for an agent or quote, call 800-my-coverage... or visit travelers.com. >> live at the arizona state fair the 15th anniversary of fox news channel and arizona governor jan brewer. good evening, governor. >> welcome to the arizona state fair. >> thank you very much. you have been wandering around earlier tonight. >> i have. it's been fabulous. >> what have you seen. >> beautiful weather. i went to the exhibit hall. i went to the funnel cake place. i have been to imagine get sandwiches. >> greta: that's disgusting. i have actually -- griff jenkins is talking about the maggots. people eat those. >> i have no idea. i certainly wouldn't indulge. >> greta: pretty disgusting. lots going on in this state. illegal immigration. this has been a hot bed of that discussion. what's been the lawsuit. federal government still trying to shut you done on that. >> they have been successful so far? >> bottom line is we have fought with the supreme court. they asked for 30 day suspension. they asked for another 30 day extension to answer. we agreed. so we hope to hear from the supreme court probably around ma

18th-ranked arizona state.enjon barner hold off the duck and lead with just about one minute left in the game. quarterback jarrett lee and the top-ranked lsu tigers won by double-digits. lee with one td nasnovell and findss in knoxville. heisman trophy candidate richardson ran for 133 and scored four times. here is your big one, 8-yarder and ole miss scored. and watch that move by trend richardson one more time. don't forget folk the remake of "footloose" is now showing at a theater near you. 6th-ranked oklahoma state takes it 100 yards and gilbert gives oklahoma state the insurmountable lead. cowboys kick it and get it back. texas whitaker the same distance, 100 yards, but 6th- ranked rank hand the longhorns their 6th loss in the last 10 home-games. >>> michigan state against their in-state rival michigan and at times this turned as ugly as the so-called uniforms. he is picked by lewis, lewis should have gotten flagged for taunting. spartans win the paul bunyan trophier for the fourth straight year, 2-14 the s

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and supporters healed rally at arizona state and turned emotional when reporters asked jesse's mother whether she hurt the little girl. >> very unfair for you to ask me that. do i look like i hurt my daughter? do i look like i hurt my daughter? do i look like i hurt my daughter? she is scared. she is scared please i know she is scared. >> she spent time in jail several years ago after being convicted child abuse. police say she is not a suspect in the daughter's disappearance. >>> and this video got a lot of people talking. a college student ran off stage left. now the student tore off his makeshift referee uniform running around the field in a speedo. this is during the ucla-arizona game thursday night. we know why he did it. he says he wants to be on tv. he says this is part of the application to be on the abc hit show wipeout and figured it would be a good answer to the question of what's the craziest thing you've done. >> i felt like if i didn't do it i think i would live with the regret because i planned this out so long and i felt like it was foolproof. >> yeah. he is now facing

they beat arizona state 41-27. michigan, georgia tech, and illinois all lost their first games of the season. going back to the ducks, clearly head coach chip kelly doesn't enjoy celebrating with the fans. >> what do you know about garrett thomas? >> will you shut up? >> thank you. >> well said. last year the giants beat the rangers to win the world series, but this year, texas won't have to worry about facing lincecum or kaine in the fall classic. only the fox star time could slow down the rangers tonight. tigers up 2-0 in the 3rd when the tiffany jackson texas bats woke up. two-runs score and the game is tied. later in the inning, it's young again. this time he flips one down the right field line to drive in two more runs. the rangers score nine times in the 3rd. young was later at a solo homer. nelson cruz may have been the only rangers, he hit his sixth homer. the most ever in a single series. texas pounds detroit 15-5 to win their second straight american league pennant. they are headed back to the world serie

but, see, he also has an oregon jacket on and that was an arizona state receiver. >> you have to thinkthe guy got the spot he probably thought i got the perfect spot. >> uh-huh. >> right there. >> no

