in macon county and other parts of the state you can see the macon county ballot. three alternates for mitt romney. and three alternates. three for ron paul, three alternates. three guys for gingrich and three alternates. there's no way that your vote mattered if you're santorum supporter. even in some counties where rick santorum did get some delegates on the ballot he didn't get enough of them. clark county from the indiana border. everyone has a first slate of full-term candidates. each candidate is supposed to have four. ron paul only has two. rick santorum only has one. what are you going to do if those are your candidates? you're going to split your delegates around. how should the rest of us interpret the importance of what you do? if you're a republican voting in illinois today, you were quite within your rights to vote for say, buddy roemer for president and then to vote for one delegate from each of the four campaigns for delegates. a gingrich delegate. alternate delegate. you could have vote tad way. but what weather we figured out illinois, what illinoi

let's put up the macon county ballot. if you're going vote in illinois, if you want mitt romney to be president, you can i understand indicate that mitt romney is your preference for president of the united states right here on this part of the ballot. whether or not you do that, doesn't really mean anything. it doesn't get totalled for any official purpose. we will tell you tonight what the final results are. that's essentially as important as it is, that's the end of it. those results don't go toward any other purpose. if you want to commit an act of furtherance toward mitt romney getting the nomination, it does not matter whether or not you vote for mitt romney today in illinois. it's true. what you have to do, if you want to help mitt romney become the republican party's nominee for president is today in illinois, you would have had to vote for habib habib and january miller and david newberg. it does not matter who you vote for for president. it matters which individual delegate you vote for. let's say you hate this

, a little chunk goes back in the heart. >> reporter: last month, jeanne and andy visited randolph macon college where taylor studied japanese and graduated in 2008 before she went to japan. recently, the college received a grant from the japan foundation in honor of taylor. it has enabled the college to expand japan-related programs, such as japanese culture courses. with the grant, it now plans to double the number of students studying the japanese language and to send a group of professors to japan in order to strengthen understandings of japan. some of the students expressed hope of one day going to japan. >> i really like tokyo. i really want to go there because everything i've seen of it, it looks like a great place to go. >> it would be nice to be able to go over and make as much of a difference as she seemed to. >> reporter: jeanne and andy hope that what taylor wanted to do in japan will be passed on to many students, both in japan and america. so that the friendship between the two countries continues to be strong. >> we're trying to promote that bridge between our countries an

china's manufacturing macon tract for a fifth straight month in march. yesterday, investors got mixed reports on the housing markets, sales of existing homes dipped. overall, winter sales were the best in five years. hp was the biggest drag on the dow. meanwhile, baker hughes weighed down the s&p with a profit warning. >>> green mountain perked up. they will make coffee packs for starbucks brewing system. hunger games will be a big box office hit. >>> safeway and super value agreed to stop selling ground beef made with pink slime due to complaints of the controversial filler. >>> gm will continue making cars for another decade. kraft's new name for snack brands is getting mixed reviews. two employees meeting delicious world. >>> finally, time is running out. if you want to get your hands on a few pieces of history. a white chiffon gown worn by princess di and elvis' blue suede shoes are for sale online. >>> gas prices keep rising as the cost of oil goes up. last night on ""the ed show"" the cause is not supply and demand. if speculation were prohibited t

beverly has strong macon connections. think a lot of the groundwork for these shacks came to her while she was living in our community. and she's just added a figure, a large-scale, monumental figure, to one of the pieces. and i think that's an exciting and significant change. the name of the piece is called "harriet's shack," and it's harriet tubman, who the museum is named for. we honor her as a woman of strength and courage, and i think beverly does too by making her two stories tall and this giant woman that is conveying power and courage. but also there are flowers all over her dress, and she looks like she's someone you'd want to get to know. these are places that black and white, rich and poor, we all see and understand. these pieces just, i mean, they seem to dance. the colors, the wild lines, the movement. when we were hanging them, we kept putting the level on them, trying to see did we really have them level, because they seem to move and generate an energy of their own. and that comes from the bright colors an

