when we see the middle class portion of american families. what are the sequences unmiddling america"inside de where are the even inside those broad categories, the rich, the middle and the poor? >> i think that -- >> absolutely. >> they feel they have it and it may be they are the teap party, you might see a group of people that exhibit to be doing better but they want to change the way it happens so they maybe hit the high numbers at one time and then they are not able to sustain that. i think alternatively, people are vulnerable at different times of their life. they may feel that they want to come up and they are not able to do so because something is happening over the fact that their factory is shut down, there has been some event in their life that has changed, their community changed. i think we see. i think people are -- i think are anxious about their children's futures because they see something coming at them. and it feels next page changes coming towards them in the economy and they are not quite sure how -- what their future will look like. >> robbie hilton smith, same

he says middle america bailed them out during the recession and now it's time that they help out middle america. my full interview on our website. announcer: that message sure thank you. troubles overnight for a jet when it skidded off the taxiway as it was headed to the runway. icy conditions and a wind gust sent the plane off the taxiway in wichita, kansas. the right wing and landing gear slid into the grass. 160 passengers and crew all ok. however, they were stuck on that plane for several hours while the airport tried to bring advance out to the jet to take the passengers inside. many of the passengers were on a flight that is scheduled to land here. it was slightly delayed. but we do have a crew on the ground ready to greet them and hear more about their ordeal. we'll be bringing that to you tonight at 11:00. announcer: back here in las vegas now, maybe the wind s really the issue last night. but we were dealing with some very cold temperatures out there. announcer: news -- we're going to call it new year's week weather authority. favorite weather games called it could be worse. th

and creating more jobs for middle-america. he spoke wit gerard remalho before his rig 9:31:53, "how do you reach nevada? i think by talking about the issues that are really impactng ordinae conservative or progressive... and this look a minimum wage of 7.25 an hour, frankly that's a starvation wage, it has to conservative or progressive. i think that 15-bucks an hour over the next couple year. we need to create millions of decent paying jobs in this country by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. we need pay equity for women workers. we need a trade policy that works for workers in this country, and not allowing corporations to go to china or vietnam other low-wage countries." :27 he also has an interesting idea that is resonating with college students... free tuition at public colleges and universities. he plans to pay for it by taxing wall street. check out gerard's full interview with sanders... on news- 3-l-v-dot-com. a woman accused of killing her husband in a plaza hotel room is due in court today. 34-year old maria

kind of look like what the coastal elite people like say andy levy would imagine these rural middle america families looking like. everybody is in their matching red shirts and it scares us a little bit. it is very exotic though. in that kind of way like going and seeing and exploring what the natives do. >> that's it. you know why comedians are so open minded is we get out there and play the funny bones and the punch lines. >> we can see the -- we're with the people. we are in the trenches. >> if you are not funny they will pull a piece on you. >> laugh it up, comedy boy. >> isn't it true though you go out to dinner at a road house after the show in middle america and there the guys are with the guns on their hip and it is not so bad. >> they tell you a racist joke and you have to laugh at it. that's very true by the way. >> it is not true. >> it is pretty true. >> i'll laugh. >> when you have a gun you have to laugh. >> that's funny, right? >> yeah. they went to a park. can't believe that happened. can we get the check? >> that would never happen to you. that has never happened. i have to

and there are a lot of things going on right now within middle america. so when you talk about this workers can be part of this. and native americans. we may have said it as well. so you are exactly right. so you have to remember who is here. and i want to thank you so much for coming. please give them a big round of applause. and things can make a difference in the short term. so things like then he able to make a difference. to be able to respond to this, the state used military gear from the pentagon, that program has been changed in part because the president obama. and so these are some of the problems. so the ferguson police arrested a guy named michael forgiving false information because he told them that his name was mike. good when he we got there the boyfriend was gone and then she said yes, and they said you're under arrest because he is not listed on the occupancy permit. they used the average american citizen as a slush fund atm. the problem is that there's nothing on constitutional or legal about that. so the question is, if it is true as a

