are idle, one in keokuk, iowa, and in crawsford, iowa. according to the to the iowa fuels association, an iowan affiliated with the biodiesel industry was able to speak to president obama briefly following a town hall session. he was with the renewable energy group, told president obama that plants are idle and 90% of the biodiesel employees have been laid off as a result simply of the tax credit lapse. according to mr. albin, president obama assured him that he would not let the biodiesel industry die. he recalls the president saying something like this, and i want to quote, i suppose, what's a paraphrase by mr. albin -- quote -- "i'm the president and i promise i'll do whatever i can. look, i'm on your side, but i've got a congress to deal with." end of quote. well, i can understand what the president would say and i happen to believe in my four years that i served with then senator obama, senator obama and now president obama, are very sincere about the promotion of ethanol and biodiesel or biofuels, whatever you want to call it. in fa

and let's consider the first primary in iowa. >> remember, there are very few black people in iowa. the last time i was there. [laughter] >> why is he in iowa? well, i think two big factors. lots of complexity goes into this. you run to the tiny caucus for forever. two things were important and let's leave aside hillary clinton's own campaign problems and divisiveness in that campaign and all their miscalculations, barack and organization. barack and organization. real discipline and a kind of innovative organization. and it's something to separate himself and capture a left-leaning democratic party faithful in iowa. very, very different from the victory in south carolina, which to me is an incredibly interesting drama. but once he wins iowa, people wake up? who's this guy? he beat hillary. and suddenly they're on a -- or an almost equal plane and everything is gangbusters after that. >> i wonder one of the things people didn't fully realize is the importance of community organizing and what he learned from the brief period of time he spent as a community organizer and how he applie

in iowa, remember, there were very few black people in iowa. last time i was there. and why did he win iowa? you run for the tiny caucus for forever. two things were important, and let's leave aside hillary clinton's own campaign problems and in that campaign and all of the miscalculations. obama, and organization. real discipline and a kind of innovative organization and obama is something to separate himself and capture a lefts cleaning party faithful this iowa. very, very different. to me, it's an incredibly convincing. who was this guy? he beat hillary. they are on an equal or almost equal plane. everything is gang busted after that. >> one the things that people didn't respect is the importance of community from the brief period of time he spent and how he applied that to his candidacy and how he might apply that to how he know operates in the white house? >> i think he's constantly using it in the campaign, less so now, but in the campaign for how he imagined it would be. he would talk about i imagine a politician as the organizer. but the truth is, we learned

and let's consider the first primary in iowa. >> remember there were very few black people in iowa last time i was there. why did he win iowa? i think two big factors. lack of complexity as you run through the tiny caucus for ever to things were important. leave aside hillary clinton's own campaign problems and divisiveness in the campaign and all the calculations. barack the organization, barack and organization. a disciplined and innovation and barack is something to separate himself and capture a left-leaning democratic party faithful in iowa. a very different from the victory in south carolina which to me is an incredibly interesting drama but once he went on the web people wake up. who is this guy? he beat hillary and suddenly they are on an almost equal to clean and everything is gangbusters after that. >> i wonder if one of the things people didn't realize the importance of community organizing and what he learned from the brief period of time he spent as a community organizer and how he applies that to his candidacy in the end and i guess how we might even apply that to how he n

that's what's going on in iowa. without complaints or objections. in arizona, these are trained law enforcement officers whorks training is being focused because of an executive order of the governor, and they are sensitive to these issues. they understand this law and will understand it even more before it goes into effect in august. a lot of them are hispanics themselves and to presume that law enforcement officers are racist and racially motivated is a division among the american people caused and perpetrated by people who would so see -- who would tsao seeds of discontent and untruth and dishonesty for political gain. that, mr. speaker, is what's going on in arizona. the law they passed in arizona is a law that mirrors federal immigration law, it directs local law enforcement to enforce immigration lou and it also allows citizens of arizona, gives them standing to sue if local -- if the local government is not enforcing immigration law to the standards defined. i understand that law enforcement thinks they're in a squeeze, may be sued because th

with that i yield back to the gentleman from iowa. mr. king: reclaiming my time, i thank the gentleman from texas for bringing that perspective in. i have also spent time down to the border and ridden in the war wagons and watched as they have the screen that's hinged that goes over the wind shield and then you can tip it back down over the hood when you get away from the border out of rock range. and i've watched them climb the -- i've watched them climb the fence, come into the united states, take a look and watch the border patrol move towards them and they just -- they run at the speed they need to run to climb back over the fence, hang over the fence and smile and wave and smirk and then sometimes the same individuals get collar and they come back. it's interesting to note that the border patrol in the no gals a area in particular, they pick people up and they have a private contractor that comes and does the transport. so they have paramilitary or military-type uniforms on these types of officers, gray uniforms, riding a white van t

