrigation water and the ogalala aquifer, nobody on earth today knows how they would get that out or what would actually happen. >> speaking about impact our community says you know sometimes the impact could be jobs and economy and that might outweigh the environmental risks. tweets, morgan says, go ahead, one jobs two money and three energy security, concerns are there but without risk, no reward. mike says yes they outweigh the legitimate concerns. j. t. says it's obvious to outweigh the positive, the risks, environmental issues we still don't understand the connection between the economics and environment and fine reply aria says regarding keystone, we should care

baffled investigators in two states. 30-year-old patrick did not show up for work december 6 in kalamazoochigan. the night before her car was found abandoned in indiana. and now new videos uploaded to youtube show patrick singing to someone. the question is who? alexander looks into this. ♪ you walked into my life >> reporter: investigators are examining youtube videos of patrick serenading an unidentified love interest in their search for clues in her disappearance. >> hi, baby. good night. >> reporter: in the video she apparently shot herself teleka refers to someone as love and baby. >> hi, love. >> reporter: investigators wonder if this person may have information about what happened on december 5, the night teleka vanished. >> the search has been intensified but to date no leads. >> reporter: surveillance footage from that night shows her trying to check in at the radison hotel, the place she was last seen boarding the hotel shuttle bus that took her to her car parked at the medical center where she worked in kalamazoo. the 30-year-old had just graduated from medical school and was m

husband dick will always remember for being all bundled up in their winter coats inside their house in kalamazoo. but it's little conor hergert without power in flint, michigan, who may best sum up the mood of many without saying a single word. as terrell brown reports, forecasts calling for more snow are not going to make it any easier to get the power turned back on. >> reporter: crews are scrambling to help restore hardest hit areas. this team traveled nearly 500 miles to help restore power. workers like erik collins have been clearing branches and reconnecting lines nonstop since monday. >> much rather be at home with my family and kids. my kids are at home in a warm -- playing playstation and xbox and these kids are just trying to stay warm. >> reporter: in maine, about 60,000 customers are without power. down from 100,000 tuesday. in vermont, nearly 1,500. and across michigan about 150,000 customers are still in the dark. the state's largest utility hadn't dealt with that many power outages in any christmas week in its 126 year history. the storm left trees coated in ice across the midwest

hotel shuttle to take her to her car, located at the borges hospital, where she worked in downtown kalamazoo her car is found abandoned on i-94, more than 100 miles away from the hospital in kalamazoo, with her wallet inside. the last person to see her, the bus driver, said that patrick seemed agitated. >> she seemed as if she was looking around, as if someone could be following her. >> reporter: and surfacing this morning -- >> hi, love. it's me. >> reporter: what appears to be self-shot videos of patrick from youtube, showing off a dinner she made for someone special. >> we both have orange juice. and there's the flowers from last time. >> reporter: but no one in her family knows who. other videos from the same site may shed clues to patrick's state of mind. >> first, i had a morning report. not morning report. conferences for pediatrics. >> reporter: patrick, who worked in psychiatry worked late hours and often didn't sleep. it's been almost three weeks since she disappeared. but family and friends hold out hope that the doctor, known for her smile, returns home before the new year. for "

hotel's shuttle bus that took her to her car, parked at the borgess medical center where she worked in kalamazooe 30-year-old had just graduated from medical school and was only months into her residency at the hospital. just hours after she was captured on this surveillance camera. >> reporter:authorities found her car abandoned with a flat tire off interstate 94 in porter, indiana, about 100 miles from where she worked. >> reporter:inside, a credit card, some cash and her driver's license. >> reporter:her bizarre disappearance has investigators in two states stumped after their all-out searches have turned up nothing. >> reporter:these new videos are raising more questions than answers. >>"we are desperate to hear something." >> catherine:the patrick family is offering a 15- thousand-dollar reward for information leading to their daughter's safe return. >> catherine:the n-s-a is being accused of snooping that goes way beyond its huge phone surveillance program. a german magazine is reporting that it's also hacking into people's computers. >> catherine:"der speigel" says a unit at the n-s-a is

my great-great-grandfather drove him to kalamazoo, michigan, to pick it up, and then it came into mysession and now i'm going to cherish it, for sure. he played... it's the square... square dances. with a tenor banjo? with a tenor banjo. which, you know, is a gibson. yep. and it's a very interesting model. it's a florentine model. gibson, during the big band era of the 1920s and '30s made lots of these very loud... yeah, it is. mastertone model banjos. and not only very loud, but in some cases very fancy, like this one. the florentine was all carved and painted up as you can see. and this is an interesting variation on the florentine, because florentines generally didn't have what we call the "hearts and flowers" inlay here and this checkerboard pattern. that's what you'd find on style 6 gibson mastertones. this is probably a custom model. the banjo was actually made in 1927. '27, okay. according to the serial number; i looked inside. the first year for the florentine banjo. and i'm not really sure whether the first year involved some variations or not. perhaps the strangeness of the

