cc >>> every year, over 100,000 people are arrested in miami-dade.ffenders. >> that's where you're going now. you understand that? march. ahead. ahead. ahead. >> in an effort to help reform inmates and reduce the recidivism rate, miami-dade has implemented an intensive and rigorous military-type program called boot camp. >> why don't you leave me alone? >> why don't you leave me alone? >> why don't you let me go home? >> why don't you let me go home? >> started in 1995, boot camp only accepts 38 inmates every 2 months, many of whom have committed nonviolent crimes. ultimately, a judge decides if an inmate is eligible for the program. >> they have boot camp in lieu of sentencing. and they have to complete our program or they will be sentenced to whatever it is for the crime, whether it be 5, 10, 15 years, or sometimes even life. >> i would be facing 15 to 30 years on armed robbery and kidnapping. so i decided to come to boot camp instead of facing 15 to 30 years. >> there is a criteria to come here and not all of them may meet that criteria. there's t

man sync: it's the miami dade police department.re officers, police officers all around the home. you need to come to the front door. those of you in the house, we need you to exit the residence now. exit at the front door. manny sync: there's a negotiation process going on and we're starting to plan for the tactical approach, if we don't get any answer from, from anybody from inside within the next couple of minutes, we're going to go ahead and move up, pop the iron off the front, and pop the wooden doors open. man: anyone in the house needs to exit immediately through the front door. narr: the negotiators try for 40 minutes to get a response from inside the house, but there's not a sound. srt then waste no time in adopting hard tactics. manny sync: alright rt, we're ready to go. narr: they use the bearcat to punch open the front door with a battering ram, so that the team can see inside. man sync: miami dade police department, we've opened the door for you to come out. come out now. this is the miami dade police department. we nee

. >> at the miami-dade county jail, we met a group of friends who couldn't quite agree on the culinary merits of lunch. >> this is the only meal that's not great. it's the only one that's not great. it's bologna every day. a hot meal in the morning and at night. >> this is the best part of the day, lunchtime. and this is how we eat. nice cold cuts. they're great. we enjoy it sometimes. >> this is turkey salami with little pieces of peppercorn in there that kind of like get jammed in your teeth and they're terrible. >> this is apple pie, we've got cheese. we've got a pear. it will ripen in a couple days. we have an orange that's ripe now, and we've got a raisin cream pie and chocolate cream pie that people literally fight over. >> this is the best part of the day. >> this is the worst part of the day. >> best or worst, at most of the prisons we visited, inmates have only about 15 minutes to eat. >> we feed one tier at a time out of each of the buildings, so it takes a good hour and a half at least to get everybody fed. and they get about 15 minutes to eat in the dining room. usually it

work programs is in miami-dade, florida. years ago, they set up numerous work training programs are working with employers to design the curriculum and provide mentoring and internship opportunities. even if you do not go the traditional college route, you earning an education that tear strength. what are things the federal education? curriculum reforms and a new training. we have an opportunity to do that with the 2013. authorization of the higher education act to make some of parents. children go to school. [applause] not have a choice on which school they can attend. in america, all parents should be able to send their child to the school of their choice. for parents of special-needs way, our tax code can reward reinvestment in education. shouldn't there be a tax credit for investing in people? [applause] parents' choosing. let's look at ways to address soaring college costs. in the way. we should make sure our federal march oysters. college affordability is an issue that is important. it is the only reason i was able fed

. >> while all this is going on, the egyptian economy is in very crude shade in dade. what will its stake to get more addictions behind him as he tries to kickstart the egyptian economy -- get more egyptians behind him as he tries to kickstart the egyptian economy? >> that is the million-dollar question. economy is what will suffer the most of the next few months. it is what has been on everyone's mind. this is what most egyptians are thinking about beyond issues of politics. it is not clear how far mr. morsi will get, particularly if he does not try to build consensus with other forces in the country. i think the economy will be linked to how far mr. morsi can take the political spectrum here in egypt and i think that affects out egypt is pursued overseas. and that affects the egyptian economy at large. >> joining us live from cairo, thank you very much. simmering sectarian tensions have erupted into protests in iraq with thousands demonstrating in the country's western heartland. they are demanding the release of bodyguards for the sunni finance minister who were arr

