. >> no one knows what these kids face better than brian bob, part parent and all friend. he heads the street outreach program of hollywood's covenant house where he's worked for 11 years. seven nights a week you can find him and his team out here among the tourist trolleys and the limos, cruising the boulevard in his red van. >> we represent a moment of sanity for a lot of them in an otherwise chaotic life. you know, let alone a chaotic day. it's good to see you like this. usually when i see you, you're kind of depressed. brother. brought some smiles in your life. >> on a typical evening he runs into 40 to 60 kids. many of them are new faces. >> hey, what's your name? >> columbia. >> you know -- you win with that name. that is a good name. where are you from, columbia? >> kansas. >> kansas. would you like a sandwich or something to drink? >> yeah. >> how long you have been in los angeles? >> about four months. >> you know what, this guy jose has sodas and sandwiches. grab one from him and he will give you a card and let you know what we do. >> all of a sudden we run acros

brian. >> bob barnard tonight. >>> into the newsroom, the former d.c. councilman harry thomas submitted $20,000 as part of the settlement and owes a total of $300,000 did not make the last full payment in december. he resigned after he was accused of embezzling funs. >>> demoted for allowing beer in the fire station on u street. the richard stearn told us that that is not the whole story. a thankful citizens brought the beer and the firefighters had no choice but to take it. >> the sergeant told them he appreciated the consideration and they could not accept a gift, especially the beer, and long story short, the guy said i carried it down here, i'm not taking it home and sat on the firehouse floor and walked out. >> all of the firefighters passed the so brighty test after the fire chief found the beer. the demotion will cost him about $12,000 a year and he is planning an appeal. >>> to a news alert now where police confiscated bags of banned goods from the back of a barbershop. among the hall, stole -- haul, stolen tide determent. >> reporter: that is n

i would like to ask, i'll start with bob, then brian. leroy, you can add to that. you have been going through it more recently. how has receiving the medal of honor affected your life? bob? >> well, at first i came home, took a few months to get healed up. about the time i was getting out of the hospital in colorado, then i received the medal. from that point on it just seemed to be part of my life, but didn't affect it any. i didn't participate in anything that medal of honor recipients would normally participate in. went about getting an education, getting married, and '51, then following that we had four great girls in our family. these things were more important to me than having the medal. but in 1956, six of us medal of honor recipients were invited to as a matter of fact we were told to go to france to dedicate cemeteries. there were a couple of air force people with us. and of course, when that hit the papers, then people were aware then that i had the medal, and i was asked to go here and go there, speak here, speak there. and of course, naturally began goi

brian. >> bob barnard tonight. >> a judge sentenced a d.c. man to 36 years in prison for killing a teenager who will not give the defendant's girlfriend a ride to work. the victim worked as an intern for brown. the defendant got into a fight with sutton in may of 2010 over refusing the car ride. sutton flagged down a passing police car for help and the next day, he found something, chased him into the woods and shot him five times near newcome street. >> a former bus driver plead guilty to negligent homicide. he admitted he ran a red light and struck a taxo 19th street in september of 2008. the accident killed 55-year-old bartlet taver, injured his wife, children, and the taxi driver. taylor was a on a parole in maryland for two drug felonies. the sentenceing is in july. >>> a snow globe of cash is how witnesses describe the scene near hyattstown. an armored town with bags of cash and coins along interstate 270 this morning and the truck lost $5,700 bucks, and got $100 back. can you so a trail of coins and that woman said the bill is driving

♪ >> you are watching abc 7 news at 11:00 with leon harris, starling, bob brian weather, and tim brant >> new at 11:00, rush limbaugh center of a new controversy. this time it is about some incendiary comments he made about georgetown's female students. say are that many offensive. on his radiorted show yesterday and spilled over until today. of you may be pretty the language that he uses here, just like many of the i spoke with at georgetown. i was so mad. >> outrage. i am offended by it. >> the students are hearing his latest grant taking aim at what n their campus. > >> it is absurd. >> it does not really make sense. comments followed an attack on georgetown law .tudent she testified that her birth thousandss costing not covered by the jesuits school. say about thet ed susan fluke who goes before a congressional committee and says that she must e sex.d to hav what does that make her? it makes her a slut, right? it makes her a prostitute. paid to havebe said -- to have sex. >> you are stunned and you are israged because this the kind of language that is used to silence women. was cal

