. >> i'm alexandria edwards from neighborhood project. thetivity for me. commissioner wiener: point the microphone closer to your mouth? >> right there? the difficulty with the j for me is that it's always late, seeing as though i live in china town, that i have to catch the j to get to school. and it's a convenient route for most of the teenagers that attend mission high school. and it causes truancy. like, many students are late so we have to make announcements over the intercom, taking away class time. already they're late. it's already a truancy problem, then we have to take out a little more class time to make an announcement about it or talk about it during class, taking away a lot of class time, causing bad grades, as well. and another problem with the j is that it's the routes are sometimes messed up because of around 30th street, it's kind of like -- they do a lot of construction over there so, like, they have to go off the track or something's wrong with the headway and it's a lot of confusion for many of the people who board the j around the 30t

. >> egyptian christians remember the bombing in alexandria that killed 21 people. the recent persecution is a big program for egypt's post mubarak leadership. >> we want a law that says if something commits a crime, they will be punished. our religion has told us to be forgiving. >> as the country prepares for elections, this riot was between rival political factions. christians feel particularly threatened. >> the security system is so weak. >> persecution on christian control center has been going on for a long time. they hope this is changed. john waage cbn news. >> joining us now is nina shay at the hudson institute. today they gathered on the streets of tahrir square, downtown, cairo in a show of symbolism. do you think this can be sustained in a post mubarak regime? >> i am concerned about the christians. they were there before islam. they have been there for about 2,000 years. they are very vulnerable. they do not have weapons, militias, tribal links. about 10 percent of the population. a very overwhelmingly, we don't now how much radicalized nation. >> the

. >> after the hospital next on the waiting list the pif surgery should be clean alexandria hospital does massive annual repayments and restrictive procurement practices are preventing best care from being delivered that the contract should go under the knife and the savings given to portsmouth economy and not to coffers. >> the other shambles we inherited was the pfi program. and, frankly, the public sector is going to be sending something like 8 billion pounds on pfi contracts just this year so we got to examine all these contracts for savings. let me give her a couple of examples of some of the nonsenses we inherited under these contracts. well, they may not want to hear it. 333 pounds to change a hospital light switch. 963 pounds for a new tv in a hospital. some of the terms of these contracts is frankly disgraceful and it's important that we look amy. >> thank you, mr. speaker. on the 13th -- on the politic show on february 13th kip malthouse boasted that every safe neighborhood team and every ward in london would keep its two pc's and 3-piece community services offices and he h

. >> i hope that is not your alexandria line where you use all that fertilizers that. nothing but natural green products go on my property in virginia. i hope that is the case. we get some of the people using the stuff that it is getting into our water supply and we have to spend taxpayer money to clean it. we have been trying to find our neighbors who are accountable for that. maybe we have found the problem. anyway, that is not what i want to focus on here. i would like to thank you for raising it. will send the lawn police after you. greenhouse gases -- we have heard from -- so much from so many people on how aggressive you have been on greenhouse gases. fired got this old cold- plant in alexandria that is redundant, and we still not -- still cannot get it closed down. some of us would like more aggressive action. i know how deferentially you want to speak to the industry and you want to make sure everything is done right. but there is a bucket -- another point of view from the one express, but -- from the one expressed. during the consideration of the cr, mr. cole,

demonstrators have protested across the country like here in alexandria. protesters stormed the building and based fire after -- did it spy agency was used to keep dissidents under control and was widely blamed for most of the death during the recent anti- government protests. as the few remaining engineers within the fukushima power plant try to stave off a complete meltdown, german chancellor, angela merkel, has announced a provisional shutdown of sev of the country's 70 nuclear reactors. they will remain closed pending a security. the government is under growing pressure from the opposition and from the public now deeply concerned about reactor safety. 80% ofermans say they support shutting down the country's older nuclear power plant. yesterday saw nationwide protests against atomic energy. >> @ germany's the clear policy moratorium is having wider repercussions than first thought. seven of the country's older plants are to be shut out immediately. the chancellor said germany could not just returned to business as usual. safety is under review at all t

