you have florida state ranked anywhere from number three to number six. so there are three teams in the five major polls ranked anywhere from first to sixth. beyond that, of course the hurricanes coming into action tonight ranked 15th. >> wicho: you have clemsen up there right around where the hurricanes are ranked throughout the polls. you look at the usa today polls, it has clemsen as high as 10. re timeh inral re bemthineral p awhicome - .. t cham c pl) ' sod b... i the're h me fiit ou ing o do somewitharet ma har do hout but an rn og ou my s it cies, then re-anyt withgare anno ree lif thourettee, ateane a y to out ng. >> jason: and to the orange green and white, the university of miami here, young and old at alex rodriguez park a. the bottom of the 7th inning. it will be harold martinez, three, four, and five in the lineup. just invan grouw out of the bullpen last inning for wake forest. replaces starter tim cooney. wearing the number 30 on his back. van grouw 6'7", 200-pound freshman out of indian hills high school in oakland, new jersey. this wake f

florida state sixth.s poll. >> wicho: and you mentioned the acc team is very well represent inside that poll there. we are going to have a pitching game in the ballgame. >> jason: we'll tell you who is new out of the hurricane >> jason: we'll tell you who is new out of the hurricane bullpen. >> jason: credit wake forest for having at the very least a lot of persistence in this ballgame. it hasn't been sharply played really on either side. but here we are in a 6-6 ballgame. and miami will go with its fourth different pitcher tonight. left-hander number 13 sam robinson. you see his number this season. the hurricanes preserving their closer to this point. david gutierrez. and meanwhile, we'll see what coach walter and wake forest come up with. it appears mike lubanski, who is due to hit here, will be replaced with a pinch hitter. and it will be obeydy coming to bat for the demon deacons to face the lefty robinson. and the newcomer in the lineup for the demon deacons is bentley high man, 5'11" sophomore out o

florida state attorney general gets back-up inç his fight against the federal government.vided -- providing that back-up is here. we are back in two. you've arrived at the biggest meeting since you opened your design firm... ... your presentation didn't. so here's your moment of truth. which 3g network do you trust to email the file, get it printed, and have it waiting upstairs ? when you want your 3g network to work, you want verizon. visit verizon to see how our smartphones can help put your business on the map, and buy one blackberry curve for $29.99 and get one free. >> greta: henry waxman might want a doç over. several companies announced it would take a massive financial hit from the new health care law. he scheduled a hearing to grill the ceos to make sure the companies were not playing politics. just trying to make the health care overall look bad. congressman waxman just canceled that hearing. why? officially congressman wac man says the ceos asked for more time before a hearing was health. is there more to the story? joining us -- should we accept at face value

you have miami, florida state in the aca. and coaches that have been can pick up the phone. you have a couple coaches right there who can help you out. >> jason: devoss shows bunt. there it came at the knees. the count is 2-1. lots a speed at the top of had hurricane lineup with devoss and perez. both of them with nine stolen bases. there is a strike. we show this not a um offense that will over we will am you with power. certainly they do have power sources with grand dal, martinez. there is a beauty to get it with this offense. he can get aggressive, hit-and- run, do some things that will keep the hurricanes on their toes, as they are, in that 1st base dugout. >> i got a guy like scott lawson hitting 3rd, which one of your better average hitters on the ball club. this is a guy that handles the ball well. not your typical three hole hitter. he is more of a number two guy. you see him hitting .301 on the season. >> jason: a lefty pickoff move by cooney. one of those good counts on the bases. >> jason: carlos lopez defensively at 1st base. here is the 2-0 pitch. just low, a l

the month of may, that will be a great game for game one of the series against the florida state seminoles, clemson tigers lead the seminoles by two games in the atlanta division standings, the opening thursday may 20th at 7:00 eastern. top of the acc as always so strong, this could be the year when you look at -- acc national championship in 1955. this could be the year here in 2010. grounds out to chipman to end the tp of the 9th. we go to the bottom of f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f

