he was taken into custody at his home in huntington beach.s michael gillesly shows us, the morning arrest drew some smiles and at least one bottle of champagne. >> reporter: at least a half dozen police officers from the los angeles county district attorney's office some in gloves and bulletproof vests sifted through evidence at robert rizzo's huntington beach home today. the former bell city manager was arrested this morning in a surprise raid. a neighbor was on his upstairs patio watching it all. >> yes, ma'am, i did see it. his face was scared and he was shaking like a leaf. >> reporter: another neighbor saw law enforcement lined up in the back alley. rizzo was pulling out in his black cadillac when cops surrounded him and slapped the handcuffs on. >> wasn't in a hurry or anything. he was just cruising down the alley and then there they were. so yeah, i'm happy. i think he got what deserved. >> i'm sightseeing to make sure everything is okay at the rizzo residence. >> reporter: as the investigation went on inside there was a small celebrat

and visitors to huntington park in san francisco got a little . >>> parks all over the bay area wereled with people enjoying this warm weather on labor day and visitors to huntington park in san francisco got a little something extra. some prankster apparently poured soap into the elegant fountain which produced big whip cream blobs of bubbles. fun, no one seemed to know where they came from but they sure had a good time enjoying it. >> after nearly 7 decades in business a bay area supermarket chain is closing its doors. glen ramirez shows us long time customers say it is like losing members of their own family. >> reporter: the promise of big deep discounts at joey franco's pw market didn't affect people like cindy ryan you didn't come here to shop. >> no, not today, wanted to say good buy. >> reporter: these people mean that much to you. >> sure. people are everything. >> reporter: so it was for the last day of the supermarket chain. >> we have lived in our house for 35 years and shopped here 35 years. it's sad. >> reporter: like the passing of an old friend marty bon ham remembere

huntington. during that time i was the point man for bringing that information in moving forward on this difficult project. i am also a recent graduate of the bay area program in their marshall school of business, which is a key for me as far as bringing this experience together as i now have understandable policy, planning, and development. what i think i would bring to this committee is working not only with policy, but personalities, getting what we need to try to get done for the betterment of the committee -- community. and if you have any questions. supervisor chu: thank you. any questions from the committee? thank you very much. are there any other applicants that would like to come up and speak to have perhaps not had a chance to present before? thank you very much. i understand that the current vacancy is a vacancy for district 6? >> yes. supervisor chu: from my understanding the district 6 supervisor has not yet weighed in on a preferred applicant. generally we have a number of members

our weatherbug network shows almost 3 inches of rain near huntington is. prince frederick, wheaton, rockville, moderate rain that the time. to alexandria. oxen hill. the rain not quite as intense but fairfax county looking at heavy rain at this time. we are going to look at the potential for 2-5 inches of rain by the time the system moves out of here. locally, five inches-plus, especially across the delmarva peninsula. let's head over to lisa baden with a look at the traffic situation. >> i'm hearing about stalled car on the outer loop. so many things are coming in fast and furious. let's see if we can get a glimpse of a jackknifed between 270 and old georgetown road a jackknifed tractor-trailer. if you're on the inner loop and you come out of tyson's, you go across the american elegion bridge and that you know exit that would take you on the 270 north, this jackknifed accident is after that exit but before the next exit. only onelane is getting through. >> in alexandria is where we find courtney watching the water el elevels. >> pamela, i can tell you we'

in honeybun, -- in huntington, under watched by storm county management today. >> it gives us the ability to know when the critical times are and to help protect public safety. >> you can see how common is that guy looks. the boats are rocking on the potomac. and that water is looking higher and higher and you can see that the ground is saturated in old town, everett shinya. -- alexandria. >> thank you, john. the for the first time, we are schuring from three young survivors aboard the bus that tumbled over -- we are hearing from three young survivors aboard the bus that tumbled over an embankment yesterday. brad bell has more on what the youngsters are saying in the latest on the investigation. >> we do have some information on the investigation. we heard from maryland state police this evening that derrek team investigator was able to check the bus appier -- their team investigator was able to check the bows out. they said there was nothing on the bus that could have led to an accident. they are now waiting on the autopsy of the driver to see if a medical condition could have caused thi