he was can dade -- death ceiling and he was can -- he was candid. >> this is the top 2%. includes all of you, yes. >> i believe there is a purpose to put revenues on the table. >> house speaker boehner countered the president's proposal without raising individual tax rates. the republican plan also includes 600 billion in spending cuts to federal healthcare programs and increase in the eligibility age for medicare. >>> a san francisco blogger and activist is in hot water of a photograph after political opponent. michael petrellis took this of scott weaner last year in a pact room. >> he tried to take a picture of him at an urinal. and today, he pleaded not guilty to misconduct. he wants it to be made as part of the from. >> we will be fighting the case and despite the fact that the photograph was taken, we are talking fundamentally of a gentlemen at a sink. >> the judge ordered him to stay 150 yards away from the supervisor pending a hearing in the case. >>> with the storm watch, anyone going to the san francisco airport should be prepared for delays. we checked with the

they dade great job. >> firefighters say the fire may have started in the rear but stressed they're still in the early stages of the investigation. burn ped water logged wood is piled at this doorstep, preventing anyone from entering the place that at least until today six different families called home. >>> we have also learned that the fire started at the lower level of the victorian, and its spread to the other victorians. we know there were working smoke detectors and it was the time of day that is also being credited for helping people to evacuate that building quickly and safely. in the mission district, nick smith, abc-7 news. insure. >> ama: two people who drowned after being swept away by a large wave while fishing have been identified as a father and son, nine weire juanes a mio-rojas, and his father. a third person survived. the three were fishing at bonita cove near the golden gate bridge. a large wave swept them into the water. the two men were able to grab on to a rock. it's believedes a mio swam from the rock in an effort to save his son. they both were swept away. >>> toni

one that our policy makers and american in dade in which you on thank you for being here at spur. [applause] >> thank you. i think we will also year from supervisors got -- supervisor scott wiener. >> this turnout's shows how significant this is to the future of the city. we were with a smaller group earlier. i will stress that san francisco is a city with a dichotomy going on. in many ways, we are a cutting edge city in terms of technology, food, transportation, there are all sorts of things where we are ahead of the curve. we attract a lot of people like you who are forward-thinking and want to do things in a different and more innovative way. we're also a really old school city. the change is challenging. david and i talk about this a lot. we're trying to do things differently. we get a lot of reflexive push back, whether you are talking about cars sharing on streets, or changing zoning to create new housing to make the city more affordable and inclusive. you have those kinds of difficult conversations. so much of this is about educating the city as a whole from all generations

booktv sat down with david rothkopf at the miami book fair international held on the campus of miami-dade college. he talks about his latest book, "power inc." and also responded viewer questions. >> host: on your screen now is the cover of david rothkopf's new book, "power inc.." mr. rothkopf, a lot of people think that government and big business go hand in hand. >> they do go hand in hand but governments' playing field for power and so business introduces itself there to guide it in the directions it wants to go. but of course a lot of people in big business or in the financial community would prefer it if they went on in their way unimpeded by government, and toso that's another front in this particular power struggle. >> host: one of the points you make in "power inc." there are multinational corporations who make more money, control more money, than most of the governments on earth. >> yeah, big companies like wal-mart, you know, have more employees than some of the smaller countries in the world. but a company like exxon has revenues that are bigger than the gdp of all but probably

near the presidential palace where overnight clashes between rival protesters level at least five dade and hundreds injured supporters and opponents of president morsi continued fighting each other well into early morning until the military moved in to come the battle the violence was the worst in the latest wave of protests that started two weeks ago when president morsy assumed a near absolute poem. reporter bell drew is on top of square for us and while it is tom watson is following developments outside the presidential palace. what number of tahrir square were scenes a there have been. on the square here behind me we're seeing violence in other cities like a series of the year in particular the headquarters of the muslim brotherhoods have been attacked during these clashes between rival protest groups following mostly power grab that gratian we. he would himself sweeping powers and of course the constitution which is being put to referendum supposedly next week which are many of the opposition groups sees it just in this in addition there's been some reaction from his aides several

