no one surprisingly in the fracking indoctrination of ohio's youth isn't sitting too well with environmental activists in fact one. my petition urging disney's c.e.o. to shut down this program has already gathered over eighty thousand signatures so if you think the magic kingdom and oil belong together as well as water and oil and let's break the set. of the peaceably it was a. very hard to take a. long line he ever had sex with the target they're looking. for.

we see that happening here in ohio as well. in other more sophisticated republican forces are asserting themselves. forces that know arithmetic and know it well. eight years after losing to the first black president, the republicans will feel 30 to 40 candidates of color. they are running as fast as they can while the democratic bench is empty. although governor chris christie has a new set of problems on his hands, he is nonetheless spent the past few years distancing himself from the reaction nare elements in his party, and he recently made a point to sign immigration reform into law in new jersey. democrats run the risk of getting come place president in the face of republican internal squabbles and if underestimate the republican threat to their base. historically republicans have been so bad on race and quality democrats have not had to do anything. soon they will have to contest for the votes of color and make an argument why they are better than republicans at addressing he needs of color. what are the policy implications

there is controversy over the death of a convicted killer in ohio with a never-before tried drug cocktail. >> reporter: dennis had been sentenced to die the murder of a 7-month-old woman. in recent years a backlog of death row inmates has increased because of a shortage of lethal injection drugs. in this case, ohio officials used a combination that hadn't been tried before, a sedative and a painkiller. a reporter who witnessed mcguire's excuse said at 10:29 his eyes rolled back as if we were going to sleep, six minutes later he appeared to be unconscious, convulsing, gagging and struggling to breathe. 15 minutes went by until mcguire was dead. his attorney argued against this method of execution. but lawyers for the state of ohio argued while the constitution bans executions that are cruel and unusual, that doesn't mean inmates are entitled to a pain-free death. >> andrew welch was well for the execution this morning, and he has witnessed 11 other executions in ohio. so andrew, welcome. let me ask you first, how was this execution different than the 11 other you have seen? >> well, to put

remains one of the swing states in the country. because ohio is almost split down the middle in terms of its efforts inrends ohio make a bigger difference because the margin is so ball -- so small. you can increase participation. worth studying in understanding better what obama did to be able to win here. the increased significance of the -- to the african-american turnout in ways that really people.the romney and karl rove. their models were wrong about how many people would turn out. is itf the challenge should not be episodic work. it should not be every four years in october. what is the civic engagement infrastructure and involvement in the ownership the relevant that is going on around the clock? it is almost back to the civic club type of days. people who were leaders in caning out for obama -- they be supported to be civic leaders in getting people to the city council meeting or to be part of a club. you start to know who all of your neighbors are. you continue to have that relationship so when election time comes around, you know who

. >>> the execution of a death row inmate in ohio goes horribly wrong. now the focus is on untested drugs that were used in his lethal injection. >>> one of the lost boys, only found himself swept up in another violent conflict. >> thanks for joining us on al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton. , a botched camp fire morphed into a massive wildfire. san gabriel mountains, causing evacuations in nearby city of glenglendora. police say they have the culprits who may have started that fire. al jazeera's jennifer london is in glendora with more. >> what started as an early morning camp fire quickly spread to a wildfire out of control. within hours the wildfire burned 1700 acres and caused evacuations of 5,000 people. the colby fire as it is called, 600 to 700 firefighters are trying to increase that containment level. firefighters do say as night fell they began to get the upper hand and were able to stop the forward movement of the flames. the hope is that the wind does not come up overnight, to bridge the fire lines that workers worked all day to establish.

to get accredited, they had to partner with a nonprofits accredited university in ohio. the accreditation body, which is not a government body, but a commission of entrenched interests -- the trade association of incumbents look at that and actually decided with no warning, no communication to shut the entire startup down. they raise $30 million. had 200 employees. it just went from eventually having a valuation of $100 million to zero in a week. and without any governmental oversight, without anything. it was able to do that. there are these nightmare scenarios. as an investor, entrepreneur, you have to be aware of that.