unknown disease even though it's the third most common movement disorder diagnosed, more common than huntington'sgehrig's disease. >> would say year we're 50 years behind where epilepsy was in terms of understanding the disorder and treatments. >> he had deep brain stimulation, surgery which implants a pace maker into the skull and sends impulses into the brain's tissue. it's powered by a battery pack near jake's right shoulder. the transformation was miraculous. jake is now out of a wheelchair and back in school. did you make that drawing? >> no, my mom's friend did. i wish i could do this, but i can't write. >> reporter: you think you can write some day, though? >> yeah, definitely. my goals are at the end of the year i can write, even if it hurt. >> but the treatment only masks the symptoms. it does not cure the disease for patients, which is why jake and his parent are trying to get the word out about solving the root cause of distonya. they've been helped along by an entire community, including neighbor david gardner, who founded jake's ride for distonya research. the event is publicized wit

reporter: the big fish is the former bell city manager robert rizzo picked up at his luxury home in huntington beach, california, accused of stealing $4.3 million in public funds. >> rizzo, acting as the unelected and unaccountable czar of the city of bell, secretly set his own salary. >> reporter: rizzo is one of eight bell city officials present and former arrested today. the others are accused of miss appropriating $1.2 million. officers used a battering ram to break down the door of bell mayer oscar hernandez when he delayed coming out. >> the complaint alleges they used the tax dollars collected from the hard-working citizens of bell as their own piggy bank which then then looted at will. >> reporter: the district attorney making it clear he's going after anyone involved in this. >> i would charge my mother if i had evidence against my mother. >> i need respect from everybody. please. >> reporter: the people of bell stormed city council meetings after learning in july about the six-figure salaries officials were receiving. today, citizens were elated at news of the arrest. >> i went like

the huntington hotel graciously agreed to not charge for the artist's stay. with so many partners, i have to say this is truly an exemplary public-private partnership. most of the cost of the project has been private contributions. i would like to ask you one last time to applaud this small village of individuals on both sides of the pacific who made this dream a reality. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. so clearly, it takes a lot of work and a lot of people to bring a 10-ton sculpture across the pacific ocean, and bring it to the san francisco civic center. i know everyone wants to get to the mayor and hear from the artist. i want to quickly bring to the

the tsar, as he calls him being robert rizzo arrested in his huntington beach home. bail? $3.2 million. >> set his own salary. he misappropriated a substantial pay and benefits by increasing them through a series of actions that no one approved of and few, if anyone knew about it. >> four of the five current members of city council were charged and arrested for misappropriation of funds. >> counsel members were busy enriching themselves enriching themselves for collecting money for middle easting that's didn't occurred. >> and i'm so excited. i just saw rizzo being handcuffed and this makes me happy. now, if i can get his property to pay back debt he owes me i'll be happier. >> former city council members were arrested as well as former assistant city manager. and there is one city council member not in jail. >> it's a sad moment for us. the saddest part is that our city has been tarnished and the reputation of the city is dragged through mud. hopefully we can begin the healing process. >> that is city garcia reporting from the town of bell. pg&e is working to ease peoples

. >> charlie: what did samuel huntington have right and wrong, if anything?i think first that this -- there are things that are right, and by the way, it's not we reduce very often what he said about the clash of civilizations -- i think it's much more sophisticated than that. what he said is really that the perception of the world will be traditions and religious traditions and cultures being separated or distinguished or opposed and you cannot judge -- it's not happening. if you travel and you listen to the people, they are talking about them. you are in the west. i live in the west. i hear every day, day in, day out, i hear people saying, "you muslim, you are other even when i'm a swiss citizen and with the european background i'm always perceived as the other so the us vs. them -- >> charlie: you're perceived as other because you're muslim. >> by the only fact that i'm muslim -- >> charlie: when you're a muslim country but it is western -- >> exactly. we cannot -- i don't call it a clash of civilizations. i call it a clash of perceptions. >> charlie: some

bitter rivals mental look like need to go got their first win of a new campaign of a big win in huntington sees three final period goals for did not mean victory. opening game of the season of a shootout atop a home team's fans turning out in force from reno almost trying to pass a three. game didn't come up to expectations both for the lions and struggled to create any clear chances as a game when all the way to a shootout. made it free to the visitors this mark short i. needed. school were attempts to get a lot into the game but it failed to be to pay it as never mind as the still side celebrated by the second one of the season was up clearly unhappy afterwards. obviously on the score of help the team won but i shall stop on those i'm not used to losing too much. in all coming from north america. teams that i've been on and they're not pretty good so you know i don't like to lose i'm a competitive guy. now it's never fun to lose our special you're almost there are you and so it's a little bit of mourning but the good thing is we get to come back on monday and try again we had a. all righ

