. >> stephanie: audra in chicago. hey, audra. >> caller: hello.nie: oh, that's a different audra. go ahead. >> caller: i actually want to make two quick points. first one is last night, rachel maddow made a cogent point about the sequester and how ridiculous the obfuscations of the republican is, another vantage point which is that the deficit has been shrinking. >> stephanie: yep. >> caller: it is a manufactured emergency. as a result of the poll that you cited yesterday that got you in so much trouble i propose that we change republican to repugnican. i just wanted to pass that idea on. >> stephanie: i don't understand what they're screaming about. i didn't do the study. you just reported it for god's sakes. >> you were fawning over it. >> stephanie: you can look at any polls. it says the same thing about republicans. >> what about 1936 when -- the guy and democrat -- >> stephanie: thing about a guy. okay marvin in milwaukee. you're on "the stephanie miller show." hello. >> caller: hello. if the republicans had any courage, they would come out a

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. >> her first tip, audra, she likes you to put on gloves to protect your hands. >> your nails. >> toub. that's how i change a tire. >>> how about a check of the weather? >>> let's look at your weekend. tomorrow a system is making its way up the coast, may bring light snow in the northeast and new england. showers in the pacific northwest. sunny and warm in the southwest. southern california will see windy conditions. those winds stretch into the mid mississippi and down into the tennessee area. i should say texas region. look for plenty of sunshine along the gulf coast. windy and snow in northern new england. we're looking at more snow around the great lakes. >> good morning.e we're watching a cold front that will come through this evening. it will create some rain and snow showers. >> and that's your latest weather. willie? >> all right, al. thank you very much. with us in studio this morning, two women who say they are stuck. they work full-time jobs while also working on passion projects they hope will pay off for them. nurse darlene procter wants to make her business party stylin

. >> audra zuckerman is the co-founder of the school. has a seventh grader with down syndrome. >> i think one of the things they do really well here is they speak about injustice. they teach the kids about situations in history or contemporary situations where people are not treated fairly or differently because of their differences. >> with lessons tailored to each students' level of learning, teachers focus on equality and diversity. >> what struck me is here the students are learning about robin island, nelson mandela, martin luther king. >> we believe every single child is going to change the world, and that's our philosophy, and if that's our philosophy, we need to give examples of people who have changed the world. >> ideal's curriculum and philosophy is to foster compassion. >> we have, like, a life skills class on fridays. one of my goals was to use what i learned here to not fight with my brothers, my sister. >> sparked by the tragic shootings in tucson, aurora, and newtown, a national dialogue is under way about education and m

she's on the ship with her sister, audra, and a group of friends. and dee, i want to bring in your fiance as well, he's on the phone in florida and so eagerly awaiting your arrival. dee, you heard our reporter say that people are now out on the decks, there was some dancing, some celebrating getting ready for land. how you feeling right now? >> caller: we are just exhausted. we're tired. this has been a very long journey. and we're trying to keep our hopes up, keep our spirits up. we had some people who put banners up that said, you know, say strong, god is with us, you know? and we've had some get-togethers to try and boost some morale. so we're doing what we can to survive. >> and i know you're going to be arriving -- i mean, we're not sure exactly when, within the next couple of hours. what are you hearing from the crew about when you're going to arrive and the process to get off? >> well, the communication to us seems to be a little slower that it is to the families. they told us between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m., but i just heard you say it's between

my name is miss audra, and this is the poetic expressions workshop for simba. and this class is really just about expressing yourselves, and getting it out there, and putting your feelings out there, and saying, "this is what's going on within me... and i'm ready to just shout it out, because if i keep bottled in, i'm going to explode." and you will. "i've come this far for freedom, and i won't turn back, i'm climbing the highway from my old dirt track. i'm climbing, i'm going, i'm scratching-- and i'm growing. and i reap what i've been sowing-- for my skin's not black? you know, i slay, i pray, i waited and sung my song... you beat me, you starved me, but i'm still going strong. you bled me, you treed me, you did everything-- but freed me. ( chuckles ) in time, i know you'll need me-- and it won't be long. you know i found my destination, and i made my vow-- i seen the sun rise deep above the doubt, so whether you abhor me or you ignore me... mighty mansions loom before me, and i won't stop now. ( applause ) the kids do a performance, and we've had a parent sa

