. >> under the present bloomberg administration -- >> there's not going to be a president bloomberg administrationrrect way is to bring in entrepreneurial immigrants who have skills and those who come here for immigration who have skills and make sure they stay. >> mayor bloomberg has created a rare bipartisan coalition. an impressive list of public officials and business leaders including jeff bucas, the ceo of cnn's parent company, time warner. >> how would you fix the visa system? >> well, the first thing is you attach a green card to the diploma for any graduate stunt that gets a master's or a phd in any of stem areas, science and technology. if somebody is willing to start a business and can get financing, you certainly want to give them a visa because they will go and start businesses for americans. and, lastly, when you have jobs that we need to get done but americans won't take, like working in the fields letting the crops rot and letting the farms move south of the border is just insanity. >> but when it comes to inviting low-skilled workers to america, consensus is a lot harder to find.

. >> bloomberg's administration has been successful in getting france fat -- transfats. this is a hot topic. what do nutritionists think? that's coming up on abc2 news at 5. >>> some fast food kids meals are also packed with sugar. some menus that advertise that are healthy are high in salt and fat. chick-fil-a's nuggets contain as much cholesterol as a big mac. and sonic's junior burger meal has twice the amount of sugar has two twinkies. burger king's contained as much cholesterol as six slices of pork bacon and more sodium than the children should eat at breakfast. for much more on the soda ban pledge in new york and information about sugar and soda and what it does to your body, head to our home page at abc2news.com. just check on the story called sugary drinks and your health and it will send you to this topic. >>> taking a live look downtown at the harbor. let's see if we can hit the repeat button over and over. for the most part it's been pretty nice. wyatt's in the storm center. >>> most marylanders see a partly cloudy sky -- sky. it crosses the estate line into

, there's not going to be a president bloomberg administration.ys you create jobs for americans is to bring in entrepreneurial immigrants who have skills and those who come here for education and have skills and make sure they stay. >> mayor bloomberg has created a rare bipartisan coalition to fix immigration called the partnership for a new american economy. an impressive list of public officials and business leaders, including jeff buchus, the ceo of cnn's parent company, time warner, and even news corp.'s rue pert murdoch, a naturalized american citizen himself. how would you fix the visa system? >> well, first thing is you attach a green card to the diploma for any graduate student that gets a masters or a ph.d. in any of the s.t.e.m. areas, science and technology. if somebody is willing to start a business and can get financing, you certainly want to give them a visa because they will go and start businesses for americans. and, lastly, when you have jobs that we need to get done but americans won't take, like working in the fields, letting th

i want to make the argument the bloomberg administration is saying they are leaving the guns home. >> why is that ridiculous? >> there is no way that's the case. >> if the police are doing their job correctly not just stopping people because they are minorities, i think i will buy that. >>> i don't see it. i think that they are stripping our constitutional rights with this. i think it is going beyond what we saw. they lost their lives for something more than stop and frisk. they went well beyond it. they broke into the apartment. they need a search warrant for that. there's a constitutional right as an individual to your home. i think we need to balance it. >> we have high unemployment areas we had 120 murders there a year. every friday and saturday night someone is going to die. that's the fact of life. when you send the anti crimes the guys out there to try to get the guns gone try to stop the shootings. i was there picking up young black and hispanics who were shot. the black-and-white crime is very bad. >> we have to look at white on white crime. >> we will talk about more. we hav

i want to make the argument the bloomberg administration is saying they are leaving the guns home. >> why is that ridiculous? >> there is no way that's the case. >> if the police are doing their job correctly not just stopping people because they are minorities, i think i will buy that. >>> i don't see it. i think that they are stripping our constitutional rights with this. i think it is going beyond what we saw. they lost their lives for something more than stop and frisk. they went well beyond it. they broke into the apartment. they need a search warrant for that. there's a constitutional right as an individual to your home. i think we need to balance it. >> we have high unemployment areas we had 120 murders there a year. every friday and saturday night someone is going to die. that's the fact of life. when you send the anti crimes the guys out there to try to get the guns gone try to stop the shootings. i was there picking up young black and hispanics who were shot. the black-and-white crime is very bad. >> we have to look at white on white crime. >> we will talk about more. we hav

