we have denney blaze via skype from cleveland, ohio, "right this minute." welcome to the show!k you. >> this was all your idea, right? tell us about this documentary. >> it's a documentary but i like to refer to it as a blaze-umentary. it pretty much tells the story how i went from being a suburban white guy in the '80s and wanted to be a famous rapper and how eventually the internet came along and the videos went viral. >> well, we love the viral video. how has it changed your life? >> when i go to stores and restaurants people approach me and say this is going to sound weird but by chance are you the average homeboy? i made friends all around the world and that's the best part about the video going viral. >> what does the average homeboy do nowadays? >> i'm a videographer and producer in the cleveland, ohio, area. >> we're so glad we got to know you, denney. this is awesome. >> thanks for having me. i have a rhyme for you. ♪ i'm average homeboy and i'm back again and this time i'm rapping for "rtm" "right this minute" i just blazed you all ♪ >> hey! >> whoo! >>> got a couple

light. >> they want to make sure they set examples and don't want tourists and people to come to cleveland ohiond join a good time at a casino. >> investigator may says the jail can't afford to treat talk of escape as a joke. >> there are two things that we take really seriously, escape is one of them and suicide is the other. so the necessary precautions we have to act on them immediately. >> even if it's in a joking manner, you never know. >> in the course of his investigation, sergeant christopher interviewed wells' mother who said she had no knowledge of the letter. >> she didn't have information from other family members that indicated they would have written such a letter. and she also said that she didn't believe anybody in her family would have written that type of a letter. so the mother said that he does have a lot of enemies on the street. >> he also spoke with wells girlfriend about the incriminating phone call. >> she did not remember wells making that statement, said if he did make that type of statement, it may have been am a joking manner. it did appear it was a joking fashion,

i said, "i'm glad you say that because we are not in texas, we are in cleveland, ohio."nd i hit him, knocked him down. i was suspended, but recognising and hearing about the girls being murdered that way, that was the worst time of my life. i could put up with a lot of stuff in protecting myself, about the that was the worst time for me. >> this oral history project is not without controversy. at least one team has not made its alumni available, preferring a team employees do the interview and send the recording to u.s.c. dr durbin is concerned about censorship and hopes the team comes around and grants him action. if you think the project is about terrible stories of hardships, listen to mudcat tell this one. it begins when the cleveland indians were on a roadtrip in destroyed and they get a call. >> the president would like you to have breakfast. i said "yes, yes", and i hung up the phone. 10 minutes later the phone rang again. and they said "the president would like to have breakfast with you this morning, he knows that the indians are in up to, and back in those days

first johnson baby of the week is holden christopher smith, this little guy born in cleveland, ohio,n february 25th. his parents say their son loves his tummy time. tummy time. >> our next baby of the week is born in anchorage, alaska, on february 21st. bria christine hubers and her mom stephanie offers this advice to new parents. when the days and nights are difficult, remind yourself that your little one is a blessing and so true. >> now to a baby born in newark, delaware, towuan raymond mallory, born on march 24th. his mom calls him a miracle baby because doctors told her she would never be able to have children. >> and the last johnson's baby of the week is lauren elizabeth armfield. she was born in kickland, washington on february 19. her parents say their little girl developed a very special bond with their 15-year-old blind family cat named jake. the two love to snuggle. >> sweet. >> if you want to submit your baby to be a johnson's baby of the week, all the details are on klgandhoda.com. >>> all right, time to celebrate the lent bunny. >> the gold bunny celebrity auction. we

very close and -- >>> cleveland, ohio, a city that has seen its ups and downs but like all big cities crime is an issue in good times and bad. if you're arrested in cleveland, you could spend anywhere from a few hours to several years inside the cuyahoga county correction center. most of the 2200 men and women incarcerated here have only been charged with crimes and are weight trial of the resolution of their cases. some say the jail is a city unto itself but its director would disagree. >> i don't think this is a little city. i don't think there's a city like this in the real world. only because we have a large volume of very difficult people. >> everyone else put your hands up on your head. >> people with a lot of troubles and a lot of needs. >> according to correctional staff, inmate charles evans fits that description. >> i'm charles now, but they used to call me allen. i've been coming here since 1994. i used to be a big time drug dealer, all this and that. everybody in this building know who i am. >> evans is currently serving a six-month sentence for theft, but during his stay,