. >> rose: but how far you away of from what you think today of samuel huntington's clash of civilizations? >> i'm... i don't think there is a clash of civilizations but i think his basic... the issue he raised is essentially the correct issue. i don't think the 21st century will be a century of political ideology. i think it will be a century of religious or cultural ideology with the potential to divide and in that division cause conflict. >> rose: and how much of this is infuse bid your own faith? >> not really. i mean, i am a person of faith but actually i'm very open in my faith and i... one of the great joys of my new life in doing this foundation i have about religious interfaith is i have my own faith enriched enormously by knowing islam better, judaism, hinduism, buddism, so on. >> rose: you said i'm more interested in religion than politics so you have more of an interest in religion than most people. >> and certainly my interest in religion gives me a natural starting point. but i actually think even if i was an atheist and had no interest in religion at all you look at the worl

to have some fun this labor day and dumped soap into the elegant or the toys fountain at hundred huntingtonore the water flowed the bigger the bubbles got. at the end of the day the bubbles were bigger. hope yo

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hattie kauffman, cbs news, huntington beach, california. >> mitchell: and that's the "cbs evening newsruss mitchell. hope you're having a great holiday. katie's back tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org . >>> you're watching cbs5 "eyewitness news." >> on a day when a lot of people were taking it easy not this guy. the latest from the any leadership yum tower, the site of a labor day spectacle people will be talking about for a long time. >> certainly no break from politics today. the big change in the governor's race. >>> and why some people aren't happy with a change in the dollar menu. >>> more than 50 stories in the area today this daredevil surprised the police and san franciscoans, by scaling one of the sky scrapers. joe vasquez watched it all from the ground and said the climber had a clear and precise message. >> reporter: it was a quite suspense full afternoon, let miux

. >> i have a document that was prepared by david huntington who was a partner in a company. it was published on the harvard law school forum. i figured it was somewhat credible. i do not want to bore the audience, but i want to see if you've interpreted it. the act introduces significant direct regulation of over-the-counter derivatives transactions. among the most notable provisions affecting the otc derivatives markets are clearing and trading. the act authorizes the cftc and the sec to mandate central clearing of otc derivatives that are determined to be appropriate for clearing and capable of being cleared. does that sound like something that is when to work? >> i think that will work. the more that you can put in a transparent clearing system, the better. when you wanted to get a stock price just by looking at a ticker 25 years ago, you would have to call a stockbroker. today, you can pull it up on a computer screen. you can't do that for a bond. the bond market and the credit markets need to move towards that. more and more will move towards open exchange. that is so m

tens from huntington. there's a beautiful kitchen, everything there is new, it's had a gut renovation. you can't really put another penny in that kitchen. >> stainless steel appliances. >> i love those bar stools as well. the master bedrooms, each of them are huge, high ceiling and great molding and the meticulousness of this house from top to bottom can't be beat. >> it can be beat with that porch, though, right. >> that's a party porch if i ever saw one. you have the barbecue grill and a great lovely backyard to look at. >> collierville, tennessee. >> you remember the company where that guy made a term paper and got a d, a terrible grade? what a mistake that was. this was in the best school district. that's the good news about this house. it's a big old scare stone house and all the rooms are nice and big and square. there's the living room, it showcases the two windows you saw and the fireplace. i think the dining room really pops with that crimson paint. here's an interesting view of the kitchen, you c

huntington. north o'donnell at 25. and east belvedere, at east northern parkway. as far as delays go, 95 northbound. four minutes with an average speed of 27 miles an hour. there's a look at your average speeds and drive times on the beltway. pretty typical there. west side inner loop of the beltway, with 31 miles an hour, as your slowest spot on the west side inner loop between 95 and 795. taking a live look outside. that is a look at green spring avenue. and it is backing up on the right on the inner loop. same goes for the west side at the beltway. inner loop is on the left. and there is a look at 70. typical jam approaching the beltway in the eastbound lanes as well. this traffic report is brought to you by bill's. bill's has got it all for you. 1-877-75-bills. >>> here's the story of one robbery suspect who was just begging to be caught. the story began at a wal-mart in ohio. alexis christoforous reports for wjz on the trashy ending. >> reporter: here's the view from the windshield. as police race to the scene in ohio. they're headed to rescue a robbery suspe