under the present bloomberg administration, what will it look like. >> the way to create jobs for americans bring in entrepreneurials who have skills and those that come here for education and have skims and make sure they stay. >> mayor bloomberg has created a require bipartisan coalition to fix immigration called "the partnership for the any mooirn econo american economy." and iran rupert murdoch. >> you attach a green card to the diploma for any graduate walt student that gets a master's or degree in any of the skrienlss. if somebody is willing to start a business, you want to give them a business so they can start businesses for americans. and lastly, when you have jobs that we need to get done like americans won't take like working in the fields, letting the crops rot or letting the farms move south of the border is just unsanity. we need to get people in here. >> when it comes to inviting low-skilled workers to america, consensus is a lot harder to find. when we come back, we'll tackle the biggest stumbling block to immigration reform -- illegal immigration. ♪ [ man ] excuse me miss.

. >> despite the record number of homeless people in new york, the bloomberg a administration has cut a crucial subsidy to keep formerly homeless residents in their homes. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. new figures show the recession brought upon by the 2007 financial crisis has wiped out two decades of wealth for the average u.s. household. according to the federal reserve, the median u.s. family's net worth declined nearly 40% by 2010 to $77,300, roughly the same level it was in 1992. middle income families saw largest decline in wealth. the collapse of the housing market played a key role, with some home values dropping 42% between 2007 and 2010. the u.n. is warning of new dangers to syrian civilians as the regime of president bashar al-assad escalates attacks on embattled areas and syrian rebels target government forces and infrastructure. u.n. observers have witnessed syrian forces attacking towns with a new display of air power as well as syrian rebels intensifying operations against governme

bloomberg business report. hi, jane. >> hello. good morning. the obama administration has cited federal contractors for the largest number of affirmative action violations in at least nine years. there been a surge of violations. fedex and hewlett-packard were cited. a senate subcommittee plans a hearing on whether the labor department is doing enough to make sure contractors are doing enough for veterans. more buzz about the next i fought on the horizon. -- iphone. the new iphone is more likely to be introduced in september. a mixed close for stocks. futures are flat this morning. starbucks continues to look for more ways to make money without the reliance of coffee. they have agreed to buy bay bread. they plan to expand a french bakery brand. akes up 1/5 of their u.s. sales. >> disney is expected to make a big announcement today. >> this has to do with junk tv ads. michele bachmann looking to push nutrition. why more school cafeterias are shutting pink slime. >> thank you. 5:22. 56 degrees on tv hill. >> jack young has its own plan to help cut spending. some of the i

promoting the individual mandate in that state's healthcare reform and bloomberg reports that a clean energy company his administrationtaxpayer loans has now, of course, filed for liquidation. back with us on another big political night is donnie fowler, democratic strategist who has worked on the last four democratic campaigns and cas an draw pie and was governor schwarzenegger deputy chief status staff. we love election nights. >> thank you. >> totally fun. >> let's talk about the presidential politics, though. campaign, the obama campaign put out that video with ed gilles pi and instead of me cutter saying so if you are not going to give romney credit for the first three years in massachusetts, is it a bit hypocritical for them to attack him for the mess that he inherited, that obama inherited? >> i thought it was a very brilliant move. okay? ? >> good. >> she looks great on camera. she is articulate. >> she has a good point. >> however unemployment is still over 8% and people are still hurting. so i think it's a little bit disingenuous to meet at the line and say, well, you know, things didn't go well with your fi

bloomberg headquarters in new york. good morning. >> good morning. the obama administrationral contractors in 2011 for the large number of affirmative action violations in nine years. according to figures from the department of labor, it was driven by a surge in violations designed to help veterans. and people with veterans contractors cited for shortfalls include hewlett-packard, fedex and a technology company owned by lockheed martin. today there's a senate subcommittee looking at whether the labor department is doing enough to make sure contractors are falling the following altaffirmative-action laws. horizon workers, if they don't take a buyout, the company has warned the move will result in 600 layoffs. and we are watching finance ministers from the central bank governors from the g-7 holding a conference call to discuss the european debt crisis. stock-index futures ahead of that indicating a slightly lower open. that is business news. live at bloomberg headquarters in new york, linda bell reporting for abc 7 news. back to you. >> thank you. >> let's check in with adam

