to federal prison. inmate but certainly i've visited federal prisons. it's not a happy place. so five years is, you know, five years too many for anyone. >> okay. thank you. let me come back over here. >> this is all happening live. >> that's how we roll sometimes here at cnn. but to you and your point, i think it's important to make it once again for people who are just now joining us the fact that when we think of what happened here, a block and a half that way, the sheer destruction, the ruining of lives, the sophistication of that plot, the successful plot, the bombs going off, then when we look at the aftermath, right, these two guys on the run, the younger one partying, working out at u-mass dartmouth, and now, clearly, communicating according to this criminal complaint with some college buddies to try to dispose of evidence dpsh- >> it is not an exit strategy we're used to. >> no. >> for those who have been involved with these cases. they weren't as we've been saying suicide bombers so they knew

the federal contracting agencies how to go out and get access to federal contracts. it's a big role that we play. there is a federal government goal for 23% of all federal dollars to go to small business. we come to close it in the federal agencies come close to that number but don't reach it. about 22 and a half percent this year and there are separate goals for women owned pbs and 5% of contracting should go to women owned business. we fall short of that and three or 4% go to women owned business so sba triers to certify businesses to get access to federal contracting. in the last year that took a long time from the legislation that was passed in 2000 to 2009 a gap of time where that was not put into place. in 2009sba was able to put the small contracting program in place and get that program up. it's had a couple of years to really get access -- for women to get access to the self certification process to be available to take advantage of women contracting. it's a relatively narrow band of types of businesses that are available. there are about 83 industrial class

it happens with every federally funded project; every time a nickel of federal funding goes into any project like this it automatically opens it up for these kinds of limitations. that being said to support thinking about if we say no to this contract at this time, what happens is a project is delayed for who knows how much time in who knows for what better, if any, we will get. we talk about the economy and how it will turn around the whole corridor and everything; , every time i think about the central subway and i hear about it, i think about those folks who are slaves to the ferry stockton. i would encourage anyone to go ahead and wash dishes in a windowless room for 10 hours, and going and stand in line and wait for crowded bus that will pass you, and have that person, or have someone tell you that we'll have to wait a few more years before anything changes; this is a transit first city, we have to move this contract forward to improve his vision that is inclusive of those writers and the community in chinatown and i will support this and vote yes in looking forward to moving th

but there is no doubt in my mind that when the federal government comes in to land that has been federally designated, drills wells, walks away from, leaves a mess, that that is the federal government's responsibility. and that it should not then be on the shoulders of the state of alaska to do that cleanup. so i just want to make sure that when you're talking about prioritizing it within the budget that it is prioritizing within the federal budget and not taking revenues that would've otherwise come to the state. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thanks, senator murkowski. again we're using the earlybird rule going from site to site. senator tester. >> i want to thank everyone for being here today. it's good to see you, and thank you for putting yourself up for this pushing. i know you would do a great job. david hayes, thank you for what you've done during your tenure at the department of into your. i very much appreciate it. i even more appreciate your friendship, so thank you, thank you very, very much for your service. as far as the budget goes i would just like to say i'm very encouraged t

no question there's a federal role here to play congress will find the money it will be offset those offset efforts ultimately failed over public think congress tried it again after hurricane sandy in fact both oklahoma senators tom coburn and james inhofe worked hard to slash federal aid funds for hurricane sandy victims down to just twenty three billion dollars about thirty percent of what was requested by affected states but again those efforts failed when republicans in congress were butte by one of their own new jersey governor chris christie. for the victims to say have you jersey new york connecticut it's been sixty six days and the wait continues. there's only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims the house majority and their speaker john boehner so here we are good another disaster another debate brewing over to disaster relief with republican lawmakers including lawmakers from oklahoma suggesting that the whole disaster relief hostage until they get some austerity elsewhere and all indications are with a plan that rapidly warming that mass

federal budget to it this every year american household well you know it's very challenging but what we try to do in this campaign is really break it down where the average american can understand what's going on and you know we have a debt ceiling and what's happened in years past administrations past both parties is raise the debt limit and we've seen very little action to really have serious reforms that we need i mean right now the debts over one hundred percent the entire u.s. economy and most professors and scholars in economics will tell you that when that happens it can stranger ability to grow an economy and there is also a study by rinehart robot that you probably saw and then came after them this weekend and he they said when you know what's wrong and he's saying they're wrong in that having large amounts of debt does not construct an economy do you have any comments on the survey that well i mean all i can say is look what's happening right now in europe look at spain greece italy dead doesn't matter and to start with the premise to dead doesn't matter is is this a false