. >>> and in iowa, the blank park zoo is recommending its newest member, a baby camel. it weighed 90 pounds at birth and measured 4 feet tall. he doesn't have a name yet. the zoo is holding a name contest and is taking suggestions on the website. >>> and now here's a look at some other stories making news >>> and now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. >> he only has one hump. don't they have two humps? we'll think of something. let's talk about what's going on weatherwise. good morning, everyone. yesterday we had only one tornado but it did do some damage there in wisconsin, and that was about it. in other storms we had a lot of those windy storms, thunderstorms that rolled through areas of new england. there was some wind damage out in albany, connecticut, massachusetts, and just outside of boston. but overall pretty quiet severe weather day. today's going to be more of the same. we have a weather pattern without any huge storms. that's good. here come as cold shot of air. it's only

iowa consumers were protected from unfair fees. but in 2002, this reasonable iowa law was preempted by federal banking regulators. federal banking regulators preempted this. now, again, as i have pointed out, in the absence of these state laws, the federal banking regulators have taken no action to limit the amount of fees that consumers can be charged. according to the new rules project, national banks, these big banks, collected almost $5 million in a.t.m. fees from iowa consumers in revenue in the first six months. the iowa credit unions data show it was about $10 million just in the first year. well, you add that up, that can come to a lot of money. well, anyway, i -- i bring this example of how things were in iowa before 2002 because it's a kind of a balance that the bill that is pending before us should restore. quite frankly, things have tipped so far in favor of big banks in this country and so far away from consumers, we often don't even know what a reasonable balance looks like anymore. but the example of iowa from severa

i yield back to my friend from iowa. mr. king: i thank the gentleman from texas. i'm standing here listening, thinking about what it means to be in a country that in the history of the world, there's been no country that has more profound respect for the rule of law. and the thought that all his life in the law as a prosecutor, as a judge, all of that activity to have someone declared it's all for nothing, behind it all was a facade simply there to facilitate somebody's political agenda. that's what it will come down to. i think back to the course of history and earlier, i spoke of the greeks, but i take this rule of law back to rome. roman law that survived the dark ages and manifested itself as the foundation of old english common law, they came across to this country and arrived here, let me suggest with the mayflower, 390 years ago, with pilgrims who came here for religious liberty and religious freedom to get out from underneath the athleticism ki, to be le to worship as they pleased, and the traditions of old english common law that came here and the injusti

i also was the principle author of iowa's workplace drug testing law. and that law, among other provisions, allows for the drug test to be conducted on an employee, provided there's reasonable suspicion that they're using those drugs. a reasonable suspicion is credible objective identifiable character statistics. it's pretty -- characteristics. it's pretty close although not never bait am from the statute, it's been 12 years. that gives you a bit of the idea, mr. speaker, of the definition of the -- the definition of reasonable suspicion. objective credible identifiable characteristics. and as much noise as was made about that, that we were going to test people on reasonable suspicion, we were going to test them on random testing, we were going to test them post accident, they were going to test them preemployment, we did all of that. we didn't ask law enforcement officers to go and be trained and come into the work force and look around for people whose behavior was erratic or maybe their pupils were dilated or people who were nervous or irritable or w

and she got herself on a plane and she went to iowa in 2-degree weather. to campaign with people that she didn't know. since she was religious she had to find jews that she could spend the sabbath with. and she did it. and she came back really excited. it was the first campaign she had ever been in for anything that she had won. and i don't think anybody went to iowa through more difficulty than sarah did. and i said to her at the time, i said -- and, of course, this was the first time that an african-american had won. it was a white state. and it was clear that he would have a shot at the nomination. and i said to her, i said even if you -- even if -- even if -- actually, the talk then was that the clintons were going to steal the nomination from him. even if the nomination is stolen, even if he's nominated and doesn't win, even if he wins and disappoints, you have still -- america is now a changed place in this sense, not in the deep philosophical sense i was trying to talk about before. but america is dramatically changed. and, you know, i think that wa

