to build upon those and i think there's an increased willingness to look at new ideas you know jeffrey south and not to change the fundamental point ok jeffrey a lot of the south of the border a lot of people would say the united states is far more concerned with security than with the consumption issue i mean should shouldn't be balanced out a lot more because a lot of those guns i mean i don't know all the numbers because it's not you legal but the guns come from the north and they go to the south and that's where all this killing is happening. that's our nature the guns are right now coming substantially from the us but it's silly to think that trying to prevent the guns from crossing the border to mexico or further south would make a huge difference to lots of countries that produce guns if we do more to interdict guns going south will just be more violence related to the illegal gun trade the fundamental fact is there's a huge demand for guns right now in mexico because of the violence because of the risk and so we're not going to change that with any policy toward the united states it'

south carolina, that's number one. squashing job creation. you talk about jeffrey immelt, he exported his entire -- g.e.'tire x-ray division to china and the point about this. >> bill: they used to be in wisconsin. >> jeffrey immelt is still the chairman of the jobs competitive council. >> oh my god! he is the chairman of the jobs competitive thick. oh my god. >> bill: do you think that's going to do president obama any good? >> i don't think they care. oh my god, let's tie immelt to obama. >> bill: up until six months ago, jeffrey immelt was in charge of msnbc, the network, why couldn't they have been sent to china? they would like it there. it's the economy they love. >> why didn't jeff move them. >> you have this thing about immelt. >> i really have a thing. >> bill: i am not. it is just crazy. all right. barack and hard place, everybody. come right back, big scandal at the university of miami. football players allegedly provided with prostitutes by a con man. charles krauthammer on vice president biden saying something very controversial in china has to do with one child policy. those reports after t

south carolina to washington, new york and new england. and in libya, rebels stormed colonel moammar qaddafi's compound. good evening. i'm jeffrey brown. >> suarez: and i'm ray suarez. on the newshour tonight, hari sreenivasan gets the latest on the tremor that sent hundreds of people spilling out of the capitol, the white house, the pentagon, monuments and memorials. >> everything just started shaking, and it scared the crap out of us. >> all of a sudden, everything in the room, at first, started to rumble a little, and then started shaking crazily. >> we're on the fifth floor of, like, a concrete building like the pentagon-- first thing is earthquake. we knew it was an earthquake, so we evacuated. >> brown: and we have on-the- ground reports from libya on the fighting in the capital, tripoli, and the scene in the eastern city of benghazi. >> suarez: then, we look at the difficulties prosecuting sexual assault cases as a new york judge drops the charges against former i.m.f. head dominique strauss kahn. >> brown: and special correspondent anna rau of montana pbs talks to patients and doctors about medical marijuana's effectiven

jeffrey sachs, as we look at the numbers, power outages, flooding, tropical storms, it's happening in the northeast. but in the deep southffering from extreme weather conditions themselves. >> when you look at how the climate is changing all over the world, the prediction is that it's getting wetter up in the northeast and it's getting drier in the southwest. the drought, right now that's affecting the southwest is setting all time records, also. so, we are kind of walking into this growing disaster. it's happening all over the world. >> the deep red on the screen is extraordinary drought. texas is undergoing a drought to the likes of which they have never experienced. >> you think governor perry would have noticed this by now, you know? maybe it would have led to a little curiosity about climate change. this is what's predicted from climate change. it's systematic as the world warms, you get a pattern that's called the hadley cell and dry air descends on texas with greater intensity leading to more and more prolonged drought. this is what the scientists, the ones he calls the hoax centers have been saying for years. >>