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texas if they want to, you know, afford the tuition to the kids. >> especially, they're praising arizona on statesights grounds for doing its own thing, to address illegal immigration. >> fair weather federalists? >> i think it's great that rick perry is pushing back, i think it's a shame that republicans turned away from the ronald reagan vision and open and welcoming toward immigrants, but in this case, i don't like governor perry and people supporting him basically arguing this is a winner for texas because the kids are going to work there and pay a lot of the taxes and it comes from this belief, much like people used to have with housing, that funding, subsidizing education is always a good investment and it's not. if they're actually subsidizing 100 k per student that money would be better invested at market rates and would for the taxpayer, save a lot more money than you're going to collect in taxes from these kids. >> the rational is not so much future tax payments as past tax payments. this is like why in-state residents get a fishing or hunting license. it's because throughout their lifet

arizona state, a 38-14 winner, as colorado is still looking for its first conference win.tanford will move up at least one spot in the bcs rankings thanks to georgia tech. the tigers go down 31-17. georgia tech helped by four lem son turnovers. it was the one that got away for vanderbilt. this is what you call a flagrant penalty. that is an ejection. here's play that turned the game. zack stacy fumbles. franklin leaking oil but he still makes his way to the end zone. arkansas comes back from a double-digit deficit, improving to 7-1. michigan state coming off a big win. could the spartans keep it going in lincoln? na quarterback taylor martinez throw off his back foot. number 9 michigan state goes down 24-3. wisconsin suffered its first loss last week on a december race pass. today, the badgers led ohio state late. ohio state pulls out a 33-39 win with 20 seconds to go, and the badgers again go down in epic fashion. 84-year-old joe paterno on the edge of history tonight. the lions in front, 10-7. illinois could tie it with a field goal attempt. from 42 yards out right here.

. >> at the arizona state fair they've got some new foods i want to tell but.atermelon? >> i like it. >> or how about this? >> what is that? >> is that like meal worms? >> those are maggots. deep-fried maggot burger. >> wow. >> yes, the deep-fried maggot melt, that's what they're calling that. >> people are eating this? >> we'll see. these are peanut butter pops. deep-fried peanut butter. >> a big difference between peanut butter and worms, that's for sure. >> we have deep-fried captain crunch and fruity pebbles, deep-fried koolaid. deep fried bubblegum. deep-fried gravy. i don't know how many heart attacks that's going to cause. >> how does one deep-fry koolaid? >> i learned about this from another state fair. they put koolaid in batter and fry it up. >> that sounds like the perfect con temporary fair food now. i would like to try all of it. at least once. >>> this is one of the coolest campaign tourism videos i've seen in a while. the campaign is called inspired by iceland. it's where iceland is inviting people to come to their country. but they're literally

arizona. it's a state where the economy was decimated by the housing bust. the number of construction jobs there has dropped by more than half since the market peaked in 2006. 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 re

injustice to social injustice is a max mass exodus underway of hispanic families fleeing the state of arizona and state republican lawmakers passed a radical anti immigration law that went into effect last thursday thousands of hispanic children haven't shown up for school because their families are afraid they may be profiled and detained just because they don't look america republican senator jeff sessions from alabama was asked about these consequences of this immigration law earlier today on a laura ingram show and give the censors. oh do you think it's bad that all these kids are not in school now all these hispanic kids are have disappeared from the schools do you think that's a bad thank you oh if. we we go out a situation for decades in which there are large numbers of people in the country illegally. it's not going. to have been put there are unfortunate consequences turns out the vast majority of these children who are afraid to go to school are not here illegally and have every right to be in this country as was a young many man who was one of the very first people instead of alaba

she was sentenced to 18 years in the arizona state prison system. >>> coming up -- >> i stabbed him in his lungs and his kidneys. and he basically drowned in his own blood. >> in prison for manslaughter, one inmate's past can come back to haunt him. >> before i was an inmate, you know, i was a correctional officer here at this facility. >>> in prison, we often find unusual stories can be found in the most mundane settings. that happened at the penitentiary of new mexico when he met inmate daniel rapatz during his shift in the prison laundry. >> we do the facility laundry on a daily basis. one day we'll do yellows, one day we'll do whites, one day we'll do blankets. the leg irons are for security reasons. that way we can't run. there's really nowhere we could go anyway. >> rapatz was serving time for manslaughter but we discovered a different story in his past, one that threatened his reputation among staff and inmates alike. >> before i was an inmate, you know, i was a correctional officer here at this facility. at the penitentiary of new mexico. you know, about 13 years ago. >> an inm

