there may be a few inches on a 50 lansing, but the majority is on 15 guy st. for your reference, the entire issue came up because a notice of violation was filed. >> thank you. >> thank you. president goh: mr. duffy. >> good evening, commissioners. joseph duffey. reading the brief, this has been going on for quite a few years. i see a building permit simply to remove some boards or shoring if you want to call it that. they should of been taken out when the building was finished. if access is provided, but i'm not sure if that was the case or not. all i see is a building permit simply to take those pieces of wood from that area. the complaint was there was damage to the property. the contractor did not finish the work. he left debris among the underpinning at the back. the notice of violation preferences a two by four wall. i am a little bit confused from reading that. i do not know what that means. i'm just reading through the brief as well. i will be available for any questions if you have them. vice president garcia: what is the second one that's violation m

the state capital, lansing, got between eight and 10 inches. justin, eight to 10 in lansing, michigan! it knocked down an awning at a gas station. the heavy snows also helped collapse an inflatable dome at a golfing range. that would be outside of jackson, michigan. they had close to a foot of snow, man! you don't look happy. >> it is michigan. >> dream big. >> michigan. where's megan to stick up for michigan? we can say anything we want about them. >>> that is how she describes where she lives. she puts up the hand and says i was there, on the map. happy december 1st. we're looking for a long range outlook that has some snow next week. the average for the month, 3.1 but we know we challenged some of the records recently. by the way, yesterday turned out to be a very winter-looking day after a sunny start. this is from route 22 and main street, bel air, one of our new favorite cameras. here go the clouds. they just took over for the rest of the day. by the way, annapolis, gorgeous sunrise, no doubt about that. and then the clouds came in a litt

if you're watching us on wilx in lansing, michigan, kalamazoo, use flies, magazigots and beelg for csi crime scene. >> and good morning everyone. bill, thanks so much. >>> here's an early look at headlines in entertainment. describe this weekend and whole year of 2011 with hollywood struggling to pull in odd yens, there's nothing new at the box office. tom cruise's "mission impossible: ghost protocol" should win with about $30 million. elsewhere, former chicago bulls star and current tight-fisted nba owner, michael jordan asked his girlfriend of three years to marry him over the christmas weekend. another blast from the past. elly mae clampette from the beverly hillbillies, donna douglas, settles her lawsuit over mattel with a barbie that uses her character's name and likeness. voters gave robert pattinson the celebrity honor of the year for a second year in a row. come on, bill, step it up. amid more questions surrounding her recent tweets with ex-boyfriend and assaulter chris brown, rihanna's seductive ads for armani jeans have been crowned sexiest ads of the year by advertising age

that game was played in east lansing. this one in indianapolis. heads up play here by keith nichol who caught the hail mary pass in the win against wisconsin in the first game. the lateral to b.j. cunningham. then they go for two. and they get it. michigan state right now in the fourth quarter is leading 40-39. acc championship game tajh boyd four touchdowns, in this rematch, between the two. clemson, blew out virginia tech in october. more of the same tonight in charlotte. boyd, up top to the freshman sammy watkins. score. clemson wins the acc title. it's been 20 years since their last conference championship. case keenum in houston missed out on a bcs bowl berth and undefeated season as they lost to southern miss in the conference usa title game today at home. keenum intercepted by ronnie thornton. ronnie, bobby, ricky and mike, he returns it 26 yards for the touchdown. southern miss takes the conference usa championship. both head coaches seem to be attractive options for other schools. texas and baylor. robert griffin iii trying to state his h

. >>> in east lansing michigan, keith appling of michigan state had 24 points. 65-49 over florida statee-out during the game. a michigan state cheerleader was injured. take a look. she was lifted in the air and fell hard to the court. geez! taylor young was strapped to a backboard and gave a thumb's up. she was cheered by the crowd on the way out. she is hospitalized, but in stable condition. >>> in the nfl buffalo wide receiver stevie johnson is out 10 grand this morning. the league find him for this. his over the top touchdown celebration and last sunday's loss to the new york jets. johnson was mocking jets receiver plaxico burress but pretending to shoot himself in the thigh. burress did just that in a new york city nightclub in 2008 and later went to prison for illegal gun possession. >>> when we return, another look at this morning's top stories. >>> and the amazing new contact lenses that not only help you see, they fight disease. save up to 30% on select kong® products and save $6 on select iams® cat food. friday through sunday only. at petsmart®. -why? -why? -why? [ female annou

