the minneapolis st. paul metropolitan region because the state legislature in minnesota has forced all of the suburbs in the minneapolis st. paul region to kick in a big chunk of their tax receipts to the common regional pot and then that money gets redistributed by the formula to the city. the cities cape ann, too, but the formula for allocating the money in short effectively the money is coming out the suburbs and going to the city's. it is a basic principle of american freedom that you get to live where you want to live and govern yourself when you get there. so if someone wants to move out of the city and moved into the suburbs, they pay taxes to that suburban municipality. they elect the people that government that suburb, they control their lives, straightforward democratic way. but the reason the movement is trying to undercut that, they are trying to undercut the local controls bacon goblet of suburban tax money and redistribute it. put all the things together that i just told you and first you h

remini's sister nicole said in an interview last month with mytalk radio in minneapolis-st paul, thatoblems with scientology started when she asked david miscavige about his wife's whereabouts.at the wedding of tom cruise and katie holmes. >> nr:"that's part of the reason why leah started questioning things. so like where's his wife?" >> reporter: according to nicole that question led to others and ultimately to leah leaving scientology. >> nr:"if she's not anywhere weird, produce her! you know what i mean, produce her! why is it so wacky? it's wacky because you won't answer the question, you won't produce her! because leah's been like, give me her number, let me call her! like where is she?" >> reporter: but early friday morning, a commander with the los angeles police department told cnn they followed up on the report.and shelly miscavige is "fine." detectives had a face to face with mrs. miscavige.and say she is not being held against her will. the case is now closed. the church of scientology also released statement friday morning saying in part -"the entire episode was nothing mo

suburban minneapolis st. paul. >> minneapolis st. paul. >> yeah, unfortunately.am aware of what is going on there. i heard about it. a 2-part question related first, how is that the federal government works against local municipal governments in enacting these plans. let me know exactly helicon protest this besides just grass-roots letting people know, what local office can i get to the talk and find out more and try to stop this? >> a very good question. i did not even give you the sensationalist part of my book. spreading the wealth. as essential as part was when i talked about, the conferences that have been held at the white house that organized by this fellow, this radical organizing mentor of obama and now runs the regional equity movement. those conferences which were attended by many, many high administration officials including cabinet secretaries invited local mayors and state senators and state representatives to the white house where they were then lobbied by these experts to build the ideas behind the regional equity movement as well as top officials

. >> yes, we as a matter of fact in laguardia terminal d added 125%, minneapolis st., added 160% of crew members in head count. >> shouldn't the technology mean that you can hire less people? >> well, we believe in a high touch business because restaurants, bars, et cetera, is very high touch. what technology has been able to do for us, even though we add head count, our overall percentage of our payroll has been reduced since we speed up time and enhance the customer interaction. >> because you can see that people will say, oh, rick, you know, we're already struggling with the job market here and you guys are putting people out of work because you're replacing man with machine. counter that. >> well, i can only counter it by the actual facts and we more than double the head count when we go into an airport. if you think about it, we're in all the gate hold areas. those areas where we used to sit, there wasn't any experience at all, are now full experiences. so there are crew members in all the gate hold areas. the footprint has been dramatically increased. the h head

i was in minneapolis st. paul. the church was full. it was full.ut she bemoaned the fact that more people didn't come. she said they department come. some were tired, frustrated, and disillusioned. guess what? virginia is giving the example today. no one has the right to be tired or disillusioned. no one has the right to give up on this fight. today 1,200 people will be deported. children will be left without a mom or a dad, husband or a wife. the fear that permeates our community and the underclass exploited every day has to come to an end. you do not have the right to be tired. you have a responsibility to fight to make this a greater nation for all of us to live and va rah today is giving that example. thank you so much. [ speaking spanish ] we're going to win immigration reform because we have leaders like luis gutierrez. i want to welcome -- [ speaking spanish ] [ speaking spanish ] [ speaking spanish ] a [ speaking spanish ] >> gracias. [ applause ] >>. [ speaking spanish ] >> thank you very, very much. we are going to start the program. so,