but i don't think you'ring going to see any kind of federal mandate. >> it's going to be disaster, federal money extended for this part of oklahoma. >> yes, and that is entirely appropriate we are all constituents in this land and both the oklahoma senators voted against aide for the victims of hurricane sandy and they are kind of refining their position now. but i think this is kind of an opportune time for the president in the sense that it's a circuit breaker for all the scandal mania in washing on the, and it shows how government can work. this administration has done an excellent job in these really big moments of disaster and the president is going to be there as a consoler in chief on sunday. they're all with the people of oklahoma. we don't care how they vote. >> there are pretty close to a dozen existing government regulatory agencies that provide disaster relief anywhere in the united states. any disaster. did you know that? >> i think fema is the big one. federal emergency management agency and it did not perform well when president bush was in office. and katrina undermines the

a financial lifeline from the federal emergency management agency fema now which has been funneling money into the northeast to help rebuild after hurricane sandy has thirteen billion dollars left in its disaster funds to last the rest of fiscal year two thousand and thirteen but any additional federal funding that citizens of more may need will have to go through congress which has recently taken a new approach to disaster relief now historically federal disaster relief has never been offset by spending cuts elsewhere for example after hurricane katrina congress came together and passed over one hundred billion dollars in federal aid for new orleans and surrounding areas none of it was offset by spending cuts but already oklahoma senator tom coburn is saying that any disaster relief for his home state after these tornadoes should be offset by spending cuts elsewhere in the budget and we're talking about spending cuts we're talking about long political battles which don't drive well during disasters when people need help right away house majority leader eric cantor played the same g

this is not a federal charge. is this -- this would be a local courtroom in new bedford, massachusetts, right? >> no, wolf. these will be federal charges. >> these are federal charges. >> these three individuals are now in the custody of the fbi. that is correct. >> okay. i want to be precise. they're not in custody of local police. they're in custody of the fbi. this is obviously a much, much bigger deal if the fbi has decided to bring these formal charges. >> oh, absolutely. and the way that this came down is that the boston police department put out a tweet that three people were in custody. so naturally the initial thought was they're in the custody of the boston police department. but the boston police said, no, they're in the custody of the fbi and we're being referred to federal authorities for more information on the charges. now, those charges as we understand it have not yet been publicly revealed at this time. this is what we're learning about them from our sources. >> has the fbi put out any statement

federal helicopter hovering overhead.fficers standing outside the courthouse, very visible and more than a dozen microphones set up waiting for statements from attorneys. this now as three suspects are being charged in connection with the marathon bombings here in boston. as you mentioned, they will likely be charged with conspiring to obstruct justice. giving false staples. two citizens from pakistan. azam at tazhayakov and diaz kadyrbayev. third suspect designed as a male. we do not the have identification yet. third suspect arrested for allegedly doing and i quote doing bad things to hurt the investigation. we expect that they are going to have a court appearance here in the next few hours, if not sooner. and lastly, we have heard from police officer richard donahue today the transit officer in boston, critically wounded during the shootout that took place. he had cardiac arrest, massive blood loss. he issued a statement saying i cannot begin to properly thank everyone involved in my recovery. i'm not awake, moving and

about the federal reserve. the implication, being asked to do things they can't do. we've got some big imbalances in the economy. we lost a lot of manufacturing. a lot of manufacturing employment. that's not going to come back because the federal reserve is carrying out quantitative easing in a hurry. we've got to balance the payments problem. >> right. >> you know, new york, it always strikes me new york is doing fine. it wasn't much affected by the coo great crisis, a lot of terms are in trouble. we have tourist industry, entertainment, fairly low rate of unemployment. you go 200 miles upstate, they have very serious economic difficulties because they were manufacturing centers. rochester, buffalo, schenectady, there's no magic solution from the federal reserve. >> rose: but there is no question we are in an economic recovery. >> yes. >> rose: and what could-- what could screw it up. >> oh a lot of things could screw it up in the short run. i hope nothing too short run. europe is still not stable. >> rose: ri