>> i'm with the water out of alexandria, virginia, i want to address legislative things but public engage meant. i think the most important things we can do in terms of communication with the hengs, is water is one voice. it's very important. when i say water, i mean water and waist water. it's very important that the message dare that i completely agree it has to be clear and distinct but right now we have echos and when we speak to washington there's an echo effect and we need to be one voice and i think that needs to be clear. >> thank you. yes? >> hi, i'm with the california public utilities commission. i watched the news last night and another senator was really claiming on the debate on global warming, gee, i think you're saying it's profitable for the green industries now and i'm thinking, of course it needs to be profitable and really the fossil fuel and oil industries that are making hundreds more times more profit and that's what drives this. if we could internalize externalities and middest oil and regardless of your political leaning if you or we could internalize that that's

. >> in egypt, the regime change hasn't stopped the violent protests, in alexandria, demonstrators stormed the state security building in an effort to keep files allegedly detailing corruption from being destroyed. and in the west african nation of ivory coast, a deadly end to a peaceful protest against the country's president. government troops opened fire in the group, killing at least six women. >>> back in this country, police believe they captured an elusive predator. the attacks sudden and violent began in 1997. a suspect is in jail and a discarded cigarette may have finally solved the case. nbc's richard lu ireports. >> reporter: police arrested 39-year-old aaron thomas in new haven, connecticut, friday afternoon after a tip linked him to 17 rapes and sexual assaults beginning in 1987. >> it's right over there in the apartments where he raped her at. >> reporter: most of the attacks were in the washington, d.c., area and then spread into new england. the suspect became known as the east coast rapist. after 14 years of scouring crime scenes, police had little evidence. victims' accou

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they were significant uprising in alexandria and suez. these are large provincial cities. this was an urban phenomenon. one of the things that is a consequence of that is the course among many others the outcome of the referendum on the constitutional amendment because the only people that voted no with the people who have been interrater squared -- tahrir square, for the constitutional amendments and in the rural areas it was practically 100%. the people who were prepared to be collectively give and challenge the military were almost entirely what you might call the intelligentsia in the urban areas. we also so in addition and extremely highly disciplined protest movement. there was and remains those movements to its readers and in that respect, that is, i wouldn't say ideological position, a principled position on their part that they are part of the people. they are not leaders and so forth and so on, so they don't want to surface at this juncture. but i think what's really important about this is that that serves them well as protest organizers. it does not serve them

here while they've been storming this state security buildings and headquarters throughout and alexandria and other locations the state security apparatus has been busy shredding paper trying to hide the evidence and it looks very similar to scenes post world war two nazi germany they also try to hide all their evidence of of crimes against humanity and you see that going on now in egypt or iran exactly that's exactly those are my thoughts exactly max i mean it's clear it's a work in blair estimated war crimes in a number of different levels and murdoch is a little stepchild has been assisting him he survives the last twenty five billion dollars wall street journal investment he lost billions of my space investment it was a for guarantee state monopoly. as they were barrack murdoch would be selling hot dogs shea stadium well you mentioned the koch brothers involvement with governor scott walker of wisconsin anonymous actively probing koch brothers corporate networks so in a statement anonymous accuses the koch brothers of fabricating grassroots organizations and advertising campaigns to s

demonstrators have protested across the country like here in alexandria. protesters stormed the building and based fire after -- did it spy agency was used to keep dissidents under control and was widely blamed for most of the death during the recent anti- government protests. as the few remaining engineers within the fukushima power plant try to stave off a complete meltdown, german chancellor, angela merkel, has announced a provisional shutdown of seven of the country's 70 nuclear reactors. they will remain closed pending a security. the government is under growing pressure from the opposition and from the public now deeply concerned about reactor safety. 80% of germans say they support shutting down the country's older nuclear power plant. yesterday saw nationwide protests against atomic energy. >> @ germany's the clear policy moratorium is having wider repercussions than first thought. seven of the country's older plants are to be shut out immediately. the chancellor said germany could not just returned to business as usual. safety is under review at a

a young man was murdered by two police in alexandria. he said he was not a criminal poor they grabbed him from a cyber cafe and asked for his id. he told them that he was not a criminal and ask what they wanted from him and they beat him to death. this actually moved everyone, including cost bloggers and facebook people and people in the cyber world. we related to him and what happened to him in some way or another and we decided to put an end to it. >> what is so fascinating is this young man was the tipping point eventually for what happened in egypt and his picture was on all the posters when we went to tahrir square. internees and before that it was a young man who set himself ablaze because of his economic distress -- in tunisia. what about iran? what is behind your 1 million signatures campaign? >> i want to give a little background. you probably know this, but maybe the audience does not. iranian women are very strong. quite a bit. they are more educated than their male counterparts, the young iranian women. we have female doctors