st. paul, minneapolis in 2008, was extremely serious.anizations did, and as many other news organizations were subjected to, we were arrested at the republican convention. i was arrested along with two of my colleagues. one now reports from egypt, and nicole, multimedia producer at the time, and it was the first day of the republican convention, which didn't bode well for how things were going to go. it was monday. we were covering a peace protest in the morning, beautiful blue sky day and 10,000 people were marching from st. paul to the center where the convention was going to take place that afternoon. we were covering the protest. it was led by soldiers, some in full military regular -- uniform, and they risk doing that. and i went to the floor of the convention. >> host: you had credentials? >> guest: oh, yeah. all of us do. so i went to cover the convention floor, and my colleagues went back to the studio where we were broadcasting from, to start to digitize tape and prepare the show for the next day. so i'm on the floor of the conv

of the first couples that tried to get same-sex marriage licenses took place, and that was in minneapolis/stey were rejected and took their case to court, and you know -- when they would appeal nobody would take it because that's how on the out skirts of society lbgt people were treated in the '70s. >> stephanie: and meanwhile you tweeted why hashtag gay men -- i don't know what gay men without hashtags are supposed to do -- are dumping gay vodka. stolely has been supportive historically of lbgt events. >> they have. >> the main owner of stolely in russia is an adversary of putin is actually a supporter of lbgt rights in russia, according to [ inaudible ] magazine. >> stephanie: right. >> and he's -- i think we need to look beyond stolely towards all russian vodkas. okay, a boycott -- people keep thinking boycott in the literal sense. you are going to force a company to go bankrupt. the queens in san francisco when they boycotted miller light or bud light -- >> or was it coors light? >> coors light, back in the '70s. they were not look to bankrupt the company. they were looking to make news

talking about 96 degrees in minneapolis, st. louis 96.one-day event, are we going to get relief? unfortunately not. through tomorrow barely any relief, maybe a degree. 101 expected in des moines, still about 94 degrees, taking you further in through thursday that high pressure is holding on and we're talking about temperatures. that's 90 to 100 degrees without the humidity. combine that 110 degrees it's way too hot. >> it's 20 degrees above the norm, amazing. >> no thank you. >> but thank you, indra. >>> let's move to texas where we're expecting another dramatic day of testimony in the sentencing phase of army major nidal hasan's court-martial. prosecutors expect to call more victim's relatives and ft. hood survivors to testify, pushing for a rare military death sentence for hasan. ed lavandera is live in texas with more. give us a preview, ed. >> reporter: good morning, kate. this trial is now into its fourth week and yesterday's testimony is by far the most exh na excruciati excruciating. victims talk about depression and thoughts of su

[applause] was in minneapolis, st. paul. the church was full.she bemoaned the fact that more people did not come. frustratedired and and disillusioned. will guess what. example is giving the today. no one has the right to be tired or disillusioned. no one has the right to give up today 1200ht because people will be deported. hundreds of children will be left without a mom or a dad, without a husband or a wife. the fear that permeates our community has to come to an end. do not have a right to be tired. you have a responsibility to fight, to make this a better nation. virginia is giving that example. thank you so much. >> [speaking in spanish] signs we are going to win in immigration reform, i want to welcome john. [applause] [speaking spanish] >> gracias. >> gracias. [speaking spanish] >> amen. >> [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] >> amen. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] very, very much. i do so much. now we are going to start the program so please have a seat. [speaking spanish] we want to say thank you to all of the people who are here su

and then i went to at le--to two other upward bound programs, one in minneapolis and one in east st. louis, illinois, and i spent three years in east st. louis, when i--right after i got out of college as a counselor in the upward bound program and then we had a--one for college students called experiment in higher education. and i spent two years in that. c-span: what did you do--what did you do this for? what was your reason? >> guest: i was committed. this was the--this was the '60s and my parents had been committed before me and--and--so, you know, i didn't even think about it. it was just--it was just something that--that sort of come out of my--my family's commitment to civil rights and my own sense of what i wanted to do with my life. i had really no idea at that point of--about writing. and so i was really happy at that point to have the opportunity to do that kind of work and in that kind of--of an extremely deprived community. c-span: what were you learn--what did you learn about those programs? >> guest: oh, boy. i learned that they--they've been extremely helpful to me in

