he was flying from austin to chicago when weather forced the plane to stop down in saint louis.ing the brief layover southwest officials took issue with his t-shirt. it was a freebie he picked up promoting comedy central's broad city. it reads broad [bleep] city. >> did they give you an opportunity to put your jacket back on? change the shirt and put it inside out? >> within 30 seconds the flight was gone. i would have gladly done so. >> you know how quickly the planes are boarded. but a video shows he was president exactly willing to change his shirt. >> can you turn it inside out? >> no. is there anything you can do to not display the shirt? we can't allow you to go. >> i have freedom of speech. >> andy, you are the first amendment expert on the panel. is this a free speech issue? >> no. i have zero sympathy for the dude. he thinks he has free speech on someone else's airplane he needs to get out more. i am shocked a white dude with black hair and white glasses is south by southwest. that's amazing. but based on his original story i thought maybe the crew should have given him

stands, cities in 10 different states have passed laws restricting pet store puppy sales including austin chicago, l.a. phoenix and toledo. both of those bills will go to the county executive for his approval. if he signs on the dotted line the e cigarette ban will take effect in 91 days after he signs it. in the newsroom kevin lewis, abc 7 news. >> a dryer fire costs more than $ $ $75,000 in damage to a montgomery county business. take a look at this picture, they were called to an explosion at the zips cleaners in germantown this morning. officials say the clothing ignited in the gas dryer sparking the fire and causing the sprinkler system to activate. crews were able to quickly get that fire out of control and no one was hurt. good news there. howard county fire investigators are ruling a fire at a historic home is accidental. the fire happened at a home in the 4900 block of kansas before midnight on monday. six people evacuated the place safely thanks to working smoke alarms. the home had historical significance because it was once a barn on land purchased by jim wells. the founder of columbi

former chairman of the president's council of economic advisers austin goolsbee now at university of chicagol of business. with its great economic news so many people unemployed? gimmick we got more than 38 million jobs last year that is one of the best we have had in many decades. how do you find a job? >> that was a vague description working one day a week the obama administration has you have a job otherwise you are eating the government cat food. pretty much defined 30 hours a week for irregular paycheck. >> which have a good job? in a million jobs set our full time over the last four years in the net increase is close at zero. a you one of the people that say wait a second? >> there are some business owners those with full-time jobs. >> bills and are suffering from chronic capitalism in this country that this administration has gotten drunk on it is sobering but people are still drowning under the credit card debt and have been unable to dig themselves out to have jobs where they can save money it is not to have better redistribution policy or economically because government needs to ge

chicago we could tell you how the machine works. >> emac, that's the reason why we have this. according to austin it's better than the patronage system. >> patronage is a kind of porn. anyway, watch this david in the henhouse echo chamber that is congress, only congress would come up with legislation that reads eliminating porn from agencies act. what is going on here? do we need legislation to fire these people? >> that's a great point. >> and the other point too, is internet porn has a lot of malware and viruses in them. if we're watching hem at work it could introduce viruses into the federal system. >> why can't we fire these guys? >> i don't know. i think this is a bad example of, you knew -- unless you're working for the fcc -- >> it's not a bad example -- >> exactly. no, that's exactly right. but the thing of it is you've got to be careful with taking away protections from workers if they want to blow whistles on you know, behavior like this or taking away a grievance process which we don't want to do. this seems to be an isolated incident, let's hope, and if there's a loophole let's close

they are great startups in chicago and des moines and atlanta and austin all around the country. a fly-over country and hear they call it the heartland. they need to get the capital to get started and they can give them that chance. >> diane? >> i think, steve, you're making some great points and kudos to you for bringing up in particular chicago and the midwest. about five years ago the university of chicago started high park angel. it's specifically an angel group where everybody gets together and they did something a little unique and certainly the country needed it. they brought together an entrepreneurial set of investors and in order to get seated they had to get vetted through the professors, meet with all of the mbas and certainly help connect entrepreneurs with tomorrow's business leaders and that started this great innovation and lots of angel investments finally happening in the midwest. >> here's the problem i have with cuban's comment. it kind of blotted out the sun and didn't really -- it made everybody think, nasdaq or -- the whole issue of private equity got lost.

