gives the baylor team for arizona state, a great freshman out of minnesota. had a spectacular season. and you mentioned eric boateng. the reason they beat lsu. they just throttled the lsu tigers. baylor/arizona state. >> steve: here's usc with the basketball. trailing by two. dwight lewis brought it up short. but donte smith, the point guard. and they said they would pressure him. here's that pressure. diaz with the long arms. he's a guy who red shirted last year. coming over from puerto rico. >> marques: you have alex stepheson posting up against anderson, at 6'3". a mismatch. but usc could not deliver the pass inside. >> steve: simmons with the rebound. it is stepheson. >> marques: north carolina, in the ncaa tournament, spent a lot of time this summer working in los angeles. and played against big baby davis, kevin garnett, craig brackins out of iowa state. all those guys working on their skills. see if alex stepheson gets the benefit of that in terms of his post play. >> steve: he is a guy who had a left knee defect. he was out two to three weeks. his fir

>> steve: james harden is a rookie from arizona state. who last year as a sophomore averaged 20 points, five rebounds, four assists. caron makes both free throws, and it's a one-point thunder lead. steve buckhantz, phil chenier, our comcast sportsnet crew. now they've got some numbers, but can't take advantage. stevenson waits for butler, just misses. etan thomas who came in late in that efficient starts the season. durant with the short jumper. >> phil: you can see the height advantage he had, just elevated well above deshawn after he got into his range. >> steve: picked second overall by see at until 2007. last here he was 6th in the

arizona here. the 7,000-pound tree is now on a state wide tour of arizona and will arrive in washington on november0th. the tradition of having states provide a capitol christmas tree started nearly 40 years ago. this is the first year the tree has come from arizona. >>> someone paid about 54,000 bucks for the hat worn by the man who shot lee harvey oswald. jack ruby's fi dora was one of the items on the auction block in dallas yesterday. all items were linked to president john f. kennedy's assassination. the auction came weeks before the 46th anniversary of that event. a newspaper kennedy signed for a maid the morning of his death sold for about $39,000, worth about a nickel in 1963. >>> i'm larry smith. veterans day weekend. last week the "uss new york," made of steel salvaged from the world trade center attack on 9/11, yesterday in indiana, navy's football team making a splash, how about the second straight win in south bend? they were beaten up by the irish 43 sfrait years. 23-21 they knock off the ranked irish and out of bcs bowl consideration. >>> real ticker-tape stopped being used in the '6

-wide tour of arizona and will arrive in washington on november 30th. the tradition of having statesvide a capital christmas tree started nearly 40 years ago. this is the first time the tree has come from arizona. >>> i'm larry smith. it's veteran's day weekend. why not cheer for the navy mid shipmen? 43 straight years of being notre dames whipping boys came to an end for navy. saturday they had a chance to beat them for the second time in three years. u.s.s. new york made its steel salvaged from the world trade center attacks eight years ago. look at this. middies, big touchdown run here. they get the victory 23-21. second straight win at notre dame stadium. amazingly, the first time since 1936 that an unranked navy team beat a ranked notre dame team. irish will not get a chance to play in the lucrative bcs bowl games. >>> some new yorkers got a little carried away. some officer workers couldn't find confetti, so they threw important documents out the window and on to the street below. some were shredded, some were not. pay stubs, even court documents later were found when the clean

offensively, sek henry, you bring in to this offensively for him. >> steve: you see baylor and arizona state, you and i on thursday. then, friday, colorado and oregon state. and the president's brother-in-law. number one kansas at ucla. and the bruins lost all three games in that anaheim classic. best pressure. it can be used as a recruiting tool. >> marques: here's offense by nebraska. sek henry, tough to ask him to be e fktive against marcus simmons. but he's going to try. >> steve: here's henry. no. second attempt, no. hankins-cole. there's a lid on the basket. >> marques: a lid on the basket. great shot battling on the part of nebraska inside. a little move right there. closes out the mid force. and over to the bench. too good of a basketball game to let it be marred by this kind of nonsense. get your emotions under control. >> steve: nebraska has been held scoreless the last five minutes by usc's defense. >> marques: you talked about the lid. hankins-cole can no get the tip-in. and a lot of bod is on top of each other. flailing knees on the inside. two, tough competitors, dwight lewis a

