i am from the state of minnesota. [applause] the great state of minnesota.e for, but we have some things that we take great pride in in minnesota. tim pawlenty, who gave a great address today. [applause] john klein, a staunch conservative, and we are proud we are sending john back to congress. of course, the person you want to hear from today is from minnesota's sixth congressional district, where the voters have been smart enough to send michelle bauman back to congress. they are going to do that a third time. she was a tea party activist before the tea arrived. she is a tax attorney who champions boris state taxpayer'' bill of rights. she has been on the side of the people since she first got into politics. she is the mother of five who made room in her family for 23 foster children. [applause] that is commitment that goes beyond politics. that is commitment that goes to lives of values. when you are looking at michelle bachman, don't tell me conservatism does not have a hard and does not understand health care and family economics. the next speaker here a

minnesota. in minnesota we have taken the spending curve down to about zero. for the first time in 150-year history of my state. we cut spending in real terms. [applause] >> and i just want to share with you if we can do it in minnesota, i would suggest probably the most liberal states in the country, it can be done anywhere so i know there's challenges in new england and other places. but believe me, if you can do it in my state, you can do it anywhere. the next thing i want to share with you is a third of four principles is this. people spend their money differently when it's their money. [applause] >> this plays itself out on lots of different issues but let me give you an example in one that's timely right before us and that's healthcare. if i said to you today, on your way home from cpac, swing by a great minnesota company. go to best buy. go to target. you buy any television set that you would like. pick any size you'd like. any characteristics, qualities that you like. don't even look at the price. don't worry about it. just send the bill to mary and me

minnesota. in minnesota we have taken the spending curve down to about zero.ut spending in real terms. [applause] >> and i just want to share with you if we can do it in minnesota, i would suggest probably the most liberal states in the country, it can be done anywhere so i know there's challenges in new england and other places. but believe me, if you can do it in my state, you can do it anywhere. the next thing i want to share with you is a third of four principles is this. people spend their money differently when it's their money. [applause] >> this plays itself out on lots of different issues but let me give you an example in one that's timely right before us and that's healthcare. if i said to you today, on your way home from cpac, swing by a great minnesota company. go to best buy. go to target. you buy any television set that you would like. pick any size you'd like. any characteristics, qualities that you like. don't even look at the price. don't worry about it. just send the bill to mary and me at the governor's residence at 1006 summit avenue in st.

i am from the state of minnesota. [applause] the great state of minnesota. him back to congress. of course, the person you want to hear from today is from minnesota's sixth congressional district or the voters have been smart enough to send michelle back to congress. they are going to do that a third time. michelle was a tea party activist before a the tea arrived. she has been on the side of the people since she first got into politics. she is a mother of five and has made room in her family for 23 foster children. [applause] that is commitment. that is commitment that goes beyond politics. that is a commitment that goes to life values. do not tell me that you have -- do not tell me that you do not have conservatism that does not have a heart. you cannot tell me that when you see her. the next speaker here at cpac. please welcome her. [applause] ♪ be >> hello everybody. thank you, senator arlen specter. it i want to say greetings to the majority in the waiting. how does it feel? [applause] we are in the middle of a political bull market. it doesn't feel won

. >> we go to western canada, we go to new england and minnesota and we compete and win games.e don't know what to think about it. when we were in boston we were playing several weeks ago we were playing against western canadian teams. our bus driver said you're from washington d.c.? we were winning all of our games. >> reporter: 17-year-old senior will be playing d one hockey next year. the goally is a member of the under 18 national select team. also selected to that team was sophomore 16-year-old haley who will be to the national team. the conditioning for these athletes is nonstop. august through may. >> five more. >> reporter: and to have two player from the d.c. team already on the national team is not common. it speaks volume about the players commitment. >> hard work on three. one, two, three, hard work. >> pretty much my whole entire life. i wake up go to school, do as much home work as i can before i have to leave for practice. go to practice and go home do my home work, eat dinner, and wake up and do it all over again. >> it's an enormous commitment the kids make and

i came home to our house in ebegin, minnesota.is is a blue state. it's really time to turn the page. i've been at this for a while. i've done what i can. and she grabbed me literally by the lapels. [laughter] >> and she looked me straight in the eye and gave me a speech that would be right out of a rocky balboa movie. i mean, she said, we need you. minnesota needs you. you be strong. you get in there. you fight. you can do this. i thought, man, all right, i'm in. [laughter] >> so i ran. and in a state that really is an uphill battle for a republican much less the conservative, i won. [applause] >> a few months into my governorship i came home and we had a little tension, a little disagreement about my schedule and missing some commitments for the family. there was a little tension in the discussion. i said, but honey, remember you're the one who told me to do this. you gave me that great inspiring speech. don't you remember? and she looked at me and she said, yeah, i never thought you'd win. [laughter] >> she said i just told you