dylan dwyer with a check on the forecast. >> rain in the middle of the country from minneapolis stretching down to the stpots for traveling, especially this morning at the airports where we could see some minor delays in minneapolis and later on this afternoon in st. louis. rest of the areas across the gulf coast states and into florida those would be late-day thunderstorms. it shouldn't be too much of an issue. heavy rain is moving now into southeastern iowa. we're also seeing the potential for more flooding today in kansas and missouri where flood warnings and flash flood warnings have been posted. we could also see some stronger storms later this afternoon and evening from montana right down into kansas it biggest threat would be for hail and gusty winds. elsewhere, it's about the cooler temperatures. chicago will be about 10 degrees below average. in the northeast, low humidity, temperatures around 75 to a gorgeous 80 degrees. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. at farmers we make you smarter about insurance, because what you dont know can hurt you. what if you didn't know that it's sm

minneapolis city hall. weddings are going on in st. paul, and around minnesota even at the mall of america's chapel.night, where marriage equality also became legal at midnight. county clerks began issuing marriage licenses when their offices open t officesed at 8:30 this morning, minnesota and rhode island bring the total number of states where the marriage equality is 13. one person getting married tonight is frank perry, perry and his partner, tony caparco, have been together for years, frank is also a member of the state legislature and helped to get the marriage equality signed into law. joining me now is rhode island state representative frank ferry, and his spouse from the site of the wedding tonight. now, frank, technically, you guys were already married. you got married in canada in 2006. so why do it again now in rhode island? what additional legal benefit does your rhode island marriage have? >> hi, lawrence, good evening, what we're doing is celebrating the long journey that rhode island has taken to get to this point. we were married in vancouver in 2006. we were on a cruise for our 25t

minneapolis, i have a problem with this. 94 in st. louis.s running 20 degrees above average with the heat in place. we have a front in place. we are going to see the potential for storms to pop up in the midwest. we are talking damaging winds as well as hail and the potential for isolated tornado. again, we'll continue to follow the fire. guys, across the northeast, you have comfortable temperatures and rain into new york later in the afternoon. >> all right, jennifer delgado looking at the weather across the nation. thanks for keeping an eye on it for us. >>> it is 5:36 in the east. jodi arias will be back in court this morning at the hearing, a judge could set a date for her penalty phase retrial. she was convicted of killing her boyfriend but the jury couldn't decide on the death penalty. more from ted rollens. >> we the jury sworn upon our oath find the defendant as to count one first degree murder guilty. >> reporter: after listening to four months of testimony, it took three days to find her guilty of first degree murder. they could no

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minneapolis this afternoon. near 100 in omaha and well into the 90s in kansas city and st. louis. there we can see the stream of moisture across the southwest. look at las vegas. but the part where the at a fires around yosemite are occurring it will be dry with no relief there. one phenomenon we could be talking about are fire whirls. we have two elements that come together. intense heat and turbulent winds in the atmosphere. those come together to form whirling eddies of air and sometimes they tighten like a tornado-like structure. they're only a few feet across but with that intense heat swirling they can cause extensive damage, even on a localized level. we can see the moisture from tropical storm eva. it's spreading across the desert southwest. our rain potential through tonight is indicating widespread one to two inches of rain. that's a lot but where we see this yellow we'll be talking two inches and in some cases as much as five inches of rain. cbs news, miami. >>> strong winds and heavy rains from tropical storm fernand are on the caribbean sea. it's packing winds of 50 m

minneapolis today hit 96. they will stay in the 90s. legitimate heat wave for chicago, st. louis and kansas city. >> all right, tracking it all. ginger zee tonight. ginger, thank you. >>> now to the crisis in syria this evening, and to a message from the white house, intended for the president of syria. the white house saying there is very little doubt that it was the syrian regime that used chemical weapons against its own people in recent days. and tonight, more of those new images of the aftermath. believed to be the single deadliest attack so far there in syria. syria says it will allow inspectors. the white house saying that time has passed. and so tonight here, we ask, will america act? what are the options? and if so, how soon? abc's chief global affairs correspondent, martha raddatz, reporting in from the region again tonight. martha? >> reporter: david, it appears tonight that the u.s. is closer to taking military action in syria than ever before, with strong words from u.s. officials today and warships at the ready. navy destroyers and submarines now in the medite