lansing got between eight and 10 inches of snow knocking down the awning of this gas station.eavy snow also helped collapse an inflatable dome and indoor golfing range. hitting golf balls in 20-degree weather? >>> in michigan also, we showed you this. that snow shows the canopy covering the gas station's gas pump, tipped over and collapsed. no one was hurt, station was open but the pumps weren't damaged. the gas station plans to reopen a little later today. >>> are you prepared for the winter? this is up your alley. new york dakota state university has a smartphone app to help you get through mother nature at her worst. it's called the winter survival kit. the app provides you with your current gps location that can be relayed for emergency calls which then can contact the person maybe on your contact list. just press a button. >> it gives you emergency policy numbers, aaa, insurance, etc. >> you can store the list and the application advises you on how many fuel hours you have left and when you should turn your car off to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning overall. >>> it's begi

moderate snow through lansing and detroit. that's part affrontal boundary extending -- part of a frontal boundary that is part of a frontal boundary that will take our temperatures down for the start of the weekend. 29 ellicott city. 24 sorry 24 ellicott city and temperatures near freezing along the bay. where do we go? a frosty morning. from the mid-20s to near 30 at 7:08 sunrise and pushing to 50 by lunchtime and two degree guaranteed high with a mix of clouds at 55. we will talk about the rest of the weekend forecast and the outlook through next week in a moment. right now here's traffic good morning. >> reporter: and good morning to you. it's a chilly morning out there. you might have a little frost to scrape off but once you get on the roads, things are moving nicely. first look at beltway at 695 at frederick road, traffic is moving at a good clip. dropping down to look at i-83 in northern baltimore county i- 83 york road, no difficulties. the jones falls being pressway moving well getting into -- expressway moving well g

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joining me now is verge venaro, the mayor of lansing.and is a major critic, and reverend jesse jackson, founder and president of rainbow push coalition, who will be marching on others on governor snyder's town on martin luther king day next year. thank for joining me tonight. verge, how big of a threat is this law to democracy, period, in your state? >> you hit the nail on the head, al. even in russia in what i think of still soviet russia under putin, they're now attacking about allowing some elections again for local mayors, and we're moving in the opposite direction. too many of our cities have become the hole in the doughnut, and now we're going to punish the guy in charge. what is disturbing is that in some of these cases, the mayor is newly elected, almost immediately swept of his powers. in pontiac and flint, you have new mayors in detroit you have a relatively new mayor. if you're going to give autocratic power, why not use the existing mayor, come in and give those powers to the mayor elected by the people, instead of bringing s

. >> now we go to caught on tape because it's a little scary in east lansing, michigan. 20-year-old cheerleaderdoing this all the time. tossing her in the air. look at this, when she comes down, nobody catches her. she fell on her face and they had to cart her off on the stretcher. all signs are she will be fine. she gave the thumb's up when she was being wheeled away. >> check this out a police cruiser gets crushed by a fallen tree. dash camera video shows the huge tree break off and then crash down, here it comes, through the windshield and it happened last week in mission, kansas. that tree shattered the cruiser's windshield. left quite a dent and the officer behind the wheel was not injured. >>> to arizona now and what looks like a person hanging on for dear life from that billboard. >>> while putting those christmas tree lights up folks this is one of those creative tunts -- stunts. as you can imagine, the billboard generating a lot of buzz. >>> we had a lot of fun. a lot of press and people calling and texting. i mean they came by and were polite and said you got to take it down. >> i can

police say they have arrested four suspects after two of them flew into an airport northeast of lansing 150 pounds of pot in their luggage. a police chief says the marijuana brings were in vacuum-sealed plastic with deterrent soaked sheets over them to try to mask the smell. florida. a would-be thief broke into the wrong church east of tampa, turns out the pastor there is a war vet. he says he used his military training to track and subdue the suspect. >> i moved to these. and then i moved in around the corner and caught him at the entrance of the door right there. >> then he called the sheriff's office. new jersey, quite a christmas display at this home southwest of trenton. the owner says he plans a year in advance for the show. >> each year it gets a little bigger, brighter, better. of course, tackier. >> we're told the family raises money for a health care center and that's a fox watch across america. >> shepard: i'm shepard smith. this is "the fox report." it's the bottom of the hour. time for the top of the news. after nearly nine years of roadside bombs and sniper fire and suicid