. >> in my mind, i was thinking well, it must just be middle america has a lower cost of living that they can sell their cars for cheaper. vanessa: chris says the man on the other line called himself mike wade. there's even a picture of mike wade on the website. covered, bottom line. he didn't give me any signals. vanessa: moments before chris wired $72,000, he checked in with ames police, and found out benson motor is a defunct company. >> if it's too good to be true it's probably a scam. vanessa: fenders honda, a powersports dealership, has set up shop in the old benson building. they've had some interesting phone calls lately. >> they asked if it was benson motors and i told them that benson motors has been gone for several years now and that we didn't have any cars for sale here. vanessa: chris says he won't fall for a well put together website again. >> it just showed me that you got to be so careful if you're not able to vet it with your own eyes. vanessa: ames police tell me they got a call from an agency in minnesota working on a similar case. live in ames, vanessa peng, kcci

for middle america and less wealthy people the keurig coffee machine was an upgrade off the kind of coffee they were drinking at home. >> reporter: the deal is good for coca-cola. coke invested nearly $2.5 billion on 17% stake in the company only to watch the stock sink. the deal values coke's stake at roughly the same price allowing that company to break even. for "nightly business report" i'm morgan brennan. >>> outer wall slashes its forecast. that's where we begin tonight's focus. the company has the owns red box kiosks says profitability would be hurt. shares plunged in initial after hours trading. during regular session the stock fell about 2%. >>> a boston chipotle restaurant has been shut down because of what could be another ecoli outbreak. shares were volatile after the close. >>> vale resorts saw revenue rise for strong season pass sales for the coming season. >>> rubber made and jordan are in talks to combine. r jarden was nearly 4% higher to 50.09. >>> nike signed lebron james to a lifetime deal in the largest single athlete deal. terms of the deal not disclosed just yet. shar

representative for middle america on this program. i'm the kind of everyman. >> reporter: an everyman who could stop an inaugural parade. he could even stop a jogging president. >> could you believe this? >> reporter: and in the next breath wish happy birthday or happy anniversary to folks who had earned it. at "the today show," he was a friend to all and more than a mentor to al roker. >> if i had not had the blessing of meeting willard scott, then i wouldn't be doing this today. he's been like a father to me. >> reporter: this morning the "today" crew wished happy trails to their retiring friend. >> i'm going over yonder. >> where is yonder? >> over here. >> reporter: a weatherman, but a man for all seasons. harry smith, nbc, new york. >> wishing willard all the very best. that will do it for us on this tuesday night. i'm kate snow. for all of us at nbc have a great night. and >> caught in the act. despicable reports a surface in a classroom. >> the playable spotlight is back on las vegas tonight as the republican presidential candi

. >> it must just be because middle america has a lower cost of living that they can sell cars cheaper. vanessa: chris says the man on the other line called himself mcquaide and there's a picture on the website. >> the guy had all of his bases covered. they didn't give me any signals. vanessa: moments before he wired and $72,000, he checked in with ames police and found out benson motor's is a defunct company. a power sports dealership has set up shop in the old building. they've had interesting phone calls. motor's and i told him it was gone for several years and we don't have cars for sale. vanessa: chris said he wants all for a well put together website again. >> it showed me you have to be careful. if you cannot get it with your own eyes. eric: as police tell us, they got a call from an agency in minnesota working on a similar case. elizabeth: officials in webster county have a arrested daniel swick for criminal mischief and burglary. he broke into the webster county courthouse on december 8 and set off fire extinguishers, forcing the courthouse to close for days until the mess cou