>> caller: boo-yah, jim from the buckeye state in cleveland, ohio. >> we're loving cleveland here. what's up? >> caller: how do you feel about solar city? >> solar city is okay. i actually like their business myole. i like sunedison and first solar. first solar has different technology. i'm saying thumbs up. you've got a three-fer. mike in del away. >> caller: boo-yah, jim. i love your show. >> thank you very much. >> caller: can i good et your pin on p built f? >> they're refiners, that enterprise product is doing an ethane cracker done there u. just extraordinary. i like the refiners, but you'll have a drop-dead point where they'll announce the earns in the first week in may, and then you have to sell. my favorite is valero. i'm going to price in virginia. price? >> hey, just, first time/long time from glen alan, virginia. i'd like to give a shoutout for my buddy brian for letting me borrow the book. >> i love brian. >> caller: thank you for nc -- what do you think of ncw compared to middleby, which is very similar. i've made a lot of money on both. >> many, they're both good. nt

eaton is a cleveland, ohio based company. but slugged, dublin, ireland. antage of being able to have a release that's basically from dublin when we know you're in cleveland? >> we are headquartered in ireland. and that -- that change took place when we acquired cooper industries that i think you know was an ireland based company. and so we've got a number of operating centers around the world. but our headquarters is in dublin, ireland. >> well, are you able to repatriate cash more easily because you're headquartered in dublin? because i see cash building, i keep thinking that this could be an opportunity for eaton to maybe make another acquisition in europe because of the way your tax system is. europe is coming back. i think maybe next time i see you it will be with something bigger in europe because you're based in ireland. >> you saw we had an almost 17% increase in dividend in keeping with our feeling that the dividends is an important part of the shareholder return. we also committed that when we acquired cooper we would repay $2.1 billion of debt an

with the abled assistance in the archives in cleveland, ohio, and the incredible resident scholar, let us take a look back before we look forward. beginning with the year 1933 as millions of ukrainians were dying of starvation at the hands of their own government in its forced famine genocide. that terror has gone down in history as the murder by famine, yet, few in america or anywhere noted them. even fewer spoke out to condemn the extinction as american and other western countries were working with the soviet government to realize its 20th century industrialization campaign glorified recently at the sochi olympics. it was paid for by the sale of grain, brutally seized by peasants who paid dearly for soviet progress, so-called progress with their lives by the millions. much of the u.s. media at the time either ignored the catastrophe or actually collaborated with stalin to cover up that genocide. for this contortion of truth, "new york times" reporter, walter duranti, was awarded the pulitzer prize, one of the worst instances of the denial truth in the history of journalism. during th

noticed something floating in doan creek, a narrow waterway that twists through rockefeller park in cleveland, ohio. >> the case began when a jogger found the body of this poor young victim. two other detectives handled the scene. took a bunch of photographs, made a short report. >> detectives noticed immediately that the victim's neck was sliced open from ear-to-ear. the victim, a young male who appeared to be in his early 20s, also had three stab wounds in his chest and small cuts to his wrist and elbow. he was wearing no shoes and the only thing on him was $7, found in his pocket. no weapons or blood were found at the scene. >> the young man remained unidentified because he had no identification on him. >> with no leads police were baffled by the case until two days after the body was found when they received a mysterious phone call from a man who claimed to have knowledge of the crime. police asked if the caller could come in to help i.d. the body. that morning, homicide detective leo allen was at the morgue working on another case. >> i got notified by the morgue personnel that a man was there

a casino in cleveland, ohio.ch supply echo >> era many factors. -- there are many factors. one is too much supply, but you also have others coming into the market that are cannibalizing the existing ones. and there has been a structural change in the workforce, and the changes there are's -- are sucking discretionary income out of the economy. >> are the trends favorable for the game industry? which is to say, yes, the numbers are down on a five and six-year basis, but up on a two and three-year basis? >> they are better, but within the moreorce itself, you see construction and manufacturing and retail jobs. the problem in the long-term is the hourly wages of the workers is lower and that will affect their discretionary income and ability to gamble. >> is the casino industry cannibalizing itself? it is these big-time casinos that are opening up shop all over the country. >> that is a problem and one of the ways the business industry is starting to address that is they are starting to diversify away from their cor