arizona state is that school in the pack 12. >> they compete on style and form like figure skiing?hey crash? i don't know how many points he got on that one, elizabeth. >> imagine what happens in high school if they crash like that in college. >> so the stanford tight ends you would have gone with a different nickname? >> the three stooges. [ laughter ] >> marketable. >> what's the number for tickets? >> raiders.com. go to the website. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com ,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,

. >> police arrest karla janeth jauregui, a student at a arizona state university.i pled guilty to aggravated assault and armed robbery and was sentenced to five years in prison. police say the surveillance footage was a critical component to the investigation. >> any time a business has good surveillance video, it's going to be helpful. whenever you have someone who commits a violent crime, you want to get them off the street as soon as you can because there's a tendency of them committing another violent crime. >> as for the clerk, she suffers hand injuries and returns to work almost two weeks after the attack. finally, for everyone out there who's put in a hard day's work, an example of someone making the best of it. as you'll see, this officer takes his beat quite seriously. in providence, rhode island, there's tony lapour with his white gloves and whistle directing traffic. >> i'm not going to argue with that truck. he was too big. >> he may look like an ordinary cop, but the residents of this new england town have found that tony is anything but ordinary. >> e

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arizona is recognized. mr. gosar: mr. speaker, i rise today in support of h.r. 470, the hoover power allocation act of 2011. hoover power is a vital power resource for the consumers in the states of arizona, california and nevada as well as over 29 million people who rely on this clean renewable source of energy. hydroelectric power from the hoover dam was first allocated by congress in 1928 and has been allocated by congress ever since. the current power contracts expire in 2017. it is important this body pass a new allocation now to ensure the continued availability and reliability of hoover power to the citizens of my state and those of california and nevada. the version of this legislation this body is considering today reflects years of thorough negotiation. it includes provisiones that address issues that were raised in the 111th congress by the intertribal counsel of arizona and the western area power administration. because of that the bill has garnered strong bipartisan support within the arizona house delegation and at the grassroots level. i would like to address the concerns expressed by the arizona statewide cooperative association. i met with representatives of t

jobs and squeezing their mining jobs and then we stand here with something that for little state like arizona-- for a little state like arizona could be billions and billions of dollars of economic growth. when you think about this one ore deposit could represent 20% of the nation's copper, you know, how can we even be debating this. when you also realize, an average single family home uses about 440 pounds of copper. how about a car? a car uses about 55 pounds of copper. this is where it will come from. and the last thing i want to say, and to my good friend, congressman gosar from northern arizona, and all tee -- mr. hastings: i yield the gentleman 30 seconds. mr. schweikert: he's gigantic here. as a freshman to step into this body to deal with sometimes a can tank russ issue but -- cantankerous issue but those who love arizona, this spornt. this is a lot of jobs. this is a lot of economic growth. and congressman gosar gets a lot of credit for getting it this far. thank you, mr. chairman, i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from arizona, mr. grijalva. mr. grijalva:

all of this coming on the heels of the arizona state, we are going to bail out grease. >>darya: our big story this morning, the earthquake of course, we will continue our coverage of that early on. bart shutdown for five quick minutes. here we are at 739 with a hot spot. >>george: we have a major of problem at the base aerostation. a switching problem because of the equipment on the trackway. bart is reporting delays of up to 30 minutes. they are even suggesting that passengers using the lines that go to the base their station look for alternate means of transportation this morning with no indication of when the problem will be prepared. we will be right back on the kron 4 news. at bank of america, we're lending and investing in the people and communities who call the bay area home. from funding that helped a local entrepreneur start a business... to providing grants to a nonprofit which offers job training and placement... and supporting an organization working to help the environment. because the more we do in the bay area, the more we help make opportunity possible.