and even around atlanta and down through macon, georgia. see how it will effect our weekend coming up. >>> the news edge on maryland. a disturbing crime in calvert county. vandals spray painted racial slurs on guardrails. a well traveled street. prosecutors believe the incident happened two nights ago. residents are appalled. >> it's hurtful to see somebody would write something like that. this is my first time seeing something like that, but it's hurtful. i wouldn't dare say anything about anybody, because that's just mean. >> workers cleaned up the damage. sheriffs say they are actively looking for the vandals. if you have any information, you are urged to contact the calvert county sheriff's office. >> still ahead, more capital bike share stations are coming to d.c. and the numbers are in for the first month of montgomery county's bag tax. find out how much money the county made. >> coming up, andre, is he healthy and ready to go? plus, fred davis will be a redskin for one more year. the news edge at 6:00 will be right back. 

the first call up for her is garry in macon, missouri. >> i would like to ask this lady if, i'm sure she knows about an article i see on abc about -- it's been a few months ago and it was the only report that i saw about this, i thought it was a really big story. about a bridge they're building from san francisco to oakland, across the bay and, you know, nobody has reported this, but the chinese are building this bridge. a chinese company is building this bridge with chinese steel and chinese labor and nobody's talking about this bridge, where the money come from, it's said to be the biggest -- the largest self suspension bridge in the world. >> the oakland bay bridge as a result of the 1989 loma

the financial advisory committee kathy only old ones that there are people like eve he moves from macon capitalism is there i'm usually there dave kelly who's dennis kucinich is economic advisors there are a lot of wall street insiders are there is a look at where money managers were as fund managers but this is that hell of a way to make money but look rather make money in a way that helps the economy be productive not in a predatory way so you can be sure that there are some pretty smart people advising the occupy wall street movement for what could happen this summer when the phillips ups that's asacol right well right of time but thanks so much for being on the cause report dr michael hudson thank you very much nic and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me maximizer as the three hundred dollars i guess dr michael hudson really just i mean he now plays is now a kaiser reported are p.t.v. are you next time next time you're saying. limitation and free liquid intake should free liquor store charges prelims free live free live studio time free live free bloo

the general -- the commander of robbins air force base to merge the va clinics in perry, georgia and macon, georgia with the base d.o.d. health care on the base to utilize the facility's advantage of having all the imaging equipment and everything on the active duty base and not have to have redundant cost and staff at two other clinics, which i think is a great idea to make better health care available but also at a lower cost to the veterans administration and the taxpayers. i wanted to bring those two pieces of good news to your attention. thank you for what you do, and thank you for being here. >> thank you. and senator boozman. >> thank you, madam chair. and again, very quickly, i just want to thank the secretary for being here. and the team that he's assembled for your hard work. senator brown mentioned that there's a lot of individuals in the va that are there because they want to be and could have other opportunities. and certainly you're in that category. and you know, you've led soldiers and now you're serving veterans. so we really do appreciate it very, very much. the other thi

the financial advisory committee kathy only all runs it and there are people like eve summit from macon capitalism is there i mean usually there kelly senators economic advisors there are a lot of well street insiders are there was a look at where money managers were as fund managers but this is a hell of a way to make money look rather make money in a way that helps the economy productive not in a predatory way so you can be sure that there are some pretty smart people by saying the occupy wall street movement for what's going to happen this summer when school ups ups antacid garrett well are out of time but thanks so much for being on the cause report dr michael hudson thank you very much mick and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacey herbert i was like my guest dr michael eisen we like to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser reported r t t v are you until next time exercise or saying.

>> in macon, georgia. >> what's your dream as a little boy? to be a baseball player. grew up playing baseball and had a chance to go to college and kind of pursue baseball a little further. and the thought of going to school four more years was not very appealing to me at the time, so i decided to kind of throw everything i had into music at that point, went out, started playing some clubs and things like that, and kind of going down the music path at that point. >> voilÀ. now here you are. one of the things that stood out since i first got to know your music, which we all really like, i remember we did this piece in january, i was talking to one of the producers, she said it is great, any time i work with a country music star, everybody is so nice. jason aldean is a great guy and he is so normal and it is a pleasure. it is great you hear that consistently about the country music world. why do you think that is? i love it. >> i don't know. i think for the most part, most of us really kind of came up in the business struggling to get to where w

