of florida and fox news projects that al gore will carry the state of florida. raw vote percentages. we project a win for al gore. >> not long afterwards we hear, a, that rove has gone crazy and demanding that the call of florida be revoked. >> people are getting up and walking out of the phone banks in california and i'm getting reports that in orange county people are walking out of the voting lines because they are hearing that the election is over. >> bret: even former democratic strategist bob beckel believes the early call robbed bush of votes in florida's central time zone. >> an hour difference and with the projection being made probably 8,000 to 10,000 votes. >> after the initial call of gore a stream of exit poll data came in from bush's traditional area of strength, the panhandle counties. >> television is changing from being an observer to being an actual participant. i went on cnn, we have a policy here of cnn of calling a state vote whatever people voted in 75% of the precincts. and i said maybe we better make it 100%. >> florida is now too close t

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we have a situation in florida where we have about 700,000 more registered democrats in florida, but we have 75% now of our legislature is republican, and that is due to the way the districts are drawn. now, i would say that the elected legislators think it is due to the fact that everybody loved them very much. but the districts are drawn in such a way that whoever is drawing the district's puts the opposite party voters in large numbers into a very small number of districts and then puts their voters to spread them out over twice the number of districts. basically that is the way it has been done in florida for years. this year, 63% of the florida voters, in a very unusual year in florida for many reasons, said 63% said, we do not want districts are drawn for the purpose of favoring or disfavor in a political party or an incumbent. that i think spoke very well about the mood of floridians. so these amendments say the districts shall not be drawn with the intent to favor or disfavor political parties or incumbents. we now have along with that provision, another provision in the cons

this is costing customers just a few cents. >> reporter: florida manatees.ust trying to escape the weather like so many others this week. kerry sanders, nbc news, ft. lauderdale. >> that's our broadcast for this wednesday night. thank you for being with us. i'm lester holt in for brian williams. hope to see you back here tomorrow evening. good night, everyone. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com . >>> right now at 6:00 -- reversing the trend -- crime is dropping in the bay area's largest cities. so what's behind the trend? good evening, everyone. i'm tom sinkoviz. homicide rates have dropped to the lowest levels in years. overall violent crime has sunk to lows not seen since 1973. and as

a gunman storms a florida school board meeting and opens fire. >>> wintry wallop. the east coast and midwest remain locked in the icy grip of a dangerous deep freeze. >>> and the belaggio bandit. in a holy orders wood-worthy heist, a robbed man robs a vegas casino of $1.5 million and slips into the night. this is the "cbs morning news" for wednesday, december 15th. this is the "cbs morning news" for wednesday, december 15th. 2010. captioning funded by cbs >>> good to see you this wednesday. i' 137 i'm terrell brown in for betty nguyen. this morning, still isn't clear why a man opened fire at a florida school board meeting. what's amazing, that no one was hurt but the gunman. the gunman was shot in that case minutes before the room was filled with students, the dramatic confrontation was caught on tape. manuel gallegus reports. >> i don't want anybody to get hurt. >> reporter: the superintendent of schools in panama city pleads with a man who pulls out a gun at a school board meeting. but the man identified by police as clay duke refuses to back down. >> please don'

the cold in florida could be very costly.ando affiliate wftv. >> temperatures are dropping fast as an historic hard freeze is taking hold offentral florida and is not letting go. with the windchill, it could feel like it's in the teens when you wake up in the mornini. it hasn't been this cold in december since the 1980s. >> right now, all of central florida is under a hard freeze warning. we b bught in team coverage tonight for this major weather story. >> central florida citrus growers are bracing for r low freezing temperatures tonight. one grower told us he could lose $1 million worth of crops just tonight. channel 9's ryan hughes s live in an orange grove right now in lake county. ryan, the irrigation systems are on and i understand ice is now forming on the trees. >> reporter: that's right. the ice formed out here in clermont in the last hour or so. you can see it here at the base of the tree. there are icicles on these leaves and branches. it's actually a very good thing. because the ice serves as a protector. these tin

