for nightly business report, i'm hampton pearson in washington. >> as hampton pointed out, health careosts were a big focus in the house proposal, coming up, we'll talk to howard dean and journalist steven breaux about proposing costs. >>> the winning streak extended to an a little session in a row. it sent the blue chip average up nearly three points closing at 14,450. that's another all-time high and the nasdaq lost ten points and the s&p down four points ending seven straight days of gains. >>> blackberry was the mos heavily traded company on the nasdaq today. more than 80 million shares changed hands while above the average daily volume there. shares were off theerly 3% this on a day when pre-orders where the company's z10 smartphone began. some are looking that the product as a potential make or break product for the smartphone pioneer. john ford explains. >> the blackberry, it used to be shorthand for coolest phone in the world. wall street types were obsessed with them and government workers, too. less than four years agoortune named it the fastest-growing company, and now black

the federal spending in hampton roads is going down.we can accept a lower level of economic vitality, no growth, flat economy. is that really what we want? or do we want to get serious finally about diversifying the economy-- finding something to supplement, not replace. i don't want to go to zero in federal spending, but i want to supplement it and reduce it as a percentage of the gross regional product so we are not totally drug dependent on that. >> reporter: but this region that depends so heavily on the business of government had hoped for a phased withdrawal of federal spending. making so many cuts by september 30 feels to many like quitting cold turkey. >> wooduff: now, two stories about how children learn. the first focuses on a seattle program that uses babies to prevent bullying. a recent study by the university of virginia found the dropout rate was 29% above average in schools with significant levels of teasing and bullying, compared to schools in the study with lower rates. our story is part of our ongoing "american graduat

with all due felling, i will turn this over to dina hampton. [applause] >> thank you, thank you so much. i am so excited to be here tonight to talk to you about the lives of three extraordinary people in this book, tom hurwitz, elliot abrams and angela davis and the extraordinary school they found themselves in against the odds considering their differing backgrounds. in the early 1960s. the founder of the school as many of you know, because many of you have connections with the school was elizabeth hurley and who was born to a well-to-do family. after attending smith college she moved to greenwich village and found herself among a group of artists and radicals and social reformers of every stripe at the first blooming of greenwich village's bohemian flowering. she started as a freelance reporter and then studied as a psychologist and social worker and inspired by john do we, she and a partner, louis marx, ran a series of model classes and schools in the public education system, based on the progressive series of john dewey. she and her compatr

back to you guys. >> all right, hampton. thank you very much. dentists complaining about the sugar program, but sally james of the kato institute calls it a disgrace and says the u.s. government should get out of the sugar business entirely. >> she joins us right now. and sally, give us the main points of why you were so upset about this program. >> well, i'm really upset that it's been with us since the 1930s, and it's so difficult to get reform. i mean, american families are struggling, we're barely out of a recession, we've got a fiscal problem that everybody knows is huge and growing and yet, here we have a program, again, been with us since the 1930s, and yet many congressmen have tried to get reform over the years and it's just really, really difficult. it's frustrating. >> i get it that ideologically, and politically, you're against this. but economically, if they didn't support a very important part of our commodity staple, of the u.s. economy, what do you think would happen economically if they just let the price collapse? >> well, the

number with diane, chief economist, diane, always good to see ya. >> you, too. >> you heard hampton put his numbers on what the probability is for tomorrow, about 160,000, 165,000 jobs and about a 7.9% unemployment rate. what's your forecast? >> certainly, i was there in the beginning of the week, but what preliminary job numbers we saw from adp and consumer numbers we've seen come out, which across the board are showing people more optimistic about the month of february, i think we could get closer to 200,000 and be surprised pleasantly on the upside for a change, which would be welcome news at this stage of the game. >> but, diane, there's still a lot of pain in this job market. there are 12 million americans who are out of work. these are the long-term unemployed. and if you look at that measure of u-6, i think they call it, 15% is the unemployment rate, teen unemployment higher than that. ceos we talked to, really not in the mood to higher. what can you tell americans about the health of the job market? >> we're seeing it improve, although the threshold is easy to clear because

hampton pearson has more. >> reporter: today the growing backlash against the tsa's decision to allow passengers to carry small knives on planes starting next month made its way to capitol hill. a coalition of flied attendants, pilots and air marshals joined massachusetts congressman ed r markey who has blocked the tsa move. >> we will not rest until america's flight attendants, pilots, air marshals and passengers are protected. >> any way you slice it, a knife like this is a weapon, and it doesn't belong on an airplane. >> reporter: opposition also includes the union that represents some 45,000 tsa screeners as well as at least 3 major airlines. usair, american and delta. but reaction among passengers is surprisingly mixed. >> i don't think it would endanger anyone. it's such a small thing. >> i just think it's totally wrong and unacceptable. >> i fly all the time. i do not like the idea of having knives on a plane. >> reporter: embattled tsa chief john pistole is not budging, telling lawmakers at a house committee hearing this afternoon the agency focus is on terrorists using explos

for "nightly business report," i'm hampton pearson in washington. >>> we have two different points of view on this subject. dep deborah peel is the founder of the rights foundation and tracy burns director of northeast human resources association. i would like to ask both of you this question. we all want a healthier work force. how do we get there? is it through rewards or is it through penalties? deborah, why don't you start us off? >> well, penalties, of course. and these penalties in particular are very coercive, they're very hurtful. and most of the people working there are probably working a second job already. so it's cruel. it's cruel and it's an insult to dignity. but worse than that, there are serious privacy problems. first of all, americans have the right to health information privacy. the reason is, this is very sensitive information, and it's been clear for decades that employers and insurers use this information to make decisions about hiring, firing and promotions. so the privacy of health information and the lack of control of data in electronic systems and wellness p

hampton pearson has more on that storm that some in washington are calling a snowquester. >> reporter: in the midwest winter piled up more than a foot of snow. more backups in dayton, ohio after another tractor trailer collision there. meanwhile, major airports have seen nearly 4,100 flight cancellations in the last two days with another 7,500 flights delayed. chicago o'hare and reagan national in washington, the most heavily impacted. 2013, weather experts say, continues the trend of more frequent and more costly weather events, but businesses are incorporating more long range forecasting to prepare for emergencies and anticipate customer demand. >> a lot of major retailers are leveraging date axa like that and factoring it in, but we're still early days and the ability to really truly optimize against that kind of intelligence. >> fedex is no stranger to contingency plans around bad wetters and walmart, the nation's largest retailer, has disaster command center personnel on standby with more capability to pre-position emergency merchandise before and after a storm hits. we're just t

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alicia hampton and t.c. everett strongly disagrees with that. everett proposed to hampton three years ago and hope the supreme court rules in their favor. >> if anything were to happen, heaven forbid that one of us had to go in the hospital, we might be banned from visiting each other in the hospital. we don't have legal rights. and that's the problem because we're a dedicated couple that should have them. >> all we're saying is you can't prevent us from loving each other, it's really that simple. >> reporter: the folks you see here say they will hold another vigil here on the steps tomorrow after hearing arguments on the defense of marriage act. reporting live in san francisco, i'm cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >> okay, thank you, cheryl. of course we have much more on today's historic supreme court hearing on our website, nbcbayarea.com. you can also listen into all the audio on today's arguments and read more on what it could mean for the future of same-sex marriage in kachbd also nationwide. >>> in other news, a san diego area man is under

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