to go everywhere in midland.rode our bikes to the little shopping center to the lunch at the pharmacy. lots -- thee has drugstore, i had lots of really good friends and i am still very close with the people i grew up with in midland. withct, i hike every year a group of four other midland friends of mine. we see each other all the time. it is really terrific now to be with them. now it takes five of us to remember somebody's name. we also know each other's history and all of our old boyfriends and all of the same things about each other because we were in elementary school, junior high, and high school together. there is great security in having friends that were your friends when you were a child and having that kind of history of friendship and george also grew up in midland. bushes lived in midland until they were in the eighth grade, when they moved to houston. from elementary school, those same great friends of mine were in the first grade and second grade with george. friends that-- his he played baseball w

and he went into the oil business in midland. that's where i think they were there for the first 10 years of their marriage. where their daughters were born and where they raised and toddler. and childhood years. so it was -- it was -- i think it was a pretty middle class existence for a long time. until he decided to do other things. later in his life. >> was it milleds class by choice or by necessity? they came from a very -- he came from a very wealthy family. and he was in the oil business. did they choose to live more modestly? >> well, i think they both have a certain modesty about them in that way. that continues today. they don't have the world's hugest most well appointed house in dallas. it's certainly nice. i think he felt a strong need to make it on his own. i would defer to you. because you are working on this book about the relationship between them. but as you find with a lot of sons, he dent want to feel as if he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. or the expression is hit a single -- yeah. >> was born on t

we were free to go everywhere in midland.e rode our bikes to the little shopping center to eat lunch at the pharmacy. the drugstore, i had lots of really good friends and i am still very close with the people i grew up with in midland. in fact, i hike every year with a group of four other midland friends of mine. we see each other all the time. it is really terrific now to be with them. now it takes five of us to remember somebody's name. we also know each other's history and all of our old boyfriends and all of the same things about each other because we were in elementary school, junior high, and high school together. there is great security in having friends that were your friends when you were a child and having that kind of history of friendship and george also grew up in midland. the bushes lived in midland until we were in the eighth grade, when they moved to houston. from elementary school, those same great friends of mine were in the first grade and second grade with george. his grandson -- his friends that he played

the very very ugly very castor and daniels dulls are the two midland texas police officers have been suspended for three days without pay for holding a contest to see who could steal the most science from local homeless people seriously very dissociated press the contest went on for two weeks and only ended

bush became a born-again christian when he was in midland's. they did changed his life a lot of ways she is less, i think, vocal about her religious faith and the is. he's a little bit more low key about it. think it's important to both of their lives. >> the second first lady to have a postgraduate degree. in you tell us what is important to know better education and early job? >> i think that people frequently overlook that because they make the mistake of thinking nicias a conventional woman, which she is not all. she is white interior and as a certain modesty, at that word means much anymore so that she did not ever really boast about a lot. she certainly was very self directed. she came back from smu and teaching and said she wanted to go on to the university of texas . she said her father said, will never get her husband. to go on and get her master's degree but many people thought if you went to college at all was for an demarest agree. and then she very purposefully moved into a part of boston which is still the boreal of the side and t

health james riley has apologized to those families affected by failures in maternity care of the midlands regional hospital port leash. dr body was responding to last month's report by the rt investigations unit into the deaths of four babies over a six year period the program revealed serious failings in their medical care and long delays in informing parents by their babies have died. up to riley is or report from his chief medical officer said he was a poll for two families were still on the way of investigations into their cases. last night's document revealing ortiz investigations unit to date and the serious shortcomings the portuguese hospital's maternity units. choking is disturbing as those findings were. it's now a marriage that midwives at the hospital had expressed concern over working conditions and staffing levels at the hospital. as far back as two thousand and six. prior to the deaths of four babies which were examined in the programme broadcast last night. they had written to the then finance minister brian cullen and then helps them is to marry high knee in september two

we're midland when it comes to airports but how are we with highways and bridges?iously some engineers are concerned. >> as opposed to midland, the truth is, we have a lot of problems out there. they have looked at this numerous times to come out with a report card and it continues to be very, very bad. for example, if you talk about dams in this country, there are 84,000 dams. the average age is 52 years old. >> 52 years old? >> 4,000 of them are considered to be in really sufficiently -- a very deficient state right now, presenting major hazards out there and to fix them would be $21 billion. >> okay. but why aren't federal, state, and local goempb governments ponying up and trying to pay for these infrastructures? there would be jobs, too. >> it's the numbers i cited. everybody is hurting for money. everybody is urt hadding fhurti. here's the thing, when you spend this kind of money, you're going to have to demand money from taxpayers to pay for it. nobody wants to do that right now and most of these are big projects. >> tom foreman, thank you so much. >>> that