they come along and put a ban dade on our forehead. we need to not just raise taxes.we give the president every tax increase that he wants. we need to address the spending. >> and the president has addressed that. no one is saying that there should be no spending cuts. >> ultimately. we have to find a bring here to get across. what are the ways we can agree on that will help us through that. i would would brry if we get do our fox holes and shoot across at each other. you know our international reputation is going to suffer. every other country in the world and watching this is going to say is america prepared to leave? >> you can't trust these guys, they are not up to it. >> if the nation slides into a resocial. i think the republicans will pay the biggest price in the beginning. the president so far has the fact is the republicans have been losing the message war on that. for its own sake it need to listen to the right of center not the nar right. right now, it has to act as if look, the country's needs come first. what do we need to do some protect the country's we

she is still recovering from the same connell cuss that is preventing her from testifying to dade aboutwhat she knew about the raid in benghazi. >>> to egypt now and the new constitution there likely to win approval today in the final round ovoting, but that does not mean that there wouldn't be trouble. the fight over president morsi's power turned some former allies into enemies. now they are pushing for are harder islamic rule. >> i'm going to say yes. because over 90% of the articles of the constitution and i'm totally convinced it that has some points that in don't agree with totally but, again, they can be changed later on in parliament. >> the egyptian vice president resigned today which was not a surprise. what was a little unexpected was that he did it before the vote was over. >>> north korea's leader called for more powerful rockets for hires country. it's the first time he has explicitly named that goal and publicly. north korea says it wants to build a satellite program, but the united nations says that is a program to build nuclear missiles. >>> pope benedict xvi has pardon

david rothkopf at the miami book fair international which is held annually on the campus of miami-dade college. he talks about his latest book, "power, inc." and responded to fewer questions. it's about half an hour. in >> on your screen now is the cover of david rothkopf's newest book, "power, inc." the epic rivalry d between big business d government and the reckoning that lies ahead. he joins us here on our set in miami.d. nestor rothkopf, a lot of people think that government and big business go hand-in-hand. hand in hand. >> they do go hand in hand but government playing field for power so business in -- introduces itself to guide it in the direction it wants to go but a lot of people in big business or the financial community would prefer if it went on in their way unimpeded by government so that is another front in this particular power struggle. >> one of the points you make in "power, inc." is there are some multinational corporations and make more money, control more money than most governments on earth. >> big companies like walmart have more employees than smaller countries

we'll work on some more information as we get it but right now a rescue underway in miami-dade county down in florida. the construction worker potentially being pulled out from underneath a steam roller. more information as we get it. jon: the tragedy in newtown reopens the debate what to do about mental illness in this country. sadly it seems to be a common denominator in so many mass shootings in recent years. the brother of shooter adam lanza reportedly telling police his brother suffers from asperger's syndrome and he had a personality disorder. james holmes the shooter in last summer's movie theater shooting was known to have psychological problems. jared loughner who tried to assassinate gabriel giffords had long been suspected of being unstable. when he was arrested and put on trial he was deemed at first unfit to stand trial. dr. lee vinocur, board certified physician, adjunct assistant professor at lieutenant state university medical school? shreveport. doctor, at times like this i think back to what my high school principal once taught me which the brain is organ like any ot

meanwhile, the miami-dade police department is mapping out a game plan to end the siege. j.a. fernandez is ready to move. then more than two hours after it started, the ride ends when the bus stops in front of the miami beach restaurant where sangh works part time. that's when fernandez and the s.w.a.t. team spring into action. >> i was told go for it. i was the first man inside the bus. >> i see him in the middle aisle gesturing for me to come in and sticking his hand inside the jacket. i made a split decision. i shot him three times. i didn't miss any of the rounds. i grabbed him, pulled him out, and ordered my team to drag him out away from the bus just in case he did have something we missed. >> the s.w.a.t. team pulls the wounded man out of the bus. there's still concern he may be carrying an explosive device. >> other people were evacuating the school children. i kept hearing screams and stuff. and then we had the bomb squad come in and sweep it, and it turned out he didn't have anything. >> moments later lying alone on the the concrete, mr. sangh dies from his woun