with records in atlanta, viro, beach, florida and daytona beach. >> i'm wearing my florida winter clothes, which are ridiculous. >> reporter: and there was snow, lots of snow. two feet fell outside cleveland. with nine more inches expected by morning. more snow is on the way in pennsylvania, ohio, and new york. where the layered look is back in. >> one. two. three. more. >> reporter: not a fashion statement, a survival strategy. >> i don't care really how i look as long as i'm warm. >> reporter: and on a snowbound highway in ontario, kafnd today, military choppers had to rescue motorists. more than 300 people had been stranded in snow and ice for more than 24 hours. >> i seen a snow-covered event. you should have seen the vehicles. >> reporter: back in florida, john arnold has his grapefruit harvest back under way but still feels anxious. these are typically february events, not december. >> we still have a long potentially very cold winter ahead of us. >> reporter: below freezing temperatures are expected again here overnight. 28 or 29 degrees, but no lower. yes, farmers like john arnold

our own kerry sanders is in bell glade, florida tonight. kerry, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. florida's governor has established a state of emergency to help farmers. we haven't seen a hard freeze like the one that's forecast here for florida tonight since 1989. florida's often referred to as the winter salad bowl this time of year, because so much of the fresh food that we get at the grocery store across the nation comes from florida. tonight's strawberry farmers plan to sprinkle their fields with water to create an ice blanket around the berries, keeping them at 32 degrees. citrus growers are watching closely. if the temperatures hit 28 degrees or lower for more than four hours, there could be severe damage. orange juice futures today hit three-year highs. lettuce and spinach growers picking as much as they can. that's the case here. the plan, leave it covered tonight. the idea, the heat radiated out may be reflected back down. but the reality down is, temperatures will hit into the 20s. brian? >> kerry sanders in florid

there's another cold morning ahead in florida. these numbers like orlando will be a record temperature, at 27. that is very unusual and the second day in a row. >> short reprieve but could be a cold week next week. sam, thank you. >>> overseas now to london, where julian assange appeared in court today, a week after his arrest connected to rape charges in sweden. the british judge granted bail, but assange is still behind bars tonight, and jim sciutto followed it all from the courtroom. jim? >> reporter: well, george, he came and went in an armor's van, giving a thumb's up sign after he was granted bail. and inside court, as he sat surrounded by three guards, assange was calm, attentive, even smiling. the judge awarding bail of $300,000, but requiring it be deposited in cash, and that, his lawyers, say will take a few days the prosecutors appealed that decision, sending assange back to prison for at least one more night. what's next for him is what he lawyer jokingly call eed him mansion arrest. he'll be staying on the 600-acre es

vero beach, florida-- 26. daytona beach,-- 24. >> i'm wear mig florida winter clothes which are ridiculous. >> reporter: in kansas city, the spectacle was this giant ice house carved by four-degree weather and a nearby water main break. >> just trying to get up to their mailbox i was sliding. >> reporter: and there was snow, lots of snow. two feet fell outside cleveland with nine more inches expected by morning. more snow is on the way in pennsylvania, ohio, and new york where the layered look is back in. >> one, two, three, more. >> reporter: not a fashion statement, a survival strategy. >> i don't care, really, how i look as long as i'm warm. >> reporter: and on a snow-bound highway in ontario canada, military choppers had to rescue motorists. more than 300 people had been stranded in snow and ice for more than 24 hours. >> reporter: and back in florida, john arnold has his grapefruit harvest back under way but still feels anxious. freeze scares like this typically are february events, not december. >> we st

this5<çw judge like judge vincet in florida who has already ruled on the tax issue in the florida caseand though they have a hearing later this week and the two judges that have ruled the individual mandate constitutional, all have rejected that tax argue, all of them. >> that's the inter section of the politics and the law. that's the [ unintelligible ] now, there's usually in the statute says something can or captain be severed out. the judge ruled you in terms of severability. the supreme court says look at it narrowly to see if i can remove a particular unconstitutional provision. >> took out individual mandate which is interesting because and the federal government conceded that all of the insurance provisions had to go if the individual mandate went. unless you -- he has a sentence or two in the ruling that suggests that the enumerated sections affected by the individual mandate should also be declared inoperable. we are still looking at the remedy piece. our focus obviously has been first and foremost on constitutionality. we know this case is not just about health insurance, it

