how important is miss brenda to you guys? >> very important.look forward to coming down here every day. >> reporter: thomasville was once the furniture capital of america. after plant closings and thousands of jobs sent to china and south america the county's unemployment rate has grown to 10.8%. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. bye-bye. thanks for using your manners. >> reporter: that's reason enough for brenda wattford's mission. for a lot of people in thomasville, including her, hard times go back generations. >> my mom one day was six and there are six other brothers and sisters and she's standing on the chair and boiling water for them to have soup. >> reporter: if you can talk to president obama, what would you say? >> i would ask him to, please, let every child in america eat a free breakfast and free lunch every day. >> it's awfully expensive, isn't it? >> not expensive. we're feeding our future. >> reporter: but for most of the 20 million children in america who qualify for free and reduced lunch, there is no brenda wattford, no one de

how important is miss brenda to you?rtant, because they look forward to coming down here every day. >> reporter: thomasville was once the furniture capital of america. but after plant closings and thousands of jobs sent to china and south america, the county's unemployment rate has grown to 10.8%. >> thank you. you're you're welcome. >> reporter: for a lot of people in thomasville, including brenda, hard times go back generations. >> my mom one day she was like six and there were six other brothers and sisters and she's standing on the chair and she is boiling water to pour dirt in for them to have dirt soup. i can't imagine anybody having to go through anything like that. so i cannot see any child go hungry. >> reporter: if you go to washington and talk to president obama, what would you say? >> i would ask him to please let every child in america eat a free breakfast and free lunch every day. >> reporter: it's awfully expensive, isn't it? >> it's not expensive when you're feeding-- we're feeting our future. >> reporter

hefield. >> brenda: put the pedal to the metal with cavuto on business which is up next. take it away, neil. >> neil: well, stocks taking off and administration shaking down. the downgraded our credit, period. welcome, i'm neil cavuto fox on top of over the top power play, not even in two weeks after standard & poor's hits washington with the credit ding. d.c. coming back with a slight hammer. the justice department is investigating whether s & p botched ratings, up to the mortgage meltdown, remember that one? remember that three years ago? and creepy or coincidence, ben stein, charles payne, dagen mcdowell along with the best business reporter on the planet, charlie gasperino. and the timing period, i'll leave it that. >> if they bring a knife, you bring a gun. that's the chicago way. >> neil: very good. >> and it's obvious-- >> that's like creepy good. >> it's obvious that this is political pay back, we know s & p failed we know they blew it, so did moody's, and everyone else. why did the noise ratchet up on this. trying to discredit them more, as if they need to be dis

senior business correspondent, brenda butner. we're going to know in four more hours, when asian markets, and what could happen later tonight? >> mideast market were any indication we will see asian markets will go down. this is, of course, the first possible trading day that any place, including the united states can respond to what happens on friday night. we have had a couple days to digest it. there are some indications that it may not be as bad as we had expected. first of all, the market has been going down ever since this was even indicated. second of all, it's not at all clear interested rates are going to go up. some of the major institutions that hold treasurys and almost major institutions, pension funds and banks do not follow the credit ratings perhaps as some others. we have to mention. fitch and moody's show no signs they are going to take a look at this. so yes, there was downgrade. interest rates may go up, and that does have an impact on mortgage loans, auto loans, credit card loans but if you look at history it

a tough time out there for them, brenda. >> sure is.weren't hard enough to be in the ranks of the unemployed even those who are doing everything they can to get back in the workforce may be facing a big black mark just because they are out of work. many of the nation's employers are ignoring the 14 million jobless americans trying to return to work. if you look through postings on popular job sites those doing the hiring make clear they only want those who were just recently laid off. this is becoming such a problem, new jersey, passed a law that bans job ads that prohibit the unemployed from applying to work. even congress is considering similar legislation. the average length of unemployment now is a record high of nine months so those with a normal gap in their resumes have little hope of getting back in the working world. both small and big businesses are guilty of looking for only the recently un employed and it is not just a problem for manual labors. blue collar, white collar, all having trouble if they have been handed a pink sl

