we found a cruise to the bahamas costing $46 a night for five nights. these deals too good to be true? >> someone on the internet said it is cheaper than a motel 6 stay. but if you add in fees and port taxes it comes out to $75 a day. nonetheless. >> not bad. >> carnival is discounting like crazy. their average prices dropped by 8.9% since the triumph situation. the cruise industry in general prices are down. they have decreased 2.1%, but some cruise lines are raising their prices right now. ncl, royal caribbean nchs they have raised their prices 7%. >> so they are trying to gain on their competitors upset. >> i think that is what is happening, yeah. >> what's happening next? are there cries for regulation and oversight of the industry. can this industry have oversight? >> the government actually does regulate the cruise industry to a great extent. every cruise ship that comes to our ports in the u.s., they are inspected for health and safety issues by the u.s. coast guard. senator chuck schumer from new york is proposing a cruise passenger bill of righ

. >> we actually found a cruise to the bahamas, sounds pretty good in the rainy weather today.e found a cruise to the bahamas costing $46 a night. >> yes. >> for five night. >> i know. >> are these deals too good to be true? >> yeah. some wag on the internet said yeah, it's cheaper than a motel 6 stay. but, in fact, if you add in the fees and you add in the port tax, it comes out to more like $75 a day. >> not bad. >> carnival is discounting like crazy. the average prices have dropped by about 8.9% since the triumph situation. the cruise industry in general prices are down -- you know, they've decreased about 2.1%. but some cruise lines are actually raising the prices right now. ncl, royal caribbean, they have raised the prices about 7%. >> so they're trying to gain on their competitor's upset. >> i think that's definitely what is happening, yeah. >> so what is happening next? have there been cries for more regulation and oversight of this industry? can this industry have oversight? >> the government actually does regulate the cruise industry to a great extent. every cruise shi

. >> las bahamas que le otorgue asilo político y luego ellas saldrán de ahí. >> el caso ha llamado launas cuatro semanas. >> la ciudad de nueva york analizará toneladas de escombros del atentado del 11 de septiembre para ver si encuentran restos de personas. >> ya han sido identificadas más de mil personas. >> crece la devoción de los fieles por el papa francisco, desde buenos aires tenemos imágenes de lo que se ha llamado "papa manía". >> un cartel gigante adorna la avenida de buenos aires, es lo último que se vio por la papa manía. >> sí, es que que tapa un edificio entero. >> el furor por el papa se ve por las misas llenas. >> sí, es que nunca se me había pasado por la cabeza comprarme un rosario. >> sí, le devuelve la fe. >> también la gran variedad de objetos que se venden con la imagen de francisco. >> carla delgado es muy entusiasmado. >> es el furor, todos los recuerdos. >> ella esta promoviendo un tour desde el sitio de internet en hotel desde buenos aires. >> es una oportunidad que no pude pasar, y estoy teniendo una respuesta buena, es un tour por 10 lugares claves en la vi

. >> i sent my parents on a cruise to the bahamas for their 50th wedding anniversary.we found one cruise for $46 a night. >> that's a little scary. >> he said with all the fees and port fees and all of that stuff it gets you up to about $75 possibly a night. $75 a day to go on a cruise to the babahamas. >> just the idea of spending four or five days with 5,000 people with people i don't know and like. >> thanks for coming in. good to see you. up next, blackberry, the chief there is fighting back against an analyst. taking on the analyst. more power in two minutes. >> the white house is reporting that the president had income of $608,000. the vast majority is salary. he paid $118,000 in taxes and gave $115,000 to charity. >> is it royalties on boks? >> i haven't looked over all the returns. >> the bidens released their returns as well. about $385,000. and they gave $7,000 to charity, of course. everybody knows the bidens have been in public service for a long time. they have not accumulated wealth the way the obamas did because of the publication of the president's book

