. >> they are just going to carry on spending, carry on farming, and carry on failing. -- carry on borrowing, and carry on failing. >> a security crackdown. militants are suspected of plotting attacks on key installations. and women and a talent show, attacking the radical muslim clerics. a powerful message could win her more than $1 million. hello, and welcome. the chancellor of the exchequer alex darling has said that labour has steered us out of recession but says that could be threatened by short-sided spending cuts. he said that he would urge finance ministers to go for a global tax on banking -- threaten by short-sighted spending cuts. they said the biggest risk was another several years of gordon brown. >> in normal times, alistair darling's box holds a budget, but this is something like a manifesto. a simple message to voters instead. do not trust the tories. back me to lead us out of the recession. >> we are at a crossroads. this budget will set out a route for the country for long-term prosperity. we have been reminded of the force for good that governments can be in protecting peo

>> when i hear curtis and carrie talk, i hear two things. one is the investment that people make and the return on that investment that curtis and carrie and others do and the other thing i hear is collaboration. i think more than ever, nonprofits are collaborang not only amongst themselves but with other, i mentioned the council of governments and other organizations. right investment, collaboration more than ever. i know we're going to -- together as a commune we'll move forward. >> we got to take a break but we will be back. stay with us. >>> welcome back. as we continue our discussion, eduardo, carrie, curtis you mention the importance of investing. how do we invest and how much do we need to invest and who are you going to talk to besides us? >> it's important, you know, people, it's all about jobs. job recovery. job growth. and so you've got to work with the people at all levels at every job. keep them going. keep them healthy in the the commune. that's our message to folks. that's what we're seeing in fairfax with people are respondin

a bus carrying four special needs students hit a car carrying an adult and 3 kids. everyone was taken to the hospital. no word on their conditions tonight. >> reaction now to a transition team report that finds waste in city government. mayor stephanie rawlings-blake who took office last month, asked the committee to meet with department heads, and then report back to her with any recommendations. keith daniels is live at city hall with word from the mayor tonight. keith? >>well, jeff the report gives many examples of waste, and mismanagement, including the housing department, and its management, of head start. and then there is the issue of trash and vacant homes. >> it was boarded up, figured nobody lived there. >> ramona ross lived on milton avenue. and as seen, on so many other city blocks. >> one, two, three. >> her neighborhood is plagued with empty homes. creating a disensen five investment said city officials and unsafe environment say the people that live next door to empty homes. >> they need to be removed. re they really. do because no one is going to buy

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even as the president was speaking carry out various tests. this as in my opinion and indication they felt the president was not going to be a strong defender of american values and american principles human-rights, democracy, free trade, free enterprise. those words of apology and those statements i think has emboldened those who find us as a weakened in any. >> host: in the book to make the argument it's important to keep america strong and as a leading presence in terms of world affairs and in specific in dealing with iran for example and their rising nuclear ambitions you say it's important to say right now to iran before anything happens if they were to take any action that america would devastate them. that there would be a response would be nuclear and devastating. >> guest: i think to some degree we've made that statement to the world but i think it's important that the world understands that if nations are going to seek nuclear status as iran is quite obviously doing. if they seek the status and obtain fissile material, if that fissil

it's just a normal crop and a normal carry over, i should say.t's going to be a big crop with a big demand. the ethanol is going to be big bigger. obviously, we're going to increase our feed demand, but overall, that should be in the market. >> what should a producer do in terms of market. i'll ask you about this in cattle in a minute. what should a producer do in terms of taking advantage of this market. >> and advantage it is, we're in a seasonal time frame. everybody thinks we're going to have trouble getting a plant like last year so it's a spring rally. >> trouble like we had planting last year, last year was a very big trouble. that trouble didn't amount to anything. >> we had a lot of acres that went into the mud and they always say your crops are a dud. didn't happen this last year. we've got an unprecedented amount of field work just to get them in the field this year as well as harvesting in. if we get the acres in, if those planters are rolling on time between may 1 and may 18, that's your normal planting window, this market could be t

