i'm sure that there are a few children who end up in the bahamas as sex slaves, but the vast majoritye children are internally trafficked, so what beyond borders is trying to do is reinforce the rural families, invest in sustainable agriculture, invest in schools. most of these rural parents send their children away to the cities out of desperation and out of false hope that they'll find a better life in the city. and so a lot of what we invest in is education programming through the radio, through adult education programs, adult literacy, so that these parents understand the risks they're children face if sent to the cities. >> larry: annie, are there enough resources on the ground to safeguard children? >> well, there's more coming. and save the children is working hard to make that happen. you know, the thing is is that you have to take the wholistic approach, is what's been said. you can't just focus on the kids, the kids need psychosocial support, they need a safe place, they need to feel normalcy again. but also the parents need help, so they understand that there's health and n

the bahamas. we always see cruise ships. i'm surprised we don't have one leaving from the marine terminal now today. they're always leaving but the problem is even if you're doing that, you have to dress to get to the ship. wear the heavy coat to get to the ship to go to the bahamas. >> or just run from your car. hope it is quick. >> it is really, really cold. this temperature is going to be slow. not quick unfortunately. to change over. right now, we've had temperatures around 16 degrees across many parts of central maryland. we'll take a look at the temperatures now, give you an idea. 17 as we're changing over at the airport. 17 in elkton. 16 in cumberland. 22 in pax river. around the immediate metro area, 14 in westminster. 21 on kent island and in rock hall. 22 in annapolis. 20 down near the nation's capital. the winds are the culprit here. you would think enough sun to warm it up but the sun can't penetrate the cold, heavy air we have in place coming in with this big arctic blast from the north and northwest. so, the li

the bahamas. >> larry: senator, have you been there? >> i've been there a number of times.e been there many times over the last 30 years. the size of this tragedy is just enormous. these people are so resilient. they put up with just about everything. you think the plague and locusts are going to happen next. this is a culture that's very deep, very strong, just incredibly appealing. these very, very strong people. they just get hammered again and again and again, right off of our shore, 90 miles away. i think we have a special obligation in the united states in this situation to help out. >> larry: ted, the foundation also supports the immediate deployment of two emergency response teams, providing communications, enabling relief. you have teams in the field already? >> one of the things that we really focused on in helping larry, is to be able to stand up communications very quickly. there's a communications group you've heard of med-source frontier. it's important so people can understand what's going on elsewhere. it makes a tremendous amount of difference. given our hi

. >> if you travel from the united states down southeast here past the bahamas and cuba, you come to down here. it shares an island with the dominican republic in this area. that's the first part to look in the geography of it. the human geography. 9-plus million people, half who lives in cities or towns and have about a 53% literacy rate. there are physical geographies to consider in all of this. this is the epicenter of the quake, but you can see that much of the country is actually quite mountainous. it's about the size of maryland, which is one of the smaller states in the united states, of course, and it's always been prone to earthquakes and hurricanes. moving in a little closer to the city itself, we see more about the economic landscape here and the challenges that poses. look at the density of the population here. this area was intended for about 50,000 to 250,000 people. it has more than 2 million living here. the economy, the poorest nation in the western hemisphere. 80% of the people here live well below the poverty line, some on only $2 a day or even less. very difficult

there are rumors that he may be in the bahamas. other rumors but no one as seen him or at least not publicly seen him. certainly there's an infrastructure in place to scuttle him away. but it hasn't made a difference in the avalanche of bad news that just keeps tumbling out of this story, chris. over the holidays, at&t dropped their sponsorship of tiger. >> yeah. the third of the companies to do that. thanks so much. good to see you, stephanie. >> good to see you, too. >>> still ahead -- proof that police really had their hands full new year's eve. how one highway stop got out of control. >>> also, more on the christmas miracle. the mother and baby feared dead during childbirth. you will hear from that another one morning. >>> plus, what to expect at the box office this year. we'll have a preview for you here on msnbc. [ female announcer ] get the taste of a home-cooked meal at work with new marie callender's home-style creations. marie callender's home-style creations -- a little touch of home for lunch. [ male announcer ] becky l

