jeremy bowen reports from the damascus area. >> to find out the strength of the opposition, drive into the suburbs of damascus. we had no idea what we discovered. we found the free syria army deserted from the local men and government in a poor district on the edge of the city. they said they were protecting the people who were about to hold a funeral. they live well established here with sandbag firing positions. everyone was on edge for 10 months, the regime'ser forces have been cracking down hard on protestors. this commander said he had been a general in the syrian government forces. >> then something no one wanted to see. >> security are here. >> security are coming. >> don't be afraid said general asamak. our resistance is full. some of them got ready to fight. stay with me said osama. don't be afraid. they were sending information by phone. they all seem to know what their jobs were, going to their positions and others moving deeper until the funeral had started. >> it felt as if every man in saqua was there. a big sendoff for a man who had been killed by the security forces. ac

our middle east editor jeremy bowen sent this report. >> there is a cease-fire. after 10 months of trauma for local people. the army has a few outposts, but they are not shooting now. the regime was forced into a truce because their men could not zhrodge the rebels. it is a half hour drive from the center of damascus. since wednesday, most of it has been in the hands of the rebels. >> i saw pockets of damage from the fighting with a local activist, who said he would be in more danger if his face were shown. >> what about the future? what are you going to do next week and the week after that because al-assad is still in power in damascus? >> well still go with our protests every day until the regime falls down. and we will defend ourselves from the al-assad regime, from the troops. >> the main square is now dominated by what syrians call the independent area. they want to revive old national symbols like libyans did in their revolution. the fact that these a people are effectively in control of their town, that they are able to want here in the main square unmoles

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dan bowens, fox 5 news. >>> here's something you don't see every day.urch. the bridge ministry in flint, michigan, opened up serenity tattoo studio inside their church. ministers say they're using unconventional methods to attract worshipers and change the lives of tattoo artists and their clients. they added there will only be positive images offered even though it is a tattoo parlor. >>> do you remember this? a year ago we were watching a major snowstorm that eventually covered the south i.c.e. governors in georgia, louisiana -- southeast, governors in georgia, louisiana, alabama declared states of emergency. officials have bought about 50 more pieces of snow removal equipment since. a year ago there was snow in 49 out of 50 states. right now 26 out of 50 states have 2 inches or more on the ground. >>> lucky for us none of that is here. we've had unseasonal, when but back to reality time. >> it is. wee of we are going to get cold -- we are going to get colder. we do have some precipitation in our forecast. the latest update says we might just see a pa

i just received today a letter from the golden gate awed bowen -- audobon society. i hope there is more regulation. it is needed. supervisor wiener: thank you. we have an ongoing change with animal care and control with resources and all sorts of aerial. i made an effort in the last budget cycle to get more resources for rec and park. i have already been in contact with the mayor's office. animal re-- control needs more resources. >> that goes with any legislation related to us, not particular to this. other questions, i know there are concerns about numbers in terms of whether it should be higher or lower, consistency and so forth. our number on our website is six. i know there is a push for eight other more. i can take questions now or later. >> thank you very much. supervisor wiener: regina from the office of small business. >> thank you. good afternoon chair mar, supervisors wiener and cohen. i want to thank supervisor wiener for introducing the legislation. i think you are going to hear from many in the industry about the need to do something. and an active int

jay bowen is looking for something more reliable than his usual construction job. >> and to meet someoneace-to-face, you hopefully have a better chance of making a competition. >> reporter: competition is tough, more than 5,000 people applied. the plan is to hire 1500 people, casino management said it could hire more if the maryland legislature approves table games like poker and black jack. >> and we would hire an additional 800 people. >> reporter: maryland lives, one of the largest facilities in the country is ready to allow the table cages. -- games. the company said that would help keep more maryland at home. for potential new hires, casino experience is not necessary. >> my name's dens, i'm from baltimore, a ravens fan. [ laughter ] >> reporter: and a positive attitude is. >> and this is good. a lot of jobs. everyone's looking for jobs, the economy is bad and we need help. >> reporter: hoping lady luck will call their number this time. >> reporter: the employment center is open monday through friday from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and people can apply on line and we have a link on our