mandat does a mandate, does putting an individual mandate on people increase the number of people who carry, say, health insurance, putting an individual mandate on requirements that everyone have health insurance, does that increase the number of people who have health insurance? right now in the country, with the robust employee-sponsored health insurance program, small businesses who provide insurance in the individual markets for their employees, the compliance rate or the insured rate is about 85%. you hear the figure of the number of people uninsured in this country and works out to be 15%. in the federal tax system, does everyone file and pay taxes who should? and the answer is no, they don't. and by the i.r.s.'s own estimates, by their own estimates, 15% of the population decide not to file or pay their income taxes. that is a pretty stiff mandate that the i.r.s. puts on it. most people don't know the penalty, but they don't want to find out firsthand because they know it to be severe. it's this severe penalty hanging over people's heads, there are some who will say, i'll take my ch

>> i don't know what it is carrying this work.hink the last few years some positive results are already there some of these results are scientifically hard to prove, it's improved. the children not only body but also mind and also intelligence, all these things. so it is wonderful. now, my only hope, my only prayer is to spread this work everywhere, and particularly i mentioned a meeting yesterday morning. i mentioned some of the country's daughter, female, girl. they don't see much use for. you see, sometimes there is sort of a practice of abenting the girl. >> larry: terrible. >> terrible, really terrible. >> larry: who does that? >> originally i heard through bbc that one chinese woman who carries some research in china proper, she had one interview with the bbc reporter, with her. she mentioned a terrible sort of story. then india also sometimes villagers and farmers consider the son is more useful, daughter is not. of course, india is now my home, and also i want to describe myself as a messenger of india, because i'm buddhis

even as the president was speaking carried out various tests. this is, in my opinion, an indication that they felt the president was not going to be a strong defender of american values and american principles, human rights, democracy, free trade, free enterprise, those words of apology and those statements i think have emboldened those who find us as a weakened enemy. : >> and as a result i think the people of iran, do you really want to have them in our country? we want to have the risk of being called into the circle suspects in the event of a nuclear world and the next couple of decades? people should realize becoming nuclear should have been enormous perrault and that is the material might to get out and we used in the united states may respond against that nation as it would against reused that nuclear device. >> host: you think the ayatollah would be fearful? >> i think the people of iran would grow in recognition that becoming a nuclear nation is not solely a matter of pride, but becoming a nuclear nation has associated with it an enormo

but on this day, lorraine melgosa carries a warrior to a more peaceful place with poignant words from>> my task is no burden for the honor is great, with courage and pride he died for his country. >> reporter: for five years the plain-spoken farmer from colorado has traveled thousands of miles over four states. this is her duty, she says, to soldiers she did not know. >> these brave men and women that voluntarily raise their hands and said i'm going to go protect this nation, then i need to raise my hand and help honor those that did that. >> reporter: this is the 39th flag-draped casket the carriage driver and her horse have taken to their final resting place. she expects nothing in return. charlene westbrook said it made burying her soldier husband kenneth a bit easier. >> for her to sacrifice her time, her money and for her to do this for our family, there were no words. >> through dignity and grace i'll carry him home. with each strike of my massive hooves his soul will soar in the heavens above. >> reporter: the poem ends, down the lane, slowly i'll go. as one said, with a horse,

how bad is the carry-on crunch? abc news took a trip from new york to atlanta to florida, to find t first-hand. and look at what we saw. packed planes and overhead bins, filled to the brim. but if done properly, loading all of the carry-ones can save time. something george clooney's character points out in the film "up in the air." >> you know how much time you lose by checking in? >> five. ten minutes. >> 35 minutes per flight. >> reporter: is the rule not enforced the way it should be? >> i think it would benefit the flight attendants and the passengers in the long run, if there's one, uniform size limit for the carry-on bag. the trouble is, a lot of travelers are going to find themselves with carry-on bags that are too big. and they're going to have to get small ones. >> reporter: airlines are charges for additional carry-ones. but there are some programs like southwest, who is giving $10, if you get on early, and make sure that your bag gets stored properly. we have to be worried about the flight attendants. the