. >> when i think back to midland, texas, i think of baseball.s a very good baseball player. he was the captain of a successful yale baseball team. they went to the ncaa championship twice, badly lost both times. he was a good first baseman. i used to love to play catch with him. i remember the first time he said, son, i can throw it as hard as i want. which meant a lot to me. when i had come of age at least in terms of me being able to catch a baseball. >> the family began to grow with robin and another son, jed. bush learned the oil business and found the pet toll yum corporation with a group of investors in 1953. it became an offshore drilling operation with rigs around the world. >> we had some very difficult times when the rig went down that was a third of your company's holdings. that's tough. but you have to have someone who knows what it means to have 60 people or whatever number they had depending on your livelih d livelihood. >> the times they faced were nothing compared to a parent's worth nightmare when 3-year-old robin was diagnosed

it was midland trail elementary and riverside high.ver, about 20 minutes away from the other schools. both midland trail and riverside high were closed again today. after they started running the water yesterday morning, a teacher fainted. students and employees complained of being sick and light-headed. one student and one teacher were hospitalized yesterday for those schools. so that's three schools today, two yesterday. in total, these five schools in charleston were shut today. a month after what everybody thought was a ter blg accident but one that was over, supposedly. a totally preventible accident. obviously terrible conditions maintained by a shady company operating in a virtually unregulated industry. but the lack of emergency planning for a chemical spill of this kind, the lack of sufficient planning to protect the drinking water intake for charleston, west virginia, and frankly, the botched response after the fact by officials who keep declaring the all-clear before it's actually all-clear, all of these things have combined

the crew has just two hours to wall cone so midland as evening descends on the. it's still early morning to both of those in a time difference because the ship remains on hope post time tomorrow she'll sailed west. the fleet awaits safe passage through the ice. so obviously one of the russian also for the continuation of the return they want to sell the american heart. missiles all the rest of it to a new country new new markets expanding markets because most of these countries are . still much more politico and. certainly economic the bug in between europeans who wants to go with the united states remain committed to their security and the united states wants you. know we are all like you just i could jump in and ask you could if i could jump in and ask you i mean they want washington because they want the american taxpayer to pay for it because the united states pays the vast majority of the bill for nato so this is free riding that's what they want you know no no they don't want they're not the security of this is really an evolution they want someone else in

the crew has just two hours to wall cone so midland as evening descends on the. it's still early morning able to find the time difference because the ship remains on hope post telling tomorrow she'll sailed west. the fleet awaits safe passage through the ice. this is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rape they really needed to buy guns environ how to use them. this is the one that i want to go with them once again it's the fear factor for women definitely the target of the gun lobby and you don't kill them when you're killing money but if somebody would you would just prefer. i know to say more and more if that's really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to guns to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink or. more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth were clearly not the safest. but they are. the location of a boy still remember. how to do well

homes without power and the rest i understand it across northern and southwest england and the west midlands. engineers have managed to restore power to 145,000 customers since the storms hit on wednesday with 6,000 restored overnight. so there's still a lot of work to do, a lot of roads that are flooded, clearing debris, fallen trees and other damage caused by the 100 mile per hour winds as we wait and baton down for the storms to hit. >> the human rights subcommittee is holding a public hearing on the situation of migrant workers in ca that ahead of the feefa world cup in 2022. 1.8 million migrant workers are now preparing projects for that world cup. earlier this week they released a report on workers rights saying they would improve. for more on this, in brussels. what more can you tell us? >> well, basically what you just said. what we heard today is that the situation for migrant workers is quite frankly appalling. o the head of the european parliament subcommittee invited a representative to come here and say why that country was chosen to hold the world cup in 2022 when we've seen th