what is going on in minnesota? how long does it take to count these things? i am not sure the state senate election and queens counting until last week's who particulate and the statewide saying with the retail mechanisms are not downplay so archive have tied up the presidency forever, who knows? i would hazard a guess that the democrats are better at stealing boats and there are probably more boats to steal. now the theory is spreading somebody says don't tell lynch illinois. i'm not sure where that comes from. as a historian, if you see something like at and don't see any documentation and, the thing about chicago is the allegations of it and the investigations were beginning in october. appearing in "the chicago tribune", that's bereday the was really gearing up to steal the election. there was a bridge match where the state's attorney from cook county was up for reelection and a former democrat, of former daley ally and wanted to get this guy a big-time. if you could steal the presidency in the bar again, so much the better. one of the little things about

governor tim palenty is governor of the state state of - in the state of minnesota. they've got their own problems, too. as he detailed. martha: there are new pointed threats coming from president mahmoud ahmadinejad as the white house ramps up the missile shield near his country and remember the blood in the street in iran, backlack from ahmadinejad is full throttle, two people have been hanged, now nine more will meet that same fate. what are they guilty of, and what is the reaction from the white house? bill: it took some time, martha, but a 14-year-old girl offered she was in the jaws of a man eater. you will hear from her next, how she survived. bill there is a teenage girl counting hur lucky stars, libby warren out of new zealand say she was in waist -19water, boogie boarding with her brother, and then the unthinkable happened. listen here. >> i wasn't sure what it was and it was a shark, so i looked to my side, and i wasn't quite sure what it was, so i knew it was like right beside me but i didn't actually feel it biting me, so i just hit it with one short sho

we see -- what's going on in minnesota? how long does it take to count these things?and i'm not sure, did they -- state senate election claims they were counting until like last week. i mean, so particularly and statewide thing where the stakes are so high, these recount mechanisms were not in place and could have, tied up the presidency for ever. who knows? i would just hazard a guess that chicago republicans or democrats, are better at stealing votes than downstate republicans. and are probably more votes to steal. now the theory is spreading, and i think it is apocryphal. summary said to nixon don't challenge only because we stole in kentucky. you know? i'm not sure where that comes from. i can never -- one of the things i worry about is as a historian, if you see something like that see anylmost like a throwaw documentation for it. where if you do think, the thing about chicago is the interesting thing about vote fraud in chicago in 1960 to me was the allegations of it, and the investigations of it, we're beginning in october. that the stories were appearing in th

paulsen of minnesota. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 1051, the gentleman from minnesota, mr. paulsen, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from minnesota. mr. paulsen: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. paulsen: mr. speaker, i rise today to offer an amendment that would declare that the cybersecurity strategic research and development plan to also include how we can work with international partners to make our technology infrastructure even safer. throughout most of our nation's history, our security concerns have evolved around our national security of military security, intelligence, and protection of our borders. over the past few decades our technological advances and our ever-increasing relines on that technology are increasingly important and have drastically expanded. this naturally makes our technology a likely target for attack by those that would like to harm the united states. further

." >> i am from minnesota, and i have been down here since tuesday, and this convention is very encouraging. >> tuesday is two days before you could even register. >> that is right. i wanted to make sure i was here. i flew from pharr road, north dakota to atlanta, georgia. -- from fargo, north dakota. i drove to nashville. it was a demonstration of commitment where i bought the the an unusual car and had repainted just for this event. i think the event is so critical to the united states of america. it is a 1995 stretch limousine. it was black, but i had it painted brilliant purple. that is simply to draw attention to the event. >> how you think the convention has been going so far? >> to me, it is more than encouraging. it is more than sold out. i tried to get some extra tickets, because i have to dinner tickets and only one convention ticket, and everything is sold out. >> what you hope comes out of this weekend's activities? >> i would like to see it refocus the vote of the big parties, and i would hope they think about their policies going forward, and its tea party apparently is catchi