bill: lesson learned out of cleveland, ohio. beer brewers are slamming by proposal by the fda to fix a problem they say doesn't exist. garrett tenney is in chicago. what are they proposing? >> reporter: this proposal is part of the food modernization safety act passed by president obama in 2011. for centuries brewers have taken spent grains they used here and they have been passing them along to cow farmers who then use them as cattle feed. it's a synergistic relationship that saves both parties hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in costs to get rid of spent grain as well as costs to feed the cattle. now with this proposed rule it is threatening to end that relationship by requiring the spent grain to be treated the same as pet food. meaning it would have to be dried out, packaged, and costs a whole lot more to get rid of. >> we're trading, giving something of value to each other and working it out. that is one the great things here. people really hate to see the government getting involved in something where they can just

president obama's secret weapon in ohio in 2008, while he received fewer votes on election day than john mccain. the early voters, particularly in urban areas like cleveland and columbus gave president obama the huge lead that helped him lock down that state. so the president road a wave of early voting to victory in ohio. and there was much rejoicing throughout the land. this is where my tale of ohio elections takes a bit of a turn. a funny thing happened on the way to presidential election 2012. mainly mid-term election 2010 and another wave that brought another sweeping turn to the national political tide. that year republicans took control of 23 state legislatures and 29 governor seats, putting the gop in troll of state level policy in ohio. and republican john kasich concerting a majority in the state house and governor's mansion. also riding the wave was republican john houston who replaced the outgoing democrat as secretary of state. and following that 2010 that introduced 180 laws to restrict rather than to expand voting and nerd land viewers who have been with me since the beginning know where the story goes from here. ohio's attempts to restrict

cleveland, ohio, democratic caller. greta, andd morning, thank you for c-span. thank you for taking my call. i am a longtime viewer. this is my first call. i wanted to ask the gentleman in question. he mentioned a minute ago that when talking about the overall saidt for the u.n., he china and russia only contribute miniscule amounts due to their status. being developing nations. i wanted to ask him, did he think that because their economies have grown over the does he think the status could be changed because of their growing economies? and maybe they could be asked to will, giveo, if you more money to the u.n. that budget is a little small considering the workload that u.n. has and is asked to do around the world. host: louis charbonneau? guest: that is a really good question. every so often there is a battle about the percentages of the contributions. and the amount of money that a country is supposed to contribute to the u.n. is based on its gross to nested product. -- its gross domestic product, its national economic output. the u.s., the world's biggest eco

let's go to loretta, next, in cleveland, ohio. caller: good morning, greta. good morning, ms. olson. use tax cuts,s loopholes, offshore banking, carried interest, it means that they have never paid taxes like the rest of us. what is going on there? host: nina olson? guest: large corporations are, as i said before, more than one percent audited. they have a very hefty audit rate. but it is the operation of the law. don't do tax policy. so, the way that the law is structured in corporate tax .eform is a function of the law i think that that is where people need to express their opinions to their legislators. there is something interesting going on. i was just at an overseas conference and one of the hot topics was starbucks what was happening in the united kingdom, where they had paid no taxes at all. people want up boycotting starbucks. it was not so much that it had an impact on their purse, but it had an impact on the reputation. more and more i am hearing from tax directors in corporations that they are considering reputational risk. how people react when they find out a lar

host: greg is in cleveland ohio. guest: good morning. i am in some tax trouble.ed them somebody from that. i haven't worked consistently. worked two years and didn't work a year. sincen't filed my taxes 2006. what will be the west -- best way of fixing my problem? should i go through a lawyer. which would be the best wait for me to help fix my situation? caller: the first thing you should do is go to an accountant. i don't think you need a lawyer. it depends on how much money you made over those years. every year the irs talks about how much money they have sitting people did not file returns. after three years the claim goes away. they have hundreds of millions of dollars waiting for taxpayers who did not file who should have to get money back. ,f you owed the money from that you need to go to somebody and find him on his you owed them. the 800 number drives me crazy. the irs is not going to wipe out a debt if you have income to pay it. if you're insolvent, they will cut you a deal. i would say go to an accountant. you probably don't have the information that yo

