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mammals on the planet at the giraffe feeding event at the birmingham zoo. that's your "early today" event of the day, lynn. i've fed giraffes. it's a lot of fun. their slimy long tongues. >> it sounds fun, bill. don't oversell it. >> it's worth it. >>> well, now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. this weekend's box office champ, jennifer lopez. they provided lopez with her more successful film roles and that's what she's got here with the "backup plan" of course after being artificially insim nated does she fall in love. if they show up, backup plan has a shot at number one. $15 million could be number one. "kickass" will contend if jennifer lopez falls flat coming in somewhere at $10 million. >>> it could be a champ who sneaks. "how to train a dragon" could win. i mean i em not seeing the movie but this "how to train a dragon kwets won't go away. >> i want to start a facebook of banning j.lo or jennifer aniston for any more. >> cheesy romantic movies. i know. >>> they converge every year to celebrate the zany outlandish cult

one of the places we're seeing intense storm activity, i mentioned, birmingham.orking its way further to the east and there it goes across atlanta, georgia. bright flashes of lightning happening now. i just checked latest reports. reports of hail. three quarters inch in diameter in cobb county, georgia. not under a tornado watch out in but definitely looking at that continuing threat for severe fredricka, more coming up. >> look forward to that. >>> challenges over arizona's tough new immigration law. here's what we know now. at least two latino advocacy groups are preparing to challenge the law in court. it requires police to question people about their immigration status if they suspect they are in the country illegally. immigrants unable to produce proper documents could be arrested, jailed for up to six months, and fined. and thousands of people protested outside the state capitol yesterday claiming the law will lead to racial profiling. it goes into effect, the law does, to be enforced as late as this summer. the latter part of the summer that is. the fallou

here we are in birmingham. was known as the city of a thousand trades yet the last 13 years we have lost 60,000 jobs in manufacturing. we've been losing manufacturing industries in the 1980's. it's been a tragedy. we have to rebuild. how do we do that? let's start with investing making sure great universities like this are producing the entrepreneurs of the future. let's make sure we have printers ships. so much of the government's training budget is wasted and we say let's have an extra 200,000. that would make a difference. but you can't ignore the basics of actually making it easier for businesses to employ people. that is why i come back to this point if we keep putting up the cost of one person saying to another, and work for me we are never going to get more in climate so as far as the technology and apprentice ships and raising the status of the teachers making sure that we report on to panora chabad yes having lower taxes for businesses, that is part of getting them. estimate how do you respond to the a

a loss to alabama in a nonconference game in birmingham. it was a big inning that really doomed the bulldogs. again, georgia lost so much fire power off of last year's team. this ball club not quipped to put up those kind of huge offensive numbers. >> and here is esmonde. a start for georgia. swegman couldn't get it over the plate. you see boyd, one of the toughest players on this team to strike out. he struck out only 14 times. here is the 0-1 pitch. that ball is hit right to the 2nd baseman. get the first out. and to schaus and parker. >>> that was a tailor made ball. they would have easily had parker. you could see parker was only half way between 1st and 2nd when the ball got behind. that winds up being as good as a sacrifice for brad miller. here is short stop. out of windermere, florida. batting with 2 runner in the scoring position. both guys belonging to swellman t starter. -- swegman, the starter. strike, 0-1. >> and a hometown couple of golfers with four green jackets, a piece, for mr. woods. >>> west 340 and 2 homers on the seaso

