#1 was a man who was the mayor of of the jacksonville and he said i agree the food is probably bad but it is not a responsibility as the mayor. the next person was the sheriff of duval county. [laughter] u.s said the food is no doubt bad but it is not criminal and it is not my responsibility. and we were the third. i told that story a few weeks later to a group of civics teachers in miami-dade and i sense something is bad wrong when a student gets almost two graduation high school and things the mayor, the share for state legislature is the place to go for greasy pizza on friday. i thought i would get a sympathetic hearing but to the contrary one teacher is a friend of mine said i am sick to death of politicians who do not know what the hell they're talking about telling us how to do our profession and the only way you can learn what is really going on is to get into the classroom to see what it is like. i thought she was thinking a couple of hours on tuesday afternoon but i found out she had a different idea when she called me and said i worked it out to. you are to come to the high-s

tampa, jacksonville, seattle, san francisco, poor visibility.plain old low clouds. more details in about a half hour. >>> we're right around the corner from the big holiday travel season, speaking of travel. a lot of you are still going to travel, but you might want to get the guest bedroom ready, honey. >>> the new york stock exchange just opened for business. the dow went through the roof yesterday and climbed to its highest point in 13 months. but it may not keep going. we're going to get an idea why when susan lisovicz joins us in about five minutes. >>> first, though, a car bomb exploded while people were sitting in traffic killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens more. this is from police in pakistan. they say the blast twisted cars and destroyed several buildings. it's at least the third attack in the area in the last three days. >>> tropical storm ida is moving over alabama right now. earlier this morning the national hurricane center said ida officially made landfall at dolphin island, alabama. it has gotten weaker. the concern is

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if you're trying to travel around florida, tampa, jacksonville, maybe even miami into orlando, i think you're going to get a half hour to hour long delays. out west, low clouds. robin, more on that in a little bit. >>> thanks. well, more news. @@@@@@@@ >>> heavy rains and strong winds are already whipping the southeast as tropical storm ida creeps towards the gulf coast. it is expected to make landfall this morning nerp the mississippi/alabama border. ida has gotten weaker but there is still a major concern that it could cause flooding. >>> the white house is slamming reports that suggest president obama already decided to send more troops to afghanistan. national security adviser general jim jones says the reports are false. senior administration officials suggest pentagon sources leaked the misinfo. he will meet with the national security team tomorrow. >>> the man accused of trying to blackmail david letterman is expected to ask the judge to drop the case today. a lawyer for robert halderman plans to challenge the evidence. the case made letterman admit on his own show that

on this particular day we were at wilson high school in jacksonville. no family relationship. when students were asked if they would like to come and tell us anything they came in large numbers. they had a complaint, and it probably was a complaint that many of you experienced. that was battered in the cafeteria. i wasn't surprised that the food was bad. i was surprised that they came to the state legislature to get a solution. i asked them, will we be the first people you talk to? and they said, no, you are actually the third. that made me feel better that they had exhausted the more obvious efforts and had turned to us in despair. well, i asked, who was one into? number one was a man named bandstands were. he said, i agree that the food is probably bad, but it's not my responsibility as mayor. the next person was dealt person who was the sheriff. he said the food is no doubt that, but it is not criminal. it's not my responsibility. we were the third. well, i told the story a few weeks later to a group of civics teachers here in miami-dade county. i said something is bad wron

good teams, jacksonville among them, favored to win the a-sun.ketball in the at plan tick sun about, you nobody with this combination of size and skill. >> rich: another block that one by gibson. demercy. from reid. and jen skkins will score the lay-up. 40 point game. ball loose. swann. scores over snaer. loucks to gibson. fouled. and a time-out. 81-43, florida state in a runaway here on homecoming at runaway here on homecoming at mercer. oh! blue! time! time out. i touched it. i touched the ball before it went out, coach. come on, alex, the ref did not call that! you gotta be kidding me, alex! it's the championship game! talk to him, coach. i touched, it's their ball. don't foul them when they inbound. team on 'three.' one, two, three. nice going, alex. sorry coach. alex! good call. good call. girl: my name is emily, and in 7 years... i'll be an alcoholic. all: hi, emily. announcer: kids who drink before age 15 are 5 times more likely to have alcohol problems when they're adults. so start talking before they start drinking. >> rich: time for our

asheville. 2-2 as they welcome jacksonville state to the stegeman coliseum on friday night. coming up next, the virginia-clemson football replay. tigers clinch a spot in the acc title game followed by "sports night" at 11:00 eastern. and now from our partners and our producer/director mike jones and the entire crew, i'm matt stewart. stewart. good night from the stegema oh! blue! time! time out. i touched it. i touched the ball before it went out, coach. come on, alex, the ref did not call that! you gotta be kidding me, alex! it's the championship game! talk to him, coach. i touched, it's their ball. don't foul them when they inbound. team on 'three.' one, two, three. nice going, alex. sorry coach. alex! good call. good call. honey... the credit fairy... doesn't exist. what? it's make-believe. nobody left anything under your pillow. if there's no credit fairy then who will make our credit score go up? we will. by doing things like paying our bills on time. announcer: there's no magic to improving your credit. but there's help and it's free. go to creditfairy.org what? >>> so

