reduced hours make a budget on the household budgets of those serving the city of gainesville. while many have had enough to make ends meet in the past now they must find other jobs or other ways to make ends meet. this is time for the adnorgs op i writing off these realities. those who stand by obamacare need to spend some time face to face with the workers whose hours have been cut, it's time to look into the eyes of a mom and dad who can't spend as much time with their children because they have to take on another job to make ends meet. i hope my fair-minded colleague will come together to support the legislation to help those who deserve it most, america's men and women. the gentlelady from new york is right, it's about our votes, not our speeches, and the american people can look to the republican majority and see who we stand with. we stand with the people who have been hurt, who are suffering, who are working extra jobs. it is about those moms and dads. it's not about the exemptions and special privileges given to sprend of this administration on the dilas -- given to fr

. >> he just loves gainesville, the gators. >> the gators like the coasties. >> except not at all.this has been a tremendous march madness. >> yes. >> the games, the playing, torrey mentioned the referees. it's all been happening. >> it's a real mix of things. >> the toutime-outs. >> if you had watched any of the games you would have more to say about it. i didn't watch any of the games so i don't have a lot to offer. but you have written about kentucky, kentucky's got a recruitment strategy that focuses on younger players. tell us about that? >> kentucky broke the year with six mcdonald's all americans and thai have played four or five of them consistently. i think what their head coach has done is remarkable. he recruits one and done guys. he recruits people that are going to be be a top 10, top 20 recruit and go to the nba. so its a remarkable balance there. kentucky has been incredible, because the run they have put on basically looking like an nit team for more than half of the year has been remarkable. >> why are we talking about march madness, it's april, move on folks. no,

my son and daughter have competed against the gainesville -- the janesville show choirs. he is a fifth generation wisconsin native, currently serving his eighth term in congress. he works to address the many issues affecting wisconsin residents. he is the chairman of the house budget committee where he works to bring fiscal discipline and accountability to the federal government. he is a senior member of the house ways and means committee which has jurisdiction over tax policy, social security, health care, and trade laws. paul has put forward a specific plan to it -- to tackle our looming fiscal crisis, addressing entitlement spending. the path to prosperity is to stop spending my the government does not have and addresses the debt. it was the economy on a path to prosperity. a high graduate of school in janesville and he earned degrees in economics and thetical science from university and iowa. he welcome congressman ryan. [applause] ♪ >> wow. wow. thanks, everybody. that's great. appreciate it. look, i thought you were going to go through my cub scout badges next. [lau

. >> we will move on to gainesville, texas. you see the secretary greeting some folks there. hello.he only comment i would make is that it seems this came pretty abruptly. [inaudible] beforery sebelius off the election, to eliminate the baggage of the impact that aca will have on our health care, particularly rates we are going to be paying. that it seemedg like it happened out of nowhere, unless i'm unaware of some suggestion that she was going to be resigning. "> the "washington post reporting that secretary sebelius approach the president in march read -- march. hi there. sebelius, she could not even resign right. she's missing some of her speech. that's the democrats for you. thank you. >> all right, from georgia, you are on c-span. to knowi want everybody that i think ms. kathleen has done a wonderful job. went through a lot of trials and everything else, but she came through for all of us and as far as the democrats, they're doing a good job and she is showing what a democrat can do. they just told through everything. we are getting your reaction to the resignation of kathleen

from gainesville to savannah, georgia. it's really hitting the panhandle hard. i want to tell you that we're going to see somewhere between two and four inches of rain in the next 48-plus hours. you can see the red swath there. up to raleigh, a very rainy start and certainly almost end to the weekend. but dry and nice right in the middle. look at rapid city, much above average, at 78. that's the big picture app look at the local forecast in just 30 seconds. first this morning's get aways brought to you by aarp. >>> good friday morning. most of the bay area is clear and we have fog south of the city. the winds are going to kick up there, be breezy and cool at the coast, warmer for easter sunday. a weak front has moved on through, allowing for temperatures behind it to be seasonal and quite comfortable for today and tomorrow. san francisco, right around average at 63 today, look for 68 across the bay and oakland, 71 in san jose. a little warmer out in the east bay and then cooler monday, showers tuesday. >> so, even chicago can see its warmest easter in about four

hanging out toward southern florida, northern parts of florida jacksonville and gainesville, do you have thunderstorms, straight line winds, saw a lot of damage from straight line winds yesterday and even hail. that's just one side of the equation. you mentioned the snow. look at this, so easy to see with the current temperatures. look how warm it is close to the eastern seaboard, look behind the cold front, look at the 20s and 30s, yes, the snow currently already falling, that is the story, the front continues to push off to the east, the cold air filling in. a lot of rain throughout the daytime, warmer throughout the day, right? temperatures drop overnight tonight, we are going to see more of this snow filling in, even in places like new york city, yeah, chances are you are asleep, 2, 3 in the morning, new york city, but there could be some flurries out there overnight tonight. what a difference in the beautiful temperatures, 70s we just saw a few days ago. the cold air overnight goes down by you, carol, down to the southeast. those temperatures are expected to drop, which means, there

rain falling in the eastern u.s., the heaviest right across northern florida from jacksonville to gainesvillethat's where we are dealing with the heavy rain pours along 10, i 95 and the southeast, it's going to be a slow morning commute. stephanie. >> ebony dion, thank you pom is encouraging 5 months of e americanency -- emergency benefits that expired in december to almost two and a half million americans. after the senate bill passed, seven house republicans wrote to party leadership asking for a vote on that bill or a similar measure. house speaker john boehner opposed the senate bill saying it did nothing to create more jobs. today is equal pay day, a day to highlight the persistent gap between what men and women are paid. president obama is using that backdrop to sign an executive order requiring federal contractors to disclose how much their employees are compensated, broken down by gender and race. the president is also barring federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss their salaries. as robert ray reports, women who work in louisiana are paying the price for t

north florida drenched from jacksonville all the way from the florida turnpike from about gainesvilleand eventually into the tampa area late this morning. orlando same with you. so now for the good news. we get rid of the storm. warm pacific air moves across the country. this is mild pacific air. we go today from 52 in minneapolis to 58 in kansas city. and look what happens as we go into wednesday. we are 73 in minneapolis tomorrow. we had half a foot of snow yesterday. washington, d.c., new york city, boston, you're in for a great stretch as the warm air heads east. the cherry blossoms in d.c. are going to peak. thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, this is the weekend in d.c. if you want to see the cherry blossoms. head out to the mall. looks like a fantastic forecast we all deserve after the miserable winter we're now seeing in the rearview mirror. "morning joe" coming right back. ameriprise asked people a simple question: can you keep your lifestyle in retirement? i don't want to think about the alternative. i don't even know how to answer that. i mean, no one knows how long their m

i'm back home in gainesville florida now. host: how long have you been home for? caller: we came back home in 2010. as you know, when we lived here, jeb bush was our governor. he was liked even by democrats. the point i want to make is that, more and more people are registering independent now. because parties don't have the sav same as our generation -- we have a glorified view of the past when parties made a difference. now, because the corporate funding of elections, there is no corporate lobbyists and the young people don't want that. they want through public financing of elections. they don't feel it's worth voting. they feel presidential elections are just entertainment for the wealthy because they feel they don't have a voice. that is why they want through public financing of elections because they feel our senators and congress people are like prostitutes. all they do is fundraising. then as the bankers and people that fund their campaigns that legislate. until we get through public financing of elections, not this hybrid thing am i don't think you are goi