it's sponsored by frank lautenberg of new jersey. >> this allows too many untested chemicals on the market. why should parents wonder if it's safe. >> hundreds of moms turned out for the march and they also deliver add petition with 100,000 signatures for their senators. >>> all right. for weeks they've been working hard and shedding pounds. tonight they put it on the line to find out who won the extreme brickover challenge. charry crowson is -- charley crowson is there. >> reporter: we're going to have the winners coming up at 6:00, but what has kept all of these contestants going for two months? you guys have had a full spread really helping the contestants go day after day. >> absolutely. we've been providing either one of our low fat traditional vegetarians or low carb plans. we've given them three meals a day. we have provided them with everything they need so they can focus on working out and getting healthy. >> reporter: chef paul has some things on the grill for us right now. what is he whipping up for the contestants to enjoy after the weigh in? >> we have our turkey -- chili. the

senator frank lautenberg is here with reaction. plus a picture of romney's as a rule tour capitalism will tell mayor booker what is really nauseating. >>> the fighting irish are fighting the contraception mandate. and the naacp says gay marriage is a civil right. tonight our panel will react. >>> rush limbaugh's tanking in the ratings thanks to the sandra foote firestorm. >> what did i say? i said, if we're paying for this, it makes these women sluts. >>> and scott walker might be headed back to capitol hill to explain his divide and conquer bombshell. we'll have the latest from wisconsin. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. the obama campaign, they were ready to take on mitt romney's record as ceo of bain capital this week, but an obama supporter -- at least we think he's a supporter -- cory booker, changed the game when he said this about the bain strategy on "meet the press." >> this kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides. it's nauseating to the american public. enough is enough. stop attack

frank lautenberg requested that study including one incident where a passenger had a knife, they gots, someone else simply walked around the screening machines all together. a big day today for baltimore. a new arch bishop will be installed in the oldest archdiocese in the nation. the insignificant nia edward carl o'brien has been taken down, soon to be replaced by that of reverend william lorie. megan pringle is live at cathedral of mary our queen with the events. reporter: lorie is going to be the 16th arch bishop. it happens today when he's installed here at the cathedral of the mary our queen. is huge crowd is expected here, we're talking about 2000 people who have tickets to witness it, including lorie's parents who are coming from kentucky. the official installation begins today. but much of the ceremonies began last night. you're taking a look at some video from the mass of the basilica downtown where lorie prayed at the tomb of the first arch bishop of baltimore, john carroll who continued his -- who started his tenure in 1809. edwin leaves for his new position in rome tomorr

. >> commissioner mcdowell, yesterday's the oversight hearing, frank lautenberg democrat of new jersey talked about an investigation, potential investigation into the news corporation. here is what senator lautenberg had to say. >> there is evidence that news corporation have been involved in a broad range of misconduct reaching the highest levels of the new york based company and involving actions in the u.k. and the u.s.. if we look at the list and we see that these are senior people from the company and they apply for renewal of the license in 2007, five years ago and despite this the have announced any plans to throw out the investigation into whether or not the the broadcast license in the u.s. and i address this to each one of you what does it take for the fcc to begin an investigation? >> we have important responsibilities under the law we are aware of the issues that we see in the u.k.. these matters come before the fcc and i think it would be inappropriate for us to prejudge them it inappropriate to speak about any investigations -- >> we are talking about an action that has t

. >> host: yesterday the oversight hearing, frank lautenberg democrat of new jersey, talked about an investigation, potential investigation into news corp. is what senator lautenberg had to say. >> there is evidence that news corporation has been involved in a broad range of misconduct, reaching the highest levels of the new york-based company, and involving actions in the uk and the u.s. now, if we look at the lister, and we see these are senior people from the company, from the news corp. and they applied for renewal of the license in 2007, 2007. five years ago. and despite this long list, the fcc has not announced any plans for proactive investigation into whether or not news corp. -- in the u.s. and i give this to each one of you. what does it take for the fcc to begin an investigation? >> guest: obviously we have important responsibilities under the law we are aware of the serious issues that we see in the uk. these matters may come before the fcc. i think would be an appropriate -- inappropriate for us to prejudge him, and also inappropriate to speak about any investigations we

