coming up so ms waters are above the arctic circle still manages to attract tourists and kites seeking a thrill so next we invite you for the next thirty minutes to visit the white city in northern russia. the white sea its surface remains choked with ice minutely seven months a year. the chilly breath of the arctic ocean keeps the water freezing cold. near the coast however the high winds and bitter cold receipt. that even in winter can be seen through holes in the ice. squeals and cracking sounds can often be a good around them. this is how so cold canaries of the sea communicate. typically they hide under the ice the white sea is the natural habitat. far from the civilized world in the north of russia on the coast of the white sea sea canaries are communicating with people with great pleasure in the open waters. of a q and they are behaving strangely today. sure why you had a canary so why did you feel like giving us a song it was something wrong with your first step. before you start singing vs. the water your best go into is sure was more. than was a little let's give our throat s

ms. waters from california for five minutes. >> thank you very much. mr.emarco, i mentioned i wanted to talk about principle write downs, and i want to talk about the pilot program that was in the papers today, but i got to get to something else first. in august, fannie mae paid $500 million to bank of america to purchase the servicing rights to more than 400,000 mortgages in its portfolio. according to your staff, fannie allowed the purchasing of the servicing of the mortgages to another presumably better servicer to broaden outcomes and minimize losses to fannie going forward. i understand they had a contract, and it would be more expensive to sue them for poor performance, but i'm not happy that fannie had to purchase the servicing back from a company that was doing such a poor job. my question is this. does bank of america continue to get servicing business from fannie and freddie, and if so, were would the gses give business to a company whose servicing is so problematic that fannie had to buy back loans in order to properly service them? >> i'm not h

ms. waters. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. aters: i rise in strong opposition to the work force democracy and fairness act. this bill would severely undermine workers' rights to organize and if implemented will eventually silence and end unions as we know them. congressman george miller was create in -- correct in referring to this bill as the election prevention act. h.r. 3094 would require the national labor relations board to hear trivial appeals from companiesn order to stop elections. this is an outright assault on middle class workers and the families they support. the middle class is in decline. a c.b.o. report found that between 1979 and 2007 the top 1% of earners experienced income growth of 275%, that's the top 1%. while the middle income earners only saw 40% in growth over the same period. statistics like these are startling and pay a dis-- paint a distinct picture of this country as one that is quickly evolving into a two-teared society with no room at the top at all for the middle class. the work force democracy an

ms. waters, do you have any questions? >> thank you very much. >> recognize you for five minutes. >> i'd like to first thank all of our young panelists who are here today for coming to share your stories, so that we can be better informed, and know how to best use our public policy influence to do much better than we are doing about homelessness. i would like to share with you that recently i decided to walk through the system in los angeles. and what i saw disturbs me greatly. i do not think that systems are working the way we think they are up here, and for the last three or four weeks, i've been trying to get a family, a mother with three children, placed in transitional to permanent housing. and i've not been able to do it, so i've gone to a big agency called the oversight agency, and i am confronting them on how the system is not working. and i think that the members of this committee, ms. biggert, and her leadership, we should all, not just visit, shelters and sit down and talk with people who are supposed to be impl

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ms. i put them in water on the spoon. i wait for the color to come off that.ncil without any lead in it and i dip this in it and paint the picture. i got the basic colors from the m and m. the chocolate is left and i'll eat that. link is the son of rosanna dimauro whose ex-boyfriend is kasey ackerman. all three are in the custody of the hillsborough county jail on various charges related to the stabbing and incineration murder of robert brewer. the crime made headlines and caught the attention of master deputy steven gray. >> what we have here the high profile board. anything that makes the paper. they will make the board. this is an interesting case. an older female is dating a younger male who is friends with her son and they are now locked up in our facility awaiting trial. >> ackerman who prosecutors say was the ring leader of the murder has been held in the men's lock down unit where he is confined 23 hours a day. >> the finger's been pointed. i've been implicated in it. this is where i got to sit. >> thoughts of dimauro occupy his time. >> that's her on

ms-13 gang. >>> a carjacking suspect in virginia tried to evade police by land and by water. police say emole milo sanchez was wanted for pushing his estranged wife into a van outside of a grocery store. the coast guard escorted him back to shore and the wife was found safe. >>> a fugitive from mississippi used a stolen cab of a tractor-trailer to avoid police in baltimore city. he led police on a chase through prince george's county. that's where they finally lost control of the truck and crashed at 295 and powder mill road. no one was hurt and the driver faces a number of charges. >>> democracy 2012. congressman andy harris is throwing his support behind newt gingrich. he says he believes newt gingrich has the experience to turn the economy around. >>> it's one of the most hotly debated issues for 2012, the legislative session opens in six weeks. the issue of same-sex marriage. the new push for the governor and support, opponents also gearing up in the fight. corinne has more. >> reporter: supporters of same-sex marriage believe 2012 is their year for victory once the legis