brenda buttner kong core of bulls and bears. this sounds dire. >> it does.ople many of whom it takes two years to get the benefits. many of them don't get it. there were some 3.3 million people, this year alone, who are expected to apply for social security disability benefits. and the money simply won't be there. it has been running in the red. it is going to run out of money, congress says in just six years. what could happen is what happened in 1994 when it borrowed from the retirement fund. we know the retirement fund in two decades is going to be out of money way. there's debt problems all across the board. the problem is, these people get unemployed, they are laid off, they try to get social security benefits, they can't or if they do, it takes them a long time. for many of them, in years to come, they won't be there. >> jamie: that's really sad. we know that ends up costing others if the government can't provide what they need to. brenda thanks for an update. >> thank you. >> eric: isreali militant exchanging fire for fours days. a live report on the

thanks a lot for volunteering, brenda. >> thanks so much. >> thank you both. to see the new "dallas." logon to scoop.today.com. thank you. and we'll be right back with "gut check." lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. >>> a new law in missouri forbids teachers working in the state from having direct contact with students on social networking sites like facebook. now the bill takes effect the end of this month and it meant to protect children, they say, from sexual abuse, but some teachers say it would make communicating with their students more difficult. teachers with classroom facebook pages say they like the ability to hand out assignments and even answer homework questions online because it's quick and simple e

. >> for more than a decade, brenda couldn't use her voice. >> now the 52-year-old modesto woman is a chatterbox. >> i'm still working on it but it's improving every day. >> she is second person ever that received a larynx trance plant. it's a complex surgery. a team of surgeons from uc davis practiced for two years before performing the delicate operation. >> it's somewhat complex. >> they took the liarjs and thyroid gland from a donor whose family okayed the procedure. 13 days later the patient was able to speak. the vocal cords were paralyze whd a vewt liags tube in her throat accidentally moved. she used a electronic box and suffered teasing and stares. >> i never thought we would be able to put something like this together. >> jensen was an ideal candidate because as a recipient of transplant four years ago she is taking the powerful medications that help prevent organ rejections. her voice don't grow stronger and she hopes to have her breathing tube removed in the next few months. >> i'm doing it. it was very much worth it to me. >> the only other known larynx transplant was on

environmental quality act findings and mitigation, my turn, and reporting program for an approval of the brenda street wharf public space open project. i will provide a better product history, describe the features of the project, introduced the project team, and then die and will speak about the environmental documents. the ministry fourth to be located on the embarcadero, not between piers 30/32 and 38 will be a new $7 a square foot public space parallel to the embarcadero promenade. the work will define the center of the south beach neighborhood. for a better product history, in the year of 2000, the san francisco bay conservation and development commission all working with the port amended their special area plans for the san francisco waterfront. changes made to this plan and in the port's waterfront land use plan remove a longstanding bcdc 50% rule which effectively prevented the redevelopment of many of the historic sheds. with the adoption of these documents, projects such as the exploratory more able to move forward. as part of the negotiations for this, the court agreed to construct t

. >> i hope that's right, brenda. thank you very much.hat is your commute going to be tomorrow morning? travel expert jennifer sanchez joins us from allentown. what's it going to be a year subways may get started sometime late in the afternoon here in new york on monday. what about boston and other communities baltimore, what's going on? >> ill don't think we have to worry too much bo the road and subway as much as the airline traveler have to worry about in their flight is going to be operating tomorrow, tuesday and even wednesday. there is this ripple effect with 11,000 flights canceled. there are not enough seetsz to go around to get the passengers stranded back on flights. people that were set to travel they are going to get bumped. the bumping rule was actually changed last week which is quite prophetic. used to be you get your ticket maybe twice the amount. last week the airlines went in prior to these hurricanes you can get four times the amount of your ticket if you are involuntarily bumped. >> you get more money now? >> you get m

