and the computers that weren't purchased, they were replaced just before the next governor duval patrick and his staff showed up to take power in january, 2007. state employees buying their work computers? that's a new one on me. romney's chief legal counsel said it was common practice in the governor's office and, quote, those purchases were in agreement with the law and long-standing executive branch practice. in massachusetts they're supposed to hand over electronic records when the governor leaves office.

they are both former duval patrick advisers too.ation, but they are looking for more detail about these types of communications over president obama. >> your report had a lost requests and filings and it may turn up more. great report. thank you for joining us. mass evacuations in reno, nevada from a raging wildfire tops our look at stories about 9500 people have been forceed from homes in the path passion of this fire. so far 20 homes have been lost and several people have been sent to the hospital for smoke inhalation. high winds are mayking it tough to contain. hillary clinton will be the first secretary of state in 50 years to visit myanmar. the trip will help determine how serious the military ruled country is about democratic reform. you know it as burma as well. while millions of americans gear up to hit the stores in search of black friday bargains, ads are running to promote small business saturday which is also next week. . >> i pledge to shop small. >> the effort to get your business this saturday, this sunday morning. yo

now, democratic governor duval patrick is asking for the date to be moved again because the 6th is thelosing night of the democratic convention in north carolina. the state house republican leader says pushing the date back could jeopardize distribution of the absentee military ballots. my question would be why did he sign it in the first place? was he doing a book deal or too busy traveling? we're not changing it for religious or enfranchisement reasons but so they can go to the party. presidential candidate ron paul with the perfect holiday gift for the hard to shop for libertarian. for $8, supporters can order the ron paul family cookbook from the candidate 2012 website that promises 28 pages of recipes to warm your kitchen and your heart. "new yorker" magazine has fake flavors with libertarian flavor. saying -- now grapevine follow-up. a gay softball organization says it will pay undisclosed settlement to three bisexual players who claim they were disqualified from the 2008 world series because they were not gay enough. their team will also receive the second place trophy it was de

the current democratic governor, duval patrick has been bombarded with inquiries for records from the romney era and has no electronic record ofny romney administration e-mails. governor patrick is a friend of president obama and expected to campaign for him in 2012. democrats say the romney wipe is unprecedented. >> mitt romney was planning to run for president towards the end of his administration and the public has the right to know what kinds of communication were going on while he was beginning to plan that campaign. it is absolutely unkconscionabl, inexcusable that records from -- of those conversations or of any conversations would have been wiped clean from servers. >> reporter: but the romney campaign says it was all legal and -- >> the obama administration is a very large organization and they're going to spend millions of dollars, if not a billion dollars in order to hold on to power. they will say and do anything to hold onto their power. in this case, they have deployed or activated the patrick administration to do their dirty wor work. >> all this plays into a larger dyn

and the computers that weren't purchased, they were replaced just before the next governor duval patrickower in january, 2007. state employees buying their work computers? that's a new one on me. romney's chief legal counsel said it was common practice in the governor's office and, quote, those purchases were in agreement with the law and long-standing executive branch practice. in massachusetts they're supposed to hand over electronic records when the governor leaves office. seems very fishy to me. joining me now, glen johnson 'n, political editor of "the boston globe" website, boston.com. he's been writing about this today for the boston globe. thank you for being here with me tonight. >> thanks for having me on, al. >> now, let me make sure i have this right. romney's administration let employees buy the computers they used at work in state level jobs that had information on them that should have been saved for public records. >> yeah. it wasn't just the computers, which i think people could probably wrap their head around. it was actually the hard drive component of some computers th

a week ago the governor duval patrick signed into law creating a new congressional district.resting to see what congressman frank says about why he's choosing at this point to retire and not run in 2012. jenna: we expect a comment from him about 1:00 eastern time today. thank you very much. jon: a possible new lead to tell you about in the case of a missing florida mom. michelle parker vanished after appearing on the people's court with her exfiance, who orlando police may be taking a hard look at now. jon: new developments in the case of this missing florida mom. michelle parker vanished after appearing on a taped episode of the people's court with her exfiance. now orlando police have searched the home of her ex's father. patti ann browne is at the breaking news desk with more. >> reporter: the deadline to claim a $50,000 reward for information on the whereabouts of michelle parker was midnight last night, and police did not get a tip that led to the missing mom. it's being called the people's court case because the 33-year-old orlando woman vanished the same day the show a

governor duvall patrick in massachusetts actually signed something very similar, collective bargainingce for local officials. those are things that people -- even rahm emanuel of chicago is doing the same things. honest leaders are knowing you cannot move forward unless you're going to gut services or raise taxes but we took the path that was right for the people of wisconsin. >> got it. and governor walker, always enjoy talking to you. it's not an easy thing you did but no one can question your leadership. thank you very much for joining us today. >> happy thanksgiving. >> same to you, sir. next, the top five companies hiring for the holidays much let's give them a great thanksgiving. some of the jobs are for keeps as well. cheryl casone will be out here. and in 1964 "the leader of the pack" was the number one song. [ male announcer ] what if you have potatoes? but you've got a meat and potatoes guy? pour chunky sirloin burger soup over those mashed potatoes and dinner is served. four minutes, around four bucks. campbell's chunky -- it's amazing what soup can do. what's vanishing dedu