the california-based bus company had been told not to carry passengers across state lines. they're now looking in to whether the driver was tired and driving recklessly. he's one of the injured. >>> about $10 trillion would be added to the country's debt if president oh what's 2011 budget is put in to effect. that is according to the congressional budget office. now, it estimates by 2020, debt held by the public would reach more than $20 trillion. it cites two big contributors to the jump in debt. now, one, is the president's proposal to extend the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for the majority of american. the oh is the proposal to protect middle and upper middle income families from having to pay the alternative minimum tax. >>> a car packed with explosives blew up and killed at least three people in iraq today. it is the latest in the string of attacks leading up to tomorrow's national elections. the blast went off near a shiite shrine in the holy city of najaf. 50 people were hurt. tomorrow's vote will decide who will govern iraq as u.s. troops pull out. across iraq, dozens of

the brother of our senior supervising producer, carrie stevenson, passed away saturday. proud of her big brother, sergeant craig w. stevenson. there you see him. he was just 44 years old. a decorated 19-year veteran of the lima, ohio, police department. he also proudly served as an officer in the united states army reserve. he served in desert shield and the desert storm campaigns. he is survived by his two children, 9-year-old connor and 7-year-old sydney. his parents, karen and buzz stevenson and sister, carrie. craig leaves behind an important

smooth sailing until then, the train carrying 69 people, then all the sudden the train crashes into the back of a fire truck. the fire department is looking into why a firefighter was parked on the tracks. >> >>> she may not be south carolina first lady anymore, but jenny was back at the governor's mansion, but had was the annual easter egg hunt. the easter tradition for the children's hospital patients. she says that even if she's not the first lady of south carolina she wants to fulfill the duties and have fun for everyone. >>> all right. it is 5:33. the honeycuts from knoxville tennessee are stone-cold red necks. when they decided to get married, there was only one place, the local bass proshop. >> you can get the water fall t decorations is just perfect. >> you notice that; right. camouflage tie. >> look again, she has a camouflage dress on or at least the top is. did you see that. >> that's beautiful, beautiful day. they spent the honeymoon on a pontoon boat. >> you may not know ida ruth green but she he be 99. she only had one regret in her life, she never graduated from high scho

that should carry a lot more weight, and we should recognize that in our findings. >> the administration has put forward a $5 billion supplemental for the relief fund on the hill, and it is pending right now, but the house just approved it yesterday. what is that funding needed for? why is the $5 billion necessary? >> in our disasters we have had going all the way back to -- some even earlier than katrina, you have various projects online. we do reimbursements. we do not necessarily always fun money up front. two big issues that came through is arbitration for filing for charity. another is an agreement we reached on the school district, which we consider a model way of approaching a large complex issues, that is going to be over $1 billion in itself, but taking all the school districts is doing one project for all the schools affected. as well, new disasters that are current, so we have an outstanding requirement for existing disasters, but what we expect to be paid out between now and the fiscal year will be additional work paid -- work being done for iowa floods as well as new impact

but in the last 10 years, 95% of the terrorism carried out against the united states has been carried out by radical is lamists, and they haven't been manufacturered or anything. they do it because they believe the u.s. deserves to be punished for a variety of reasons. host: do you worry about your safety? guest: that's an interesting question. i experience a major problem back around a decade ago, actually a little bit more than that when i was subject to an assassination plot. and now i live under false cover in the washington, d.c., area. and i sort of -- i watch my back. we frequently get tips from law enforcement that our names have been heard on wire tap by terrorists. so we're careful. but it hasn't detered us. host: next call for steve emerson, new york, noel, republican, hi. caller: how you zphoog i've been an airline pilot for years and years, and the one thing i do know is that el al, you never hear about them having a problem. of all the people that should have it, they don't. the reason? they profile like it's going out of style. boy, rock on with the profiling. i think i

>> there's sometimes a misunderstanding that they carry trade is an arbitrage opportunity.is not. if that is a long-term security, there's a considerable risk on the life of the security. as short-term interest rates go up because the economy strengthens, then long-term rates might go up as well. that would affect our off- financing of deficits, and another good reason to get deficits under control. but we will do what is necessary to attract demand for securities. i don't see any reason to think there will not be demand. >> let me ask a question of mr. volcker, too. with the introduction of mr. dodd's legislation in the senate, we now have regulatory reform bills in each chamber that institutionalizes rather than eliminates this "to big to fail" concept. the ultimate cost of "too big to fail" will be borne by our capital markets and the broader economy. the approach put forward in these bills essentially bifurcates our financial system, and those institutions that will be labeled systemically significant will likely see lower borrowing costs and greater access to capital c