that territory would become ohio. in 1803, ohio was admitted as our 17th state.ate flag for almost 100 years until an architect named john eisenmann came up with a most unusual design. >> the ohio flag is the only state flag of the 50 that is not a rectangle. it's a swallow-tail flag that we usually see on a boat. what it is is it's a pennant, but it comes to two points. and they chose that to be distinct. they wanted ohio to look different from all the other state flags, and they certainly achieved that. they chose to use the red, white, and blue of the american flag. several states have done that. but they also achieved simplicity by putting the letter "o" in the canton of the flag. and the letter "o" has two meanings to people in ohio. it's "o" for ohio, but also it's the buckeye state. >> buckeyes are round nuts commonly found in ohio that native americans thought resembled the eye of a male deer, a buck. 13 stars are clustered around the "o," representing the original 13 states. four more stars stand beside it, representing the next four states to be admitte

how does this play in the bread basket of ohio in the middle of the country?pa regulations that much more important than income inequality and minimum wage in ohio? >> it doesn't play well. ohio's unemployment rate is at 7.4%. they need a congress that gets to work. imagine going to work and telling your boss that you don't want to work, but you want to get paid when you have done absolutely nothing. we've been talking about the arctic blast that's hit this nation. there are officials on the republican side that don't care about the needs and issues of everyday people in this state. it is moral lly bankrupt. >> how can they be so out of touch with their priority list? none of them poll very well. >> not at all. they wanted to pass legislation, a bill, that mandated all high school students read -- you're absolutely right. this is a travesty. we're not dealing with income inequality. rubio suggested he wanted to deal with income inequality in terms of poverty, but it is a war on poor. they don't have a sense of those issues that are serious for america, like ex

five in ohio so we were able to rally people and they really see that organized labor kid get the vote out and that's what happened in twelve but obama took those states which they thought they had sewed up they thought they had michigan florida they thought they had ohio sewed up they thought they had pennsylvania and they didn't obama won and they won because of labor so we are a powerful force and we stand in their way from total domination of this country right which is why they're trying to take you out so one of president obama's original back in two thousand and eight one of his original campaign points was card check was the employee free choice act allowing people in the workplace to more easily form a union do you see looking forward into the twenty fifteen to twenty fourteen into next year do you see the obama administration going back to that are starting to place any emphasis on that or arguably far more importantly congress. well i think what you have to look at is the composition of the congress in two thousand and nine and we delivered to president obama you know not on

with headlines like the one in the huffington post, calling this a nightmare execution in ohio. ying that he, quote gasped for air. the local pape in youngstown, ohio called this a, quote--the american thinker block went so far as to call this a barbaric, grizzly execution for the ohio murder. but in the stories that went with those headlines and dozens more like them, there was little mention of joy stewart and what she suffered at the hands of this man. josh swaggart is a reporter for the dayton daily news and he was in the room for maguire's final moments. josh, thank you for being here, so walk us through it because what happened in that room will be the basis of this lawsuit and could potentially have an impact on the death penalty in ohio and beyond. >> thank you. i was there as a media witness, i stood on the doorway between the two witness chambers, there's one room where the victim's family sits, the other room where the inmate's family sits. they brought mr. maguire in, laid him on the table, before they gave him the fatal injection, they asked if he had any last words,

the real issue is in ohio and in my district.ple who have waited almost two years to have their votes counted. in my district, we've had voter intimidation billboards targeted in the african american community, trying to stop people from voting. and so we thought it was very important to launch a people's campaign in the spirit of dr. king as we celebrate his birthday. we'll have a lot of ceremonial events throughout the country. and we want to move from singing "we shall overcome." it's time to overcome. and we're calling for a voter bill of rights that allows the people to have a voice and a vote and put voting rights in the constitution. >> ohio state representative alicia reece, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you for having me. >>> the justice department makes big news on racial profiling today. it's progress. stay with us. with my dentures. i love kiwis. i've always had that issue with the seeds getting under my denture. super poligrip free -- it creates a seal of the dentures in my mouth. even well-fitting dentur