and a state fire sale seized greece but some of its most treasured properties why don't the bahama tearing the car nation between the city and pride report on vast stories just ahead. well. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. about international airport in the very heart of moscow. thanks for joining us here on r t the u.s. military has acknowledged that overhaul of the guantanamo bay prisoners are now on hunger strike among the eighty four protesters five of whom put in a hospital with life threatening conditions sixteen and being force fed ati's guy nature can explain why the inmates have resorted to such desperate measures. here's a breakdown of who's currently held captive at the u.s. prison in guantanamo fifty four percent are yemeni nationals that is ninety five captives out of one hundred sixty six just a few more figures a total of eighty six prisoners there have been cleared for release fifty six of them yemeni nationals three years ago the u.s. suspended all transfers of detainees to yemen what seems to aggravate the

so if you're bored with the bahamas or titled the tropics a new holiday destination could be on the horizon the moon russian scientists are planning a eunice space observatory and a roberd receipts lab and that's just for starters he takes a trip into the potential future. almost half a century since neil armstrong's giant step ended the race between the u.s. and u.s.s.r. to put a man on the moon earth's only natural satellite is once again in the spotlight while america has directed its attention to mars russia's central research institute for machinery announced the launch or rather a relaunch of the lunar program according to the ambitious plan a russian space ship will fly to and circle the moon by twenty thirty but this promises to be only the beginning and here is where it gets very interesting the next step as they search it claims will be the construction over an observatory on the moon experts believe earth spurs will space rock is simply the perfect spot from which to research space so if this idea proves to be a success expect a laboratory there to their observatory and the lab m

i know when my parent went to a mass in the bahamas their alter was already facing the people and they said they could never feel quite the same about the altar facing the back wall. and also in those prayer books was a picture of what the priest was doing with his back to us. so i don't think there are very many who wished that that would go back to the old way. >> but you know sure. >> i think this is a very individual thing. i had a patient a couple of years ago who was dying of cancer, and as the chaplin i tried to walk with him on a spiritual plane and i tired to find out something about his own spiritual journey. and i learned that when the changes took place after the second vatican council, this man felt no longer at home in church and he eventually just stopped going to church. now this was a religious man he had a little alter next to his bed, there was a little standing crucifix, he had flowers there were little plastic flowers there, he said now that he had to stay downstairs and his hospital bed was downstairs he missed his little alter up stairs. so, this was a new insigh

cinco mujer kuz bandas que llevan mÁs de doce dÍas en huelga de hambre para presar al gobierno de las bahamasma y que dicen que cuba barco a bahamas para regresarla a la isla, y dicen que si esto pasa, serÁn vÍctima del represiÓn. >>> y sigue acuso queda para dar con responsables de los asesinato del fiscal del condado y su esposa, mike y cinthia fueron baleados en su casa el fin de semana en lo que segÚn las autoridades parece un acto deliberado, el homicidio sucede dos meses despuÉs de que uno de los asistentes del magistrado fuera muerto cerca de dallas, de crimen se sospecha que el posible responsable es un grupo su pra asista blanco oscar teles mexicanos, y en el marco de pascua, surge sondeo sobre creencias de cristianos sobre el posible regreso de jesÚs a la tierra, y en cuenta dicen que mo todos estÁn convencidos que cristo regresarÁ, 48% de los encuestados aquÍ en estados unidos cree que cristo regresaÁa en prÓximos 40 aÑos, y mientras que 28% dice que probablemente no lo harÁ. >>>. >>> y pocas e nas como lo que verÁn ahora, grafico a un el significado de la popular frase por amor al

. >> reporter: while cave diving for a research project in the bahamas, she lost her guide rope. >> ized i was in trouble. i knew my heart rate, i could hear it in hi ears. >> reporter: only weeks before, her husband and diving partner, rob, had died in a diving accident if the red sea. now alone, she's facing her own dark death. >> suddenly, the whole cave brightened up. >> reporter: and into that world floated the words of her husband. believe you can, believe you can't, either way, you're right. >> and then, i calmed down. i saw what i thought was a thread. he was there for me. in a way. >> reporter: so how is stephanie's experience to be explained? isn't this just possibly an hallucination? >> i think what people are experiencing is a very concrete survival mechanism that is -- you know, part of our human heritage. >> reporter: giger believes that in a life-threatening crisis, our minds experience the terror of the moment and the peace of perspective. >> and then the brain is able to stand back from that, and sort of rise above that. and it rationally figures out a way to help thi

