screen, where adjacent section two and section five seals for latinos were already in place. so while advocates here were looking to protect the voting rights of growing latino communities among americans in fresno were looking to maintain the integrity of their community which you see outlined in green there. sorry, rather small. i wanted to make sure you got the big picture here. the community argued it shared much in common with the latino community, similar poverty rates, unemployment, educational attainment, language barriers and the two should be drawn into a majority latino district. ultimately neither latinos got what they wanted demographic changes here in the central valley certainly created the potential for conflict between latinos and asians as something that we were largely able to resolve in our organizations. okay. so those are two examples of how demographic changes shaped dynamics in areas where asian-americans and latinos both live in large numbers. obviously racially polarized voting must also be proven to trigger section two protections. here diversity in

some latino who were concerned about the latino population within their districts. which translates into pressure to change some of their policy positions. if your district is 40% latino or 45% latino or 48% latino, you cannot run around saying deport everybody. that's not going to work. there is a pressure there to change the policy positions to seek out the support of your latino constituents. there is some reaction and you will see it in the texas plan of trying to draw districts that have some latinos in them, but not enough to be able to change the outcome of the election for an incumbent who doesn't want to change policy position in the general election. so you see lots of different kinds of fracturing in the plans to meet those ends. that is why you can see, apox on both houses with respect to democrats and republicans. this is basically what i just told you. and the potential large amounts of flexibility in latinos have in texas with partisanship. we have not had the same experience as california. you know there is a lot of mobility here, but people are not

if you were designing section 5 or trying to design a regime today to protect the interest of latino voters, how would it differ from the regime that we have in place? >> well, you know, i think the problem was that texas took this thing off the rails, because that would have moved much faster. since the doj isn't taking a position, the doj -- i mean, texas probably could have gone to the senate plan precleared right away. i think they would have a much better sense on clarity on what may or may not have been objectionable in the other two plans. they rejected the idea of going ri would have given us a decision that would have avoided this kind of crash and burn that we had in december. but even though the district court in the district of columbia was saying, you know, you could not file the summary motion, the texas said, no, no, we want to find the summary motion. i'm not sure if there's anything wrong with the structure or a series of catastrophic decisions by the legal team representing texas that caused this crisis. some people suggested they wanted to case the crisis so they c

law because the data that the state of texas presented to the department of justice show that latinos were 46% or 120% more likely not to have the kind of i.d. that the state was requiring to vote than non-hispanics so it really represented a new barrier and a new tax for voters. >> 30 states with strict photo i.d. laws seven, states with photo i.d. seven and states with non-photo i.d. 16. >> again, it's a very dangerous development. i mean, voting is the most cherished right in the country. there shouldn't be a requirement. if you are 18 years of age and you're a united states citizen and you're not a felon, you should be able to vote in this count country. >> bolduc, austin, republican line. go ahead. >> caller: i got three points i think would be interesting in regards to the vote. i'm sorry, i'm getting in my car right now. one thing i think that has been overlooked in this upcoming presidency is the possibility of paul getting the nomination because of the delegates that we've been looking at. i'm interested to know how the latino community would be impacted, you know, by austerity me

latino moms were starting businesses, and when they look further, it is none of the american values. i decided i am going to start a movement for latinos. we started a tour, and we are going to go to the country, and all the information, we are going to give it to latinos, and we have to remember something else. if we want to ask something, we have to come through. if we are asking the government now for something, we have to vote. if we are asking a corporation to give us money, we have to buy their products. if we are asking to put more latinos and african-americans on tv, we have to watch their shows. it cannot be 01-way street. it is not about them giving to us. we have the power to make or break their companies. we are main street. [applause] >> that is a nice segue to suze orman. her latest bestseller, "the money class." last time you and i saw each other, you said something to me that arrested me. i have been using this line across the country, as i have not been giving you attribution for this either. >> that there was a highway into poverty and there was not a sidewalk out. >

was adopted by the legislature as a result of a coalition of black legislate source who were in favor of it. latino legislators in favor of it. then you had a white republican legislators who were representing rural districts who realized without the plan, and nobody from their community would get to go to the university of texas, the flagship schools. they joined together to support the plan because it was benefiting their constituents, not just blacks and latinos but low-income whites. tavis: help me understand the merits of the case. what is she claiming? >> she is claiming that, in addition to the rule, the university has a provision that allows university administrators to consider a holistic review of some candidates who did not make it in based on the 10% rule but to have other things to offer to this court. she says she should have been admitted under this holistic review. tavis: the bottom line is she did not make the cut for the top 10%. she did not make the top 10%. when a holistic review of the persons not and automatically it made it, because race is one of those factors, she got left

