jacksonville, fla., 24. hard freeze warning in effect for parts of louisiana, mississippi, alabama, georgia, north florida. the high pressure eventually moves out for the day tomorrow. the wind changes direction, and

look at jacksonville, 32 degrees, orlando and tampa, not too far away from that. you're going to get down well below that freezing mark for tonight. and miami, we'll think that you'll stay to the -- just above the freezing mark. now, the radar picture here showing you that we have been getting some moisture across the region as well. earlier this morning in places like orlando, into melbourne into ocala, we have reports of sleet. this is the first time that we have seen this much widespread sleet in central florida since 1977. do the math. that's more than 30 years. and recently just in the last hour, we have been seeing it around west palm beach. and palm beach area. so that green little strip that moved on through there, that's probably what we call bright banding on the radar. let's show you some pictures out of the orlando area now and you'll see the pellets as they came down, yeah, sleet is when it is rain coming down and it freezes before it hits the ground. so you get those pellet and you can see there was a little bit of rain mixed in that area as well. so

in fact, we've got a hard freeze warning in effect for jacksonville. temperatures down in the upper 20s. in fact, there's that big look at what the temperatures are going to be like compared to average tomorrow morning. and notice we're going to be seeing temperatures 20 degrees below normal across the upper midwest. our average rather and the same story across central parts of florida. one of those concerns is, of course, the citrus crops. that's something we will be watching overnight for tonight and into tomorrow. number of record lows in the midwest this morning. you woke up to 35 below in grand forks, north dakota. and you had 22 degrees below zero in sioux city, iowa. this cold air will continue to grip the country for the next couple of days. in fact, you know, you will be lucky to get into the teens in minneapolis by the middle of the week, and there you can see that cold air sinking southward and will continue to do so throughout the night tonight. our other big weather story is the storm, the nor'easter and its way off the coast over here tow

all the way to the gulf coast. 26 in new orleans, 27 in jacksonville. they had sleep at disney world in orlando yesterday. and the current temperature at miami beach, 36 degrees. frost and free warnings all the way down. this is going to be bad news for the strawberries and oranges and all the crops they grow down in the great state of florida. windchill values, this doesn't actually impact the fruit, but nonetheless, 19. the current windchill in jacksonville, and oh, your friends that took this week to go down to south beach, 27, the current windchill down there. cloudy, damp, and cold, all the way to the deep south. for us here in the mid-atlantic, bright sunshine, but it's a chilly sunshine, no doubt about that. the polar plunge, at least one more night with record-breaking cold down intohe great state of florida. for us, won't be breaking any records, but nonetheless, it's a cold day to be on the outside today. that northwesterly wind will stay around for much of the late morning and early afternoon hours. that takes the winds away overnight tonight

we got into the 20s in new orleans and jacksonville. 42 degrees in miami right now. in orlando? this afternoon, it was 33 degrees. a lot of cold air for a lot of the country. we are in the middle of that. what is going to happen over the next few days is the cold air will ease. a front will pass by and we may get a flurry or two. after that, the warm up is coming. the cold air sticks around tomorrow. we struggle to get to 30 for the high. monday, we are still in the 30s, but not quite as bad. this is the front that comes through monday night into tuesday. maybe a few flurries with it. we will still be in the highs on tuesday in the 30s. after that, we jump back into the 40s. i'll show you that in a moment. small craft advisory with the winds out of the west. tomorrow, we are going up to 30 for the high. take a look at the next few days here. we creep these temperatures up. we are up to 36. monday, 38. by wednesday, 42 degrees. 46 on thursday. adam. >>> thank you. if you have high blood pressure, like me, and get a cold... ...you need a cold medicine with a heart. only coricidin

. >> in jacksonville, temperatures max out in a 40's.ith snow outside -- it was no walk in the park. >> it gives us a chance to use our fireplace. now >> i have been here 40 years, and this is one of the coldest winters. >> the winter blast also attacked the northeast. boston got a double whammy of snow and flooding. high tides created massive waves that/-- cracked against seawalls. winter did not show any mercy against the midwest either. firefighters battled not only blazes but arctic conditions, sending a second alarm, but in cleveland, life trenches on. >> as long as you dress properly, and layers, good hat, boots, and you are ready to go. >> now your weather forecast with john collins. >> we have really gotten good taste of winter here with this cold air. big storms over new england, and they are still getting storms. it is not heavy snow, but it has been persistent. a couple of flurries have pushed as far south as maryland. higher clouds a little further south. the lake effect is over pennsylvania but not quite making it into garre