new jersey senator frank lautenberg who demanded the inspector general report says this report identifiesg hole in our airport security system. and more trouble for newark airport. this longtime security supervisor was arrested for using the identity of a new york city man murdered 20 years ago. he did not work for the tsa. he was in private security, but had access to sensitive areas of the field. the tsa says in a statement it is working to enhance its oversight system to more accurately report, track and analyze trends. jim avila, abc news, washington. >>> a school bus full of sixth graders returning from a class trip slammed into the back of a semi truck on an illinois highway. a fleet of ambulances rushed to the scene. more than a dozen injured, including the bus driver. an air ambulance flew one student to the hospital. the bus rear-ended the semi truck as it approached a construction zone. >>> and colorado police are enhancing security video that recorded this truck plowing into a pawn shop in order to find the culprits. eyewitnesses say two men were in the truck and they drove wea

would let's say want to be a united states senator from new jersey some years down the road when frank lautenberg have some donors from wall street. >> has booker received a slap from anyone at the dnc? >> here's the thing. he got an immediate slap from twitter. it definitely shocked a lot of people in the democratic base when he said that. then no one wants to be the one to officially say they were the ones who hemmed him up after that happened. but did i give a call to the campaign to find out, did they reach out to him. was there some outreach from the campaign? they didn't want to own that. i would not be surprised if he got a phone call. we don't know from who. >> we cannot be certain. josh, what about when you hear karl rove saying, it is stupid for people to bring up the reverend jeremiah wright. does that not make you think that karl rove has something even more poisonous, vicious and nasty up his sleeve? >> not really. i think what karl rove is doing is he would like to spend lots and lots and lots of time saying by no means should we be about reverend wright and remember all those thing

you also have new jersey senator frank lautenberg, whose own legislation was introduced over a year agoverything is just stalling out. the white house has yet to okay jackson's plan. where do we go from here? >> well, this is really frustrating i think for consumers because you have these flame retardant chemicals, some of them do raise real concerns about safety, especially for small children who are more likely to wander around in the dust on the floor, and for pregnant women, especially in the first trimester, yet there isn't much consumers can do. i think the only real solution is to address this at the federal level. most of the toxicologists think senator lautenberg's legislation is the way to go but the chemical industry has been very, very aggressive in blocking it, and it really seems to me they're adopting the same tactics that cigarette lobby adopted a generation ago. >> for anyone watching from home right now if they're wondering if their product as home has it, you're saying there's really no way to know, right? >> yeah. unless you are incredibly well-versed in chemistry an

senator frank lautenberg authored legislation to require manufacturers to provide information on health hazards for all chemicals and require chemical companies just like pharmaceuticals to demonstrate product safety before putting products on the market. >> a will require chemical makers to prove their products are safe before they end up in our children's bodies. >> reporter: the chemical industry strongly disputes the epa numbers, but insists chemical companies agree, safety laws need to be updated. it's just the democrats' approach would hurt businesses. >> it will not do the two things that we really need to do, the two goals are to protect health in the environment and also to ensure that american manufacturers can compete in a global marketplace. >> reporter: moms like christine nystadt who flew in to idaho to talk to her senator says she wants information to make smart choices about what she buys. >> you can't read a label on this pillow and know anything other than it's supposed to confer with, you know, rules for fire retardants. that makes you feel like you're doing something

this was all started with some concern from senator frank lautenberg who represents new jersey because want to break down for you, about 42% of these breaches went unreported and that means they weren't collected in tsa central data system. the airports didn't fix about half of the causes and then this is really the big one here, tsa doesn't comprehensively track all of these things so instead of having a holistic picture of how this is working at newark and the six other airports or the five other airports that they looked at, six altogether they have a scatter-shot picture and that would make it harder for tsa to take the 30,000-foot view and figure out how to correct some of these patterns and whether there are patterns to begin with. >> these are the only airports that they actually looked at. do we have a list of those airports? >> we don't. those were redacted so we know that newark is one of them but we don't know what the others were. we know they were busy airports and the tsa for their part says, look, we agree with a lot of these recommendations and are working on it. >> the

so senator frank lautenberg of new jersey has created legislation that really calls on the chemical industry to take care with the chemicals that they put into everything we use every single day. to make sure that americans and families have peace of mind when they buy products that the environmental protection agency is at least reviewing the chemicals that are being put in those products to decide if they're safe. if the environmental protection agency doesn't do this, who will do it? do we trust the chemical industry to do it? i don't think so. can we trust the furniture industry? i'm not sure. but we know if the e.p.a. does it, it can make a difference. 80,000 different chemicals out there now, many of them critically important for our safety and health. safe chemicals that we can be exposed to every single day without concern. but there are others that aren't the flame retardant chemicals are a good example of that. and, as the presiding officer said when she was speaking on the floor, over the years, they have reviewed 200 of these chemicals out of 80,000. 200. and at the end of the da