a lot of what is being discussed right now as more [inaudible] -- than middle white america. >> when you talk about the country was built on the black of african-americans, they're calling slaves immigrants now and workers. workers, immigrants. and i'm going to say this, and i -- you won't hear my personal opinion on this. you will hear my personal opinion. >> i'm right here. >> i have a problem when i hear every day i'm questioning the presidents and principles in the administration and they say we're a nation of immigrants, i'm like immigrants and slaves. i'm just -- native americans, exactly. you're right. i have said that, too. exactly. but you're exactly right. so we have to remember the whole -- the totality of who is here. the totality. and i'm going to let my elective author on the panel who i think so much for coming. give. the a big round of applause. >> i'm -- i'll peek about the criminal justice system. what should have happened in michael brown's case in ferguson. so, there are encouraging developments with regard to things that can make a difference. so things like the

middle class portion of american families continue to shrink? what are the economic, social and political consequences? unmiddling americaide story." >> you are watching "inside story" i am ray suarez. the recent pew research finding that middle class americans are a shrinking portion of the population. joining me now and for the rest of the program, thomas herschel, a professor of development sociology, also the co-author of "chasing the american dream: understanding what shapes our fortunate." in our new york stud yes, robert smith with dimos. let me start with you, professor. for years, many more americans told opinion researchers they were middle class than really were middle class. but with the number of middle income americans trending downward, is that mismatch going to become unsustain able after awhile? >> well, ray, i think -- i think that, you know, if we look across time, we see there is a lot of mobility and if the elite level, the top 20% of income ea earners, there is a lot of middle income out of those. when we look at our data in chasing the american dream, we looked at the same simple over time and we f

it could be the end of an economic era after more than 4 days of the nation's majority, america's middless is at the tip point. >> it may be that the middle class will go under 50%, less than american adults will be in middle income households. >>> a steady decline in the number of middle income households over the past 45 years. in 19 sent, approximately 61% of americans were considered middle class today, that number has fallen to 50%. an 11-point drop in 45 years. >> there has been sort of a poarization in the labor market, more high-end jobs, more low-end jobs and a hollowing out of the middle. jobs back in the 1970s which actually paid fairly like bookkeepers or payroll accountants, things that we now associate as back office, office functions. those were repetitive tasks. computers can do that now. >> pew researchers say the polarization of the job market led to significant growth in the upper and lower classes though the top tier has grown more. 49%, nearly half of all american income went to upper income households in 2014. that's up from 29% in 1970 while middle income americans

middle class. >> the war was waged in a lot of living rooms in america.nal divide because my father's generation went off and saved europe. i fully expected to have a military experience, but it was the wrong damn war. >> no more war! no more war! >> washington, november 27th, the rally was to be held at the washington monument. the protesters began to arrive about 20,000 strong. ♪ most of the world says that killing's all right, bombers at night ♪ >> the whole world watching right now. >> support the constitution of the united states. i will not fight in vietnam. >> we forget this, but there was always a substantial number of americans who supported the vietnam war. >> you bunch of bums. >> where is your son? my son is a marine! >> it's hard to recapture how intense that period was, how morally conflictual it was and your relationship with your country, which was something we never questioned. >> the pressure on mr. johnson to choose sides has been growing. clinging to a middle line, he tried to give one ear to the war of hawks in america, one ear to the

think about middle america, all of those people getting behind donald trump because they are frustrated might have a chance where they can start a business, get a job. john: the reason this happens is because the fed decides the economy is growing strongly and maybe there is some risk of inflation. stephanie: some inflation is good. john: for most people, the interest rate is a fact of life, but also a psychological thing. people have gotten used to zero. these rates are still going to be super low. if they're not some risk -- is there not some risk at a psychological level? i do not want to buy a house now, i have missed my moment. stephanie: i would say no. the unintended consequences of having rates as low as they have been for so long is the risk. all of the sabres have been punished. been punished. rich people continue to benefit. the fact that we did not get volatility, that is what we need. listen, even if we are the prettiest girl at the ugly dance, it shows another sign the united states is stronger in the world. plane on then a way back from vegas when janet yellen gave this p