. >> larry: we're now joined by carrie mcgonagle. her daughter, 14-year-old amber dubois went missing on the way to school february last year. amber's remains were found earlier this month in northern san diego county. police say that john gardner, the same man charged with killing chelsea king is a focus in amber's death investigation. also joining us robin saks, the former l.a. sex crimes prosecutor who has been working with carrie and is co-founder of "justice interrupted." carrie was on this show on march 3rd. at that time you were still holding out hope. just a few days later -- how did you get the news? that. >> called me and asked me to come in about 7:00 p.m. on a saturday night. >> did you know then what it was? >> i had a feeling, yeah. and marissa and i went down there and walked into a room full of strangers, and they told us they had found amber that friday. >> larry: even though it was year was it kind of -- what was the reaction? >> denial at first, you know. i really didn't say much. i just sat there and listened and

there should carry a lot more weight and we should recognize that in our findings.st: the administration has put ford of $5 billion supplemental on the hilt -- put forward a $5 billion supplemental on the hill. what is that funded need for -- funding needed for? guest: in our disasters, going back earlier than katrina, you have of various projects coming on line -- we do reimbursements. we do not put money up front always. two big issues came was arbitration findings for charity. and we also reached the recovery school district, which we considered a model way of approaching complex issues, and that would be over $1 billion itself instead of doing a project school by school. that is coming through. the open disasters and new disasters, as well. the outstanding requirement right now, about $5 billion for existing disasters. what we expect to be paid out before the end of the fiscal year would be additional work being done from the floods, in the dakotas, as well as new and packed from this year. guest: the additional supplemental is something that occurs every year.

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no one party or two parties can carry this on for as long as the need to be carried on. we need republicans and democrats to agree that this is a threat. i thought, after 9/11, that we would have a chance to do that. for a great time, we did. i am a historian coul. america's never failed to stand up to the challenges we face. we will do it again. but it will be tough. thank you very much. [applause] >> yes, sir. >> could you speak to the risk you see in suny nuclear power in pakistan and the threat of the shia in [unintelligible] >> pakistan is a nuclear power. i do not think there is much likelihood that they will use their nuclear weapons against iran. objectively, the iranians are surrounded by nuclear states -- russia being somewhat removed now because they are no longer in central asia. but it is clear that it is not in america's interest for iran to have nuclear-weapons. that is the bottom line. as the president used to say, it is unacceptable for iran to have nuclear-weapons. >> i would like to know at what point do you think israel will step in and act to defend

they are carrying out some of these initiatives. some of their countries were threatened enormously by this extremism. and have taken actions in the wake of that. and needless to say that has to continue to spread to address this threat of extremism as you've laid it out. >> all right. you take a country like saudi arabia, now they can deal with the radicalization problems by going to the tribes which is the families of the young man who has been radicalized and work it out that way and they've had some measure of success in doing that but in other countries you can't do that. you can't work through the tribes. so my time is up. i want to lay the problem out. i want to continue to work with both of you. and with the overall problem that's in this country as well. >> senator, just a follow-up. i mean, saudi arabia has not just worked it through the tribes frankly which they have and it's been an important component. they've done a very whole of government approach to this overall issue. and indeed it has been quite impressive for a c

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we have perhaps become carried away in our rhetoric. it those of us who are conservatives recognize the important role of the government. to set the rules for a market to work you have to have regulations, laws, rules of some of those who want to participate know what the guidelines are. efficient, effective markets require that. where you have an opportunity to allow a function to be carried out in the private sector it will be more effective, efficient, and satisfying if you let market dynamics or the private sector actually manage that portion of the economy. i remember conversations i had with regards to prisons, for instance. i mentioned it to some legislators that i thought we ought to take that having the presence in massachusetts managed by a for-profit prison company. based upon my calculations they could save us a lot of money. the response of the individual i spoke with was that there would be higher costs by having state workers run the prisons? >> the present company have to earn a profit and we do not. >> i said, i do not