because of the explosion and fire can pickoff their mail at the main post office located at 1300 huntington avenue. they said people have lost their homes can set up a temporary change of address or rent a post office box. >> we are monitoring the situation on the ground and also from the air. once again here are the live pictures news chopper two and you can see just the complete devastation as a result of that explosion. the latest numbers just -- 38 homes destroyed, at least seven damaged. we know nts is there to look into the cause of the natural gas line explosion and search and rescue crews using dogs in a house by house search. for continuing coverage you cannot only watch us but you can go to the website. we are constantly updating our website with the latest. >> the governor is out of the country right now but his wife just visited san bruno. that visit next. >>> also there more than 50 people hurt as a result of the explosion and fire. today their storeys and a outpouring of help. >> and in our next half hour the disappointing turn of events in the saga of the american hikers deta

bizarre former city manager was arrested at his huntington beach home. his bail?.two million dollars. >> secretly set his open salary. he misappropriated substantial pay and benefits. by increasing each of them through a series of actions that no one approved of and few if anyone new about. >>reporter: 4 of the 5 current members of the city council for bell were charged and arrested for misappropriation of funds. they are those listed here and the mayor. >> council members were busy enriching themselves by collecting money for meetings that never occurred. in some cases council members received illicit loans approved by mr. rizzo. [applause] tears at bell city hall as word of the arrest spread. >> i'm so excited. i just see rizzo handcuffed all the way makes me happy. if i can get all his property and resource and pay back all the debt he owes me i'll be happy. >>reporter: former city council members were arrested as well as former assistant city manager. if the only current city council member not in jail is hear. >> it is happy and sad moment for us. saddest par

. >>> someone apparently decided to have fun dumping soap in the tortoise fountain at huntington parkn francisco. ♪ tiny bubbles [ >> at the end of the day, the fountain certainly a lot cleaner and people had a little fun with it, as well. >>> a common phrase on bart trains these days might be, say what?? >> what?? >> "san francisco chronicle" reporter surveyed all 208 miles of the bart rails with a sound level meter and found that noise levels of 90 decibels or louder at 23 locations, which we had to look up, what's 90 decibels, what -- >> hairdryer, lawnmower that sort of thing. >> okay. ipods like 100? >> 115? something like. >> so we asked some bart riders our question of the day. do you think it's too noisy on bart trains? >> tunnels screaming and screeching is ridiculous. i don't know if it's possible for them to fix it but if the technology exists, why not? >> put a little rubber wheels on. >>> our viewers are also weighing in. on at which time e at cruising speeds... this within last d loud. we had johnny last hour. send your comments to mornings@cbs5.com. we're also on facebo

somebody apparently decided to have fun yesterday dumping soap into the tortoise fountain at huntingtonncisco. >> see all those little slivers of soap they have been saving up. the wore the water flowed, the bigger the bubble. the fountain was cleaner at the end of day. >>> police in las vegas are defending the quick release of paris hilton last month, august 27 on suspicion of cocaine possession. now police confirm that hilton was processed and out of jail in about three hours. that is roughly half the time it usually takes for people facing the same charge. then again i would imagine they probably had all her paperwork. uhm, no. police also placed her in a separate room from previous incidents. >> maybe they wanted to get her out of jail, she was a nuisance. >> they say celebrities draw unwanted attention from the media and other inmates. >>> a man in colombia is now recognized as being the shortest adult male in the world. the guinness book of world records announced the title yesterday. 4-year-old edward hernandez just 27.5" tall. his family calls him nino which is child in spanish.

huntington's disease and spinal chord injury. these conditions have taught us more about our brain than any other kind of brain disease. through parkinson's we have learned about movement. through stroke we have learned about speech. and through spinal cord injuries we have learned how thoughts give rise to actions. neurological diseases have been a topic of research for sent yees but-- century bus only recently have we developed effective treatments. this evening we will meet a group of scientists who have developeways to pair or bypass the disordered brain. john done o hew. his work allowed paralyzed patients to move and communicate using only their thoughts and a machine called a brain computer interface. he is a professor at brown university and co-founder of a company called cybernetics. john craw krauer, his work exfloor-- craw quarter, how movement is recovered following a stroke. he is an associate professor of neurology and neuroscience at columbia. nancy bonini. she studies the genetic basiof neurological disease by per

police arrested robert rizzo yesterday at his huntington beach home. he is accused of setting his own salary at $800,000 a year. he's also accused of stealing public money. he was one of eight city of officials arrested in the sting. the others are accused of miss appropriating more than a million dollars. >>> nevada governor jim gibbons waking up in a hospital this morning. he went to the hospital after falling from a horse. he was riding with his brother near pyramid lake when it happened. a spokesman said the governor is in a lot of pain but is able to move his arms and legs. >>> senator barbara boxer and candidate carly fiorina are pumping up their fund-raising efforts. fiorina is headed to washington, d.c., where she will attend a series of fund-raisers. michelle obama is set to come to california in october to help senator boxer raise some money. the first lady is slated to stop in california the week of the 25th. it will last several -- it will be the last of several fund-raising stops that she plans to make during the month. aides say she will