. >> thank you for being in birmingham. >> and i three wonderful days in birmingham as i told senator sessions at the civil rights institute at 16th street church meeting with civil rights leaders. i met an old colleague of mine i prosecuted a case with in alabama in 1991 when i was a career civil servant under dick thornburgh and it was great to reacquaint and i had one of the best meals i've ever had senator in birmingham that evening. good have it ls as we -- as we say in the business awould say how proud i am of bifrming ham for its -- birmingham for its principled and sincere effort to confront its past where racial discrimination was far too prevalent and much of it was very, very destructive and damageing to that whole city. but it has confronted its past in an honest and forth right way. i think other city cans learn from what birmingham has done. >> i look forward to bringing my children there and look forward to bringing my children to the museum in greensboro i had the privilege of participating in the grand opening in. two remarkable tributes to our nation's history. it re

so, the top college football market is, not surprisingly, birmingham, alabama -- the crimson tide. and number two, knoxville, tennessee, for the volunteers. oklahoma city, columbus, ohio, and then jacksonville, florida, for the gators. host: garden city, kansas, michael, hi. hello? kansas, are you on the line? we are going to move on to albuquerque, new mexico. john, democrats. guest: i wonder what happened in kansas? anyway. i am wondering where you took all of the polling data because, because i would think the part of the country, if you are in oregon or california and you might find college football would be close to the center line between democrats and republicans but -- the next poll, i would like you to see a short two-page intelligence quotient because i long had a theory that democrats are generally much smarter than republican. if i look at this poll right here, bull riding, nascar, except for college football or above is, those are sports predominately all white people. i am wondering whether -- when we would have a black nascar driver. we have a spanish-american war a

"usa today" this morning -- host: birmingham, alabama and our line for republicans. go ahead. see, my name is tiny. i may republican. -- my name is connie. i am calling to say that mr. obama is a good president but you have to look at his policies. i am against his policy. i am against his health care policy. i am at that age where doctors can make decisions about my life style. host: what kind of decisions is your doctor making backs -- making? guest: my doctor told me to quit smoking. h., how long? caller: i quit ford two years. host: thank you for the call. from the washington insider -- host: we want to remind you that we will be covering the state of intelligence reform conference that is being held at the bipartisan policy senator today. if you want to see that, you can find out when we will run it by going to our web site, c- span.org. our last call comes from cincinnati, ohio. caller: thank you. i want to say that i think that a lot that is going on in the minds of people is this change. change is difficult. i think if we all sit back and listen and process information

heavy rain pulling away from birmingham. see some light showers still over there.uall line is moving down i-20 towards atlanta. here's the atlanta radar picture. the airport just south of town right about there on the picture, that's where the line is headed towards. we're going to get the showers and thunderstorms and delays at the airports and eventually it's going to work into eastern georgia, namely the masters. i think the latter rounds, talking about 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., the main bulk of energy moves through. we'll probably see disruption of play. the rest of the play looks good friday through sunday. snow on the backside of that high pressure region. here's your low, it's right around here. that's the upper level low. high pressure builds in. it's colder air, that's where the rain is falling into, that is all snow. we'll get a look at that coming up in about a half hour. >>> the fda is apparently cracking down on some fat melting injections. >> they have that? >> yeah. in other news, there are fat melting injections? >> that's pretty good. >> sign me up. so we

he then headed for birmingham. for the conservatives, it was david cameron on his own.ater, it was part of or brown as part of a big, experienced team. and nick clegg into spokesman. >> this is a chance to do something different this time. you have been like downb by labour for 13 years. you have conservatives and labour governments, making the same mistakes over and over again. the real choice at this election is between more of the same from labour and conservatives or will change from the liberal democrats. we have to do something new this time. we will clean up politics and deliver fairness. we will bring about that will change that britain needs, the change that works for you. >> the action for david cameron has moved on to leeds. in the next few minutes, she is to address a rally -- he is to address a rally. there are two or three seats the conservatives are hoping to pick up. more than that, it is to send a message that no where is off limits to the conservative party in the general election. a crowd of supporters looked happy enough to wait. they have been waiti