. >> shuttle buses will carry passengers out to the light rail and taken to points north. >> i just got off work and i had to take the bus. >> some commuters complained about time-consuming trips. >> we are usually at north avenue by now. we are behind. text not everyone found the shuttles to be a pain. >> i believe it is doing what needs to do. >> folks are hoping that thursday morning's commute will be a lot easier. >> there is continuing coverage of that collision on our website. for a slide show and to see how it affects the light rail schedule, 02 -- go to wbaltv.com. >> we have live team coverage on the cuts that would include nearly 300 jobs on the police and fire departments. jayne miller joins us live from city hall. >> mayor stephanie rawlings- blake says it is the worst budget crisis in the city and 19 years. the plan detail today is one she hopes the city will not have to deal with. the budget crisis is so severe, even police and fire department feel the pain. >> in this fiscal crisis, they cannot go untouched. >> these cuts are particularly tough. >> andrew klein delivered

a plot with the feds appeared to have foiled before attacks were carried out.e have video from the group's website. look at this. ♪ [ music ] that's impressive. no way of verifying where it was taken or by whom but it appears to have members of a armed combat training. with us, the one time fiance of the militia's leader, andrea harsh. what was the function of these people? >> david, sr. was more or less a brain washer. he -- if you look on the list of the group, the people are mostly under 25 years of age and easily persuaded. his goal was through religion, he was going to walk with christ, but he got very violent about it and he ended up wanting to kill anybody. >>> did he say why? he was a kid in a candy store. he told me it was me or his gun. >> he was worried about his second amendment freedoms. >> he did not like the government and when obama took presidency he kind of lost it because he was a ron paul fanatic. >> shepard: what does that have to do with -- >> to tell you the truth, i don't know. i never understood why ron paul would be so much different.

pistol loaded, openly carried. rifle unloaded, slung to the rear. is this helpful?icated talk show host and columnist dennis frager of town hall.com and nationally syndicated talk show host bill press. dennis, this member of the alabama constitutional militia who put out a call for the modern sons of liberty to break the windows of democratic party offices, he's apparently one of the speakers at this rally. do you support that? >> what do you think? do you think there is a responsible human right or left that supports violence in this country? look, let me just say, there are two things going on here. one, there is a handful of people on my side who are despicable, who do more good for you than nancy pelosi does. these people should be paid by you. of course i'm not implying you do this. but that's how harmful they are to the cause of repealing this terrible legislation. number two, you folks on the left will focus on this, rather than on the great issue of the insupportable debt that america will carry and become like greece. that's the big issue. there is a cancer

local telephone service, but they're also carrying over that i've are type one citizens solved high-speed internet access and it becomes for their dsl services. so without question, they are today even beginning to make broadband more available to the utilization of universal service funding although it's generally under the guise of enhancing the capability to offer traditional local television service. our legislation would take two steps in this critical direction. first, we would enable the guys to be removed. we would say that immediately to the extent that a carrier wants to do so, it can use its federal universal service fund in order to deploy broadband capabilities aired secondly and very importantly, within a five-year period up to our bill becomes law the carrier would be required as a condition of continuing to receive universal service funding to deploy broadband throughout it service territory so within a five-year period. we would see effectively a complete transition from just supporting local telephone service to supporting broad and peered at the appointed time, virtuall

carrying out an act of terrorism overeast. i mean, it was blatant. she only hoped the avalanche of so many people on the internet would have hidden her identity and make it more difficult to retrieve her as a known terrorist, but she certainly was not sophisticated at all. host: next call for steve emerson, flip in tarrytown, will you please will you, independent. caller: it's not so much with what this man says, it's what he does not say that expose the real agenda. what he does not say is documents show that the homeland security was set up begins americans. what he does not say is reports show that they were set up against americans. guest: where are the leaked documents coming from? caller: well, the reports are coming from police chiefs -- host: what is that? caller: they leaked them out that shows that the whole theme is set up, in homeland security was set up not for jihadists, not for the muslims, but for against the americans. guest: no, i disagree. homeland was set up to protect the homeland. it doesn't make a distinction between white supr