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it is in minnesota. it shows the former president with the words miss me yet. some small businesses bought the ad space but they want to remain anonymous. >>> coming up, ahead in sports the end of an era at dematha high school. >>> former wizard koran butler getting in trouble with the nba. in four minutes the old habit that is dying hard. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm brett haber with the wakeup sports. you want to talk about a home court advantage. listen to this. from 1961 to 1976, 15 years the da math that stags never lost in their home gym. in that building the coach loot boothen coached all 46 of their seasons and last night they closed the door on the gym. final game and dozens of alumni came back to say good-bye including wooten himself who addressed the crowd. a state of the art gym will open next year and they sent it out with a w. robinson to david naves for the throw down and then grant, the son of former bullets star harvey grant of dematha closes the gym with a 14-point win over good counsel. >>> up a couple of levels. the veteran seven-footer w

in states like pennsylvania, minnesota and iowa.own south, states like florida, mississippi, texas, more than 19% of the population without insurance 16-19% in states like colorado, nevada, oregon and montana. the small ideas would barley make a dent. the huge number of americans without health insurance and the every escalating cost of healthcare over all. >> the republican alternative in the house. thads why we are seige a rise in insurance. you have to place the cost coverage ahead of the problem. you cover everybody and put out a mandate that ropes them into a broken system. host: this map again, the darker the color, the more the reserve. every candidate for the republican nom ination had to have a healthcare reform ad in the primary. they want it to work better and her tired of having to rearrange their lives now the president of the american action forum at american action forum .org. robert from virginia on the democrat line. caller: can you hear me ok. host: we can. sorry we lost you earlier. caller: ok. i would like to ask

minnesota, rochester, st. cloud in minnesota, 50 inches. and right down the road, beckley, west virginia, they average around 60 inches. their elevation is so much higher than ours is right here. >> a lot of folks thatave moved here from out of town say it feels like oer winters. look at the area that it's still under a blizzard warning. that storm which is intensifying continues to intensify off the jersey shoreline. unfortunately, it's still throwing back that moisture in over us. so overnight tonight, what we'll be seeing -- it's because of this strong southern branch of the jet stream that we've had associated with an el nino. really unprecedented to see these storms come up and really intensify right over us and the combination even with some of the sleet and freezing rain yesterday. still produce a tremendous storm. northwesterly winds still tomorrow but not as strong as they have been. and then at least we'll get a couple of days of sunshine to try and get on top of things. still more blowing and drifting after we get through 9:00, 1

ben is going to minnesota. >> this young man? >> this is albert.lbert is going to iowa. >> and this young man? >> that is malichai and he's going to pennsylvania. >> very good. and, of course, this is reese. reese is going to the great state of -- >> minnesota. >> and the great town of -- >> british falls. >> these are the young little boys. going home tomorrow. >> tomorrow. >> congratulations to all of you. it's been a tough time. these are some grateful kids. now the women and the orphans were supposed to leave this saturday. when they got to the airport, a huge number of haitian men and women started surrounding them and said don't steal our children. the police ultimately came. people are very scared and fearful and angry about the ten u.s. missionaries arrested and charged with kidnapping. haitian authorities are very careful now about allowing the children to leave the country. tomorrow night at this time when you're all watching "anderson cooper 36 o," these new children will be with their moms and dads in the united states of america. >> gr

>> reporter: you might say they're a typical minnesota family with one big difference.potter is playing in her fourth olympic games, the oldest member of team usa. she's already made history here in vancouver with two hat tricks in her first two games. >> either you're getting better or getting worse and you can't stay the same. as much as you want to stay the same, things are changing around you. >> reporter: in many ways, jenny is just like any other mom, struggling to balance work and family. it just so happens jenny's job is training for the olympics. jenny met rob the summer before the nagano olympics in 1998. uncharacteristically, she made the first move. >> i actually asked him out. >> she sent us tickets to this banquet, and so, we showed up, and all the players were looking at me funny, and i sat next to her. >> reporter: rob coaches high school girls hockey and shoulders parenting responsibilities when jenny has to travel. daughter madison is 9 and already a champion swimmer. when it comes to hockey, rob and jenny don't want to push her. >> we bring her down t

clark: this purdue team came back in much the same fashion wednesday night in williams arena at minnesotane: from the corner, lucas for three. no. rebound, chris allen. that is the 40th rebound, four-zero, for michigan state in the game. >> clark: tom izzo decides he wants to call a set play here on this most important possession. >> verne: michigan state, two time-outs remain, same as purdue, and the big disparity in the fouls, possession arrow also pointing to the boilermakers. michigan state has the ball and on the floor durrell summers, kalin lucas, allen, morgan, and draymond green. >> clark: tom izzo has a playbook that's almost as full as your story book. looking for a jump shot for summers or allen. >> verne: and the adjustment in the lane, and it goes off chris kramer and a fresh 35 and summers comes up limping. a right foot injury. >> clark: he's in pain too, jern. he came off of that curl and got himself into the lane on the dribble, unable to finish. and, you're right, it looks like he did something to that right ankle or leg. >> verne: wonder if it could have been a hyperexte