host: barbara, kalamazoo, michigan. good morning. caller: good morning. i have been washing you folks for quite a while -- watching you folks for quite a while. you talkike to know -- about the bonds and the things and people buying them more and get involved more -- we have lost enough money out of all of this nonsense. don't quite know how people,t -- all of us everybody is saying we have had all of these jobs growth -- service may be. on can't make a living mcdonald's or pressing close or babysitting. you can't do that. host: she is touching on many different parts of the economy. speak about minimum wage. guest: let's talk about the nature of job growth. we have created roughly 7 million jobs since the bottom of the economy in 2008-2009. on the surface, that sounds like good news. beneath the surface, there are troubling aspects. it is the case that we have created jobs and the producing sector. to recover forin huge loss of jobs that occurred in the years prior to that. many of the jobs created pay very little wages. the rate of wage growth has not b

how do you get people to look at a broader set of great schools like hope college in kalamazoo michigantate in lance sng they did pretty well against ohio state this weekend. how do you get them to look beyond the hudson river? >> that's what we want to do. we want students to avoid looking at the top ten schools. we want students to discover universities outside of their comfort zone. >> but aren't students going to those schools because they want great career opportunities? and it is those five or ten that have extraordinary alumni support, extraordinary career services. if you want to get a job on wall street you need to have gone to pen, harvard. >> but that's the problem. you don't need to get a job on wall street. we ought to be encouraging people to go in many other areas of the economy, engineering, mining, agriculture even. that's part of the problem we have today. we have a financially driven economy, a wall street obsessed stock market obsessed policy. >> and also, with that in terms of the type of careers, the people looking at wall streets are students concentrated on the n

and so going back to michigan, there is a kalamazoo promise program and other local promise programs for residents in those localities. >> thank you. i would like to ask by shifting directions a moment. i was at her state's community college this is a novel concept for colleges, i understand. >> this ties into the rest of our student systems. >> and so when students come into the actual classroom, they are actually is an attendance process as they sit in the seat? >> yes, there is. >> and is that -- how long has that process put in place? >> just about two years now. >> okay. and i assume that that is because we have seen it in a lot of colleges. and there is eight period of time when students would disappear? >> yes, that is true. >> you think that we should use that as an innovative way to ensure that students aren't taking the loan money, which we know, the students and professors have seen it happen? >> yes, we have found that that was one of the best ways, you know, to monitor that. when the subject came up two years ago with the negotiated rulemaking session for program integri

patrick, a first-year medical resident in kalamaz kalamazoo, michigan, has been missing for two weeksshe got a suspicious call the day before she vanished. but they don't know who it was from. family members say patrick, seen here in this home video, was always smiling. she was last seen on december 5th, around 8:00 p.m. surveillance video capturing her as she returned from an evening out and tried to get a room at the radison hotel. a hotel that was a five-minute drive from her home. but she didn't have enough money for the room. she took a hotel shuttle to her car. 2:20 later, he gold lexus was found in a ditch, more than 100 miles away in portage, indiana. >> the indiana state police have gone out in the area, looking all over for any clue related to this case. >> reporter: adding to the mystery, investigators found her purse and cell phone at the medical center, not in her car. >> somebody out there has something. >> reporter: her family is desperate for answers. >> we keep getting close to christmas. and it keeps getting further and further away. >> reporter: they'll keep searchi

there is a kalamazoo promise program and other local promise programs. >> we talked about attendance. i find it interesting that anne arundel does take attendance was i think is a double concept. the professors actually take attendance? when students come into the classroom there is in this process. we have seen after that cutoff date there actually is a time when students would disappear? >> yes. that is true. you want to use this as an innovative way to ensure students are not taking the loan money which we do know? >> it is one of the best ways to monitor that. when the subject came up two on a rule-making session for program integrity issues, there were a large numbers of organizations that pushback against the department of education stopped short of mandating it here at community colleges took a look at it, not just an run bill, and thought was a good way to move forward. >> do you have any idea what it cost roughly to implement a program like that? informed as to what the cost for programming was. i know that except for a few faculty, it was very well- received by a majority of

it is time for the administration to be honest with folks like mary swanson in kalamazoo, michigan, my constituents who has lost a self-described excellent plan. no more false promises, no more political games, no more questionable testimony. it is time for transparency and the truth. i yield the balance of my time to dr. murphy. >> thank you, chairman upton. thank you for being here today, secretary sebelius. as the chairman of the subcommittee, i work with my fellow members to conduct oversight of the president's health care law. we have had several people talk about its implementation. some of the concerns raised in the first part of this year, increased premiums, the burden on small businesses, whether implementation was on track and the cost have come to fruition. documents uncovered show that the administration months before the october 1 start up of open enrollment had problems with the federally facilitated marketplace. every administration official came before us testifying that implementation was on track. we are just two weeks from the january 1 start of coverage and what sh