brian. >> kerry sanders in florida tonight. kerry, thanks. >>> the other big piece of the weather story, the lake-effect snow here in the northeast. they're talking about the great lakes when they say that, but today, that snow stretched as far east as the new york city area, where they're really getting it good tonight is erie, p.a., and that means mike seidel must be there. and he is. mike, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. it's been doing this all day, snowing and blowing, whiteouts, swirling snow. and as a result, we've seen a lot of snow here in northwest p.a. as much as 20 inches on the ground already. temperatures in the mid 20s, so it's a very fly dry, fluffy snow. it's being picked up and blown around and drifted. many are slowing down on the highways. but interstate 90, which was shut down last week near buffalo is open tonight. it is the perfect setup, a big storm over eastern canada, swirling down cold air over the warmer lakes. lake temperatures are 20, 30 degrees warmer, and you end up with lake-effe

>> kerry sanders in florida. where there are predictions again tourm night of a record low as far south as the florida keys. and in the pacific northwest tonight, the problem is rain. there have been mudslides, houses swamped, raging rivers there. all the flooding has led to several rescues around the region, including this one. a woman backed her car into a swollen pond. rescuers had to smash the car windows to get her out. in the end, thankfully she was unhurt. >>> now to politics. a pointed reminder that the battle over health care is far from over. the sweeping reform act that some have called obama care hit serious legal roadblock today almost nine months after it was signed into law by the president. a federal court declared a key part of it unconstitutional. we get more tonight on what all of this means from our justice correspondent pete williams from our washington newsroom. pete, good evening. >> reporter: brian, this ithe first time that any federal judge has found e health care law unconstitutional. w

this is in florida my friends. a little further up north gets even colder, 29 in gainesville florida right this minute. around here, not quite, well not quite that warm actually. it's 21 here. they haven't had terrible winds chills in florida. they why they had the heavy frost down there. the barometer is on the way back up. 21 here, 70 the actual temperature in oakland. 23, 23 and 23. but with the winds blowing still at 15 miles per hour, 14 ocean city. still 16 in oakland. the windchill there is down to 10 below zero and we're at seven. this is the lowest i've seen all day long. 11 is the way it feels on your skin in ocean city. now there's two weak systems right now. that i can they're going to change over the day. it could bring us a dusting of snow. looks like most of the activity will continue across kentucky and virginia and the carolinas. looks like it's going to pass a little to the south. the next system is going to head down to the gulf of mexico. and it could come up the east coast saturday night and su

central florida winning over the florida gators for the first time in ten meets.. for all your highlights, watch the highlight express on espn news until 3:00 p.m. eastern today. i'm steve weissman. back to you in new york. >>> the white house is shimmering this morning, all dressed up for the holidays. >> first lady michelle obama showed off this year's decorations, along with all 19 christmas trees. there were several versions of the dog beau, including this one made of 40,000 pipe cleaners. mrs. obama said the greatest blessings of all are the ones that don't cost a thing. >> took a week to make the winter wonder land come to life. but it looks great. >> 100,000 people expected there in the next month. crazy. >>> coming up next, the stories we'll be follows today, including nasa's big announcement today about life in outer space. - hey. he went to jared. - he definitely went to jared. that's a peerless diamond. that's the ideal ideal-cut diamond. what? female announcer: jared has five times the selection of ordinary jewelry stores, with thousands of loose diamo

the cold is affecting florida's tourism. fewer people have showed up at disney world where tourists bundled up in hats, scarves and gloves. it's usually between 53 and 73 degrees this time of year. kerry sanders is in orlando right now, bundled up, but at least you've got friends with you, kerry. >> i do. it's packed here at universal orlando resort. the difference is folks who thought they were coming on vacation in florida to wear some t-shirts and shorts and relax found that if they came down from a cold-weather climate, they had to get their jackets on, their scarves on. it's warmed up a little bit here. it was 32 this morning. it's going to get cold again tonight. it's not like folks are canceling their vacation. they're just having to endure what they didn't expect. the area hotels that have their swimming pools empty. nobody is going for a swim right now. you talked about the agriculture. let's give you an idea of what's going on. we've checked with a wholesailor to talk about what's happening. just to give you an ide