bob. >> brian, if you were watching our news just about 8 or 9 minutes ago. montgomery county police chief announced that the murder suspect had taken his own life, was eventually found a short time ago on the floor of a house in this neighborhood just north of downtown rockville. show you his picture, he is phillip gilberti. a boxer who allegedly shot and killed his estranged wife this morning. he was apparently tracked down to a house in this neighborhood late this afternoon, early this evening, they tried to make contact. they were told by people he was in this house. but then they went in just a short time ago and confirmed that he had in fact killed himself. the video tape from earlier this morning, this was around 9:40 this morning at connecticut and knowles in the heart of kensington where witnesses say the couple, phil gilberti and his estranged wife, were in a van and they were on connecticut avenue heading southbound when witnesses say she tried to get out, jump out of the moving van. he pulled her back in, allegedly shot her in the head, pushed her

brian? >> hey, bob, thanks for having me again here.bm, i think it's going to continue to run. look what it's done over the last year. it's been a leader in the dow. the ceo was out earlier this week saying ibm would hit the 2015 numbers. if they do that, the stock needs to move higher here. what i've been doing for clients right now is looking for stock replacement. rather than own a stock, buy a call. with time premium so cheap historically for call premiums, i want to own something like the april 200 call on ibm. you can pay about $8. all you need for the stock around $2.06 is to move up two bucks from here. above there is all your upside profit potential. at the same time, on the down side, all i'm risking is $8. if we get a sell-off on biflt, we're risking $20 or more on the stock, all i have is the $8 time premium. this is a better risk/reward premium. this is my big blue trade. it's not just because the wolverines are going ahead in the ncaa tournament this weekend, but because ibm is a solid company. >> thanks very much, brian s

i'd like to thank our friends bob meeks, brian england, felicia williams, elizabeth mart martinsteen and car min morales for being with us. imagine and this is not hard to do being a parent who has a child with a preexisting medical condition like asthma or diabetes. driving medical bills through the roof and forcing you to choose between paying the mortgage and paying the next doctors' appointment. imagine being a college senior getting ready for graduation, looking forward to a successful career, but you cannot accept your dream job because they don't offer health insurance. imagine being a senior who re relies on medicare for health and economic security but faces rise each year for medicare or prescription drugs. a woman charged higher premiums, women are up to the tune of $1 billion higher premiums than men for the same coverage or a worker locked in a dead end job unable to pursue your professional passion for fear of losing your insurance. for too long these examples are not simply a matter of imagination. they are a matter of reality faced by millions of americans. but that a

bob. >> brian, he was jumped and beaten, kicked in the head. his jaw broken, his mouth now wired shut for six weeks. the victim telling us tonight he thinks he was attacked two blocks from home the night of march 12, simply because he's gay. >> i think i was just selected because of, you know, being in the wrong place at the wrong time and singled out and as i was being beat, you know, called a couple names. it's what led us to believe it was a hate crime. >> we agreed not to show their full faces or tell you their names. this 29-year-old property manager and his partner spoke to us about the attack two weeks ago here along georgia avenue near columbia heights. the victim kicked and beaten for no other reason, he believes, than his sexuality. >> that's what i got. >> a lot of anger inside of me because of it. i hope that we can catch whoever did this. >> the victim says the attackers wrapped the strap to his shoulder bag around his neck before dragging him into an ally. >> were you threatened for your life? >> for sure. if not the first time, t

[applause] >> thank you very much bob meeks, brian england, felecia willems, elizabeth barton's dine and i have the privilege of introducing carmen morales. >> this is pretty exciting for me because the issue of health still affects women is something quite remarkable because up until the passage of this bill, being a woman was considered having a preexisting medical condition, no more. in recent weeks as we all know the issue of women's health has taken center stage and the affordable care act has put women at the center, ensuring that women are in charge of their own health decisions and providing access to lifesaving preventive care. consider just a few benefits for women in the affordable care act. it bans insurance companies from dropping women when they get sick or when they become pregnant. it dance insurance companies from obtaining a preauthorization or referral for access to ob/gyn care. beginning this summer, beginning this summer it ensures free comprehensive women's preventive care services including contraception in the plans. [applause] it bans the common practice of g

bob, brian was saying a moment ago we're going hard on housing today. i understand some of the building related stocks are also hot today. >> good day to focus on housing. we had existing home sales moderately positive, i'd say continuing a trend here. look at the building material stocks. a new high here usg. they were able to raise prices, wallboard, 35% and nobody ran away. sales have still been pretty good. margins have improved dramatical dramatically. the home buying season in the spring is looking good, not spectacular. all these building material stocks are up. we also have the home builders moving to the upside. again, anecdotal reports about the spring buying season have been pretty good. overall home builders have been on a tear for a while now over six months on hopes we finally get a decent spring home buying season. and, mandy, i think it's starting to happen. the question is, are these stocks overpriced at this point now that they've already assumed we're getting a good spring buying season? >> that's an absolutely fabulous question we're