i had one of the best meals i have ever had in birmingham that evening.ood vittles -- as we say in the business. >> i would say how proud i am a birmingham for its principled and sincere effort to confront its past, where racial discrimination was far too prevalent. much of it was very, very destructive and damaging to that whole city. it has confronted its past in an honest and forthright way. i think other cities can learn from what birmingham has done. >> i look forward to bring my children there into the museum in greensboro, which i had the privilege of participating in the grand opening for. it is remarkable to be part of our nation's history. the attorney general has called our division the crown jewel of the apartment of justice. the president singled out that civil-rights division in his state of the union. you have been very supportive of our budget request. we're very grateful. that enables us to increase our efforts in a number of ways. my first party was to take immediate steps to restore trust between career staff and political leadership, t

u-boats grew up and marry in ohio and you write about a speech that harding gave october 26, 1921 birmingham alabama. >> guest: at the part of it >> host: in the speech i would say to a black man if he's fit to vote he should be but a vote. i would say to a white man if he is unfit to vote he should be prohibited from voting. unless you like it or not a democracy is a lawyer and you must stand for equality. this is 1921. >> guest: i had fun doing the harding look because it has been so maligned. i had a grown-up and ohio at the time in my next-door neighbor was the editor who followed harding years later and was the editor of the marion star and the creation and had been the first editor of the paper and he introduced me in my first harding book. my library has ever think ever written about harding and i realized a long time ago particularly picking up this information as a kid harding hadn't been given a fair shake as a president. so when arthur schlesinger jr., i wrote all 42 test presidents i called arthur, i'd known him for years, arthur had written some ugly things about warren harding

cameron headed for birmingham.we learned a lot today about what each party considers its most attractive asset, the conservatives it was david cameron on his own. with the labor, gordon brown as part of a big experienced team. and, it was the double acts of nick clegg and his treasury spokesman. >> i think this is a real exciting opportunity selection for us to do something different this time. you have been let down by labour for 13 years. you had conservative and labour government for its 65 years. just doing the same old thing taking its turn to make the same old the stakes over and over again. so the real choice in this election is between more of the same for labor and the conservatives, or real change from the liberal democrats. we have got to do something new this time. liberal democrats, we will clean up politics. we will deliver fairness. we will bring about that real change that britain needs. the change, the works for you. >> it's just before 6:00 and action that david cameron at least has moved on your

you both grew up in marion, ohio, and you write about a speech given october 26, 1921, birmingham, alabama. >> guest: in woodrow wilson national park. >> host: and in the speech he said i was say if a black man is fit to vote, he should vote. i would say to a white man voting when he is unfit, he should be prohibited from voting. and he said unless our democracy is alive, you must stand for equality. this is 1921. >> guest: i had such fun doing the harding book because the harding has been so maligned as a president. he is typically considered up with of our worst presidents, and i had grown up in marion, ohio, his town, and my next door neighbor was the editor who would follow warren harding some years later as the editor of the marion star which was harding's creation. and had been the first editor of the paper. he introduced me and gave me my first harding book with harding becoming, if you will, my first president. my library has everything that's ever been written about harding -- good, bad and indifferent -- and i realized a long time ago particularly picking up this information as a

i had one of the best meals i have ever had in birmingham that evening. how proud i am a birmingham for its principled and sincere effort to confront its past, where racial discrimination was far too prevalent. much of it was very, very destructive and damaging to that whole city. it has confronted its past in an honest and forthright way. i think other cities can learn from what birmingham has done. >> i look forward to bring my children there into the museum in greensboro, which i had the privilege of participating in the grand opening for. it is remarkable to be part of our nation's history. the attorney general has called our division the crown jewel of the apartment of justice. the president singled out that civil-rights division in his state of the union. you have been very supportive of our budget request. we're very grateful. that enables us to increase our efforts in a number of ways. my first party was to take immediate steps to restore trust between career staff and political leadership, to restore public confidence come into the politicize dec