ohio. thank you for calling in. we are fighting as hard as we johno get the speaker boehner from ohio where unemployment has just gone up to bring that extended unemployment compensation measure to the floor. he can do that under his power. right now, he's making a decision to not bring that delta the floor. 128,000affecting over ohio families that have not been able to get their extended unemployment benefits. these are people who have worked , who believe in the value of work, and they have earned the while they helped are looking for another job. it is hard to get a job when you lost it, because we don't have enough jobs being created for the levels of unemployment that we are sustaining, particularly among older workers. we have historic ties for those -- and stork highs for those over 50 years of age. -- historic highs for those over 50 years of age. people want to work. what good does it do us to say, you can come up your unemployment benefits and then they fall into the ranks of poverty. people's lives togethe

and surprisingly in the fracking indoctrination of ohio's youth isn't sitting too well with environmental activists in fact one online petition urging disney's c.e.o. to shut down this program has already gathered over eighty thousand signatures so if you think the magic kingdom and oil belong together as well as water and oil let's break the set. the the possibly it was a little very hard to take a. look. at her back with that her right there. it's been over twelve years since nine eleven now what happened that day is not the lasting impact worldwide perhaps none are more affected than the thousands of first responders that selflessly rushed to ground zero in search for survivors over one thousand nine eleven first responders have already died from cancer and other related illnesses as a result of breathing in the highly toxic especially the dust from the pulverized buildings dust that the government knew to be dangerous and assured the people of new york was perfectly safe so wall street could get back up and running according the second a

. >> and breaking tonight controversy over an execution in ohio now getting attention around the world after complaints the convicted murderer suffered too much in his final moments. welcome to the kelly file. i am megyn kelly. the story begins with the murder of joy stewart a 22-year-old newlywed nearly 8 months pregnant when she went missing in february of 1989. she spent the morning with a friend's mother and was not seen until the next day when her body was found in the woods near a local creek. her throat had been slit and she had been raped. it took ten mnts for prosecutors to get their first real lead in connection with their murder. a prison inmate by the name of dennis maguire claimed his brother in law had murdered joy stewart but then maguire ended up implicating himself when he described only details the killer would know. he was charged, tried, and convicted. in 1994 he was sentenced to death. he challenged it. that conviction was upheld the u.s. supreme court declined to get involved. yesterday that death sentence was carried out. he was injected with a mixture of drugs t

and it's very nice that other folks in ohio actually saw this dog on the frozen river and deputy delgadoo the rescue. >>> destruction in slow-mo. >> he's taken the dillon m-134 mini gun, it's a gatling gun, and he's pitting it against the car. >> see how these shots turn explosive. >>> and a youtube prankster takes his joke too far when he messes with the wrong guy. >> and cruz gomez -- >> oh! >> see how the joke's on you, buddy. >> oh! safeway presents real big deals of the week. or how to get great deals the easy way. you do enough flying around. that's why we give you real big club card deals. this week, honey nut cheerios are just $1.88. that's a sweet deal. brew up a great cup for less. starbucks is just $6.99. and lean cuisine entrees are just 2 dollars each. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>> nobody does destruction and slow-motion better than richard ryan over at the rated rr channel. in this episode he's taken the dillon m-134 mini gun, a gatling gun, and he's pitting it against a car. he's taking a scene from a new movie called "

i just left a funeral home over the weekend in ohio where our former county engineer, george wilson, lost his beautiful wife, pat, to alzheimer's. in which you were saying, congressman garamendi, what it took for that family and that working daughter to try to hold everything together and it's such a cruel illness. so any help for caregivers across this country, for making care giving a profession where you earn a decent wage, however we figure out how to do that, we're going to need it in the coming years. so i support my colleagues in their efforts to raise the money in -- minimum wage, to close the gender pay gap, to make sure that there's paid leave, to make sure that we work as a society to find ways to care for those who are ill, and i know that with men such as yourself and those who are on the floor this evening, and with women who have not been educated and able to fully participate in this society, and to express the needs from coast-to-coast, we will change this country for the better. thank you so very much for coming down here this evening and i agree with you, that when