this started when there were a number of incidents at newark airport and the new jersey senator frank lautenbergnow more, i want to look into this. things like a knife getting through a check point. a man getting passed security without going through security. even a dead dog loaded onto a plane without being screened for explosives. he asked for this report. he looked at newark and five other airports. what they found, i want to put up some numbers, 42% of security breaches were not being accurately reported, and then only about half of those were actually being fixed. any corrective action was taken. and the most important thing is there really wasn't a widespread system for tsa to step back and take a 30,000 foot look at the whole picture here. that's what prompted this hearing. you are hearing lawmakers say how did this all fit together? how do we do a better job? listen to an exchange from that hearing. >> so there's no depository where one could go and pull up all of the breaches that have occurred. >> well, first, you know, they need to have like i said earlier and the chairman alluded to

the group is backing the, quote, safe chemicals act, something sponsored by new jersey senator frank lautenbergmarket. and why should parents who would be left to wonder if the chemicals used in their babies' bottles, pacifiers, cribs are safe? the status quo is dangerous and unacceptable. >>> also making news, we're following up on a developing story that we've been covering. death at the top of the world. now at least four people have died while descending to southern slope of mt. everest. with these four deaths, the number of people killed on everest this year alone has reached six. this is the spring mountaineering season, the most popular time to climb the world's tallest peak. >>> three, two, one, zero -- and launch of the space x falcon 9 rocket as nasa turns to the private sector to resupply the international space station. >> it's a beautiful thing. boldly going where no private spacecraft has gone before. three days after aborting the launch because of engine problems, it worked. space x has done it, successfully launching the first private rocket off to the international space statio

analyst at women's form rum and julie roginsky, former political advisor to new jersey senator frank lautenberg good morning. harris: 5% of the electorate in the state of ohio where we've seen this president spend a lot of his time, according to mitt romney is exit polling is working class. a big focus this morning has been reaching out to the working class voters. what is mitt romney's strategy for this? >> well, you know it is a good question what mitt romney is strategy for any working class people. he especially espoused same views george bush had in the last administration gotten economy where it is today, the working class keep suffering and rich keep getting rich. that is not class warfare that is reality of our economy. mitt romney did not support bailout of auto industry a huge industry affecting state of ohio. so in ohio's specifically, the last time we had a test between barack obama's world view and mitt romney's world view which is the last election of 2011, mitt romney came up very short overwhelmingly to the people of ohio supported obama's world view of collective bargaining for

for two terms and then go statewide and everybody is saying that in 2014 he wants to go after frank lautenberge siren call to all of the potential booker challengers? >> well, it crystallizes the tension that james sharp tapped into when he was vulnerable and said, looking i'm one of you, and cory booker isn't, and i reflect your values and cory booker doesn't. that is what the "meet the press" interview crystallizes. >> well, we will stop beating up on cory booker and beat up on bain and ask if private equity is the thing to attack, and we will answer that coming up after the break. ♪ money money money with the spark cash card from capital one, olaf's pizza palace gets the most rewards of any small business credit card! pizza!!!!! [ garth ] olaf's small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase, every day! put it on my spark card! [ high-pitched ] nice doin' business with you! [ garth ] why settle for less? great businesses deserve the most rewards! awesome!!! [ male announcer ] the spark business card from capital one. choose unlimited rewards with 2% cash back or double miles on every p

they reason that we brought to the table a bipartisan bill, as you know, it passed 74-22 and a frank lautenberg would have been there it would have been 75-22 so what we brought to the table was a very fair bill. it was the democratic bill. it wasn't a republican bill. bill. it was a bipartisan bill and it had many proposals in it that the republicans supported. for example when congressman mica came out to los angeles, he and i sat next to each other and we heard about the notion of boosting up the -- program. the transportation infrastructure finance and innovation act and what it does is it funds money to the community that decides they want to have a sales tax measure that they will pay it back and they come in and the government fronts the money and it enables communities to do these projects quickly. we have a whole section in the bell called america fast-forward, very very popular. the conference of mayors is behind it. we have so much support and i also wanted to mention in my up day that yesterday i spoke to about 50 of the groups on a conference call and i continue to do this every fe