i mean, two nights in a minivan, you and your seven children. i mean, how did your kids handle that being bored and cooped up in a minivan that long? >> well, sometimes they handled it well and sometimes they didn't. you can imagine -- i mean, we played cards and listened to the radio. and it was actually a really great view if you wanted to have a cabin in the woods. it was really pretty. >> that's a good way to look at it. what was the toughest moment where one of your children was maybe breaking down and it was beginning to break your heart a little bit to hear how they little bit to hear how they were handling it? >> yes, that's exactly what was going on. the hardest moment was, i had one of the kids in my lap sleeping and then somebody had to go into to the bathroom and then somebody threw up all at the same time. >> wow. >> that was a challenge. >> how did you get through that? >> just one thing at a time. i think there were people praying for us all over the world and that is what sustained us. >> so now you got to stay warm, so how did y

thbomber set off a minivan packed with explosivesear camp phoenix. the taliban claime respsibility for it, saying the bomber was aiming a civilian cvoy. it comes jusover a week after taliban gunmenaunched an assault on kul that brought e capital city to a standstill the los anges city council gaveinal approval to close most shops that sell medal marijuana. the are currently between 800 and a thousa pot clinics operating acro l.a. but undethe new rules, that number wilbe capped at 70. mayor antonio villargosa still has to give his apoval for the ordinance take effect. on wall stet today, stocks made early gai, but those fadein the closing minutes of trading. e dow jones industrial avera st more than two pointto close 10, 194. the nasd fell seven points to close over,203. formerepublican senator charles maias has died at his home in maland of complicaons from parkinson's disee. mathiarepresented the state of marylandor 26 years in both the house and senate untilis retirementn 1987. as aiberal republican, he champion civil rights, opposed thnixon admini

the bomber set off a minivan packed with explosives near camp phoenix. the taliban claimed responsibility for it, saying the bomber was aiming at a civilian convoy. it comes just over a week after taliban gunmen launched an assault on kabul that brought the capital city to a standstill. the los angeles city council gave final approval to close most shops that sell medical marijuana. there are currently between 800 and a thousand pot clinics operating across l.a. but under the new rules, that number will be capped at 70. mayor antonio villaraigosa still has to give his approval for the ordinance to take effect. on wall street today, stocks made early gains, but those faded in the closing minutes of trading. the dow jones industrial average lost more than two points to close at 10, 194. the nasdaq fell seven points to close over 2,203. former republican senator charles mathias has died at his home in maryland of complications from parkinson's disease. mathias represented the state of maryland for 26 years in both the house and senate until his retirement i

peepers little they get up and make lunch and feed everybody breakfast and load the kids into the minivannd have ten minutes to get one kid to day care and they go to work for eight hours and on the way home stop at the grocery store to get dinner, pick of the little one from day care and meet the other kids at the after-school place and find their junior high school kid. get home and make dinner. there is no time to squeeze in a voting. they did a handwritten letter campaign to very targeted women and found women who work outside the home and have kids and targeted them to be permanent voters'. is really successful. not only did we get them to register but they attract the whole thing and 95% of the people they registered voted early. you want to think about your plans to call these people on the telephone. all you -- affected by who votes early. polling. can anyone think why we would care about pulling in the early vote? go ahead. [inaudible]] those key supporters who are going fgoing. >> to exclude them from the sample. >> yard getting any good point. is your early vote behavior like t

i guarantee you that no family from any state will ever load up their minivan and drive to this park in the caribbean ocean. this congress must get serious about controlling spending. the american people are concerned. they are worried and they are angered by the spending that's gone on in washington, d.c. the first year of the obama administration, the largest spending deficit in our nation's history, has been set. whether it's the $787 billion stimulus bill that has failed to create the jobs that were promised or the government takeover, potential government takeover of the health care that would cost if it is put in place, the health care bill that's being debated over $1 trillion, i think is very, very clear. spending in america's mind is out of control. for congress to buckle down and i.n.s. tute only put the brakes on megaspending bills, but it also must start taking a hard look at smaller bills like this one. just take a look, madam speaker, at some of the bills that have been advanced out of the natural resources committee this year. we passed a bill to create a $700 million