and it's very nice that other folks in ohio actually saw this dog on the frozen river and deputy delgadoo the rescue. >>> destruction in slow-mo. >> he's taken the dillon m-134 mini gun, it's a gatling gun, and he's pitting it against the car. >> see how these shots turn explosive. >>> and a youtube prankster takes his joke too far when he messes with the wrong guy. >> and cruz gomez -- >> oh! >> see how the joke's on you, buddy. >> oh! >>> nobody does destruction and slow-motion better than richard ryan over at the rated rr channel. in this episode he's taken the dillon m-134 mini gun, a gatling gun, and he's pitting it against a car. he's taking a scene from a new movie called "lone survivor" with mark wahlberg where the gun is featured in a scene. >> listen up, red wing's a go. bad guy, senior taliban commander. a lot more than ten guys. it's an army. >> richard mounts the mini gun to a huey. he doesn't have access to the actual helicopter in the movie. he's using a huey. a good stand-in. >> this gun can be in the blackhawk helicopter and it shoots at an astonishing 3,000 rounds per m

in ohio, chris is on the line for independence. -- independents. i was diagnosed 18 months ago with: cancer. i'm 55 years old and i did not have insurance. by the end of last year, i probably racked up almost $500,000 in medical bills. i have to have chemo every two weeks in order to stay alive. with this new effect of this new affordable care act, it has been a blessing to me and my family. -- she may have already answered this a long time ago, but nationwide health insurance. it just seems like it will eventually have to go that way. it is just so expensive to try to cover it on an individual basis. the you have any comment? guest: it is something that progressive democrats are hoping for, that as a result of the formal care act we will move more toward a single-payer system, a medicare for all system perhaps. but it seems like the american public is wary of this so far, certainly after the problems with the affordable care act rollout. the law remains very controversial, and in fact, the majority have reported that they are still having bad expe

>> kasich in ohio. scott walker, if he can win reelection, he is in a swing state.eb bush is strong not because he is a bush, but for other reasons. he was a good governor from a swing state with an outstanding record. >> what about some of the other formidable candidates? >> you have a lot of pretenders. is an optimist could he can sell. it depends who can consolidate early on. there are a lot of contenders. ted cruz. it would be hard to squeeze any daylight between yourself and him. he is very conservative. if he gets in he is an instant , darling. and you have rand paul. he is in the conservative strain. but a little more independent. >> let me ask you about bob mcdonnell and his wife, in your own state. without judging their guilt or innocence are there any lessons , that we can take from this tragedy? >> i think so. i think -- look, in virginia, as in anything, you can take anything. people need to understand, this appeared way out of bounds. but in virginia lost, you can law, takingginia gifts is legal to any amount. the question was, was there a quid pro quo,

in ohio, only 19% those that are signed up are between the age of 19 and 34. it's a very serious issue. from the insurance companies from the can we pay our claims will would he be here from a consumer perspective. that's what insurance is for. pay the claims when they come due. >> the whole idea was that you get young people who probably aren't going to have any claims, they are going to pay the premiums, there is money in reserve. the sicker people and older people will be living off the younger people. if the younger people don't sign up and only people in there are the sicker people there is n cover it then what happens to the insurance companies? >> premiums continue to go up when they can. unfortunately, we are very concerned 'insurance companies stay pay claims. if they don't get the premiums up fast enough they are going to go bankrupt. that's bad for consumers. >> at love promises were made. you can keep your doctor and insurance. $2,500 per family less expensive. none of those things have been true. also promised more competition and more companies w