florida, texas and others are some of the most gerrymandered states in the country and we in florida and many other states will have a chance to vote on an amendment to the constitution to minimize some of the gerrymandering. what that ultimately does is produce more moderate. it also produces more people that can lose elections if you don't think they're being accountable because they're not representing you. if people are forced to choose between their party and the other party, they're going to choose their party. but what you really want people to do is to create a third way. senator martinez did this on the immigration issue. he reached out, he worked with president bush, he worked with democrats and republicans, it was a remarkable act of courage and he was creating a middle ground. both sides were mad at him. (laughter) but it was ultimately going to be a solution. he'll speak for himself in a minute. but those are two things in what i think the problem is and how we in florida can fix it as well as the country. >> we've always been highly partisan. that's been part of our hist

he had served in the florida state house, rising to speaker, but few thought he had a chance against the popular governor charlie crist. >> francine, give me a hug. >> reporter: out of the public eye, though, things looked different. with the primary open only to registered republicans, rubio spent months traveling around the state, getting to know local activists, who were impressed. ( cheers and applause ) so much so, he quickly became the darling of the right. >> the reason i'm running in this race is simple-- i know i'm the only candidate in this race that you can trust to go to washington to stand up to this agenda, and in its place, offer a clear alternative. >> reporter: and many republicans were already suspicious of crist and his occasional moves toward the political center on the environment and with court appointments. those gestures at moderation, which a year or so earlier might have appealed to florida's large bloc of independent voters, ended up backfiring inside the g.o.p. and this happened, as the political ground was shifting in washington, with partisanship growing

. >>> a total of 18 states are now part of a lawsuit against the federal government challenging the new health care reform law. led by florida, the suit claims the law is unconstitutional because it forces americans to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty. the attorney general of the state of indiana, one of five states that have just joined the lawsuit. good to have you on msnbc this afternoon. why was your state of indiana so late in joining in on this? >> well, we weren't really late, ed. i had already explained that i would be joining a challenge to this legislation but i wanted to see what were the best things for the people in indiana. so we looked at the claims brought in florida, we looked at possibly bringing our own claim. there may be yet more but i think in the end after about a week i decided that collecting up with all of the other attorneys general, bringing as many claims in a single action, the efficiency that that has to the supreme court if it gets that far, and also it avoids a lot of the costs to be borne collectively as opposed to just my state. >> so this was a deliberate move on your part, certa

brownie, secretary of state, state of florida, indicating that according to the unofficial returns of the special election held april 13, 2010, the honorable theodore e. deutch was elected to representative to congress for the 19th congressional district, state of florida. with best wishes i am signed sincerely, lorraine c. miller, clerk. the speaker: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. hastings: madam speaker, can i ask that the house be made in order? the speaker: the house will be in order. members and staff will please take their conversations to the cloakroom. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. hastings: i ask unanimous consent that the gentleman from florida, the honorable ted deutch, be permitted to take the oath of office today, to certificate of election has not arrived but there is no contest and no question has been raised with regard to his election. the speaker: without objection, so ordered. will representative-elect deutch and members of the florida delegation present themselves in delegation present themselves in the well? the speaker:

anti-democratic tide out there -- >> when you look at health care it is getting better rezeus florida than other statesproval rating is still over 50 in florida, which is good he won florida. a lot of stimulus dollars placed in florida and there are a lot of people there who feel we have major issues, health care, foreclosures, all of those is e issues -- mr. crist and mr. rubio said they won't fight for individual cities to rebound as it relates to ", that is problematic n a statewide race you have cities and counties on an iv, we have to have a return on our federal tax dollar. >> can you run statewide without the democrats bringing up immigration reform this year? would you prefer they do that yes or no? >> i prefer they do it i believe floridians understand the importance of having people come forth and pay taxes and knowing who's in the state of florida. diverse sit not a new word to florida and i believe that dealing with the right immigration reform is going to be important, requiring people to come forth and pay taxes, requiring people to step forward, so, that number of undocumented individual

