and of course, last, but not least, we have former county commissioner for miami-dade county. but today, the all important city manager of the city of miami beach, jimmy morales. immy, great to have you. we have the issue if you agree with somebody it's because of issue of race. if you agree with somebody, it's because of race. it could be gender or ethnicity. on a local level, that also occurs, you see the race card, the ethnic card, but maybe not in a way that is kuwait so obvious. i was talking to jimmy morales about this before we started this panel. one of the things that we look at that's so complex about this is that people are drawn to people who look, think, and speak like them. you are drawn to your racial group because there are certain commonality. what is wrong with that? >> i think there's nothing wrong with that. part of always been our political system. i think that's one of the laws of politics. it's people who they feel an identification with. ow, having said that, and then i'll make reference -- a couple would i saw laws of politics as much as there could be

we have 32 different state and federally mandated exams on a system like miami-dade.addition to the prospect of 1,200 additional end-of-course exams for every course taught in the state of florida i think is going too far. secondly, we all recognize as educators you cannot manage what you can't measure. however, when we use the rules of assessment, for example, in untested ways, venturing into areas that don't necessarily inform what teachers need to know or communities need to know about whether or not children are learning, you're going too far. the true applicability of assessment and accountability is strictly to inform the instructional process. tying it up into unprecedented methodology, the way it is to reward schools with additional funding or teachers' evaluation, using untested methodology like them, is perhaps going too far. >> woodruff: kathleen porter-magee, sounds like he's saying the tests are made to measure something that came out of a think tank rather than applied to what the children need to learn. >> for the most part, i don't think -hat's true. l

and, of course, last but not least, we have a former county commissioner for miami dade county. but today, the all-important city manager of the city of miami beach, jimmy morales. great to have you. we talk about the issue of ethnic and racial innuendos in political campaigns. on a national level, it is really clear and obvious. the issue of race relations is something that we seem to make two steps forward and then one step back. we have the issue if you disagree with somebody it is because of issue of race. if you agree with somebody, it is because of race. it could be gender or ethnicity. on a local level, that also occurs you see the race card, the ethnic card, but maybe not in a way that is quite so obvious. congressman, people and i was talking to jimmy morales about this before we started the panel, one of the things that we look at that is so complex about this is that people are drawn to people who look, think and speak like them. you are drawn to your ethnic group. you are drawn to your racial group because there are certain commonnallities. what is wrong with that? >>

in miami dade county and our supervisor of election that is high pressuring. we have an election -- an election incident after report that was generated that basically anybody interested in, it is interesting and talks about the different reasons why we had the long lines and fixes being put in place both in terms of the state level and things we were doing internally logistically in miami dade county. miami dade county is doing it and i would hope those across the straight follow. there is a provision in the statute that requires all of the counties to do that. going back to when i was saying, that is something that high pressured, the ballot summaries. now we have a 75 word, you know, limit on the ballot summaries. we had, you know, five or six pages of ballots that people were dealing with in 2012 which seriously slowed down the lines. now, you know, any constitutional amendments by the legislature through joint resolution have the same limitation that all other ballot questions have. we now increased -- there was -- we have expanded the definition of place

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. >> reporter: miami-dade is the fourth largest district in the country and it estimates it costs anper year to provide additional help to each foreign-born student. this year the federal government gave miami-dade a $3.4 million grant to address the cost, but the principal says it's not enough to fund special services for the thousands of new arrivals from latin america. >> they're all arriving poor, facing english language limitations that are very serious, and many of them arriving facing social and psychological needs, no doubt because of the conditions left behind in their countries as well as a harrowing and traumatic journey to mexico before crossing the border. >> reporter: scott is one of the children. he was 12 when he journeyed from honduras to the united states with his 17-year-old sister melissa. honduras has the highest murder rate in the world and is among the poorest countries in latin america. criminal gangs had threatened them both. >> he threatened to rape me or hurt us or do other terrible things if we didn't cooperate with them. >> i also came for a reason. the d

thomas university ethics center and miami-dade commission on ethics and public trust hosted this hour-long event. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> we're going to make this as realistic as possible for you. by that i mean we're going to track this from the ballot box through the florida supreme court and all the way up to the united states supreme court. one of the things we have here are persons who actually played in one way or another very pivotal roles in this particular event which, as you all know, hardly ever happens. but in any event let me start of off by telling you what my association with the bush-gore election actually turned out to be. when they discovered that we were going to have a long and drawn-out scenario as to who actually won this election, the news media as they usually do clapped their hands and said, "boy, we've got something going here for a long time." now all we have to do is get somebody on that supreme court who is willing to tell us how the court is going to rule. that's the fl