i understand the federal probation all that. i hope the contractor listens to this and does everything they can to make this is representative of the seven cisco workforce as it possibly can. members of the board? >> one question. i noticed here mr. fungi, thank you, this includes the construction of the stations. my understanding is that the underground portion of the stations, the work that will go on about the stations whatever's going on above that, that is still sort of to be decided and awarded in the future? >> this is the balance of the work for the simple supper program; we have two small programs. the tone contract executed last year. it does include the aboveground portion at stockton in washington and fourth and folsom to build the head houses of the station and union square. to the extent there is the desire to build up above where the stations head houses are, that will happen separately, it is not part of the 1.5 billion dollar program. >> the reader care of you care to speak to the comments suggesting that the fe

when we talk about bullying and harassment there is no federal definition of bullying. in fact, one of the things we're working on is getting a common definition so we know what that means. and tom and i have an enormous amount of jurisdiction and team support to help ensure that when it comes to race, when it comes to color and national origin and sex and disability that there is some real teeth behind that, but it also is about students that are bullied and harassed because they are short, because they might act differently or unique. that's where we have to provide the kinds of tools and supports and training to superintendents, like -- i see another one over there, tony smith from oakland, the sort of heroes that are deeply trying to transform their communities and recognize that this is also a community issue, that it is not just a school issue. >> tom, why don't we have a federal definition? >> well, we're working on it. i mean, i think there's a, when we had the white house conference there was a conversation about what is the federal role and there continues to

government even on fiscal matters it isn't the states who get to make decisions but the federal policy makers in berlin this cannot last forever have you looked at independence campaigns in other parts of the world i'm thinking particularly scottish independence or catalonian independence and try to learn something from what they are achieving then. what we can learn from history is that political maps are not set in stone nations can have their boundaries altered through a peaceful process based on the will of the people that take the form czechoslovakia which was dissolved peacefully forming two independent states the czech republic and the slovak republic but there are many more examples scotland will be holding an independence referendum in twenty fourteen and a similar initiative is currently being debated in catalonia there are movements with a similar agenda in men. the european countries brussels which i'm especially critical of being competencies within the e.u. is itself the capital of a nation whose actual existence this question of will as belgium appears to be divided more

we're waiting for an appearance before a federal judge magistrate in a federal courthouse in boston. you see those two students from kazakhstan there together with dzhokhar tsarnaev. this is when they visited times square last year. we're blurring out the pictures of the other two friends who went with them to times square last year. we'll continue our coverage right after this. le -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female announcer ] ensure muscle health has revigor and protein to help protect, preserve, and promote muscle health. keeps you from getting soft. [ major nutrition ] ensure. nutrition in charge! i remember thinking there's a lot i have to do... check my blood sugar, eat better. start insulin. today i learned there's something i don't have to do anymore. my doctor said with levemir® flexpen... i don't have to use a syringe and a vial. levemir® flexpen comes prefilled wi

people nationwide the federal at the federal level it's been about seventy thousand. ministration in our lifetimes that is actually lost of boys well you know it really doesn't when you see the traffic coming into d.c. every day really doesn't look like we've lost all that many i think that's all those lobbyists. ok just a quick question ted cruz ted cruz is being talked about as a candidate for president by a lot of people and yet he was born in canada if if he becomes a just twenty second real quick answer if he becomes a candidate or the birth is going to come out of the out of the woodwork against him well it didn't seem to be a problem for people going to be political about this it didn't seem to be much of a problem for people on your side with the whole natural born issue when it came to brock obama. you guys made a little more stink about john mccain than you did about barack obama now we got to go quick i think that the fact that natural born there and it's not that he was a citizen of another country and then he naturalized later my understanding is either g

you are already in deep trouble as far as the federal government is concerned. i really recommend that you bone up on this; [indiscernible] and get the agency back on track. i would like to point out also that apparently there's serious trouble at union square station, driving piles. maybe-- those are my comments. i encourage the board to get up to speed on this and stay with your agency. thank you. >> albert wong, followed by howard wong. >> i like to follow up - my name is albert wong, value fire, i work with stanley. i like to follow-up with other points of view brought up. not only by moving up the project said a dangerous precedent for the city agency to ignore the lbe ordinance, in disregarding the benefits to the local economy that can be generated. but also many of us, the contracting communities, have dreamt and aspired to participate in a once-in-a-lifetime 840 million project. now we are about to have this dream taken away not by others but by our own agency. this project will be built and maintained with local monies for many years to come; local com

save there are concerns what happens when the largest marginal bond buyer that is the federal reserve stop buying treasury debt as a part of quantitative easing right so it seems a global sovereign bond markets might be entering a crisis era it's no surprise then that the new banking rules such as basil three force banks to own more sovereign debt run better not withstanding and for the investing public bonds are promoted as a safe way to has portfolio and reduce volatility but they're not without their own risk when interest rates turn the corner and eventually they're going to arrive via better paying out such low rates like one in two percent are going to lose market value right and it kind of reminds us of one of those drug commercials where they list all the benefits you know they go on and on at the same day. well we thought it would be interesting to make one of these commercials and let's roll it. when you're searching for relative safety and investments where can you go the weight of portfolio under-performance can hurt in so many ways don't believe that moody's and s. and p.