it goes away from the middle america that yahoo! usually has.e hate that because it has not delivered a lot of revenue. we are waiting for actual numbers on how it is doing. you have some people saying it is good, others are saying where is the revenue? emily: what about these other companies? brightroll,ry and they seem pretty positive on both that people want to see revenue and interest. it has given yahoo! a stronger voice with some developers and in mobile and video. those have done better. again, yahoo! is in a lot of trouble right now. emily: we know the board has been meeting. what is the latest update? do we know anything about the conversation? what is the likely path forward? brian: we are all waiting. yahoo! is always the center of attention. i think when we do find out, we will know soon enough. it is very clear that yahoo! is under a lot more scrutiny, even since a couple of months ago. people are saying, hey, board, what are we doing about this? what do you think about these activists? let's get some clarity. emily: there were sugg

the good christians and middle america. the coastal people we should stay armed.ere is the thing the politicians don't say. they don't want to be insensitive to people's anxieties. but the chances of anyone watching this in the united states being killed by a terrorist are vanishingly small. kennedy: the sphoint giuliani was making is you can't act as though you are in an imminent terrorist attack. you have to act as though life is pretty good. >> we can laugh about isis being contained or not contained. this is their first serious pulled off attack in the american homeland. if this is a self-radicalization thing -- kennedy: if it is self sh radical scaition. how do you fight that? nut birds go overseas and they are shamed in a different context. >> a lot of people at greatest threat of becoming radicalized are young. you have to go where young people go to fight this which is social media and twitter and facebook. there is a study saying there are 300 americans spreading isis propaganda in the united states that we know of. it's like a game of cat and mouse. you

reporter: donald trump is speaking directly to middle america. it's as if he's at the dinner table and hearing what they are saying. is he hearing something she is not? >> she is taking a lot of money from a lot of those country, too. but mr. trump is definitely on to something. it's common sense to pick your fights wisely. you have those on the republican side and democrat side. >> isn't that funny coming from -- aren't you the spokeperson for a man who who wants to completely keep out all muslims from entering the united states because of a threat of isis. >> that's not the entire world it's a temporary moratorium. as we have seen, tamara, we have 1,000 investigations going on in this country right now. for 15 years there hasn't been a huge muslim coalition fighting terrorism. 10 iraqi refugees were arrested in 2010 for terrorist activity. it makes sense to protect america first. reporter: do you think hillary clinton echoing what the president is saying is accurate? most american people would say no, they disagree with the president's policy.

middle america has paid the bill. and no one on wall street has ever paid.nd you wrote that no one jumped from a building, disappointing many. [laughter] craig: you write to that -- craig: yes. yes. -- 51ow, how many years years since john kennedy was and you still watch press conferences and they are highly informative and entertaining and utterly compelling. he had a gift for television. he was very cool. everyone goes to the famous nixon-kennedy debates, but you see his interview with walter kong kite -- cronkhite, there something compelling about this man that you want to believe him. you feel comfortable with him as being president of the united states. i think reagan had the same effect on people. brian: over wine and cheese, the matrons of georgetown said the anti-drug campaign was really about her public relations. and it was not? she did somek that good work. the lexicon.art of i think there's probably statistics out there that show lessened drug abuse and drug dependency in america. a lot of first ladies have causes. jackie kennedy had the refurbis

. >> daniel: thousands of people across middle america are cleaning up this morning from deadly tornadoes. >> the sound, i can't get the >> record breaking month of what would you do with five minutes to kill, and a smart phone? check the scores. probably post a pic. text a friend. how about register to vote? really? you can. five minutes online and a massachusetts drivers license is all it takes to register so you can vote for our next president. go to registertovotema.com. it's that easy. done. i just registered. that was easy. >> julie: turns carved a path of destruction and stretching from new mexico to texas killed at least two dozen people over the weekend. we have more as storm moves toward new england. >> reporter: in the darkness could people see the tornado in the distance. see damage easily now after one of the tornadoes hit texas ripping home into the air. >> pretty traumatic. went out to assess our own damages and he is over there road for the baby. >> two day old child to the hospital while her husband glen helped this to try. >> she was pinned in between ray wall and door.