arizona and. the tradition of having states provide a capitol christmas tree started nearly 40 years ago. is is the first year it's come from arizona. >>> someone paid about 54,000 bucks for the hat worn by the man who shot lee harvey oswald. jack ruby's fedora was waun one of the items on the auction block yesterday, all items linked to john f. kennedy's assassination. it came weeks before the 46th anniversary of that event. a newspaper kennedy signed for a maid the morning of his death sold for about 39,000s. it was worth about a nickel in 1963. >>> i'm larry smith. it's the football game that could prove fatal. that's why clark is going to sit out tomorrow's game. two years ago clark nearly died after the steelers' trip to the mile high city. he has a rare sickle cell disorder that's activated by high altitudes. he had multiple surgeries and lost nearly 30 pounds. now he's recovered but one report indicates the safety will make the trip to denver but won't play in the game. >> it's a tough decision, you know. tough to go home and tell your wife that's been worried about you for a year t

this weekend, against arizona state, the school asked the pac-10 conference to let him back, they said okay, to be fair, boise state head coach said he's okay with him coming back as well. monday night football, the broncos hosting pittsburgh, giving a little thank you to the veterans before the game. thank you for your service. and then the steelers with this come from behind win. look, hines ward just jump over champ bailey. that's a little embarrassing. but this is cute. he finds a few steeler fans in denver and finds a guy wearing his jersey and says you wear my jersey, you can have a ball. that's a good day for him. meet 44-year-old scott smith from new jersey who has almost every "sports illustrated" ever printed and he also got many of them signed by those on the cover. he says he spent between $300,000 and $400,000 to get the signatures and now he is selling the whole thing on ebay, starting bid, $2 million. >> wow. >> starting bid, $2 million. >> wonder if he'll get some real bids. that's a lot of time in your life spent collecting, isn't it? >> yep. >> bob, do you have a coll

the ducks routed arizona state 24-21. >>> play of the day -- miami versus new jersey. dwyane wade.ay was for him to drive. he kind of loses the ball and says, well, let's just end this right here. why go for the tie? wade going for the three-point dagger in the heart of the nets to keep them winless and to get the "play of the day." that's sports. >>> just how hard is it to live without health insurance? one woman has four jobs and believe it or not, she can't get coverage that she can afford. and one of her employers isn't sure he can help. >>> defense secretary robert gates has blocked the release of any new photos showing americans abusing foreign detainees. the obama administration told the supreme court yesterday gates is using his new powers provided by law signed last month. there are 21 pictures showing americans abusing detainees in iraq and afghanistan. the aclu sued to have them released and lower courts supported that, but gates says the release would put u.s. citizens and service members in danger. >>> construction of the aircraft carrier "gerald r. ford" got its offic

. >> steve: james harden is a rookie from arizona state. last year as a sophomore averaged 20 points, five rebounds, four assists. caron makes both free throws, and it's a one-point thunder lead. steve buckhantz, phil chenier, our comcast sportsnet crew. now they've got some numbers, but can't take advantage. stevenson waits for butler, just misses. etan thomas who came in late in that efficient starts the season. durant with the short jumper. >> phil: you can see the height advantage he had, just elevated well above deshawn after he got into his range. >> steve: picked second overall by see at until 2007. last here he was 6th in the league in scoring. stevenson with 10, down low for jamison, flips it up and in. foul is called, it will send harden to the line, not only ask he hitting from the outside, but he's getting to the glass. >> phil: after hitting three straight threes, you're going to draw the defense out to you, and that makes it easier for you to put that ball on the floor and go by them. jeff green also a good shoot are from the

