the focus for congresswoman balk man and the tea party caucus is fiscal restraint and limited government. but most importantly an adherence to the constitution. she also serves on the financial services committee and the permanent select intelligence committee in the house. but long before any of her campaigns or titles, michele bachmann was greatly involved in the pro-life and pro-family movement. and not only has she and her husband raised their five children, they were also foster parents to another 23 children. perhaps those strong family values tie back to the state of iowa. please join me in welcoming back to iowa congresswoman michele bachmann. [applause]

terence throwing down on a kid named balk-balk. nasty.mississippi credit they kept coming back and coming back. cal up one when camp put cal up by three. last chance for mississippi and they can't get a shot. that's it. 77-74. cal moves on to colorado. round two-3300 fans watched. 1900 watched usf beat idaho. dallas. bally wood night. minority owner of the warriors happens to be an indian. anyway, warriors led by 18. ellis 26 points, 11 assists. jason kidd, funny, one of the few guys only scored three points. actually scored four. that was the only basket he made and he is the key player. 11 assists for him. 34 for him. warriors play good at home but a good team more times than not grabs them by the throat at the end. sharks without dany heatley. suspended by the nhl two games for delivering an elbow to the head of steve ought. $88,645 and 16. the sharks will miss heatly against minnesota and st. louis. he will be back march 23. brandon bell is making it tough for the giants to keep him off the roster. tim lincecum on the mound today. 1:0

steven spielberg balked at the screen rights to vitoria's wikileaks and julian, a staunassange wants to make a had remake of all of his recent findings. >>pam: our developing story of the uc-berkeley this evening. video. the ongoing protest. you can see their students protesting. chained together on the ledge of a building. the uc-berkeley campus. they are tied to an antenna fourth floor of the wheeler halt. to protest budget cuts, and also of the students are criticizing last night's arrests of 17 other protesters. university police are on the the scene. will continue to fall this developing story. >>pam: the golden gate traffic. the first is that that fog! you cannot even see the towers. sec. and north, south is moving fine. sec fothick fog.... live from the kron 4 news station, this is the kron 4 news >>pam: 4:30 investigators are piecing together a puzzle amanda and managed to escape from the alameda county jail. 21 year-old also known as ramirez was being processed into the facility after attending a court date. hot a theft charge. somehow, he was able to get through six securit

i can write something down, but i have to see what we are balking at before i can give you anything. as soon as i put it out, i will be held accountable to being able to do that. there are all sorts of unknowns right now. it is a little difficult. but i will list all the assumptions and work on a schedule for you. president o'brien: thank you. commissioner kasselman: i think now when you search for an address on the dbi web site, you can get what permits have been issued and completed. what other information will be available on the system? is there a little bit more for people to look up? >> there will be more information that is going to be available, but i am being a little reluctant to go into a lot of detail because a lot of that is contained in the rfp and i do not want to do anything to jinx the rfp. what we are doing first and foremost is to make what we have right now better, and to be able to have more visible information so that you would know exactly where you were in the process, who has signed off, who has not signed off, what is next. hopefully, there could be some inf

republicans are balking at tax increases or extensions democrats are reluctantly accepting. brown has proposed equal doses of cuts and taxes through next year to shrink the state's $25 billion deficit. >>> from the state capitol to nation capitol where two marin county girls were and they called for national action against school bullying and the internet has changed how and when children can be bullied, even in their own homes. mary ann was live there. >> reporter: the white house says 1 in 3 school children report being bullied during the school year. some of those cases end tragically with parents and educators completely unaware of the problem until it's too late. >> we decided we wanted to reach out. >> sara and emily are the authors of a 2008 book titled "letters to a bullied girl" after they were moved by a bullying victim in nevado. their letters ended them in the oval office of the president and his wife who heard the story of an 11-year-old of massachusetts whose mother was at the white house today. >> carl was a wonderful little boy but he wasn't treated right at

