we did facial reconstruction through louisiana state university. we knew there were 16 sailors lost so we knew generally out of a pool of 16 people who they could have been. we knew who they were associated with and we still couldn't identify these remains. it is just really incredible, important work that you're doing. so very impressive. i'm going to talk about the much lesser known battlefield, some of the battlefields that are right here in u.s. waters. many people are unaware that there are two world wars that came to the coast of the united states through the battle in the atlantic. just a quick bit of background on who i am and why we do this kind of work. i work for the office of national marine sanctuaries. part of the national oceanic and atmospheric association. it is similar in ethos to the national park service. we have 14 sites around the country in u.s. territorial waters. for the most wart these sites protect special places in the world's oceans focused predominantly on natural or ecosystem-based preservation. the florida keys natio

we did facial reconstruction through louisiana state university. we knew there were 16 sailors lost so we knew generally out of a pool

since the event at louisiana state university was announced, student groups at lsu have organized protestsulty senate say they want new restrictions on what campus facilities can be used for in the future. so maybe this won't happen again. but a long as events with the american family association are how republican candidates have to start their runs for president. events like this are going to keep happening somewhere. they're good for something, aparentally. joining us now is professional kevin cope, the chair of the lsu systems council. thanks for being with us. appreciate your time. >> thank you very much. i'll try to warm up after all of those chilling excerpts. >> i feel like we keep this sort of scary jukebox sort of things that american family association folks have said in the past. you've got to sort of roll it out as a remind r. governor jindel's staff said when he start getting questions, oh, listen, we didn't read everything e everything on the web site. we're not exactly sure how this was read. >> i think that the reception has been very chilly, indeed. and i might say the fa

accused republican challenger of farce fying time sheets while he worked as a doctor as louisiana state university, cassidy accused landrieu of using tack payer money to take charter flights. they also collided over discrimination. senator landrieu that somehow barack obama was not being viewed favorably because we have a history of racism in the sought. just because you disagree with the president doesn't make you a racist. >> i said the south, has not always been the friendliest place for african-americans and it's also been a region that has not quickly recognized the leadership of women. i will make no joy for something that is a historical fact. >> the run off election is this saturday. a few weeks into the second year enrollment for obama care, and the department of health and human services says the sign up period that began in november has been strong. in the final two weeks of november, the new enroll lees topped 500,000 people. a year ago, the total was june 137,000. the sign up period this year in addition to way, working website has been accompanied by a television ad campaign. >> i wa

. >> in an ebola in that prison is a dead end at the louisiana state university. it used to be slave plantations, still called angela and then 75% of our prisoners average sixth grade education, you see people walking out to the field, led by guards on horseback with a gun and then the beginning of the column at the end of the column and nothing has really changed very much. what happened is it changed to imprisonment of its. martin luther king, that book he wrote, where do we go from here, from chaos or community, he said what did it mean to say people were in emancipated in an agricultural society, not give them land. we would never think of doing a homestead act and saying get out there and sees the chamber of commerce, they have land, a mule and you have to be able to work the land and there's something in human beings that want to be able to work and be able -- so you get out of slavery and move right into what did the plantation owners do? have you seen those black code books in southern states? >> i have seen them. basically it is shocking because it gives

whether you're talking about marijuana, i believe the universal conservative position is, these are issues best left to the states, and indeed, louisiana and south carolina and utah probably will decide these issues differently from new york, california, and vermont. >> that is why we have vermont, so we can have a laboratory for socialism. [laughter] >> when it comes to economic policy and foreign policy, those are things with the federal government does have a lot to do with it, but when we are talking about issues like this that directly relate to the police power of several states, my answer would be that these are issues that are best left to the states. if you are my position, if you want your position, you can give me your position, but there is not universal agreement on any of these. >> let me throw something out here. famously, ronald reagan liked to talk about, if somebody likes to agree with me 80% of the time, i call them a friend. i go lower than that. if i want to have any friends, i have to be more liberal in that sense. i was chairman of the american conservative union. we do ratings of members of congress. we consider

states, gas is now selling for $2 a gallon. oklahoma, louisiana, and ohio actually selling regular for less than $1.90. a former top economist who teaches at the university of maryland joins us from washington, d.c. this morning. not all good news, why? >> it is drivers and business that is use oil like the airlines, their purchasing power is well over $100 billion a year. we need to subtract the lost revenues of the oil cross, the impact on the oil boom in north dakota and the lost investment. overall, it's a net benefit to the u.s. economy, $75 billion a year, half a percentage of g.d.p., a little less. that's good and we're happy about it, but this is not an unvarnished good, because we are now a major oil producer. >> which prices thrive and which suffer? >> ire lines love it. g.e. makes a lot of oil field development equipment, and they're going to take a big hit on their earnings going forward. >> i'm looking now to update by stock portfolio, thank you very much. >> how long can the saudis hold out and will countries like venezuela be able to survive? >> the so you had rain is fairly wealthy country, and we don't know exactly how much the royal fam