jacksonville 16. single digit wind chills down to metro atlanta this morning as polar plunge has absolutely scoured out any hint of a winter vacation all the way down into the florida keys. co air diving to the south. they have one more cold night coming. last night in a lot of spots the coldest night in 20 to 30 years. citrus crops and strawberry crops across much of florida in real danger for this morning and toght coming in to tomorrow morning. teens and 20s around the east with single digit wind chills. high pressure will be moving a little bit closer to us. that will take some of the sting out of the wind by later on this afternoon. watch very small little alberta clipper system zipping down across the great lakes, clouds come back in our skies during the day tomorrow and that may be enough to generate a little light snow west of the blue ridge and maybe snow flurries late monday night into the early morning hours of tuesday morning. not going to be a big deal. just want to give the heads up on a

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temperatures in jacksonville, florida, dipped into the 30s overnight. shelters have opened their doors and beds. >> i think we're hovering around 50 or 60. but they keep coming in. so it's, it's going to be a long night. >> reporter: and a long week to come. the cold isn't going anywhere. >> it's fabulous. we love it. >> it's beautiful. >> reporter: beautiful she says. you know, it's not so beautiful, when the cold wind hits you right in the face. in fact, winds were so strong, ann, in the northeast this weekend, there were major flight delays from boston down to d.c. of two hours or who. >> well jeff rossen, i hope you can get inside now, thanks so much for your reporting. also in the news, the manhunt is over for a suspect accused of killing four family members on thanksgiving in florida. paul merhige, accused of killing his twin sisters, an aunt and a cousin was booked on sunday, ordered held without bond. >>> and a big money milestone for "avatar," which held on to the top spot of the weekend box office, it took in more than $68 million. and became

jacksonville, fla., 24. hard freeze warning in effect for parts of louisiana, mississippi, alabama, georgia, north florida. the high pressure eventually moves out for the day tomorrow. the wind changes direction, and we finally looked for a little bit of a warm-up. wind chill advisory in effect western allegany county overnight, into the morning hours until about 10:00. no advisory to worry about, but we will look for temperatures below average for the day tomorrow. the wind chill factors only in the 20's. the forecast, mostly clear and cold tonight, lows in the teens. in the mountains, temperatures fall into the single digits. the wind chill factor, slightly below zero. cold start sunday, eventually into the 20's, the wind out of the northwest at 10-15. the high just near freezing, but the wind chill factor will make it feel like 8-10 degrees colder than that. better days ahead with warm weather. finally, we have to wait, though. flurries and the forecast late monday into tuesday morning. then the warm up b

. >> reporter: in jacksonville, daytime temperatures maxed out in the low 40s. a stroll outside was no work in the park. >> at least it gives us an opportunity to use our fireplace. >> reporter: farther up, in charlotte, north carolina, post holiday shopping was weather stripping and faucet covering. >> i've been here 40 years and this is one of the coldest winters. >> reporter: the winter blast also attacked the northeast, boston got a double whammy of snow and flooding. powerful winds and high tides created massive waves that crashed against sea walls. winter didn't show any mercy for the midwest either. in minneapolis, firefhters battled not only blazes, but snow-covered high drants and arctic conditions prompting a second alarm. but in cleveland, life trudges on. >> not hard dealing with the weather as long as you dress properly and dress in layers and good hat. good boots and you're ready to go. >> this cold has been around for a while and it looks like it's going to be around for a while. >> everyone's been in duck and cover mode. since saturday morning. i

put his team ahead against jacksonville state. second free throw not there. but a whistle for a lane violation. this will go against him. that means a third free throw. >> georgia state will take every point they can get. fields a guy that will get more playing time next year. you'll loose dukes which will certainly hurt this team. between him and marcus johnson, georgia state will have a good back court. >> again a miss. georgia state down four has the ball. dukes on the wing. eight and a half to go. 52-48. down 13 panthers have risen again. dukes trying to shake rodriquez. tipped. a whistle over the back. 8:15 remaining. >> he has been an important glue guy for the georgia state team. when he's out on the floor that's where the energy has been drawn from for the georgia state team. >> he subs away. they bring back james vincent who is a tad bigger but doesn't have his hops. >> hurts in the full court pressure because he can not cover as much ground. >> he is already over the mid court line as the pressure last vcu gingerly approaching mid court. one-on-one