jobs and squeezing their mining jobs and then we stand here with something that for little state like arizona -- for a little state like arizona could be billions and billions of dollars of economic growth. when you think about this one ore deposit could represent 20% of the nation's copper, you know, how can we even be debating this. when you also realize, an average single family home uses about 440 pounds of copper. how about a car? a car uses about 55 pounds of copper. this is where it will come from. and the last thing i want to say, and to my good friend, congressman gosar from northern arizona, and all tee -- mr. hastings: i yield the gentleman 30 seconds. mr. schweikert: he's gigantic here. as a freshman to step into this body to deal with sometimes a can tank russ issue but -- cantankerous issue but those who love arizona, this spornt. this is a lot of jobs. this is a lot of economic growth. and congressman gosar gets a lot of credit for getting it this far. thank you, mr. chairman, i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from arizona, mr. grijalva. mr. grijalva

he's also a fwradge watt of arizona state university -- graduate of arizona state university where he had his master of science degree and the national war college. without further ado we want to get to your opening statements. we're pleased to have the ranking members join us now -- ranking member has joined us now. we have with us the ranking member of the full committee. we talked about dispensing with our opening statements and putting them in the record. ms. bordallo: mr. chairman, i'd like to welcome our witnesses today and place my statement in the record. >> thank you. mad lean and i work -- madeleine and i work closely as partners and i appreciate the work she does. today we're going to put your statement in the record and they've already been made in the record. as i told all of you before, we want you to tell us the importance of what we have. i'm going to set each of you up with a question, but expound on it with your testimony, anything you want to say. we'll start, general corelli, with you. as you know, we have heard -- we've already had $465 billion in cuts to national

state. that loophole is one reason bay area's genentech built its new plant in oregon and intel plans to spend $7 billion in arizona states offer significant tax incentives we don't match and the california loophole makes it worse, giving out of state companies tax breaks for not hiring here and not building here. how much business are we trying to lose? nbc bay area urges you to s, deenndtaess, mandde they close the corporate loophole.

arizona? on your own. >> a little bit of financial experimentation seeing if they can find a swing state in arizona.state for democrats and it's a shot at romney. >> this is something that we have been seeing for quite a few weeks where the democrats look at mitt romney as the likely nominee. what is intriguing is the obama campaign is borrowing from the bush campaign and this massachusetts liberal looked at him as a tag early. we have am campaign with mid-romney diseasing on his reversals on various issues. the playbook and should mitt romney be the nominee, we are watching it play out. >> any concern that you are creating a stronger potential republican opponent? >> i don't think that republican primary voters are going to get their advice on who to support. by any measure, mitt romney is ahead right now and the fact of the democratic party and allies of the president are doing things to make sure people have a sense of who mitt romney is as we move towards a general election base is helpful. it's helpful to have a clear sense of the kind of policies that mitt romney would produce. >> stick around

she served as -- she served with governor janet napolitano in the state of arizona.efore joining the governor's office, she served as special adviser to the president and director for strategic projects for the office of president at arizona state university. thank you all for being here. i would now like to return to ambassador brownfield and recognized him for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, ranking members, members of the foreign affairs and homeland security committees, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. i have a written statement for the record, which i have submitted, and would like to offer a bridge -- a brief oral summary. i do not intend to spend your time describing the origin, in a tree, and purpose of the merit initiative. you know them better than i do. this has been more of a partnership between two governments than a traditional foreign assistance program. the congress has been genesis jarrett -- generous in funding it. the initiative as delivered some concrete successes over the last four years. since 200

he is also a graduate of arizona state university where he had a bachelor of science degree and nationalwar college. without further ado we want to get right to your opening statement. we are pleased to have the ranking members join us now. we also have with us the chairman of the full committee. we talked before you got here dispensing with opening statements and putting them in the record because we're going to call votes in 10 or 15. >> i want to welcome our witnesses today and placed a statement in the record. >> we appreciate your service to this committee. we worked as close partners and have a special relationship and i appreciate her help with this committee and the great work that she does. with that we will do something a little different today. we will put your statements in the record. and are told all of you before we want you to tell us the importance of what we have. i want you to expound on it with your testimony anything you want to say. we will start, general chiarelli, with you. we have already had $465 billion to cut the national defense taking place in the country. s