, who has mentally not been on this planet for three years, told a small gathering in rochester, minnesota, this terrible secret. some guy stopped her and told her he used to live in japan. she didn't get his name or nothing. but he told her, quote, in japan, people have stopped voicing their opinion on health care. he said it's because they know they would get on a list and then they wouldn't get health care. they wouldn't get in. they wouldn't get seen. so people are afraid to speak back to government. they're afraid to say anything. is that what we want for our future? that takes us to gangster government at that point. so if you criticize american health care, you get on a list in japan? or if you criticize american health care, you get on a list in america? or michele bachmann believes every random stranger who tells her a story about japan and assumes it's going to come true here? the congresswoman concluded, i will fight it until my last breath. okay. >>> the short version of the advice from pollster strategist frank luntz, to republicans moving from try to kill health care reform t

arizona, colorado, florida, illinois, massachusetts, minnesota, nevada, ohio, rhode island, texas, andisconsin. look, 36 governorships are up. so many of them are going to be close. and they don't necessarily move in the way the nation moves, because internal dynamics will move those things in-state dynamics on that. it's going to be a wild year. winners of these governors' races matter though, when it comes to congress, because the census is coming and reapportionme reapportionment. got to move on to one governor's race that is getting wild. less than 72 hours after the polls close in illinois, it's a big mess. scott lee cohen, he's a little-known millionaire pawn broker who came out of nowhere to win the democratic primary for lieutenant governor. now, he's admitted to using injectable steroids, which allegedly resulted into fits of rage, a 2005 arrest after a prostitute he was living with claimed he'd put a knife to her throat. you heard earlier, he denies that charge. he also allegedly skipped child support payments to his ex-wife, even as he was pouring $2 million of his own money

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if the law passes, maryland would join connecticut and minnesota which have already banned bpa in certain children's products. >>> well, mixed reactions to the governor's state of the state address. pat warren from our sister station, wjz has the story. it >> reporter: this is the state of the state message for those that have fallen on hard times. people laid off on jobs sitting in homes with for sale signs in their yard. >> with just one kwrapbder has to look -- marylander has to tell them that they need to move. it affects all of us. i need your help. >> reporter: governor o'malley is asking the general assembly to pass the law forcing arbitration for people in foreclosure. and a we can do for the senate president. >> i mean, this is not to save somebody who willingly is not paying their bills. some deadbeat. we're not taking care of just them. but for the harpest hard work of the homeowners who pay by the rules. and they put that on hard times. >> never saved attitude. >> this recession will end our journey that is not over. our best days are still in front of us if we make it so. >>

estimate for the waste water collection systems i know in my home town in minnesota, the waste water treatment systems ilana goldman. i worked on and when i was in college. pushing a pretty mixed wheelbarrow up the ramp to pull it into the forms for the retaining facility. like my hip, osteoarthritis. i had a new one, the same thing with that system, it's got osteoarthritis and needs to be replaced. there's lots of those all over the country, and this recovery act, this stimulus program gives the opportunity to do that rehabilitating and expanding existing inadequate capacities. do you have some examples of the long a source planned projects, i call that the new or the next frontier of the clean water program. >> one of the requirements of the recovery act, the goal was 20% of the waste water money spent on what they refer to as the greenup project research. these are projects that basically capture water on site. just a few months ago i had an opportunity to participate in a rubber breaking ceremony not far from here in ed winstrol maryland right next to hyattsville we're a communit

. >> reporter: a group of ten minnesota and women in custody aiding pastors to find the children however, they are now questioning the guidance th received. they insist no money ever changed hands and there was no plans for to. >> we may have been deceived by someone saying their parents are dead, please take our child. we have a beautiful place for them to go i can see how parents desperate, lost their homes, lost their jobs would want possibly to have their child go to a better place and even say to us, you know, deceive us into thinking they were not alive when, indeed, they were. >> reporter: they aren't the only ones feeling dereceived. this mother of five children who says she let them go, believing a local pastor was taking them to a better life. the 33 children the baptist group says they grew to love within days are now in care. 10-year-old sabrina is one of those found. she is like many of the others and not an orphan. i miss my mother and father she test. the lady says i would go to a good school and they would visit. sabrina is desperate to go home and wrote down for us wre h