ballot measure on his proposed tax extensions ready for a june vote but republican lawmakers are balkingnd some democrats have doubts. approved a plan closes to what governor brown proposed. that package is set to go before both chambers on thursday. >> at least a dozen parents have spent the night outside an elementary school in belmont to register their kids for kindergarten this morning. parents want the chance at the two spots available. the belmont redwood school district is facing rising enrollment. it takes students on a first come first serve basis. >> jean quan is proposing two new taxes to help close the city's $46 million budget gap. the first is an $80 parcel tax over a five-year period that needs approval of two-thirds of the city voters. a $1.99 phone tax only has a simple majority but voters rejected that idea in 2008. govern jerry brown hopes to attach the oakland measures to that initiative if it qualifies. >> if you have to be hospitalized in northern california, be prepared to pay a lot. on average hospitals in northern california collect 56% more revenue from insuranc

but republican lawmakers are balking and democrats have down thes. joint budget committee approved a budget plan last week close to what governor brown proposed. that package is set to go before vote chambers on thursday. oakland mayor jean quan is calling the city council into emergency session tonight. quan is proposing two new taxes to close the city's $46 million budget gap, the first of an $80 parcel tax over a five-year period that needs approval from two-thirds of the city's voters. a $1.99 phone tax only requires a simple majority but voters rejected that idea in 2008. governor brown hopes to hold a special election on tax issues. they plan to attach the oakland measures to that initiative if it goes through. >> the palm springs and surrounding area was hit by high winds overnight. wind gusts of about 60 mph or more blew to the mountain slopes and the desert floor. advisory in effect from 2 p.m. to 1:00 this morning. >> pretty fast winds of our own. i'm not sure they approached your driving speed this morning. >> that's the second shot of my

to authorize aid to the rebels, but the diplomats balked at france's calls for a no-fly zone >> for theoment, i haven't convinced them. france was with great britain leading this initiative. what's the situation today? qaddafi is scoring points. if we had used military force last week to neutralize some airstrips and the several dozen planes that they have, perhaps the reversal taking place to the detriment of the opposition wouldn't have happened. >> holman: in tripoli today, qaddafi said the rebels now have two choices: "surrender or run away." in bahrain, the sunni king declared martial law for the next three months in an effort to rein in shiite protesters. that came a day after more than 1000 troops from saudi arabia and other persian gulf nations entered the country. iran today denounced the intervention as "unacceptable." meanwhile, in yemen, antigovernment tribesmen killed four soldiers overnight near the saudi border. earlier, troops there fired on protesters. the u.s. commander in afghanistan reported today that coalition forces have blunted the taliban's drive. general david

there's the shutoff valves to be put in place, which they're balking at that. an hour and a half to get to the shutoff valves because they were in another county. >> i feel like they just don't really care. they're worried about covers their butts and making it seem like, well, you know, this kind of thing happens. >> reporter: also unsatisfied with pg&e's responsible california assemblyman garary hill. >> when i watched the hearing, just answer the darn question. >> reporter: hill proposed legislation to increase regulation and financial accountability for the utility. >> where is somebody watching what they're doing? there's no incentive for them to be safe, and there's no incentive for the regulator to force them to do this, and that's what we're changing as well. >> reporter: pg&e issued a statement saying they will work with investigators and regulators and is committing to strengthening its system and improving safety. >> thank you, kimberly. >>> two men are behind bars following a drug arrest in santa cruz that happened monday night during a routine traf

when he leaves tennessee, he balks. he just walked 70 miles. they're talking about touching outlands and so forth. so you have this said the lack of vision in a way. and so, if you don't know where you are deficient, it's hard for me to think of you as a tragic figure. and as i said, because he was successful, he actually did stay of up transformation of the south for many, many decades. i don't think you would count himself as a tragic figure. >> is also someone who would walk 14 miles to go to a lecture. >> in the snow. >> lady in the middle. >> you talked about -- right here. >> where you? >> he talked a little bit about his family when he was young. tell us more about his family life as he became an adult. >> his wife helped him, as i said to my taught him to read and write. he had -- i don't really know that much about her. she wasn't invalid for many years and did not accompany him to the white house, did not stay with him and the white house most of the time. his daughter served as first lady most of the time. he was someone who seemed c