. >> this pensioner from the midlands says he was groomed to part with his savings. >> he said he would get my money for the next best get my money straightaway, and for the next three weeks we were devastated. we were absolutely broke. the city of london forces played a major part in this crackdown. the aim, they say, is to decimate boiler room fraud by arresting what they termed tier one criminals who are living well on the suffering of others. that ignorescrime global boundaries and ignores international borders and operates across the world. thatwe have shown here is we are able to do that as well. >> back in barcelona, five people were taken away to join more than 100 others arrested in the simultaneous raids. this scam has not been , but it will offer reassurance to victims and severely damage the boiler room's ability to operate. >> quite the scam there. the world bank, one of the biggest providers of aid to uganda, has postponed a $19 million loan to the country following a new law imposing harsh punishments on gay men and women. homosexual acts were already illegal in uganda. t

the crew has just two hours to wall cone so midland as evening descends on the. it's still early morning able to find the time difference because the ship remains on a home post telling tomorrow she'll sailed west. the fleet awaits safe passage through the ice. billets the location the boys still remember. how to do it well there's of the ten thousand said you would stop this storm we might think you know my people will die. please please. please. you know. it's real or steals the show in sochi with arch rivals russia and the united states facing off. decided on. the russian jailed in the u.s. says he's in a critical condition and may not live beyond the weekend. for medical intervention . the second round of syria has broken off with the opposition pushing for regime change and western powers blaming president. meanwhile serious conflict continues to spill over into lebanon. and your interview. with. piers. r.t. this is a radical stronghold where jihadist forces are trained to find.

talk to me about the midland, the north, and scotland. >> we are very much a national homebuilder.units from exeter to edinburgh. we do cover the entire country. we like the fact that we cover the whole country. we are seeing increasing strength in most markets outside the southeast, from the middle of last year you saw on bromance in the midlands and the final quarter you begin to see them in the northeast and scotland. by the end of the year, we are seeing those improvements starting and whilst -- in wales. the quality of all inside, and some of the government-help homebuyers, a whole mixed that is contravening to a healthier environment. eh speaks positively of t economy as well. we have always said that the help to buy scheme is effective as a relatively short to medium term help to what was a troubled mortgage market. a cliff edge withdrawal is not healthy because it is reasonably successful and scale schemed. we would not want to see it continue long-term. ofh the current planned and the scheme in 2016, we would not like to see it extended long-term or we would like to see so

enough to print them on british television co would benefit st kilda and damning them in the english midlands the program takes isn't the lives of people living on one particular street when more than ninety percent of residents came some social welfare benefits. the full programme makers say they would simply sharing people struggling at the bottom of the social ladder. the people living in jamestown the street on appearance and say they'd be made out to look like while france crunches. newspaper columnists politicians ppl in the past the role talking about it. take a look and see what you think losing no i don't know why. the idea the visit to st to get a tree with what i did this. one employee one and all they know. why watch. i changed in the streets and swimming he's not your average tree the nineteen ninety six the nationality. most of the residents were bought up all of claiming benefits and if i can say of paper makes for one can the channel which commissioned a series of claims is showing the reality of life on benefits. that reality apparently consists of crime misery and hopelessne

what to do before he crossed the border a snake the rest of the side of southwest art piece on the midland almost on her threat. we have real time reporting on for the reinforced with the previous concert is on top of that to vary their economics which can be no switching back to nineteen ten weeks. something to resist. seriously i have tried his disgruntled like a nature raised no legal concerns about the plan to extend the chevron island to the cleaners to buy shares in the end don't want to be two point four billion yuan and his spectacular time. at the top eight to the young irish stevenson's dad i'm a college trip to london. her daughter. the news that has happened so quickly so suddenly. you are. welcome to six one heavy rain over the next forty eight hours is likely to call swollen rivers here to float. the warning from the group tasked with responding to the current severe weather across the country. most of rest they say are slow moving rivers protecting the fish on them. the heaviest rain is like in the middle is size southwest and southeast. this is the reality of winter farming