the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from iowa for a motion. mr. king: i move the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. accordingly the house stands accordingly the house stands other bills that could come up later this week dealing with energy-efficient home innovation and earthquake recovery. live coverage of the house is hear on c-span. this weekend, the book "the business of happiness." this documentary on the nanking massacre and more on q&a." attorney general eric holder says that the attempted car bombing in new york city was clearly a terrorist plot, and a naturalized citizen of pakistani descent have been arrested. this justice department briefing as a little less than a half-hour. >> good afternoon. as many of you know, faisal shahzad was arrested late last night in connection with his alleged role in the attempted car bombing in times square last saturday. shahzad a naturalized citizen born in pakistan

dean reynolds, cbs news, dirsville, iowa. >>> such a sweet story.ith my dad and my grandfather. >>> it's about seven after the hour. we'll take another check of the weather with lonnie. and he's standing by in his very own field of dreams. >> that's right. hey, i have old friends here from florida in the house. but you got to see this this. apparently we have the number one gymnast in maryland, level five. what's your maim in. >> cassidy. >> we have to wait and see what you can do. weather-wise, here's what it looks like out there. i'm telling you, it's going to be a little bit of a rough go around portions of the ohio valley, and then you go out to the pacific northwest, i see wet weather for you. midsection is hot and it's going to be hot as you look into next weekend for memorial day. near normal temperatures around the northeast, kind of cool and wet again for the pacific northwest.,, >>> this is great, we have the number one gymnast. chris, into you. >>> the legal woes for lindsay lohan continue to mount. she missed a mandatory court date this

so i appreciate the gentleman from iowa yielding. i just wanted to bring everybody up-to-date on the most recent poll. and the poll is even more surprising. the poll that shows that almost 2/3 of the american people support the immigration law that arizona has just passed. it's even more surprising because another research poll shows that in the coverage of the arizona law, the three networks, abc, nbc, cbs have actually aired 12 negative stories about the arizona law for every one positive story. so when you have a degree of media bias on the subject that is frankly been unseen. i think when it comes to immigration, the national media, including the three networks, probably do their worst job of reporting and show their greatest bias. this i consider to be a threat to democracy when the networks and the national media are not giving the american people the facts and instead trying to tell them what to think, that is a danger to democracy. also the media research center, for example, one out of 10 stories have actually mentioned that

in iowa, hawk eye. and at the same time, bill clinton would have liked it down to 55. you can see what is happening. reduce the eligibility for medicare and they are seeking to expand medicaid and have been doing that and lowering the standards for eligibility to medicaid from the lower income side of the scale and you make these kids eligible for schip, squeezing this, lowering the senior age from 55, make sure you eninsure the kids well into the 20's and had states as high as 66% that were not kids but adults that were on the s chip program. i think it was 87%. so they were using schip to expand because they wanted to have a single-payer plan. and that is what was going on with the strategy in trying to establish the single-payer plan. we fought some of that back. and nancy pelosi was elected as speaker of the house and what does she bring to us, an schip plan at 200% of poverty, in my state, $52,000, to turn it up to $400% of poverty. and that would have -- and it passed the house at the insistence of the speaker and i was the only member to oppose it, would have go

criticized quality control at this pennsylvania johnson and johnson plant and it temporarily shut down an iowa family felt the affect. >> i'm concerned for my health. >> reporter: he relied on the medicines for asthma relief. now there is a voluntary recall of tylenol recall. >> this recall is very bi . i spoke with leaders at f.d.a. this morning. they described the findings as quite serious. >> reporter: food and drug administration report says ingrediants used to make the children's medications were contaminated with bacetria. it found more than 20 manufacturing problems at the plant. empty shelves are prompting now questions from parents. >> the biggest thing is what are they supposed to give now. >> reporter: doctors recommend using generic medicines and warn not to substitute adult medicines. >> parents should get rid of the product and move forward. but at least no one has been hurt. >> reporter: f.d.a. says it doesn't know if it will take more action against the drug company. they issued a statement promising not to reopen the plant until it can promise the product's quality. >>> speaki

. >>> in iowa this weekend a farmer turned a soybean field into a runway for a plane. the good news tonight is the pilot walked away from that landing. >>> coming up tonight on 9news now. >> our greatest hope was to bring our children home with us where they belong. >>> an emotional and tearful trip for the mothers of three americans jailed in iran. >>> president obama warning graduating cadets a long hard road awaits. >>> a rainy night tonight. >> mild and humid right now in the north west but you will need one of these come sunday. a quick look at doppler shows numerous thunderstorms west of here closing in on dc. that's why in our wake up forecast rain. do you know when the rain will end? we will get sunshine eventually in our forecast. coming up in just a few. >>> welcome back. president obama says a world of diplomacy is as important as military might. he told a graduating class at west-point that they face a long hard road ahead and praised the cadets for their dedication to service. >> the american military is resilient. our troops adapted and persisted. they pa