in ohio, for example, what's happened? have more people come to the marketplace? unfortunately, just the opposite. we have less consumer choice and we have less competition. on the exchange, in ohio prior to the exchange, we had 60 company cans selling individual health insurance. >> 60? >> 60. on the exchange we have 12. >> whoa, so only one in five of the companies selling insurance before are now still in the marketplace? >> yes. on the exchange. and it's unfortunate. premiums went up 41% on average in our individual market. our small group premiums went up on average 18%. prices went up. consumer choice went down and competition decreased. >> everything that was supposed to happen has not happened. now, i think a lot of people who have ever worked in state government i felt this way and you probably did too, you saw that coming. you could understand there was not going to be the panacea, this fix for everything. whats were the danger signs from the beginning that this administration simply didn't pay attention to? >> all of the new mandates. we talked earlier

plus a seemingly botched leeltal injection in ohio. and the often painful program for infant children in adapting to american life. >>> hello, i'm antonio mora, this is "consider this". more on what's ahead. >> intelligence agencies cannot function without secrecy, which makes their functioning less open to public debate. >> an ohio inmate took 26 minutes to die during an execution. >> i've never seen anything that lasted so long in the shuddering and gasping was so pronounce pedestrian. >> everything here is different. >> they are the american dream. >> we begin with the long awaited recommendations from president obama on reforming the vast and controversial spying powers of the nsa. , while defending widespread surveillance as crucial to national security, president obama said he was ending the collection and storage of phone data at least as it exists today and vowed to stop is eavesdropping on friendly allies. >> it will ensure that we take into account our security requirements, but also, our alliances, our trade and investment re

those who live in ohio, expect to see more attack ads in 2012. >> great. thank you, alan. joel? >> thanks, linda. i want to thank john and janet for the wonderful staff for making this conference possible again. it is a conference i look forward to and wish it were held oftener. i was driving home from work and i tuned into the. -- into prairie home companion. i heard garrison keillor give his advice on how to survive in new york. you have to walk fast, dressed in black, and do not look people in the eyes. i need to talk fast. i need to move through my slides rapidly. i can make the usual apologies for our results. i was fortunate to do this paper with edward. we have been working together over the years and we were assisted by kasey fisher of kent state university. what is responsible for these trends? how is the american voter changed? those who are attached are more polarized and sorted. what is responsible for these trends? how is the american voter changed? we attribute them to the direct primaries and the dominance of ideologues. we also credit the demographic changes in t

in ohio and the second and north carolina. he did make mention of fuel economy standards and his efforts going forward to make those stronger for new tracks. >> based on what he did or did not say about the auto industry, is it your sense that the white house feels that we have pivoted, that we have made the turned the industry is on the rebound and the recovery we have been seeing in the improving number of car sales will continue in the year ahead? >> the auto industry has come around. all the automakers are turning a profit. detroit came off of its auto show that had high attendance, the highest attendance in about 11 years. i did think it was interesting that he did not make mention of in the sense that general motors is no longer -- the treasury department no longer has any stake in general motors. it was surprising that he did mention that. at the same time, he did have ladiey'sa in the first box. impact would raising the minimum wage have? higher than the federal rate but it is becoming an issue. -- democrat for governo

[laughter] ohio remains one of the bellwether states in the country. because of ohio is almost split right down the middle in terms of its electoral trends, everson ohio make a bigger difference. the margin is so small. you can actually increase the participation that has an impact. it is worth studying and understanding better what obama did to be able to win here. the increased significance of the african-american turnout in ways that shocked the romney people and shocked karl rove. we watched his meltdown on election night. we could not believe it. it was transpiring. their models were wrong as to how many african-americans would turn out. the challenge is that the work should not just the episodic. it should not be every four years in october. what is the civic engagement infrastructure involvement and leadership development is going on around the clock? civic lovek to the type of days. people who are precinct leaders turning out for obama, can they be supported to be civic leaders and getting people to the city council meeting or be part of a block