temperatures in jacksonville, florida, dipped into the 30s overnight. shelters have opened their doors, and beds. >> i think we're hovering somewhere around 50 or 60. but they keep coming in. so it's going to be a long night. >> reporter: and a long week to come. the cold isn't going anywhere. >> it's fabulous. we love it. >> it's beautiful! >> reporter: yeah, autiful. that's the word i was going to use. only one thing worse than the cold, and that's the strong winds blowing the cold right into your face. in fact, there was a strong winds in the northeast over the weekend. there were flight delays, two hours or more, from boston down to d.c. matt, i know you'll feel our pain on the plaza in just a little bit. >> we're feeling your pain right now. sorry about that, jeff. we appreciate it. overnight the temperatures dipped below zero in minneapolis, minnesota where we find the the weather channel's mike seidel. mike, what about the wind chill there, how is it going? >> it's cold out here, nine below zero here. the wind chill now, 22 below zero. and even t

you'll be below freezing in gainesville as well as jacksonville.another storm system across the northeast. temperatures not as cold here. that's because we have a little bit of that ocean influence taking place. we have an area of low pressure right about here. nor'easter can condition interior parts of maine which could get hardest hit where we see 18 inches of snowfall. winds will be brutal. portland, maine, a live picture to show you of conditions there. light snow, fog and mist, 25 degrees. your wind chill is at 12 above at this hour. we are looking at four to eight in the city. this is lasting all weekend long because our area of low pressure is doing what we call retro grading, moving backwards so it will linger in the coast on sunday and start to pull out by monday. it's causing a lot of travel delays. we have a lot of those holiday travel lingerers going on. unfortunately, look at the delays at the airport. over an hour for everybody on this list. it's due to the low clouds and fog and windy conditions across the northeast. even have one cl

a record crowd of nearly 85,000 filled the jacksonville, florida, stadium to witness a perfect endinglegendary career. florida state's head coach, bobby bowden, started his final game with fating tribute. bowden held a flaming spear over his head and staked his claim as the greatest coach in florida state football history. now bowden ends his 57-year coaching career with a big win over west virginia in the gator bowl. he left the field on his players' shoulders and retires as the second winningest coach of all time. >> i'm interested in this retirement business. you know what, i ain't got to set my alarm no more. i get up when i get darn good and ready. then like i say, go out and look for a job. >> reporter: as one of the greatest coaches says good-bye, so does one of the greatest players, florida quarterback tim tebow saved his best college game for his last. tebow made history bay breaking his own record for passing in a game and set a record for total yards. florida crushed cincinnati to win the bowl. after the game irvin meyer, who is now beginning a leave of absence, says he pla

right now, in tampa, at 36 degrees, 40 in orlando, 35 degrees in jacksonville.o it's going to take a bit before we start to see things looking a little sunnier in the florida area. right now, we want to go to central florida in orlando. that's where we find news 13 meteorologist, pete cagiano. tell us, how bad have things been in orlando. >> it's been incredible. we have freeze warnings in effect, hard freeze warnings. windchill advisories already in effect. as you have been talking about throughout the day, we saw, believe it or not, freezing rain, sleet, even some snowflakes out there. we are not used to it down here in central florida. it is a neat thing but unfortunately, this cold weather is going to be around for the weekend. it is going to be miserable. middle 20s in the home of walt disney world, believe it or not. >> how are people handling it? >> reporter: it is tough. you see people walking around. they are pretty much miserable outside in the cold but the ice and snow is one of those curiosities, a lot of kids are getting out there. we've seen many p

the other was in jacksonville. they won that one.y don nonvan is in his 14th season as the head gator. his ball club comes in at ten wins and three defeats. as do the wolf pack. ten up and three down for sidney lowe, one of the great wolf pack players of all time and now in his fourth season coaching his alma mater. a veteran officiating crew to work this one in raleigh today. gary maxwell is working with tony green and roger ayers. the gators in their blue and orange, and the wolf pack in the home white. tracy smith will jump for the wolf pack. vernon macklin for florida. and our tripleheader of acc sunday night hoops is under way. >> larry: good play by westerner to come up with that ball. keep an eye on walker with the ball. very, very quick. >> bob: nc state starts in the man. walker in the lane, and a whistle. he got hit in the head, as he made his way into the paint. >> larry: bob, you may see this particular setup, the way florida runs it. werner will move out to receive that ball. he is an excellent passer. walker made that c