. >>> in iowa a cat is lucky to be alive after somebody put a nail through the animal's skull. looked like somebody used a nail gun. a vet was able to remove the nail safely. officials are looking to make an arrest for animal cruelty. >>> now an update on that late breaking story out of india. a police official now says there appears to be at least six or seven survivors from that plane crash in southern india. six or seven from a plane carrying at least 169 passengers and crew. investigators say the plane was arriving from dubai in poor weather conditions when it overshot the runway by 10 miles. >>> on to much lighter stuff now. it has been years since going to the movies was a cheap date but now it is getting crazy. in new york city some 3d imax showings of the new shrek movie are running $20 a ticket. around here price is closer $15 but that's still pretty pricesy and while movie revenues are up 6% this year actual attendance has dropped off a tad. you do the math. our friends on my facebook page already have. shawn writes, yeah, i'll be less likely to go and the kids better

in iowa i saw a hog cafo next to chicken cafo next to -- lined up in a row. the wind is blowing this way, there's always kinds of ways a virus could get into these facilities. if an avian virus were to start circulating among the hogs and mutating and then jump to the people because hogs are a vessel where viruses can cross over, now you have a zucchini superbug, an avian/swine flu, and those workers are going to go out into the community and start infecting people. it's a nightmare scenario, and that's what rick talks about, it's in my last piece and i'll wrap it up. i guess at most readings they don't read the very, very end of the book because you're supposed to be in suspension, but i already told you how this bookends. it doesn't. this is at the end of the book and rick is stating on -- sitting on the river with his wife joanne. i'll be going down there next week, by the way. i'm very excited about that. rick is a great guy. this river is where it all started and where the fishkills began happening. and he's talking to his wife, and he's feeling guessed,

[laughter] you were there a few years ago with me when i went to iowa and new hampshire. our party will have a good, strong leader in 2012. first, we need to focus on congress that will get some balance here in washington, d.c. i think we are likely to get that. >> anas alexander, thank you for joining us on "newsmakers." >> we continue with herszenhorn with -- david herszenhorn and bob cusack. >> we learn he has no plans to run for president. there are not many things in government he has not done. he is very accomplished. one question i am left with is and who is responsible for the inability of republicans and democrats to work together during these last few years when americans really needed their government? it is a big question. >> why is this relationships a frigid? >> that is a good question, steve. he is an independent operator. he works with democrats on their right -- on a wide range of issues. the president does not work for senate republicans. after president obama vowed to change the town in washington, arguably it is a lot worse than when he took over. alex

at iowa lakes community college, students are learning how to keep wind turbines working.nd to keep them safe, the only battery they trust in their high-voltage meters is a duracell rechargeable. duracell. trusted everywhere. explorers, great thinkers. they're the future of america, so let's bring them up right and give them our cheese. ♪ kraft singles. the american cheese. >>> and recapping the top business story this morning. the senate has passed a sweeping financial reform bill. it gives the government broad, new powers to police banks and break them up if they threaten the health of the overall economy. concern about the impact of the new rules, as well as growing fear about the european debt crisis, are hitting stocks hard this morning. tokyo's nikkei average tumbled 2.5% today. markets in hong kong were closed for a holiday. in london, the ftse opened lower. and on wall street, the dow had its worst day in more than a year yesterday, plummeting 376 points. the nasdaq tumbled 94 points. >>> toyota is teaming up with upstart automaker tesla motors to develop and build

just a name and they make money slicing and dicing them and marketing them to little pension funds in iowa to little towns in iceland. and basically take money up front, throw the risk out to the world and not care about what happens to it. they are risk transfer products. they always were. and there's a lot of money to be made out of them. >> are they marketed that way? is it all clear? and how regulated are they now? >> they're not regulated securities. that's one of the problems with the market. despite the problems it's had over the years, it is not regulated. there's no exchange that says, all right, well, here's a cdo. here's what's in it. here's how it's trading on any given day. they are so tailored-made for that deal, for those clients, for those backers each time they're created, that there isn't an exchange. there isn't regulation. regulations are -- regulators are so far behind considering it. even and in these bills that have been proposed the house and the senate there's nothing in there that really gets at making them more open. so almost anything goes. if you want to bet ag