congressional democrats initially balked at the new republican proposal, but some warmed to it once it became clear reductions would come from cuts already included in president obama's budget for the coming year. >> averting a federal shutdown. would the chair.... >> reporter: the chairman of the senate budget committee democrat kent conrad of north dakota spoke yesterday on cnn. >> will you accept this $4 billion worth of cuts over two weeks to try to get a longer- term plan? is that acceptable to you? >> it is acceptable to me to have $4 billion and savings and a two-week package, sure. the make-up that, you know, is up for discussion and nor iations. that notion is... negotiation is ongoing. >> reporter: senate republican leader mitch mcconnell today welcomed signs of increased democratic support for the republicans' two-week spending plan. >> this bill represents an effort to change the culture here in washington. it says let's start to change the mentality around here. let's find $4 billion that all of us can agree to cut and cut it. and continue from that good start. democratic

then on road to the white house, representative michel balk maup speaks at a fundraising brunch horsted by the state's republican party in new hampshire. after that the latest budget negotiations on funding the federal government. on television, on roos -- radio and on line, c-span, bringing public affairs time-out created by cable. it's washington your way. >> i do say to him, i do say to him, there is increasing concern about the government's competence on the issue of libya. we've had the fiasco, talk of colonel gaddafi heading to venezuela when he wasn't, and we had the setback last weekend. mr. speaker, does the prime minister think it's just say problem with the foreign secretary or is there a wider problem in his government?

. >> coming up on road to the white house, representative michelle balk man speaks at a fund raising brunch hosted by the state's republican party in new hampshire. then, a discussion on the latest budget negotiations on the bill to fund the federal government. following that, on q&a john hullsman of the hague center for strategic studies talks about international plithcal and financial issues. monday on c-span 2, the american public transportation association is holding its annual legislative conference. you will hear from the administrators of the federal railroad and transit administration as well as the chief of staff of the transportation security administration. they are scheduled to discuss the future of the public transit system. that is live at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. u.s. representative michelle backman traveled to new hampshire this weekend to speak at a fund raising brunch hosted by the state's republican party. this was her first political trip to the state this year which hosts the first of the nation presidential primary. in her remarks she criticizes the new he

>> my understanding is that it can detect unusual balks, volumes, and different textures that don't match the body or that are not, you know, don't fit the body profile. but to some extent there is an amount of judgment in that. one of the things i worry about with these county figures is that judgment is going to be made by the machine. we have to make sure that they can do that right. >> so at any rate it would not identify it as a powder or liquid explosive, something normally not on a body. >> could i speak to that? >> short. >> we have to have had time to procure the specifications. the rich questions you asked is on page. it is the key excerpts. i can tell you looking to the documents, the problem, the threat assessment and the tsa began the ai t was plastic knives, ceramic kinds, plastique, c-4, dance, nonmetallic images. .. . the gao report in the academic studies are largely inconclusive as to the fact that the powder would not have been located. and that is in the procurement. >> mr. baker, i heard you say -- make a comment about the millimeter versus the x-ray back scanner on n

servicemen the talk about cutting spending, but when you ask a retiree about increasing benefits, they balkedits. why don't you guys sacrifice a little bit more? some will have to sacrifice more than others. if people have a problem with paying more in this economy, they need to stop telling other people that they have to do more. host: here are headlines about the situation in japan. here is another headline from the "boston globe." then we have the "detroit free press." lots of headlines coming out of japan this morning. people are still watching the nuclear power facility there. the "new york times" has this headline. workers told to go. emergency workers have been evacuated. all but 50 have been evacuated from the point. we will keep you updated on that as we go through the hedge funds. i also want to show you the situation in the middle east. the "financial times" and their headline. also the editorial pages weigh in on this and says saudi intervention raises the gulf state. it is critical of the united states and its policy. their policy is beginning to look cenacle. -- cynical. this is