today they are carrying 90 to 100 pounds, and sometimes even more than that. obviously, body armor is a major part of that weight increased that i understand that we have modular antenna designs that can help with this issue. certainly every pound that we can reduce counts. but in the mid-to long-term, when we doing to incentivize to lower this weight? for example, what would it take, assuming a level of protection to reduce the weight of body armor by 50 percent in less than five years? have we even as industries something along these lines? and general fuller, as you know the army and department of defense have recently started a new round of body army testing to help establish a standard testing protocol with a specific focus on statistical analysis and statistical confidence levels. we've briefly discusses in my office a couple of weeks ago. can you explain this testing? give us an update on the progress of the testing and explain what you hope to achieve your with the results. >> sir, you're absolutely right. the weight is significant. the long-term impac

yeah, i got carried away. happens to me all the time.g you save money -- now, that's progressive. call or click today. >> larry: welcome back. 15-year-old josie rattly is in a coma after being kicked in the head allegedly by a teen in steel toed boots. police say the attack was by text messages in which he threatened to snap her neck. a teen was set on fire allegedly by a group of school mates. he jumped into a swimming pool to save himselves. more than two-thirds of michael's body was burned. today he's recovering at home. michael recently went to josie's bedside hoping to encourage her. joining us are helda rattly, rick freeman, josie's attorney and valerie brewer, she's michael brewer's mother. let's check with hilda. how is josie doing? >> she's pretty much the same, i would say. she's got a little cough going. we don't know if that's coming actually from her. she has her -- a couple times her legs may shiver, so those are the only things. >> she's still in induced coma, larry. she has been so for seven days ever since the incident.

no one of the two parties can carry this on as long as it needs to be carried on. we are going to have to find a way for democrats and republicans to agree that this indeed is a threat. i thought after 9/11 we might have a chance of doing that, and for a brief period in history, we did. i'm optimistic and i'm a historian and i think that if you look back over our 230-odd years, america has never failed to stand up to the challenges we faced, and we'll do it again. but, it will be a tough struggle. thank you very much. [applause]. >> yes, sir? >> at the risk -- could you speak to the risk you see of a sunni nuclear power in pakistan, and the threat to the shia in iran? how important do you think that is, in their striving to achieve nuclear weaponry. >> well, i mean, pakistan is a nuclear power. i don't think there is much likelihood that they'd use their nuclear weapons against iran. iranians objectively are surrounded by nuclear states. russia, somewhat removed now, because they are no longer in central asia. pakistan, on one side, israel on the other. but, it is

the van belonged to a mennonite church carrying a family to a wedding in iowa. police say two children in the van survived. >>> the vatican is aggressively defending pope benedict against reports he did not take action against a priest who was accused of abusing as many as 200 boys. the case involves reverend lawrence murphy. he allegedly molested as many as 200 young boys at a school for the deaf in wisconsin from the 1950s to the 1970 a new york times article says pope benedict was then a cardinal and failed to respond to letters from the archbishops asking him for guidance in this case. today, the vatican responded to the allegations in a full page editorial published in the newspaper in rome. it calls the report an attempt to hurt the pope and his closest advisers at any cost. >>> coming up tonight, a train ran off the tracks in maryland today. >> we'll tell you about surfers who had to be rescued at a place known as devil's punch bowl. >> a wet look at our for for decades, the insurance lobby has called the shots... putting profits before people. but with g

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it allows people to carry guns into bars but forbids them from drinking. opponents argue that bringing firearms into places with varying degrees of sobriety will come to a tragic end. governor bob mcdonnell is expected to sign the bill. >>> people all over northern virginia were startled by loud booms from prince william to loudoun county. people were calling to report what they said sounded like explosions. turns out it was, in fact, explosions. it was explosive training at quantico marine base. officials tell us the sound from those explosives traveled further than normal today because of cloudy conditions. they say the overcast increased the noise and vibrations because the sound was bouncing back from the clou. >>> coming up, a nasa scientist says the earthquake in chile they end up shortening the ength of the day here on earth. >>> a guy lost a $54 million deposit on a house. >>> and there is a guy in australia who decided he'd take a little nap while he was stranded on a cliff waiting to be rescued. boss: hey, those gecko ringtones you put on our web