t -- and the obamas add the spring break vacation and the girls got to go to the bahamas and all theut to idaho skiing and this is after the tiger woods golfing trip for him and girls ski trip to colorado and joe biden's, three months into the year, pretty good life style. >> so i'm understanding you, you're upset that the girls went on vacation. >> sean: we have to pay for the security, right thing to do. not one vacation. >> no, i'm sorry. >> sean: they went on two spring break vacations. >> that's insane. >> sean: that's the-- >> no, these girls, you know, i think you should leave the daughters out of it. they should be allowed to go on vacation. >> sean: if we're paying for it at a time when 50 million americans are on food stamps and 14 million on disability, one in five. i think the optics are wrong when we're talking nine vacations for three months. >> do your children go on spring break. >> sean: no, my 11-year-old didn't go on spring break. >> i think these girls are allowed to go on spring break. >> sean: one spring break, do they have to take two and can't vacation-- >> i

cruise ship you can go on a cruise for less than it costs to stay at a motel 6 offering a four day bahamas crew for $149 including meals and beverages. travel agents say the cries line prices are coming down after thousands were strapped on the triumph in february after an engine fire. zillow is warning home prices are about to drop, the real estate information company says paychecks are not growing fast enough to keep up with rising home prices leaving housing markets in san jose, los angeles, portland, san diego and denver vulnerable. >> helping environmental groups launching a national campaign asking ten major retailers including walmart and costco to take products containing had douse chemicals off the shelves. the groups list at least 100 chemicals in clothing, shampoo, sofas and food packaging. t emotional offering discounts to people would trade in old iphones for iphone 5's. can you buy on an installment plan. check the date to see how much internet use you get before you reach the monthly limit. that is the new york stock exchange with the bloomberg business report. >> good morni

. >> it's kind of insane because we played duke in the bahamas and the exact same play happened with same player. it was just on the opposite side of the court. when i went to contest a shot, it was like i normally always do. i kind of joked a little bit -- like i should have blocked the shot because i jumped so high. but i guess i landed wrong and i didn't see where i was landing. so that's what caused the injury. but i felt like stuff like this doesn't happen for no reason. there's a reason behind everything. it's just a process that i'm ready for. at the time, coach kind of just gave my leg like a look like

they go to the bahamas and they went to idaho on the other side. >> he oh, my gosh. >> sean: all right, my point is if the white house is closed down and kids can't get immunizations and people are furloughed, i don't i don't understand eight vacations between the bidens and obamas in three months. i don't think that's out of touch. >> well, let me try again. i don't think, first of all, you can combine two families, 'cause they're not the same. >> sean: the president and the vice-president? >> i would just stick with the obamas, you know, it's not. >> sean: five vacations. >> me and my neighbor took four vacation, what does it-- >> and the whole of this. >> look, we pay for all presidential and vice-presidential vacations for as long as i've been alive, we pay for-- not for the actual vacation, but for the secret service i think your complaint is. >> sean: if the little children that we conservatives want to fend for themselves can't visit the white house. >> yes. >> sean: and kids are getting their immunizations taken away and obama keeps saying shared sacrifice and skin in the game

. >> it's kind of insane, because we play duke in the bahamas, and the exact same play happened, with and it was just on the opposite side of the court, so i went to contest the shot, like i normally always do, i kind of joked a little bit, like i should have blocked the shot because i jumped so high, but i guess i just landed wrong and didn't see where i was landing, so that's kind of what caused the injury. but i kind of felt like stuff like this doesn't just happen for no reason, you know. there is a reason behind everything. so, i don't know what the reason is going to be, but it is just a process i'm ready for it, you know. at the time, coach carter gave my leg a look, like, like he's never seen something like this before. so i'm just thinking,