look at that, 36 now and jacksonville as well as orlando and also into the tampa area.nd we've got a little bit of precip to go along with that. we have been seeing icy conditions. we had sleet in orlando earlier today. check out this live picture right now coming from wplg. this is ft. lauderdale. your temperature in ft. lauderdale, 42 degrees and you had rain on top of that. and it's just very miserable. temperatures here tonight will be dropping down probably into the 30s and the windchill index could be down into the 20s. we might even see a little sleet in western palm beach. i want to show you an i-report that we have from ocala, florida. that's about an hour and a half north of the orlando area. ooh, this is something atlanta actually accident video i see that we have there. yeah, atlanta, icy streets and people just don't know how to drive on it so they're spinning out in that black ice has been a real problem. now we have ocala i-report i want to show you from jim yat that he took this morning. you only had .1 of an inch of snow. jim, i'm wondering how much it

host: jacksonville, fla. bruce? caller: if ben bernanke is not reappointed he will still be on the federal reserve board. i think they're using him as a scapegoat for failed policies. congress passed the tarp bill and it was a one-page bill, then we get 2000 pages for health care. everything is going to hell in a handbasket, so now we hang ben bernanke out. with the stock market last week it is smoke and mirrors. 17% of the budget will be held out for 2011 -- it has nothing to do with 2010. we're not talking about a second recovery bill. where will we save the money? guest: going to his last comments -- congress is in the midst of trying to pass more jobs-based legislation at the same time you are proposing a spending freeze. the democrats are in a box. when it comes to the economy must create jobs, but there are these concerns about the deficit. what do they do? host: john mccain says he will support obama's effort to cut federal spending, but he says it will not work unless obama shows a willingness to veto are pr

tallahassee at 24 -- jacksonville at 26, orlando at 36. west palm beach at 39. new york, 33. there's lake-effect snow as the air moves across the frozen lakes. another shot of cold air into the weekend into the end of the weekend. look at this, omaha at 14 below. it is frigid in a lot of this country. >> there is >> there is one place in the country where temperatures are actually a little warmer than normal. that's the southwest. phoenix at about 71 degrees. l.a. at about 77. robin, george? >> hey, sam, wait a minute, any stray confetti left over? >> no. first of all, no. it's normally -- wait, wait, wait. that is confetti. yeah, it is. >> they did a great job of cleaning up. >> it's pretty darn clean. >> yes, it is. come on inside. >>> we do have time for our picture of the morning. we want to look at a stunning architectural feat. it is now the tallest building in the world. the burj dubai. it opens today, almost half a mile tall. you may remember, chris cuomo was there, remember? last year, chris not crazy about heights but he was at the top. it is amazing. >> $1.5 billio

tallahassee at 24 -- jacksonville at 26, orlando at 36. west palm beach at 39. new york, 33.here's lake-effect snow as the air moves across the frozen lakes. another shot of cold air into the weekend into the end of the weekend. look at this, omaha at 14 below. it is frigid in a lot of this country. >>> a very good morning, brian van de graaff here, and we have some some this morning and we will get some clouds parted -- clouds. the wind chill is mainly in the single digits in the area. e winds will blow out of the northwest today and that will make the wind chill factor present throughout the day. tomorrow, a little bit of sunshine through the afternoon and the middle part >> there is >> there is one place in the country where temperatures are actually a little warmer than normal. that's the southwest. phoenix at about 71 degrees. l.a. at about 77. robin, george? >> hey, sam, wait a minute, any stray confetti left over? >> no. first of all, no. it's normally -- wait, wait, wait. that is confetti. yeah, it is. >> they did a great job of cleaning up. >> it's pretty darn clean.