ms-13 gang. >>> when an escape on land didn't work the suspect tried to jump into the water. this is in norfolk, virginia, a man wanted to force his estranged wife into a van in a grocery store. when authorities were chasing him he jumped from his van into the elizabeth river. a coast guard boat escorted him back to shore where he was hen arrested. the wife was found safe. >>> fugitive caught in a stolen cab of a tractor-trailer in maryland. it started on south baltimore around 6:00 last night. police tried to pull over the driver but he would not budge. state police and health units followed him into prince george's county where he lost control of the tractor-trailer and crashed at 295 on powder mill road. no one was hurt and the driver is now facing a number of charges. >>> maryland governor martin o'malley is now endorsed the same-sex marriage and in a few weeks it will have a big impact when the controversial issue now begins to see opposition. corrine redmond has more. >> reporter: it's sure to be one of the most hotly debated issues of the 2012 legislative session. supp

ms. slaughter: goes beyond their crusade of government protections for our clean air and water, safed into and workplaces -- safe food and workplaces. not only is the majority not passed a payroll tax holiday, meaning even though we're still struggling to recover from a recession, the average american family will see $1,000 increase in their taxes on january. they've refused so far to extend unemployment benefits for the $2 -- 2.1 million americans whose benefits will run out in the coming months if congress does not act. congress has never allowed emergency extended benefits to expire, when the jobless rate has been anywhere close to its current level of 8.6%. some republicans like to argue that it gives the american people a disincentive to work. but how can they take jobs that don't exist? most people unemployed in this country would much rather get a job but they can't find one. there is still roughly 6.5 million fewer jobs in the economy today than when the great recession started in 2007. so we're supposed to let them and their children starve or face possible eviction or foreclosure

their struggle and will deny myself all food, all water for 24 hours, starting tonight in solidarity with their struggle. i thank the gentlelady for her time. ms. norton: i can't thank the gentleman enough for coming to the floor. first of all in solidarity to have read and in solidarity with the hunger strikers themselves. i think mr. ellison's coming to the floor says to the district of columbia that i am not alone here. dollar hundreds of members like mr. ellison, for whom the issue of full democracy for the district of columbia is a priority issue. so here's a member who is from the midwest, from minnesota, who takes the time because the hunger strikers have visited his office, they have visited my office as well, they are young people doing something on their own, no one would have said to anyone else, you ought to go on a hunger strike. but it does show you the desperation that many in our city feel, that among us are some who in order to call attention to this injustice in our country have now taken to something beyond civil disobedience. to the ultimate kind of sacrifice, when they give up food, now, for as many as eight days. depen, i

ms. harris and who works at a nearby bank. we work hard and teach our kids to work hard but it is hard for us to keep are heads above water theses from the new york times. we will put the phone lines back on the screen on washington journal. we divided them differently by income this morning for this first segment. 202-737-0001 for those who make under $50,000. if you make between 50 to $150,000, 0002 is the number to call it if you make over $150,000, 628-0205. we begin in oklahoma city, oklahoma. mark makes between 50 to 150. good morning. >> i'm make her around $70,000 a year which -- >> host: what did you think of the president's speech? >> caller: he knocked it out of the ball park. he had some points that need to be stated and he needs to call the republican party out for the mistakes that they are and how they're trying to put all the burden for taxes on the middle class and not having the people of wealth pay their fair share. with all the advantages we have that we don't have as normal middle-class working families. >> host: there have been proposals like losing the mortgage interest deduction? what if that happened to

water management tool that is make sense, anyway. >> thank you. ms. meeker? >> the two areas where we have focused on have been in our infrastructure improvements for our coastal structures, where at one time they were gravity structures. you could just open them an let the water flow off the land. as sea level has inched up, literally, we have -- when we refurbish those structures they now become mechanical structure toss force the water out. so that's the first one. the second is as we see that sea level rise, we see a higher tendency or possibility for salt water intrusion in our ground water wells. so that's a key area that we watch very closely. we're working with usgs and the sampling and everything else and the utilities to watch the salt water levels in those wells. we have moved wells away from the coastal area. we use our coastal structures to keep water levels in the canals higher to recharge the aquifers to create a head to keep that salt water out. so we continue to work with that literally every day. >> and a number of people have mentioned the i