. >> reporter: ahmed tharwat has lived in minnesota for 25 years, where he hosts a t.v.show for the region's arab american community. he recently visited the nile delta village, where he lived, as a young man. >> this is all muslim, all muslim section. >> reporter: he says one christian family lived in the village. but there was no christian cemetery nearby so they're buried alongside muslim neighbors. this departure from custom prompted some debate but it was resolved by community leaders. >> i remember when the neighbor, my uncle, said he didn't hurt us when he was alive, why would he hurt us when he dies? and, i think, that... really just sums up the whole story. >> reporter: but some say that kind of acceptance has given way to much more awareness of a religious divide and tension. >> you always find a religious interpretation of any conflict between copts and muslims because we live in an era of tension between the religions that i've never seen registered at this level. and that's why in any conflicts between muslims and copts-- in the subway or the market-- it wil

not minnesota, not michigan, not any of those other m states. i want to show you a look at bwi and give you an idea of what the conditions are there. 30 degrees right now. barometer is falling, but it has been falling all night long as that area of low pressure moves in and we have cold enough air to keep the snow going around here. not the case across the entire state. i want to show you a couple of things. take a look at this, baltimore, one of our weather bug cameras, you see the snow beginning to accumulate as we work into the night. the wind picking up. this is a cool shot. that snow starting to stick and getting heavier and heavier through the night. the plows come through, try to clear it up. the wind keeps blowing the snow and it's a mess out there. our peak wind gusts above 30. some gusts of 31, 25 out towards eldersberg. we had surface air temperature tonight about 4 or 5 degrees above freezing. we had melting on contact. it didn't take long. within an another of sunset things sticking well. our temperatures at or below freezings. wash

walls of minnesota. the chair: the gentleman is from minnesota. i'm delighted to acknowledge the gentleman from minnesota, mr. walz and a member opposed will each control five minutes. mr. walz: the amendment i'm offering, madam chair, serves a two-fold purpose. it allows people coming back into civilian life and recognizes the skill sets they have that are suited for intelligence and national security work. what i'm asking for in this amendment is to make sure there's a level playing field for these warriors. a large number of our troops are coming back and either through a lack of understanding or a misunderstanding, the security adjudicators are revolting or denying security clearances for wounds received, physical or mental, ptsd or other, that they received while serving. it requires the community to educate security clearance adjews kators on the nature of these wounds so they have the best knowledge available to make the best decision and give our returning warriors the opportunity to receive their clearances, retain their clearances and go

peter is from minnesota. pete and i met the first year in college. pete never met anybody from baltimore and i never met anybody from minnesota. he said to me, you're a freshman in college, but you talk like you're in grade school, you say dumb things, you use the wrong words, what's that about. well, i was embarrassed for a minute and then the east baltimore in me flared up a little bit and i said who you talking to man. he said i'm talking to you, i said why are you talking down to me, he said i'm not talking down to you, you're sitting down, i'm standing up. i'm just curious, why you talk this way when you're in college, so once we got past my embarrassment, i explained to pete my situation. didn't learn to read until i was 12, still struggling with the stotser, uncomfortable with language, i try not to speak unless i have to, i avoid certain words because they're too difficult for me. he said ok. so pete says here's what we're going to do. i was 17 years old, pete was 18. he was a botany major, brilliant major. he said every day for the next four

traded to memphis for drew gooden and you are a check, played six years in memphis, then went to minnesotaringing him to washington with randy foye, and -- >> phil: beautiful move. >> bill: that was nice. >> phil: he is so strong and very difficult to deny for a long period of time he has got 10 points and six rebounds. blatche's jumper there no good. butler battling but lewis comes down with it and he traveled. 30-11 orlando. magic with their second 50 win season last year, they won 59, went to the finals, losing to the lakers four games to one. miller lives, the running shot, that's a goaltend on howard. i don't know if it would have gone but it's moot. >> phil: clearly coming down. he has one of his teammates, i couldn't tell if it was reddick or williams, that kind of caught him down low. he was in an awkward position. > >> bill: williams drives on blatche, and williams good. in his 11th year also from the university of florida, at the buzzer, that is short and the first quarter comes to an end, a quarter that saw washington commit 6 turnovers and finish with 10 for the period. the mag

. >> reporter: john was one of 11 children, the son of an iron miner in northern minnesota's iron ranges dad never did see him play hockey. he never had the time. unlike today, john and his teammates were amateurs. men like goalie jack mccarten and bob and bill cleary were harvard men. >> no one gave us much of a chance. >> that changed when they beat the canadians. >> you could see press were coming to us and starting to talk us to. we were saying, oh, you know who we are now. >> then the powerhouse soviet team. they went on to win the gold medal against the czechs 9-4. it really was the miracle on ice until the game two decades later that we all remember, 1980, u.s. versus ussr. the cinderella story, the game that gets all the attention as the 1960 gold medicine ideal team fades from memory. >> team of underdogs. >> i remember watching it on television in the afternoon. >> and speaking of, "do you believe in miracles," al michaels was a teenager back in 1960 watching in black and white. 20 years later, his colorful call of the 1980 game became a broadcast classic, but always that 1960

