as mike sauceda of our arizona bureau at phoenix's pbs 8 explains, the region is seeing a small comeback in construction jobs but the gains aren't being driven by a roaring economy. >> this is the sound of construction jobs being added in arizona. a massive hail storm hit the phoenix area last october, damaging roofs and air conditioners-- a factor leading to more construction work in the grand canyon state. before the hail, the state was pelted heavily by the housing crisis and a shadow inventory of 60,000 foreclosed homes that have not been sold, or homes being held back from the market, but the clouds appear to be breaking. for five straight months, arizona has seen a slight increase in construction jobs after years of huge losses. the new jobs are putting people like pete dale back to work. he was without a job for a year. >> nothing to do-- just it was a shock. i'm used to being really busy and it was a shock. financially, it hurt. thank god my wife still had her job. i had some investments and some money saved up. financially, it did hurt me a little. took ay from my retirement. ju

. >>> in 2009 the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms allowed members of a drug cartel to buy thousands of weapons from arizona gun shops. officials lost track of about 1400 out of 2,000 guns and some of the weapons have been recovered at crime scenes in mexico. >>> less military spending or the economic stability of montgomery county. that is the decision members of the county council face this had weekend. they called for the pentagon to drastically cut military spending and end wars abroad. >>> the measure has now been killed. the decision was made after defense contractor lockheed martin voiced its displeasure with that bill. lockheed martin is the largest private sector employer. >> also in montgomery county, police are investigating an apparent murder suicide. on saturday police went to martin oh tool's bethesda home after a family member had been unable to reach him. police entered the home to find the bodies of o'toole and hong. >>> britney norwood will face another hearing in montgomery county this week. she is accused in the brutal slaying of her coworker. 30-year-old jana murray. >>> at the time of

as it is commonly referred to and with the support of the bureau of reclamation and the former owner of the project, the arizona water settlements act authorized the title transfer to the c.c. cragin project from s.r.p. to the bureau of reclamation. under this language the federal government would own the project but s.r.p. would still operate and maintain it. once the transfer was implemented, it became clear that there was a disagreement between the u.s. forest service and the bureau of reclamation over who had the responsibility for approving requested operation, maintenance and repairs, specifically the bureau of reclamation argued that it should approve s.r.p.'s work plans, environmental compliance and other regulatory permitting requirements. the u.s. forest service asserted that the reclamation was required to obtain a special use permit to operate, maintain and repair the water project. while the s.r.p. project was able to overcome the issues with the forest service to complete repairs, it was the bureau of reclamation's approval and occasionally the forest service's objections. concurrently the added p

in 2009, the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms an explosives allows reps to drug cartels to buy weapons from arizona gun shops and lost track of about 14 1400 of those guns. the house oversight commit year chairman thinks that eric hold are knew about the program earlier than he admits. >> when it comes to a special prosecutor, eric holder cannot investigate himself. congress is well along the way of investigating this operation to find out what went wrong, who knew it and what we have to do in the future to make sure it can't happen again. >> some of those lost weapons have been recovered at crime scenes in mexico. hold are has testified before congress that he had not heard about the operation until early this year. >>> a look at the morning's other top stories. friends and familiar live missing d.c. mother are holding onto hope for a break in the case one year after her disappearance. there was a vigil in northeast last night for unique harris. she was last seep at her home on hartford street in northeast. she put her churn and niece to bed and when they woke up, she was gone. harris' family aske

bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. to trace guns getting into the hands of the mexican drug cartel. but when border patrol agent brian terry was killed in arizona and two of the guns sent undercover by the u.s. government into mexico were found at the crime scene, the program exploded in controversy. could one of those walked guns be responsible for the death of a federal agent? the head of the a.t.f. has step down. a u.s. attorney in arizona has resigned and lesser officials have been transferred or replaced. but questions remain. who instituted the program? what did attorney general eric holder know about it? and when? >> i'm not sure of the exact date but i probably heard about fast and furious for the first time over the last few weeks. >> schieffer: was there a cover- up, a scandal or is it all just politics? we'll talk to congressman darrell issa, the congressional chairman investigating the justice department's role. and congressman elijah cummings, the ranking democrat on his committee. we'll also bring in cbs news investigative correspondent sheryl attkisson who first broke the story. and then we'll talk politics and get the latest on