. >> bob: he is. brian mcnamejoe namat came out d attacked the decision. sell tickets. will he take hits due to his faith? yes, he will. gay and lesbian community will be in the forefront of that. i understand it that on one hand but not sure it's a good fit as an athlete. >> greg: has he come out against gays or lesbians? did i miss that? >> kimberly: no. listen this is about whether it's the right choice for the jets, the organization, what they have, they have mark sanchez, a great competitor. you have is a controversial coach. rex ryan. you know, does tebow have the arm ultimately to be a hall of fame quarterback? >> eric: does he have the -- >> kimberly: will he sell tickets? the media, already, we went through this. sure. >> eric: 50-yard line and giant stadium. >> kimberly: j-e-t-s. jets, jets, jets. >> bob: i think this is unfair. >> eric: i don't think so. i think they will give him at least the same that the denver audience did. >> dana: i find people are tolerant of everything. i think he is principled and he would just be himself. if he gets to

brian. >> much more on this study on bob's blog tonight on our website, nbcnightlynews.com. >>> as part of the political trail mix on top of revelations about swiss bank accounts and his wife having, quote, a couple cadillacs, comes this, plans for mitt romney's home near san diego include a four-car garage and a car elevator for each of the cars. the plans were put off presumably because it looks bad and sounds bad, but they have since been revealed, and now his opponents and democrats will no doubt have at it. the romney campaign has said that a car elevator was simply a mechanism for storing cars in tight places. >>> when we come back here, what can happen when a lot of people make it their mission to help this nation's fighting men and women. >>> aboard the aircraft carrier museum, uss intrepid today, in new york city, an effort to help some of the nation's veterans find civilian jobs back home. it's parts of "hiring our heroes," a joint project by nbc universal and the u.s. chamber of commerce. more than 4,400 vets and their spouses attended job fairs today in new york, chicago, ft. h

bob. >> reporter: we found a few, brian. and it's a thin ballot. and with the two presidential candidates who lehere in -- who live here. not even in the race. we stopped by the great falls library in fairfax county this morning where, as of 930time, only 43 had cast ballots. the voter said he found that surprising. >> and this is an important primary election and a beautiful day. >> reporter: outside, a lonely republican party volunteer, robert taylor. >> and talking about the presidential race and there is no county offices in the state of virginia. >> reporter: there is one contest on the ballot, the republican presidential and only two of the four candidates, mitt romney and ron paul. >> and there is one person on the ballot who can change the country. >> reporter: in arlington county, 70 of the more than 2600 active voters at this polling place on wilson boulevard had cast a ballot. >> and in general, i think ron paul's message of liberty, you know s on fiscal issues and conservative issues and that is what is gets motion out here and voting.

bob, as brian said a moment ago, it's less than an hour to go until the big fat greek deadline. let's hope it has a happy ending. if it doesn't, what's going to happen to the market? >> i think a hard default where the psi literally just falls apart, that is not priced into the market. the psi is with or without the collective action clauses getting triggered. so, look, remember the whole theme here basically is we get through the greek psi, the deal gets done and tomorrow you get 200,000 plus on non-farm payrolls, u.s. economy is in tact or at least improving. that's why you get one down day on tuesday and two big updays in the last couple days. s&p right near old highs. i think 1374 was the old high. that was on march 1st. we're ten points from that. >> indeed it's been a nice two-day rally. let's see how much longer it can last. thanks for that, bob pisani. >> tomorrow is payroll day. the expectations are up as is our economy. but can this hopium hold out? rbc just releasing its latest read on the health of the american consumer. and the man behind the survey with us now onse