. >> debra bowen, california. this may not apply to everybody, but we do -- we do drive-thru voter registration. so if you've got an old bank that has drive-thru lanes or that's not using them or a restaurant, and we basically just sent people out with clipboards. the last time we did it we had bicycles, wheelchairs, skateboards, pedestrians, every kind of device or human power comes through, and you could see our people out, you know, sticking their head in the driver's window -- side window with a clipboard. and it always gets really great tv coverage because the visual is good and we have a statue of liberty costume, somebody from elections always dresses up in that. the last guy that dressed up as the statue of liberty with the big bushy beard was the best statue of liberty ever. it's california, i don't know. but it's one that i think more than any other voter registration thing we've done draws a lot of television media, which is often very difficult to get. you know, it highlights that the deadline is comin

so we've been incredibly honored to be working with secretary reed in washington, secretary bowen in california and secretary brown in oregon and discussing these various ways that we can do this. and i should say in states where we don't have online voter registration possible, we're also looking at ways where the form it prints with a bar code so when it arrives at an office you can scan that code and pull the data so at least you're not rekeying it even if we can't transfer them all online seamlessly into our system. all this is to say, we are constantly working new ways to work, especially in this base of new technology and online for voter registration, to ensure that we can be promoting and bringing as much people in. rock the vote can do our work and then turning out the young people and increasing participation in your states. we are saving the work of the rekeying and everything that might naturally happen as a result from turning in millions and millions of forms into your offices each year. >> that is something we're excited out and hopefully work with you and continually

jay bowen is looking for something more reliable than his usual construction job. >> you meet somebody person face for face, you hopefully have a better chance of making an impression. >> reporter: competition could be tough. already more than 5,000 people have applied. though the plan here at maryland live is to hire 1500 people before it opens, casino management says, it could hire even more if the maryland legislature approves table games like poker and black jack. >> we would hire an additional 800 people if table games were approved in the state. >> reporter: maryland live, which will be one of the largest gaming facilities in the country, is ready to offer table games for the law allows. the company says that will help keep more maryland dollars at home. for potential new hires, casino experience isn't necessary. >> my name is dennis, from baltimore, ravens fan. >> reporter: but a positive attitude is. >> this is good. a lot of jobs. everybody is looking for jobs. the economy is bad. and we need work so we are coming on out. >> reporter: hoping lady luck will call their number th

fox's dan bowen has more. >> i feel violated, myself. >> reporter: for many, public benefits are theof last resort and feel the city's policy requiring applicants to give their fingerprints just makes them feel worse. >> what do fingerprints have to do with lung officer. >> reporter: this week during the state of the state address, governor cuomo agreed and says the policy should come to an end. >> i understand fraud detection. i understand fingerprinting. but don't make a child go to bed hungry. recover public advocate bill deblasio is joining the governor's effort and is collecting signature calling on the mayor to make a change. >> this mayor doesn't seem to understand that a lot of people are struggling in the city. he is out of touch with the people he is supposed to serve. >> reporter: but mayor bloomberg said this week taking someone's finger image is not a stigma and argued the policy is a valuable tool in preventing fraud. >> mayor bloomberg is right that is hay similar mel and easy process that has helped us prevent fraud and abuse in the programs. >> reporter: for sue, app

when police found bowen's car, this is what it looked like.amage to the front windshield, consistent with hitting a person. another big clue. the side mirror was missing from the suspect's car, the same mirror as the scene. >> the mirror had blue tape on it. >> i had no idea about the hit- and-run. i knew that his truck was wrecked. >> reporter: why jason worries about the family of the biker. he is also feeling a loss. this prized memorabilia has never been recovered. that psychoest was in critical condition taken to the hospital. he has survived and is out of the hospital. meghan mccorkell, eyewitness news. >> police are saying that this is not bowman's first brush with the law. he has been convicted of theft at least twice. >>> well, don't let all of this white stuff outside fool you. it is a purple weekend around the state. as the ravens get ready to face the new england patriots tomorrow. they are fighting for an a fc championship and a ticket to the super bowl. as we explain, all of the fans are, of course, fired up. >> reporter: good mo

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jay bowen is looking for something more reliable than his usual construction jobs. >> meet somebody inn face to face you hopefully have a better chance of making an impression. reporter: competition could be tough. already more than 5,000 people have applied. though the plan here at maryland live is to hire 1,500 people before opening, management says it could hire even more if the maryland legislature approves table games like poker and blackjack. >> we would hire an additional 800 people if the table games were approved in the state. reporter: maryland live, which will be one of the largist gaming facilities in the country -- largest gaming facilities in the country, is ready to offer table games if the law allows. the company says that will help keep more maryland dollars at home. for potential new hires casino experience isn't necessary. >> my name is dennis from baltimore, ravens fan. reporter: but a positive attitude is. >> this is good. a lot of jobs everybody is looking for jobs, the economy is bad and we need work. so we're come being on out of. reporter: hoping lady luck will