we macon supervise 20% of the world's oil, yes, but our g d p is 25% of the world's g d p. you would expect that much g d p to need that much oil in order to lubricate the economy that is the world's largest economy. >> reporter: he adds that the u.s. has more oil that saudi arabia if one factors in the oil shale and oil sand and new technology for drilling probable resear he was. the new fight is likely to get more heated as the election gets closer n washington, doug mckewway, fox news >>> here, in washington gas prices have really hit people. you know it's not hard to find $4 a gallon of gas. some industry experts say the pain at the pump is only going to get worse. >> reporter: lofts green cash to be seen at this gas station on this st. patrick's day but the luck of the irish not working so well for those pulling up at the pump. >> with the price of the gallon, it's wild and crazy. >> reporter: take a look at the latest numbers from aaa. last year, the national average was at 3.52. now at 3.84. in d.c., 3.54 last year, 4.05 now. in maryland, 3.55 a year ago. 3.86 today.

attorneys for steven mcdaniel are asking a judge in macon, georgia to set bail because a grand jury didndict him within 90 days of his arrest. 27-year-old loren beginnings -- lauren beginnings was a law student when -- gibbings was a law student when she was killed and left in a dumpster. >>> last month a federal judge overturned michael hash's capital murder conviction from 2001 citing police and prosecutorial misconduct. hash was convicted of murdering a 74-year-old woman and was released from prison on wednesday. jenkins was the lead investigator in the case and is holding a community meeting sunday at 3 p.m. in the courtyard next to the courthouse. >>> coming up president obama hits the road in full campaign mode as the republican candidates looking to replace him stump in his home turf. we'll have the latest from the campaign trail coming up. >> the gas price surge shows no signs of stopping, fox business network liz macdonald with the business report. t. >> get ready to spend this st. patty's day weekend, price jumping by the biggest amount in 10 months for consumers, gas prices a

macon county. those counties are key for rick santorum tonight. already has an uphill battle.map regret one. 13th district. one he could carry but have no delegates there. cut through the middle of the state stretching from the st. louis suburbs northeast to decatur and champaign, nirvana. asked santorum monday whether his lack of organization in illinois speaks to a larger problem four his campaign. >> for an organization that was purely volunteers we were in illinois, ohio and virginia, i mean, harder for us. but the idea that that's reflective of -- it's amazing we're on the ballots we are given how difficult these rules are from state to state and how different they are. >> turning back to the 2010 map, the two moderates, again, think of them as the romney-type, split in springfield and chicago. where romney can run up the score. down st. louis. win big, the rest of the state may not matter. here's why. chicago's cook county and five surrounding counties once republican strongholds. become more democratic leaning in recent years. still more than half the republicans that c

john earned his bachelor's degree in macon, georgia. john managed the company's group home for kids and was one of the first in town to identify the growing crisis of child abduction and sexual exploitation. working in those foster homes, john saw the problem firsthand and saw what local police and social services were not seeing. he saw that information between social service workers and law enforcement wasn't being shared as it should have been. he realized a lot more could be done. so john, along with a friend and fellow social worker, keri rice, approached ernie allen, who at the time was the director of the louisville county crime division. ernie is now known as the director and c.e.o. of the national center for missing and exploited children, which he helped build alongside john. but way back then the issue of missing and exploited kids had yet to receive the national focus that it deserved. it was john who proposed to ernie that the county create a special unit bridging the traditional barriers between social services and law enf

>> i grew up in macon, georgia. >> what was your dream as a little kid?id i wanted to be baseball player. i grew up playing baseball and i had a chance to go to college and kind of pursue baseball a little further. and the thought of going to school for four more years was not very appealing to me at the time, so i decided to kind of throw everything i had into music at that point and went out and started playing some clubs and things like that, and kind of went that route and here we are. >> i know we did this piece with you in january. i was talking with one of the producers. she said, you know what's so great? any time i work with a country music star, they're so nice. and she said jason aldean is this great guy and so normal. it's such a pleasure. it's amazing that we hear that consistently about the country music world. i love it. >> i don't know. i think for the most part, i mean most of us really kind of came up in the business struggling to get to where we are, you know. it's like any business like this. it's not easy, and i think for most of us,