. >> an issue relating to your home state of arizona, operation fast and furious.rk smith has written a letter to the president asking for a special prosecutor to investor attorney general eric holder. he testified before congress that he apparently recently heard about the operation and they found some memos that show maybe he was notified much earlier than that. do you support the calling after special prosecutor in this instance? >> i have been talking about it with john kyle, my fellow senator, and arizona members of congress from arizona. because brian terry, the border patrol agent was killed in arizona. the majority of this activity took place in arizona. texas, as well. but a lot of it in arizona. so we are talking about it, and we will reach a decision in the next day or two. but frankly, greta, i don't get what part of the congressman's question that eric older didn't get when he said when did you first find out about this? and the attorney general of the united states said he didn't understand the question. that's -- that's very interesting. >> the speci

he's president of the state senate in the great state of arizona. russell pierce made a national name for himself last year by pushing through arizona's papers please law. remember sp-1070? at the time the most draconian anti-immigration law in the country before alabama got ahold of the issue. a federal judge has blocked arizona from enforcing major parts of papers please. but in the meantime, arizona voters, angry or grossed out by the whole sb-1070 ordeal started a recall campaign against russing pierce. the campaign said, overt disdain for the united states constitution. they put his petition out there and russell pierce up for a vote. through no fault of the arizona recallers, they're watching a cautionary tale unfold about the way we make decisions these days in our little democracy. here's how it goes. ready? the candidate who's trying to unseat russell pierce is in fact a fellow republican, this guy here. he's a totally mainstream local republican from the district who was urged into the race by other local republicans who within embarrassed

during the summers while i was attending arizona state university, i would go work in the mines.i worked in the leeching plant, the electroplant, the leeching tanks, ball mills, so i have the experience of knowing this type of life. so inow the economic boom that copper mining can bring to a community, but i also have experience the impact, the adverse impact that copper mining can have not only on the people that work in there, but also on the environnt. so i have seen both sides. it's with that interest that i have seen the evolution of this debate, at one time even i sponsored a bill that would deal with the economic development of these mining towns, superior, globe miami, etc., and the area we are talking about being exchanged is an areahat i kn well. as a kid growing up we used this area for picnic site and in some cases probably the site where we didn't go to school, that's where we had our impromptu picnic. so i know this area. i have to tell you that the issue about the jobs as it will be discussed, and i guess the number of jobs is in the eyes of the beholder, mining ha

western states like colorado, arizona, new mexico, nevada are becoming more democratic. >>> big changes tomorrow as fog returns to the forecast. temperatures will be in the 50s tomorrow. struggling to warm in the afternoon was the winds incompliance the temperatures. -- influence the temperatures. this is the reason why we will get cooler weather. the system down to the south, pushes towards the jet stream. bringing back our sea breeze winds and the fog returns as a result. tracker for tomorrow morning, fog down the bay shores, south bay and north bay as well. 8:00, still seeing the fog lingering around the bay shores. it will be sticking there about 11:00 and coast line by noon. tomorrow upper 70s in the south bay. 76 san jose. 78 morgan hill. 77 los gatos. 80s today. tomorrow in the 70s. also inland low 80s tomorrow afternoon. 82 fairfield. 70s north bay. 66 san francisco, 68 richmond. extended forecast, cooler tomorrow and cooling into wednesday. temperatures dropping to the low 70's inland. we will rebound thursday into friday, less fog in the forecast. temperatures bahns up to the