harding grew up in the same town in ohio and you wrote about a speech he gave on october 26, 1921, in birminghamalabama. >> guest: in woodrow wilson park. >> host: a i would say to manat manateeis fit to vote he should be able to vote and to white man voting when he is unfit should be prohibited from voting and he said, quote, whether you like it or not unless our democracy is a lie you must stand for equality. this was 1921. >> guest: warren harding has been so maligned. he is considered one of the worst president's and i had grown up in his town and my next-door neighbor was the editor who would follow warren harding some years later as his creation, had been the first editor of the paper. he gave me my first warren harding book with him becoming my first president. my library has everything that has been written about him. i realized a long time ago particularly picking up this information as a kid that he had not been very pear shaped as a president. when arthur schlesinger jr. started a series in which i wrote a book on all 42 past presidents i called arthur, had known him for years. he had

quickly up to the north and the east and to put it into perspective for you here's huntsville in birminghamjust down do the south, so kind of sandwiched about halfway in between the of 2 of those. we also have a very intense line north and west of nashville. just new tornado warnings issued here. doppler radar indicated near the state line, moving over towards kentucky, and we have seen this continuing throughout much of central kentucky at this hour. now, we have a high risk of these tornados continuing, these large, violent tornados that stay on the ground for a very long period of time and so it's this big purple area, mostly where we have the watches now that we think that that greatest threat will continue. this will move eastward through the overnight and through the day tomorrow, we'll have that risk of severe weather, say, from parts of pennsylvania in the mid-atlantic states down through the carolinas and even into parts of florida. however, tomorrow, the threat not quite as strong in terms of getting rotating storms as what we've been seeing tonight. don, this has been a really ra

by medicare and health insurance and training therapist from around the world coming to alabama birmingham and training people to take this technique that required the monkeys to be able to even begin to be developed and the tens of thousands of stroke patients have benefited already and will benefit in the coming years and now being used on children with cerebral palsy a tremendous benefit to humankind to none of which would have occurred have the animal rights movement idea of "a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy" prevailed and have alex succeeded in permit me foiling the research. thank goodness he didn't. the last time i looked, they were the first have an animal researcher restaurant for cruelty to animals. that is true but as paul harvey used to say you have now heard the rest of the story. the doctor allowed me to interview him and he put it quite well, he said "we have two sides of the scale to ponder on one side is the real and potential hoping will research offers to countless human beings but on the other is the difficult knowledge that detaining many benefits means that some anima

places like british columbia, sioux city, birmingham and jacksonville are along the flight path.a is not under that flight path but rain may mean "discovery" has to wait one more day to come home. the shuttle is scheduled to land at 8:48. mission control will need to decide at least an hour in advance, an hour from now wlr, whether to shoot for a second attempt at 10:25. the "discovery" crew clideliver tons of equipment to the space station. >>> a big pro gun rally will happen in the district even though guns will not allow. another rally will happen in virginia where guns are legal. people will gather with guns at ft. hunt national park. today's rally follow pro gun rallies across the country. supporters say they picked this day because it marks the 235th anniversary of the roughly usevy war and just because they are armed, does not mean they are dangerous. >> don't put news a category with bullies and thugs. we are not. we're every day citizens protecting our rights, protecting our families. >> we're not coming here with guns. >> one rally today will be held on the national mal

i've been to birmingham, montgomery and selma with john lieuwisin the pilgrimage three weeks earlier,16th street church when the hate got so much they were bombed and killed and the government oppressed people who tried to start a voting rights march. to see this language and these attitudes, is there an undercurrent of race, obama, sot s sot-society sot-society -- they didn't have the biggest budget deficit reduction was the health care bill and yet they were against it. this does not make sense except for the parties. >> i do like the fact you represented martin luther king's words when you said their lips dripping with words like nullification. you have a good memory for dr. king's words. thank you. >>> next, did arlen specter forget he's now a democrat? it does get a little occasion for you. we have to remind you right now. it's very funny. a five star frontal crash safety rating. that's peace of mind for every size family. chevy... may the best car win. like 100% whole grain, the way triscuit does, you always end up with something delicious. ♪ triscuit. weave some goodness. vetab