i think it's true in most of middle america people are not paying attention, just wants something toe them feel good and trump does that, but when it comes to the guy with his finger on the nuclear trigger, i'm doubling down on this, there will be a big shift in the mentality about three weeks out. >> i think donald trump is not presidentially -- headnot have the temperament to be president. i'm amazed nobody else has taken him on, on that issue. just his own video clips of his outbursts, intell me prance and remarks and abusive talks, one doesn't expect in a president. the fact that they haven't says something. many people have criticized him. he admittedly called them out in public. they don't want to be in the papers or on the receiving end of donald trump's punches. i think about this and about 1976 when george wallace was dominant. he was feared by the democrats. the democrats were terrified of george wallace, especially in the south. and one candidate had the nerve and guts to take him on. jimmy carter went into florida. nobody else wanted to go near george wallace in florida.

what would you do as president to reassure folks that live in middle america that may not have met many people who are muslim about the religion? >> look, chuck, as i think everybody knows, there are wonderful people in every religion. there are awful people in every religion. and historically, terrible, terrible things, including mass murders have been done always in the name of religion. and that's what we're seeing right now. the overwhelming majority of muslim people in our country are law abiding, serious, good people. some are not. that's true of every other religion and what we have to understand is that we judge people as martin luther king jr. reminded us, based on their character, not the color of their skin, not their religion. i think as a nation, we have got to do better. for all of us to get to know each other in a way we don't do, including the muslim community. >> i know when it comes to the issue of isis, there seems to be two challenges. one is military, perhaps diplomatic, in the region itself. the other is defeating an ideology. and i know you were asked a lot on the

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. >> pam: some people saying to you about how they are feeling as he said middle america kind of townnd san bernardino! ? >> reporter: didn't want to have to wake up this morning and the local paper look around the 14 members of the community had been killed 21 injured they are absolutely heartbroken thoughtful finding solace in each other and want to rally around the screw is sharing the experience together. clearly a town that was he born and some meals hoping that they would not be one of their loved ones killed inside the center. we're learning now of people killed 21 injured now it will hold a cluster of people. all sorts of help and grief counseling just to get through this. >> pam: this morning the name of a jihad as terrorist groups found spray-painted on a wall of our market elementary school in vallejo class. this can solve the police called in to conduct a clearance for any possible threat. there are"attrited the backs will parse the building that had spread on graffiti. the mention the word crisis at this point officers the research the school grounds determined no credibl

the middle class is no longer the majority in america. in 1971, 61% were considered middle class. now that's down to 50%. anthony mason tells us why. >> reporter: meredith reilly, a 37-year-old social worker in new jersey, used to think of herself as middle class. >> it was a good life. it really was. it was wonderful. and now if i don't go to work, i don't get paid. >> reporter: her county job, which paid about $50,000 a year, was eliminated in the recession. a single mother of two, reilly now works three part-time jobs and makes less money. >> i think the toughest part is not preparing a future for my children, that my parents prepared for me. >> reporter: barely half of adults are now middle-income earners, defined as a household making between $42,000 and $126,000 annually. the percentage has been falling steadily since 1971. richard fry, who co-authored a new pew research study, says that, as the middle class has hollowed out, the upper-income bracket has grown from 14% to 21% of americans. that upper class now takes home nearly half of all annual income in the u.s., 49%, up