chicago, new york about where we should be. compared to where we've seen it's awfully nice. >> and still a trouble spot on the map, right? >> san antonio, austin a lot of moisture coming off the gulf of mexico. so flash food watches posted and these will be expanded as it pushes off through tuesday and wednesday. >>> and to the river rescue of a baby still alive 14 hours after the accident. tonight, she's fighting for her life. here's clayton sandell. >> reporter: this 18 month old girl may not be alive if not for a chance encounter. >> this is the car he saw, and when police and paramedics arrived, they discovered the driver had died died. >> vehicle is submerged. still one person in the vehicle. >> reporter: police believe they were on their way home late friday when their car careened off the road. the crash not discovered for 14 hours, but miraculously the baby was still alive. surviving not just the crash but frigid temperatures. tonight, that baby girl is in critical but stable condition. still in the hospital still fighting. clayton sandell, abc news denver. >>> tomorrow a tragedy behind the scenes and a director goes on trial. gloria r

said our big cities new york, los angeles, and chicago, show very high and increasing levels of economic segregation. >> let's dig into that point. austins the most segregated city in america. orlando is the least segregated. so if you and i went and took a visit, say a three, four-day visit in austin and then orlando, how would we see those differences manifested? >> well we'd see people living in different kinds of neighborhoods. you know i know austin really well. it takes -- it's an east-west divides. if you live on one side of the city, you live around highly educated, high-income techies or musicians. if you live on the -- who are mainly white or maybe somewhat multicultural. if you live on the other side of the city you live in a poor neighborhood, served by schools that aren't nearly as good with much less public service, in an area that's largely hispanic and black. one of the things we're finding is in our country, even people who live in the same city it's not just inequality by socioeconomic class. even people when live in the same city even if it's an affluent city -- austin is one of the most successful tech cities in the

chicago we could tell you how the machine works. >> emac, that's the reason why we have this. according to austin it's better than the patronage system. >> patronage is a kind of porn. anyway, watch this david in the henhouse echo chamber that is congress, only congress would come up with legislation that reads eliminating porn from agencies act. what is going on here? do we need legislation to fire these people? >> that's a great point. >> and the other point too, is internet porn has a lot of malware and viruses in them. if we're watching hem at work it could introduce viruses into the federal system. >> why can't we fire these guys? >> i don't know. i think this is a bad example of, you knew -- unless you're working for the fcc -- >> it's not a bad example -- >> exactly. no, that's exactly right. but the thing of it is you've got to be careful with taking away protections from workers if they want to blow whistles on you know, behavior like this or taking away a grievance process which we don't want to do. this seems to be an isolated incident, let's hope, and if there's a loophole let's close

chicago, new york, about where we should be. compared to where we've seen, it's awfully nice. >> and still a trouble spot on the map, right? >> been getting a lot of rain across texas. san antonio, austina lot of moisture coming off the gulf of mexico. several pieces of energy riding that southern jet stream. that will continue through tomorrow night. so, flash food watches posted, and these will probably be expanded as it pushes off through tuesday and wednesday. >> rob, thank you. >>> and to the river rescue of a baby still alive 14 hours after an accident. tonight, she's fighting for her life. here's clayton sandell. >> reporter: this 18-month-old girl may not be alive if not for a chance encounter. >> there was a fisherman that came to fish along the river, noticed a vehicle in the river, called 911. >> reporter: this is the car he saw, and when police and paramedics arrived, they discovered the driver had died. >> vehicle is submerged. still one person in the vehicle. they don't appear to be moving. >> reporter: police believe they were on their way home late friday when their car careened off the road. the crash not discovered for 14 hours. but miraculously the baby was alive whe