like i was saying earlier the bari gets a federal retirement and things like that with the intention of paying it back but it's just moving money around to give them a little bit more leverage till the they reach a conclusion on this debate of federal retirement is that social security no this is just the federal workers that put forth money into their plans which are similar for one case but this isn't so sure curity what we have from social security well we have you know you have to trust a lot of americans think that's a lockbox with their name on it with their money and it's not i mean for so many years when social security ran surpluses washington spent that money so you bring up a good point that money's been spent and especially as the attraction right what do you think that selling ceiling debate is going to look like well you know we're going to see this unfold over the next few months it looks like both can be sticking their ground i hope that washington comes together on some big type of bargain you know is that going to happen i can't say but i can say these are major pro

, the federal end of it.hey kind of keep me in the loop on that. but i just want to make sure that everybody in my community is taken care of. if they need something that they can call me. i'm just that kind of guy. like i've said before, my family moved here in the 1940s, so these are, you know, friends and acquaintances we've known for a long time. i know a lot of them. >> there is going to be a debate over federal funding and how much money. not just should come to oklahoma but other areas. it's been part of the ongoing sequester debate. what would you say to folks who question how much money the federal government should put in to what they might consider to be a local disaster? >> well, you know, again, i think that's congressman cole and we had a congressional delegation here yesterday, we toured the area. >> both of the senators, u.s. senators. >> yeah, we had the senators, all the congressmen, they were all here the governor. that was impressive they came. something for them to hash out on their end.

federally subsidized or otherwise. neither do spinach farmers, broccoli farmers, or artichoke farmers. the list of crops with no insurance support goes on. cauliflower, celery, eggplant, cut flowers, kiwi, couple quats, melon, raspberries and pomegranates, just to name a few. farming without government-subsidized crop insurance is possible, contrary to what some would have you believe. and i also want to remind my colleagues that tobacco farmers have done quite well by the government. in 2014, north carolina tobacco farmers and quota owners will have received $3.9 billion in buyout payments. in other words, they have taken this money to buy out, be bought out. kentucky quota owners and farmers will have received $2.4 billion from the government. quota holders and farmers in tennessee, south carolina, virginia and georgia will each have received more than $600 million in buyout payments by the end of next year. evenly divided among the thousands of tobacco quota holders and farmers nationwide, the nearly $10 billion buy

he pleaded not guilty in federal court on monday. reporting live, mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. >> thank you. the indictments officers have ba pended without pay. >>> a harford county sheriff is charged with a crash. it started when a driver hit the cruiser of deputy christopher bales. he confronted the man and got caught up in the doors as it took off. he fired one shot at the driver and is charged with wreckless engagement. >>> authorities say a search turned up evidence of ricin at a studio connected with the man who sent the letters. james dutschke was arrested over the weekend. traces of the poison were found in items in the trash outside that studio. ricin is made from caster beans and he bought them online last year. >>> the food and drug administration announces it's lowering the age to buy a morning after pill without a prescription. anyone over 15 will be able to purchase one step over the counter. danielle nottingham has the latest for wjz. >> girls as young as 15 will be able to buy plan b over the counter. until no

law well that's right i agree we do need a change in federal law but when the federal law comes in cracks and obama's cracking down on cancer patients who are just trying to get their medicine then we do need elephant cation if this. is the federal law i agree there's not one thing called the supremacy clause we're not we're not the united states if we don't all agree to follow the laws that we've all but we need a laboratory and some ocracy that's what jefferson wanted that the states would all have the right to choose and texas is a perfect example of that because texas is now saying that we you can't force us to use our own money and resources to go in and force a federal law i mean there's a that's always known but they are if there are they are they not asserting or at least implying implicitly asserting that they can prevent federal you know because they had that specific law stated in there it's not know if it's the complete opposite of what south carolina did that's so so ok all of this is based on justifying the second amendment the second amendment if you go back and you read th