protesters marched through the streets of midland to protest evictions several families were forced from their homes prompting fighting with police the demonstrators were demanding the right to be housed denounced forced evictions for unpaid rent and the government has put it by a hundred forty million euros to help tenants in difficulty and activists say there's no sign of any change so. let's give you an update on the latest breaking news coming to us here from downtown kiev the live pictures right now here on r.t. international latest numbers we have at least twenty five people have been killed this according to the health ministry in ukraine this during the overnight and this morning there have been wild accusations of live ammunition being used by both sides we do know at least at this point seven policeman being killed amid the protests so who are the people wearing balaclavas unsparing on the ballots in ukraine we try to find out next right now on r.t. international. thank you for joining us. a transit route to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of moscow. not surprisingly

the scene here on this evening she will come peace couple small time on totti duties body at the midland region of cost in total more. but already it's becoming clear that he was the victim of a violent attack. i wake this christmas and there were tiny pieces the lead orlando resort game i just tried to get to the end of this today. or actually heard about this this tea. notice they never expect to happen. this evening but the be appealed to the for their assistance with the investigation. but the more each day care when open to anybody when speaking to him since and never stop punters that the stars in fifteenth. at best a time criminal at the moment and the people have seen is gone for good and assistance with investigations. let's go to your non toll to two karen check your guard the ask anyone who can help them to come forward in providing any information about half of two guardian of the line of inquiry in relation to this moment. brian goes post mortem results are expected to confirm some nice bass tony duties to the injury is one of only two its head it was upper body put with leg

was some good news today for those people living on the shannon in a long and as for across the midlands what confirmation from the organization which controls the water levels in the river that there will be no significant flooding affecting houses in low lying areas. at least in the short term. it's clear that the order of the experimental appeared to stabilize. and theres an expectation of a book twenty seven millimeters of rain will the next five days. bring water to loosen up the little play button on the fights and sweeteners yep that's about twenty centimeters below the lowest sort of in the council is not information. we don't expect any poker within the next five days. sandbags are still on standby for more serious here. locals are hoping that after the relative calm today the next big catch. when not be their home when the storm hits. pyramid in the orgy news. shalom. the minister is false and works has said that humanitarian aid from the twenty five million euro fund will be distributed quickly to those whose homes have been damaged or destroyed in the recent bad weather. bria

very castor and daniel's souls are the two midland texas police officers have been suspended for three days without pay for holding a contest to see who could steal the most science from local homeless people seriously very dissociated press the contest went on for two weeks and only ended when officer hester's truck was searched for the missing item but up at a routine traffic stop it's part of their suspension aster and seller says there have been reminded reminded by the middle and police department that they should respect individual rights and human dignity you know because it's so easy to forget such things about that it's fairly clear. it's time to get serious about what's in the food we eat today the obama administration rolled out a new proposed nutrition facts label to replace the current nutrition labeling on foods and it doesn't go anywhere near far enough a new proposed labeling would display calories in a larger and bolder type would include calories like avoid too much and get enough and for the first time would include an added sugars category here's what health and hum

low lying areas of the midlands have been warned to see when they face severe flooding. if heavy rain forecast for the weekend text areas along the river shannon. a no no no comparisons to distribute its three thousand suns banks but one local friend claims the new storm defence system could prevent tens of thousands of euro worth of damage. it's just four years since the winter storm wreaked havoc in homes on the west side of the river shannon and at home engineering solution to the problem was the polls but for years on this was excellent today. town council workers prepared to another one thousand bags of sand for flood damage here the problem was an awesome to see tristan told is that it needs almost more comprehensive. and i kind of resolution and us resolution is cardinal people do still eat one four c of things doesn't sixteen does not go to these people here who everyday and everynight listen to rain falling on one debate with the war from coach who holds no announcement on that stuff but it. and it comes time to do nothing to the saints known the defense is noth