i'm president and ceo of the iowa's banker's association. banks are weathering the economic fall out from the crisis which they did not contribute to the senate is working on regular la torry reform. it's important and necessary. many work has been learned from the last few years. we should take steps and better manage risk and develop a government housing policy that doesn't result in an undo risk taking. most of all, we should not burden the risk taking. the obama institution or tarp specifically financing. much of our industry has been challenged by much of our industries, and depleted capitol levels. the tax fee on top of the spiraling cost on top of the insurance fund will further deplete resources to fuel the economy. congressional budget office confirmed the cost of the fee would ultimately be born by fees and institutions, customers and investors, the ceo would also impact the available of small services. we should avoid any policy that dampens job available at this critical toim. in addition, setting a tax sets a very bad precedent.

and maybe part of that is because i'm from iowa. and maybe we take too much pride in what we already do in iowa. and how well we do it. i'm the first to admit that there may be some false pride there on my part for mothers. i'm sure, yeah, the chair likes to hear a me say that. i do have a question, dr. ball, you know, your own research. because -- and i like what congresswoman biggert said. there are programs that are in existence. they may be inadequate but there are student teacher programs. i want to ask you empirically and maybe you could forward some articles to me. i would love to see that. i was an academic before i became a congressman. i'm very interested in seeing the actual evidence in what we are lacking. if it is the case that this is true across the country or particular parts of the country, does it relate particularly to ses, are we talking race factors, ethnicity. what are we talking about when we talk about the inadequacy of teachers and the inadequacy of the teacher training programs. that seems to be the focus t

the gentleman from iowa. mr. king: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, as i watch this regulation that's coming through in the financial services component of this, that's a regulation that sets up tim geithner, the secretary of the treasury, to decide which businesses are too big to be allowed to fail, which businesses would be deemed to fail and all he needs is the agreement of the fdic and the agreement of the secretary of the chairman of the fed and those things concern me great deal. but this conversation could go in any direction, because i am prepared to yield to my good friend, the gentleman and judge from texas, louie gohmert. mr. gohmert: i want to follow up on that very point. we're told there's going to be a financial reform bill that sounds more like a financial deform bill. all these reforms end up being deformities. but this in particular, financial reform, to get us out of the mess that had been building through the 1990's and through this past decade, the last 20 years? and nonetheless, as i understand, in this bill we're going

congratulations and best regards to my colleague from iowa, mr. boswell, on this great honor. this legislation both honors these great soldiers and alumni at the command and general staff college but also helps the college continue its vital mission of professional military education. i urge my colleagues to support this and yield back the balance of my time. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from kansas. ms. jenkins: i have no further requests for time. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kansas. mr. moore: madam speaker h.r. 22 is a bipartisan measure that honors our five five-star generals. i urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this bill. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 1177 as amended. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider -- mr. moore: madam speaker.

but will was really powerful, because in iowa all those license plates have county smart on them. was that there were people coming from four counties away. and invite knows me, i never meet a strange. i ask everyone questions. and i was asking these people in the parking lot, why do you, four counties over? and they said because i have a doctor that answers the e-mail that will see me the same day, you know, that will follow, that will follow through and will let stuff drop through the cracks. it's differentiating the. it's differentiating, that hospital. the same thing in michigan and battle creek, michigan. the community organize themselves around the concept of comprehensive care and we're seeing a profound impact. whole country, right, but the danish really start this perhaps 15 years ago. and when asked the days, i said how did you come on this modicum this concept. they said we did a scholarship to study in the states and we read the pediatric literature and look at kaiser, right? [laughter] >> and i asked the spanish. what did you do to reach this. they said we hire some c

conservatism vice president spiro agnew raise the issue to a national audience in a speech and the des moines iowa written by a nixon speechwriter pat buchanan who went on to make a significant mark as you know, in the conservative movement and as you might expect a liberal media denied everything but they did begin their self-conscious practice of what they called the opinion page two of writers dissenting from the liberal orthodoxy. "the new york times" invited a speechwriter william safire to become the times columnist. since then "culture smog" has remained pretty much under treated. after -- "after the hangover" i explained how the smog acts in three ways. it is exaggerates the conservatives problems. sometimes it simply makes the problems. it misrepresents conservatives ideas and personalipersonali ties. finally and frequently it totally ignores conservatives except when it falls into some sort of serious difficulty. four a conservative scandal could be a ticket to fame but also explains another theses of the marginal cessation of conservatives even in times of conservative preponderance. du