in some way but is profound when you hear that and i don't know if there is an economist from arizona state university that wrote a column, has a setting out that shows that since the last year, since the inception of bailout nation and this really also would you address in your great book "architects of ruin", this economist says since the inception of bailout nation that the federal government has taken over 30 percent of the private economy. that is a stunning figure. when you think of the $700 billion bailout, buying banks, buying aig, freddie and fanny, chrysler, gm, taking over the whole student loan industry -- it's really quite breathtaking that 30 percent of the private economy is now owned or controlled by the federal government and this health care bill going through is an additional 18% the government could control where 18 percent of the private economy. it really causes a person to pause and i think that's one thing about your book "architects of ruin", informed me of how just a small dot decision, a small bill can be like a little bit of leverage. like if you have a teeter to

so we were relying completely on sales tax, state shared revenue, and in arizona the state did not have a property tax. the revenues are primarily sales tax and income tax. and then on earnings from our enterprises, our water company, our wastewatewastewate r, things like that. notice that about one third, one third, one third. people still use those but our sales tax and state revenue has gone really in the drain. i took office in june of last year. with a three or four year plan to change the way mesa city government did business. that was my campaign. and i actually meant to live up to my campaign promise. >> how is that working out for you? [laughter] >> actually, thanks for the setup, mayor. the first week i sent an july i said it showed almost 18% drop year-over-year in sales taxes. the three-year plan suddenly became a three-month plan. we realized we could not continue long doing business the way we had. we in essence, we in essence but short. rather than look at this as a temporary blip, we decided we were going to approach this problem is basically a change in our reality and

the ducks routed arizona state. >>> play the daytime, heat losing to new jersey at home in the finaleconds. dwayne wade, are you going to drive like the play calls for? no. shoot it up from there, the three-pointer to win the game. watch wade. fumbled the ball, had no choice but to drain the game winner with .1 seconds left. just in the nick of time for d-wade. that's sports. >>> do you think frozen vegetables maybe don't quite measure up? it turns out sometimes they may actually be more healthy for you than fresh veggies. check out why in today's "beyond the surface." >> fresh versus frozen produce, which is better? if you think fresh, think again. it turns out that frozen produce is just as nutritious as fresh produce because frozen vegetables and fruit are harvested at their peak. the nutrition is preserved throughout the process. you can lose those vitamins to water if you cook them in large amounts. i would suggest that you cook them always in small amounts by steaming. canned vegetables are usually very high in sodium. canned fruit, unless you get it packed in its own juice or

he will be back against arizona state. the school asked the pac-10 to reinstate blount. they said okay. he missed eight games for that shot. >>> "monday night football," denver hosting pittsburgh, acknowledging o acknowledgi acknowledging our real heroes, veterans before the game. the steelers had an amazing come-from-behind win. leaps over champ bailey like nothing. >> oh, man, inches. >> and finds a few steeler fans in the denver crowd. finds a guy wearing his jersey and gives him the ball. you wear my jersey, you get a ball. >>> and a 44-year-old jersey man is selling his collections of "sports illustrated" for $2 million on ebay. the collector said he has almost every "si" ever printed and a lot signed and spent $300,000 to $400,000 on travel expenses over the years to get them signed. he says he will sell them individually for a negotiated price. but, boy, that sets my beer can collection to shame. don't think anybody would want to buy my own pbr. but the signed joe namath maybe. >> that is amazing. here on brown suit day on "morning express." we do this once a mont