but let's not pretend that cuba is cancun or that cuba is the bahamas. it's a 54-year-old dictatorship and people live under oppression and those of us familiar with the situation and educated on it, it brings us pain. so yeah. it's their choice to go but it's my choice to find it wrong and to think that it's just not helpful to freeing that island. >> lz? >> well, you know, i keep thinking about what he said about jay-z and chez and the history. so i did some digging. i was reminded that batista wasn't a good guy either. he was a bit of a dictator, as well. i've been to cuba. i didn't roll with jay-z and beyonce and i spent two weeks on the island and spoke to some of the actual people there. i was able to get away from my tourism group and speak to some of the natives there. i saw a divide based on the color and tone and racism is a problem there and a problem in the batista era and talking about the history and what we are going to do with cuba, this is an island that's a dictatorship much longer than 50 years and complicated. but is that dictatorship

she ended up racing in the bahamas because male jockeys in florida threatened to shut down the trackmpeted. the boycott collapsed eventually. but even when b.j. became the first woman to win a race in the states, the chauvinists kept on shouting. >> rubin: a lot of them would boo at me and tell me to go home, make babies, get out of there. it was not a woman's place to be on the racetrack. >> simon: that was more than 40 years ago, and times have changed, but how much? some of the boys in the stands still refuse to shut up. what do they say? >> rosie: "go home and have a baby. go home and stay in the kitchen." >> simon: it's one thing to ignore hecklers, but what about the people who put her in the saddle? >> rosie: there still are owners and trainers that don't want to ride a female. the only way that i deal with that is, you know, to try to beat that person in a race, beat that trainer or owner in a race. >> simon: and since winning is all that matters, she says, what difference does it make if your name is rosie or ralph? >> rosie: most of the time, i feel like i'm just one of the

she ended up racing in the bahamas. but the chauvinism is still there.m what she can do. definitely remember team rosie. she shows them what she can do. every woman talks about her weight. jockeys in particular are concerned about their weight. is weight an issue for her? >> it's so enormous she insists on staying at 113 on the dot. and she -- >> 113. >> this is not a narcissistic woman, but she weighs herself. she counted off the times she weighs herself a day. about 15 times a day. she never stops weighing herself, and she insists on being at 113. it's a lot more -- it's a lot worse than boxers. >> i think he was 113 in sixth grade. >> how good is she? she's won these races, is she an extraordinary jockey as compared to anybody? >> yeah. and one of the theories going around -- and she doesn't dispute this -- is that women have a way with horses. >> yes. we were talking about that. >> bob, not just with horses. >> i mean the horses let's face it, they're boys, and she's not. so there is this thing going. >> that's a big plus for a jockey. >> absolutely.

. >> it is kind of insane, you know, because we played duke earlier in the year in the bahamas and theppened, not the injury, but the contesting the threepeat shot of the same and earlier in the year it happened just like that, but i kind of closed out not seeing where i was jumping or how i was going to land, so me just trying to contest the shot and just trying to see if it went in or not, kind of looking back and not seeing how i was landing kind of messed me up i guess i landed completely wrong and honestly, i felt like, well, it hurt -- i thought it was like a cord, like that went across, but it turned out to be my knee, you know. and coach just gave me one of those looks, like, like somebody just saw a ghost or something like that. and i'm looking at him, like, confused. so i looked down at my leg and just kind of like my arm and i seen my sneaker on, but my leg is, like, this, so i just going to automatic shock and -- >> did you realize that was your bone sticking out of your leg? >> i did, but it was like as soon as i went into shock, my brother came to the rescue, luke came ri

and within just a few decades the voyages of discovery began, and when columbus came back from the bahamas there were 11 princes sailing around europe and opening people's imaginations and within two generations the whole world has been scoffed, circumnavigated, and everything changed. now, these changes we're undergoing now, if you think about how powerfully the printing press transformed the world, just imagine what the changes are that are being caused by the emergence of the global mind. 40% of the people who have smartphones look at them first thing in the morning before they even get out of bed. and then of course you got 0 to be careful driving to work because of all the people working on them while they're driving in the other lanes. and you've probably been in dinners, conversations, with friend and loved ones when everything stops when somebody looks up what you're talking about. you've been in rooms where nobody is talking because everybody is looking at a different device. so, these kinds of changes are quite remarkable. but remember, we're not only connecting to the databases