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the reporter is jared bowen of wgbh boston. >> reporter: for libyan fighters back from the brink, thathaven, a place of recovery, rehabilitation and therapy. >> the injuries that i'm treating, many are gunshot wounds and there are severe hand injuries to shoulder injuries, nerve injuries. there are, obviously, patients that also have p.t.s.d. >> reporter: these men-- most were civilians before the fighting began-- are being treated at spaulding rehabilitation hospital in salem massachusetts, a continent and cultural divide away from home. spaulding is the only facility in the country now treating wounded libyan fighters. it was selected by the state department in part for its care of american soldiers returning from iraq and afghanistan. >> it takes time for the patients to feel comfort with us and then tell us a little bit more about what happened to them and how they were feeling. >> reporter: all of the 22 libyan men receiving treatment here were rebel fighters wounded while fighting against the regime of moammar qaddafi their injuries were extreme, sustained from conflict and tortu

the $7 billion that john bowen recalls, quote, a real and forcible cut to the financial year 2012 represents what the government of the united states currently boroughs every 37 hours. in other words, between now and the time in the end of the week, we will have barletta back every dime of those painstaking negotiations savings. if the cbo scoring is correct that it would use as the 2012 deficit by just $1 billion, then the cut represents with the united states boroughs every five hours and 20 minutes. in other words, in less time than it takes to drive from my pad of state from the time it takes to watch harry potter and the deathly hallows part one and two with a bathroom break in between all of the savings of the painstaking negotiated plan would have been borrowed back. 7 billion or 1 billion. who cares who's right. that is the choice between dead or deader. the white house really enforceable cut of one to $7 billion. let me give you some numbers that are rather more relevant. within a decade, the united states would be spending more of the federal budget on its interest payments than on

bowen and is all coal, used to be the coach of the florida state seminoles.so it was nice to see that. so ever since i was in grad school really starting to my undergrad in chronology, i the masters and information suspect i was more interested information security. but to kind of put yourself ecology do many things, right? so really looking at network administration, that's i put myself through undergrad. i began to really start looking at those things. in the early to mid '90s, academic institutions really a wild, wild west was a good description of what those networks were like. typically fragmented administration. public university we couldn't block anything at the edge. i hear that's still the case. so we would see some amazing traffic patterns. and usually kind of an open honeypot the entire network was. >> so really understand how machines were getting compromise, that's what really struck to pique my interest. >> did you have trouble keeping your spirits of? this is like owning a big ball until i feel. >> i love it. i love it. i love every day. my wif

let's talk about that with jennifer bowen, the executive director of iowa right to life.nifer, let's start with you. what do you think distinguishes these candidates right now on their position on abortion? >> they are absolute champions, several of them, absolute champions on the issue of life. they speak the language. they know what's important. and they are just -- they -- >> you feel like they are speaking with conviction? >> absolutely. >> so how come no endorsement from you? i would imagine that could really help a struggling campaign. >> it could. but we have discovered that it's absolutely beneficial to them as well, because we haven't ruled anybody out. we are in support of all pro-life candidates. we are able to speak on behalf of all of them that are pro-life. we haven't ruled anybody out. >> when you gave your personal endorsement of rick santorum, you sent him skyrocketing up -- you did. you can laugh, but you did. and yet the family leader, your organization, hasn't been able to endorse someone. how should we read that? why not? >> well, a couple of things.

fox's dan bowens has her story. >> this is what i love to do, and that's why i do it.noony has always garvey has always felt at home in a research lab. >> it's my life. just because my home is in a shelter, i want a better life. reporter: her hard work into the effect of mussels in salt water marshes off long island's coast makes her in the running for one of the nation's top science projects. >>> this is hopefully a sign that everything is turning around. reporter: in the last year everything has been so hard for this brentwood high school senior and her family. >> in february of last year my parents, both my parents were involved in an automobile accident, and because of that they were on disability leave from their jobs. reporter: garvey, her parents, brother and twin sister spent time in a hotel and now lives in a homeless shelter. >> she is a focus student. you're right, her life has kind of turned upside down in the last couple of weeks, but she has a tremendous family. >> i know it's a little rough on her and everything else, but we'll get through it, and as lon

let's talk about that with jennifer bowen, the executive director of iowa right to life.art with you. what do you think distinguishes these candidates right now on their position on abortion? >> they are absolute champions, several of them, absolute champions on the issue of life. they speak the language. they know what's important. and they are just -- they -- >> you feel like they are speaking with conviction? >> absolutely. >> so how come no endorsement from you? i would imagine that could really help a struggling campaign. >> it could. but we have discovered that it's absolutely beneficial to them as well, because we haven't ruled anybody out. we are in support of all pro-life candidates. we are able to speak on behalf of all of them that are pro-life. we haven't ruled anybody out. >> when you gave your personal endorsement of rick santorum, you sent him skyrocketing up -- you did. you can laugh, but you did. and yet the family leader, your organization, hasn't been able to endorse someone. how should we read that? why not? >> well, a couple of things. we are working