florida state seated. mitchell, one of the thing that comes up during the confirmation hearing on the tip from somebody from washington that there was outside income from teaching at an american university -- >> host: $15,000. >> guest: which was half of his salary as a justice. he had been making lots of money as a very successful washington practitioner and probably strapped. he has his wife -- he was gone. she was working and anyway, to cut that story to the bone, what nixon picks up is there was somebody else that was supplying money. wilson is under indictment by the justice department. they make what i read as a bluff play to force fortis to retire and they do it by threatening a new grand jury where they will bring his wife and partner before the grand jury and caused them who knows what kind of havoc. it was an investigation that johnson's department of justice looked at settled. so mitchell is reopening it and it was clearly to me a ploy to force for this off the court. they were going to go after

mooichl stacy horno wits the florida state attorney and also l.a. psychiatrist.tor of family services. and author of this new book, "side by side." mark, what do you make of this? >> of his book for mother/daughter conflict for free resolution, that's impossible. i never heard of such a thing. >> larry: read the thing. >> i will. i will read the book. the story is incredible. i don't understand why the sheriff thinks he doesn't have some basis to do something. i know coming from a defense lawyer that sounds like blasphemy. >> larry: well i spoke with the mother's attorney. what would the charge be? >> some kind of neglect charge. i don't know the specific code section there. but certainly you can file charges on somebody who leaves their 7-year-old in their car while they run into the store and that's -- i defended those cases. >> stacy, will you file charges with what you know of this case? >> yeah. i don't have all the inside scoop on it. certainly i agree with mark. it's hard to believe that some kind of charges couldn't come situation goes ahead, puts a 7-yea

state of mississippi. but still extends from missouri stretching down into the panhandle of florida. looked like when we got the first report of the touchdown in northeastern parts of louisiana. this is the cell right here. i'm going to advance this. and you can watch this thing track across central mississippi all the way up into the northeastern part of the state and then move into alabama. it stopped producing a tornado on the ground somewhere right in this neighborhood but was still producing some heavy downpours as well as some wind damage as it moved into parts of alabama. so this is what we call those long-tracked, long-lived violent tornados. when we talk about a high-risk day, this is exactly what we're talking about. we want to take you through the steps of this tornado as it was that one parent cell but that one parent cell likely put down a tornado from time to time. the overall path was between 150 to 200 miles long. but it wasn't necessarily on the ground the entire time. we probably saw a few hops and skips and jumps. so we start out here, and this is in omega, louisia

florida state attorney's office released the transcripts yesterday and jailhouse letter that say anthony wrote. in one she says she would give anything to have her little girl back. the girl's remains were found in 2008. her mother pleaded not guilty to murder. >>> you are about to be charged for your carry-on luggage. i kid you not. our money expert jennifer westhoven is here. so you have to pay for your checked bags, now you're going to have to pay at least on one airline for your carry-on. >> yeah. you hump it all in, you carry it all around, pop it in the overhead bin, $90 on your round trip ticket is how much more you could pay. >> that is a huge amount. >> it is a huge amount. if you think about the average plane ticket, 250, $300, that's a lot of money. so i mean obviously this is one airline we're talking about right now. so the question is are other airlines going to follow. the airline we're talking about, by the way, is spirit airlines. now, it is a small airline, it's a low cost airline, and guess what, they have got a reputation for trying out new charges. for now other airl

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states like florida and louisiana did not have the union support of their applications like tennesseend delaware had and i would argue that should be a knock on what those states-- >> so states in this commission were punished if they promoted reforms that were so forward leaning that the unions opposed them, this hurt the state's applications. >> if you want bold reforms you must allow states to cross the unions. because the unions are the ones preventing bold reforms. >> paul: what are the examples from florida and louisiana and let's throw in the district of columbia here because michelle, the superintendent has been in a pitch battle with the teachers in her state, in her district, over teacher tenure. all three of those states are trying to change collective bargaining agreements. >> to allow what? >> well, to allow merit pay and teachers to be paid based on how the students are doing. and to teachers who are bad. to be able to not give teachers jobs for life after only two years in the classroom. and things like that. the other thing that the administration made a big deal about