we're moving on to larry in macon georgia on the independence line. >> i think it is helping them becauseind out about these gentleman. they would not harm american citizen like the hit on the black guy at the town hall meeting. so you think the primary process is helping? >> they would not sanction a hit on a black man. they need to find out why he was not jumping up and down about it. >> we're looking at pictures here of mitt romney. he held a fairly short rally with supporters in illinois. >> hello. to answer your question, they gop primary is not helping all. i have to be honest and say what i have seen as a democrat is very disheartening, very destructive, i'd do not believe any of the candidates. if i was a republican, i would be fighting for ron paul. but from what i have watched with the talking at each other and the mudslinging, a lot of heat talk against women, against things that have made america strong four decades, the attack on km, the attack on women, i don't know how in the world dividing america that does the gop field is going to help them when people like me who might

you will have strong storms from places like tallahassee, macon, greenville, a slight chance of tornados. that's a look at the national picture. >>> make it a great day wherever you are. j.b., welcome to the team dog-gone it. over to you. >> thanks, lonnie. it's a big step in the life of a british royal, the opportunity to represent the queen herself. now prince harry is getting his chance. >> this is the 60th year of the queen east reign, her diamond jubilee. >> we get more from charlie d'agata in london. how is he doing? >> prince harry long ago shed the reputation as a party prince. he's now a respected army pilot and a representative of the royal family. that doesn't mean he can't have fun, all in the line of duty. belize was the first stop in prince harry's tour on behalf of queen elizabeth. he's visiting her realms in honor of her 60-year reign. >> i bring you the warmest greetings from the queen. i'm sorry you're stuck with me. >> reporter: the prince's private secretary said harry would bring his own brand of enthusiasm to his tour of central america and the caribbean. it's a rol

partner with the commander of robbins air force base to merge the va clinics in perry, georgia, and macon, georgia, with the base dod health care on the base to utilize the facilities' advantage of having all the imaging equipment already on the active duty base, not have to have redundant cost in staffing two other clinics which i think is a great idea and also at a lower cost to the taxpayers. i wanted to wring those two pieces of good news to your attention. thank you for what you do and for being here. >> thank you. senator bozeman. >> thank you, madam chair. again, very quickly, i just want to thank the secretary for being here and the team he's assembled for your hard work. senator brown mentioned that, you know, that there's a lot of individuals in the va that are there because they want to be and could have other opportunities, and certainly you're in that category. and, you know, you've led soldiers, and now you're serving veterans, and so we really do appreciate that very, very much. the other thing i would say as senator isakson mentioned, i do appreciate the fact you're very w

host: would go to larry, an in macon,t scholacaller georgia.ler: [inaudible] ship is going to throw the mother for the democrats to tell them anything. women should think about their vagina -- host: you do not need to go there. ke on twitter.mi "illinois revels in the financial race spot light" from "the financial times." host:. some polling data. 35% support for mitt romney. 31% support rick santorum. more statistics. the unemployment rate in illinois is 9.4%, the eighth highest among u.s. states. here is what rick santorum said. mitt romney says -- let's go to our next call from johnny, a democrat in albany, georgia. it good morning. caller: good morning. i think women are learning the same thing that blacks and hispanics and other minorities learn about the republican party. the republican party wants your boat, but they do not want to give you a voice in the party. secondly, c-span, why are we hearing so much republican shatter on c-span now. it is kind of like fox. we hear the same things on c- span that we used to hear on fox. i used to w

the first call up for her is gary in macon, missouri, on our independent line. go ahead. caller: i'd like to ask this lady if -- i'm sure she knows. about an article i seen on abc about, been a few months ago, and the only report that i saw, about this, i thought it was a really big story, about a bridge they are building across from san francisco to oakland across the bay and nobody has reported this but the chinese are building this bridge. chinese labor. chinese companies building this bridge with chinese steel and chinese labor. and nobody is talking about this bridge. where the money come from. it's said to be the largest self-anchored suspension bridge in the world. host: all right. jackie speier, what is this bridge? guest: the oakland bay bridge as a result of the 1989 earthquake had to be changed. had to be removed. so this is a bridge that's going to replace the bridge that has been there since the 1930's. the bridge being built by u.s. contractors and by u.s. employees, the steel, however, is from china. and when the bid was put for consideration, there was no