. >> host: first call for greg ip of the economist, kalamazoo, michigan. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i've been watching you folks for quite a while, and i'd like to know, you talk about the bonds and the things and to get people to buy them more and get involved more. we've lost enough money out of all this nonsense. you know, i don't quite know how to put it in sentences. but all of the loyal people, you say we've -- not just you, but everybody's saying we have had all these jobs growth. service maybe. you can't make a living on mcdonald's or on pressing clothes or babysitting. you can't do that. >> host: thanks, barbara. of she's touching on many different parts of the economy. speak first about the last thing she mentioned, minimum wage. >> guest: sure. let's talk about the nature of job growth. it is case that we've created roughly seven million jobs since the bottom of the economy back in late 2009, early 2010. and the unemployment rate has come down from 10% to 7%. so on the surface that sounds like good news, but as the caller was referri

it is time for the administration to be honest with folks like mary swanson in kalamazoo, michigan, my constituents who, along with her husband, had an actual plan. no more false promises, no more political gain, no more questionable testimony. it is time for transparency and the truth. a yield accountable time to dr. murphy. >> thank you, chairman upton. thanks for being here today, secretary sebelius. as the chairman of the subcommittee, i work with my filamentous to conduct oversight of the president's health care law. we've had people before our committee who talked about its implementation. some of the concerns raised in the first part of this year increased premiums, the burden of this law on small businesses, whether the implementation was on track and the costs have come to fruition. documents uncovered by the subcommission of the administration months before the october 1 start up of open enrollment had problems with a federally facilitated market place. yet every administration official can be forced testified before the committee this year that implementation was on track. w

boarding the shuttle bus that took her to her car parked at the medical center where she worked in kalamazoost graduated from medical school, months into her residency at the hospital, just hours after she was captured on surveillance camera authorities found her car abandoned with a flat tire off interstate 94 in indiana, about 100 miles from where she worked. inside credit card, some cash and her driver's also. her bizarre disappearance has investigators in two states stumped after their all-out searches have turned up nothing. these new videos are raising more questions than answers. >> we are desperate to hear something. >> you can just feel that family's desperation. they have put together a report, they are offering $15,000 for anyone who has information that leads to this woman's safe return. >> you can hear the anguish in that mother's voice not knowing. >> investigators have no evidence of foul play but also say they have no evidence she left voluntarily so truly something that is stumping them. >>> next up on "new day" they're starting to stock their shelves but even though recreat

host: barbara, kalamazoo, michigan. good morning. caller: good morning. i have been washing you folks for quite a while -- watching you folks for quite a while. you talkike to know -- about the bonds and the things and people buying them more and get involved more -- we have lost enough money out of all of this nonsense. don't quite know how people,t -- all of us everybody is saying we have had all of these jobs growth -- service may be. on can't make a living mcdonald's or pressing close or babysitting. you can't do that. host: she is touching on many different parts of the economy. speak about minimum wage. guest: let's talk about the nature of job growth. we have created roughly 7 million jobs since the bottom of the economy in 2008-2009. on the surface, that sounds like good news. beneath the surface, there are troubling aspects. it is the case that we have created jobs and the producing sector. to recover forin huge loss of jobs that occurred in the years prior to that. many of the jobs created pay very little wages. the rate of wage growth has not b

it is time for the administration to be honest with folks like mary swanson in kalamazoo, michigan, my constituents who has lost a self-described excellent plan. no more false promises, no more political games, no more questionable testimony. it is time for transparency and the truth. i yield the balance of my time to dr. murphy. >> thank you, chairman upton. thank you for being here today, secretary sebelius. as the chairman of the subcommittee, i work with my fellow members to conduct oversight of the president's health care law. we have had several people talk about its implementation. some of the concerns raised in the first part of this year, increased premiums, the burden whether businesses, implementation was on track and the cost have come to fruition. documents uncovered show that the administration months before the october 1 start up of open enrollment had problems with the federally facilitated marketplace. every administration official came before us testifying that implementation was on track. we are just two weeks from the january 1 start of coverage and what should the