. >> instead of enjoying 30 minutes of sex for $50, this man from lakeland, florida, now has a reservationor a night in polk county lockup. >> i never do anything. >> prostitution is illegal. >> originally from india, he pleads ignorance, saying he doesn't know the laws of this country. >> i'm a little scared, really. please. please, i'm really scared. i don't do anything. please. >> he's ready. >> he works as a senior engineer for a billion dollar technical construction firm in orlando. >> please. >> but officers are not impressed by his job title. he is photographed, booked and labelled, arrestee number 72. >> forgive me. >> no trouble across the hall, okay. >> sheriffs police shuttle the 45-year-old engineer across the hall to join the other men arrested for buying sex tonight. >> never been if trouble before? >> no. >> meet james loro arrested earlier tonight for attempting to buy oral sex from an undercover officer. a divorced dad from orlando, loro says he came from the hotel after spending the day at disney world with his daughter. >> are you wanting what we talked about like the lo

sean is calling in from lakeland, florida. near your home area. caller: the morning to you. -- good morning to you. is, the system itself, in my opinion, is broken. people have no trust in the system. it's about perception. a caller said people don't perceive things in a certain way. you have your point of view with how you look at things. the thing nobody looks at is why are people having these interactions with police? police people in the community where everything is good, people have jobs. that is the real problem here. this guy got killed because he was trying to get money. nobody wants to be a criminal. you have an extent of people who love crime or get the thrill. point, everybody involved in these crimes are trying to get money. if these people had jobs or felt like they could go out and work and make $40,000 a year and not have to worry about scratching and grinding to find something to eat, they would not have to go out and sell loose cigarettes to make extra money. host: sean in lakeland, florida. chief beary? guest: i appreciate those

shawn is calling in from lakeland florida, your home area. shawn, you're on "the washington journal." >> yes. gork to you. how y'all fellows doing over there? i'm just talking to you. my thing is the system itself, in my opinion, is broken, and people have no trust in the system of -- the thing is like it's about perception. a caller called in earlier and his thing was people don't perceive things in a certain way. you all have your point of view. what nobody looks at is why are these people having interactions with police? you know what i'm saying? police people in a community where everything is good, people have jobs. that's the real problem here. this guy that got killed, he got killed because he was trying to get money. you know what i'm saying? nobody really wants to be a criminal. you have a certain extent of people who just love crime or get the thrill almost like a thrill seeker in a sense, but in the most point everybody's involved in these so-called crimes is just trying to get money. if these people had jobs, if these people felt

sean is calling in from lakeland, florida. near your home area. caller: the morning to you. -- good morning to you. is, the system itself, in my opinion, is broken. people have no trust in the system. it's about perception. a caller said people don't perceive things in a certain way. you have your point of view with how you look at things. the thing nobody looks at is why are people having these interactions with police? police people in the community where everything is good, people have jobs. that is the real problem here. this guy got killed because he was trying to get money. nobody wants to be a criminal. you have an extent of people who love crime or get the thrill. point, everybody involved in these crimes are trying to get money. if these people had jobs or felt like they could go out and work and make $40,000 a year and not have to worry about scratching and grinding to find something to eat, they would not have to go out and sell loose cigarettes to make extra money. host: sean in lakeland, florida. chief beary? guest: i appreciate those

. >> reporter: they own this pizza restaurant in lakeland, florida.otally shocked. she's a sweet lady, easy going. that really blows my socks off. >> reporter: tonya demeron is behind bars in a polk county jail charged with solicitation to commit first-degree murder. josh haskell, abc news, new york. >>> investigators say it was a tragic accident that killed six people in glasgow. a garbage truck veered out of control. the driver became ill and lost control. the streets were crowded with christmas shoppers. at least eight others -- >>> there was supposed to be a christmas greeting. wasn't very merry in the message. abc's terry moran has more. there was more. a lot more. in scorching words he blasted the top officials in the catholic church for being more ambitious than pius. he said many are sick, suffering from a spiritual alzheimer's. they've forgotten, he said, their personal history with the lord. but there was more. a lot more. some cardinals practiced the terrorism of gossip, the pope thundered, powerful clicks, reprehensible he called that. som

this is a blazing school bus in lakeland in polk county florida. 38 kids were on the school bus when it started smoking and the driver and kids got off safely and watched as the whole vehicle went up in flames. part of the road had to be closed as a second bus showed up to take them to school. >>> new rules will be based to protect from discrimination against sexual orientation and gender identity. it applyies to contractors who work with the federal government. 18 states are have these rules but this is the first for the government and the private sector. >>> a man's mission to mars could be closer to reality this week. a test flight of the orion rocket tomorrow is being called the first step in an historic journey. >> orion is still on the ground. there is clearly something in the air along florida's spacecoast. >> at kennedy, it's almost like a buzz in the air during a launch week. you can feel it. >> a feeling that's been missing a long time here. three years after the end of the shuttle program represents the next phase in u.s. manned space travel. the destina still isn't clear.

john in lakeland, florida, democratic caller. caller: hello, greta. how are you this morning?: doing well, sir. you are on the air. caller: ok, good. if bush had not gone over and -- this is the cause of all that is going on. talk aboutpublicans this investigation that they put out. what about benghazi? they put all of these men in benghazi and what did they find out? nothing. if they had not cut the troops, we would not have had to go. host: all right. a little bit from this report by the financial times this morning. they highlight this, that money was made on the cia torture program, a lot of money. the twoonto say that contractors earned $81 million. good morning, jr. what are your thoughts? caller: the previous guy from california, he was saying that torture should not happen and what not. my question is, what is the president obama sending drones over and just killing people out of the sky? what is the difference? if he is that? host: you don't see a difference. caller: no, no. i think that torture that they said, they said they were doing waterboarding, sleep deprivatio

. >> lovely lady from lakeland, florida, super sonic means, faster than the speed of light, faster thane too late. i never got to ride it. >> a lovely gentleman from toron toronto, canada. who among these actors is the tallest. john lithgow, jeff gold blume or joe manganiello. >> i would say jeff gold bloom. >> he's awfully tall. he'll love this just in time for christm christmas. >> the correct answer. joe manganiello. >> how close? >> i'm 5'10". next to them i would look like a tiny person. it's within an inch. lithgow is 6'4", jeff gold bloom 6.4 half and manganiello 6'5". >> manganiello has more hair. >> not that hoda noticed. according to the faa, how many aircraft are flying above the united states at any given time, 7,000, 15,000 or 23,000 aircraft. >> i'm going to go with b. >> no. but that's okay. because you get "good night angel." i love that cd. >> correct answer, 7,000. a lot. >> which is still a lot of planes when you think about it. aviation, it takes -- gives us 11 million people and 15,000 air traffic control people. >> didn't know. back across to ka thi. >>> from roche

host: lakeland, michael, from florida. caller: a student loan that's in offset, been on social security for disability for years now. i'm trying to get this expunged, taken away, forgiven, the $18-19,000 on the student loan. well, i have to pay taxos that. guest: a forgiven student loan will generally be taxed as income, yes. there's this break we talked about earlier, homeowners who lost their loans, up to $2 million, that kind of debt is forgiven tax free now. but student loan is taxable. the rules for student loan debt are the most dra conian of any type of debt. you can't get rid of it in bankruptcy. you will be taxed. do a 1099 fee form. there's one exception in this, and it's an important one i almost overlooked here. if you're insolvent. if you have more debts than you have assets, this income is not taxable. so check out the insolvency rules. it's a thing that a lot of people were scared when they lost their homes, they were going to be taxed on it, they weren't because of the insolvency rule. if you don't have mon