the one that i've been interested in is minnesota. minnesota seems to have, with a standardized billing process and then it limits the insurance companies from coming up with sort of exceptions which invariably jack up their rates and make things more complicated but start if you would buy giving almost a state of where we are in 2010 on getting a standardized billing process so that we end this bureaucratic water torture for the providers and the patience who constantly tell us about all of these forms and different people and the like. where are we today? >> senator, the good news is there is administrative simplification mandates in both the house and the senate health reform bills which i would suggest will greatly accelerate progress in this area absent some kind of a letter. it is a difficult task. it is one donner know personally well because i worked on it in kansas and i think i am saved saying kansas now like minnesota is about to have a uniform billing system but it is not an easy -- everybody's fine with doing it wants to

peter, minnesota.e into making her business work, but she also shared a story with me. her son was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor. as she and trevor fight for his life, they are also fighting their insurance company to pay for the chemotherapy their doctor ordered. she also told me she fears her son will never be able to change jobs because of a pre-existing condition. our current health system is limiting our ability to grow our economy. as you know, mr. speaker, i represent the mayo clinic in rochester, minnesota, i'm proud to do so because of the high quality, low cost care they provide. i would like to leave you with a quote last week from the mayo clinic. reforming health care in america is absolutely essential. the status quo is not sustainable. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i went on l

the one that i've been interested in is minnesota.innesota seems to have come up with a standardized billing process and then it limits the insurance companies from coming up with sort of exceptions, which invariably jack up the rates and make things more complicated. start if you would by giving us almost a state of where we are, 2010, on getting a standardized billing process so that we end this bureaucratic water torture for the providers and the patients who constantly tell us about all these forms and different paper and the like. where are we today? >> well, senator, i think the good news is that there's administrative simplification in the senate and the health reform bills which i would suggest will greatly accelerate progress in this area. absent some kind of a lever, it is a difficult task. it's one that i know personally well because i worked on it in kansas. i think i'm safe in saying that kansas now, like minnesota, is about to have a uniformed billing system. but it is not an easy -- everybody is fine with doing it. once

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minnesota has played well of late., and those key wins could come in handy for them, especially butler. >> mike: the 10 and 6 in conference is very impressive for marquette. that's why clemson has to step on the gas here going down the stretch. but their strength -- their rpi is certainly going to help them. >> tim: i think the one glaring weakness out there, is the on the road. good teams hauled away on the road. >> tim: absolutely. really got to find a way to get a road victory. shock clock down under five. jerai grant. didn't get it on the rim. snaer, uses it for singleton. >> mike: cutting off driving lanes well. >> tim: oh, he waited for young, and andre didn't come out to get him. and he said i'll take that train. >> mike: we see with snaer 37%. you have to respect his at least. but he has the size. he can elevate over young and get a shot any time. >> tim: he blew out the paint, young wouldn't take it, okay, i'll stop and pop. booker, grabs it, no. snaer again. lost his dribble. he was looking down the floor and

to doreen in minnesota, hi, dear. >> caller: i have a question about the cinder block in the back door. do you know if they ever did any touch dna on that to get some cells off that rough sur snas. >> what about it? do we snow didn't they test the cinder block? >> they did. they took it into evidence and never came back with anything after, that even the door they took and never came back with anything. >> very quickly, mark herald, if you could explain touch dna. >> when a human being touches most surfaces, that's some transfer and if they can get dna off the skin cells, it can be incrimina incriminating. i know they took the cinder block.  >>> ronald, even behind bars, face ago lot of jail time, possibly that he will still only talk about haleigh. he says to this moment he's not changed his mind. if he finds the person that killed haleigh, he will kill that person. he doesn't care what kind of jail time he will face and even offers up the death penalty. it's worth it to him. >> undercover officers with putnam county sheriff's department heard misty was deali

the one i've been interested in is minnesota.in minnesota, it seems to have come up with a standardized billing process and then it limits the insurance companies from coming up with sort of exceptions which invariably jack up rates and make things more complicated. but start if you would by giving us almost a stage of where we are coming 2010, on getting a standardized billing process so that we in this bureaucratic water torture for the providers and patients who constantly tell us about all these forms, different paper, and the like. where are we today? >> senator, the good news is there's administrative simplification mandates in both the house and senate's health reform bills which i would suggest will greatly accelerate progress in this area. absent some kind of a lever, it is a difficult task. it's one that i know personally well because i worked on it in kansas and i think i'm safe in saying that kansas now like minnesota is about to have a uniform billing system. but it is not an easy -- everybody is fine with doing it.