severe weather blamed for one death tonight. 90-year-old woman found in the snow in ohio. for the first time in 40 years indianapolis ordered all cars off the road. 6 semi and about 375 vehicle got stuck along snowing stretch of interstate in illinois. >> it's very cold and very dangerous for people so spend a lot of time driving 15 or 20 miles an hour in the last couple day so pretty tough. >>reporter: look at this vapor rising from lake michigan. ice cutter was needed to keep shipping lanes open. forecas forecasters say the before it's all over 187 million people will feel the freeze. >> well the frigid temperatures are affecting nraits all over the country. thousands cancelled and delayed. at sfo many travelers are stuck. they can't get there from here. lillian kim is there live tonight with the story. lillian? >> there will were 56 cancelled flights here at sfo today with each cancellation hundreds of travelers left feeling helples helpless. all day long it has been frustration at the ticket counter at sfo this man lost hope of heading home any time soon. >> paparrazi

travel twenty six schools and science centers across the state promoting a program called a rock in ohio sounds innocent enough it turns out this initiative was entirely funded by none other than the ohio oil and gas energy education program which in turn gets its money from you guessed it the oil and gas companies or the demonstration the kids were shown interactive presentations about gas pipelines and encouraged to spread the message about the industry not just guessing here but i doubt these kids were also taught that infertility and cancer causing chemicals been found in fracking water supplies let's break this. mani's with me in half an hour from now you still watching ninety international up next people about costs on. what a country experiences a tragedy like the recent terrorism in volgograd this question is what to do about it i mean we have to do something right let's never let a good tragedy go to waste one do remember recommends getting rid of the moratorium on the death penalty for prayers groups including terrorists because the death penalty is the perfect way to punish a

. >>> a new type of lethalen injection was used to kill an inmate in ohio. it took 15 minutes. >>> the military is investigating the third fatal chopper accident in the past eight days. a hard helicopter landing killed one soldier and left two more injured. the victims belong to an elitoff ration unit. >>> another spy scandal. according to documents published in the guardian, the nsa collects up to 200 million text messages a day. tomorrow president obama gives a major speech proposing new reforms for surveillance programs. those are the headlines. i'm john siegenthaler. i'll see you back here at 11:00 eastern, 8:00 pacific. "america tonight" is coming up next with joie chen. i'll see you back here at 11:00. >>> on "america tonight," our exclusive look at the surprising story behind the film that has captivated hollywood, and taught all of us about a grim time in our nation's history. from the family of the man who was held 12 years a slave. >> it is a history of america that has been swept under the rug for way too long. >> also the man who helped to tell th

it travelled down the elk river to the river and found in ohio. and the chemical was found in the drinking water there and several other intake drinking water areas. impacting thousands who make their lives along the water. down river in louisville, the water intake valves will remain open and the authorities will catch whatever chemical remains. back in charleston where some tap water still smells like licorice and is discolored authorities urged customers to keep flushing their faucets. >> if there is additional coloration, we ask they flush wait for an hour and do that step again. >> reporter: now, officials here think the chemical plume will be gone tomorrow, certainly friday at the latest. brian? >> anne thompson, in kentucky, thank you. across the river from cincinnati, thank you. >>> and the battle over abortion was back before the supreme court today specifically this time, abortion protests and an effort to limit them around the entrances to clinics. the question before the justices today, does it violate free speech? we get our report fro

travel twenty six schools and science centers across the state promoting a program called iraq and in ohio sounds innocent enough it turns out this initiative was entirely funded by none other than the ohio oil and gas energy education program which in turn gets its money from you guessed it the oil and gas companies during the demonstration the kids were shown interactive presentations about gas pipelines and encouraged to spread the message about the industry not just guessing here but i doubt these kids were also taught that infertility in cancer.