a man pulls out a gun at a florida school board meeting and opening fire. tonight, the ordinary folks who did extraordinary things right at that moment. >>> the tax deal breezes through the senate but it's hardly over. >>> also tonight, at americans are saying about where we're headed. numbers from our new poll. >>> "making a difference" for tens of thousands of kids who pour their heart out to santa this time of year. >>> and he's just 26-year-old old. you're about to see his face all over the place. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television . >>> good evening. for 85 million americans, the temperature did not go above freezing today, and it won't tonight. this nasty and relentless winter weather system now stretches so far to the south, the florida keys set a record for cold today. 15 american cities broke records today, 11 of them in florida. close to 40% of the land mass in the continental u.s. remains snow covered. last night people had to be rescued from their vehicles in the snow. the fact is, it is early yet in the sea

freezing in florida. below zero in the midwest. and today won't even be the worst of it. >>> after a weekend of wheeling and dealing, now a deal on the bush-era tax cuts. extending them for everyone. >>> and your profile page is getting a makeover. facebook reveals a redesign for its 500 million users. >>> and good morning, thanks for being with us on this monday. the calendar still says fall but a wintry blast of frigid air is menacing two-thirds of the nation this morning. >> 16 states from the dakotas to florida are in a cold snap but by tonight it will feel like the 20s down in miami. atop of the cold weather, they're bracing for even more snow from michigan to western new york. >> reporter: canada's cold air has dipped so far south, they're feeling it in florida. >> it's going to get colder and colder here. >> i have on a sweatshirt, a turtleneck, two shirts underneath that. >> reporter: get ready for lows for the week. >> part of the overall pattern will be very cold for not only the next several days but perhaps a fewweek we

in floridaing a agriculture.ere looks like it's still being assessed, but they do know they had 28 degrees or lower for four hours two days in a row and that's when the real damage sets in. so, they're picking as much fruit as they can right now. primarily used to make orange juice and they're trying to get that to the processing plants as much as they can. corn, green beans, carrots completely wiped out. timaomatoes in bad shape. it looks like anywhere you go in the next couple days to go shopping and perhaps into the next couple weeks you'll really feel these prices at the grocery store. chris? >> i saw the sign back there, maybe you should go get a better beer. >> i have to go take a picture first, i promised. maybe she's gone. >> i don't know what people thought kerry was doing walking with a microphone. thank you so much. we'll keep you posted on developing weather story. >>> couple other things going on. this is the news conference with the school board down there in panama city, florida, where a man walked

windchills are making it feel like the teens in atlanta and the 20s in parts of florida. and the deep freeze is taking a toll just across the border. here's karen travers. >> reporter: the massive arctic blast swept down through the united states from canada. that doesn't mean it spared our neighbors to the north. in ontario, a freak blizzard on monday stranded more than 300 drivers for nearly 30 hours. >> i had a couple bottles of soda and breakfast bars i had been rationing. i had extra coats in my car. i covered myself up. >> reporter: the canadian military used helicopters to rescue people, trapped by blowing snow and zero visibility. there were no deaths or injuries. the record-setting cold went deep into the south. >> it's like pouring the arctic air straight down into florida. >> reporter: this frigid air turned crops into popsicles. taking the worst beating? >> tomatoes, bell peppers. any of the leafy types. >> reporter: florida farmers are doing everything they can to fight the deadly forecast. spraying water to keep the temperatures around their fruits and veget