. >> you are part of our creative troika, including the founder, brenda wey and k.t. nelson.k about what it is like to keep this campus going. >> it is a wonderful thing to be working with someone who is certainly your co-worker and also largely your mentor. i inherited the theater at a funny time in its life. it needed to make some decisions as an institution about what it wanted to be. whether it wanted to be exclusively a rental facility, it is needed to be a rehearsal space with a really high ceilings -- whatever it was, having that level of leadership that my founding director is also my boss really made that possible. i really felt like i had great stewardship and we were able to make really innovative decisions for how the theater could grow over the decade. >> living with -- living with someone who is both your immediate boss and also a working artist is also a huge asset. that is one of the things that keeps the creativity flowing through odc. it is a campus about the creative process at all times. >> the theater was part of a second phase of capital fund raising and

a new kind of let her tell her to sit don't need to go publicly and brenda said the colonel was her job as a retreat. it's extremely clear that there is very little difference between the people who are ruining us no possible for my egyptian need to head to court activists say they see replaced him in power of committing the same crying but on the guise of revolution. fears that israel's policy of new assault to wipe out hezbollah in lebanon five years after the all steadily exchange with the hope of quelling social protest ahead. peaceful game become for the ugliness the breeding ground. for anxious that could ruin the. next season a copy. of the russian law gives a heading for for a session of the mind starts opening up one with almost two percent of the experts tell business tsotsi the worst may still be a forgotten misprint.

push her alone till you can a let's go toe to toe she wished to see don't need to go and proclaim brenda since the colonel was her job as a retreat. the . last time the close of team was in the cool gum region where men flock from all over the world to out a few centimeters to their self-confidence. this time archie goes to the amore reaches. for the gold rush still gets people hiked up. her an ancient tried fights to save its culture the cranes are protected in the first dome on official nature reserve. to the original. bush a close up on the r.t. . drop stock and barrel of the share slide continue says europe's markets open down following similar grim trading on wall street it's hurt by a gloomy less than comic outlook on things that hold yourself down as. president medvedev says he's. urging the syrian leader to talk to the opposition and start reforms or else expect the sad future that says protesters reject the offer of changes from president assad whose round of attacks on their stronghold. if you don't like the rules of the place you live for and somewhere where you do appreciate

get some figures now light sweet is currently trading at almost ninety seven dollars a barrel well brenda's just a notch below one hundred and eighteen dollars for the whole precious metal prices are in the red as investors turn to risk your assets on the positive news over the u.s. debt ceiling gold is losing wrong point eight percent. is down over a percent. now world markets show their relief after mom announced u.s. debt limit deal asian markets jumped the japanese nikkei setting almost one point three percent exporters among the main game is there with car make a honda gaining almost two percent and banking stocks on among the best performers in hong kong has been see holdings climbed one point eight percent after announcing a deal to sell almost two hundred of its u.s. retail branches to one billion dollars. the russian markets have started the trading week in positive territory the blind a half percent in the first minutes of trading the growth is mainly supported by energy and financial stocks gazprom is up almost two percent was bad bank is over two percent in the black as well the

playing sarah now let's take a look at those latest figures the arts yes has over brenda and it's now gone into the red so lightly it's gold we're seeing gold and silver and would like to see the russian markets both let's look at the gold the goal with as often as precious metals are doing quite well since investors are looking for safe haven gold is up almost one percent but silver is down one and a half percent. let's take a look at the european markets if we can see them. we seem to be having some technical difficulties here. let's take a look at asian stocks that have hit a little bit of a comeback after deep losses following a massive sell off on the wall street but they are still in the red among the worst performers are banks and the export bank of china is down over six percent and sony is losing over four percent. so it's a different picture of where the oil prices are down to the lowest level it's a different picture compared suit gold because investors are moving away from riskier assets and go into safe haven the moose in that oil prices have said more than fifteen percen