. >> at the miami-dade county jail, we met a group of friends who couldn't quite agree on the culinaryerits of lunch. >> this is the only meal that's not great. it's the only one that's not great. it's bologna every day. a hot meal in the morning and at night. this one -- >> this is the best part of the day, lunchtime. and this is how we eat. nice cold cuts. they're great. we enjoy it sometimes. >> this is turkey salami with little pieces of peppercorn in there that kind of like get jammed in your teeth and they're terrible. >> this is apple pie, we've got cheese. we've got a pear. it will ripen in a couple days. we have an orange that's ripe now, and we've got a raisin cream pie and chocolate cream pie that people literally fight over. >> this is the best part of the day. >> this is the worst part of the day. this is the worst part of the day. >> best or worst, at most of the prisons we visited, inmates have only about 15 minutes to eat. >> we feed one tier at a time out of each of the buildings, so it takes a good hour and a half at least to get everybody fed. and they get about 15 m

. >>> florida agriculture officials say they've eliminated more than 140,000 giant snails from miami-dade county. they're using every method that's available to them, including dogs, to sniff out these giant african snails plaguing some neighborhoods. now, the snails can grow up to 8 inches long. they feed on 500 different types of plants. and officials say the snails, get this, they even feed on plaster and stucco, so they can literally eat people's homes. >> ooh. >> not good. no one was hurt when a truckload of oranges tipped over near san diego yesterday. thousands of oranges spilled from their bins on to the highway. police shut down the road while crews cleaned up the fruit. the accident is still being investigated. >>> good morning. here's a live look at boathouse row with all the lights. a nice start to your wednesday. as we head into the rest of your afternoon, we are going to see comfortable conditions, staying below average. we are tracking one warm day, and that's tomorrow. temperatures pushing close to 90 degrees. that's going to help fuel some of our storms that we expect to

and i want to say in my hometown of miami-dade county, i founded a program called the 5,000 role models excellence, 22 years ago. realize that everyone doesn't just have a parent. they don't have a responsible parent that can have that conversation with them. so we recruit mentors across this nation to deal with these young men and try to teach them how to deal with some of the issues that impact especially boys of color, but more specifically when it comes to the police, black boys. and the pamphlet starts out by saying that the police stops you, freeze. don't move. unless you're told to do so. never run from the police. always remain calm. think, cooperate, speak clearly , ask questions if you have to it's goes on and on and sad that we have to do this. we're not trying to break the spirits of young black boys, but we're trying to keep them alive. and this is how the pamphlet looks. and it was really orchestrated by our state attorney, our and the chiefs of police association of miami-dade county. and they put it together and put it in all of the schools for all of the children and me

. >> joining me tonight miami-dade county chair. annette, thank you for your time tonight.cribe the campaign in florida for our viewers. i have friends down in boc boca raton. what is happening in florida? >> well, rick scott is so desperate to retain the governor's mansion that he spent $35 million attacking charlie chris. where has that gotten him? nowhere. we're tied or ahead as of the latest poll today, six points ahead. that goes to show you that after four years of the fails policies of rick scott the middle class has felt it and we know we can't live with four more years of rick scott. we have to be scott free. i'm delighted by the fact that so many people are responding to us. we have over 32 officers throughout the state. we're doing a ground game like this state has not seen before. >> a lot of people are predicting a photo finish, will it overcome the negativity and the amount of money that scott and the team are throwing at you? >> we're on television and defending ourselves and we have raised more money than any democratic in the history of florida for governor