the first is democrats generally feel they won a man dade. they're not backing down -- the second thing is the primary issue. you have members of congress say last week there was a proposal to raise taxes, and a lot of republicans said i can't vote for that, a million only tax increase. they were worried about primaries. that's driving this in a very strong way. >>> there are people in washington, d.c. that will tell us this is how it all happens. congressman tom cole appeared with luke russert on "the daily rundown." i want to play what he had to say. >> he had the complete support of everybody for plan b, and so this is a tactical debate and discussion, it's not a debate over john boehner's leadership. i think he'll be the speaker, honestly not for two years, but for four. >> can we play the other one that talks about how the deals come together at the last moment? let's queue that one up. >> that's what happened in the budget deal, the debt ceiling deal. i think that's what's going to happen again. >> why are you cautiously optimistic? >>

what about dade petraeus for president? apparently roger ailes wanted him to run four president. listen to a conversation between a fox news contributor and david petraeus in 2011. watch. >> joy: you know, roger ailes says that it is a big joke. do you think he was joking? >> john: i would have liked to have seen him run before all of this happened. it is deeply embarrassing, discussing this with a british person, by the way, no offense james bond movie opens, our top spy has to resign for sex with one person. >> i did find it -- the head of the c.i.a. relationship with a woman and did it by gmail and it was found out by the fbi. it makes you wonder what the fbi is doing to the rest of us. >> so slippery, i don't want him as president. >> but the fact that he had a little bit of a different side and he maybe had this woman on the side, clinton left the white house with the biggest approval rating in the history of the world. maybe it would work in his favor. >> john: if you can't keep an affair secret in washington, d.c. -- >> exactly. >> joy: petraeus says he doesn't want to run

he south dade the comment about being drunk was a joke. his -- he said the comment about being drunk was a joke. his facebook was taken down. the san francisco police department says the matter is under investigation. so obviously, the san francisco police officer could be in some big trouble here coming up. frank and michelle, back to you. >> thank you. >>> new this morning, a cyclist rescued from underneath a street sweeper vehicle in san francisco, the man on his bike collided with the cleaning truck around midnight at 6th and brannan streets. the cyclist was taken to the hospital with nonlife- threatening injuries. >>> and we have new details on a campus lockdown in southern california. police are still trying to find two robbery suspects this morning. at least one was last seen running on the cal state fullerton campus. that prompted a lockdown that lasted 8 hours last night. the suspect was never found but the lockdown was lifted just before midnight. now, the suspects were wanted for robbery in a shooting earlier at a jewelry store.

. >> reporter: his landlord is ee investigating davis employing the ellis act, a warning man dade by law that gives renters a heads up that the landlord is planning something different with the property. the ellis act restricts landlords from kick everyone out then raising the rent. >> hey hey, ho ho! [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: activists held a demonstration at 18th and castro this afternoon saying they are highlighting the fact that there's been a sharp increase in ellis act ee visions in recent months. they say some 27 city landlords have informed tenants they are getting evicted. that includes 17 buildings in the mission alone. bad news in the holiday season. >> i would love to have my daughter raised in san francisco. we can't officially afford it if we're ellis act moved out. >> reporter: according to the rent board there have been about 176 ellis act evictions this year, half the level from five years ago. but sharply up from the last few years leaving some renters no choice but to move out. casualties of a real estate market now booming in the city. joe vazquez, cbs 5. >>