i grew up in a small town in southern iowa. my dad was a highway patrolman and my mother a schoolteacher. i overcame 25 years of chronic health problems to achieve my education and success. marlene, my wife, and i have been married for 43 years, started off with absolutely nothing but a strong determination to build a good life, and we did against all odds. we have two wonderful grown children and two delightful grandchildren who are the joys of our lives. i am here because frankly i agonized over this decision from the start. my wife and i sat down and we prayed about it. we decided it had to be done. we left to the outcome in gods hands in my experience eventually prevents anyone else from having to endure the pains and humiliation of discrimination, i will always believe that this effort was part of god's plan for my life and by extension perhaps also for yours. my advice from the folks back home was to just come out here and tell you to just give her done. message delivered. thank you very much. >> mr. gross, thank you are

first, remarks from tom har ken of iowa. there is 3:15. [inaudible conversations] >> the senate committee on health education and labor will please come to order. the topic of today's hearing couldn't be more timely or more important in the wake of the west virginia coal mine disaster the refinery explosion and course washington where seven workers died. a disaster that killed six people of the connecticut gas power plant and just last week a blast from the louisiana oil rig often built with mexico most likely killed 11 workers. it is time to focus renewed attention on the safety of our fellow workers. the string of recent deaths and injuries is a grim reminder that to many employers cut corners on safety to many workers paid the price with their lives. as the son of a coal miner i feel these losses deeply in a very personal level. my thoughts and prayers are with the families and co-workers of those killed. of those injured or missing because these awful tragedies. while there is little comfort we can offer during the struggle time, we ca

in iowa and how well we do it.he first to admit that there might be some false pride there on my part and some others. i do have a question about your own research. there are programs that are in existence. they may be inadequate, but there are student-teacher programs, practicums, whatever the case may be. i want to ask empirically, and maybe you +5jdd forward some of your articles to me. i was an academic before i became a congressman, so i am interested to see the actual evidence for what we are lacking. if it is the case that this is true across the country, or particular parts of the country, as it relates specifically to -- are we talking about race factors, ethnicity? what are we talking about when we talk about the inadequacy of teachers and teacher training programs? that seems to be the focus today. >> your question has to do with what kind of evidence we have about the inadequacy of our current system. >> that would demonstrate the problem we are talking about today. >> it is true that and apprenticeship

>> well, 'cause he thinks i'm so jersey but that's because he's from iowa.mean, i will say he's slightly influenced 'cause he'll hears the stories when i get together with my high school friends and just recently a friend came to the play and she's like my older sister used to take the t-tops off her iroc z. >> jimmy: wow! >> do they even make those? i don't know if they even make those anymore. >> jimmy: yeah, you're getting "jersey shore"-ified there. >> because you don't want to crunch the hair. >> jimmy: no. >> yeah, so, she had to take the t-top off, so it could like go straight up. >> jimmy: that's hilarious. >> yeah, i mean, my yearbook -- >> jimmy: my sister had that, too, like used to spray up her hair, my sister, not me. >> right. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it was me. no problem. i wanted you to tell us about "united states of tara." >> sure. >> it's on showtime. tony colette plays a suburban mom who is suffering from multiple personality disorder so she plays five to seven different people every week and i play her younger sister who doesn't get it, a

. >>> a man in northern iowa is lucky to be alive today after a powerful storm sent a massive tree crashing through his bedroom. fred leclair was asleep in bed when he got the unwelcome visit of the tree coming in through the roof of his bedroom. as the tree smashed in, it woke him up just in time to dive to safety. and he is lucky. he usually sleeps on the side of the bed where the tree landed. but his wife was out of town. he was missing her and slept on her side of the bed instead. >> thank god i was sleeping on her side of the bed because my side, which you can see here, would have killed me. >> leclair says he felt so lucky to be alive that he ran out of his damaged house and went straight to buy some lottery tickets. >>> there is a late development in the detention of the american hikers in iran. their mothers arrived in iran late wednesday and had high hopes of bringing them back home. but late today, the mothers left iran days earlier than expected and without their children. our reporter is in iran with the latest. >> reporter: today, the mothers of the three hikers detained in ira