latino to the ticket. one-third said they would consider voting republican if there were a latino running as vice presidentrepublicans touted as v.p. material. florida senator marco rubio and new mexico governor susanna martinez. one in five latino voters are more willing to vote republican if martinez were on the ticket. even more, one in four say the republican nominee could win their vote by picking rubio as his v.p. for more on the poll, go to foxnewslatino.com. i'm bill hemmer in new york. >> bret: the obama campaign has reportedly told democratic house and senate members they will not be sharing money this election season. politico reports that congressional re-election groups had sought $30 million but they have been told essentially they are on their own this year. the white house has just announced a late switch. moving this may's g-8 summit from chicago to camp david. the meeting was supposed to happen ahead of the nato summit there in chicago a couple of days later. the administration officials are said to be dealing with the lo gistal challenges of accommodating the huge number of people involv

were hazing rodriguez by chanting: where's your green card? the congressman reacted. >> the issue is white people think it's okay to treat latinos as if they wered rate americans, why so many people to think being latino means being a suspect in our own country. why they look at a young man named rodriguez and think he doesn't belong in this country? >> we will get to the mitt romney angle in a moment. mr. gutierrez is not available this evening but is he usually cooperative with the factor we don't think is he running away. joining us from denver, fox news contributor linda chavez and from washington chuck, an executive board member of the congressional hispanic caucus institute. now, some say congressman gutierrez is overreacting, mr. rosa, what say you. >> i say he is not there has been a national dialogue troubling lots of latinos for a long time. if you listen what the presidential candidates are saying on the stump. if you look at the arizona law and within your own fox poll. only 14% of latinos are supporting the republic candidate. it's cause of the things that the citizens who actually are voting that are latino myself are hearing comi

were hazing rodriguez by chanting: where's your green card? the congressman reacted. >> the issue is white people think it's okay to treat latinos as if they werete americans, why so many people to think being latino means being a suspect in our own country. why they look at a young man named rodriguez and think he doesn't belong in this country? >> we will get to the mitt romney angle in a moment. mr. gutierrez is not available this evening but is he usually cooperative with the factor we don't think is he running away. joining us from denver, fox news contributor linda chavez and from washington chuck, an executive board member of the congressional hispanic caucus institute. now, some say congressman gutierrez is overreacting, mr. rosa, what say you. >> i say he is not there has been a national dialogue troubling lots of latinos for a long time. if you listen what the presidential candidates are saying on the stump. if you look at the arizona law and within your own fox poll. only 14% of latinos are supporting the republic candidate. it's cause of the things that the citizens who actually are voting that are latino myself are hearing coming o

were a factor. a fight started between african- american and latino students and seven students were arrested or suspendedr what started all the violence. >>> high school teacher is on paid leave after she appeared on a pornography video. the teacher is not accused of any crimes and there is no more roll terp student clause in her contract. in order to punish her they would have to prove her private life was affecting classroom learning. >>> schools are sending outlay off notices as the deadline gets closer. they are expected to handout several notices trying to beat that deadline. the school district could lose more employees and more jobs could be lost if they failed to do the proposed tax increase. san francisco school district has already issued more than 500 layoff notices. >>> an important public piece of art is becoming the target, it is an incredible piece of art. it was only unveiled in september but it has already been defaced several times. the final piece is not expected to be installed until later this year and it will feature a piece of steel from the world trade center already a remarkable

you look out into the crowd of 30,000 people in a town of 50,000, there were white people, latino peopleeople, black -- there were a lot of black folks. the reality was, it felt like the town was coming close together. you saw again, a tense situation with a white republican mayor standing up and pushing out the chief, casting one of the votes and saying, come in, doj. there's a sense that this town can be stabilized, move closer together. >> i want to get to a couple of other matters here. i want to get to our trend tracker, the hot political stories we're watching. santorum which i talked about earlier, winning louisiana. the president in north korea. and former vice president cheney has had a heart transplant. we have a live picture in the fairfax hospital where he's recovering, still in intensive care. a history of heart trouble, of course, for mr. cheney. we wish him well. let's talk about some of the big issues driving this campaign. you heard me talk about it with david plouffe, the energy crisis in america. this fight over who do you blame for high gas prices? nothing hits a pres

majority is latino, california actually has a much larger percentage of non-latinos that are not documented. íx"r>> i was hoping you weregog to ask that question. i am not going to repeat the and of reach, but are finding your networks to get to those hard to reach communities. in san jose we have a somali community, so you can throw money and ethnic media like crazy, it is not going to reach them. it is important to know where these hard-hit communities are. having these networks in place and refining them so that they can be a service to everyone. i was proud traumatized by the 1996, 1998 changes, but also by 2000. it was amazing how quickly unscrupulous people got the word out that they had the way to take advantage of provisions. for $500, they would sell you the form that had not even been by immigration services. i think we need to prepare the community on how someone will screen new and that support those people giving proper screening advice. providing a safe space like you are doing here for people to tell their stories, being that truck to a source of information, and making sure that we are ready for those pe