states. mostly in arizona. now, cops even have his dna from envelopes. so why is it so hard to catch this pervert? now, you know parents are concerned. >> scary, because you think, okay, there's a pedophile that can easily track down their kids, and he can find out where your kids live. so that's unnerving. it could be a teacher. it could be a coach. it could be your next door neighbor. that's what makes it so scary. >> well put there. we'll take your calls, 1-877-tell-hln. joining us to talk about it, eric english from knxv there in phoenix. we welcome back clay watson, psychologist. joining us, sergeant darren birch with the phoenix police department. darren, we see this, we know some of the details. a few of them anyway. it's happened over ten years. have dna. why so hard to catch whoever's doing this? >> what's difficult about this situation is that there is no actual contact with the suspects, or no description. basically what we're trying to do is get a description of his behavior, and those traits which make him somewhat unique. reminds kind of li

medical liability reform it is my state of arizona my states has seen premiums go down because of medical malpractice reform. health savings account which puts patients in charge of their own care to allow them to spend their dollars as they choose this would be strengthened by the house bill because you've heard republican senators talk about that. we will talk more about those ideas as to go forward. i want to conclude my remarks about the that reid bill and to make the point* the whole point* of the exercise to was to reduce health care premiums the last thing we should do is adopt a provision which will increase health care premiums. let's keep in mind health care reform is all about making things better for americans. this bill does not meet that test by a long shot. >> mr. president frank. >> the senator from wyoming. >> i find it fascinating listening to the comments from the senator from maine. and maine and wyoming are similar in a number of ways and the engine that drives our economy is small business. we just heard this bill right here, the large bill that is the bill but the s

new insurance reforms and new taxes on the insurance industry, insurance premiums in my home state of arizona could skyrocket by as much as $2,619 per individuals and $7,426 for families. think of that, an increase of $7,000 -- $7,426 for families in my state. that's outrageous. what could $7,426 buy in arizona -- buy an arizona family? well, a lot of things. could pay for a year of tuition at the university of arizona, could pay for a year and a half of groceries or nearly two years of utility bills, or it could pay for two years of gasoline. families have a lot of expenses and a lot of important ways to spend $7,426. they don't need the federal government intruding on them and dictating that that money has to go somewhere else. now, our friends on the other side of the aisle will say that they could provide subs disand, in fact, the -- subsidies and, in fact, the legislation will provide subsidies to help with this increased cost, but not every family will qualify. and the subsidies may not even cover the total increase in co cost. moreover, wheapts the point of raise -- moreover, what's th

there are a lot of seniors in my state of arizona. and in the states represented by my other republican colleagues here. and those seniors are scared of these cuts. it's not because of anything the republicans have said to try to scare them. they've simply become aware of what's in these bills. and by these bills, i'm talking about both the senate bill, offered by the majority leader, and the house bill, which are the two bills that would presumably try to be reconciled in conference. and our seniors have been told that under both bills, their benefits are going to be cut by about $500 billion, and that is enough to scare them. and, in fact, all of america is concerned about this. a recent gla "usa today gallup"l shows that 61% of seniors disagree with cutting medicare reform. despite that they have moved ahead to pay for the new health insurance programs. they're suchly not listening to what americans have to say about -- simply not listening to what americans have to say about this. if democratic leaders have their way, hundreds of b

seniors all over america and all over the state of arizona, including the 330,000 senior citizens in my state that are under the medicare advantage program, which is going to be drastically cut by som some $120 billion, are outraged. and the more they find out about it, the more angry they've become. so here we are, as my colleague from the great state of iowa and a leader on health care just articulated, in a totally partisan measure before the united states senate in which no member on this side of the aisle has been consulted in any way -- i would point out to my colleagues historically there has never been a major reform implemented by the congress of the united states unless it's by a -- unless it's bipartisan in nature and i don't believe that the american people want this 2,000-and-some-page monstrosity, which is full of -- which is full of all kinds of provisions that they are either unaware of or even in the study of this legislation many of us have also become unaware of. but fundamentally the bernie madoff accounting, the enron accounting that's been going on with this bill