host: jacksonville, fla. on the line. caller: good morning.derstand -- but are you really does educated to understand that cuba is on the list to be compliant with what the united states wants because we get what we want. i in the terrace and all united states citizens are terrorists. are you there? guest: what i was pointing to is the political nature of this. cuba is the big issue, especially in florida where i live for a long time. it is something that is going to had complications to anything like this. i think the government and the administration looked at this and decided to go the state grow and add cuba in there. host: why wouldn't they just put everyone on the terrorist watch list on the no-flight lisy list? guest: that is a good question. there is a lot of examination in to watch these cl-- into what the lists include. there is a large compilation of names. from that they decide to get a more narrow list, which include a few thousand people who are banned from flying on any plans to the u.s.. this is used by other countries by the w

host: jacksonville, sally. republican line. you are on the air. good morning. have a question. i have health care. i do not want to lose the health care that i have. i do not want to have to pay for anyone else's health care either. how am i, as a taxpayer, going to be penalized for money to come out of my pocket to pass the bill? guest: i disagree with a foolish bill. but if you have excellent health care, and i assume it is through your employer -- am i right about that? host: she is gone. guest: we will continue to have your health care. the way that the bill is organized, you will not pay additional costs for anyone else. i want to say this, every other industrialized co. -- industrialized country in the world has made the decision, just like we have, with putting out fires for fire departments, that it will be a right of all of the people in their countries to have access to health care. they decided that it was a community, country function, of something that we are all doing together. the united states stands alone in saying that we do not share together

jacksonville, florida.never done this before but first, i am an independent and a member of the tea party nation and i've been listening to what's going on and personally i don't think anyone is too big to fail. i think that the government has over extended itself by of course spending more than it takes in. i was raised that you just can't do that. you have to budget your money and you have to spend only what you take in and keep some back for qsq)gency situations. the government wants to spend, spend, spend and print, print, print. i wasn't aware we went off the gold standard which we should have st stayed on. if anyone listened to what governor schwarzenegger said, there's only a group of people - um... who are taking care of millions of people who are not paying any taxes whatsoever. those are people mostly on the welfare system that was set up wrong and set up to keep people down. it wasn't set up to help anyone, because it's not set up to get anybody off the welfare system and those people have no inc

so if the dot says it is too difficult to deliver the spectrum from mobile pensacola to jacksonville because we have our classified issues. well, deal with it than to tell us what they are. you said you could push to learn from a particular date so deal with it. i'm interested if i were to offer such amendment as an incentive because if we ask for these companies to put billions of dollars or asking for an next auction. we do the auction, the government the money and we've used the money are not delivering what we said we would. so in the and mr. smith, you talked about public values. public values are based upon virtues. if you're going to have a deal you can have a deal without fidelity, and fidelity requires two people. two people. and so if government is not upholding its fidelity maybe we should have an encouragement calls called a penalty clause. what are your ideas and thoughts? >> mr. largent? >> well, i like you're thinking going into this but i would prefer -- i'm just thinking of this free-wheeling right now so i wasn't prepared for the question but as i think about it i t

all right, we will move on to alan from jacksonville, florida. caller: good morning, ma'am. as far as the financial corrections he wants to make, or whatever, we need to blame congress for that. they are the one who passed all the regulations. they failed to get bernie madoff about five years before he actually got caught. they repeal the glass-steagall act. how many agencies doing need to regulate the banks and financial institutions which congress passes the laws to do? or like national security where we have nine or 10 agencies to should have protected us from the under-pants bomber and now they have failed. one last thing, the president himself said the democrats control both houses. they only the republicans, so they have blocked the amount. host: one speck of the speech getting a lot of discussion was when the president talked about the recent supreme court decision -- one aspect of the speech -- let's listen. it is the reaction from justice samuel only to. >> last week the supreme court reversed a century of law. i believe it will open the floodgates to special intere

host: we will go to the democrats learned from jacksonville, florida, good morning. will there be a long-term u.s. commitment to haiti? caller: yes, i think it will bid. these people are really suffering. that is all of the other caller to say that. we need to commit money to all these other terrorists in other countries, one of commitment to haiti? host: york city, on the independent life. caller: good morning, you have a great show. i would like to make an observation -about the condition of haiti. i am a professor and i was assigned to nasa for disaster in the united states. were a small atomic weapon to use. one thing we learn from katrina and learn from 9/11 and now you are learning it from haiti, the system is 80% cellular. what is needed here is the nasa program which put the cellular and telephone switching satellite. that is in case one of these disasters occur, god forbid, we have the port of north being run by dubai and so on, getting the device into york city might be rather -- into new york city might be rather easy. if you lost part of the city, the sam