but i will tell you in the state of florida, it's a fascinating state. this is a state that a few years ago only maybe 60% of the people knew who bob graham was because so many people flood in and out of that state. and if you're talking about a general election between a guy that's been on the set -- because in florida it's so funny. that's what people say time and time again. when people are talking every two years about running for a different statewide office, how many times you been on the ticket statewide? because it's such a huge state that there are a lot of people along the i-4 corridor who don't know who marco rubio is or kenneth meek. >> the question you answer the yourself. if charlie crist runs as an independent, if he's not the favorite to run, who is? i don't think it's kenneth meek or marco rubio. i think it's charlie crist. >> and rubio has, by becoming a champion of the right, put himself out as a very, very conservative candidate, and that's why he's held at cpac and that's why he's a tea party candidate. >> and they don't win in flori

i was in florida this weekend with glenn beck, and a florida legislator chatted with us and told us the state of florida now has to spend $1 billion more than it has. that is the congress saying to florida raise your state taxes by a billion dollars and spend it the way we tell you to. the legislator looked at me and said, "i thought we were an independent legislature, i thought we could decide what taxes are and how we would spend the people's moneymoney." >> there will be great expenditure by state government and private industry. at&t talked about $1 billion more in expenditures. the bill also calls for 16,500 new i.r.s. agents. someone is going to collect new premiums. >> the write-down by the corporation, huge. they are required to do that by the s.e.c., and the congress is furious that this happens while the ink isn't dry. >> what is scary about the bill is the amount of demagoguery that surrounds it. if you're not for it, you're a racist. if you are a corporation, and you need to write down stuff you get before you go before congress because it's supposed to create savings. that is the

signed the national health care overhaul into law, opponents at the state level were preparing a challenge in federal court. florida's attorney general, republican bill mccollum has been joined by his counterparts in 13 other states. all but one is a republican, and several are running for governor. the crux of their case: the mandate that americans buy insurance is a violation of the u.s. constitution's commerce clause. >> the freedoms of americans and particularly in my state of florida were impaired by this bill and it forces people to do something in buying a health care policy or pay a tax or a fine, that simply, the constitution does not allow congress to do. >> woodruff: under the law, most americans must have health insurance by 2014 or pay $95 or 1% of their income, whichever is greater. by 2016, the penalty increases to $695, or 2.5% of income. on tuesday, more than 250 people rallied in montgomery, alabama. they called for amending the state constitution to supercede the federal plan. more than 30 other states are considering similar "opt-out" clauses. and virginia has already passed one. because of that,

so you're suggesting that we change our name from florida, the sunshine state, to...? s will be so cool. sooner or later, you'll know our name. sun life financial. >>> lisa sylvester's monitoring some of the other top stories in "the situation room" right now. what else is going on, lisa? >> hi, wolf. >>> well, the only man accused of shooting malcolm x has been paroled. 69-year-old thomas hagan has been on a work-release program since 1992, which required him to spend only two days a week in prison. two other men convicted in the killing were paroled in the 1980s, and they have all said they are innocent. >>> two controversial abortion bills are the law in oklahoma. the republican-led senate overrode vetoes by brad henry. one law requires women to have an ultrasound and listen to a description of the fetus before getting an abortion. a similar law was struck down by the state supreme court. henry says this law will also be challenged. >>> and attorney general, eric holder, says the federal government may challenge arizona's controversial new law, cracking down on illeg

♪ bill would do with respect to the medicaid program and a lot of the other services in the state of floridaany other states. the cost to my state len is billions that our taxpayers could not afford and assume to do something for the federal government that the government should be doing. there are court cases and precedents that say the -- the two together give us the opportunity to challenge this. we believe the u.s. supreme court will rule the entire health care bill out on the table today the president signed unconstitutional. >> greta: of the state attorneys general are many of them democrats? >> yes. buddy caldwell of louisiana. the rest are republicans. we have reason to believe there already will be two or three more democrats that join us. most of the state attorneys generals even those who have not yet filed a suit or joined ours understand the impact this has on their states and the problem with the individual right of choice with the individual. it is unprecedented greta, for us to have this sweeping attack not only on the rights of an individual to be free from the federal gover