he's hauled off to lansing correctional, the state's oldest and biggest prison for the worst of the worstd. >> i just kind of sunk. i was like, i can't believe this. i just ruined my life. i'm accused of rape. i'm a sex offender. i thought my life was over. this is really one of the only times i thought about suicide. i was scared. i didn't know what to do. i was -- i didn't know if i was going to make it in prison. >> in his first year behind bars, lowery loses everything in his life that has meaning. he's dishonorably discharged from the army. his family rarely visits. and then the final blow. a dear john letter from his wife. >> this is the last letter i'm going to send you. you'll never hear from me again. and she kept true to that. i never heard from her again. >> lowery's daughter amanda is 3 years old when he's arrested. with his imprisonment and divorce, he becomes nothing more than a memory. >> i had this one picture of amanda when she was in kindergarten. i put it in a special place and that's all i saw of her. >> desperate for a meaningful relationship, he writes letters to ama

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once hughes -- or secretary of state lansing was shuffled aside for hughes, then the vice president would resign and then wilson -- it was sort of a three-point plan -- then hughes would become president until he formally took his term. >> what happened was it was an incredibly close election. >> oh, yes. incredibly. >> tell us about the electoral vote. >> it was about a quarter of a million popular vote. not that close in the popular total. what it is, it is so close in california. that is the key. it is divided by 13 electoral votes, and that is what the situation was in california. the second incident that occurs in california, and really the particular nature of the incident is overplayed, because again, back to that progressive party convention that kind of dissolved and left the field open to hughes. they're in a bad mood. they are not resolved as to who they would endorse. one of the people with a bad temper was the senator hiram johnson from california. he is a very ornery guy. in those days of limited travel, hughes has to get to the east coast. he swings through california befor

our map of michigan in greenville is close to lansing in the middle of the state. he said there's a tiny little town called greenville and they are about to lose their enormous refrigerator factory. in fact, greenville had called itself "the refrigerator capital of the world." in this tiny town of 8,000 people at north america's largest refrigerator factory employing 2,700 of the 8,000 who lived in that town which, you know, all 8,000 people, grandparents and their kids, this is a one company town. the whole town had grown up around refrigerator manufacturing. he said they are going to leave. they're going to move to mexico. and i said no they are not. we are going to go to greenville. we will put whatever incentives we have on the table and we will make them an offer they can't refuse. so, we went to greenville. we were in a room probably about this size in this little town and the mayor was there and the city manager was there and the guy who was responsible for the community college was there and the whole -- the workers were there. the whole town and their repr

recasting himself as presumptive nominee, trying to stay positive and focus on the job at handball lansing incumbent and trying to rise above his republican rivals. he will continue direct mail criticisms of newt gingrich and advertising bashing newt gingrich for his positions but on the stop he is very positive. he used humor in attempts to make himself more accessible to voters and make him more like normal person rather than the elitist his rivals cast him had. he had a little bit of a joke with politics. >> if you're voting foreme the date is january 3rd. the other folk are taking votes in on january 4th. [laughter] just kidding. just kidding. >> reporter: electioneering, oh, boy. mitt romney obviously joking about the date there, suggesting vote somebody else go somewhere else on the wrong day. it's on, martha. last night with the debate over, now comes really nasty attacks from third party outside anonymous groups. when we got out of the debate facility last night there were flyers on the windshields bashing candidates with language and issues questionable in terms their facts as wel

he is a small business owner from lansing, mich.. he comes from a family-owned chain of music stores. he has seven stores located throughout michigan. i should visit u.s. often as i can when we have the time in busy congress. his parents founded the store in in 1948. it has grown and is doing well. he now has 300 full-time and part-time employees. music instruments and offers performance spaces. i'm doing quite a bit of advertising for you today. i am glad that you are here to tell your story on behalf of many of the small business owners in country. thank you. >> thank you. >> our next witness is dr. patrick byrne. he is a ut internet based retailer who has been trading since 2002. he takes orders over the internet and relies on this. they reported $1.2 billion in revenue. he received a bachelor's degree in philosophy. he has a doctorate in philosophy from stanford. he has frequently guest lecturer on businesses. >> the net when this is my state representative from texas. -- my next witness is my state representative from texas. the