matthew corrigan in jacksonville, florida the author of american royalty, the bush and clinton families and the danger to the american presidency. so come and ways the bush-clinton dominance of the presidency a danger to american democracy? >> it really goes back to the founding of the country. if you look at some of the documents from our founding, especially the debates during the constitution and whether the constitution was going to be ratified or adopted, if you really have a strong current of two things going on. when, the country needed a strong executive after the failures of the articles of confederation and two, also want to make sure we did not return to a monarchies like we had broken away from england, so we have this to current colliding. so, a lot of the founders of the constitution wanted to make sure that the executive did not become so powerful that we would establish another monarchy. there are some exceptions to this, the adams family of is the did not have a problem with family power but george washington himself made sure we would not have earl tea, not of the king

and what's going on with this story, a woman in jacksonville, florida accused of planning to kill hernd and that's just the beginning. here's what we have. 37-year-old mother of two little girls, mind you, is also accused of scheming with her 25-year-old lover claims she was kidnapped. i don't even know where to begin on this, joining us to talk about it doctor linda young and steve rogers, nutley new jersey police department and with the details marlena schiavo. again, sounz like the bad tv movie. beautiful mom of two little girls claiming she was, what kidnapped by three men and sexually asaulted and wanted ransome is that where this begins? >> pretty much. reed gray, a successful man, finds a ran some letter written by his wife saying three men are holding her and that he needs to provide $50,000 or they're going to kill her basically. but she tells him, don't call the cops, you know, stay calm and just do what they say. so, he does everything that he's told. he's supposed to go to some chick-fil-a, drop off some money and turns out you screwed up you didn't do what were you suppos

jacksonville, the site of those cold cases. walsh referred to. is about seven miles from orange park, where somer was kidnapped. police say they've interviewed nearly 100 sex offenders in the area but have no leads. judge ferara, what do you think of the theory that the murderer who maybe who has killed years ago and is starting back up again? >> i think it's a very solid theory and i respect john walsh to no end. i think that he's absolutely right. people don't usually step up to you plate in their majorlies for their first kidnapping/murder of a child. it usually builds from other events and usually get away from it and it emboldens them and try it again. and also the strength, the possibility, that somebody who knew the child because it make it a lot easier to get the child into the car in that way but i am sure that the police are all over both of those. >> you know i have to say every time i cover a case like this and we always talk about, well, there's not enough money funding on a prevention side. it just blows my mind. i mean stacey honow

host: jacksonville, fla., good morning. caller: i am an advocate for those who really need the agent, but those to go around to buy $300 of phones and toys for their kids that they don't need -- i have lived in port their heads on my life and worked two jobs all my life -- and as far as overseas aid, it is better to teach someone to fish than to give them fish. we can build farms over there but then we have to protect them. their countries will not do it. so, you put an effort in to get an effort out. the federal government has no money. the american people have a money that they give to the federal government to use. these programs are used to death even by the people who run them. guest: the basic point you're making i think is right on. that to get out of poverty you need to work. nobody can give you enough. there are people who do not work hard or to have mental illness or addiction problems. or for whatever reasons are just not living their lives in a way to lead to success. so, it is not easy. in our foreign a system

jacksonville, florida. caller: actually if i change my mind i am a bit more pessimistic than i was. 10.2 percent unemployment and i believe the effective unemployment is 17% board that is pretty scary. it along with the debt we are accumulating, right now i don't think the future looks to bright. as much as i follow what is going on and i can't figure out how we are going to create more jobs here. host: does that boil down to what kind of spending you will do they today? caller: we kind of have tighten our belts. people that i talk to, specifically the retired people and the younger professionals, there still seems to be a lot of fear out there. those who are working are still kind of anxious as to whether they may be laid off. host: winchester, virginia. a pall on the democrats' line. caller: i was calling because it has been my observation from the news and following the investments of money that the last 10 years as seems like we have done a lot to make money with money but have not done a lot and given

floridians i meet, and i was in the state last week, talking to floridians in tampa and orlando and jacksonville, and i had people speak with me. i had a janitor at a veterans hospital come up to me and say, what is going to happen with the health care bill? i said, we will be debating it. he said, you should not vote for. it is a bad thing. it is not one group of society that likes it or doesn't like it. the calls i'm getting form -- in my office, we have gotten nearly 950 calls on this proposal. more than 800 are against it. we need to start over and we need to do it right. >> any questions you like to address? >> why the opposition to starting the debate? why not bring it up on the floor? >> well over 95% of the time, when we approved it like this, it is ultimately approved. you have watched our democratic friends trying to twist themselves into a pretzel, saying they are not voting for the bill. that is not what the american people think. they think that beginning this debate is a vote on the bill. let me also say for those on the other side who are telling you they want to change the bill,