well if you needed to affect this particularly with brenda because it is more sensitive to what's happening in the region board before it to calm down but you have to realize that the thing seemed libya have not actually been resolved. khadafi the forces good steel play for counter-offensive so things have not been resolved but if things do get settled then we will see prior the price of grain coming down but we must not forget though that the price of oil is also something that investors and other people used to say hey chicken steamed fallacious in the us we've seen the price come down with new shoe of libya but then grinds the dollar so it's going to have a mix effect that will think brant if the situation in libya falls apart doesn't fall apart will probably trade down to one hundred. let's look at the figures now crude of futures turn lower attracting those losses grand crude on the heels of an apparent regime change in libya bring down one dollar fifty four cents to trade at one hundred seven dollars a barrel. hollering eighty two dollars a barrel. rather quick court process metals go

global economic recovery are weighing on the price however the weaker dollar is given some support brenda blethyn is trading at just under one hundred and nine dollars per barrel while the w.i. has it around eighty five dollars per barrel stock markets across europe see shop falls as concerns about the state of the global economy continue to weigh on investors' minds senate firms are down up to switzerland's holton reported disappointing results it's five percent lower this hour mining stocks are down with and america losing three percent b.h.p. billiton declining three percent after approving investment to spawn a coal mine in colombia on trading on the lies x. has been told for more than an hour a few technical problems deals came to a stop just after four o'clock moscow time and resumed about sixty minutes later. suffered a similar problem and a total last year maybe the break was was what's needed as investors have been profit taking to wednesday's positive session of the lower oil prices are on giving the market much support either and here is a snapshot of the markets movers on them

brenda's at one hundred twelve dollars a barrel a quick look at precious metals gold remains strong prices dropped more than two percent in the previous session it's currently trading at one thousand seven hundred ninety three dollars per ounce while silver is news in the sense i would have sent actually trading at forty dollars per se. european markets are gains in late morning trading that sort of waco data showing up for women economic sentiment indicator for the eurozone the vote see isn't out there for my europe lifted by you take things slow bank of scotland is that in seven percent after an upgrade to buy from hold i don't your bank board. please is getting five percent germany's dax is up over half a percent supported by a two point two percent rise the colors. here lost the gulf iatse as an eis it slid into the red for the first day of three or mining stocks and try to seize a quick look at some individual shambles the wise excuss prong is trading low after the boston strong fourth quarter results appliance retail m.b.o. is also the red despite saying forty eight percent net profi

tallest west coast coromandel you can go with her till the closeness of her to sedona to go clear brenda said the colonel was her child as a retreat. from source in a week on r t financial crowd on strict a last minute deal with that crisis card to save the u.s. from a shock credit downgrade. which rounded up wall street's worst week in over two years and with the debt problems in europe also a crisis point the markets are braced for monday mayhem. also in the headlines egypt's top president goes on trial on charges of mass murder and corruption but people feel the revolution regime that replaced it is difficult better. and it may bring israel hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets in an unprecedented nationwide rally demanding the government make living costs lower all go. hello this is r t watching the weekly a roundup of the top news stories from the past seven days with me kevin owen it's now nine pm here in moscow and first on friday the financial world was shaken after the u.s. was stripped of its top tier triple a credit rating by standard and poor's agency for the fi

that's something to consider. >> shannon: brenda, thank you. >> thank you. angeles police looking for a gang of thieves who staged a -- bold heist in north hollywood. victim's car rear-ended another vehicle pull in front of him to him from leaving. six masked men surrounded the car smashed the passenger's side window and stole a backpack containing two million dollars worth of diamonds. authorities believe the guy was targeted. not clear why he had the diamonds, local media reports he's a jewelry salesman. >> michelle bachmann says she will skip the florida straw poll. is that smart? we talk to her campaign spokesman, next. dr. scholl's custom fit orthotic center recommends the custom-fit orthotic that's best for your tired feet. foot-care scientists are behind it. you'll get all-day relief. for your tired achy feet. for locations, see drscholls.com. thank you... try this. bayer aspirin? it's not a heart attack. new bayer advanced aspirin's for pain. it has microparticles and enters the bloodstream faster. works twice as fast as before. did you invent this o