one of the organizing principles was the death of a young man in alexandria. >> that is right.e never thought it would turn into something really big. we were protestors. we came together and decided to go to the streets on january 25 to get the police a hard time. january 25 is an anniversary. we were angry at them for their systematic use of torture and their treatment of people in general. a few months ago, a young man 28-years old, was murdered by a policeman in alexandria by refusing [unintelligible] -- refusing to be searched, because he did not believe he was a criminal. 2 they grabbed them from a cafe and ask them for identification. they beat him to death. this moved everyone, including the people in the cyberworld. we decided we must speak out. >> it was this young man that was the tipping point for what happened in egypt. his pictures were on all of the posters when we went to the square. in tunisia, before that, he was a young man who set himself on fire because of economic distress. what is behind the 1 million signatures campaign in iran? what is important about t

alexandria, virginia. lesley, democrat. caller: two things. one is the planned parenthood cutting by the extremists in the house of representatives. these cuts will result and i don't know -- i do not know how many millions of young ladies having not getting breast mammograms, i think it is an outrage especially when you consider they want to cut all these social programs, saying how dire the things is. we have a revenue problem that taxes have never been -- you have to go back to the 1950's to find revenue this low. it is as much a revenue problem as it is a spending problem. we have kids going to bed hungry. it is on tv. if the american people do not speak out about this injustice, billionaires -- if things are so bad for republicans, why are they giving billionaires' tax breaks and cutting benefits for kids going to bed hungry? a viewer tweets -- sebring, florida, is next. richard is an independent. caller: good morning, susan. my favorite hostas susan swain, by the way. she handles the program very well. i think most likely the most signif

one of the organizing principles was the death of a young man in alexandria. >> that is right.e never thought it would turn into something really big. we were protestors. we came together and decided to go to the streets on january 25 to get the police a hard time. january 25 is an anniversary. we were angry at them for their systematic use of torture and their treatment of people in general. a few months ago, a young man, 28-years old, was murdered by a policeman in alexandria by refusing [unintelligible] 2 they grabbed them from a cafe and ask them for identification. they beat him to death. this moved everyone, including the people in the cyberworld. we decided we must speak out. >> it was this young man that was the tipping point for what happened in egypt. his pictures were on all of the posters when we went to the square. in tunisia, before that, he was a young man who set himself on fire because of economic distress. what is behind the 1 million signatures campaign in iran? what is important about the signature in your activism? >> i think you probably know this, but per

and that sort of put a spanner in the works when you're trying to shift from alexandria to cairo to theouth and so on. so working with the higher council of the military to get special permission is for trucks to go through during the night and so on. we have been working strongly just to get involved in politics but it involved in the awareness. huge discussions of the constitution or the referendums. what happens after yes or no. parliamentary presidential first and so on and we invite a lot of people. there were many strikes by workers. this was a revolution of people wanting better pay, better justice, better treatment and we have been working with our members to look at human rights of the employees really. there are disgraceful companies paying a very low wages to people and we have been working with them how to increase or treat their employees properly but also remain competitive in the workplace. on the long term there is a huge skills gap between what companies want and what the education system is putting out and business associations have refuge educational program and we em

i hope that that's not your alexandria lawn where you use that stuff. natural green products go on my property in virginia. thank you for asking. we have that getting into the water supply and spend the taxpayer's money to clean it. >> i think that's how you got the dog head fish. >> i suspect so. we're trying to find the neighbors accountable for that. anyway, that's not what i wanted to focus on here, but thanks for raising it. we'll send the lawn police out after you. first of all, greenhouse gases. you know, we have heard so much from so many people on how aggressive you've been on agree house -- on greenhouse gases. we have this coal fired power plant that's redundant, and we still can't get it closed down. some of us would like a little more aggressive action, but i know how defer renne issue you want to be to the industry and you want to make sure everything is done right, but there is another point of view from the one that has been expressed particularly on the floor of the house when we were considering the cr, and during consideration of the