bob. >> hello, brian. on the surface, folks, things look pretty good. three to one advancing to declining stocks. you like to see that. volume is fair. number of stocks hit new highs nicely expanding. in fact, we're doing fairly well. and a nice little eclectic group of stocks at new highs. i love when you get a financial at a new high, a tech at a new high, pharmaceutical at a new high, consumers and discretionary at new highs. nice diversification of new highs. here's what worries me, guys. i don't like it when i see things like problems in the housing market. for the last week now the data's been a little bit weaker than anticipated. so what's up with pending home sales today? below expectations. then we have new home sales below expectations, existing home sales, housing stocks, all this from last week we bow expectations. the housing stocks have been rolling over. it wasn't just what we had with kb home on friday, which surprised everyone with numbers way off expectations. put up kb home. you see what's been going on here. ever since they've seen t

brian. >> much more on this study on bob's blog tonight on our website, nbcnightlynews.com. >>> as part ofpolitical trail mix on top of revelations about swiss bank accounts and his wife having, kwoement, a couple cadillacs, comes this, plans for mitt romney's home near san diego include a four-car garage and a car elevator for each of the cars. the plans were put off presumably because it looks bad and sounds bad, but they have since been revealed, and now his opponents and democrats will no doubt have at it. the romney campaign has said that a car elevator was simply a mechanism for storing cars in tight places. >>> when we come back here, what can happen when a lot of people make it their mission to help this nation's fighting men and women. make it their natimission to he this nation's fighting men and women. to do about medicare and social security... security. that's what matters to me... me? i've been paying in all these years... years washington's been talking at us, but they never really listen... listen...it's not just some line item on a budget; it's what i'll have to live on...

at the same time, senator bob smith from new hampshire with young brian darling working for him introduced legislation to arm america's airline pilots. that all resulted in the transportation security act of 2001 signed into law november 19th, 2001, and that's the act that created the transportation security administration. here's what it said. the pilot of a passenger aircraft operated by an air carrier in air transportation or interstate transportation is authorized to carry a firearm into the cockpit if the undersecretary meaning the tsa approves, if the airline approves, if the firearm is approved by the tsa, and if the pilot receives proper training for use of that firearm. well, we went to work. and several meetings with the tsa and several letters to secretary of transportation norm mineta fell on deaf ears. they didn't want to have a thing to do with us. in fact, administrator john mcgow said i will not allow pilots to be armed. that will required a ten-month extensive lobbying effort with congressional members and staff and although some in the alpa leadership leaned towards a lim

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bob: wait a minute, eric. >> eric: where is the phone call to border agent brian terry's family who was shot possibly becausesome failing policy -- >> bob: that is worse. this guy spends time like george bush did, people who lost soldiers in battle with the families. >> kimberly: he doesn't do it quietly. >> eric: coming up, dick morris says there is no way obama will win re-election. what if he does? what would a second term look like? my guess it would be ugly. coyote ugly. that's next. also don't forget to e-mail us at thefive@foxnews.com. ♪ ♪ we're america's natural gas and here's what we did today: supported nearly 3 million steady jobs across our country... ... scientists, technicians, engineers, machinists... ... adding nearly 400 billion dollars to our economy... we're at work providing power to almost a quarter of our homes and businesses... ... and giving us cleaner rides to work and school... and tomorrow, we could do even more. cleaner, domestic, abundant and creating jobs now. we're america's natural gas. the smarter power, today. learn more at anga.us. not quite knowing what the next phase was

. >> brian here on the floor with bob pisani. >> thank you very much. more about bhp comments and whether or not they are being overinterpreted, if you will. first, bob, i know you and i were just chatting. you are saying we've got to watch mario -- the ben bernanke of europe, mario monote. >> reform of europe is resting on mario monti's shoulders. we all should be hoping he succeeds. nobody paying a lot of attention to what's going on monti is in critical discussions with labor union leaders today over reforming italian labor law. those who don't know it, it's almost impossible to fire anybody in italy. they've got this article 18 of the labor law that says you can't fire anybody without just cause. sounds reasonable. turns out just cause does not include economic reasons. it's even difficult to fire people for disciplinary reasons. monti wants to try to change this. this is really critical. they tried doing this ten years ago. ten years ago. then prime minister berlusconi was around. it caused such a -- an italian -- was assassinated in his home. it c