whether it's some arbitrary dade of december 31st or they kick the can down the road to february or mayor whatever, they'll get the deal done. they're going to get the deal done. from a psychological standpoint that will be viewed as a positive. think about it as an investor, as a whiteboard. you look at the u.s., throw if on a whiteboard, where else are you going to invest? you can't buy bonds, europe, emerging markets. you have to buy equities -- >> corporate bonds. >> maybe as part of that. but in terms of the whole total return funds you're seeing in these bond categories, you've had such rapid inflows, which is clearly a sign of a safety trade and psychological trade. they're not buying bonds based on fundamental but on fear. >> for yield. let's put aside all of this wrangling and let's say we get a deal done. we start to look at what that deal looks like. higher taxes, lower federal spending. right? i mean, when you look -- when you take away all of the fights and when you take away and go to the raw, what is left, you're talking about slower stimulus on a federal level because yo

the court has learned, especially the justice john roberts court, is weary of doing what the court dadee vs. wade in 1973 and i don't think they will throw out arrangements in 30 states and 40 states, and they will resolve, i suspect the defense of marriage act case narrowly, only one section is actually an issue, section 3, in california they'll make a decision that might uphold the appellate court and keep it limited to california and i believe the court doesn't want to be, you know, overturning arrangements, throughout the country, something so delicate as this. they learned the lesson that that is not the right role for the supreme court. >> chris: let's talk about that. a lot of people make the comparison, to 1973. roe vs. wade. because, what is so interesting is that, public attitudes on same sex marriage changed dramatically. let's put up the map. 37 states, either by law or in their excuses, now ban same sex marriages, but, they are legal in 9 states, as well as the nation's capitol, washington, d.c. and a new poll, 40% approve same sex marriage and 30% support legal unions and

. >>> la junta y vemos la muestra con el vocero del departamento de policía de miami-dade y aquí están vida y matías por favor pasa por acá y me gustaría saber qué pasa? (aplausos). >>> qué tan difícil puede ser esto? >>> muchos chicos eran ateltas de antes y después de las prácticas y la rehabilitación, pueden empezar a reintegrarse. >>> qué te pasó a tí? >>> estabamos en afghanistán y yo estaba en un techo y cuando salté para abajo, me explotó una bomba en las piernas y en washingotn me ayudaron para salir adealnte. >>> no importa qué ha pasado pero cómo se preparan para jugar?¿ >>> gracias con la tecnología de hoy, hacenuna nueva tecnología para los jugadores. >>> hay persnoas que tienen resortes y piernas especiales y así van de acuerdo con sus habilidades. >>> aquí está nicolas! >>> hola! >>> no le gustan mucho las cámaras. >>> qué mensaje les gustaría dar a la gente? >>> todo el mundo tiene sus problemas, no sólo los militares, es algo que uno tiene adentro y una persona le gusta ver a otra y así no es razón para parar su vida. >>> déjenme decirle. >>> que no hay que darle y cont

when that heaped at miami-dade, a lot of republican city council that is not pushing the funds over, something they can handle at the county level and at least from a bipartisan standpoint everyone agreed would need more research. as far as how many days we vote for me to decide but that could happen a lot of these issues. >> just say on that, i disagree with you on a lot of what you said. die think that -- [laughter] >> potentially. maybe i just step back. it's 2012 in the united states of america. unacceptable to have people voting after midnight ever. so, whether at it more people would be able to vote or not, even if it was the same number of people, it's unseasonable. we need to do every -- it's unacceptable with need to do everything we can could avoid that, everything. and not does not mean you cult the number of days and hours that people can vote, or in ohio's case, to cut the weekend out of early vote to spend millions of dollars, millions, of your taxpayer dollars to fight to stop the last three dives early vote and take it all the way to the supreme court of the united st

cheryl: we are right now in dade 4 of our stocking got ceres looking at retailers taking some hits rightggest names in the red but which teen chains are winning and losing one comes to the holiday season overall? john morris of capital markets joins me right now. let's go right to it because one of the key names that surprised me is a gap. teenagers are going back to gap. >> we do a lot of consumer focused research and consumer survey work and one of the most interesting things we are finding is the older team is going back to that gap. we have a better product because of better talent in place at the organization, you have people overseeing merchandising who come from some real blue chip names, they're doing a better job with the product and the teens see it and going back. cheryl: stock is up 72% and you have to outperform urban outfitters and express, urban outfitters, another name that has outperformed, stock of 50% over the last year. is this the teenage story? >> it tends to attract a slightly older teen or young adults, but in arkansas mercer rework the teens give urban outfitters