to doreen in minnesota, hi dear. >> caller: hi, nancy. hey, i have a question about that cinder block that was placed in the back door. do you know if they ever did some touch dna on that to get cells off that rough surface? >> what about it? do we know, marlaina? didn't they test the cinderblock? >> they took it into evidence and didn't come back with anything. even the door they took and never came back with anything. >> very quickly, marc harrold, if you could describe touch dna. >> anytime a human touches most surfaces, there's transfer. if they can get dna off the skin cells, it can be incriminating. i don't know if they got anything or not, but i knew they took the cinderblock. >>> ronald, even behind bars, facing a lot of jail time, possibly, that he will still only talk about haleigh. he says, to this moment, he has not changed his mind. if he finds the person that killed haleigh, he will kill that person. he doesn't care what kind of jail time he will face. he doesn't care if it even offers up the death penalty. it's worth it to

trent lockett out of minnetonka, minnesota, they won a state title there. >> marques: but arizona statese of cal. >> steve: patrick christopher. >> marques: cal on the bombing ability of patrick christopher, jerome randle. they'll continue to attack the inside. jamal boykin at 6'8". a physical presence and dominating blocker. >> steve: boateng staying with it. fired up by california's defense. the bears' energy starts with their fans. it is now out on the floor. i beli re slive i'm sorry i ruour oh no you st gearnnd your. you d it easou k who do ynk you e? our fans watching our cal/asu men's game, we've got a terrific women's game coming your way with ucla against oregon. dixon against lilly. that's two top scorers in the top ten. of course, stanford has the lead in women's basketball. 16 and >> marques: the rest of defensive basketball. you see christopher, just a shove on the back side of ty abbott, which means that abbott displaying tremendous body control to avoid the offensively foul and get it to the left hand after that shove. >> steve: and i think abbott will be a little more ag

it is a wet snow, the type of snow in minnesota that we would call an issue. stephen tschida, abc 7 news. >> get in the live truck and warm-up. >>> coming up, up more storm watch coverage. doug hill will have another look at the forecast. >> emily schmidt live in montgomery county. the snow is beginning to accumulate and county wants to know how much it will cost. your name speaks volumes. big? check. hot pastrami? yes indeedie. and premium? no doubters here. with your piled high, piping hot n' tasty pastrami, pickles, spicy mustard and melted cheese, you've made us the kinda believers... that'd follow you blindly... like nearsighted bison on a flavor stampede. small price to pay for all that taste. try one today. subway. eat fresh. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> are storm watch coverage continues. these are live pictures of the white house, lafayette park. the snow on the white house, north and east. college park, off the campus main gate, university of maryland, brad bell said most of the students have left the scene. t

wheat in minnesota is a lot like wheat in pennsylvania. but you know what? it doesn't work like that for stocks except when they're in baskets. we didn't limit this to one country. one by one, other countries decided they were wheat and kmo. but thing happensed along the way. money managers, hedge fund managers were also able to pool vast amounts of money together. amounts of money so large they dwarfed individual stocks. they can't buy individual stocks. they'll end up owning the whole stock. they don't want to do that. so what did they do? they gravitated to the baskets and the futures markets that trade them. they can get in and out. they have what's known as liquidity. and the chief managers, chiefly global hedge fund managers, as i once was, so i know it, developed a group think. if they see gold go up, they buy gold. if they see gold go up, they buy oil. this is the kind of nonsense. they buy the dollar when gold goes down. they all trade in sync. that's what you saw today. the height of this group think occurred in 2008 when so many bought and sold th

>>> frank luntz' advice to lie about financial reform, and you get michelle bachman's warning to minnesota. complain about health care reform, and you'll get put on a list in japan. it's the maccato all of a sudden. [ ellen ] hey! [ receptionist ] hey! i was just in town for a few days, and i was wondering if i could say hi to the doctor. is he in? he's in copenhagen. oh, well, that's nice. but you can still see him! you just said he was in... copenhagen. come on! that's pretty far. doc, look who's in town. ellen! copenhagen? cool, right? vacation. but still seeing patients. oh. [ whispering ] workaholic. i heard that. she said it. i... [ female announcer ] the new office. see it. live it. share it. on the human network. >>> now tonight's first quick comment between john mccain's self-contradiction and john luntz' position, just lie, which we'll talk about in a moment. say anything, because they believe the republicans to whom they are talking are literally so stupid they'll believe anything. michelle bachman who has mentally not been on this planet for three years, told a small gathering