advance in terms of the ability to study certain diseases, such as fragile x, for instance, for huntington's disease and such were not in the collection of 21 lines. furthermore, those 21 lins were non-diverse in terms of their origins. nearly all of them coming from individuals of northern european backgrounds. and if you were thinking about the possibility of ute lidsing these therapeutically for spinal cord injury, that could greatly limit the ability to use them for people of different backgrounds. so there's enormous enthusiasm and intense interest on the part of the scientific community to have this panel broadened and the obama executive order in match, 2009, made that possible under carefully described conditions, to maintain the most ethical standards in terms of how such lines would have to have been derived in order to qualify for federal funding. and n.i.h. now has on its registry 75 lines that have met those standards and more to come. >> very good. and in the senator's opening statement, he said the following -- "people suffering from dozens of diseases and conditions including

city manager robert rizzo busted at his huntington beach home had been pulling down $500,000 in salaryo about $1.5 million annually. >> the charges accuse rizzo of being responsible for at least $4.3 million of the city's losses. >> rizzo, one of eight city officials present and former charged with numerous accounts of misappropriating public funds. when police went after mayor oscar hernandez, they had to break down the door of his house with a battering ram. >> this was greed and theft accomplished by deceit and secrecy. >> reporter: the district attorney making it clear he's going after anyone connected with this. >> i would charge my mother if i had evidence against my mother. >> i need the respect of everybody. >> reporter: in july, when people found out about the astronomical salaries the city officials were getting, they stormed city council meetings demanding their resignations. and when news came of the arrests on tuesday, some citizens literally jumped for joy. >> we did it! i'm happy. this is what i was waiting for from the very beginning. >> we just love the idea of all the

reverend paul britain, brother of passenger, marianne britain and gloria day lutheran church, huntingtonill lead us in a moment of silence in memory and of our heroes from flight 93. >> rabbi motichi kaplan reminded us that god will a list it from each of us, the pest that is in us. and that god will also enable each of us to bear the worst that can be fall us. rabbi kaplan doesn't remind us of what's generally self-everythself-everyt everything that the pest usually comes out when the worst that can happen too us occurs. before that moment, most of us cannot believe the courage, the hope sh hope, the acts. - that we can live out until the worst be falls us. in those moments, when we can't believe what god can do through us, we can close our eyes and remember the 40 faces. we can close our eyes, and remember this field. we can because and remember their deeds, for in many ways, they didn't know the best of themselves until the worst be fell them. - and god moved through them. let us becaus because in the si and prayers of our heartprayers. amen. >> the names of the passengers and crew wi

advance in terms of the ability to study certain diseases, such as fragile x, for instance, for huntington'sn the collection of 21 lines. furthermore, those 21 lins were non-diverse in terms of their origins. nearly all of them coming from individuals of northern european backgrounds. and if you were thinking about the possibility of ute lidsing these therapeutically for spinal cord injury, that could greatly limit the ability to use them for people of different backgrounds. so there's enormous enthusiasm and intense interest on the part of the scientific community to have this panel broadened and the obama executive order in match, 2009, made that possible under carefully described conditions, to maintain the most ethical standards in terms of how such lines would have to have been derived in order to qualify for federal funding. and n.i.h. now has on its registry 75 lines that have met those standards and more to come. >> very good. and in the senator's opening statement, he said the following -- "people suffering from dozens of diseases and conditions including cancer, juvenile diabetes,

of this is the city manager, robert rizzo, he was arrested yesterday outside his luxury home in huntington beach as he tried to pull away in his cadillac. let me show you how this scam worked. now, under a standard procedure, a city manager's salary would be discussed in an open meeting, his contract would be reviewed by the the city attorney, and it would be approved by the city council in an open meeting. instead, let's go to the next full screen, rizzo produced a counterfeit compensation contract. he used fraudulent signatures, and to illegally inflate his salary and benefit package. so the the city attorney was com polit with this, as well as the city council, which was being paid for a job it didn't do. as we look at the city council, according to the district attorney in l.a., they were billing the city for meetings that never happened, and some meetings that lasted only two minutes. the d.a. said they had 70 minutes of meetings over the entire year to bring down a salary of about $100,000 each. bill, that is why they call it stealing. bill: wow. phantom meetings. i mentioned that to