in my state of arizona, texas, missouri, these states have all seen premiums go down because of medicalalpractice reform. health savings account, which puts patients in charge of their own health care by allowing them to save their health care dollars to spend as they choose, this, too, would have been strengthened by the house bill. and you've heard republican senators talk about that as a reform. there are many other ideas we have. we'll be talking more about those ideas as we go forward. but i just want to conclude my remarks about the reid bill, loaded with provisions that increase insurance premiums and to make the point that since, as i said in the beginning, the whole point of the exercise was to reduce health care premiums, the last thing we should be doing is adopting the provisions in the reid bill which will actually increase health care premiums. let's keep in mind that health care reform is all about making things better for americans, and this bill does not meet that a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maine. ms. snowe: thank you, mr. presiden

states. as far away as arizona.alveaux is serving life without parole. >>> how will lisa nowak be punished? >>> thooef are live pictures. they're fighting a huge fire at an elementary school on the southeast part of the city. this is an 85-year-old building. it is one of the oldest buildings, one of the oldest school buildings in the city. it's a school that has 460 enrolled students and it was in session. they have all evacuated to a library about a block away. all students accounted for. somebody before noon smell ad burning odor. people ran to the principal's office asking if it was a drill. they pulled the fire alarm. there are maybe two dozen or so firefighters. everybody is accounted for and okay. it looks like the fire a spreading along the roof line in this 85-year-old building. right now in texas the u.s. army is remembering those 13 people killed last week at ft. hood as relatives and friends and others stop and pay their final respects to the 13 lives lost. president obama and the army chief of staff part

steve barr is a state representative from the arizona state legislator for district 28, tucson. users a policy leader for the house democrats. he is ranking member of the transportation committee and member of the ways and means committee. importantly from my perspective, he is the founder of the southern arizona transit advocates and he was one of the first legislators in the country to introduce legislation in january 2007 to ban driving while texting. just to show that legislators and the transit advocates can have multidimensional lives, i think it's important point out that steve barr is also a nationally recognized artist. he is recognized for his large-scale tile and art projects involving individuals come commuters and nonprofit groups across the country. so please welcome steve farley. [applause] >> thank you so much. i really want to thank the secretary for inviting me here today, and it is truly an honor and a privilege to be among so many well-informed colleagues. all of whom know that this is an issue that is absolutely vital to be dealt with. but that doesn't neces

if he hadn't been in arizona when barry goldwater became the candidate for president of the united states, all of the contacts and all of the things that happened to make him chief justice never would have happened. if we had been working in santa fe or denver, those are just other cities. in 1964, the capital of the conservative movement and really the capital of the republican party was in phoenix. they used to say the goldwater campaign was run by the arizona mafia, of which bill was a member. [inaudible] >> we were a very devoted couple. she was a terribly smart woman. they met when he was in washington as a clerk to justice jackson. she worked are for the c.i.a. on the austria desk, and it was a genuinely -- oh, i'll tell you, this is a very important thing, until her illness, every night they read between 40 and 50 pages aloud together of 18t 18th an 19th century novels and when i first met him and i didn't realize all this, i asked him how he was reading scott quentin durwin and i asked him how come and he said they went through novels and did this, and they had gone through most o

the tree is on a statewidetor of arizona and will arrive in washington on november 30. trat addition of having statesapitol christmas tree started nearly 40 years ago. this is the first year the tree has come from arizona. >> a special shelter in mexico is providing care for low-income children who have cancer. it's giving them much more than just medical help. dr. sanjay gupta has today's "vital signs." >> reporter: casea de la amistad as it translates is a home to mexico's young cancer patient. ese i casa has been here for 15 years providing shelter and care for children with cancer. most come from rural areas without cancer specialist. the children and their families are invited to stay at friendship house free of charge for as long as they need treatment at nearby city hospitals. shelter volunteers help the time go by reading and playing with the children as they wait for chemotherapy treatment. but the home is involved in more than just facilitating the medical treatment for youngsters. daily life and the sense of normalcy is protected as much as possible. >> for more on this and other exciting