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>> well, essentially the taxpayers of the state of ohio, hard working families in toledo and cleveland and dayton and cincinnati and throughout the state will be helping to foot the bill to bail out the city of detroit. unfortunately, over many decades, politicians in detroit made bad financial decisions and i personally believe it is wrong for taxpayers of ohio and the other states of america to bail out the politicians of detroit sglp it . >> it is so interesting, josh. when detroit's problems became very public and there was a lot of discussion about these pensions, and not just in michigan but california and illinois and many other states and and some people speculated, well, maybe the federal government will end up bailing them out. a lot of people said oh, that would never happen. are you surprised that they're actually in discussions now for doing just that? >> i can't say it surprises me. when you look at washington, there is a history of bailouts. this one looks to be somewhat of a back door bailout but it is still a bailout and i believe it sets a very dangerous precedent. ov

ohio versus keenan. >>> overlooking lake erie in downtown cleveland, the cuyahoga county corrections center is an imposing 11-story structure built to house 2,100 men and women. on most days that number is exceeded by 100 or more. while some have been convicted, most are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial of the resolution of their cases. >> our current population changes daily. we book in 115 people a day, we release hopefully 115 or more. we have an average length of stay of about 45 days involving 30,000 bookings a year. >> all the way around. >> there is uncertainty with everyone. the inmate is in custody and he doesn't or she doesn't know what's happening to them tomorrow. >> you ever tried to kill yourself? >> no. >> are you suicidal? >> no. >> physically or sexually? >> physically, like beat up? >> no, shot, stabbed, set on fire on purpose. >> no. >> i think there is high anxiety in the jail environment that you wouldn't necessarily see in prison. >> and anxiety is often highest in a place where every new inmate's journey begins. >> open your eyes as wide as you can. >> the jail's inta

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we grew up in cleveland which seemed a million miles away from the movie business. >> i was just in ohio yesterday. it really is. >> you know. somewhere in the 1990's, rodriguez made the movie "el bookchi," then wrote a "how to make a movie for a million dollars." sequels, that seems to be the business to be in these days. what is it? do americans like the predictability of knowing the characters and coming back for more? >> i think it is what makes any brand strong. it is an emotional attachment to the material. i think the cycle we are in at that audiences are gravitating towards these characters because they have an emotional attachment to them. they want to see how these characters develop and where they go. things like netflix binge whereng are playing into they are allowing audiences something into like the marvel universe, a grand mosaic of stories with interconnecting characters. it is binge watching over 10 years. tohas an interconnectedness it that makes them feel for the characters. >> before i let you go, back to the brothers thing again, obviously, you know what it is like t

cleveland. according to local officials, it created 2,800 jobs and contributed $38 million to the state of ohio. marvel studios received a $9 million tax credit for filming the movie there. let's bring in joe henchman and doug steiner from steiner studios. doug, i've been to steiner studios. impressive facility. 355,000 square feet. 20 acres large. how many jobs were you able to bring to new york thanks to tax credits which brought you here? >> tax credits now account for -- the industry accounts for 130,000 jobs in new york state. we have on our own lot ten stages and about 2,000 people, and they're shooting on the same day. >> if there were no tax credits, doug, where would you be? >> empty. >> you'd be empty. you wouldn't be here in new york at all? >> correct. >> would you be operating elsewhere, in another state with tax credits? >> there are other states that want us to go there, but i've resisted and had my hands full. >> joe, what's the problem with this? why not have the jobs in a state, if the state is willing to give the tax credits, as opposed to having no jobs at all, as doug had me

ohio jail is safe this morning after being held hostage for some five hours. the hostage drama began yesterday afternoon at the trumbull county jail in warren southeast of cleveland. the corrections officer was making his rounds in an area where high-risk inmates are being held. >> three inmates ambushed officer joe lynn when he walked upstair. he was handcuffed and a homemade knife was held to his neck. at one point his cell phone was used to call our affiliate. lynn also got on the phone and said he was not hurt. >> martin is being held on a murder chancht he said he was upset about a newspaper article that he said made him look crazy. >> streets near the jail were cleared and a hostage negotiator was brought in. at first martin was resistant. >> eventually martin and the others relented. officer lynn was held for about five hours and then released. >> now, martin said he was wrongly portrayed. officer lynn was not injured. he's being evaluated and given time off to recover. >>> coming up on the "morning news," the fda imposes new restrictions on e-cigarettes. and daredevil seekers leap from the >>> and dash devil seekers leap from tallest building in dubai bre