. >> next to lansing, michigan, and you found a beautiful modern home designed by william kessler. >>e and gives you a sense that you're living outside. when you see a shot from the inside you'd swear you're just outside. beautiful wood ceilings throughout the dining areas and the ceilings are that way throughout the entire house. it grounds the house, looks pretty. >> bringing nature in. >> lovely and i luke the modern kitchen and skylights and swing out kitchen cabinets. the living room is spacious and cool with flat wood ceilings and looks out on a small courtyard that gives you privacy, considering the glass and the light filled quilt room makes a great office or artist studio and the master bedroom is tucked behind a private wall backyard. weird quilt for a modern house, i don't get it, what the heck. >> interior decorating could make that easy. >> someone gave them that quilt. >> next a great family community, not so far away from little rock, arkansas, cabot, arkansas, a great home with four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a deck. >> this is a neat almost lego-looking house. it's b

next to lansing, michigan, you found a beautiful modern home designed by william kessler. >> this isiving outside. i love that effect. there are beautiful wood ceilings throughout the dining area. the ceilings are that way throughout the entire house and grandstand the house and looks very pretty. >> brings nature in. >> lovely. i like the modern kitchen and skylights and swing out kitchen cabinets and the ceiling gives you privacy and this would make a great office or artist studio and the master bedroom is tucked behind in the backyard. weird quilt, but i don't get it. someone gave them that quilt. >> probably. next, in crab bo-- cabot, arkansas, it has a deck, i understa understand. >> this is big enough with four big bedrooms for a large family. the open kitchen and breakfast area have barrelled ceilings and flooded with light from the afternoon windows. the large living area has great floors. a great shot of the kitchen, see how nice and modern it is. the large living area has wood floors and oddball column, i don't know what that's doing there. a nice marble bath with jetted tu

lansing, mich., europe first on the independent -- you are up first. caller: i listen to this show all the time and i appreciate it a lot. we keep letting people from other countries over here. there are no jobs. why do we keep letting people over here if there are no jobs? we are defeating the purpose here, correct? thank you. host: maybe we can turn that into a discussion about immigration into the state of iowa. remind us of what has been happening there. guest: as we said at the outset, i what is not as diverse as many other states. the largest minority group are hispanics, about 5%. the hispanic population has grown in recent years, but the hispanic population has had two tracks. the first track is that it has been attracted to and hired by, and preferred, as the employee by the states of very diverse and very well-established food- processing industry. most importantly is the meatpacking industry. we have meat and poultry processing. along with the animal feed operations in the state of iowa. what we had is a migration of primarily hispanic worke

happy to introduce our first witness of this hearing because he is a small business owner from of lansing, michigan. dan marshall. a second-generation operator of a family chain of music stores called martial music. -- marshall music. as a failed musician, i should visit you as often i can when we have the time in this busy, chris. -- busy congress. his parents from the store in 1948. it has grown and is doing well. he now has 300 full-time and part-time employees. music instruments and performance space and listens to musicians -- i am doing quite a bit of advertising for you today. i am glad that you are here to tell your story on behalf of many of the small business owners in the country. thank you, mr. chairman. >> our next witness is dr. patrick burns. he is the chairman of overstock.com that has been publically traded since 2002. overstock takes orders over th ninternet and relies on common carriers to deliver merchandise. in 2010 they reported 1.2 billion dollars in revenue. he received a doctorate from stanford university. our next witness will be introduced by the gentleman from

but first, on the line from lansing, michigan, bruce? caller: thank you so much.the show off and on and i really do appreciate this show a lot. my comment is we keep letting people from other countries over here and there's no jobs, and why do we keep letting people over here and there's no jobs? we're defeating the purpose here, correct? thank you. >> maybe we can turn that ask -- into a discussion of immigration into the state of iowa. remind us of what's been happening there. >> sure. iowa, as we said at the outset, is not was diverse as many other states. the largest group, minority group is hispanic at about 5%. now, that hispanic population has grown in recent years but that hispanic population has had two tracks. the first track is that it has been attracted to and been hired by and preferred as the employee by the states -- state 's very diverse and very well-established food processing industries, most importantly our meat-packing industry, meat and poultry processing industry as well as, along with our animal feeding operations in the state of iowa. so w