i know my father would want me to be here, said mike oliver, 73, a retiree from alexandria leaning on a cane near the cemetery's amphitheater hours before the burial. inside, a hushed procession of visitors filed past buckles' closed coffin in the chapel. i'm here for mr. buckles. i'm here for what he represents, oliver said. on his left lapel, he wore a tiny gold pin, the insignia of his long dead father's infantry division in world war i, the army's 80th. i'm here to say goodbye to my dad, he said. buckles, who fibbed his way into the army at 16, was a rear echelon ambulance driver in war-ravaged france, miles behind the battle front. more than 116,000 americans died, about half in the fighting but most of the rest from illnesses in the nation's 19-month-long engagement in a conflict that scorched europe for four years. now the veterans who survived are all gone. what's left is remembrance, the collective story of 4.7 million lives, an obituary for a generation. arriving stateside in 1918 and 1919, many of them scared in mind and limb, they were met by post-war recession and jobless

. >> thank you, chairman feinstein, ranking member alexandria and senator launtberg. appreciates the opportunity to address the response of the nuclear regulatory commission to these tragic eventses that you have discussed in japan. as you mentioned, i traveled to japan over the past weekend and just returned yesterday. i went to be able to directly convey message of support to our japanese counterparts and i had an opportunity to meet with senior japanese government and officials and i consulted with the team of experts who are in japan as parts of our effort to assist the japanese response to dealing with the nuclear reactors and i would notes that that is one small part of a broader u.s. effort to provide assistance to the japanese regard to all of the challenges they are facing as a result of this hurricane and tsunami . as many of you have mentioned, i too would like to reiterate my condolences and industry to all -- and sympathy to all of those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in japan. we are mindful of the long and difficult road they will face in recove

your name and where you are from. >> i'm connor from thomas jefferson high school in alexandria. throughout history we've seen patterns of revolutionaries inspired by other revolutionaries. it's clear we are starting to see this again. my question is what do you envision the ultimate scope of these revolutions being. are they going to start fizzling out or growing to an even larger extent? >> it's an excellent question. i dare say that even all of the people who i read and who write about the middle east cannot really accurately predict. obviously, the constitutional referendum that occurred in egypt was a major step forward in giving egyptians a sense of democracy. yet next door in libya, this is essentially civil war. civil war that is largely tribal in nature, confusing to anyone in libya, confusing to anyone outside of libya, and in tunisia, where it all started, the process is proceeded quietly at pace. yet in bahrain, it's filled with violence as it is in yemen. there's a wave in the young people in the arab world to have a better life and essentially overthrow the order th

our first call comes from alexandria va. jack is on our line for democrats. caller: good morning. from an economic point of view, i have maintained that it is as much of a spending problem that is causing the economy to go down. we have a revenue problem. the taxes were even higher under president eisenhower, a republican. the idea of they could not legislatively do away with social programs surveyed starved the beast by cutting taxes for the rich and there is no money there. we have the revenue problem as much or if not more than a spending problem. guest: mccollum makes a good point, which is at the disaster -- the caller makes a good point, which the disaster in the middle east and in japan does not change the situation that we are in. you have a budget deficit of $1.50 trillion. republicans and democrats are locked in a battle to how to cut spending to some extent, and there is a bigger battle that is starting to come up with what a longer-term budget is going to be and whether we cut our entitlement programs like social security and medicare. host: faith go ahead. caller: i a

host: alexandria rea, minnesota. go ahead. caller: thank you for your program. really enjoy c-span. it's always very informative. i only wish you had this gentleman on a little earlier this year. my question regards the employer provided nondependent health insurance premium costs. under the federal return, you are not taxed on this benefit. i had an employer who generously provides the nondependent coverage at no cost to me. however, the state of minnesota does tax it. and i had a very hard time, i used the tax preparation software, getting that all sorted out. and i finally figured out, ok, here's what's going on. but the state of minnesota is very quiet about it. didn't really publicize that fact. and i'm sure there is a lot of people getting hung up on this. software preparation products that i used knew that my minnesota gross was higher but did not recalculate their form. they just said, there are some items that are not taxable on the federal return but the state of minnesota will tax. host: we'll have to leave it there. thank you. guest: you bring up a v