they were flown in from arizona, minnesota, colorado, and indiana -- all states important to the president'selection campaign. >>> just as hope was beginning to fade, crews are celebrating another miraculous rescue in turkey this morning. a 13-year-old boy was pulled from the rubble of an apartment building that collapsed more than 100 hours ago when the 7.2 magnitude earthquake rocked the country on sunday. the boy was conscious but injured. he was rushed to a waiting ambulance. at least 550 people are confirmed dead now, and another 2,300 others were wounded. >>> our time right now is 5:38. coming up, watch out for a big cat. the wild animal spotted roaming the city neighborhood. at th"well, we could sleep we hin the same bed,ime: but it just doesn't work." she would like a firmer mattress than i would. yeah, nine out of ten couples disagree on the firmness they want in a mattress. i sleep on the couch. with our bed, the sleep number setting represents the firmness that you like on your half of the mattress. don't mess with my side because i'm comfortable. i can adjust mine to my liking an

my home state of arizona alone has 903 deficient bridges. of arizona should want that money spent to repair bridges, it seems to me that they should be allowed their priorities, rather than 10% of it being mandated for any purpose, much less those seven that are outlined in the amendment. we know what the debt is, $14.8 trillion. we've got to spend our money on -- in a fiscally responsible manner and not on special interest projects. for example, tennessee, the state of tennessee has more than 3,800 deficient bridges. because of this federal mandate, however, states are forced to spend valuable and limited transportation dollars on transportation enhancement projects, such as the white squirrel sanctuary in kenton, tennessee. kenton, the home of the white squirrel, has spent $269,404 on the sanctuary. the funding for the white squirrel sanctuary was used for construction of walking trails, including brick crosswalks, footbridge and trailhead parking within kenton to provide for the safe observation of white squirrels. the lincoln highway, 200

adviser to the president and director of strategic projects for the office of the president at arizona state university. thank you, all, very much for being here. i would now like to turn to ambassador brown field and recognize him for five minutes. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, ranking members, members of the foreign fairs, and homeland security committees. thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. i have a run statement for the record which i have submitted and would like to offer a brief oral summary. mr. chairman, i do not intend to spend your time describing the origin, history, and purpose of the initiative. you know them better than i do. i'll say this has been more of a partnership between two governments than a traditional foreign assistance program, that the congress has been generous in funding it, and that the initiative delivered concrete successes over the past four years. since 2009, more than 33 high level cartel leaders have been removed or arrested. this compares with one in the proceeding six years. thanks to the merida initiative, th

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there were protests against arizona's new anti-immigrant law all over the country, organized boycotts against the stateizona. sb-1070, better known as the papers please law, frankly became a national issue. more than a year later, after sb-1070 was stayed by the courts, alabama passed an even more draconian law, a law that essentially makes it illegal to exist without documentation in alabama. your very existence in that state in school and in a car, in a church maybe, could be considered a crime under alabama's new law. when a federal judge in alabama refused to block key provisions of the new anti-immigrant law, alabama's latinos, all 4% of them in contrast to the 30% in arizona, they comparatively were kind of just left on their own. many just left altogether, just fled the state entirely. "the new york times" reporting an exodus of hispanic immigrants from one small alabama town. the monday after the law was upheld, politico was told hispanic students were absent from class at twice the normal rate. they doesn't mean they're all undocumented immigrants. families with one member who has uncertain im

actually, even arizona has the color copper in its state flag. nd we are talking about jobs in arizona versus jobs in where we are importing copper from now. we're importing copper from chile, canada, peru and mexico, in that order. we either create jobs there or we can create jobs in arizona. we can either develop our own resources or we can allow ourselves to rely on resources from foreign places. we either go forward in what we are trying to do here, realizing that even firemen and policemen need copper before they can actually do their work. that all of us are going to have to have this mineral, we might as well get our minerals here, develop our jobs here, use our future here. this is a great bill. and it is a fair rule in which all of the amendments, one technical, three which have nice sounds to them but are going to be very difficult to put into reality if they actually were to pass, they will be debated here on the floor. i wish to reiterate the fairness of this structured rule. i urge this rule's adoption. i urge the adoption of the unde