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or broad band deployment or adoptions, we do take them into account very seriously and do all we can. a lot of them do have unique circumstances and we do try to incorporate that into our policies. >> thank you for that. i think it's always important 30 keep aware of what they're thinking as a certain presidential candidate found out this weekend in puerto rico. >> indeed. >> thank you. >> mr. womack. >> i've got a couple of follow up questions. i'm not going to be near as understanding or forgiving for what my colleague brought to the intention of this panel here just a few minutes ago in regard to the number of employees that are now receiving in excess of $150,000 annually in earnings. he went through the full list. i'm just going to -- i'm going to take 2008 and 2009 and just set them side by side. because i can't imagine an explanation that can justify this. that in 2008 there were 46 and in 2009 there were 431. unless magically hundreds of those workersing $149,000 a year and then got a raise and took them over that threshold. what i'm specifically asking is not necessarily an explana

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i can a lot more stories and got willing, i will get the chance to do that. >> what do you think of your country? what do you make of what's happening to america? >> one of the biggest problems that we have right now is border security. i think that it seems that there certain administrations who are thinking they may like to have open borders and therefore a lot of what's going on in my opinion is underpublicized. well over 50,000 people have been killed in the border war in the past. more than afghanistan and iraq put together. he's a great sheriff and a great man and what's happening is not at all racial. not an immigration problem and it's a matter of national security. our borders need to be check and monitored. i think that -- >> what do you want to be president come november? >> to be honest i'm on the fence because even the people opposing obama are not necessarily brilliant in my opinion. right now in my opinion when you have them coming and recruiting children off the playground, they are recruiting people who no longer have the tattoos and criminal records, they are people tha

[grunting] (sir can-a-lot) hello, madame. sir can-a-lot. crusader of flavor. cheese more delicious by adding glorious spam! (ancr) break the monotony. visit spam.com. >>> at 8:00 on a tuesday morning, it's the 17th day of april, 2012. and you know what it makes it? >> tax day. >> tax day 2012. that's right. these people have filed their returns, they're shipshape. including lenny. and that's good news. i'm on the plaza along with savannah guthrie, who is in while ann is taking some vacation time this week. and mr. roker, as well. and if we could look through the penguins over here, we might actually see that in our studio right now is the one and only jennie garth. she is out with a brand-new reality show and it comes just weeks after, i guess, a pretty well publicized split or end to her 11-year marriage. jennie's going to be here to talk about the show and the split in just a couple of minutes. >> look forward to catching up with her. then coming up a rare interview with the suburban mom who wrote that racy novel, "fifty shades of grey." a lot of people are

[grunting] (sir can-a-lot) hello, madame. sir can-a-lot. crusader of flavor.ancr) break the monotony. visit spam.com. >>> 8:00 now on this tuesday morning, the 12th day of april, 2012. a live and happy crowd outside on our plaza this morning. it is now 46 degrees. we are so happy to see these happy faces this morning. i'm ann curry along with carl quintanilla. nice to have you both here. and i want to tell you, we're going to have a lucky moment this morning because we've got the 13-year-old heroes who stopped that school bus earlier this week. they came to the rescue when their school bus driver suffered a heart attack. and one of them actually grabbed the wheel. the other performed cpr. a dramatic story. we have an exclusive interview with these two young men. >> a remake of "the andy griffith show." >>> also today, a celebrity edition of "today's real estate." a look at homes of celebrities going on the market including harrison ford and calista flockhart's place in l.a. and rosie o'donnell's miami home, huge. >> interesting. >>> do you think you could actu

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. >> he creates excitement that nobody else in the game can. a lote want to see him make history. he lacks like he's back on track to maybe go and doing that. >> very interesting. >> this is going to be really interesting to see how it plays out because he loves the cours course. >> he knows it well. >> we'll see. >> that's this edition of 7 news at 9:00 here. for all of us here, thanks for watching. appreciate your time. see you again in an hour on channel 7. goodbye

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. >> that's why can a lot of people use swiss bank accounts. >> a lot of wealthy people do a lot of things. there's tax shelters, limited partnerships in the day men islands, swiss bank accounts. when you get to a certain amount of money, and you are well on your way to getting there with your books and your movies and everything else -- if i had known we were allowed to get huffington "post" and put five full screens up quoting the "post," would i have put one from grudge where durbin was talking about the torontos and saying either you have to pay and get our cafe standards up to where we're not burning this much gasoline or you're going to die. you're going to possibly be in a tornado if you don't get on board with the carbon footprint. this is also the same guy that said take your money out of any bank that has any problems, take a run on bank of america, take your money out, suggesting a run on the back. he's also the guy that gave us price fixing if credit card fees which i know you think is ridiculous. >> yes, we're together on that. kumbaya on the credit card is you. >> nothing tha