according to the pew center the most trouble states, besides california, are arizona, florida, illinoismichigan, nevada, new jersey, oregon, rhode island and wisconsin. those states represent a one-third of the country's occupation and economic output and their problems could affect the rover of the entire nation. back to you, chuck. >> all right, boy, california is really in a world of hurt, aren't they? >> reporter: oh, indeed. >> steph neerk good to see you. >>> you think that you know the news, prove it. test your knowledge with the "cnn challenge." with you pick your favorite anchor, how about robin meade from hln's "morning express." so play right now. >>> a former stripper and a former priest battle it out. not church in a court of law. >>> a jury in little rock, arkansas, has just found curtis vance guilty of capital murder in the beating death of a tv news anchor. vance was charged with brutally beating ann presley at her home about a year ago. presley died five days after the attack. the panel must now decide whether vance should be executed or spend the rest of his life in pr

with the fastest growth in the united states being in the driest areas, arizona, nevada, southern california we are concerned about the impact of climate change. and i will tell you the example i gave earlier about the delta system quite apart from the colorado river where we are seeing very severe drop likewise we are seeing it in central california and affecting our ability to deliver water through the delta. these are changing all of our assumptions about what will be available in the future and putting a premium on our ability to downscale global models to regional levels to be able to get better data and predictions about what we will have to deal with in the future in order to deal with the water supply needs for the city dwellers and farmers and yes, our fish. i will say very briefly that our response -- we are entering new territory here and as all of you know it's hard to know the way forward. do you respond by eaglen to more infrastructure? do you respond by pushing for more conservation? do you respond by through other techniques? do you do all of the above? the answer is yes, yes

arizona. u.s. marshals arrested faleh almaleki in the airport yesterday. he had tried to fly to the united kingdom, but was denied entrance and returned to the united states. almaleki is accused of running over his daughter with his car because he didn't think she was living her life according to the traditional iraqi values. noor almaleki remains in the hospital in serious condition. >>> the suspect in a deadly iraq bombing managed to kill someone during a police interrogation. iraq's interior of ministry says he grabbed a gun from a guard and shot an investigator. the investigator wrestled the gun back and shot the suspect. both died from their injuries. the suspect also looted the guard he took the gun from. investigators were questioning him in last sunday's bombing in baghdad that killed at least 160 people. that was iraq's deadliest bombing since 2007. >>> the bids are really stacking up for a motorized recliner a man drove while drunk. >> and then about five minutes later, they called me, $20,000! i'm like, are you kidding me?! >> and with just a couple days left in the auction, the price is going up. xxxxxxxxxx >>> no wortd on when san fr

state hillary clinton. peter, bruce become arizona, good morning. caller: i would like to make maybe one or two comments.ma is making a decision about adding more troops. we have not really earned -- learned from past history when the british and the russians were in afghanistan. i do not know why we have not looked at what they have done. anyhow, with this new troop buildup, they are saying it will cost a billion dollars per 1000 troops. with president obama trying to pass domestic policy, i do not know where he is going to get the money for this. a a there are a lot of family -- and there are a lot of families worried because i have a son who is in a couple of years going to be college-age. it seems like kids who are graduating from college, the only option they have for any potential job is to join the military and get their education paid for by the government. a lot of these job fears are being done in each state and you have these kids who are getting -- these job fairs are being done in each state and of these kids who are getting out of college and they cannot get jobs. i am mixed about president

state economies. they can take up to two years to recover after the economy starts to do better. check it out. arizona, california -- look on this map. they're the ones in red. you can see along the west coast, up near detroit, michigan up there, too, down in florida as well, new jersey making the list. and one of the problems with this is that when the states can't pay their budgets, they may also have to fire people so that could mean 900,000 jobs lost. this is a new study by the pew center and it's just more of a drain on the every day that you see out there, a lot of people's jobs, but when you're trying to feel -- this is about confidence but your state government is doing well, it can be hard to be confident. a lot of states looking to raise taxes and slash services. >>> let's talk about the housing market. we have another sign that it might be healing. this morning's statistic is about foreclosure rates. it went down in october. that's three months in a row that at least it went in the right direction. look, it's still at a very high rate but doing better. there's a lot of risk out there. reali