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the next hurdle is in florida.e state attorney general there filing a new lawsuit, which has been joined by 20 states in all challenging the government's requirement that everyone buy health insurance or pay a fine. joining us now utah republican senator orrin hatch. he serves on the judiciary committee and incoming ranking member of the finance committee. you put out a statement saying today is a great day for liberty. explain that. >> reporter: well the fact of the matter is that the federal government can tell you, you have to buy something that you don't want to buy, if that's the way this ultimately comes down in the supreme court that means that the federal government can do anything to you it wants, it can assess you any amount it wants to assess you, it can make you do things that you don't want to do, it could enforce you to buy a certain car or certain home or certain diet, and, frankly, our constitution is built on liberty, and liberty means restraint of the government. and that's what is involved here.

and dr terry jones a senior pastor at the dove world outreach center from florida i first as dr jones why it is that he wants to make september eleventh burn the koran day. well of course september eleventh was a and what happened was. of course a very very serious thing. i believe that it reveals the true colors of islam and we thought about what can we do to really show. the dangers of what happened that day and it's not only what happened that day but actually what islam does around the world and we still burning the koran would be something of that magnitude what is it here that islam does do around the world. well i believe it's islamic mission to dominate the world. to replace local governments if you replace the constitution of the united states was surreal all our leaders very obvious that as you look around the world you see difference of islam if you look at the trouble that england's having the trouble there germany's i haven't. you see dominated countries who are dominated by islam even countries like saudi arabia you see there are no individual freedoms and rights. and it

and we have ice on the citrus plants in florida. we have to check on what other people are dealing with across the country. good morning, maryland. thanks for joining us on this wednesday morning. i am megan pringle. >> i am charlie crowson. before we get to justwin a check of the forecast, the tie is once again part of the miracle collection in partnership with johns hop kips and joseph a bank. this is called snow tree. you can pick these up and we will show you later in the show maybe a closeup of what it is. aid festive tie. >> aid festive tie and kid design it. if you are looking for a good gift, the ties are it. justin, they have a weather themed one maybe snowmen or snowflakes so we will have to pick one for you. >> charlie said snow tree. >> there you go you got it. >> all right. we will get one. >> what's up madison. >> we have snow on our trees is the big question. >> you sound like a kid on christmas morning. >> we have all the cold air and it's a waste of cold air if it doesn't do something for us, right? 17 right now in

normally in south florida, george, it's in the 60s. tonight, near freezing. so, here at the palm beach zoo, they've put up these plastic sheets and those heat lamps that you see behind me to keep these birds from freezing. in fact, it's been so cold here at night that the curator of the zoo said that lizards and birds are simply dropping off the trees. george? >> okay, matt gutman, thank you. our weather editor and my "gma" colleague sam champion joins us now. and sam, we keep calling this an arctic blast and that's not poetic license, it's literally true. >> reporter: it's the real deal. arctic air is locked well up in canada this time of year. when you see the jet stream like this, where it's open to the eastern seaboard, it's like turning on the faucet and pouring all of this arctic air straight down into florida. as a matter of fact, every day in orlando, in december, has been below normal. so, that's what's so unusual about this. it's the timing of it. it's a little early and how long it's lasted. >> how much more of this are we in for? >> reporter: well

we have a situation in florida where we have about 700,000 more registered democrats in florida but wenow of our legislature is republican. that is due, in large measure, to the way districts are drawn now. i would say the elected legislators feel it is due to the fact that everybody loves them so much. but the districts are drawn in such a way that's however is drawing up the district put to the opposite party voters in a large numbers into a very small number of districts and then put their voters in two -- spreads them out over twice the number of districts. so, basically that is the way it has been done in florida for years. this year, 63% of the florida voters in a year that was a very unusual year in florida for many reasons, some 63% said we don't want districts that are drawn up for purpose of favoring or disfavor in a political party or incumbents. that, i think, speak very loudly about the mood of floridians. these amendments say districts shall not be drawn with the intent to favor or disfavor political parties or incumbents. we now have in the constitution along with that p