they extend basically iowa, northern illinois, lower parts of wisconsin, now in northern michigan.bit of snow mixing with with that as well. then severe thunderstorms possible mainly over to the east of that line today. what about the best weather in the country today? easy to pick. it's got to be somewhere on the east coast, high pressure come night, it's going to be warm. how about 86 degrees. d.c., the best weather in the nation today, more on that coming up in about a half hour. >>> you may think that your town is just awesome, is it the best town in which to live in the united states? there's a new list. i have to say i'm surprised at number one. i am very surprised. >>> also ahead, the oil spill in the gulf is going to cost you especially if you love your seafood. ♪ [ woman ] nine iron, it's almost tee-time. time for new zyrtec® liquid gels. they work fast. so i can get relief from the pollen that used to make me sneeze, my eyes water. with new zyrtec® liquid gels, i get allergy relief at liquid speed. that's the fast, powerful relief of zyrtec®, now in a liquid gel. zyrtec®

wind damage through new england and back across wisconsin and northeastern iowa. with that secondary front. that's what we are going to seaver the next two days. we are going have two fronts in two days. second one is going to be the stronger of the two coming through on friday night. and this one will give us clouds. thursday and maybe an isolated shower. so we are drawing into doppler hd as it scans through the area next 48 hours. we will have clear skies during the overnight period and mostly clear to start things off tomorrow. so ample sunshine. so the next two days will start with sunshine. look at the clouds in the afternoon. weak weather fronts come through. and again, the stronger of the front is coming through late friday. i think friday night. should be out of here by saturday morning. we could get, again, some -- powerful storms with it. right now severe storms has us in a severe weather risk for pennsylvania and down into areas of northern maryland and northern west virginia to ohio. we will watch that front. as it comes in at the end of the week. clea

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the jet stream right now riding up to areas of wisconsin and around iowa. that's helping to power some of the winds with weather front that's making its way east and there is a severe thunderstorm watch that's up over that area. then the pattern from a bit of a bubble to bit of a dip in the jet stream, this sound. we will go from highs in the 80s to more seasonable temperatures for saturday. and then a real chill for mother's day as well as the beginning of next week. here's that one front that's getting powered by the upper-level winds and producing wind around the areas of wisconsin and indiana. then the second area front is stronger system that's going to come through our area late friday night. we will have two fronts in two days. stronger of which will be on friday. right now that system has been producing over the last 24 hours. quite a bit of wind damage. even one tornado report in eastern wisconsin. more across new england. so here we are in radar. there is that weather front for -- akron, ohio. severe thunderstorm watch is in effect. we might see s

for example, i know of a meat packing plant in waterloo iowa where i once taught school used to pay themthe equivalent of $15 per hour to american workers and then discovered that they could hire illegal mexican labor for $9 an hour so they are interested in the status quo. and in maintaining its. and i am sure that there's a lot of people in the mexican political and social elite who just love exporting what could be a potential -- potentially explosive social problem. >> thank you. gentlemen? margaret, you wanted to add? >> in terms of people benefiting from the current policy, we have very large corporations like boeing, which is being paid millions and millions of dollars to the effect these border walls and faulty virtual tower is that so far -- we are projecting i think 6.7 billion we want to pay to put virtual towers all the way across the southwest border. so far i don't even know the numbers are. i have it written down some place that we've put a lot of money into this already and they don't work but it's almost like on some level of you want to look at the economic benefits in

iowa senator tom harkin wants to add about $23 billion in state aid so the funds can be used to help teachers and to avoid layoffs of teachers. there are some republicans who have signaled they want to have a good chunk of this bill offset certainly anything spent beyond the funding on the wars of iraq and afghanistan. so, in this bill you will have a lot of discussion about the nation's fiscal situation and whether or not any of these spending measures and tax measures on the house side should be paid for. >> there is a sense of timeliness to both bills next week. >> right. on the tax side you have a lot of provisions that expired and you need to get moving because congress is about to begin its memorial day recess. likewise on the spending bill front and secretary of defense mr. gates has gone to the congressional leaders and said he needs these moneys very soon. so, the majority leader harry reid has said it is very important for the national to pass the emergency bill next week. >> a look ahead to the week in congress with john shaw with market news international. thanks for the