tuscaloosa, birmingham. these storms are moving east-northeast at 50 to 60 miles an hour.the tornado warning this morning, no tornadoes have been sighted. they're based on op der rdopple and rotation. in mississippi we had some wind damage with a 60-mile-an-hour wind gust at the airport. we're watching and waiting but with the heating of the day and energy from the jet stream, things will be ramping up between now and later this afternoon especially east of here, through mississippi and alabama, getting into western georgia tonight. tomorrow's threat zone, northern florida, up and east of interstate 95, into the mid-atlantic. >> you know, mike, with this storm moving at the speed of 50, 60 miles an hour, people have got to pay attention. heads up on all this because there is not a lot of time. mike seidel. >> yeah. i was going to say, they move very fast. you don't have much time. have the weather channel on or noaa weather radio. these things move in very quickly. >> also weather.com. >>> to politics now, the government of arizona, the governor signed a bill into law yest

then they distribute it to birmingham and all over the place. >> suarez: those flowers are already startingo disappear from local flower markets. fruits and vegetables from africa and the middle east will soon follow. for those who have had enough of uncertainty there's the option of a long-haul bus to a ferry and more buses to head deeper into europe. but even a 15 or 20-hour bus ride could mean waiting for days for a ticket. big european carriers have sent test flights up over the last few days and reporting good results. safe conditions. no engine damage. the displaced have seen surprising mini-vacations turn into lost wages, missed appointments and heavy out of pocket expenses. relief may be coming. the german carrier will be the first big airline back in service with flights starting tonight slowly chipping away at an enormous backlog. >> our advice for clients and passengers is to follow information exactly from the internet or call centers to check if their flight can depart. it will take a while until normal flight traffic resumes. >> suarez: and france is now telling carriers using

david cameron visited birmingham and then went to the leads. the conservatives' recovery in the north of england has lagged well behind its improvement elsewhere and mr. cameron must make headway in this campaign if he's to win a majority. >> holman: brown's labour party has been in power for 13 years. but labour lost seats in 2005, in part because of its support of the u.s. led invasion of iraq. a federal appeals court in washington dealt a blow to government regulation of the internet today. it said the federal communications commission cannot require broadband service providers to treat all internet traffic equally. the f.c.c. is working on "net neutrality" rules to prevent phone and cable companies from favoring some online content with better access. the ruling was a victory for comcast corporation, the nation's largest cable company. a man in washington state was charged today with threatening to kill democratic senator patty murray. charles alan wilson, who is 64, is accused of targeting murray over her support for health care reform. he

places like oxford and selma, birmingham, these were battle grounds zones in the '60s.he thought that you could have so many black mayors in the south seem removed in the '60s. the fact that a michael steele african-american could be head of the republican party, and the fact that we have barack obama. but so i think we've got to kind of take stock. and also look at the anti-, the left hatred of richard nixon. and the things that were said about nixon and the let's get him by so many people. so i think we're in a danger zone right now that the heat is rising. that there too much hate language going on out there. but i don't want to leap forward and say the last 30, 40 years were a sweeter than this particular moment in time. it's been rough out there. i think in this country. particularly dealing with race and issues of the federal government and these great society program whether they are good or not. it's been a rage debate for a long time it just seems to be crystallizing right now because of the health care passage. >> well, if it has been with us for a long time w

you can work in bristol, but you cannot work in birmingham. they're going to put a border controls along the m-5. it will make a bad situation morris, and we need real change. >> this is a really sensitive issue. all i would say to them is, please, do not live in denial about what is going on. we have got lots of people here who are working for criminal gangs rather than for britain. it is a problem. they are here. it is controversial. it is at least an attempt to deal with an issue. i do not think we can have another 10 years, another 15 years ignoring this, because you can not come up with processes like caps, which do not work. >> i am not really interested in that. i am interested in doing the right thing. when you have an and is becoming to this problem, then you have a real problem. -- when you have amnesty, then you have a real problem. people will be counted in and counted out. >> because of the chaos in the past, we have lots of people who are here. if you just ignore it, they will carry on. you cannot deport 900,000 people. >> the on