check three, new york city mayor bloomberg continuing to take some heat because of his obesity programs. >> your administration has come out in support of national doughnut day. >> two things. >> come on. >> it sounds ridiculous. >> it doesn't sound ridiculous. >> it's one doughnut moderation most things are okay. think about what national doughnut day is. >> it celebrates a lot of young ladies during world war i called doughnut lassies who went and gave doughnuts to our soldiers while they were fighting to protect. >> bill: that was before obesity was a national epidemic in this country. moderation works for donuts why not for soft drinks. >> that's exactly what we're trying to do. >> bill: national doughnut day was held last friday and in celebration i had a jelly from dunkin to mark the occasion. milk with it though not a giant soda, mr. mayor. check apparently our good friend jennifer aniston, she loves us is changing her wholesome image in the mtv awards she won in a dubious category. >> and the winner of best on screen dirt bag is. >> jennifer. >> jennifer aniston. i would like to say thank you to the te

administration has come out in support of national donut day. it sounds ridiculous. >> it does not sound ridiculous. >> let's hope that mayor bloomberg does not drive by because we know he's trying to cut down on sugar in drinks. >> it's so good at the time but i knew i was going to pay for it, and i'm not having any more donuts. >> why are you having a donuts at a barbecue. >> 16-ounces. >> if you want 32 ounces the restaurant has to serve it in two glasses. that's not taking away your freedom. >> two sodas? how does this work? there are two straws. i only have one mouth. where do i stick the other one, bloomberg, you sick bastard. >> if you get rid of these giant sugar drinks and make people have smaller portions, it will help. >> the big gulp, and now the double gulp. i first i thought it was a hat like a fez. >> come on! this is america, the land of plenty. we haven't even achieved type iii diabetes. we're so close. >> as a new yorker i can go on my lunch break to, i don't know, carnegie deli, and order 14 pounds of pastrami car initialed with seven pounds of beef tongue. then go over to hooters with chicken wings tossed in hot sauce and butter

bloomberg reported with the failure u.s. cheen energy loan program default rate was 3.6%. there is no comment and the obama administration could hope for that this story doesn't have have anymore threats. >> that remains to be seen. thank you very much. and there is officials trying to determine what caused a small grass fire today you can see smoke rising in this video. there is a fire broke out around 2:30. it burned only a quarter acre. crews cut the vegetation in that area which helped slow the spread of the fire. >> police need help to identify a arsonist starting a fire close to a san francisco hotel and apartment building. the manager shared this video. you can see the man checking out the furn newer an alley here. and he returns inside of a dresser but doesn't stop there and there is building manager says the fire was just too close for comfort oof this fire was adjacent to the building. it's something you worry about a lot. >> polk took matters into his hands, dousing flames with buckets of water and says ze not recognize the suspected fire bug from the building or the neighborhood. and we have posted this video

bloomberg poll that has come out. certainly welcome news for the obama administration. i ahave to say it's not a surprise. before president obama made this announcement i would be surprised if they did not put out a poll themselves if it would be embraced by the public. this new bloomberg poll shows that 64% are supportive of president obama's decision to relax the immigration rules when it comes to young children who are brought here to the united states while only 30% disagree with it. so pretty good numbers for president obama on this issue. but, again, a surprise for us maybe. i don't think a surprise for the administration this morning. >> they're pretty good at their internal polling there, mark. let's talk a little bit about house speaker john boehner. he weighed in and made some comments about the president's immigration policy. let's play that first. >> i think the president's announcement on immigration is -- it puts everyone in a difficult position. i think we all have concerns for those who are caught in this trap who through no fault of their own are here, but the president's actions are goin