now they're at bahamas at one of the most expensive places there.t's the wrong image to be coming out of the white house. >> bill: steve king is the wrong person to tell people about having the right image. that's number two. number three the drudge report yesterday. in a column by one of the managers, if you will, of the drudge report, guy named joseph curl, he writes a big column talking about the obamas living the 1% life down at the white house. oh, boy. in fact, he reports that they have taken -- are you ready for this? three vacations already in 2013. three months three vacations. then you look and see what they're talking about. one is their christmas break in hawaii because it went into the new year. that counts as one vacation for 2013. they were celebrating christmas. jesus. the second is presidents' day. weekend. i'll bet you took the weekend off, right? most americans did. but the obamas did. and wait, the daughters and michelle went to aspen. the president remember, went to florida. that counts as two. so it is ha waii, aspen and florid

most is the smugglers who do this for profit, who are taking creative routes either up through the bahamas, we're seeing haitians being run through puerto rico right now. so it's a constant battle as the smugglers get smarter and daring. they are smaller than the land border. >> the smuggler industry, for lack of a better term, is that on the increase, is that on the decrease? what's the trend? it's an recollection spencive undertaking. my understanding is they charge thousands of dollars per person they bring. is that something we've seen an increase in or decrease and if we've seen a decrease, is it because of economic factors? how do we stop these? it sounds like a fast boat through the middle of the caribbean is not something we would necessarily stop. >> i think flow of migrants, it's similar to the flow of drugs. people are very creative. yes, we've seen an increase in those people doing it for profit. it's expensive for the poor people that they lure to transport them and it's also a dangerous business. as the southwest border constricts and gets a little bit more secure, there is a

the most is this mugler's who do this for profit, who are taking creative rows either through the bahamas thursday haitians run over to puerto rico, says a constant battle is the smugglers get more daring, but they are smaller numbers in a land border because of the turned value. >> this mugler industry, said on the the increase or decrease? it's an expensive undertaking. my understanding is they charge thousands of dollars, but is if that's something we seen an increase in coming decrease? is that due to economic factors, enforcement, both? the other question i have is it sounds to me like a fast vote through the middle of the caribbean is not necessarily something we would necessarily stop. >> flow of migrants is similar to the flow of drugs. people are very creative and we seen an increase in people doing it for profit. it is expensive, but expensive for poor unfortunate people did or to transfer them and is a dangerous business. as the southwest border constraints and gets more secure, there's a tendency to squeeze something and i will find other direction to go in. i'm concerned abou

. >> and norwegian also has one that's similar going to the bahamas.end, if you're looking for deals, cruisecritic.com is a great website to go to, to find value cruises all around the world. >> you also picked a deal on a new england tour on holland america. >> i liked it because you get to experience new england and canada in seven days and a great, great value, about $58 a night. >> by the time we've now talked about this carnival cruise deal is the availability gone do you think? >> i went on yesterday and $169 is available, not $149, so if you are really looking for this kind of value and want to get away for a little sun and fun for a few days, this might be a great option. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >>> still ahead some great homes for sale across the country for less than $250,000 but first this is "today" on nbc. the rule is whenever i get something new, i have to get rid of something. shop like a fashionista. today i got these amazing designer heels. save like a maxxinista. what to get rid of this time? designer brands at t.j. pri

you have countries everywhere from the bahamas, puerto rico, panama, brazil, costa rica, russia, british vir ion -- virgin islands, uruguay and on and on. two pages of countries with high murder rates and yet here's the united states, below all of them. you know what all these other countries have in common? all of their countries have banned guns 100% from their citizens. so this validates what carol from lawrie city said to me in her i mail, when you take guns away from individuals, crime rates actually go up because the criminals will have the guns and the law-abiding citizens won't be able to protect themselves. i thought that was a really good point there that she made. here's a comment, an email from vicki from clinton, missouri. she said, i would like you to know i do not support more regulations on any guns, accessories or ammunitions. these items are only tools some people choose to use as weapons against others. i feel the second amendment gives me the freedom to own and operate any firearm that i choose. i am a hunter. and if needed, would use my firearms for protection from h