. >> but miami-dade is another -- you know, florida is another place where it's -- miami-dade is now the home of a really interesting, complicated, mixed up political coalition. where you have cubans and non- cuban hispanics finding common cause with african americans, haitians, a big lgbt community, big arts community, a lot of internal migrants from new york, where the same way clark county has been -- you've got a pot, a core of white democratic activists that have brought california politics in nevada. ofmiami, you've got a core new york, northeastern democratic activists who brought those politics to south florida. and within that you're now starting to see very effective latino players, a democratic congressman who won a race against a highly flawed republican candidate, but still won, who formed a coalition that, you know, went from miami beach through working class neighborhoods, all the way down to the keys with very distinct different working class whites, gays, you know, snowbirders, and then a big chunk of cuban and non-cuban latinos. so, in the second part of it, you sta

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partially because of things like the 12 page that is made up the ballots in places like miami-dade.icials failed to consider how long it would take each person to vote. and there were fewer days to vote. six. that's how many days were cut in florida allowing eight days instead of 14 for early voting. 15 states didn't allow early voting at all. only eight states in washington, d.c., allowed for same-day voter registration. then there was confusion at the ballot box. 19 polling places in hawaii ran out of paper ballots. at least five other states saw voting precincts run out. we can't know how many turned up to vote, we know 93 million eligible americans did not vote in the 2012 presidential election. according to a new survey from public affairs, more than 25% of them did not vote because they were not registered. as president obama said on election night, we have to fix that. when we come back, we'll tell you how we can. new prilosec otc wildberry is the same frequent heartburn treatment as prilosec otc. now with a fancy coating that gives you a burst of wildberry flavor. now why ma

but i have the experience of having been in will miami gardens and miami-dade county as well as that in miami dade county during early voting and witnessing firsthand the lines created by wall that was passed in my state in 2011 and signed by the current governor. there were lines in the garden and was largely african-american three or four hours people had to wait to vote to win and over and ventura on the scene after an. it required them to wait two and a half to three hours for early voting so i'm not sure what the court was looking at but i know what i salles and it was suppressive. 63. secretary bennett, can i ask i believe the voter ideals are common sense measures to prevent the voter fraud, secretary bennett, it is my understanding they have a variety lot from your experience and the other states have the adoption of the voter i.t. glock and minority turnout or maybe i should say turnout generally by think you ought to answer from the state will pick estimate we have the highest number of registered latinos in arizona and as a percentage of the total voter base now wait years

. >> but miami-dade is another, you know, florida is another place where it's -- miami-dade is now thehome of a really interesting, complicated, mixed-up political can coalition where you have cubans and non-cuban hispanics finding common cause with african-americans, haitians and a big lgbt community, big arts community, a lot of interim migrants from -- internal migrants from new york where the same way clark county has been, you've got a pop, a core of white democratic activists that have brought california politics to nevada. in miami you've got a core of new york, northeastern democratic activists who brought those politics to south florida. and within that you are now starting to see very effective latino players. democratic congressman won a race against a highly-flawed republican candidate but still won who formed a coalition that, you know, went from miami beach through working class neighborhoods all the way down to the keys with very distinct, different working-class whites, gays, you know, snowbirders and then a big chunk of cuban and non-cuban latinos. so you asked -- in t