and i want to say in my hometown of miami-dade county, i founded a program called the 5,000 role models of excellence, 22 years ago. realize that everyone doesn't just have a parent. they don't have a responsible parent that can have that conversation with them. so we recruit mentors across this nation to deal with these young men and try to teach them how to deal with some of the issues that impact especially boys of color, but more specifically when it comes to the police, black boys. and the pamphlet starts out by saying that the police stops you, freeze. don't move. unless you're told to do so. never run from the police. always remain calm. think, cooperate, speak clearly , ask questions if you have to it's goes on and on and sad that we have to do this. we're not trying to break the spirits of young black boys, but we're trying to keep them alive. and this is how the pamphlet looks. and it was really orchestrated by our state attorney, our and the chiefs of police association of miami-dade county. and they put it together and put it in all of the schools for all of the children and

it wasn't what their boss -- his bosses wanted him to do was david leahy here, the supervisor of miami-dade county. because he was doing what he thought was the right thing, hey fired him. i went through holy hell with my county commissioners, the democratic ones, because i was registered democrat at the time, want med to do what they wanted. the republican ones wanted me to do what they wanted but i didn't do either one. i did what i thought was the right thing to do and it cost me lot of friends and cost my job, 2004, that same congressman, state senator and state representative that walked in that day vowed to take me out and they did. they finally found somebody to run against me in 2004. i was unopposed in 2000. and i was retired. which -- things happen for a reason. i would not go back to doing what i was doing today for all the tea in china. because it has gotten very olitical, it's gotten very adversarial, particularly in florida. every time there's an election everybody is focused on florida. no matter what. i always said, the only perfect election does not involve humans. you will

. >> sergeant tony ojeda of miami's dade county police department, has been following these groups fornterrogated hundreds of members, and he says they have one thing in common: almost all of them started off as pickpockets. >> that is their foundation. it doesn't matter what their specialty is, but that is their foundation. they all learned the art of pickpocketing. >> and how does pickpocketing help them out? >> obviously, number one, they want to get money. but the second thing, more important, is they're looking for travel documents to smuggle more of their criminal element into the united states. [ticking] >> coming up, trailing the boosters. >> sometimes you might not be sure what type of crime they're gonna go out that day to commit. and you'll have to surveil them and actually watch them for a little while. >> you call this fishing? >> yeah, it's sort of like fishing. you don't know what you're gonna catch. we can catch a boosting team, or we can catch a jewelry team. >> that's ahead when 60 minutes on cnbc returns. [ticking] turn the trips you have to take, into one you'll nev

thomas university ethics center and miami-dade commission on ethics and public trust hosted this hour-long event. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> we're going to make this as realistic as possible for you. by that i mean we're going to track this from the ballot box through the florida supreme court and all the way up to the united states supreme court. one of the things we have here are persons who actually played in one way or another very pivotal roles in this particular event which, as you all know, hardly ever happens. but in any event let me start of

upon graduation from homestead high in 2006, he enrolled in miami-dade county's fire rescue akdmy and graduated -- academy and graduated from the firefighter program. christian also became a certified emergency medical technician, an e.m.f. -- an e.m.t. but christian, who was always dedicated to public service, also wanted to serve our country in our armed forces. his peers say that for christian, becoming a marine was not a spur of the moment decision, it was his destiny. he knew it all along. as the proud wife of a vietnam combat veteran who volunteered for service and was severely injured in battle, and as the step-mother of two marine aviators, i'm familiar with this military calling. during a time when the united states was involved in wars in both iraq and in afghanistan, christian volunteered for active duty service. he enlisted in the u.s. marine corps. in may, 2009, christian was deployed to afghanistan as a combat engineer attached to the second battalion, third marine regiment. in afghanistan christian excelled. he understood his cuties and his responsibilities -- deputeys

we're hearing about calls from arizona and miami-dade county and florida for the federal government toay the full costs since it has been so slow to hear the asylum deportation cases. >> unchecked, unregulated immigration is increasing costs and reducing quality in american classrooms. that should be an alarm bell to every mom and dad across the country who has a kid in k-12. >> reporter: studies show it costs twice as much to educate a kid new to the country who speaks no english than the average american student, martha. martha: how are the districts who are cash-strapped, how will they handle it? >> there will be tough there. is shortage of bilingual teachers. that got a lot worse. school you budgets were cut across the country since the recession. 35 states are still spending less per student than 2008. another report says average age of k-12 school bidding in the country are 44 years. half are in need of repairs. immigration rights groups says the country has the obligation to educate these kid and money should not be a problem. >> we're one of the wealthiest countries in the worl