host: let's get to the phones and hear from a democrat in macon, georgia. hi. margie.aller: regular american citizens paid for in health care for everyone in the world with the global health initiative and. -- what about the ever cultural bill and the other thing is did the demand -- our agricultural bill and other things they demand that we pay for, like the banks? guest: you make a good point. when the questions many of the conservative judges seemed concerned about yesterday was the notion that somehow what is wrong with the individual mandate is that it requires us as citizens to take affirmative steps. of course, we are often required to take affirmative steps. we have to file taxes. we have to pay taxes for things we do not approve of. i have to pay taxes that support the highways across the country, even if i do not drive. so, really, that question should not be relevant to the commerce clause question that was before the court. the question before the court was can congress as a matter of the power to regulate commerce regulate health-care and health care insur

we're on the macon contract. a bigger than expected addition to the storage levels which, of course, were already oversupplied. >> so, sharon, just a quick question. >> sure. >> seeing that the build was pretty much within the range of what was expected, we didn't see a pull forward of injection seasons. so we enter that season, which is what? april through october or so when the inventories tend to build. what are traders saying as to what we could actually hit in terms of the low price on natgas? >> well, we did start the injection season two weeks early. this is the second week. we are waiting to see some -- some traders thought this would perhaps push out some of the week longs -- week shorts, i should say, and we would actually get to a bottom here, but we are not likely to see that, according to the folks at bentek energy. they say, when we see this injection season at the end of it, we could see a o drop even below the $2 level. they're looking for further out toward the fall months but there are some who

host: macon, georgia, democrats line. since the program does not that -- caller: since the program does not cost that much money, why can the federal government not write a new program just for same-sex marriage. it will come out almost the same as being married, but there should be no discrimination whatsoever. if they go into the military side by side, you should get the same benefits side by side. thank you. guest: i have heard from the pentagon's top lawyer. it is their understanding the current federal laws prohibit them from creating some kind of parallel benefit for same-sex couples. some say they could probably be more creative, but right now, they're trying to do some sort of work around. it is not something that the pentagon says is really doable. host: north dakota, aubrey on our independent line. caller: thank you. i just wanted to say that equal rights for everyone is in our nation. it is time for everyone in our nation to have equal rights. it is progressive and reasonable. have you been covering the reason

has been a starter since 1979 and has kept with it successfully, suggests that the benefit analysis macon was giving his at least -- >> are you suggesting the fed is ignoring the second part of the mandate? >> no, not at all. the fed is trying to minimize the deviations in employment and output from estimates of potential, while keeping inflation close to 2%. i do not think it is ignoring the second part at all, but the two are not in conflict most of the time. >> we will start with the person over here. >> i will make two short observations. one is this notion of evaluating performance based on results. i think that is a dubious approach. monetary policy is made in an uncertain environment. things happen that one could not expect. the logic upon which a decision could be made at the time which seem to be an important consideration in value waiting how central banks are functioning. -- valuatin how central banks are functioning. second, i heard representative brady talked about rules-based policy, and he implied that somehow this system he would legislate would move the fed in that direct

to partner with a commander of roberts air force base to merge the va clinics and terry georgia and macon with dod health care on the base, to utilize the facilities advantage of having all of the imaging equipment already on on the active-duty base and not having to have redundant costa staffing which i think is a great idea to make better health care available but also at a lower cost to the the veterans administration and the taxpayers. i wanted to bring those two pieces of good news to your attention. thank you for what you do and thank you for being here. >> thank you madam chair and again very quickly, just want to thank the secretary for being here and the team you have assembled, for your hard work. senator brown mentioned that you know there is a lot of individuals in the va that are there because they want to be and could have other opportunities and certainly you are in that category. you have led soldiers and now you are serving veterans so we really do appreciate that very, very much. the other thing is, senator isaacson mentioned, i do appreciate the fact that you are very w