florida is one of those states that has a limited number of insurers in the marketplace. >> it's very non-competitive when you have approximately five insurance companies that provide the insurance as a major part of the insurance of the state of florida. you have roughly over 400,000 small companies. there's very little negotiating power that... that 400,000 small businesses have to shop for insurance against five insurance companies. it just doesn't work. >> reporter: the new law does provide tax credits to small businesses with less than 50 employees. but pierce doesn't think that will outweigh what he sees as the downside of the law. >> the amount of bureaucracy in the first few paragraphs that i've read of this new bill has just been signed into law is off the charts. i encourage everybody to read it because it's unbelievable the amount of bureaucracy and checking and rules and regulations for every level of our society. >> ronni drimmer spends more than $700 a month on health insurance. in 2007 she was diagnosed with an auto immune condition called crone's disease. in most state

suffer say the subprime mortgage crisis or bad loans were not made in as great a number as, say, states like floridaor california. and as a result, you're not going to see, say, the same high numbers of foreclosure rates in those counties, say, as you are in the states where the housing bubble was the biggest. and, you know, what the stress map really does show you is that the economic stress kind of came in waves. and the first wave seems to be related to the housing crisis. and so you saw it in florida, california, nevada, and then after, say, october of 2008, roughly, you see it becoming really hitting manufacturing communities, where the demand has dropped off. and so you're seeing a lot of layoffs in these communities. and so i think that's what you're probably seeing in ohio and western pennsylvania. and you're seeing pretty high unemployment rates, but you're really not seeing the foreclosure rates that you see, say, in the sun belt states. host: like clark county, nevada, the unemployment rate is about 14%. the foreclosure rate, 7.3% and the bankruptcy just over 3%. steve from missouri. good

fascinating numbers out of the florida senate race tonight. former stateaker house speaker marco rubio has opened up a 23-point lead over governor charlie crist in the republican primary. new quinnipiac university poll shows if krist ran as an independent he'd beat rubio and congressman meek. so far, charlie crist publicly discouraged talk he might take that optiooption. >>> this is a fox news alert. the justice department says tonight it is reviewing a federal judge's ruling that the national day of prayer is unconstitutional. district court judge barbara crab agreed today with the argument by the freedom from religion foundation, wisconsin-based group of atheists and agnostics. the organization claims the day violates the separation of church and state. the national day of prayer was established by congress in 1952. we'll keep an eye on the story. tea partiers who have suffered through media smackdowns are getting the last laugh. that's later in the grapevine. we will tell you why this could effect your upcoming overseas flight. and president obama tries

and david, we were looking at a primary, republican primary in the state of florida. but governor charlie crist just yesterday announced he's not going do, in fact. when i interviewed him a few weeks ago he said i have no intention of running as an independent but that is what he is doing. >> i was stunned that he wasn't fully candid with you. that is just shocking. and it sets up an obviously interesting race. it is a party that actually doesn't have a lot of independence. among, i mean it is a state among various states t is a state where the voters are reasonably committed republican and democrat. and so it sets up this gamble for crist. which as rubio is a strong candidate and i think he is going to lock in the republican vote. meeks is a strong candidate on the democratic side. and so he's got -- crist has got to say who can i get. and he's really putting a large gamble i think that the teacher unions who he just defended with this veto will leave the democratic party and stay with him. i think that's a long shot. i doubt that's going to happen. he is abouting to

different in this case because republicans are not giving other republicans -- >> but florida is such a fascinating stateconservative pockets of florida, there are moderate parts of florida. the farther south you go, the more north you get in terms of the population of florida. if you have a weaker democratic opponent or a democratic opponent that maybe charlie crist might be able to get democratic votes if he rebels? i don't know. >> an example of what we're seeing across the country politically -- and you've talked about this -- whether you're a democrat or republican incumbent caught in the middle. the idea of being a moderate like you said, you covered him in florida. >> everyone in the state seems to know him. he has been in public office for so long. he gets along with both sides of the aisle. he's a classic centrist. >> but with the politics we're in right now, it is difficult to succeed as a moderate and somebody who wants to reach across the aisle which is public say is exactly what they want. >> this is an excuse for men everywhere not to take their wives and girlfriends on european vacations.