i meant that it was warmer in maine than it was in florida this morning. we got that straightened out. john yang starting off our coverage of this weather tonight. and would you blame people for thinking right about now, what about florida? perhaps for those lucky enough to have money enough to pack up the kids and say, head to disney world and the run up to the christmas holiday. nbc's kerry sanders has that angle of the story from orlando tonight. kerry, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the snow back there, here at the wizarding world of harry potter, that's artificial. but what is real are the cold temperatures. and for tourists who thought they would escape the cold and come to florida, mother nature has been a big disappointment. at orlando's sea world, sparse crowds. and those who did come were bundled. typically in december it's 73 degrees in orlando. today there was a record low of 28. the larson family from denmark left 27 degrees at home, only to endure this. >> it's too cold. >> reporter: at disney world, the characters were blue,

it was a school board meeting in a florida community. on the agenda, what parents talk about in schools, head lice and new computers. then a man rose to speak and nothing about him looked right. he was armed with a can of spray paint and a gun. but it's what happened next that was an extraordinary reaction. this videotape will be tough to watch for some, especially for young ones in the room. our report tonight from nbc's park potter in panama city, florida. >> reporter: when an ordinary school board meeting suddenly became terrifying with a gunman threatening to kill -- ordinary public officials suddenly became heroes. most dramatic was ginger littleton who attacked the intruder with her purse. >> no, ginger. >> i knew at some point things were going to turn out very badly for whom i value and who were of great value oh this community. >> reporter: now littleton and her purse are the talk of the town. >> i don't know about that ginger woman, but i want her in my foxhole. >> reporter: another hailed as a hero is bill husfeld. when clay d

>> it could be florida. >> florida. >>mbe. it's cold down here. >> i'll say indiana. >>> coming up next, a multimillion-dollar drug st in the district ends with several arrests and they stay suspect had ties to a violent mexican cartel. >>> but first, search nbcwashington.com. >>> law enforcement agents say they have broken up an attempt by a mexican carterel. the drug ring wanted to sell millions of crystal meth, cocaine and marijuana. tom sherwood rerts. >> reporter: d.c. police chief cathy lanier announced the arrest of eight people involved with the east coast drug praying. an attempt by the notorious la familia drug gang i mexico to smuggle drugs through atlanta into winston-salem, north carolina, marynd, and the nation's capital. >> the cartel based out of michoacan,mexico, they're notorious for smuggling not only crystal meth but also cocaine. winter of the philosophies in mexico is that they don't sell to their own people. to their own mexico an nationals themselves prefer to have it smuggled in the united states. >> r

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look at florida this morning. it's currently 30 in orlando.here's ice on makeey's ears. 35 in west palm and 38 in miami. we are going to stay at 29 today a wind advicery are gusts to 45 miles per hour and occasional flurries. here's kim with the traffic. >> reporter: well, traffic is a fairly smooth start this morning. as we look live at the beltway, traffic is flowing freely on the northeast side at providence road. no problems heading towards the top side on the 83s and outer loop headed around towards 795 towards 70. traffic looks really good. we are dealing with one crash in baltimore city at south president and fleet street. we still have a road closure in place because of a dwelling fire at homewood avenue which is closed between st.an's and cokesbury. stay with us, there is more of your news, weather and traffic when "good morning, maryland" comes back after this. ♪electronic santa song >>> it's 5:45. you know folks, thee are the games that will drive you to drink. the ravens looked like they were in control and would beat the texans by

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it's about two degrees warmer in most areas of florida today.ully we're not doing any additional damage to the oranges and strawberry crops. 29 in melbourne and miami. the cold air still around. the windchills are worse this morning in new england. boston right now at 3 with some light snow this morning. probably a little coating out there. detroit at 2, chicago at 6. it's still very cold. we're going to have warmer air moving in and a mini ice storm in areas of tennessee. all the areas in white under winter weather advisories in portions of kentucky under winter storm warnings. that's a weak system that will affect you. rest of the country, starting to do a little slow warmup. 30s in new york, but look at dallas, 76. >> whoa. >> that's the place to be. >>> turn to sports. things getting complicated if your a minnesota vikings ticket holder. metrodome stadium officials are saying now that the roof, as you know by now, you can see in that picture collapseded on sunday and damaged in a massive snowstorm will not be repaired in time for monday nigh