in urban areas it is happening but you go to kansas city or places in middle america, and people are ride sharing every once in awhile but they're not doing it like they're doing it in new york city or san francisco. >> real quick to tim's point i get that they're selling a lot of cars but both arguably the best three year period in the last 25 to 30 years. from 18 to 14, not in a straight line but in a flat line and gm has had a similar move. the place to be still is a name like moe and curly in auto zone. >> i'm kidding around but that's not a reasonable valuation. nobody believes the story. >> i have a real quick question for you though. do you feel at all like they have pulled this forward? what i mean is 0 down, 0%, and then suddenly you look all the way out, phil, they're going out 5 and 6 years. sometimes even further out in the future. >> on the laess. >> right. >> so are they going out right now? that's a version of an incentive without actually cutting prices but with 0 down on all the rest of it isn't that pulling it forward and isn't that going to slow down next year? >>

middle america has paid the bill. and no one on wall street has ever paid.rian: and you wrote that no one jumped from a building, disappointing many. [laughter] craig: that was a rhetorical flourish. brian: you write that "ronald reagan was simply one of the most compelling men in american political history. richard nixon often spoke derisively of television. only reagan and john kennedy recognized the power of the box in people's living room. -- room." craig: yes. yes. even now, how many years -- 51 years since john kennedy was president and you still watch these press conferences and they highly informative, highly entertaining and utterly compelling. he just had a gift for television. he was just very cool. everyone goes to the famous -kennedy debates of 1960, but you see his interview with walter kong kite -- cronkhite, there something compelling about this man that you want to believe him. you want to believe him, you feel comfortable with him as being president of the united states. i think reagan had the same effect on people. brian: another one. "ove

the middle class is no longer the majority in america. in 1971, 61% were considered middle class. now that's down to 50%. >> reporter: meredith reilly, a 37-year-old social worker in new jersey, used to think of herself as middle class. >> it was the good life. it really was. it was wonderful. and now if i don't go to work, i don't get paid. >> reporter: her county job, which paid about $50,000 a year, was eliminated in the recession. a single mother of two, reilly now works three part-time jobs and mamas less money. >> i think the toughest part is not preparing a future for my children that my parents prepared for me. >> reporter: barely half of adults are middle income earners, defined as a household making between $42,000 and $126,000 annually. e percentage has been falling steadily since 1971. richard fry, who co-authored a new study says that as the middle class has hollowed out, the upper income bracket has grown from 14% to 21% of americans. nearly after of all annual income in the u.s., 49%, up from 29% in 1970. >> it's not that middle americans are worse off, it's they're

the very beginning, pluralistic, organized around the middle class, and spawned a culture of middle america and what we think of as the heartland, where ethnic and ideological. he had never been a priority, where government is seen as an unwelcome intrusion, and political opinion is moderate, even apathetic. it was an ethnic mosaic from the start. resolution,the pennsylvania had a german rather than british majority. it is a swing region because it shares yankee belief that society should be organized to benefit ordinary people, but unlike the yankees, it rejects top-down government intervention to achieve this. it ends up being a buffer zone between two traditions in the yankee and appellations that are at -- appalachians that are at odds. that many maps have a large midlands section. moving southward into the chesapeake country, southern bits of maryland and delaware, eastern north carolina, you are in the tidewater. this is set up more or less the same time as the expansion of new england, set up by english people. but it was a different group of english people. it was settled not by cal

the middle class is no longer the majority in america. in 1971, 61% were considered middle class. anthony mason tells us why. >> reporter: meredith reilly, a 37-year-old social worker in new jersey, used to think of herself as middle class. >> it was the good life. it really was. it was wonderful. and now if i don't go to work, i don't get paid. >> reporter: her county job, which h id about $50,000 a year, was eliminated in the recession. a single mother of two, reilly now works three part-time jobs and makes less money. >> i think the toughest part is not preparing a future for my children that my parents prepared for me. >> reporter: barely half of adults are middle income earners, definid as a household making between $42,000 and $126,000 annually. the percentage has been falling steadily since 1971. chard fry, who co-authored a new study sasa that as the middle class has hollowed has grown from 14% to 21% of americans. that upper class takes home of nearly after of all annual income in the u.s., 49%, up from 29% in 1970. >> it's not that middle americans are worse off, it's th