the case that the obama administration green lighted the solyndra loans for political reasons but an investigation has failed to produce evidence of that. late last near, bloomberg reported with solyndra's failure the default loan rate was 3.6%, a fraction of what had been anticipated. >> the labor department today is not commenting on the issue and calls and e-mails to solyndra hit a dead end. the best the obama campaign can hope for is that the solyndra story doesn't have any more threads. mark matthews, abc 7 news. >>> solyndra did not get enough high bids for its 30-acre property in fremont so it is making its second attempt to sell the site. it is not clear ouch solyndra is hoping to get for the property but a broker says the manufacturing building cost $300 million to build. >>> in san francisco, a social network company has suspended one of its sites because of three recent rapes of children by sexual predators. the company operates a popular flirting app called scout and has millions of users. here is vic lee. >> a 12-year-old girl from eskan dedough said she was raped by christopher nut an adult strange she met on cut. scout. the 24-year-old suspect pos

administration. thanks to both of you for being here tonight. >> glad to be here. >> bob, let's start with you. a new bloomberghe question who was more out of touch with average americans. overwhelmingly 55% said willard romney was that candidate. what does that say about his past experience in business and his future in this race? >> well, first it says the american voters are pretty smart. that they've seen this guy and the more they see him, the more they get the sense he's out of touch. secondly, this is a guy and the obama campaign, i think, is doing a good job of creating this narrative. of who conducted himself in a certain way at bain. who then went on as governor in massachusetts where his record on job creation was terrible and he outsourced jobs just as he had done at bain. and i think they're going to put this all together into a story that's going to culminate. and the other thing you talked about which is the support of the ryan budget plans. this is the second poison chalice that paul ryan has given to mitt romney. the first was to end medicare as we know it. i hope mitt romney campaigns on this

he plans to talk about the administration's efforts to help rural america. one official with bloombergys that the president is going to announce a $2 billion effort through 20s 16 for rural businesses and then the white house, rural council together with the department of agriculture and council of economic advisors will release a report on rural america. the pro-obama super p.a.c. is teaming up for a $4 million ad buy, their first spanish t.v. idea. >> focus on the poor. it's not my focus. >> it uses romney's own words to points him as out of touch including a sound byte where he says he, too, is unemployed. it hits on his corporate record. this particular ad begins running in florida. there will be versions running in colorado and nevada. an interesting story from the "l.a. times," john byson is hospitalized after a series of hit and run accidents. he was found alone and unconscious in his car east of los angeles. "the l.a. times" says byson was driving early saturday evening when he hit two cars in three separate incidence. officials say drugs and alcohol do not appear to be a facto

bloomberg, my sugary drink. yesterday, president obama welcomed george w. bush to the with us but today appears he is done with the pleasantries after the dismal jobs report released this morning. it took the administrationinutes to resort to their old political tactics and that is, of course, blaming bush. a white house blog post by the economic advisors chairman reads there is much more work that remains to be done to repair the damage caused by the financial crisis and deep recession that began at the end of 2007. joining me with reaction fox news political analyst republican strategist angela mclowan and pete pete. >> the president said he would fix this and cut the deficit in half and get rid of lobby wrists and ear marks. said recovery is right around the corner. watch that. >> the economy is growing stronger. the recovery is speeding up. >> the economy is growing and it started adding hundreds of thousands of jobs each month. >> when our economy is growing and creating jobs at a fast ever clip we he have to do everything in our poured concreter to keep the recovery on track. >> we are heading in the right direction. moving forward. our economy is stronger. the economic heart beat is growing strong

bloomberg television. if i could follow up on the question of the financial cliff. how beneficial for the u.s. economy right now given the talk on capitol hill that the lawmakers and administrationf issues perhaps temporarily, kick the can down the road to next year and end or limit the uncertainty in the short term and beneficial given the state of the economy at the present moment? >> well, that's a difficult problem. i'm not entirely sure. on the one hand, a little clarity would probably be helpful for the reasons i described because people are uncertain of what will happen. on the other hand, investors i know would like to see congress take actions that put us on a long-term, sustainable fiscal path and kicking the can down the road without any other indication of what might be done and what kinds of policies might be enacted could be a negative for sentiment because it might induce people to worry more about the seriousness of congress addressing the fiscal issues. >> financial times. mr. chairman, one critique of fed's accommodative actions of the past few years is that's helped those with the least propensity to spend. wealthy, large businesses and corporations and the im

administrative assistants and it experts are more likely to be overweight sitting at their desks eating because of stress and workplace celebrations are some of the culprits. i'm jane king with the bloomberg