. >> i am from miami and i work at the miami-dade public schools invite with the american federation of teachers. i met a lobbyist once that said don't give me complaints, give me a solution. i wrote it down. when they had people doing research the research and planning how to reach the group during the season of football and soccer how come it is that when it comes to politics we do not have people doing research and how to educate and reach a kennedy and how to best reach those demographic areas. i know it costs money to do all that but they are universities and students looking for a dissertation papers and that will go for free. i love men behind every successful and strong demand there is an even stronger woman. [applause] >> i'm getting married in two months. >> happy wife happy life, let me tell you that. >> i don't sit and education but you approach the universities and find out how you can get some of the funds that they are getting baby from the fed to be able to do dissertation research. that would be something that my colleague that sits in education would be able to answ

you know, some school districts including miami-dade and a couple in texas are asking the federal governmentax county handling this influx of students? >> yes, well, first of all -- i'll come back to the issue of federal money in a second. let me just say this really is not a new issue for us in fairfax county. we educate every child who comes in the door regardless of their status and prepare them for adulthood and the workforce and college and beyond. what we are seeing is the demographic trends as more and more students are coming in that more of them -- greater percentages are speaking english as a second language. and a greater percentage of them are coming in with free and reduced price meals, which is our measure of the level of poverty. what i could point out in fairfax county is the second highest median income in the united states, yet we do have schools for instance out of 196 schools we have 45 schools that are at 50% or more meeting the poverty level. and seven that are above 75%. so we have a variety of services that we target towards children that are in need. and the undocume

part of the story there is that of south florida, the big urban counties of miami-dade, broward countyd at the state-wide averages and held the margins as they were, the democrat versus republicans. scott would have lost by 250,000 votes instead of winning by 61,000 votes. the bottom line is that south florida, this big democratic area has a real problem with turnouts, certainly in midterm election years and that, if charlie crist does not get a decent turnout, not a great turnout, just mediocre, he's going to lose. >> perry, in terms of bill clinton's role in this, it's interesting the watch bill clinton -- a lot of people -- this is not the first example of somebody you could think back to during impeachment who now doesn't mind being associated with him. we know what's in it for charlie crist. what's in it for bill clinton? can you read bill clinton going into a race like this as part of 2016 vat gee, basically contributing chips that his wife can call in? >> i think it is useful. he's campaigned in arkansas, he's campaigning in maine, campaigned in kentucky. i think he definitely w

you mentioned miami dunn dade and florida schools and asking for extra federal funds as well. look at the help in these steps is it enough to help all of these children? >> we know is that the communities where these young people are going to be hitting are disproportionately affected. there are title 3 dollars that schools can use to support young people. but it's often not enough. organizations like communities in schools where the largest provider of student support. we partnered with community resources food banks and shelters and faith-based community to bring the resources into schools so kids have what they need to be available and teachers are freed up to teach. >> teachers looking at the makeup of teachers. the majority are white teachers and majority of these unaccompanied are those who culturally not synced in with the system. how is that going to fare out? >> there is schools that have trained social workers from the community and they are bilingual and form a trusting relationship between the kids and family and schools and become a real resource to teachers so te

dade county florida. this is miami. a big lawsuit against the police.at happened. >> yeah, 2011, 11 police officers shot dead. four armed bank robbers. these bank robbers have done about 100 different home invasions. it was a shootout. they set up a sting operation. but the sting operation went horribly wrong. where was the shootout physically? >> in miami. >> in a warehouse or something like that? >> it was intended to be at a safe house that the county had set up. that went completely awry. >> they instead went to the house of a different cohort to rob that. police had to reassess, pivot. they went there. things went wrong. guys were in ski masks, dark clothing. four get shots. one was an informant for the police. says he had his hands up. >> all four are dead. and now they're suing the cops. they said we're going to give you each $600,000. the city of miami is settling. >> and these guys already have criminal records. >> one of them doesn't have a criminal record. they were all armed. here's the crazy thing about this. they're being paid. the familie