resources to rebuild. 82-year-old dorothy tiner couldn't believe her eyes what she saw the 2011 tore dade snows -- tornados did to her tuscaloosa church. >> i was shocked how much damage it did. >> reporter: the church was damaged beyond repair when the storm was hit and they were forced to use another church miles away for sunday prayer. >> 2011 the heart of our city was ripped apart by this tornado. >> reporter: but the spirit of service still remains on the old site. parishioners use the parking lot for weekly meetings and community service. >> we kind of became a distribution spot. people were coming in from all over the united states with supplies, with food, with clothing. >> reporter: staying in the community is important for everyone involved. even a tight budget and zoning restrictions won't prevent them from rebuilding according to church leaders who say this is what they're called to do. >> we felt assured that god wanted us to come back. where he planted us in the first place. so it wasn't a casual decision. >> reporter: now church members breathing a sigh relief as the constr

that last weekend we saw, you know, people outside the library in miami-dade county until one in the morning. you know, we feel like those steps went in the wrong direction, and those some of the things that went wrong on election day. >> okay, thank you. jeremy, how did 2012 differ from 2008? we heard about long lines in 2008. why did this generate so much attention including from the president himself who said we have to fix this? >> yeah. well, first of all, thanks for having me here. i'm excited to have this conversation. as somebody who's been on now both the president's campaign out in the field sort of fighting against some of these laws that were put into place over the last couple years, this is deeply personal to me and watching, you know, folks fight to stay in those lines and make sure their vote was cast is something that's inspirational. but, you know, what we saw in 2012 in the country is just unacceptable. it's, frankly, it's unacceptable. you know, professor mcdonald is here, we had about 59% participation among folks that were eligible according to his statistics. s

i guess that's more than the people in mississippi and probably more than the people in dade county, any way. and we depend on it. 2.63 billion trips a year. as i said, the mta took a lot of necessary precautions. but this is 108-year-old system. it's the first major subway system in america. and it was never subject, as you noted correctly, senator nelson, with the full moon, the high tide and the huge storm. never hadnything like this. the mta tried to put up barriers. in many cases they worked. in other cases like the beautiful and new south ferry station right near the world trade center, the barriers re just knocked over by the high winds and flying debris. this one subway station, south ferry, is going to cost over 00 million, nearly 600 million to repair. many more underwater tunnels that connected the systems together gone. saltwater, which, of course, is corrosive to the switches, tracks and everything else. there's lots of permanent damage. the system is still not running up to snuff. there's two points i would like to make to this committee. the first, we need help with mi

we have -- i have the ballot from miami-dade. 12 pages. 12 pages of ballots. this took some people 40 minutes to get through. so we've got to deal with the length of our ballots and local issues, state issues, and it was just too long. >> there are -- >> secondly, we need more flexibility. >> go ahead. more flex iblgibilityflexibilit. >> one, we need flexibility in the size of polling locations and we need to look at the number of days of early voting we had. how much of a blame do you hold in this -- or do you hold yourself accountable for? people blamed you very vociferously for not extending early voting. you look at polling, quinnipiac, does governor scott deserve a second term. 52% say no. and in your own party, more than half say they would like another candidate to challenge you. you are suffering the consequences of some of the things you could have changed. >> well, soledad, i complied with the law. we had an election bill that was passed my first year in office by the legislature ample proved by the justice department, so i complied with the law and

. >> dade, this one is definitely for you specifically and aarp. the question is this: what scoreable savings proposals does aarp support for medicare beyond just better care coordination? does aarp support means testing, combining parts a and b cost sharing or medigap reforms or anything else? >> i think it's important to remind everybody that we recently had a large health care bill called the affordable care act which included $720 billion of medicare savings which i'm sure many of you heard throughout the year as both candidates talked about it. so it's not as if we have not contributed a significant amount of savings in medicare already. we still think we can do more in terms of medicare to make the program a more efficient, less wasteful, to focus more on quality of care. there are a number of strategies around that, there are no silver bullets. these just don't apply to health care -- i mean, to medicare, but to health care in general. and it is really about making the health care delivery system more efficient. and that means a better job o