arizona. u.s. marshals arrested almaleki on thursday. he tried to fly to the united kingdom but had been denied entrance and returned to the united states. almaleki is accused of running over his daughter with his car because he didn't think she was living her life according to the traditional iraqile values. noor almaleki is in the hospital in serious condition. >>> what kind of business gets 800% of a mark-up on things it's reselling? federal inspectors say a military contractor in iraq does. and as brian todd reports, if someone's being ripped off your money is paying for it. >> reporter: $196.50 for a box of washers that is supposed to cost $1.22. $237 for a vehicle side mirror that you and i should pay less than $15 for. that's how much the inspector general for iraq's reconstruction says american taxpayers have been overbilled by a contractor that supplies vehicle parts for the iraqi army. >> we are going to work with the army material command, the army contracting command, to ensure that this money is recouped and the taxpayers' interests are protected. >> reporter: bowen's report deals with a california-based company which provid

arizona. let's boost our own u.s. economies, our states' economies. do not fill the coffers of the castro regime. thank you to your chairman. >> at the time of the gentle lady has expired. the chairman of the western hemisphere subcommittee is recognized for three minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i very much appreciate your calling today's hearing to discuss the issue of cuba and the travel ban. it is important to take a look of the broad policy as the internal dynamics in cuba as we review that ban. i support president obama's steps to move the ball ford on new u.s. policy toward cuba, but also believe that it takes two to tango. the president removed and thinly restrictions and made expanded communications links. these send important signals of the willingness of the u.s. to improve ties with cuba, but in response i have seen few if any reciprocal steps from the castro regime. unfortunately, cuba remains one of the most oppressive countries in the western hemisphere. i would like to see us turn the page on our approach with cuba. the time has no

foreclosure rates, 65% under water in nevada, 48% in arizona and 45% in florida -- guest: and california and of the biggest state. those are big economic states. i cannot recall the exact -- exact -- in california but alone it is bigger than a lot of countries in europe. it is the biggest economy within our economy. so it does create a drag. economists like to say we have regional housing issues. so if you have a downturn in one. does not necessarily affect the others. but the downturn in florida, california, nevada, those states are so great that it is pulling the rest of the housing market with it. because you have a lot of banks that have a lot of exposure in those areas and they are tightening lending standards across the country, making it harder for other people to get homes. causing a drag on jobs. they are having to lay off people because they have had so many losses because of those states and it causes a drag on the overall economy as well. host: last week a report on new- home sales up a bit. guest: you have to be careful on those numbers because of a lot of that is driven by artificial demand being d

time, i should say, the western united states has accounted for 50% of our nation's population growth from 1990 to 200. --2000. with the fastest growth with in arizonania. we are concerned about the impact of climate change. and i will tell you, the example i gave earlier about the bay delta system, apart from the colorado river, where we are seeing long-term, severe droughts, likewise, we're seeing it in the central california. and affecting our ability to deliver water. these are changing all of our assumptions about what water will be available in the future. and putting a premium on our ability to down scale global models to more regional levels to be able to get better data and predictions about what we'll have to deal with in the future, in order to deal with the water supply needs. and yes, for our fish. i will say very briefly that our response -- we're entering new territory here. and as all of you know, it's hard that know the way forward here. do you respond by going to more infrastructure. or do you respond by pushing for more conservation? do you respond by other techniques? do you do all of the above? the answer is yes, yes, and yes. o