she was home schooled in ohio. during a time when many parents, who were religious christians felt there wasn't god in schools. her parents home schooled her and she thought change happened where regulations dropped and she saw a difference in education. >> they were very rigid at the beginning. we had to take the same tests that were being given in our local public schools, and then it moved to - we had to take a standard achievement test, and it moved to - we didn't have to be tested at all, we just needed a sign off. >> she saw that first hand. the books and kur ukulum changed. every state is different, and some people have a great experience. >> you hear this, there has been extraordinary stories of kids that had gone on to colleges. and have been amazingly successful. one young woman we heard from is huder, and she was home schooled. huder had a fantastic experience. one of the things she highlighted was that she said while being home schooled thee didn't have to deal with a lot of gender rolls. she didn't know

what do you think the workers in ohio are looking for in terms of the performance of the economy and what the president says tonight? >> i think the voters of ohio understand two things. they understand that the minimum wage, the value of the minimum wage, purchasing power is a third less than it was in 1968. they understand that minimum wage increases as the last one in 2007 are bipartisan and i think they wonder why can't we pass a minimum wage, why can't we work together on this? bring the minimum wage at least to $10.10 an hour. raise the tip minimum wage from 20 years it's been stuck at $2.13. raise that to $7 an hour over the next couple, three years. it will make a huge difference in people's lives. and ohio voters understand one other thing. and that is that it's good for the economy. it puts money in people's pockets. it helps small business. it helps the economy grow. >> we're looking at a live shot there, senator, of statutory hall right outside the capitol. the point you made there is an important one to stress. the tipped minimum wage at been at $2.13, a testament to the

. >>> also, a renewed debate after the botched execution in ohio. ay, dennis mcguire took nearly 25 minutes to die from a mixture of drugs never before used in executions. meantime, lawmakers in missouri and wyoming want to bring back firing squads to perform executions. we'll get into that in a minute, but we want to bring in douglas berman, a death penalty expert. this dennis mcguire story, apparently, he gasped and choked and clenched his fists while he was unconscious. this cocktail, obviously, didn't work. in terms of the optics, where does this leave states that have capital punishment, have people on death row that are set to be executed? >> well, you put your finger on it, it's the optics and the question is, how much will the optics effect the debate both in ohio and other states that have plans to go forward with executions. you say it didn't work, but the condemned prisoner was ultimately kill. >> he did die. >> so some people's attitude, and i've heard this echoed more than a few places, at least in debating this in ohio, some people say,

the first is that ohio made the decision to use two drugs that had never been used in execution, drugswhose purpose is not to bring about death. and the second is the reports that came out of ohio this morning, after the execution happened, which indicate that mr. mcguire experienced, you know, some amount of suffering, experienced a lack of air, gaspedas you say longer for him to die than in previous moi hoist ohio executi. >> there may be people who would say, how much cruelty is defensible? >> well, i understand those -- that, and i'm sympathetic tot people who feel that way. you know but the fact of the matter is that we have a constitution, we rule unit the rule of law and the eighth amendment is there for a reason. if we are going to carry out execution necessary a civilized society we need to do so in a manner that comports with the eighth amendment. >> previous execution, used firing squad, hanging and the electric chair those are methods that went away in favor of using these drug protocols. >> yeah, absolutely. but that doesn't negate the fact that we is had use a manner that

state year in ohio, same year, won by 12 points. of course, in new jersey in november it won by 22 points. while they were putting chris christie back in office. whenever you put raising the minimum wage on the ballot, whenever you give people a choice about whether or not they want to raise the minimum wage, the answer is yes, they want to raise the minimum wage. that makes democrats who support raising the minimum wage happy for a number of reasons. number one, if you want people at the lower end of the wage scale to get paid more money, just the raw impact of the policy is a positive thing. politically, though, people voting for the minimum wage, it tends to also encourage them to vote for candidates who support raising the minimum wage. so in 2006, when missouri was voting to raise the minimum wage and voting for it by a 52-point margin, they also voted into office claire mccaskill, a democrat to replace an incumbent relatively popular republican senator. he wouldn't say when he thought about the minimum wage for most of the camp