bay area favorites, chris mullen and brenda vandevere, inducted into the basketball hall of fame in springfieldss last night. vandevere one of the top women's coaches in history. she went 25 years at the helm at stanford and mullen had a 16 year nba career most with the warriors. he overcame alcoholism to become a hall of famer. >> i truly want to thank the golden state organization and the fans for supporting me during a very difficult time in my life. i am forever grateful to the bay area and today i call it home. >> i coach incredibly talented and hardworking players. the players are who inspire and motivate me every day. >> mike shumann will be here are the rest of the highlights at five, six and eleven. have a great weekend, everybody. i'm larry beil. >> yesterday long time legendary trainer jerry hollendorpher was inducted into the national thoroughbred racing hall of fame. he has just end 6,000 victories, the most winningest trainer ever all-time. >>> and up necks the high-speed computer trading wherefore tunes can be made or lost in a matter of microseconds. also a random act of kindnes

. >> reporter: inside brenda duncan's house, 102 degrees. just about as hot as the record-setting 107 degrees outside. she hasn't had air-conditioning since last summer. >> i can't afford it. >> reporter: the health department gave brenda and about 400 others free units. when is the heat ever going to end? >> well, the problem is there's no end in sight right now. >> reporter: already nine heat-related deaths in dallas alone. such a scorching heat, even railroad track temperatures exceeded 140 degrees. concerns the tracks would warp and derail a train. and people who live here are not catching a break. temperatures are still hovering in the 80s. robin. >> we were told it's 86 degrees where you are right now. josh elliott is here with more developing stories. >> good morning. we'll begin with a deadly salmonella outbreak and concerns in more than two dozen states that the outbreak could be spreading and spreading quickly. abc and "gma weekend's" dan harris is tracking it for us. dan? >> hey, josh, good morning. federal officials believe that

brenda vargas is to my right, to your left. she is working with vespa she is finishing up her master's degree -- she is working with us as she is finishing up her master's degree. you see a lot more about these days. my district director is outside. she will be walking in. we still have a lot of folks outside. deal greenberg is outside. she is my field and constituent outreach supervisor. greg -- to my right, a deputy press secretary and also in charge of my website. michael nelson is my case work supervisor and by a scheduler. michael is very important if you have a particular issue we need to address. amy lopez is one of might and turns. she is a student at the university of pennsylvania. she is here with us and you have to really applaud for amy because she is working for free. [applause] daniel ortiz is our translator. let me introduce to use some of the folks over here from los angeles to police department. lapd has always been gracious to attend these forums that i do. if you have a question that relates to public safety,

. >> i hope that's right, brenda. thank you very much.ute going to be tomorrow morning? travel expert jennifer sanchez joins us from allentown. what's it going to be a year subways may get started sometime late in the afternoon here in new york on monday. what about boston and other communities baltimore, what's going on? >> ill don't think we have to worry too much bo the road and subway as much as the airline traveler have to worry about in their flight is going to be operating tomorrow, tuesday and even wednesday. there is this ripple effect with 11,000 flights canceled. there are not enough seetsz to go around to get the passengers stranded back on flights. people that were set to travel they are going to get bumped. the bumping rule was actually changed last week which is quite prophetic. used to be you get your ticket maybe twice the amount. last week the airlines went in prior to these hurricanes you can get four times the amount of your ticket if you are involuntarily bumped. >> you get more money now? >> you get more money but th

brenda conwell dudley and master jack dudley. >> okay. thank you very much.nk you for the introduction, congressman hinojosa, thank you for the introduction. i guess as the congressman mentioned, i'm a professor at the university of texas pan-american and growing myself in a field that is underrepresented, you know, by females. i was the fifth woman to get a degree in 25 years that my university had existed at the time in the mechanical engineering, and when i went to rice, i also realized that i was only the fifth woman to get a doctoral degree, you know, in mechanical engineering. so i knew how engineering wasn't, you know, something that kids would look after. so i started doing a lot of community service to try to encourage, you know, engineering with kids. so i was, um, very happy when, um, jessica vera, one of the former teachers, asked me to participate in explorer vision. and explorer vision is just very well prepared, you know, the guidelines and everything, you know, it's just an absolute, you know, program. just an amazing program. and the kids go