two candidateses that nick is going to support this year, bobber lick and terry branson in iowa, bobberd the single largest sales tax this year. the problem with the republicans this year is twofold. one is they have to radicalize their base to get them active. the second is that all the candidates and all the ideas the republicans are putting up, this is especially true at the state level are retreads. it's the same people and same ideas that have been in for the last two decades. >> in georgia, there was a governor thrown out of office in 2002 that the dga said was one of the best candidates in the country. >> we're not going to litigate all 37 governor's races. >> we would be happy to. >> you guys hang on, next in the play by play, how good is tina fey's sarah palin. you'll get to hear how bristol palin rate it is. next, cinco de mayo takes on a new twist. >> there's going to be nachos. ♪ i have asthma. and that's what it sounded like when my symptoms came back. i'd get this tightness in my chest. like i was breathing through a straw. so i went back to my doctor again. we talked abou

some ways are much, much harder to defend because i can take you any place from san diego to maine to iowaou stop everything in its place? that's what makes it so difficult. it's not just the holland tunnel anymore. >> larry: paul, when the pakistani taliban claimed responsibility for the bomb attempt, many experts dismissed it. should that claim be taken more seriously now? >> i think it needs to be taken more seriously. the fact he was in pakistan, this is a group that in 2008 did orchestrate a plot to attack subways in barcelona. spanish authority thinks that was a legitimate plot, and they were really responsible. they claimed responsibility for that one. and that helped secure convictions in a trial in spain after that plot. i think it is a possibility that this group was responsible for this. but we're going to find out much more in the weeks to come, larry. >> larry: harvey, what about the fact that there was gun and ammunition found in the car? law enforcement sources have told cnn that it was a 9 millimeter rifle semiautomatic. he purchased it less than two months ago. was what wa

what we're seeing on the shoreline is ribbons of iowa. it's not a huge swath of shoreline that's covered. it's a few places. we have teams right away ready to respond to that spill and clean that up. what we are also doing is trying to communicate with everybody, and we have taken information that we knew about the oil and we're trying to translate it to pictures we're getting on the coastlines, whether it's ribbons, what does it exactly look like, displaying those pictures on a website and explaining how we would approach the cleanup so that we can mitigate people's concerns that there's something out there that's unknown. we have a pretty good handle on the oil we're dealing with. we have a very good handle on the oil we're dealing with, both at the source and on the surface, and as it hits the shoreline. i would just refer people to the websites. take a look. we're certainly going to communicate this to all the gulf coast residents as well. through their states, through their counties and parishes, so theave has an understanding of the

we move to thousand 500 jobs to iowa.we are putting our money where our mouth is. >> are you treating offenders practitioners to be disciplinarians? >> well, no, but davis certain number doing the diabetes education course for example and we are trying to do not exactly how to integrate that with the retail pharmacists and how they become part of the medical home and we think that is an important intervention as well. the only thing we are trying to do is the number of the disease management firms are working directly so we can do some complex with their twin on the phone and everything is tested. they have not panned out in this particular area of reducing cost services. we've got relatively capri of studies going on so hopefully we will not evidence how they work relatively shortly. >> agreed. spking of healthy behavior we are going to take a break now so that you can engage in some of them that our most urgent. we will see you back here in 15 minutes to reconvene the discussion. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >>

dodge city, florence, fort scott, hutchinson, kinsley, lions, madison, manchester, mcpherson, newton, iowa, syracuse, topeka, wellington and wichita areas but are there any of those left? >> shore. what is happening is very quote all over the country and not just kansas in the places the depot were not knocked down people are reclaiming them and there is federal money to do that to be in dodge city field harvey house is a dinner theater funded by the federal government for millions of dollars because they saved the transition. so in fact there are buildings all over kansas and some and misery. there are buildings all through texas and california, arizona, mexico that are being replaced by the communities. there are only three currently running as party restaurants and hotels that have a serious defeat a similar experience. the hotel in santa fe, the woman winslow arizona which is completely restored in the last truck size until you can literally walk off the train and sit down and have an incredibly delicious meal and all of those hotels at the lip of the grand canyon, those are the origin

one at the university of iowa, a member of this association was a hubble to me in the book. is another one who spends a lot of time trying to explain scientific concepts to the public. so i try to work douglas walton is another. are quite a number i'm trying to reach out to. peter reiner. so that's one of the interests. and i hope this book is, you know, a part of the contribution that helps get a conversation going, and which obviously scientists need to be a part. and a want to encourage scientists, anyone, any scientist who has the time and wherewithal to be part of the conversation, to dive in. because one of my fears of living in is very complex world is that we are moving or hurtling towards a world where complexity is understood by very passionate and rather small percentage of people, and there's another group of people, the general public, who just kind of see the world getting more and more complex, and just developed this year and even this rage around that. and that we are actually leaving the world unintentionally in that way. and one of the things i try to do a