. >> has the new york housing authority likely to receive significant cdbg funding? >> we expect in the plan we'll get from new york they will propose funding for mitigation measures in the housing authority there. >> according to the new york city controller, the new york city housing authority operation is like an onion, the more you peel back the more you want to cry. i also heard they are sitting on a billion dollars right now. i would hope you would take that into consideration. that billion dollars as well as some of the other problems with the new york city housing authority, that billion dollars should be applied first to these issues before we give more money for the disaster up there. are you at all concerned with how they will spend the money? i'm talking new york city housing authority given their track record. >> we've been looking at this issue of the billion dollars that you are talking about. the vast majority of that is committed to particular project that is are under way. so just to be clear, it's not that there is a billion dollars that is not slat

thing i note, i was in brooklyn a few days ago, had a meeting with public housing leaders, and the new york city public housing authority which presides over public housing units in new york city, the largest such public authority related to public housing in the country, will experience $190 million cut as a result of sequestration. there are already residents of public housing in my district and across the city of new york dealing with inhumane conditions right now. mold infestation. broken elevators. rat infestation. the inability to get repairs done on a timely basis. violence at levels that should not be tolerated. and instead of cutting almost $200 million from the public housing authority in new york, we should be investing more. madam speaker, we're hopeful that we can arrive at a place where commonsense will prevail and we can move forward to keep america moving forward in a reasonable way. i want to yield to close to my colleague stephen horsford. mr. horsford: i just want to ask, this debate begins and ends with the american people and we want to hear and listen to their views and we want you to know that you

housing residents throughout my district. they're very concerned. sequestration will cost the new york city housing authority million. these are housing residents who are already living with mold infestation, broken elevators, long-delayed repair, often violent conditions. we need to invest more to make sure that these residents can live with the grace and dignity they deserve. they're forced to absorb cuts that's going to make their quality of life worse than it is right now. >> there are those, though, who say this is just a small minority of people who will be directly affected. how do you respond to that? >> well, that's not accurate. $2.5 billion in superstorm sandy aid will be cut. the district that i represent which includes neighborhoods like coney island and sea gate and brighton beach were devastated. homes were destroyed. people are out, forced to live in temporary shelters, incur tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage. uncertainty about their future. we already had to confront the possibility that they wouldn't get the aid that they were owed as it relates to what's necessary to rebuild. we

housing. that helps to keep people in the city of new york. right now it is -- you know, they are trying to figure out new ideas to be able do more luxury housing. the housing authorityntinues to be wasteland and really -- city administration, housing authority, head, continues to allow thousands of apartments to sit on the side that are vacant. city of new york needs to help focus on creating housing. that helps to keep people -- >> what does this focus mean? how do you operationalize that? >> housing authority, proposal to put it on the grounds of housing authority land. instead of that, it is great opportunity to do middle income housing. create some income diversity within the housing authority. great opportunities if that's the focus. right now the focus doesn't exist in the city. >> housing has always been expensive. let's not kid ourselves in new york city. but over the last decade, housing has become that much more unaffordable for now 50% of the households living in new york city. the pace of housing construction, even though mayor bloomberg had ambitious plans, it has not kept pace with the growth of the city. that's what is driving the rents up through the

author nine "new york times" best sellers. the sequester really ruined everything, didn't it? little kids can i go on white house tours.rhood has been deprived of $250 million -- oh, no, that is fine. back onc had to cut speakers this year by about 300 towns. [applause] after all of obama's hard work and wrangling over the budget, he has managed to cut the growth of the federal spending by 2%. congratulations, mr. president. even that was imposed on him by the sequestered. and roger ailes called obama lazy. said that was racist. but that was a direct quotation. know why he did not know that? because he is lazy. according to liberals, these are racist dog whistles, which may be why only debbie wasserman schulz and rachel maddow can hear them. obama has his own words. he says investments, and he means government spending. he says revenue, and he means taxes. in the dr. lincoln is library, and he means, "distract michelle. i'm going out for a smoke." remember, republicans agreed to raise taxes, and in exchange, we're supposed to be taking an ax to the budget. he wants to raise taxes again. remember this the next time some