our first call comes from jacksonville, florida. william on our line for independents. good morning. >> caller: good morning, sir. good to see you. i like you. you're pretty informative. hello? >> host: go ahead, william. >> caller: yes, sir. how do we fight an enemy that don't wear no uniform, number one, the terrorists? that is the crazy thing i ever see. can nobody speak the language over there? can nobody go to yemen or afghanistan and, them peoples -- you know you're not from there. you're hooked up with -- over there my second question is, why is britain and all them other places ain't on terrorism list? i want to take your answer. y'all have a happy new year, guys. >> guest: the question of, fighting a war with an enemy that is not wearing a uniform is something that is obviously been a big topic for the government since 9/11. the bush administration handled it one way. the obama administration is pretty much also of the view this is a, it's a war, you know, and whether someone is wearing a uniform or not, it is a war is the way both administrations approached it

host: jacksonville, florida, keith on the republican line.or comment? caller: i want that c-span. i'm not warning shoat watcher and listener on the other cable networks and i started -- and a morning show watcher and listener on the other cable networks and i started turning into spent recently ag. mark, at your personal feelings on if we continue down that same path in pakistan, where are we in three or five years? guest:çqçç great question. there are people who know more than i do who would not venture an answer on that on a real prediction. it is so volatile there that predicting i't(even two or three years is difficult, let alone five years. this is what led to the intensity of this discussion about afghanistan and that the obama administration that we sought starting in the fall. -- that we saw starting in the fall. there are trying to figure out whether committing more troops was the solution or the problem, and whether it would make any difference. i know there is a hope of the military at the obama administration that within three

host: our first call comes from jacksonville. william, good morning.ood morning, good to see you. you are informed. hello? host: go ahead. caller: how can we fight someone who wears no uniform, number one. that is the craziest thing i have ever seen. nobody can even go over there and speak the language. the people that live there, they know that you are hope that. same question, why is britain and all of those other places on the list? the law have a happy new year. guest: the question of fighting a war with an enemy that has no uniform is obviously a big topic for the government since 9/11. the bush administration handled it one way. the obama administration has pretty much come to the view that this is a war, whether someone is wearing a uniform or not. that is how each administration has approached it. they have had divisions over whether or not they should use certain methods or systems, like the military commission system, but both administrations of view this as a war that will go on for a very long time and it does not matter if al qaeda or othe

host: jacksonville, florida, the line for democrats. jack. caller: good morning.he fellow just talked basically said the same thing. i am an electrician by trade and i have been for 35 years. and today in this country there is absolutely no place to go to work. i heard the president say the other night -- proposing he would put 1 million, to a million and have people back to work by the end of the year. there are 15-18 million people out of work right now in this country. i don't know how they are going to survive another year, you know -- the government is going to keep paying unemployment benefits to all of them? i am unemployed, to. if you go to the store and you all know, everything is virtually made overseas now, in china. and this has been going on for 10 years. a long time ago, you just had the little fans and the knobs from china and now everything -- power tools to, pat, even some of our food, clothes -- heck, even some of our food. take a country like the united states, first-class country, and you try to compete with a country paying people 48 cents an

jacksonville, fla., on the independent line. caller: i appreciate you, sis. want this to be wide open. i have tried to contact my senator ben nelson and he never gives me an answer. he says what i want to hear. let's open it up. host: wichita, kan. on the democratic line. caller: i am very angry at this bill that harry reid and answer policy have pushed on us. it is the wrong thing to do. i have already seen evidence of what it has done to mind. i think we should be able to vote on this thing affecting the people. i don't think we should have to take something that these people are not revealing the real thing to us. they don't tell us anything. host: yesterday at the white house press secretary robert gibbs was asked about c-span's requests . >> i can't you answer the c-span question? >> i did. >> why do need to see the letter? >> dan asked me about the letter. i have not read the letter. i answered a dance question and i answered this before we left for the break, keith. the number one priority for the president is getting differences worked out. getting a

host: next juan call next zarate, -- next call for juan zarate, jacksonville, florida, a democrat.aller: i have a question concerning the way we are put under scrutiny, for lack of a better word, when we go to board our flights here in america. now, so much time is spent on, it seems, getting a group of names on a list who cannot fly. why isn't there a list done for people who can fly? with our database at today's technology, it takes no time to compile a list of people who are citizens, who are legitimate americans, who have reason to be flying, instead of this list so that it makes it easier -- host: sorry about that. guest: you raised some very good points, actually. this is something that the department of homeland security has been looking at for the past few years. they had a pilot project to make it easier for business travelers to get through security, and that is a preferred travelers program, if you will. i think you are absolutely right. there needs to be a way of making it more convenient. but at the end of today, the list are not going to do it. i name based system is