tipoff, but fans can exchange tickets for the wednesday, february 17th game against minnesota.e to do that, though, at the verizon center box office. >>> it is 6:44. howard bernstein is coming in with the latest from his weather instrument. >> just checking out where it is snowing already. still lynchburg and roanoke and abouting on the and southwestern, down 81 if you are heading through tennessee they are raining right now. that's where the transition area is for us. we are wait and watching on live doppler hd. in the median or middle levels of the atmosphere. switch over to radar. and you can see the rain developing to the west and southwest and southeast. that is snow or moisture. several thousand feet upstair and too dry to reach the ground and you will see the big ring. of course you will become a doughnut and tighten in on us as the snow levels drop closer to us and we will be snowing. i think we will be snowing perhaps even here in washington. the first flakes at 9:00 or 10:00 and by the afternoon the snow will really pick up. the next three days, the forecast first. we

parents in texas and minnesota have sued claiming that storing the dna could affect their children'sbility to get jobs or health insurance later on, but the state governments say that the samples are under rigid privacy controls and that the genetic screening could ultimately save lives. it is a fascinating debate, and we will follow up on it, but we wanted you parents to have that information. >>> more information we want you to have has to do with the weather center. chad meyers is watching the storm as it moves northeast. >> it is moving from memphis and mississippi and alabama with rain on up to the northeast, and as it does, that it is going to run into the colder air. they come together and the moisture comes up here and the colder air gets here in time and that is going to make a big-time snow event. there is a number of areas of snow and different types of snow and snow in the richmond and delmarva areas and different from what is in d.c. and baltimore. it depends what is in the atmosphere above you. there is a lot of rain to the southeast, but as the storm heads to the north

i'd like to yield to the gentleman from minnesota one minute.the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from minnesota is recognized for one minute. mr. paulsen: i rise today in strong opposition to this rule which will raise our national debt by nearly $2 trillion. that's 12 zeros. i urge members to vote no on the previous question so we can immediately have the house consider h.r. 4566, the end tarp act. that will end the tarp bailout program once and for all, saving taxpayers about $200 billion. in the most recent report, the special inspether general of tarp himself said, the program has failed to boost bank lending and it's also failed in halting the spread of home foreclosures. if the program isn't helping small businesses, if the program isn't helping homeowners, two of its major goals, why do we consider -- continue to throw hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money at it? it's time we got serious about sixing -- fixing our national fiscal house and spending problems. i urge members to vote no on the previous question so they can bri

governor pawlenty of minnesota, bill richardson of new mexico. we're just getting started. democrats and republicans are mixing tit up, right here next. >>> we're back. olympic figure skating champion evan lysacek is here a little later in the hour and he'll answer your questions. send them on our facebook page, facebook.com/cnnlarrykinglive. >>> its mission, to advance and promote american traditional values. peter barnhart, contributor time magazine. steven baldwin, author, actor, activist, born-again christian. he attended the political activist conference over the weekend and worked on the youth group movement. political analyst and host of the leslie marshall show. we'll start with you, it shows 86% of those surveyed think the united states government is broken. do you agree with that? >> absolutely i agree with it. and they have good reason to see what's happened here. what are we looking at here, larry? these proposals that even came out this week, it's clear that the people in this city do not know how to solve this problem. they're putting through bills that are ag

this group trying to get back to minnesota arrived at the terminal to find out they're out of luck. >c. we'd like to be home. >> what's the plan right now? >> we've got seats for a monday-morning flight. >> but today is friday. what are you going to do until monday? >> that's what we're trying to figure out. >> are you still staying positive? >> sure. another day eating out and having a good time with friends. i might not like it if i was alone, but i'm glad i've got my friends with me. >> you know, it's amazing how positive people stayed all morning even though their flights were canceled. some have to stay here throughout the weekend. if you are planning on comin to the airport tomorrow, if you do think you have a flight, don't do it. we also received word that all flights tomorrow are canceled as well. so the earliest flight leaving out of here at reagan national airport is sunday. that's the very latest here reporting live. >> that's knigquite a picture ae airport, a friday at 5:30, not a soul behind you. >> thank you, john. >>> a state of emergency has been declared in prince geo

and let's wrap with pennsylvania and minnesota. we have blankets of snow across the district, andrea. back to you. >>> our crews have been practically camped out at an intersection in gaithersburg since last saturday. kristin fisher has a look at the conditions there. good morning, kristin. >> reporter: good morning. we are at the shell station actually. exxon station is just across the street. picked up a nice cup of hot coffee and i'm not going to put it down right now because it is keeping me very warm as we continue our live shots throughout the morning. if you need to get gas this morning, you should have done it last night, but if you need it i'm happy to report this gas station does have gas. we watched bruce leshan as he did a live report as the tanker truck was coming in, refilling the station just in time for the next round of winter weather and it's a good thing because check out the driveway that a tanker would have to drive up now. last night the road was looking clear now you can see it has a solid layer covering it.