gop leaders poised to balk by then's budget meeting. -- buck biden's budget meeting. boehner hit the gas. this is from "the hill." that is a little look at what is going on with the budget. one of the many budget processes that are working their way through capitol hill right now. joining us now from topeka, kansas, is margie phelps, a daughter of fred phelps, the lawyer who argued the case in front of the supreme court. we have been talking about the case in this morning with our callers. one of the things that stuck out is that there was room in the supreme court decision -- or language in the supreme court decision that seemed to indicate that states could further regulate your activity. do you agree with that interpretation, and if so, do you have plans to prevent that are combat that? >> well, i think there is language that hypothetically that -- they can. there is also language that indicates it has to be very narrow, not content-based and not impacting speech on public issues and they can no longer avail themselves of the argument that people going into a funer

>> my understanding is that it can detect unusual balks, volumes, and different textures that don't match the body or that are not, you know, don't fit the body profile. but to some extent there is an amount of judgment in that. one of the things i worry about with these county figures is that judgment is going to be made by the machine. we have to make sure that they can do that right. >> so at any rate it would not identify it as a powder or liquid explosive, something normally not on a body. >> could i speak to that? >> short. >> we have to have had time to procure the specifications. the rich questions you asked is on page. it is the key excerpts. i can tell you looking to the documents, the problem, the threat assessment and the tsa began the ai t was plastic knives, ceramic kinds, plastique, c-4, dance, nonmetallic images. .. >> there's not any evidence there's a public health safety problem, but because going to one supplier keeps the costs lower so we may use one with a public safety question over one that doesn't for a cost effectiveness measure. >> there will be a cost to going

>> my understanding is that it can detect unusual balks, volumes, and different textures that don't match the body or that are not, you know, don't fit the body profile. but to some extent there is an amount of judgment in that. one of the things i worry about with these county figures is that judgment is going to be made by the machine. we have to make sure that they can do that right. >> so at any rate it would not identify it as a powder or liquid explosive, something normally not on a body. >> could i speak to that? >> short. >> we have to have had time to procure the specifications. the rich questions you asked is on page. it is the key excerpts. i can tell you looking to the documents, the problem, the threat assessment and the tsa began the ai t was plastic knives, ceramic kinds, plastique, c-4, dance, nonmetallic images. .. >> there's not any evidence there's a public health safety problem, but because going to one supplier keeps the costs lower so we may use one with a public safety question over one that doesn't for a cost effectiveness measure. >> there will be a cost to going

conservatives balking at stopgap bills. says here, marco rubio republican from florida, tea party favorite as well ace jim jordan chairman of the conservative caucus with more than 170 republicans are not going to vote for this three-week extension. where are you? are you going to vote yes or no? >> we're talking that through. it is a lot of frustration in the republican conference. this is not a simple vote. obviously dealing with the budget of the united states. it is frustrating as freshmen we're walking into a problem that really started last session when last year there was no budget that was done. first time since 1974 a new congress is walking in and there is no budget to run the country. we've got multiple issues. we have the debt sealing that is coming up. we have the 2012 budget coming up a lot more strategic and at the same time we're dealing with the 2011 budget six months through it. there is lot of conversation where does this go? why are we doing this at all? how do we get this resolved. we sent a budget from

the focus for congresswoman balk man and the tea party caucus is fiscal restraint and limited government. but most importantly an adherence to the constitution. she also serves on the financial services committee and the permanent select intelligence committee in the house. but long before any of her campaigns or titles, michele bachmann was greatly involved in the pro-life and pro-family movement. and not only has she and her husband raised their five children, they were also foster parents to another 23 children. perhaps those strong family values tie back to the state of iowa. please join me in welcoming back to iowa congresswoman michele bachmann. [applause] >> hi, everyone. isn't it exciting to be here? there is no place like iowa. we love it. and it's wonderful to be in a state where you have the king of conservatism, steve king. my colleague. [applause] steve and i are actually a match, i think. in washington, d.c. we like to get in the same arena. we like to fight the same fights beginning with one of the fights that president obama brought to us. does anyone remember the $1 tril