. >> on that note, brian is with bob pisani. >> we have exact target, indianapolis based company are 19 was the price, indicates 22 to 24. bob, an exciting dual ipo. >> exact target, we call them cloud computing but they're really a marketing firm. cross channel interactive marketing. >> best buy, reward zone, you get the e-mails. >> let's be more specific. imagine if you could combine everything in your digital life into one database, all your e-mails, all your twitter accounts, all the stuff that you do that you buy online in a database, that's largely what these guys do. you'd know an awful lot about your life. my google calendar, you know about who we are and the whole game is about marketing and making sure what you do online is turned into marketing efforts here. the bottom line is they leverage their data to send personalized e-mails to the individual. the important thing is for example travel updates, you get travel updates from priceline, changing your itinerary, that's what they do, they're in charge of doing that. you get the customer service tweets from toyota or from aut

investigators, brian, will not say whether they expect to make anymore arrests in that case. >> bob barnard tonight. >>> another big story, a new twist in the controversy surrounding the deadly shooting of trayvon martin. police in sanford, florida, released some of the incident report from that night a month ago and now information puts a different slant on who was the aggressor. karen gray houston is live in the web center now. karen? >> reporter: the neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman told police that trayvon martin -- with a one- point punch and slammed his head against the sidewalk repeatedly and that is according to the police sources who talked to the orlando sentinel. we also have some new official information from police in this partial police report that was just released. under the alternate report is described as a negligent homicide and manslaughter. an unnecessary killing to prevent an unlawful act. but, again, no arrests were made or charges filed. according to the police report, trayvon martin, who was unarmed, was on the ground and several responding officers tri

>> hello everyone, i'm kimberly guilfoyle, along with bob beckel, eric, and dana perino and brian gut "the five." some big celebrities are starting to speak up for their good friend, president obama. starting with george clooney who thinks that democrats haven't done a good job talking about how successful this presidency has been. >> i would be selling all of the. you know, save the auto industry, and you got osama bin laden and you passed the health care bill that nobody could pass. i would be able to sell his presidency as a very successful one, but the democrats are bad at that. we like to pick each other apart. that's our thing. >> and another important advocate, there's a supermodel el mcpherson who showered some liberal love when she talked to howard stern. >> who should be be the next president of the united states. >> i think that obama is going to do that. >> yeah, living in london and i'm a socialist, what do you expect? >> interesting. cee lo green who dropped f-bombs at an obama fundraiser. ♪ and it's just like-- ♪ ♪ some change in my pocket, it wasn't enough, i'm like (b

bob. >> the important thing is china, brian. we're up on the markets, but look carefully. you see the more defensive consumer oriented names and the pharmaceutical stocks on the onside, the risk on trade is not so much up. financials down, energy down, consumer discretionary. all of these are affected by the china news. i'll show you what's going on in the a and p sectors. all the big oil names are trade dou ing down 2 to 3%. all of this on the news about china and the trade deficits being wider than anticipated. same situation with some of the other big names in this group. for example, some of the exploration and production names in the oil services names, cabot, murphy, eog. when china starts weakening, global economy concerns might slow down. while most think china is a soft landing, not a hard landing, you get intraday moves like this. one sector is still up today. the money is in the home building stocks. we're not getting big economic data around home building this week, but the numbers last week. there were preliminary numbers that indicated that the spring home bu

what you think of arizona or the immigration law, brian terry is killed, fast and furious. and then they investigate the nypd. >> bobmple of why eric holder is one of the greatest attorneys general of all time. >> greg: >> talk about distracted. do you think that is a list of priorities? >> bob: of c.i.a. torture -- >> andrea: how about investigating our own c.i.a. agents. >> bob: good idea if they break the law. >> kimberly: they did not. >> bob: yes, they did. >> kimberly: they wrote the memo and then they want to prosecute people doing their job for this country. >> bob: let me guess. that memo came out of that brilliantly phi beta kapa gonzalez who was george bush's attorney general, right? >> bob: you are making the point that every -- >> greg: you are saying the attorney general is flash point for the other side. left hated gonzalez. people on the right don't like this guy. it doesn't change anything until somebody on their side is upset. right? >> bob:th neese was a good attorney general. i thought he was good. >> kimberly: that was nice. >> to go. coming um, newt gingrich and mississippi and alabama were mus