is a lot more questions to ask you, but i want to bring in dee who is on the ship with her sister audra and a group of friends and going home to see her fiancee, and where are you, dee, because people are coming off of the ship, and where are you if you can't see it? >> i'm actually on the opposite side of the boat but i'm still on the balcony of my suite. they are going to let us off by floors from the top down. i'm on the sixth floor. so, the people they called, they have been calling particular people for the last hour to head down there. i don't know why these people are getting off first and maybe they have a medical reason or, i don't know, maybe they are taking the bus to galveston, and i'm not really sure, but they have not even started to announce what floors. so we are just waiting. >> and deer, there is an ambulance that is going by here, and there someone that i can see actually in that ambulance an e elderly woman. i can see that here that went by and yes, some of the people coming off looked to have young children and people in wheelchairs, but there is an older woman ther

audra and kate in minneapolis are coming.uper excited. thanks for asking. spend the weekend in chicago with so many fun and interesting people. audra and kate coming down for the big midwest show. >> they put together their own stuff independent of rocky mountain mike. >> i know it. you said they were the singers on rocky mountain mike. >> stephanie: i did have some sexy liberal information. where is that? sexy liberal tour director, roland, for god's sakes really. only two single v.i.p. -- >> they're not together. >> stephanie: i got it. right now two single, not together v.i.p. tickets. those are all that remain for chicago in terms of vice v.i.p. but if you're a single sexy liberal, get a meet and grope from the gang and maybe someone in the audience. also we priced a bunch of tickets at $25.50. we're caring sexy liberals after all. only about 100 of those left. if you want them, grab them now. [ applause ] roland had the funniest story yesterday. that could only happen to him. he tore a neck muscle so he was in the doctor

flynn, now the director of the dia, and major general scott miller and i said, we've got to create audra of -- to create a cadre of people who speak the language, have repetitive chores, have relationships and can influence things. the term afghan hands came from the idea of the china hands, people who are involved for a long time. we got the chairman of the joint chiefs, admiral mike mullen, to support and we got the secretary of defense to support it. we got a great plan and it will take awhile to implement. we ran right into service bureaucracy. what we ran into was people going, wow, if i put a man a woman into the program, they will be tied up for five years and they will not be competitive. they will not be good marines or air force officers or whatever. we cannot put talent in that program. i said, we've got to put down in that program. once this war is over, they will be lost because they will have wasted five years of their lives, and this war is not going to last that long. this point. we ran against personnel resistance. in every one of the services. the very grudgingly identi

>> stephanie: thank you audra in minneapolis. she will be there. go to sexyliberal.com.appy back until hal gets here. hi karen. hi, go ahead. >> caller: my husband is aerospace worker. he works -- a subcontractor for one of the big boys. you know, we've seen drones up close when they were prototypes when we went and toured one of the big boys. and let's face it. it is just a new -- it is just a new way of working weaponry. people who seem to think that you're not going to have any casualties be it military or civilian are insane. it is part of war. my husband was also former military. this is how war is. especially when you're in areas where guerrilla warfare is practiced. this is just the reality. drones are actually more efficient because they see things that human eyes cannot. they're more precise. they can map out areas better than we have ever done even from planes because we're now computerized. it is like google earth. >> stephanie: but with a hell fire missile. >> caller: they don't always use hell fire missiles. yes, that's the bad end of what they can do. they

. >> her first tip, audra, she likes you to put on gloves to protect your hands. >> your nails. >> toystem is making its way up the coast, may bring light snow in the northeast and new england. showers in the pacific northwest. sunny and warm in the southwest. southern california will see windy conditions. those winds stretch into the mid mississippi and down into the tennessee area. i should say texas region. look for plenty of sunshine along the gulf coast. windy and snow in northern new england. we're looking at more snow around the great lakes. that's w >>> 9:33 now. taking a live look from emeryville facing out towards san francisco. you can see just how clear it is this morning. beautiful conditions. and warm temperatures to accompany that clear blue sky. 77 degrees in gilroy today. 72 in redwood city. and 71 degrees in fairfield. look what happens when we get into the weekend. temperatures start to drop off. today we'll peak at the warming trend. sunday back to the 60s. >> and that's your latest weather. willie? >> all right, al. thank you very much. with us in studio this morn

it was great to see you all last night, and wasn't audra mcdonald incredible?[applause] so we're delighted to have you here at the white house again this morning. and the last time we were together michelle and i talked to you about one of our top priorities of our initiative, joining forces, which i'm sure you all know about which is our way to honor and support our troops, veterans and military families. and we talked about one of the top concerns that we hear about from military spouses wherever we go, and that's profession alliancing. so i'm sure you remember -- professional licensing, so i'm sure many of you remember this from last year who were here. and our nation's military spouses move ten times more than their civilian counterparts. and 35% of those spouses have jobs that require a professional license. so there are teachers, nurses, social workers. and we heard from a teacher, this is just one of the instances, who had ten years' experience in her specialty in one state. and then when she move today another state -- moved to another state, she had to