that is 20 degrees above average. 96 in minneapolis, minnesota, unbelievable. look at the 90s out towards st. louis and chicago. is this heat going to last? unfortunately as i take you in through tomorrow, not seeing a change there, still about 15 to 20 degrees above average, even in through thursday, we are dealing with this heat. unfortunately, it's not about the hot temperatures, but how long you have to deal with the heat. that's what we're concerned with. >> indra petersons, thanks so much. >>> miley cyrus, still talking about miley cyrus. teddy bear nude colored undes and twerking with robin thicke. you've seen the outrageous performance by miley cyrus. two days later her r-rated performance still has people buzzing and the funny men of late night are poking fun of something i especially noticed. miley has a really long tongue. >> nothing funny about it, this little-known affliction here. take a look. >> every day is a struggle and every day you pray for things to get easier, but now there's help. if you're one of the millions of americans who suffer from restless tongue syndrome, ther

minneapolis you'll be included so talking about the low chance of a tornado but certainly gusty winds and hail. from there into parts of missouri and even heading over to strainy again in the southeast. we'll see that eastern seaboard deal with more rain. temperatures, very mild for this time of year, august, boy, the 70s in boston, new york city and washington, d.c. 80s for you in chicago and minneapolis. 90 in denver so we're pretty warm there. salt lake city look at a high of 98 degrees. now we're going to get into our wednesday and we're going to see we have rain in the eastern third of the country here so it's starting again to kick up in the northeast and the southeast and our temperatures again staying relatively mild. you see denver, though, look at this drop in temperatures, from a high of 90 to 72 in houston, 100 degrees for you so very hot down in dallas, all that have high pressure that's holding out. as we get into thursday, again, a little rain for you in boston, starting to clear out south of there so new york city looking pretty good. washington, d.c., you, as well, but atlanta, here comes the rain again right down into florida. look at th

st. louis, 91. how about the cooldown. it's not going to stick around for that long. minneapoliss and we have areas of patchy fog out there this morning. as we go throughout the day, we will get some sunshine and also we'll get the chance for some showers and storms scattered in nature. the high temperature coming in at 87 degrees. we will be a bit warmer and humid as we go throughout the day. by tomorrow still more scattered showers and storms in the forecast that will linger into friday morning and then we dry out nicely. we will cool down as we head towards the weekend. >> a little help from the most beautiful little girl, riley. what do you have to say? >> back to you, lara. >> nice job. >>> here's a look at what's coming up of our "gma morning menu." simon cowell talking about becoming a dad. what does he have to say? we'll let you know. >>> and it's a popular website with millions of teens right now. what parents need to know about ask.fm this morning. >>> and the science of stilettos. a man teaching women the right way to walk in high heels. we said it. a man teaching wome

st. louis, 91. how about the cooldown? because it's not going to stick around for that long. minneapolis, 79, 82 on friday.ning. i'm abc7 news meteorologist mike nicco with your bay area microclimate forecast. you can see the low clouds out there. those are going to hang around till about noon. we do have a threat of thunderstorms and a high fire danger in the north bay tonight. clearer and cloudy the next couple nights leading to below average highs through the weekend. today's spread from about 67 in san francisco, 77 in santa rosa, oakland 72, 80 in san jose, but mid to upper 80s many the east bay valleys. he >> a little help from the most beautiful little girl, riley. >>we've got a little help from the most beautiful little girl, riley. what do you have to say? >> back to you, lara. >> nice job. >>> here's a look at what's coming up of our "gma morning menu." simon cowell finally talking about becoming a dad. what does he have to say? we'll let you know. >>> and it's a popular website with millions of teens right now. what parents need to know about ask.fm this morning. >>> and the science of stilettos