from chris from alexandria, va. just outside d.c. caller: i had a few issues when i hear the term foreign aid. first of the 1%, i questioned that statistic. as a government employee, i see a lot of money in the defense department going to other countries under the guise of military aid, but i do not know if that captures the intent of it being eight. take for example the commanders of the emergency relief program. the department of defense spends billions of dollars on budget, off budget and supplemental spending, to build schools and other types of projects that traditionally have fallen under the guise of foreign aid. 1% captures if the that kind of spending. and with foreign aid, we are making many enemies. i have not seen the numbers, but from what i have read in different newspaper articles, a large portion of it goes to the israeli military, one of the reasons why we are low with the countries in the arab world. we would help ourselves if we did not have that kind of aid. in the law of unintended consequences, when we are givin

protests were not only in cairo and not only downtown cairo, there were significant uprisings in alexandriand suez. these are large provincial cities. this was an urban phenomenon. one of the things that is a consequence of that is that the outcome of a referendum on the constitutional amendment. the only people lead voted no or the people who were in tahrir square which is very urban. if you look at the patterns of the support for the constitutional amendments in the rural areas, it was practically 100%. the people who were prepared to be politically active and challenge the military or almost entirely what you might call the intelligentsia in the urban areas. what you also sought in addition to the fact that it was urban was an extremely highly disciplined protest movement. there was and remains a reluctance on the people who organize these movements to surface as its leaders. in that respect, that is not an ideological position. that is a principled position that they are part of the people. they are not leaders. they don't want to surface at this juncture. it is important that this serv

he is a democrat from virginia and he represents the alexandria and arlington areas right across the river in the washington suburbs. congressman, correctly we have a -- the government is on for another two weeks. we have been here before, haven't we? guest: i have never seen it this bad, peter, for congress not to have passed and the appropriation bills and now to threaten a shutdown of the entire government without any clear resolution and then to put all of its efforts into simply extending it for two weeks. that is nowhere to run the government. i think congress should be embarrassed and the american people should really reflect upon the kind of leadership of the elected in november frankly. host: do you foresee a potential government shutdown in two weeks? guest: it is entirely possible. i know both sides will further -- both offer further concessions. but we are basically at in india -- ideological impasse. it is not just the cuts. there are dozens of legislative changes included in this continuing resolution that go to the heart of what government is all about. most of them ar

we have an old cold bair plant in -- coal-fired plant in alexandria that is redundant, and we can i getit closed down. some of us would like a little more aggressive action. i know how deferentially want to be to the industry and you want to make sure everything is done right, but there is another point of view from the one that has been expressed, particularly on the floor of the house. during consideration of the cr, mr. poe from texas, who was the author of the amendment to stop green has gases regulation said, "this amendment will rein in epa and prohibit them from implementing these so-called capt. trade philosophy in states such as texas." others said the epa is trying to trade.nt capital-lette and so i want to ask you, do you intend to implement that in the future without congressional action? >> we have taken no steps to establish a cap and trade program, and we do not intend to do so. >> so without congressional action, you will not be acting on non-. thank you. we heard also from mr. barton, the ranking member and the congress committee the carbon dioxide is not a pollutant in

there is significant uprising in alexandria and suez and so forth, but this was an urban phenomenon.he things that is a consequence of that is of course among many others the outcome of the referendum on the constitutional amendment because the only people that voted no with the people that have been trawling tents and purposes into rear square, was very urban. if you look at patterns of support for the constitutional amendments in the rural areas is practically 100%. for the people who are prepared to be politically good and challenge the military were almost entirely what you might call the intelligentsia in the urban areas. but what you also saw in addition to the fact it was urban was an extremely highly disciplined protest movement and there was and it remains a reluctance on the part of people who organize these movements to surface as it features some and not respect, that is not an ideological position, but a principled position that they are part of the people. they are not leaders and so forth and so on, so they don't want to surface at this juncture. what is really importa

going on, and we now see the results of people themselves saying what happened to that blogger in alexandria who was beaten to death by the egyptian security forces or that university graduate who was selling vegetables in tunisia who was set on fire because he had no opportunity? people now know about that. they can communicate about it and organize over it. i think what we've seen is really as you say populist coming from the bottom up. that's the good news. the uncertain news is what happens next. >> yeah. >> we've seen governments peacefully toppled in tunisia and egypt. we see a very serious conflict going on in libya, and we see governments from yemen, bahrain, oman, everywhere else looking at how they're going to deal with these challenges, and we watch as china does everything it can to cut off the internet because they've reached the same conclusion that this is a tool that never existed in human history before, so part of our internet freedom agenda is to do everything we can to keep those lines of communication open so that people, themselves, can stand up and speak out for their