think now of course they say these lines will help power the oil and gas drilling operations in the midland basin area but that is a really fascinating story. it will be several dollars a month on everyone's electricity bill coming soon to your home and we will see how that plays out. >> one other quick thing, the viability of wind is dependent on the price of other forms of energy sell natural gas is quite volatile. i was in tampa, in the panhandle. i heard t. boone pickens, a savvy investor talked-about 5 or 6 years ago, his -- four years ago maybe, his plan for building a giant wind farm in the tampa area. he was meeting with the townspeople and they were suspicious about whether this would come to fruition and others were suspicious how loud with these turbine's be and he said i don't know. do you like the sound of money in your pockets? he meant you would be getting royalties from the electricity generated by these turbines. as it happened, because of changes in the price of natural gas, basically come as of -- that huge wind farm he planned to build hasn't happened, hasn't materialize

merchant operation across the u.k., is we are seeing similar growth in our northern, southwestern, and midlandsas the same as london and the southeast. we are seeing movement upwards on a similar basis across all the patches we operate. >> you wouldn't say that it is running away? >> not at the moment. clearly momentum is gathering. i think the bank of england will take a watchful eye on house prices getting too far ahead. >> do you think we could take a rate hike if we came? would it be prudent? >> i think so because it needs -- if housing runs away on a -- it in evident inevitably will be a bubble. we're looking for steady growth rather than a shoot up. >> you have been with this company since 1978. if i had that kind of continuity, i would be lucky. the world is changing and what i want to know is how technology not on theinto -- ground business with hundreds of products, how does technology play into it? >> if you take are at standard really isn't pc-based but it is mobile base. mobile,shift in a builders tend to index into mobile by two at 80%. as where we are focusing. moving fast and cus

the head cook at midland trail elementary school. the picture of the yellowish water and even herself felt ill. we will come to you in a minute. first the news and perspective from our correspondent. the feds say the water is safe to drink. i want to quote them here. we are still getting feedback that there is a level of -- i'm reading this. there is a level of worry. that's the end quote. they say today they have had no water quality complaints from the public other than those coming from inside the school. i wanted to be precise when getting that quote. beyond that, what do you know? >> i feel so sorry for the people in charleston, west virginia. almost at the same moment the governor of that state was declaring the water is safe to drink, the kids are smelling this. i think one student and one teacher had to go to the hospital. from burning eyes and from fainting. three more today. a total of five schools that have kids home because they are smelling this smell. what is that smell? that is the signature smell of mcmh. the toxic ch

a woman found something less than appetizing in a burrito she bought from a convenience store in midland, texas. the woman bought herself a fried burrito at the stripes convenience store for 86-cents. but she got more than she bargained for after a few bites... she thought it was a piece of foil. but it turned out to be the finger of a latex glove. >> it was nauseating. i yelled. it could have been somebody with an allergy to latex who ate it or a child. so luckily nothing happened. i'm glad it was me that got it. >> i wish you could've seen her reaction. it was just frightful. the convenience store manager told the woman the burritos came from a vendor. although the store believes it was an isolated incident, they've removed all related product and have notified the vendor. >> wide you have to ruin a perfectly good burrito like that? >> let's talk about love. but some talk about. we are definitely bring it. mostly cloudy. snow showers for valentine's day. high temperature is 21. temperatures in some areas are warmer than normal. some areas are cooler. looking at o'hare we have temperatu

there's a reason the unemployment rate in midland texas and odesa is 3%.can fix the problem of unemployment, dependency. you have to have a bold-solution agenda and articulate it and inspire people. that's missing. maybe you should learn from president reagan on his 103rd birthday. that's all the time we have left. before we go, stop what you're doing. record the series "hannity" 10:00 p.m. eastern on the fox news channel. start your day with fox and friends 5:00 to 9:00, we'll see you back here tomorrow night.