degrees and bumped into big islands, cuba, haiti, and he found a lot of other, smaller islands, the bahamas and islands of the caribbean and eventually bumped into a big, evidently a continent, south america and he thought he was bumping into those islands and that continent and it is easy to make fun of him to think he reached the indies but it is a logical conclusion to come to. he convinced himself that he was in the far east, in the indies, which is why we have the name "indians" and spent most of his time in the caribbean and didn't go far south but vespucci did and in the late 1490s and early 1500s, made voyages to the caribbean and the regions columbus visited and then sailed especially on one voyage, very, very, very far south and, entered an area like i said earlier nobody put a continent on before. thousands of miles below the equator where most people assumed there was only water. and vespucci talked about the giant new plates as asian land and -- place as asian land and people think he was announcing that to the world but he makes reference to it as asia and talks about wanting

about 90 degrees and bump into some big islands, cuba, haiti and some smaller other islands, the bahamas and eventually bump into a big evidently continent, south america but as he was bumping into those silence in that continent, so it is easy to make fun of him to think he could be reached the indies but it was a logical conclusion to come to. he convinced himself that he was in the far east in the indies which is why we have the indians, and he spent most of his time in the caribbean. he didn't go that far south but when his contemporaries, amerigo vespucci did and amerigo vespucci's portrait is at the top of the map to map. amerigo vespucci made voyages across the planet to the caribbean to the region columbus visited but then he sailed especially on one bush very favor self, and entered an area like i said earlier that nobody really had put mid-continent on before. thousands of miles below the equator where most people had assumed there was only water. amerigo vespucci repeatedly in his letters talks about this giant new plays as asian land. it wasn't that he decided he reached a ne

. >> mike: rolle at the free-throw line, the freshman from nassau, bahamas.was her first free throw made in acc play. she started ten games earlier in the season. now coming off the bench. so difficult for a freshman to adjust to life on the court in the acc. you see her headed to the bench for rest. >> robin: even greater adjustment for rolle. she's coming from another country. and she eenl started playing in the ninth straight. she doesn't have those years and years of experience that a lot of her teammates have. >> she was out of the starting lineups the first time in that game against maryland the last time they played. brown on the drive. shot is blocked. shegog, nice block. smith and bryelle smith scores for the first time in three games. hatchell expected something from her. there's the quick transition on the other end. first field goal for chay shegog. >> robin: north carolina is going to score on made baskets. they push it down the floor. you cannot coast after a made basket against this tar heel team. >> mike: eight-point lead is the largest of the

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coast guard is searching for a cruise ship passer to jumped over board in the bahamas. the 23-year-old woman's husband reported her missing on thursday when the royal caribbean's monarch of t monarch sea was going to a private island. bahamian officials reviewed the footage and decided the woman actually jumped and the ship is due back in florida today. one person was killed, four others injured after a car and three snowmobiles collided on highway 8 in northern wisconsin early this morning. two male snowmobile drivers ages 41 and 48 were taken to the hospital. the driver of a third snowmobile, a 49-year-old woman and her 47-year-old female passenger were also taken to the hospital. they were treated and released. well, 2009 was a big year for medical breakthroughs that altered the way that patients are treated and cured and joining us now with a look at some the biggest medical break throughs of the year. dr. leigh vinocur. thank you for coming in. >> my pleasure. >> shannon: let's talk about the story that grabbed headlines, h1n1. that was probably the biggest story o

if you fly here from the bahamas, you go through an american checkpoint. caller: i have watched c-span for 20 years. there was an expert named haskell. he did not have any i.d.. did you hear from haskell? they would not even let him on. he had no passport. there are a lot of good people at a lower level. host: thanks for the call. your reaction to the president's comments or what we heard a few moments ago from a homeland security secretary. caller: i did not hear anything about the borders. our borders are open and we have people running through them all the time. host: what is the solution? caller: lock up the borders. we need to have control. host: how do we do that? how do we control the borders and prevent people from not coming in. what in your caller: mind is the: if you have border controls, it is common sense. we have a lot of military that is out of work. we have the mexican border and the canadian border. we have a clear crossing in parts of canada. there are a lot of people out of work, that would be willing to go take training for that. i just