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with a gun in one hand and chains in the other, they carry the tools of kidnapping.number of brits are falling victim to. deep beneath the ground these men show us where they say their hostages are held. we bring them here in a state of unconsciousness, he says. with their eyes closed and their faces covered. cramped and dirty as the light disappeared. darkness took over. this is a dungeon where lives are held captive and traded for money. this man showed us the shackles, handcuffs and chains they claim to use. alone in the dark for any of their victims, this is all they might see. a chink of light and their captors disappear ing. to get these pictures our camera man was blindfolded and taken into a deep tribal area of pakistan. the men were asked if they targeted british people. >> translator: obviously it's a good target for us if we know about a rich family and we like these kind of opportunities. mostly our gang do not keep -- when we come to know a child belongs to a rich family, in that case when we kidnap a child we use anesthetic. of course it is wrong. but w

she's been carrying it for 25 years.ayo clinic, which is in my district in southern minnesota, along with the cleveland clinic and other leading institutions, put out a statement urging reform in this house. this statement read, "reforming health care in america will not become easier with the passage of time, and we urge you to move forward." the time is right for america to fix this inequity, the time is right to move america forward. and as the button says, "health care for all: the time is now." that's this week. i yield back, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the chair now recognizes ms. ros-lehtinen from florida for five minutes. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you, madam speaker. yesterday, march 15, was florida's day of action to raise awareness about the sham elections in sudan which are scheduled for next month. when the comprehensive peace agreement was signed in the year 2005, the dream of a united sudan where everyone, regardless of genter, ethnicity or religion, lived in freedom. it seemed possible. elections

this stay of execution does not necessarily mean that the test will be carried out. he was convicted in texas in 1995 of the murder of his girlfriend and two sons. five people had been killed in mexico in a shootout. when traveling in several vehicles, the killings occurred just one day after the visit from hillary clinton in mexico. two men have been arrested after being suspected of kidnapping a 2-year-old boy. the men are wanted in murders of up to 22 people. >> we have heard about these arrests in spain and the u.k., france as well, linked to a ransom payment. we have not had the actual kidnappers arrested here in pakistan. the police have been holding a news conference, -- news conferences, they have produced two men that they say are linked to this kidnapping. in one case a local reporter managed to trust their microphone into the face of a suspect, on tape he said that they looked over -- look after the boy as if it was a child in their family, which sounds like a confession to me. police also produce weapons, explosives, and belongings that were stolen from t

we are perhaps carried away in our rhetoric. we're not anti-government. recognize the important role of government. you have to have regulations and laws and rules so that the parties that want to participate in free economy know the guidelines and rules. effective and efficient markets require that. where you have an opportunity to allow a function to be carried out in the private sector, it will overwhelmingly be more effective and more efficient and more satisfying to the public if you let market dynamics actually manage that portion of the economy. i remember that conversation i had with regard to prisons, for instance. i mentioned to some legislators that i thought we ought to take a look at having prisons and massachusetts managed by a for- profit prison company, because they could give us a lot of money. the response of the individuals i spoke with was, "they will be much higher costs than we are by having the state workers run the prison." i asked why they said that and they said it was because they had to earn a profit and we do not. i said that

and if it's only capitalism that can carry it out best, what is -- what is it about capitalism or the american or western system that makes it more possible than, say, other countries that you perhaps you don't feel can have the same potential with western europe, germany other switzerland? and also i don't know if you'll have time for it. is capitalism the best way to go? for example, the healthcare in the country. the capitalism system doesn't work. >> well, capitalism isn't the only system in every society that's ever existed has been an attempt at a search engine. it's just that capitalism has -- remember, we're searching possibilities here. that's what the cosmos is doing. feeling out possibility that is we're invisible. possibilities that seemed absolutely impossible. cosmos is constantly squeezing its way to impossibility of making it bloom in ways that are utterly beyond belief. of all the systems on the planet, taking impossibility and yanking into daily reality and make it take for granted has been the capitalist system. that doesn't mean it's the only system. and it doesn't