coreett in just a moment j >>> we are continuing our conversation with leeann core rhett. vice president of boeing's vertical lift division. >> everybody has seen domestic orders drop off. the focus is on international markets. what are the markets that are going to be most important to you going forward? and if you could give us an estimate on how many machines you are talking about selling over the next decade? >> reporter: international is of critical importance to the vertical lift division. 30% of our business today is international. we have estimates going greater than 40%. areas we are focused on continue to be the middle east and asia. where we see a bit of a decline is in europe and they are facing some of the same fiscal crises we are here in the u.s. but the biggest key to us for winning international is price. the competition is fierce and we go head to head time and time again. our career win on apache is a great example of how we brought the best of industry together and leveraged one of our chairman's biggest initiatives with partnering for success with our

education reporter leeann melendez tells us more. >> i hope that people with mental health issues wille given professional help instead of guns. >> i hope they will do background checks for new gun owners. >> their thoughts are words and words turn into action. these eighth graders at the middle school created hand cut-outs and wrote messages starting with "i hope." when done they uploaded the picture of their message on to a website called uclass.org. one of the featured online lessons is called hands of hope. >> they really wanted to figure out a way to help teachers teach about sandy hook. events like this are very difficult to teach about. that when tragedies happen, when are things you have done in response to this. >> jessica, a teacher, cowrote the lesson with a former u.s. congresswoman gaby giffords, herself a victim of gun violence. and with the parent of a child who was killed at sandy hook. other teachers around the nation who log on to the website follow her lead. hannah phelps, a student, says it's raising awareness. >> people are aware of what's happening and people can

education reporter leeann melendez tells us more. >> i hope that people with mental health issues willven professional help instead of guns. >> i hope they will do better background checks for new gun owners. >> their thoughts are words and words turn into action. these eighth graders at the middle school created hand cut-outs and wrote messages starting with "i hope." when done they uploaded the picture of their message on to a website called uclass.org. that's where teachers can access any kind of less son. one of the featured online lessons is called hands of hope. >> they really wanted to figure out a way to help teachers teach about sandy hook. events like this are very difficult to teach about. that when tragedies happen, when -- what are things you have done in response to that. >> jessica, a teacher, co-wrote the lesson with a former u.s. congresswoman gabby giffords, herself a victim of gun violence. and nicole, a parent whose son dillon was killed at sandy hook. laura opens up the topic of gun violence for discussion with her students. other teachers around the nation who log

education reporter leeann melendez tells us more. >> i hope that people with mental health issues willonal help instead of guns. >> i hope they will do better background checks for new gun owners. >> reporter: their thoughts are words and words turn into action. these eighth graders at the middle school created hand cut-outs and wrote messages starting with "i hope." when done they uploaded the picture of their message on to a website called uclass.org. that's where teachers can access any kind of less son. one of the featured online lessons is called hands of hope. >> they really wanted to figure out a way to help teachers teach about sandy hook. events like this are very difficult to teach about. that when tragedies happen, when -- burglar things that you have done in response to that? >> jessica, a teacher, co-wrote the lesson with a former u.s. congresswoman gabby giffords, herself a victim of gun violence. and with the parent of a child who was killed at sandy hook. other teachers around the nation who log on to the website follow her lead. hannah phelps, a student, says it's rais

looks like leeanne's parents will have to keep working for awhile. christian from flagstaff, a young husband and father who has a young boy, says he might see his premiums actually decrease marginally. however, thanks to obamacare and thanks to changes his employer is making in response to obamacare, he's looking at higher co-pays, higher deductible and a decrease in the level of coverage. he's looking at -- quote -- "a large increase in my responsible portion of my medical bills." obamacare is far from ideal for those in the workplace, those looking to retire, and for new families. with story after story after story like these, we clearly see that the affordable care act is a misnomer. i yield back. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from nebraska. mrs. fischer: thank you, mr. president. i rise today to speak on behalf of nearly 7,000 nebraskans who have contacted my office with concerns about obamacare. the sticker shock has hit nebraskans hard. a woman from my state writes, "this is the first time i have ever written my s

