quit her tv job, as a news anchor and booked a one-way plane ticket to haiti and julie pierce out of duluthn orlando, and within days hopes to be in haiti. julie, good morning to you. why did you make this decision. >> good morning, bill. can you say it one more time, i'm having trouble hearing you. bill: how did you make this decision? >> well, i was actually in belize and doing outreach work there when the earthquake happened and when i got back i went straight back to the anchor desk and suddenly i'm having to read the headlines and tell the stories, and, as it breaks my heart like i know it is every american's heart i know there is something i can do about it and being a trained, registered nurse, going to one of best soldiers around the country, st. sclas ka, i knew i could could get there and assist and i made the decision to exchange the bright lights of the studio for the bright sun of haiti and get down there and start doing good. bill: you mentioned belize, and there are certain parts of that country, it is pretty tough going and other parts, it is -- caribbean resort-like and are

and i'll end with this: duluth, minnesota, it was in some really, really hard times in the 1980's. it was so bad that they actually put up a billboard that said "the last person to leave, turn off the lights." that's where that town was headed. and they rebuilt. they rebuilt because they were smart about some businesses that came in but they were smart about tourism. beautiful lake superior right there. that's what they did. when we did a tourism hearing, a field hearing out there and they were talking about how obviously in many areas of the country with the recession, business convention centers had gone down nationally, the woman from duluth whispered to me "ours has gone up." theirs has gone up because people are looking for different things in different parts of their lives. when times are tough they think maybe we'll have our convention in duluth and look at lake superior instead of looking at the pacific ocean. this is a country we're proud of. we want people to visit from other parts of the world. we want to create those 41,000 new jobs. that's what this bill is about. i re