i think a lot of people who say the two state settlement is dade make pretensions -- pre tensions about their knowledge that don't correspond to their actual injuring. maps are put together by the best palestinian gee -- geographyers. they very detailed and show how the two states would work. what is most striking is, when he presented his map to the israelis during the negotiations, in particular to livni, who was the foreign minister, she looked at the map and you could tell she found the maps convincing. under her terms. and she didn't have an easy answer, so she started to ask the palestinians, particularly dr. abbott, what would about this village? he said we can build a brim there what about that town? he said you can build a road here. and you see that livni realizing, you know, what is actually a fair solution. she doesn't say it. what she says is -- and it's absolutely critical -- she says -- now i'm paraphrasing, can't remember verbatim the quote. she says, no israeli prime minister, accepting such a map could survive politically. the problem is not physical. the problem is po

i'm guessing dade gregory and maria bartolome mow. it's not like they have a dog in that fight.titlements. i understand that the congress is going to go down to 126 days of working this year. which, to my knowledge makes them part-time. >> yep. >> caller: so i'm wondering why they still get medical benefits, pensions and why they still get -- all kinds of perks from the government, paid vacations. those are entitlements i think we need to look at, don't you? >> right. >> stephanie: if we were greedy republican pizza guys, we would make sure they don't get any healthcare. >> we should make them part-time. >> stephanie: tim geithner yesterday. >> the only thing that stands in the way of a deal right now is if a group of republican members decide they're going to block a deal because they want to extend tax cuts. we can't afford for the wealthiest 2% of americans -- >> stephanie: i love this. orrin hatch gave the republican response and he called the president's long -- his economic proposal bait and switch. this is exactly what he ran on. this is exactly what he ran on. here's orr

dade blanken horn, their once witness has come out in favor of same-sex marriage. >> stephanie: that'se people since we began this fight. and i'm like what are you talking about? you had a fair hearing. you could prove no harm. right? that was the legal -- that's what happened, right? >> well, there is a 3,000 page trial record which is the very first time there's been a trial on this issue of basically discrimination against a group of folks that want to be married and that 3,000 page record is a very powerful thing. and it is hard to just keep saying you know, we haven't had a fair trial when, in fact, the record proves quite the opposite. >> stephanie: mm-hmm. sandy, obviously the one thing that makes a lot of people nervous is everybody has been saying forever this comes down to one guy. one guy to anthony kennedy and trying to figure out what way he's going to go on this, right? >> that's right. you know, kennedy has shown some pretty strong supportive feelings as well for gay individuals so we don't feel like there is a pretty good possibility that he'll weigh in our favor. as kr

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the associated press first called the election for president obama, but an drey m mirias from miami-dade, florida ir,was still on online waiting t his vote. he was in line for five hours. that's nothing compared to what others waited to cast their ballots. this is a americas one voter said. it's chaos. another first-time voter waited five hours in chesapeake, virginia. "this is just horrible. there's no reason it should take this long. "voters across the country had other challenges or problems voting. voters in pueblo, colorado, said they checked the box on their touch-screen panel to vote for m.i.t. rom memittromney, but it. i wonder if my vote really counted, they said. poll watchers in davidson county, tennessee, could only stand by as would-be voters is asaw the long line and drove away, pressed by commitments of family or work or others, chose not to spend hours waiting in line to exercise that most fundamental of american rights, the fran chierks the right to vote. in philadelphia, longtime registered voters who showed up to cast their ballots discovered their names weren't on the

i guess that's more than the people in mississippi and probably dade county.depend on it. 2.6 3 billion trips per year. as i said, the mta to a lot of necessary precautions but this is a 108-year-old system, the first in america and was never subjected, as you have noted, senator nelson with the full moon, high tide, huge form. we've never had anything like it. they tried to put up barriers. in some cases they worked, but in some cases, the new and beautiful station, the barriers were just knocked over by the high wind and flying debris. one subway station, southbury, that is going to cost over $500 million, nearly $600 million to repair. many more underwater tunnels connecting systems together, gone. saltwater is corrosive to the switches, the tracks, everything else, so there's a lot of permanent damage. the system is still mont up to snuff and it is our lifeblood. there are two 0.7 like to make. first, we need help with mitigation. we cannot just rebuild 108-year- old system and replace them with parts that existed then. "it's not make sense to just be doin