what can we expect, brenda butner is live with more. hi, nice to see you. >> hey, how are you? >> heather: we're talking about it's been a rollercoaster ride. where is it next? >> the story next week is the market because there aren't that many economic numbers coming out. the big thing that happened is big ben speaks. ben bernanke is going to speak out of wyoming on friday what more can he say? we heard that to keep interest rates near zero and that is just about right where they are. fed doesn't have more bullets to try to get this economy into a recovery. we also get a second reading second quarter gdp but that is expected to be anemic at best and not likely to get the bulls excited. the real question is the markets. wouldn't it be great not to have such volatility. that is really what i think has people surprised. that is 401 down, 400 the next, anything moves it. to think a little less volatility would really make a difference. but people that look at charts the way the markets trades are looking at s&p. if it goes down to three or four points and breaks through a key resi

brenda killbury knows the story behind them. >> pretty frightening. >> reporter: she and two children police say a fight outside escalated to gunfire. >> all of a sudden i heard three or four shots go off. >> reporter: another round of shots followed. that's when she heard the group outside trtrng to calm down someone caught in the crossfire. >> they were asking a woman if she was okay. >> reporter: police say the woman escaped injury because her cell phone stopped one of the bullets. others hit buildings in the complex, barely missing people. the brush with violence totomuch for killbury. >> it's geing to where i'm not sure what's going to happen next. >> reporter: at last check police had few details on a suspect in the case. several witnesses only reported seeing the shots being fired from a sedan of some kind. >> very lucky woman. >> absolutely. >> we all want to know what kind of cell phone it was. that's the thing. >> i don't think it was the iphone. somehow i think a bullet would go through that. i think a bullet would go through that thing like butter. >> must have been thick

brenda 2001 en el twitter me dijo que sÍ estamos las mujeres que nos levantamos temprano en las vegasania para que nos diga de quÉ se trata. >> oye, saludos, birmania. [risas] >> ¡muy buenos dÍas! la verdad que estoy bien contenta porque tengo una visita de lujo aquÍ en nueva york, sammy estÁ con nosotros. bienvenido! >> gracias, estoy feliz de estar en los newyores como dices tÚ. >> quiero hacer una cosa bien linda. hay una sra. con la que me encontrÉ, yo estaba de compras y me dijo que le hacÍa falta que a su mami la ÑoÑaran, que necesitaba una transformaciÓn bien grande y quiero que ella se sienta como una reina. >> la verdad es que hay una historia bien emotiva detrÁs de todo eso y tÚ que sabes hacer magia con las mujeres vamos a hacerle el sammyzazo. vamos tranquilos a llegar a la casa de mercedes. ya volvemos. ♪ ♪ >> ay, ay, ay. quiero ver esa transformaciÓn. y miren, la diva de la banda, jenni rivera quiere establecer un rÉcord en la mÚsica de nuestra historia. >> y las 24 horas al dÍa, hay que estar alertas con los hijos, la tecnologÍa supereconÓmica. aquÍ le decimos de quÉ se

fox senior business correspondent brenda buttner. we hear that ennuis decreal the stocks are down 5% could that happen here tomorrow morning when wall street opens? >> that is significant. because this is first real tell we've had since s&p 500 downgraded our debt in an historic fall for the united states. but israel is important because there are many tech stocks that americans are very interested in. but a couple of things, first of all it was s&p 500 only that downgraded the -- our debt. and it looks like people are actually may be rushing to safety which is just the opposite of what you might think. so it's hard to say. anybody who says that they know what's going to happen tomorrow doesn't know, period. because we've got people rushing to treasuries. which brings interest rates down, traditional low we think that interest rates would go up after this. because when your credit rating goes down, you pay more for money. so, it's really hard to know at this juncture exactly what is going to happen. some stocks are cheaper, some peop