the fbi and bureau of justice statistics, florida sends more children into adult prison than any other state. nearly 400 in 2009. followed by connecticut, north carolina, new york, arizonae children's mother, the 25-year-old. investigators say while the 2- year-old david lay unconscious at home, she searched on her laptop for at least four hours, checking her bank account, downloading music, before finally taking david to the hospital. she's also in jail, charged with aggravated manslaughter of a child and felony child abuse. >> i think many would argue she's the most cul pable. >> reporter: one doctor told the police had the mother not waited so long, her 2-year-old may have survived and her 12- year-old wouldn't be charged with murder. >>> today a new era began for the redskins on the road against the panthers. >> how did the john beck experiment turn out? dave feldman is next with sports. gwen? >>> we have some clouds rolling in across the area. that will continue well into the overnight hours. what about your monday? will the sun return? i'll have the details coming up later. full forecast straight ahead. stay with us. we'll be back after the break. 

arizona. when they had their windows smashed. the break the windows, break them now guy is who fox news is using as the on air authority as the bureau with politics like these, conservative politics like these, nothing can get done about guns and gun laws. when americans put their minds to it, it's not unusually the kind that make us feel safer. starting today, you can carry a concealed weapon into a bar. tuck it into your pocket and walk into the watering hole. if you are carrying a concealed weapon into a bar, you are not allowed to drink alcohol. who is going to check for guns with every order? the bar keep? the bouncer? you have to empty your pockets. turn around and let me pat you down. here's the bud light, but i have to wand you. if you have a concealed weapon, who is going to volunteer to take the hammered guy's gun away then? somebody sober on the next barstool with human own gun? what could possibly go wrong in ohio starting today? up next, a cocktail moment involving guns and alcohol, but not bullets. not even shot glasses. i promise. [ male announcer ] in blind taste tests, even ragu users chose prego. prego?! but i've b

bureau of land management. get it done, as if it's war time. if we need manpower, i would rather have a wave of homeland security people in texas, arizona than to sit in washington, doing paperwork. >> every good idea that comes through washington can run into an obstacle in the event that you have a divided house and senate. i know the republicans are hoping for two republican houses and the democrats are hoping for two democratic houses. if you have a divided house and senate, do you have any ideas to make these ideas more likely to pass, to nav nateigate the horrible waters of washington? >> sure. i will give you a specific example. but before that, let me say that my past shows we can work together, in the reagan years, i worked with bob michael and others. tip o'neill was speaker. we had a in theic house. in order to pass the reagan program, which was very bold, we had to get a third of the democrats to vote with us and we did -- >> how? >> to get the bill signed by president clinton, we had to work in a bipartisan manner. when we passed welfare reform, one out of every two democrats in the house voted with us, 101-101. that's darn biparti

most notably, the bureau of cholesterol, tobacco and -- of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and the u.s. attorney's office in arizona. although it's unknown at this point how far up in the chain of command knowledge of this program went, but that's another story for another time. so the american people and their representatives in congress began asking after the death of brian terry what happened under this fast and furious program and who will be held accountable. answers to those questions have been very slow in coming, and some have been contradictory, but the more questions that were raised, the more questions came up. one question is, of course, who authorized fast and furious and why. according to congressional investigations led on this side of the capitol by senator grassley and on the other side of the capitol by congressman darrell issa, this program began in 2009 in the field office of the bureau of to be coand firearms. it instructed phoenix area firearms dealers to go through with sales of nearly 2,000 weapons to persons suspected of working as straw purchasers on behalf of mexican drug cartels. a logic

a paper released last month from the bureau of economic research found that people living in high foreclosure areas in new jersey, arizona, california and florida were more likely than in hard hit neighborhoods to be hospitalized. and more than one-third of homeowners in our study had symptoms of major depression and the study found more suicides. these issues and these problems that affect in large part minority, racial and ethnic and minority populations are talking about the disparities that we talk about. ms. lee: the human toll, physical and mental health impacts of these horrific public policies that either have taken place over the last eight years or not taking place that we should enact are seen every day in our communities and people are desperate and they are suffering. and for the life of me, i don't understand -- especially tea party republicans don't get it, because their people are suffering also. mrs. christensen: absolutely. we have been joined by another former chair of the congressional black caucus and leader of our health care task force and it's congresswoman waters. ms. waters: thank you so much. i