a punishment in ohio raising eyebrows, a judge sentencing a man to sit on a street corner for five hours holding a sign that reads "i'm a bully." >> maria scally from wjw in clevelandhe story. >> reporter: edmund sat at the intersection for five hours on sunday holding a handwritten sign saying he is a bully who picks on children who disabilities. municipal court judge gayle williams buyers ordered the 62-year-old to serve this public punishment. it was part of his sentence for harassing his neighbors, the prew family, that includes two adopted african-american children with multiple disabilities. your comments about the sentencing? according to police, there were a number of incidents over the past 15 years that went beyond name calling. do you feel you bullied this family? do you feel that your actions were that of a bully? he chose to let the sign do the talking for him. never responding to any questions asked. >> what a disgrace the man is to humanity. because what he did, unexcusable. nobody can do something like that to other people. >> reporter: many passersby agreed with the unusual sentence for this unusual bullying case. >> he deserves some punishment and

ohio to spend christmas with his girlfriend. >> i wanted to meet her folks and enjoy christmas with them. so we traveled up to clevelandppen. >> the flight north is perfect. after spending the holiday with his girlfriend's family, he expects an equally smooth return south. the only difference, this time he takes along a passenger, daryl robinson, his girlfriend's cousin, who's also headed back to atlanta. this will be daryl's second flight ever. but he says he's not nervous. >> he said he was instrument rated. obviously that is a rather skilled pilot. he knows what he is doing. he can fly whether he can see or not. so i pretty much trusted him. >> the flight was scheduled to take five hours and conditions seem ideal when the too take off late that afternoon. >> the flight was going very well. the weather was great. and we seemed to be making great time. >> in fact, they're making such good time that according to brian's calculations they have plenty of fuel to spare. so he decides to skip a scheduled fuel stop in tennessee. >> approaching knoxville, based on all the information i had, i felt like we were right on sched

cleveland topping out around 52 into washington, d.c. 72, 73 an fillply. around dc, the chair blossum festival. >> geologist say recent earthquakes in ohio were most likely don'tedracking. it's the very first time they have will he linked earthquakes and the controversial drilling practice and now investigators believe sand and water injected into the ground, which is a by-product of fracking as pressure and that that pressure causes these tremors. nearly a dozen quakes hit one town in northeast ohio last month and that was before an operation was shut down jake ward explains how fracking works. >> there is a fair amount of controversy around the use of hydraulic fracturing, which is known as "fracking." we should define what it is. it is used in places where a company wants to pull oil or natural gas out of the earth but where that stuff is trapped inside a layer of earth or rock that's too pressurized to pull the oil or natural gas out easily between 5,000 and 20,000 feet like a mile, sometimes three miles below the surface. and then the well changes direction and becomes horizontal. at that point, a perforating gun, water, sand and chemicals is pushed at high

cleveland and buffalo. overall it's looking like a pretty nice easter forecast. easter egg hunts on saturday and sunday looking great from the ohiot with showers and thunderstorms. this is a pretty nice three-day stretch, including nice weather into l.a. "morning joe" coming right up. ♪ ♪ [ banker ] sydney needed some financial guidance so she could take her dream to the next level. so we talked about her options. her valuable assets were staying. and selling her car wouldn't fly. we helped sydney manage her debt and prioritize her goals, so she could really turn up the volume on her dreams today...and tomorrow. so let's see what we can do about that... remodel. motorcycle. [ female announcer ] some questions take more than a bank. they take a banker. make a my financial priorities appointment today. because when people talk, great things happen. wbecame your business. passion... make a my financial priorities appointment today. at&t can help simplify how you manage it. so you can focus on what you love most. when everyone and everything works together, business just sings. salesgets up to 795 highwayal is the passamiles per tank