. >> host: jacksonville florida.sally on the republican line you are on the air. >> caller: good morning. i have a question. i have excellent health care. i don't want to lose the health care i have, and i don't want to pay for anybody else's health care either so how am i as a taxpayer not going to be penalized so that money comes out of my pocket to pass your foolish bill? >> guest: actually of course i disagree with the foolish bill, but i -- if you have excellent health care, and i assume that's probably true door impleader; am i right about that? was the way she is gone to read >> host: >> guest: then you will continue to have your health care and the way the bill was organized you won't be paying additional cost for anyone else. but i want to say this, every other industrialized country in the world has made the decision just as we have for putting out fires, for fire departments or public education that will be a right of all the people in their countries to have access to health care, and they've decided that

host: next juan call next zarate, -- next call for juan zarate, jacksonville, florida, a democrat.aller: i have a question concerning the way we are put under scrutiny, for lack of a better word, when we go to board our flights here in america. now, so much time is spent on, it seems, getting a group of names on a list who cannot fly. why isn't there a list done for people who can fly? with our database at today's technology, it takes no time to compile a list of people who are citizens, who are legitimate americans, who have reason to be flying, instead of this list so that it makes it easier -- host: sorry about that. guest: you raised some very good points, actually. this is something that the department of homeland security has been looking at for the past few years. they had a pilot project to make it easier for business travelers to get through security, and that is a preferred travelers program, if you will. i think you are absolutely right. there needs to be a way of making it more convenient. but at the end of today, the list are not going to do it. i name based system is

you can imagine what the reaction of the a police force of jacksonville would be if they called overnted police killer. the askin thethey ask him if that's him i don't think his chance of surviving is quite high. they finally found the man they were looking for. the risk to him from that that birth certificate was astonishing. what is difficult to credit is that florida is still accepting birth certificates without doing anything to check the validity of those certificates. that is something that real id would have it fixed and is something that pass i a

host: next juan call next zarate, -- next call for juan zarate, jacksonville, florida, a democrat. caller: i have a question concerning the way we are put under scrutiny, for lack of a better word, when we go to board our flights here in america. now, so much time is spent on, it seems, getting a group of names on a list who cannot fly. why isn't there a list done for people who can fly? with our database at today's technology, it takes no time to compile a list of people who are citizens, who are legitimate americans, who have reason to be flying, instead of this list so that it makes it easier -- host: sorry about that. guest: you raised some very good points, actually. this is something that the department of homeland security has been looking at for the past few years. they had a pilot project to make it easier for business travelers to get through security, and that is a preferred travelers program, if you will. i think you are absolutely right. there needs to be a way of making it more convenient. but at the end of today, the list are not going to do it. i name based system i

much harder to say -- i can recall frustrations that you need to go with the prime minister in jacksonville or whoever was there afterwards and sort this out. the americans did that. the momented noted. i can recall being obviously the president wants to see. he goes. whereas, there were always some constraints on our ability to do that. plus -- but i accepted it to be equally true for the u.s. there are also things going on at the same time. although we are understandably and rightly focused on iraq for the focus of the inquiry, at the same time, we are still conducting operations in afghanistan, and there are a whole range of issues for the foreign office what have absolutely nothing to do with iraq. but nevertheless, people are still having to conduct daily meetings, do the work that's necessary to keep those activities underway. >> thank you. >> the committee of principals the problem was they ran off two years. after the campaign, a lot of meetings happen. we have the inspection. why was it possible to do after the campaign but not before the campaign? >> the things we were describing,

. >> host: jacksonville, florida, sally on the republican line. are on the air now. >> caller: good morning. i have a question. i have health care. i don't want to lose the health care i have. and, i don't want to pay for anybody else's health care either. so, how am i as a taxpayer not going to be penalized so that money comes out of my pocket to pass your foolish bill? >> guest: well actually, of course i disagree with the foolish bill, but if you have excellent health care, and i assume that is probably through your employer, in my right about that? >> host: i think the caller is gone. >> guest: she is off the line. you will continue to have your health care, and the way the bill was organized, you won't be paying additional costs for anyone else, but i want to say this. that every other industrialized country in the world has made a decision, just as we have four fire, putting out fires, the fire departments are for public education, that it will be a rights of all the people in their countries to have access to health care, and they have deci