the school, the problem was at the time there were no laws within the state of florida that made any of the boy who was bullying jeffrey, made any actions actually illegal. debby johnston has campaigned for the laws to be introduced and they're in florida and many other states and she says she's delighted to see court action taken in massachusetts in the phoebe prince case because she believes it sends a message. if those laws were in place in 2005, she believes her boy, jeffrey, would be here. listen to this. >> jeff would still be here. jeff would be in his second year of college. and our lives would be so much different. >> the pain of a parent that will never ever, one assumes, go away. >> shepard: your heart breaks for her. how are they? >> well, they're doing okay. i mean you can see the pain lodged on her face throughout that interview. but it's not just her, it's also the other kids. she has a boy, two boys, joey, who came into the room and found his brother hanging, he's the elder brother. there's a younger brother, william, who ran in just as they were pulling jeffrey down

general bill mcklum today announced five states will join the florida-led lawsuit challenging the health care reform law. 12 other states from north dakota, mississippi, pennsylvania, and alabama filed suit in florida's northern district last month. they claim health care reform infringes on the sovereignty of states and the tenth amendment to the constitution also claiming it violates the rights of individuals by forcing them to buy health insurance. >>> some breaking news here in a mysterious bomb plot in east texas that left residents and postal workers increasingly nervous. the feds say they have made an arrest. at least 14 explosive devices have been found in the postal drop boxes since the beginning of the year. nbc news juice 'tis correspondent pete williams joins us with the latest. what are you learning? >> reporter: a federal law enforcement official says that the arrest that was made today is directly related to these cases. very strange as you say about two dozen devices, it started with liquid containers, bottles with wicks in them and then progressed to pipe bombs and the l

the american space shuttle discovery has landed in the american state of florida, though slightly delayed by rain and fall. -- by rain and fog. stay with us if you can. still to come, off and running in baghdad for a longstanding tradition of a welcome escape. a first over to british elections. there was a bbc town hall debate today. sterling is the focus of a fierce political fight. the conservatives lost in 1997 and they desperately want it back, but the british national party wanted to. -- want it, too. >> sterling has been the site of many fights. for the conservatives to win it back, they would need just the kind of quick to put david cameron in power. >> is it time to except that we are no longer [unintelligible] >> can the next government guarantee that the two new super aircraft carriers will definitely, enter the service? >> skoglund, after all, has a minority government -- scotland, after all, has a minority government. the big concern is the cost of a university education and whether there will be any jobs when they leave school. >> what more can be done to encourage disadvanta

. >> prayers are indeed answered in the state of florida 11-year-old girl missing for four days is found alive. nadya bloom found by a member of her parents church. she was helping in the search. loved ones think nadia wandered into a swamp to make a nature video and never returned. she suffers from asperger syndrome, related to awe tim. nadya was dehydrateed and with a lot of bug bites but okay according to doctors. >> next on the news at 10:00. the bills that past in the final hours of the 2010 general assembly. stay with us. things are getting downright twisted at dunkin' donuts. hurry in for our new freshly baked bagel twists, available in delicious cheddar cheese or cinnamon raisin. here for a limited time. america runs on dunkin'. my subaru saved my life. i won't ever forget that. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. love. get swept up with the big chocolate taste of mocha iced coffee from dunkin' donuts. it's just another one of our delicious, refreshing iced coffee flavors -- grab one today! america runs on dunkin'. >> maryland's 2010 general assembly is one for the history

if crist got elected, it's the independent senator as the state of florida -- he becomes one of the most powerful senator in the united states senate. and then suddenly, you know, all of this baggage of political opportunism is gone and he becomes the most viable third-party candidate in the country. >> it seems to me he has to answer this question, if he switches, about party identification. sooner or later, sooner rather than later, you have to say who you're going to side with when this comes to voting for leadership. from the first moment he announces as an independent. if elected, i will vote with the republicans. and therefore, there will be two republican candidates for senator, in this general election coming up in november. which does probably give a shot to a very difficult candidate, a long shot by the democrat. because he can just be the democrat, hold that base, and hope that charlie crist can get a big chunk of republicans, right? >> that's right. what did joe lieberman do? joe lieberman basically made the case that he was going to be with the democrats. and then, the natio