brian bolter. >> and i'm shawn yancy. searching for this man, phillip gilberti. bob is live near the scene tonight with the very latest. bob, what do you though? >> reporter: we are at college ganders elementary school just north of downtown rockville where police have established a perimeter and a command center. they tell us they believe the murder suspect is in a home. they are not saying whether it's a house or apartment in this neighborhood. they have everything secured. the house surrounded. they are trying to establish communications with the suspect. they are hoping this thing ends without any more bloodshed. it began more than 12 hours ago. she was shot dead in the middle of connecticut avenue in kensington at 9:40 this morning. later identified at heather mcguire of rockville. police tuesday night, charging her estranged husband, 51-year- old former boxer, phil gilberti with first-degree mor. >> she was just laying there, you know, and the ladies from next door urgent care. they came out there and they did cpr and didn't look like she made it. >> reporter: this surveillance video from a gas station across the

bob. >>> let's take a look at moves and shakers. stock skyrocket, and brian shactman at the cnbc real-time exchange. >> first, i want to look at the s&p 500. we're at 1402. at one point we were below 1400. it's bounced off the lows. the bio max index is up 48, 49%. there was a report that the company rejected an offer from bristol-myers. the assumption could be a higher bid coming. a trade worth investment, lower oil and getting a boost from optimism that the euro zone and carbon max, southwest 1.5 and jetblue despite the disaster with the melt down. weakness in the natural gas and coal, chesapeake, southwestern on the flat gas side and peabody on the coal side. quickly, an update on two stories we've been following all day. looks like the scripps deal will go through. tyco is up 5.5%. it's merging its control business with pent air. brian, back to >> brian, thank you very much. >>> a lack luster five-year auction put a damper on the market. rick santelli has that. rick? >> it was interesting, bill. yesterday's note auction was fairly aggressive and durable g

brian, thank you very much. the dow back above 13,000. nasdaq above 3,000. bob pisani in the center of it all at the new york stock exchange. hey, bob. >> hello, old friend. melt-up, that's it. folks, listen, you can moan all you want about the low volume. i don't like it either. but the s&p is up five days in a row. take a look. we're essentially at new highs here on the dow. essentially at new highs on the s&p. but remember what's been going on. small caps have been lagging, mid caps have been lagging, the transports have been lagging. but today they're outperforming all of the big cap indexes. i like to see that happening. about time we see some of the small caps catching up and the transports. take a look at the major sectors moving today. we've had trouble in march with the old leadership groups. remember how strong financials, technology and industrials were in january? they're all lagging now. what's moving ahead in march? consumer names. pfizer, safeway, pepsi, colgate. these are the stocks holding up the big cap indexes. now what's been lagging? the big

brian and i will be debating the apple phenomenon shortly. mary thompson in for bob pisani at the nyse. rick santelli at his usual perch on cme because you are irreplaceable, but mary, not a bad rally. seems as if we have a very risk-on market today. >> that's certainly the case today, mandy, just as you said. couple things contributing to today's bounceback. first of all the adp jobs report in line with expectations, optimism enough greek debt holders will agree to a debt swap paving the way to a second bailout. and a report from "the wall street journal" outlining possible options for qe-3. all of that contributing to the gains we've seen today. sector leaders throughout the day have been financials. they've been stronger. industrials have also been stronger. consumer discretionary stocks as well as tech stocks although recently given up some of their stronger gains. leading industrials, ge, we've been talking about it all day, the company basically providing very optimistic outlook. growth in the emerging markets should be stronger for the company than in asia in

i would like to thank our friends bob mixa, brian eamon, kalisha williams, elizabeth arden steam, andmen corrales for being with us. imagine -- and this is not hard to do, being a parent of a child with a pre-existing medical condition, like asthma or diabetes, driving the medical bills through the roof and choosing between paying the mortgage or the next doctor's appointment now are imagine -- and now imagine a college career were you cannot accept your dream job because they do not offer health insurance. there are rising costs each year for preventive care and prescription drugs. women are charged higher premiums than men for the same coverage. or a worker lost in a dead-end job, unable to pursue your pet -- your professional passion for fear of losing your insurance. for too long, these are not just in someone's imagination, but reality millions of americans. that has all changed for the better with the passage of the affordable care act. we made history passing the bill. we made progress for the american people. imagine, republicans want to turn back the clock and take away this