there's nothing to me like going to these sites like oxford, mississippi and selma, montgomery and birmingham and memphis where dr. king was killed and visiting the civil rights museum there. >> mr. smith, what about you? >> i would say one of my -- my first president -- go to plymouth notch, vermont. plymouth notch is a little town. there are six homes there now. there were six homes there in july 1872 when calvin coolidge was born there. the whole village is a museum. thank god, apparently through the coolidge family, it's been preserved. it's a wonderful way to step back in time and experience a very different america. you know, coolidge is a much more interesting character than he has often been portrayed and in fact one of the interesting things is i think post-reagan we're rediscovering the fact that there is an alternative to the new deal model of the presidency. >> you're a boston native, harvard graduate. >> nearby -- nearby boston. >> leominster? >> no, townsend, little town. >> oh, excuse me. >> four thousand people. >> harvard graduate, undergraduate degree, no doctorate degree. >

it was in the birmingham and i was driving down the south where the kennedy library producers like a cartoon on the flip open often i thought now where do i start on this project. i'll ask about the condolence. i asked the archivist about it. he had the letters, explain the most of them are destroyed. i thought all that? he said no, we have some. i thought okay, can i see them? and he brought up a box. i took up the first file folder and one of the very first letters of the data, which was written by a family of eskimos in alaska. and the nature and a couple of pages and there was a letter from a coal mining family in west virginia. and then the next letter was from a republican, who really just like kennedy. she said she was looking forward to voting against the 1964 was going to be deprived of this opportunity. but in those letters, condolence letters are like condolence letters most of you so far have written. it goes to console the bereaved person, offers some reflections and that's what these letters did. what was in them, i quickly came to see there was much, much more. and wha

somehow having regional immigration, saying it's ok to come and work in bristol but you can't live in birmingham, or you can live in bradford but you can't live in -- i mean, it sounds like they're going to put up border controls along the m5. it really doesn't make sense. it hasn't been thought through, it would make a bad situation worse, we need real change, genuine change that only the conservatives are offering. >> i just think -- look, this is a really sensitive issue. people feel, quite rightly, really strongly about immigration. people feel very unsettled that they have had no faith in an immigration system which has been run chaotically by both conservative and labour governments for a long time. all i would say to both david cameron and gordon brown is, yes, let's have our differences, but please don't live in denial about what is going on. don't live in denial about the fact that, because of the chaos in the system, we've got lots of people here who are working for criminal gangs rather than for britain. we've got to deal with that. you can pretend we can wish it away. it is a problem

host: here is clinton -- excuse me, birmingham, alabama. clinton, on our democrats line. caller: how are you doing today? i would like to know the relationship between iran and- excuse me iran and -- if a clinton, are you still there? caller: is relates to iran and north korea. should our policy uniform in dealing with both countries? . guest: that is a good question. both are obviously countries of concern because of their interest in proliferation. the reason they are being treated differently is their history. iran is in the middle east. it is not as far along in its program as north korea, which has already detonated several weapons. of course, north korea as the history of the korean war. they are two different situations, but what they have in common is potential proliferation. we take that seriously. both of them i believe have parallels to the cuban missile crisis. crisis. president kennedy was confronted with the choice of an emerging nuclear threat, in terms of them placing missiles in cuba, at the same time that he raised pressure on the soviet union, he made i