students at riverside high school and midland trial elementary were dismissed early wednesday when onent and a teacher went to the hospital after fainting and complaining that their eyes were burning. problems began when a water main break in the area forced schools to flush their pipes. this is the latest episode in the ongoing fallout from a chemical spill that forced much of the state to turn off the tap water for days. the company responsible for the leak, freedom industries, poured as gallons into the elk river and are now under criminal investigation. while health officials claim the water is safe for all use on wednesday, cnn's own test showed the chemical mchm still in the tap water. >>> a murder trial under way in jacksonville, florida, is drawing the same attention as the trayvon martin case. michael dunn has pled not guilty for shooting a teen. he is claiming self-defense. police say they never found a gun in davis' vehicle. the case has some similarities to the trayvon martin case. the victim was an unarmed african-american team and two members of the prosecution were invol

sleet in the midlands and rain on the coast. and that started to move through.ct, all of our primary roads and interstates are just being reported as wet. however, what we're expecting is a major front to come in overnight. and that's why we're continuing to remain active with all of our crews. we have over 900 employees out right now, essentially, what they're doing is pretreating bridges, highways, and overpasses, places that are pretty dispersed and that sort of thing, so we're anticipating a serious accumulation of snow and sleet overnight. >> how important is this to south carolina? >> to have it happen in january and february is not that unusual, we can get through a winter. but now we have had two within a two-week period. and that's a little bit unusual. >> give me the numbers when it comes to trucks and people on the road and salt. >> well, we're resting somewhat, because we're in between fronts, but we still had 280 pieces of equipment on the highways, and 900 employees out on the roads. and we have already dumped 2,000 tons of salt, and we have used 5

. >> when i think back to midland, texas, i think of baseball. my dad was a very good baseball player, he was the captain of the team. they went to the championship twice, sadly lost both times. i used to love to play catch with him. i remember the first time he said son, i can throw it as hard as i want. which meant a lot to me because it meant i had come of age in terms at least, of me being able to catch a baseball. >> and the bush family began to grow, first with a daughter, robin, and another son, jeb, bush learned the oil business and piloted a corporation with a group of investors in 1953. it became an offshore drilling experience with rigs around the world. >> we went through very tough times. when the rig went down, and it is a third of your profits, that is tough. but you have people depending on your livelihood. i think that is important. >> the difficult times the bushes faced in the oil business were nothing that a parent faces when it is their worst nightmare. when 3-year-old robin contracted leukemia and died a year later. learning

. >> when i think back to midland, texas, i think of baseball.a very good baseball player, he was the captain of the team. they went to the championship twice, sadly lost both times. i used to love to play catch with him. i remember the first time he said son, i can throw it as hard as i want. which meant a lot to me because it meant i had come of age in terms at least, of me being able to catch a baseball. >> and the bush family began to grow, first with a daughter, robin, and another son, jeb, bush learned the oil business and piloted a corporation with a group of investors in 1953. it became an offshore drilling experience with rigs around the world. >> we went through very tough times. when the rig went down, and it is a third of your profits, that is tough. but you have people depending on your livelihood. i think that is important. >> the difficult times the bushes faced in the oil business were nothing that a parent faces when it is their worst nightmare. when 3-year-old robin contracted leukemia and died a year later. learning the payroll

yesterday, two other schools, midland trail and riverside high. both were closed again today.rted running the water yesterday morning, a teacher fainted. students and employees complained they felt sick and lightheaded. eyes were burning. noses were burning. one student and one teacher were hospitalized yesterday from those schools. so that's three schools today. two yesterday. in total, these five schools in charleston were shut today. a month after what everybody thought was a terrible accident but one that was over suppose y supposedly. this did start as an accident, totally preventable accident. terrible obviously terrible conditions maintained by a shady company operating at a virtually unregulated industry. but the lack of emergency planning for a chemical spill of this kind, lack of sufficient planning to protect the drinking water intake for charleston, west virginia and frankly the botched response after the fact by officials who keep declaring the all clear before it's actually all clear, all of these things have combined to lead to a situation that the national scie

demand from midland china which displaced france as the biggest market for swiss watches in 2012, that they are pretty optimistic about the future. in 2014.cast a gain exports to hong kong, the largest market for swiss watches, declined 5.6% in 2013. by comparison, shipments to the u.s. -- that show you a modest gain of 2.4%. the biggest market saw a gain of close to 11%. estimates that swiss watch exports will probably rise 5% in 2014. they are looking for creative ways to lower these chinese shoppers back. it is the beginning of a new era rebasing business. is expanding their operation as well. you can see looking at the entire year, based off the month and a half, most of these big retailers are offt. od's -- off. tod's down 20%. i am mia saini in hong kong. >> getting back to that breaking a $1.9om boeing, trillion 20 year market for the asia-pacific, 12000 planes over the next few years. do between 715to and 725 aircraft through 2014. we have a new space race underway with private enterprise leading the way. richard branson's virgin galactic is said to make its maiden voyage this