dennis mcguir was put to death in ohio using a new two drug combination. was the first time it was used in the u.s. witnesses say the execution took roughly 20 minutes and he appeared to gasp and con vuls repeatedly before he died. his family described it as torture. tonight they are planning to file a federal lawsuit saying the state violated the eighth amendment. >> he tried to sit up against the straps on the guernsey. i watched him repeatedly clench his fists. it appeared to me he was fighting for his life and suffocating. the agony and terror of watching my dad suffocate to death lasted more than 19 minutes. >> well, tonight cnn legal analyst sunny hostin and paul joined us. they say the length is not unusual. is this cruel and unusual punishment? >> it's a close call. executions usually last 10 minutes. the lethal injection protocol that had been used is ten minutes. that was well past that. there was evidence of the struggle. the supreme court has found that it is cruel and unusual for someone to suffer, but we also know that the death penalty doesn'

employees travel twenty six schools and science centers across the state promoting a program called iraq in ohiosounds innocent enough right turns out this initiative was entirely funded by none other than the ohio oil and gas energy education program which in turn gets its money from you guessed it the oil and gas companies or the demonstration the kids were shown interactive presentations about gas pipelines and encouraged to spread the message about the industry not just guessing here but i doubt these kids were also taught that infertility in cancer causing chemicals been found in fracking water supplies and that the practice is responsible for artificial earthquakes and youngstown ohio.

in ohio for example what's happened? more people come to the marketplace?tion. on the exchange -- in ohio before the exchange we had 60 companies selling individual health insurance. on the exchange we have 12. >> whoa. only one in five of the companies that are selling insurance before are now still in the marketplace? >> yes on the exchange. premiums went up 40 percent on average in individual market. small group premiums went up on average 18 percent. prices went up consumer choice went down and competition decreased. >> everything that was supposed to happen hasn't happened. i think every person who worked in the state saw this coming. you knew it wasn't going to be the fix for everything. what were the danger signs from the beginning this administration didn't pay attention to? >> all of the new mandates we talked earlier about you having pregnancy coverage for example. >> you never know. who knows. >> you never know. >> i think i do. the in this case i think i do. but it doesn't make sense. we all intuitively know that doesn't make sense. we all have

the league started almost 100 years ago in northeast ohio. uding the super bowl. >> it's an american game. the football should be made here in the united states and what better place than in ada, ohio? >> reporter: like jane said. in ada, nbc action 13 sports. >> you got caught playing. >> yeah, i got caught playing. what do you got? >> every nfl game since 1941 has been with a wilson football. >> here you go. oh, going deep! oh, butterfingers! threw a perfect one right there. >> don't hit me. >>> making news in america this morning, winter blast. temperatures reaching dangerous levels across the country this morning, and they are not going away any time soon. >>> breaking news, an entire block of condos ablaze overnight. >> it was like a movie. i've never seen anything like this in my life. >> new video just in of the intense flames pouring from the building as firefighters work to get it under control. >>> widow's tragedy. we are hearing from the wife who witnessed her husband getting shot at a movie theater. >> and it's so hard, and it's so

greg wood joins us from company headquarters in sandusky, ohio. it is on lake erie. i know you're used to coiled storms and winters, but what makes this year particularly different? >> well, it's been quite some time since we've had this bone-chilling weather that starts early in december and moves on into january. it's been a big problem. >> how are you trying to get some of yours customers the propane that they need? >> well, what we've done is we've taken our supply and distributed and limiting the amount of gallons we'll deliver to each customer to help keep inventory to help our customer base. >> that must irritate customers when they run low on propane, and they're told, well wait a minute, you've hit your quota. >> it's not a quota basis. we talked to those customers before we made the delivery, and we leave them with at least two if not three weeks' supply, and we assure them that we'll be back to replenish their supply in a two- to three-week period. >> this supply, tell us about how it effects your business? >> well, it's our obligation to keep our customer