if you have the gene for huntington's disease, your reply to get that killed us. -- you are likely to get that bill must pat -- illness. there is always want to be an environmental interaction that will participate -- precipitates that. if they have this particular gene, it means that they will get cancer. their chances are higher than somebody who does not have it. it is not whether that issue should be made public. the issue is that once it is found and someone gets into office and it is found, is that something that constitutes an ability or disability that should be accounted for in a certain way. i think it is one of those kinds of things where flexibility is in the document. the biggest example relates to work that i have done, myself that relate to regression. particularly in menace of test -- manifestation of physical aggression. when you have this particular kind of polymorphism, if you have a particularly dramatic life of them, you will react when you were provoked. someone in that kind of circumstance may be more likely to react aggressively. it is important to think about

some people suggested, is this the first child described to have variant of huntington's disease, forven't found that specifically and might be an autoimmune problem that doesn't show up on the standardized tests and they have the look for that. >> mystery to be sure. doc, great story this morning. thank you. >> thank you. >> keep us posted. >> i will. thank you. >>> for more on the rare medical mysteries and the detectives trying to find the right diagnosis, tune in to "sanjay gupta md" saturday mornings here on cnn. >>> there's a flooding warning in the midwest. could be a threat to the u.s. our rob marciano tracking it all and will join us in a moment. logistics makes the world work better. ♪ when it's planes in the sky ♪ ♪ for a chain of supply, that's logistics ♪ ♪ when the parts for the line ♪ ♪ come precisely on time ♪ that's logistics ♪ ♪ a continuous link, that is always in sync ♪ ♪ that's logistics ♪ ♪ carbon footprint reduced, bottom line gets a boost ♪ ♪ that's logistics ♪ ♪ with new ways to compete ♪ there'll be cheers on wall street, that's logistics ♪ ♪ when technology

>> former city manager robert rizzo busted in huntington beach, california, has been pulling down $800,000 total benefits came to about $1.5 million annually. >> the charges accuse rizzo of being responsible for at least $4.3 million of the city's losses. >> reporter: rizzo is one of eight city officials, present and former, charged with numerous counts of misappropriating funds. when police went after ayar oscar hernandez, they had to break down his door with a battering ram. >> this was accomplished by deceit and secrecy. >> reporter: the district attorney making it clear he's going after anyone connected with this. >> i would charge my mother if i had evidence against my mother. >> please, i need respect, everybody. >> reporter: in july when people found out about the astronomical salary it is city officials were getting, they stormed city council meetings demanding their resignation. and when news came of the arrests on tuesday, some citizens literally jumped for joy. >> yay, we did it. i'm happy. i'm happy. this is what i was waiting for from the very beginning. >> we just love the id

host: huntington beach, california. please make sure you your set. caller: i am sorry, i did not hear what he said. host: we will go to brenda in corona, california. caller: hi. i believe the bush tax cuts should be extended for the middle class and not for the rich people. icing is that -- have you ever seen the graph that they have down on how much -- how many more millionaires and billionaires we have had in the last 10 years? guest: i have not. caller: now we have 400 billionaires. we really need -- we have a disappearing middle class. i do not believe that the tax cuts, the bush tax cuts, will help the middle class or our small businesses. in the last eight years, i do not believe we have had middle class help. >> one issue that people have said, these tax cuts were enacted to help the economy grow in terms of having more jobs. guest: brand that has hit upon the fact that these tax cuts did not save us from the economic calamity. why are we extending them. it is shrinking the number of people who are actually saying it, because it is a political

here is a little bit more about what he writes -- we will begin with a call from huntington beach, california. good morning. slade on the democrat's lead but caller: the problem with our country is we refusing to deal with what is really causing our problem. like at the moment, everybody is willing to clean up the tea party. the tea party is no different than the republican party. host: we talk about the tea party a lot here, and i am asking a positive, what is america's core competency and you are going into problems. what you tell us what is good about the country, what works and what could be strengthened? caller: i can't tell you what works -- and i tell you what is causing it not to work? host: as long as he did to the other part, too. caller: what causes it not to work is bigotry and racism and we refuse to deal with it. host: what is our greatest strength, competency? caller: i really don't know. host: don't think the country has any? caller: i think racism and bigotry is killing it. host: thanks very much. we will see of other people can go to strengths of america. beginning with a ca