as you spend mean, the economy bosts and the next thing you know, you have more jobs being created by joe blow small business owner or mary smith, you know, the cupcake owner. now, they have to get more staff to man counters, boxes, and things like that and that is ending up being a job creator. >> and how big of an impact would that make in your life? >> it would make a big impact in my life. right now, i'm making $8.25 an hour, not enough and that is difficult for me to get back and forth to work. sometimes i have to work home at 2:00 in the -- walk home at 2:00 in the morning and that is dangerous for me and that is not enough. >> where do you go from here? moss ear are you trying to bend? >> and won't to bend in the country and the city. we have had minimum wageworkers out fund raising. i would like to thank all of the residents, the maryland suburbs -- we had people donating $50 for a water, $50 per a hamburger or cheeseburger and out trying to raise money to give gift certificates to their minimum wage coworkers to buy school space for the kids. we're in the season where it's ti

department will get a financial bost. volunteer firefighters agreed not to challenge the new law. the bill's insurance companies for ambulance service. the decision clears the way for the law to go into effect next year and is expected to generate $18 million a year. >>> coming up on the news edge, mud, sweat, and tears. you think you have what it takes to compete in the warrior dash? the growing popularity of obstacle course vacations for adults. >>> a video of a dinosaur walking in an australian mall went viral. and that is looking realistic. everyone knows it's not a real dinosaur. it sniffed and lunged at people as they walked by and not sure what this mall promotion was, but it got laughs. laughs. . >>> thrillseekers and weekend warriors. s obstacle course challenge. each year, thousands trucked in northeastern pennsylvania, and crawled commando style through a mud pit. and do it just for fun. they pay to do it. wisdom martin reports. >> reporter: what are the people doing and why are they doing it? >> reporter: virtually overnight, they have become a top destination for thri

not mean that it could be such a growth sellout because the union government agreed to settle all bost present and future liabilities for a sum as small as four hundred seventy million dollars. people received as little as five hundred dollars for lifelong injuries and. unpunished. i believe whatever happened in the past we cannot change it but what is happening now is in our control it's been twenty seven years and the government should least do something like people seek a clean water because the ground water is contaminated by whoever survived that night and whatever life is left for the gas victims they should get proper treatment so they can spend the rest of their lie. it's in good health. they are gas and water victim children grow up born into deformities and their future has to be kept in mind so that these kids can live a proper life and so that their parents do not take them as some sort of burden which i think. you're welcome. i love and trust are. good afternoon c.h.r.y. this is only a summer home to la and i'm joined on the line by son jay very much who is an activist in

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allow vfws and american legions to have gaming machines the first time and some say it's i much needed bost that could bring financial salvation to their organization. >> reporter: on tuesdays, wednesdays, and thursdays at 12:15, mourn legion post 217 in college park comes a live with bingo. >> 41. >> reporter: for post go17, bingo is a financial lifeline in downturns in the economy and membership. >> it's life and death. >> reporter: he said that veterans are welcoming maryland's gambling expansion bill, which would let veterans groups purchase gaming machines. >> we used to get big donations. we can't do that anymore. the economy, our money is bad and this would be greatly needed. >> reporter: the bill would allow them to buy five gaming machine, except in montgomery county where lawmakers didn't want them. voters would have to approve expandedgambling but they could gen -- exbanded gambling but they could generate more than $60 million a year. the numbers have not been so lucky for american legions like this. on a good day, they can expect between 15 and $1,600 that is enough to pay an e

british businesses might not have received as much of a bost from the olympics as hoped. a group said officials expect more tourist money, but the spending is down overall, all over britain and not just in london. the good news, more than 26 million people in the uk. i don't -- i don't think it's 26 million people in the uk. 26million people watch the bcs live coverage of the closing ceremony and that is more than 80% of the potential audience. >>> a shot -- from belarus is stripped of her gold medaller for doping. sheitiveed positive for a type of steroid. she was tested the day before and again afterward. both samples were positive and that gold medal goes to new zealand, the silver goes to russia and the bronze to china. >>> an american gymnast whose facial expression went viral after earning a silver medal is making fun of herself. you probably saw it. maroni was caught making the face when she heard she finished second on the vault not getting the cold. she was not disappointd about the silver medal and that she was disappointed in herself for falling. >> that explai

is up a bit and interesting to see in the next few days with the private polling to see if it's a bost here in iowa as the republicans suspect it will. >> what about the issue of entitlements reform? does mr. romney have to distance himself of mr. ryan's previous statements and previous proposals on entitlement reform to win the state or is the overall deficit reduction argument compelling enough to override nose concerns of entitlement reform? >> when you ask iowans what they're most concerned about, their answer is always jobs and then secondly the debt and deficit. they want to do something about the entitlements to reform them and help the deficit and reduce spending. they're very frugal, very fiscally oriented people. they want something done about that. you hear that from just about everyone and democratins, as we. i don't think it's necessarily going to hurt him and the republicans doing a very good job of trying to explain paul ryan's plan for medicare, won't affect current seniors and that the traditional medicare will be an option for people under the new system. but they're

joining me now is scott helmand, staff writer for the bost"bosto globe" and co-author of "the real romneyomorrow in paperback. scott, romney has a history of this in massachusetts, where he asks people to trust him and not release his tax returns, claiming, then, that he had been filing in massachusetts, so that he could, therefore, run for governor in massachusetts, and then it turned out he had not been filing in massachusetts. take us through why people couldn't trust him then. >> well, i think this is back, right, you know, in the period where he was in utah, running the winter olympics in 2002. clearly, he was hedging his bets. he knew he wanted to get back into politics. he had lost his previous race for senate against ted kennedy, and he didn't know would he run in massachusetts, run in utah? he said himself he was looking for the right opportunity. so i think it was clear trying to sort of keep his option oppose, if you will. at the same time, the state ballot office look at this and dismissed it. but at the end of the day, the whole argument of where did romney live backfired on

and that's how it went for years, the tapes hidn away under lock and keyn bost colleges campus. in 2010, that all changed, after infamous i.r.a. commander brendan hughes died and his interviews were released. >> a lot of the stuff that i am saying here, i'm saying it in trust. because i have a trust in you. i have never, ever, ever admitted to being a member of the i.r.a. never. i've just done it here. >> reporter: and then last summer, a bombshell: the u.s. department of justice, acting on behalf of united kingdom law enforcement, subpoenaed the tapes ofeveral intview subjects who were still alive. >> what led to the subpoenas was the fact that one of the participants, dolours price, had given an interview with irish media, in which she had referenced the tapes and implicated herself in the murder and abduction of jean mcconville. >> it never goes away. you wake up with it in morning and it's there at night when you go to bed. it just never leaves you. even after 40 years it's still hard. >> reporter: helen mckendry was 15 years old in 1972, when her mother, jean mcconville, wa