there are 13 or 14 states that have not read it enacted a law, but i do not think florida is one of them -- there are 14 states that have enacted a law, but i do not think florida is one of them. >> do you think they are accomplishing anything? >> there are people i think it would stop or at least reduce the amount. >> what do you think the hardest part about making this video was? >> this is the fourth video i made, so it has definitely gotten easier now that i am learning the software. the most difficult part would be choosing parts of the video i wanted to include. making an eight-minute video is a lot more difficult than it sounds, and i had at least an hour and a half to two hours of footage, and i had two wives the flooded several times to find out what part wanted -- i had to watch it several times to find out what parts i wanted to use. >> this is your fourth time entering the competition. what draws you to enter the competition? >> the first time, i think it was i love photography, and i was interested in in trying something new, and i found out after i completed the first one i

from everybody across the country praying to the canine teams across the state of florida that came out, to the s.w.a.t. teams, the helicopters. i mean, it all came so fast, and it just shows the compassion of the human spirit when things like this happen. and it gives -- it should give everybody encouragement. it really should. >> after so many days, did you ever lose hope? >> of course. >> well, our daughter is a nature lover. she went on a bike ride and she just stopped and went off to take some pictures. >> we just want to thank also the winter springs and all the counties that sent officers here and it was so wonderful. and the community and our school and strangers. and we just want to say thank you. >> so many people. >> how did nadia look to you? >> you just imagine their elation. bloom is being taken to a hospital, though. police say she has asberger's syndrome. it's not clear whether that played any role in her disappearance, but she is safe and sound and being checked out by doctors as we speak. so happy for that family. >>> authorities in tennessee say they have not been abl

state's been hard on imh and he isn't a fan of politicians. sheila dixon left her to resign, he plans to retire to his second home which is in florida. >>> tonight students at frostburg state university plan to hold a university to remember brandon carol. >> he was shot and killed by another student over the weekend. more about this 21-year-old tyrone hall from glen burney and he told police two students came to his offcampus home at 4:00 sunday morning after what hall calls an assault of a woman at a party earlier that night. hall shot both men in the stomach with a 12-ganl shotgun. 20-year-old brandon carol was killed. friends have been commenting on the group of nearly 2,000 remembering and sharing memories of brandon. here's what some people are saying. i can't believe you're gone. too soon. i think about this all day and rest in peats writes another. you are a cool dude. the university will hold a candle light vigil. it's going to be a march at 8:30 tonight and the vigil begins at 9:00. >>> it is 6:51. average bishop william borders died yesterday morning at stella he died of colon cancer. he served as our average bishop from 1974 to 1989 a

so you're suggesting that we change our name from florida, the sunshine state, to...? - the sun life state. the posters will be so cool. sooner or later, you'll know our name. sun life financial. >>> stocks snap a two-day losing streak. retailers delivering some of their best sales in a decade and a fed official reiterating the fed's low rate stance. can the bulls continue the march higher? >>> gearing up for the summer driving season. >> are we there yet? >> no. >> are we there yet? >> no. >> are we there yet? >> no. >> are we there yet? >> no. >> we get the prediction on where prices are headed and what it means for your wallet. >>> the ceos for two of the nation's leading biotech companies talks about changes the industry face thanks to health care reform. all of this and more as the second hour of "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ >> good friday morning. welcome back to "squawk" on cnbc. i'm carl quintanilla along with michelle caruso-cabrera. in studio is andrew. you are a well rounded individual. >> i'm old. >> i was going to say that. >> jim greenwood, former cong

employer in hillsborough county is macdill air force base, one of 17 military installations in the state of florida. it has an operating budget of $284 million, and pays out $1 billion in salaries to more than 12,000 employees. colonel larry martin is commander of the 6th air mobility wing at macdill. he says it leaves a major economic footprint in the community. >> we have an entire range of jobs that you might have to run a small city. from very highly technical jobs involved in the air force in running the high tech equipment that we have with our communications equipment that's on the base. to people that cut the grass keep the building clean and run them, to the highest strategic thinking that goes on in central command and special operations command. >> reporter: while military spending is discretionary-- not locked in by law-- it is often viewed as sacrosanct. and once defense is added to congressionally mandated spending programs, such as social security, medicare and medicaid veterans' benefits, and interest on the debt, that leaves just one-sixth of the u.s. budget available for easy axin