. >> can i read you something from "the birmingham news"?ferson county the biggest county in the state birmingham dropped 65% between 2006 and 2008. >> wow. >> and so when that policy was instituted so there you go. >> no kidding? >> yeah, 65%. >> it's kind of hard to argue with that. >> i know it. maybe it paid off. >> let that sink in, weigh in on that and then we'll talk about that again a few minutes. >>> who could be crazy enough to jump more than 800 feet from a building at a vegas strip? probably more than you may think. r >>> not everybody is shocked by the allegations a new york crime family used a woman to run an underage prostitution ring. that woman suzanne porcelli is charged with sex trafficking a minor in connection with a notorious gambino family. the indictment says she advertised the interstate sex operation on the internet. it says at least one the girls involved was 15. a former new york police commander tells our sister network cnn's campbell brown that moms now are nothing like the crimes of the past. >> first of all yo

is anyone doing anything with the sewage problem here in birmingham?t seems to be similar to the cds' going on. guest: yes, ma'am, it is. i'm very worried about this. there is regulatory reform pending in the congress now. we have pumped money back into the system into the large financial institutions, and basically have not changed any rules. they are still up there in beijing in the interest rate swaps. what congress is debating now is how much restriction to put on that, how much to force them to trade on markets where it becomes more visible. and how we try to stop this from happening again, the bankrupting of america's cities, counties. host: elizabeth warren is chair of the congressional oversight panel. guest: thanks so much for having me. host: we will turn attention to efforts to increase government transplanted. our guest is the coordinator of the sunshine in government initiative. ♪ >> a couple of live events today on our companion over. the joint economic committee will hear from the reserve chairman ben bernanke at 10:00 a.m. eastern. that

that includes bigger cities like jackson and birmingham.ornados that we are going to see is potentially large. ef 2 or 5 and long lasting. they could be tracking 40 or 50 miles and causing problems. it is a populacy area. we'll watch it all day long and we could be seeing a lot of damage. we'll send it outside to clayton, now. >> you should be jealous because of the food and coffee from the huddle house. they set it up here on the plasa nice to so you phil . >> good to be here. >> you guys are changing and revolutionizing the way we go to restaurant and diners. it is not fast food. what are you doing? >> for 46 consectative years huddle house has woven itself in parts of america. it made customers from morning and noon and night to enjoy dining in huddle house. franchise stores are operating at full capacitiy. business economics 101, you look to expand. we are launching a new prototype that doubles the size of the restaurants to meet our consumer demand and for the very first time we are uning here on fox news i may add a new prototype desi

host: the first call is birmingham, alabama.uest -- caller: i have some serious concerns about this issue of everybody going to college. it appears that this lady is sponsoring that. charles is an advocate is if you can pass a standard test, start out, you do not need college. he is also an advocate that only 15% of the population can do college level work. it has turned into a business. it is a myth that everybody has to go to college. 20% of the adult population are functioning in illiterate. -- illietterates. i've personal knowledge of single-digit act scores getting into college. it is people wasting their money going to college. host: we will leave it there. guest: there are a lot of concerns about whether the four- year degree is a standard. the most poignant discrepancy area is that 30% of americans end up with any degree. there are so many twists and turns along the way. people feel that stigma of being a failure or not being able to achieve. it we want to form a system that has many more entry points because there are m

host: birmingham, alabama. clinton on the democratic line. caller: all i would like to know the relationship between iran and -- excuse me. i want to know about the relationship between iran and north korea. shouldn't we be dealing with both countries simultaneously? guest: that is a good question. both are obviously countries of concern because of their interest in proliferation. the reason they are being treated differently is their history. iran is in the middle east. it is not as far along in its program as north korea, which has already detonated several weapons. of course, north korea as the history of the korean war. they are two different situations, but what they have in common is potential proliferation. we take that seriously. both of them i believe have parallels to the cuban missile crisis. when president kennedy was confronted with the choice of an emerging nuclear threat, in terms of them placing missiles in cuba, at the same time that he raised pressure on the soviet union, he made it clear that he could open up channels of ne