leeann grant, consummate leaders both do this in each man move to stake out a position. for the come of surrender was the negotiation of which he secured honorable terms for his blameless man in the peace is contingent on the north's good behavior. the union victory in the sizes one overrated. entrance fee the surrender was sent negotiation. he could be immersed while precisely because he went badly utterly powerless and discredit to his cause. grants terms were designed to affect confederates submission and atonement. for a grant from the union victory was spread over rob and peace is contingent on the south's good behavior. competing granted they did not crack the surrender terms in isolation it for the appomattox drama unfolded, countrymen and women would crowd the scene and invest with aspirations and dreams and the students included the dream of freedom itself. in the eyes of african-american soldiers and former slaves, more than the union had been vindicated that april day. the surrender was for them. a freedom day, the moment the promise of emancipation was finall

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leeann has had phenomenal time in the military. it really helped her transition into the civilian world. it is of her success, she wants to share that with all the veterans, female veterans so they would come out and learn about these amazing services. my question for the panel is, all of you have had different experiences, and we can see that -- it is not that different from your male peers, right? if you listen to a lot of folks, i'm sure there are tons of guys who talk about heads and picking up body parts and digging trenches. for me, i want to understand a little more, how would you go about reaching out to those female veterans who don't want to talk about their experience? you have done a fantastic job of being here and opening up and sharing your stories with everybody. >> actually, i can talk a little bit -- i am pretty reticent when talking about my experience. it took me a few years to open up to people who were even my friends, let alone other veterans, and one of the scariest experiences i had was less than a year ago

this is the new it audio from the and rhymes -- hit video from leeann rimes. guess what?y on an iphone, she joins us from los angeles. been a fan of you for a long time. how did you do this thing? >> thanks, the creator of the video, we discovered his work on vine. he is amazing, what he does with his imagination and an iphone is absolutely insane. i was kind of shocked that no one had done a video like this yet. i jumped at the chance to do something with him and it was really fun. it only took 20 minutes or 30 minutes of my time, where usually a video would take days. >> in the era of reality everything, to do something that looks like this, where obviously we are looking at it right now, how do you decide to take that step? >> you look at his work. really, we just wanted to let him run with his imagination and really play off of his work. it was not about us, but at the same time it is. it was just a different way to have fun and create something new and not do what everyone else is doing these days. i loved it. >> is this the future? we have seen a lot of change in th

leeann has had phenomenal time in the military. it really helped her transition into the civilian world. it is of her success, she wants to share that with all the veterans, female veterans so they would come out and learn about these amazing services. my question for the panel is, all of you have had different experiences, and we can see that -- it is not that different from your male peers, right? if you listen to a lot of folks, i'm sure there are tons of guys who talk about heads and picking up body parts and digging trenches. for me, i want to understand a little more, how would you go about reaching out to those female veterans who don't want to talk about their experience? you have done a fantastic job of being here and opening up and sharing your stories with everybody. >> actually, i can talk a little bit -- i am pretty reticent when talking about my experience. it took me a few years to open up to people who were even my friends, let alone other veterans, and one of the scariest experiences i had was less than a year ago

leeann banbrex joins us now. jan, nice to see you. we have a dichotomy in europe particularly between the german and the french economy. euro/dollar doesn't seem to care an awful lot. >> at the moment, not. they're waiting for that big truck, the big elephant in the room, really. if you look at the german ifo index coming out. the uaw index is better. but this is really what the real economy is doing and the back stop that the german economy is in reasonably good back step. bear in mind retail pmi in germany has been good for half a year now. if you look at capacity utilization in the construction sector, that's looking pretty good. now it looks like the export story could come together again, as well. it could mean germany moves into a bit of a higher year even as germany holds it down a bit. >> there are some signs that the new coalition government might hurt the economy. they're going to reverse some of the harsh concerns. >> i think short-term there could be a positive in terms of more spending power at the bottom of the rung here