latino mccain voters favour obama. >> one thing republican candidates could do is name republican for the ticket, one third would vote republican, if they werea senator marco rubio and new mexico governor. >> one in five latino voters would be more willing to vote republican if martinez were on the ticket, one in four say the republican nominee could win their vote picking rubio as their vp for more on the poll go to fox news latino.com. i am bill hemmer in new york. >>> here at home new this morning fairfax county police are investigating a suspicious package found at a town house a cleaning crew discovered the unusual device at 6551 guilder street fairfax explosive ordinance specialists were called 6:30 p.m. last night didn't wrap up until after 4:00 a.m. this morning the homeowner of the town house is allegedly out of the country, no charges being filed at this time. >> a scare on the campus of george washington university late last night the secret service alerted the school about a possible gunman headed toward campus the suspect was coming from the area of the white house the school issued a campus wide alert police searched the area,

were rehearsing it, with some of the black president. and then into the rehearsal comes the leader of the latino crew and his right hand. these were some tough brothers. they were doing life and killed a couple producers since they had been in jail. and they come and they sit down. we thought what are they here to do? the leader, raffaello, is looking like he's really upset. he is getting madder and madder. and after 10 and he looks and he pointed at me and he's like yo, sa. let me speak to you. and i was like oh, man, here they come. i knew this was a bad idea. he said essay, we heard a rumor about what you're doing and i see it is true. i would say something to listen and good that guy you're working with, he is not feeling his character. [laughter] i said raffaello, why don't you come in? he came in and he was very. he made his friend get in. so now the black month history play became a black and latino history month play. a white guy comes in. all his guys surrounding. white supremacist, bikers, bank robbers but he said he went up there with the black and latino guys? and he said yes. they said what were they doing?

i didn't know what the e.o.c. was so that's when i knew we were on our own and since then watsonville has elected over five latino mayors and council members. the response recovery and recovery relationship needs start now not after disasters as i learned when i tried get re'em bursement. i was denied three times. paul worked on that until the state did. because i did not have a -- with the city to provide those services. so i made it a point that all of our community-based organizations have contracts with us vand m.o.u.'s with us to provide. and they are all disaster workers. managing disaster response donations and items and goods should be planned before to take advantage of the goodwill of individuals and communities and businesses to help with the response and recovery process, our company learned well that we were going to do dwop our own program. we were able to use this for grants for home repairs. if any of you have seen the pictures, all the houses looked like they leaned in to each other. we lost thousands of foundations. we repaired 1,000 water heerts and -- heaters and other home repairs. we had don

i have a question for lease sachlt you mentioned there were a million and a half latinos in california that qualify for citizenship. one of the barriers is the $675 fee which to me, defacto sounds like a poll tax. i wonder if that had ever been changed? >> to my knowledge -- and -- sh. to my knowledge it hasn't been. this fee increase is relatively recent. it's basically, my quick math quadruples. the 1.4 mill one is just the folks of mexican origin in the state of california. if you think about it, it's not just the $675, but often you need medical exam or pictures. there are other costs involved. >> [ inaudible ]. >> many advocates have been saying if we want to have a true integration program for immigrants, if we understand their part of american society and should be brought in, you should provide that service for free. with the disconnection of i.c.e., the separation of the en ment and the service with the reorganization under homeland security, usdis is expected to basically pay for itself through fees. that's the current model. if you're a family, how do you decide who is the o

that's what you did for the israel question and latino question and other questions you were asked.a shot at ed henry, because he was the first fox guy to ask a question. get someone nellis the room. then he goes into what he will do, which frankly all of the above sounds like john mccain's slogan in 2008. no silver bullet. yes, there is a silver bullet. you know what it is. >> kimberly: drill. >> eric: it was all political. that was a presser. on a super tuesday for politics, the obama re-election campaign. >> dana: it backfireed. >> eric: it did. >> andrea: snarky. he doesn't want the price of gas to go up and look at everything else he is pushing. he wants your car cost to go up and home heating bill to go up. cost of everything to go up except for gas. >> kimberly: subsidize the volt with your spare change after you pay for everyone's entitlement. i don't think it's senator i sn. >> juan: most of the time i watch and i think what are they talking about. today i'm really thinking what are they talking about? the president wants the cost of the house to go up? heating oil to go up

they found that one in four latino and black students who graduate were eligible to enter the university of california or a california state university. >> you may get a bite of larkspur ferry. gold bridge district that would bring back food trucks to the terminal for one year for five days a week. food trucks would pay up to $35,000 a year to the district. a limited food truck program started at larkspur terminal and proved to be successful. it would expand the program and take effect on may 1st. >> kristen: we're feeling mike nicco is feeling better this morning. we are relying on him getting the storm through this weekend. >> as far as rain moving in our neighborhoods. good morning. good to see you. live doppler 7 hd, quiet for the morning commute. quiet for the evening commute, this time tomorrow, water everywhere. us a are stepping out, look how much cooler the 6 in san francisco to 18 in napa. double-digits in santa rosa, redwood city. half moon bay, san jose, los gatos, so it is definitely cooler this morning. temperatures running in the mid to upper 30s in santa rosa, napa fairfi