buford, ga., brenda is a democrat. caller: i do not believe that this subcommittee will agree to anything because congress is just broken. it is very discouraging to see representatives in congress who do not want to meet each other halfway and compromise. we as americans deserve so much more than what we are receiving from congress right now. i just want to say that -- people, wake up. we cannot elect republicans. we are going down as a country. all of us are suffering. thank you. host: any comments for her? guest: i believe that we need more. it is amazing how you walk through how this would work, reflecting that congressional committees are used to providing advice to a group of 12 members of congress. is unfortunate that we have ended up in this place -- it is unfortunate that we have ended up in this place. >> we have not made any decisions, but i am sure we will continue to have conversations about our appointments to the committee. host: you are on the air, michelle. caller: as long as the super committee is wor

host: brenda writes on facebook. "there would have been calls for impeachment and marches in the streets if they did not have a response. they did a good job." "damnedi f you do, damned if you don't. underpreparation never does anyone any good ." haymarket, virginia. steve, independent line. caller: it was much worse in isabel, but the disaster is in february when the cold front generators are shut down because of obama's repeal the laws of physics, reference in his comic book classes he took a harvard. host: republican, miami, good morning. caller: good morning. i want to comment, all my family is from new york and new jersey. yes, the storm -- my heart goes out to a lot of people that have had a lot of flooding and have to deal with a lot of disaster. i come from florida and we have to deal with this kind of thing during the hurricane season and you have to be normally prepared. this was a shock for a lot of people who not experienced anything like this. when i spoke to families in new york, i was so grateful it wa

brenda conwell dudley and master jack dudley. >> okay. thank you very much. thank you for the introduction. thank you for the introduction. i guess as congressman hinojosa mention i'm a professor activity of texas pan american, and growing list of info that is underrepresented, you know, by females. i was the fifth woman to get a degree in 25 years since the universe had existed at the time. in mechanical engineering. and when i went to rice i also realized i was on the fifth woman to a doctoral degree, you know, in mechanical engineering. so i knew how engineering wasn't something that kids would look after. so i started doing a lot of committee service to try to encourage, you know, engineering with kids. so i was very happy when jessica, one of the former teachers asked me to participate in the exploravision. and exploravision is just very well prepared. the guidelines everything is just an absolute program. it's an amazing program. and the kids go from coming here, they learned teamwork, history, ethical issues. it's amazing how when i sit with him and i

. -- brenda is in the mid range. sorry, that is a bill in maryland.aller: i am a baby boomer. 78 million of us and we're looking at retirement. i could retire renown but i am not because i am trying to wait for full retirement age 66. if the government and the legislature gave us an incentive, if they could fix our mortgages, the senate could drop medicare from 65 to 62, and i could retire. we're making -- you could hire three or four people and our positions. the baby boomers could save this country, the jobs waiting for people to take, if we had an incentive to leave the workforce. host: cornell west and have a smiley are on a party to. they will be our guest on the washington journal to talk about this party tour. here is the "new york times." budget cuts and smartphones for the teenage messengers. they will disappear from the house side of the capital. budget cuts and improvements in technologies have rendered their document and message-taking duties obsolete. according to a press release put out by the two leaders yesterday, the outside review ca

. >> reporter: while his wife brenda was trying to digest the news, nino was embracing it. >> i told it was going to be fun and she tried to tell me it's not a birthday party but think it's going to be interesting. >> reporter: father and son are recovering nicely. when the school year starts, he expects to have stories for his players who mostly had no idea. >> we talk all the time about how this program, we talk about giving back. and then you see our leader, our coach, really give back. >> my mom actually said, i don't know if thanks covers it all and i said oh, it sure does. i'm not sure that this gift covers everything that my parents have given me, too. so i think we are pretty even. >> good stuff. coach g never missed a practice, by the way. made all the graduations, doctors appointments, incredible. >> good things. you do things for people you don't do for others. >> it paid off for everybody. >> absolutely. >> awesome. >> i'm off to bourbon street, ken. see you from new orleans. >> go easy on it at the dome. >> prudhomme! i was going to low key. i was going to cafe du monde!