brian: give us an example. michelle: sure. i talk about a clinton-gore administration official bob bratt, a long-time justice department veteran who ironically enough was appointed by janet reno to clean up the citizenship u.s.a. scandal under clinton-gore. and that has been well documented over the years. in 1996, before the november 1996 election, there was a huge push to naturalize new american citizens and many procedural safeguards were trampled over in the rush to do that. in fact, at least 6300 criminal aliens convicted of felonies were granted this precious birthright of american citizenship in that rush to essentially beef up the democrat voter rolls. well, after that scandal, after a huge internal investigation, the justice department and reno appointed this guy, bob bratt to clean up. but he was busy doing other things and one of those was traveling over to moscow as this high-level official and hooking up with a russian match maker who found him two nice young women. one of whom he engaged in a sexual relationship and then later tried to get visas to bring them over to this country. brian: how do you know this? mic

at the same time, senator bob smith from new hampshire with young brian darling working for him introduceo armed america's airline pilots. that all resulted in the transportation security act transportation security act 2001

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brian bolter. george zimmerman grew up in manassas dreams of becoming a police officer. that's long before he killed an unarmed teenager. bob went to his old neighborhood tonight. bob. >> reporter: this is a huge story in central florida that has gotten the attention of the federal government. but until now, no real connection to our area. tonight, we learn the hispanic man who shot and killed that unarmed african american teenager spent his first twenty years in northern virginia. george zimmerman grew up in this house on sweet briar street in manassas. living here with his parents, an older brother and younger sister and their mother's mother who was peruvian. >> perfect gentleman. very smart, very intelligent. very polite, healthy. he would be your ideal child. >> george and cay hall live across the street from the house the zimmermans moved into when george was a toddler. they moved to florida soon after he graduated high school. zimmerman was part of osbourne high school's class of 2001. >> he was just very gracious and a nice fella. >> the 28-year-old zimmerman was s suburban orlando neighborhood on sunday, february 2

bob mcdonald is here. out standing congressman, bobby cot is in the house. we have got your mayor, brian moore.to our out standing secretary of commerce, secretary bryceon who is trying to create jobs and investment and opportunities all across the country. it is great to be back in petersburg. last time i was here was during the campaign. i had my bus pull over so i could get a cheeseburger at long street's deli. you guys have eaten there. some of you may think that violates michelle's "let's move" program. but she gives me a pass when it comes to a good burger and fries. now, back then, in 2008, we were talking about how working americans were already having a tough go of it. folks, were working harder and longer, for less. it was getting tougher to afford health care, or to send your kids to college. the economy was already shedding jobs in less than a decade nearly 1 in 3 manufacturing jobs had vanished. then, the bottom fell out of the economy. and things got that much tougher. we were losing seven to 800,000 jobs a month. the economy was hemorrhaging, and three and a half years later, we

bob. >> thank you, maria. >> let's look at the movers and shakers on wall street at this hour. brian shactman at the cnbc exchange with the details. >> has his own secret service, nice feeling to have sometimes. we have florida. ed the s & p 500 but look at this at the real time exchange to see if there is trend or bias, basically only a touch more negative than positive, we couldn't be any more flat in the markets. stock store stories we are following at cnbc, start with harley davidson, up 2.75%, unintended beneficiary of a warmer went so says ubs, sales looking strong. equifax, an upgrade and hershey, talking about a defensive market, upgraded to buy at goldman sachs, hershey up, above $60 a share, down about 2% for the year. rockwell automation up, and credit suisse up 92, trading a shade under 93. pitney bowes, i did a story on these guys a month back because of their ridiculous 8 1/2% yield, the stock showing life today if you add yield with appreciation, pitney bowes up 2.75, 18.34 a share. property names all doing well, simon property, boston properties, apartment investment

bob, we haven't seen that kind of energy down there for a while. >> it reminds me, brian, why i love to be down here. the ceo is down here. jeremy, with his mom. i'm meeting his mom, all of his employees. they're 18 years old. they're all enthusiastic taking pictures of each other. the best thing for all of them is they made a bunch of money if they hang onto that stock. remember the stock priced at $15. it opens at $22.01 and quickly goes to $24. and there it's been the whole day essentially. hit 25 briefly. here's what's important, 7.1 million shares is the float. guess what they've traded so far? almost 15 million shares. that's right. they've traded twice the float. thing moves very fast. that's what you call velocity for a stock. here's the important thing though, $83 million in revenue. that's not a lot. and they've never made any money. now, we asked the ceo when the company would turn a profit. >> there's a lot of leverage in the model. and that's just starting to show. so the fourth quarter we were adjusting ebitda break even. that will be aparpt to the investors and media o