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more than 90% of the complaints come out of the state of florida.these homes came after hurricane damage. now congress may consider compensating people who face the enormous expense of gutting the walls in their homes and replacing all that wallboard. >>> it's become a rite of passage in this country. every ti apple introduces a new product, there is a frenzy of interest. people line up at the stores. many interviewed on television. tomorrow's newest invention goes on sale and we are faced with the question of need. nbc's george lewis has our report from los angeles. >> reporter: in manhattan, new yorkers are already standing in line at the apple store waiting for the ipads to go on sale at 9:00 tomorrow morning. jeannie mullen arrived at 5:00 a.m. >> i wanted to would be one of the first people to get it in their hands and experience it. i didn't want to wait for ups. >> can't apple invent something that will wait in line for me? >> reporter: david letterman got in a few comedic licks last night, literally. as did steven colbert. >> you've got the

that democrats chances of winning the states they won last time, surprise states, north carolina, virginia, how did they do in florida eventually? three states. they have a southern strategy. i was talking to dan rather this weekend. he thinks there's a southern strategy afoot in the republican party. they're going to begin their campaign for 2012 by locking up the solid south again on the right. >> first thing declare confederate heritage month. >> don't mention slavery when do you it. >> all part of this is effort to just solidify the south as your beginning block to bring down obama. take away florida. take away north carolina. take away virginia. move north. >> uh-huh. >> that's been the republican strategy for a generation. it began with this group, by the way, that first met in 1969. the southern republican leadership conference. that's really where it began with a guy named clark read, a mississippian who is still there and very enthusiastic, by the way, about the republicans' chances this year. >> he's still there? >> very much so. >> a young party. they seem to be the heart of the republican party right now.

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2001 when he saw a very talented young pitcher come down from the majors all the way down to the florida stateure out his mechanics. >> his name was holiday. he had to get himself straightened out. he is the best pitcher in baseball right now. bergesen was without a doubt our best starter last year. more quality starts than anybody on the club. threw strikes. he was a groundball pitcher. he has gotten away from his strength. i believe it's a mechanical thing. he was close last night. once we kicked the double play ball, then, you know, he tried to do it all himself. threw away too many breaking pitches. he'll go down and get it pigged out in triple-a and get back here. >> you can see brad bergesen's stats for this year, 0-1. the e.r.a. way higher than it needs to be. the orioles have confidence el go to the minor leagues, figure it out and be back up very soon. as for who will fill in for bergesen in the rotation, they will not need a fifth starter until may 1st. that's because of the days off from now until then. last night andy mcfill said that starter could be brad bergesen. by that time he

. >> steve: manuel one of the few guys in the series not from the state of texas. he's from florida. david pierce saw him in a high school classic and told coach graham and he signed him point- blank right there. site unseen. he says its been a pleasure ever since. one of the best decisions he's ever made. >> matt: the catcher is the dh. 1-0. ball into center field. making the grab and throw back to first. there is one down. >> steve: they are not really tricking anybody right now. it's the case he is falling behind in the count. when he gets ahead in the count he's a strikeout machine. >> matt: jim com radded. >> steve: playing a new position for coach. his mind is a little bit occupied. the co thought just trying to let rick see it from a different angle. >> matt: rathjen. hague preseason all conference usa hit nine home runs. 57 rbi a year ago. playing shortstop this year having committed already 14 errors. 0-1 pitch. backed him off the plate. fast ball 1-1. >> steve: good night is somehowing a little bit of that streak. not letting guys take that big hack again. that's the way y