having the opportunity to go to midland, texas recently to see the results and impact of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling is quite remarkable, especially when you look back over the history of 2004-2005 and 2006 and we were in a plateau and the end was coming very soon. the reality of it is george mitchell perhaps invested a lot of resources and took amazing risk to get us in a country where we could have a larger conversation at some point in the near future about the impact. one thing we recognized is as we become more aggressive, i think it puts the middle east competitors to have very serious conversation to look at their own budgets and revenues. i think it does more for the national security than we really articulated in the past several years. >> thank you. any others? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i wanted to talk a little bit in which the context i will look of the testimony and think about the input. i mentioned it at the hearing quite recently. in wisconsin family and business owners have had one issue on their minds, and that is the cost and availability of propane. it i

when he stepped off his campaign bus in midland, texas, last week, he was the first one who looked like 12 years old he led the pledge of allegiance at the 19 8 republican convention that nominated his grandfather, former president george h.w. bush. now at age 37 after a career in law and real estate and service in after gap stan he's decided to join the family business. what did george. with bush tell you when you said i'm thichlking about jumping into politics now? >> he always thought i would be good at it, but in terms of doing it for the right reasons, that's what the consensus was wlrk it was him or my grandfather or dad, you've got to do this with a servant's heart. >> reporter: in his stump speech he sometimes sounds like he's got bigger things in mind. >> the values of our state are under attack and it's been letd by one man an witnessed man only and his name is barack obama. that do you manl yourself as a president one day? >> i don't. i would like to leave everything on the field. give 110% to the state and see where it takes me. >> reporter: bush says his goal is to appeal t

frederick from midland texas opposes.aller: i think we are being shortsighted when we think about stipends. what about title ix a? what about small schools? what about predominantly black colleges? when you start to unionize schools are going to start getting rid of non-revenue producing sports. they are going to sue. when you look at the eight institutions like texas, there are hundreds of institutions in my state who barely get through every year with their sports programs. just looking at the big institutions, they are not think about the thousands of institutions we have. michael bloomberg is the envoy for cities and climate change. here is bill from south carolina. i definitely support it. the issue is very complicated. you actually have to go back into the history of college sports in general. should they be allowed to unionize or nazi echo -- to unionize or not? once they unionize they change the actual product and it certainly won't work. i applaud their efforts. they need to get what they can. maybe long-term hea

from todd is calling in midland, ohio. republican line. caller: how are you doing? guest: good. caller: i just want to say that i think the delay was mostly because the democrats was gett the vote.for the vote is behind the republicans. they are mostly delayed because they was getting hit hard. host: are you saying this was more an eye to the elections than a specific delay for businesses? your response? guest: i think many folks agree with that sentiment. i think it would instill more confidence and small business owners to see these changes made to the legislative process than it would through the regulatory process. the legislative process would carry the weight of the law, while these regulatory changes -- there were some fear that they could evolve again or any transition relief could be rescinded later. again, or any transition needs to be rescinded later. this would and still more confidence if these changes were made to the legislative process, and the house and senate have indicated some willingness to do. the political concerns have been specificdon't have any position

we have to improve back to midland range levels.olio gap where people are still way too over. we have a massive dry powder gap where all this two trillion plus dollars hasn't come off corporate balance sheets. my point in this is there's a lot of good things to happen over the next few years to drive equities higher, but it's not going to be a straight line. and i think the worst thing investors could do is to come out of the market and notice what's happening the next few years. prepare for frustration and maybe still stay in the stock mark. >> all right, jim, thank you. >>> we have breaking news right now. we'll go to jon fort at the mobile world congress. he's got news on whatsapp. jon? >> big update, the voice communication coming to whatsapp in the second quarter before summer. the i don't kn they gave an update on the user numbers, 465 million monthly active, 330 million daily active. that's about a 71% daily active user account versus the monthly and active. >> real quick, when you explain that voice is going to be introduced

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