arizona. he has taken on the fundamentalists. i also see that the mainstream islamist groups in the united states, these are groups that do not ask to cooperate with the fbi. if anything, they say don't talk to the fbi. if the fbi comes and talks to you, get a lawyer first and do not allow them into your house. they tell them not to cooperate, volunteer, and allowed spies into your home. the only way the fbi can get intelligence is with spies inside the mosques. host: our line for democrats is next, go ahead. caller: i have a question for mr. emerson. i want to speak about the symbolic kids that were on that botat. they said they were terrorists. they were delivering from boats that want to deliver food group these young people board the boats to get the food and medicine for their countrymen. they were not going to harm anybody on the boat. as human beings, we bring nothing up in this world and we take nothing out for it will only take the goodness that we have. guest: i would have to disagree. if we are talking about the same incident of the three somalis who had taken hostage in the british and american captors -- the victims,

in arizona you have 6 inches of rain every year. at the george headshake and cattle statelean. where the cow was living is good. i have seen places where things could be done right and i feel very strongly that we've got to give those animals a decent life. that's just a center. also i think grazing animals have a place in the ecosystem. there was a great article in the saturday new york times, i think the book was something pork chop. and talking about how right now in brazil are not clearing the land for cattle. they are clearing the land for soybeans. and soybeans aren't all that great for you either. they are loaded with hormones but i've been too much of that stuff and i got a sore right here. that's not good. but we've got to give animals a good life. the Éclairs, they have the most problems. animals that have a really good life. and when slaughter plants working right. and love nonindustry people through the slot that and they watch the candidate off the truck, watch the cavaco of the ribbon is the only walk up so quietly that they just can't believe it. that's the

arizona in the mid-1990s. the father fled after the attack but he was arrested after arriving at a u.k. airport. he was sent back to the united states after he was denied entrance. >>> federal health officials hope that announcement will reassure expectant mothers. 92% of pregnant women in trial studies had a robust immune response to a single dose and no side effects were reported. trials also confirmed that kids nine years and younger will need two doses. >>> new this morning, this could be a huge mess. almost a million people are having to find a new way around philadelphia right now. the city's largest transit union went on strike overnight, and that means no buses, subways or trolleys in the city. talks broke down over the rules. talks were competitive. >>> a 15-year-old girl was gang raped at the school, and the district put up automated lights in the area where they say it happened. today they're taking bids for security cameras. the superintendent assured people at a rally yesterday that the school is safe. church leaders called for 100 volunteers to help. >> we believe that if we can have a presence on campus during the lun

his is from arizona state university. at the end we have chuck reed, the mayor of san jose california a job he has held since 2007 so we can see if you look at those charts just when things started to get that each of these mayors took their jobs which is another question about their sanity but it does sort of make you realize why they don't have to worry about anybody else challenging them given that who would want the job given what we have been told going forward. mayor readed the graduate of the air force academy in has a law degree from stanford law school. he was a practicing attorney in san jose before he took the job as mayor of that city in the state of california which we here in washington looked at as a model because when we feel bad about how congress functions we look to the california legislature and we say it could have been worse. [laughter] we are going to start by asking each of the for may years to speak very briefly a couple of minutes to give us a snapshot of the economic and fiscal conditions in his

affordable for atlantic coast, go to the jersey shore, visit california, visit arizona, let's post our own u.s. economies and boost our states economies. don't fill the coffers of the castro regime. gracias, chairman, thank you. [applause] >> the time of the gentlelady has expired, and the chairman of the western hemisphere subcommittee mr. ingalls is recognized for three minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i very much appreciate your calling today's hearing to discuss the issue of cuba and the travel ban. it's also important we take a look at our entire cuba policy as well as the internal dynamics in cuba as we review of travel ban. i support president obama's steps to move forward on u.s. policy toward cuba but i also believe that it takes two to tango. the president of restrictions on family travel and remittances to cuba expanding communication links to the island. these steps send important signals of the willingness of the united states to improve ties with cuba but in response and fortunately i've seen few if any reciprocal steps from the castro regime. unfortunately cuba remains one of the most repressive countries