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the security guard who saved the day in panama city, florida. >> i tried to keep him pinned down. >> couric: i'm katie couric. also tonight, a new review of u.s. strategy in afghanistan. as president obama declares "we're on track. we'll hear from a u.s. marine there who has what may be the most dangerous job in the world. >> i'll do it again and again and again. >> couric: and remembering new york's nightmare before christmas and the little boy who had an entire city praying for a miracle. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. he says he is not a hero, but watching mike jones and the terrifying video from that tuesday afternoon school board meeting in panama city, florida, you're likely to disagree. jones is the security guard who,

bone chilling weather from florida to the northeast. we will look at how people are coping. >>> and why this just stinks. why the holidays may be ruined for hundreds of children in need. >>> and now for a look at trains and bus how they are moving along this morning, here a mta's mark jones. good morning. >> reporter: good morning out there right now. you will find light rail working with a 20-minute delay in the northbound direction. be aware of that in your travels. out there on the buses the number 20 with a 30-minute delay and 5, 8, 20, 23, 36 and 40 and 91 are being diverted at baltimore and light. and you will find the number 30 bus with the diversion at old frederick and out there on the marc train system brunswick 870, 10 to 15 minute late other trains and lines of marc look good for travel. for the mta transit team, i am mark jones. [ female announcer ] we invited philips sonicare users to audition for our latest tv commercial, but to find out what they really thought, we filmed them from the moment they arrived. i kind of real

lourdes del rÍo desde miami en la florida no trae lo mÁs significativo de un informe revelado hoy sobre de la estratÉgica bélica de estados unidos en afganistÁn y tambiÉn en pakistÁn. >> en la guerra de afganistÁn se han hecho avances operativos notables. el curso de los talibanes se ha frenado en muchas Áreas. segÚn el resultado de un estudio de estratÉgicas bélicas revelado hoy por la casa blanca. >> nos costarÁ tiempo de cerca alcaeda reconociÓ el presidente barack obama. pero que no queden dudas de que nosotros seremos implacables para desmantelar a esta organizaciÓn terrorista. el objetivo de la coaliciÓn que encabeza estados unidos es entregar las fuerzas de seguridad a las fuerzas afganas en 2014. >> el presidente estÁ determinado, sino le va a costar las elecciones. va a perder el apoyo de su propio partido y estÁ recibido muchas crÍticas de la derecha por no llevar a cabo una operaciÓn adecuada. >> segÚn el departamento de defensa, hay 149.000 hispanos sirviendo en las fuerzas armadas. >> hay muchos hispanos y estamos al frente de esta guerra. >> el nicaraguense luis mangara ya

in 1990, florida joined the top five. new york is the only state that has ranked among the five largest in each decade -- in fact, this is been true since 1790. what are the top five most populous states as of april 1, 2010? they are california, texas, new york, florida, and illinois. and you see there population counts there in the graphic. the identities of the five least populous states vary all little less over the decades. if we look for example at alaska, i note that it grew from 64,000 as a territory in 1910 to 627,000 in the year 2000. it has always been among the least of the populous states. we note that delaware and vermont on the east coast are also consistently among the least populous states. today, according to the 2010 census, the least populous states include wyoming, vermont, north dakota, alaska, and south dakota. i have been talking about the size of populations, so let's turn to percentage change, the rate of growth of populations over the decade. between 1920-1930, michigan grew at a rate of 32%, ref

we have a situation in florida where we have about 700,000 more registered democrats in florida, butblican. that is a duke to the way the districts are drawn -- that is due to the way the districts are drawn. our legislators think it is due to the fact that everybody likes them very much, but the districts are drawn in such a way that whoever is drawing the district puts the opposite party, voters in large numbers into a very small number of districts and then puts their voters, spread them out over twice the number of districts. that is the way it has been done in florida for years. this year, 63% of the florida voters in a year that was very unusual in florida for many reasons, said, 63% said, we do not want districts that are drawn for the purpose of favoring or does favoring a political party or an incumbent. that spoke very loudly about the mood of floridians. these amendments say that districts shall not be drawn with the intent to favor or disfavor political parties or incumbents. we now have and the constitution along with that provision another provision that says that minor