is anyone doing anything with the sewage problem here in birmingham? it seems to be similar to the cds' going on. guest: yes, ma'am, it is. i'm very worried about this. there is regulatory reform pending in the congress now. we have pumped money back into the system into the large financial institutions, and basically have not changed any rules. they are still up there in beijing in the interest rate swaps. what congress is debating now is how much restriction to put on that, how much to force them to trade on markets where it becomes more visible. and how we try to stop this from happening again, the bankrupting of americaca's cities, counties. >> tomorrow we will talk about the federal tax system with eugene steuerle. helen tonsured discusses nuclear weapons policy. and we will look at the legislative agenda with center mike johanns. o washington journal" begins at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c- span. coming up next on c-span, the senate judiciary committee questions attorney general eric colder. the u.s. house passes a resolution about saturday loss p

gilbert joins us from birmingham, alabama. caller: with the upcoming elections, the tea partiers movement will be slanted, because i do not think they have the impact they are trying to get going. let's go back to when the newly elected president took office. we as american citizens have to realize this country was in dire straits. we have hope not. -- hope now. the party leaders, sarah palin and those time, those people have not gotten over the fact that -- that they lost. as an indepent, i feel slighted. i will not be supporting the tea partiers people. the american people will not be so naive as to vote for those people. dennis is joining us on the republican line from ohio. caller: one thing that bothers me is the way the mainstream media and characterizes tea party. they will find it radical people in the group. i have not attended. i do not have the time. i support all the things they stand for. i think they will have an impact, because what they will do is focus a lot of average americans on what the government is doing

the birmingham area, from which i hail, has an innovative center called mitchell's place. it's named for the son of the two founders, the meislers. it's a model for autism services not just in alabama but for the entire country. mitchell's place combines the latest in developmental and behavioral research with a structured, caring environment. when you walk through the doors of the center, which is bright and nurturing, you can feel the love for the children and they respond. there are many promising developments to report to families living with autism. recently congressman mike doyle, chairman of the autism council and i, hosted a briefing where we heard from the director of the national institutes of health, dr. thomas enzel. he told us about excite regular search progressing in a number of areas. expert researchers are studying causes, early intervention approaches, and even potential cures. in my states, thanks to the efforts of a state representative, we have an autism task force coordinating our state resources. we patterned that after pennsylvania, congressman gerl

the idea of somehow regional immigration saying it's okay to work in bristol pitcher can live in birmingham -- it sounds like they will put up border controls on the m5, it doesn't make sense and has been thought through. we need real change, a genuine change that only the conservatives offers. >> this is a really sensitive issue and people feel strongly about emigration and unsettled that they've had no faith in the immigration system that has run chaotically. let's have our differences but, please, don't in denial about what is going on. still live in denial about because of the chaos in the system we've got people here working for criminal gangs rather than britain. you can pretend we can wish it away and it's a problem. they are here and, of course, what i'm saying is controversial, is at least an attempt to deal with an issue which we have to deal with. i don't think we can have another 20 years and the old way, just ignoring these. recant come up with promises like caps that don't work and by the way -- >> and not interested in points had been doing the right thing. if we send out a m

again, a very wide area of risk of strong storms, hail, damaging winds and tornadoes from jackson, birmingham, memphis, on into nashville. but the risk of storms extends all the way up into cincinnati, as far north as des moines, iowa. so we expect this energy coming up out of the gulf to continue to fuel this system, and that's why we're going to have this 48 hours of the risk of very, very strong storms. ann? >> al, thank you. >>> now to the gulf of mexico where emergency crews are racing to find out whether the collapse of that burning oil rig is causing crude oil to leak into the sea. meanwhile, hope of finding the 11 workers since that rig exploded into flames seems to be fading. we've got nbc's ron mott in belle chasse, louisiana with the latest. >> reporter: ann, good morning. we're at the naval air station just outside newrleans headquarters for coast guard helicopters aiding in this search and rescue mission for these 11 missing rig workers. officials are consulting survivability charts to determine when to call off the search, this as fear grows about the possible environmental disa