there were significant uprises in alexandria. the outcome of applause -- of the constitutional amendments to -- the only people that voted no or very urban. the people who were prepared to be politically active and prepared to challenge the military were almost entirely what you would call the intelligentsia in the urban areas. were you also saw in addition to the fact that it was urban was an extremely highly-disciplined protest movement. there remains a reluctance on the people better organized these movements into the surface as their leaders. in that respect, it is a principal position that there are a part of the people, not leaders, so they do not want to surfaced at this juncture. i think what is really important about this is that that serves them well as protest organizers. it does not necessarily serve them well after the protests have succeeded. i think it is fair to say that the people that organized the protest, as they got going in the beginning of january, and as they organized the january 25 police day protests, t

there were significant uprisings in alexandria and in suez. this was an urban phenomenon. one of the things that is a consequence of that is, of course among many others, the outcome of the referendum on the constitutional amendments. the only people that voted know where the people who had been, for all intents and purposes, in tajror square -- in tahrir square. the people who were prepared to be politically active and prepared to challenge the army were entirely the intelligentsia in the urban areas. but in addition to the fact that it was irvin wurban, it was an organized movement. there was a reluctance for people in them to rise as the movement's rulers. they're part of the people. they're not leaders. they do not want to surface at this juncture. but what is really important about this is that that serves them well as protest organizers. it does not necessarily serve them well after the protest has succeeded. i think it is fair to say that the people who organized the protest, as they get going in the beginning of january, and as the organized the january 25 police d

alexandria, virginia. lesley, democrat. caller: two things. one is the planned parenthood cutting by the extremists in the house of representatives. these cuts will result and i don't know -- i do not know how many millions of young ladies having not getting breast mammograms, i think it is an outrage especially when you consider they want to cut all these social programs, saying how dire the things is. we have a revenue problem that taxes have never been -- you have to go back to the 1950's to find revenue this low. it is as much a revenue problem as it is a spending problem. we have kids going to bed hungry. it is on tv. if the american people do not speak out about this injustice, billionaires -- if things are so bad for republicans, why are they giving billionaires' tax breaks and cutting benefits for kids going to bed hungry? a viewer tweets -- sebring, florida, is next. richard is an independent. caller: good morning, susan. my favorite hostas susan swain, by the way. she handles the program very well. i think most likely the most signif

going on, and we now see the results of people themselves saying what happened to that blogger in alexandria who was beaten to death by the egyptian security forces or that university graduate who was selling vegetables in tunisia who was set on fire because he had no opportunity? people now know about that. they can communicate about it and organize over it. i think what we've seen is really as you say populist coming from the bottom up. that's the good news. the uncertain news is what happens next. >> yeah. >> we've seen governments peacefully toppled in tunisia and egypt. we see a very serious conflict going on in libya, and we see governments from yemen, bahrain, oman, everywhere else looking at how they're going to deal with these challenges, and we watch as china does everything it can to cut off the internet because they've reached the same conclusion that this is a tool that never existed in human history before, so part of our internet freedom agenda is to do everything we can to keep those lines of communication open so that people, themselves, can stand up and speak out for their

now we see the results of what happened to that logger in alexandria that was beaten to death buy the egyptian security forces or the university graduate selling vegetables and to be shut who set himself on fire because he had no opportunity? people know about bad and can communicate and organize over it. what we have seen is populist coming from the bottom up. that is the good news buth. the uncertain news is what happens next? we have seen the government peacefully toppled in tunisia and egypt.ing we see a very seriouswe conflict going on in libya and governments from the young men, bahrain, everywhere else looking at how they will deal with the challenges and we watch as china does everything it can to cut off the internet because they reach the same conclusion this is a tool but never existed in human history before. parts of the internet freedom agenda is to do everything we can to keep the lines of communicationpo open so the people themselves can stand up to speak up for their own rights. >> it seems from afar that these revolutionaries have no leader. g and that is a good thin