housing authority? he called up the new york city harlem authority and had them send a supervisor down. he came with an accordion type file with all sorts of papers in it. he said you have the papers to determine how often you send money to spray these tree's? he ran it down and he told them back in 1952 or something like that. how many times that at this time span did they not spray the trees? they checked off that they sprayed it all the time. he looked back at my father, mr. carlos are you sure? i father said you can ask anyone in the projects. by that time you might imagine the courthouse started looking a little better to my dad. the thing that got me that really let me know that i was on the right course in life is what my father said to me once we were leaving the courtroom. my father looked at me and he told me you have done a lot of things in your life. he said now i have spanked you quite a few times. he said you never turned away from what you did and you always stood fast on what you did and he took the spankings but today i just want you to know i am one of the proudest fat

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housing crash. >>> "new york times" columnist and best selling author bruce filer was battling a rare form of boneds to become kind of counsel dads for his daughters if, in fact, he were to die during his treatment. in this week's human factor dr. sanjay gupta tells us how the father beat the disease and then returned to his passion. >> reporter: i first met bruce filer three years ago when he was trying to rebound from a cancer diagnosis. grappling with the possibility of dying, before his twin daughte daughters, eden and tybie grew up. facing his own mortality -- >> i could just feel my body sort of slipping away. >> reporter: he makes an extraordinary request. >> will you help be their dad? >> reporter: thankfully bruce and his family got through that. and today bruce has no evidence of cancer in his body. with all that behind him, he has resumed doing what he does best. writing. his new book is called "the secrets of happy families." what inspired you to write this book? >> we were always on the defense. that's what it's like, you know, to be a parent these days. >> reporter: are there ground

housing authorities. people were taking gun manufacturers to court to try to hold them responsible. new yorktlanta, chicago, gary, indiana, new orleans, miami, bridgeport, connecticut. more than two dozen other cities sued more than 20 gun manufacturers. they argued in many of these cases the gun industry had built up a distribution system for its product that allowed and even encouraged illegal sales. sales to people who should not have been able to buy guns legally. when warned that certain distributors are responsible for big proportions of the guns that ended up in the hands of criminals, the manufacturers just kept their distribution systems in place. no change. we don't care. we hope you are paying cash. the lawsuits holding gun manufacturers accountable for those decisions were exactly what the gun industry did not want to have to deal with. and so the gun industry made them go away. when new orleans sued the gun industry, the gun industry got the state of louisiana to pass a law giving the industry immunity from lawsuits. retroactively. atlanta got the state of georgia to give the in

author of new york times bestsellers. the sequester has really ruined everything, hasn't it? little kids can't go on white houseource, muslim brotherhood has been deprived of 250 million -- oh no, that is safe. had to cut back on its figures this year by about 300 pounds. [laughter]

. >> authorities say tearing down the house will give them a better idea of how to deal with this still-expanding sinkhole. >>> a story of survival amid tragedy tonight. new york city, a bmw slammed in to the side of a vehicle that was taking a man and his pregnant wife to the hospital. following the accident, the two people in a bmw took off on foot. a search for them is now underway. the parents, both 21 years old, were taken to different hospitals where they both died. the baby boy was delivered by c-section. tonight he remains in the hospital in serious condition. >>> news of the world tonight, secretary of state john kerry's visit to egypt has done little to calm violence there. in cairo, demonstrators clashed with police in tahrir square. two cars were set on fire. protesters say police clubbed people in the square and in port saeed more violence. police in riot gear who were using teargas for a group of about 5,000 protesters. >>> in pakistan police say a car bomb injured 145 people. the bomb blew up outside a mosque in a shiite neighborhood. no one has taken responsibility for the attack. it was the third large scale attack so far this year against mem

now and in new york charged with plotting to kill americans on 9/11 and number one, after senator rand paul, 13 hour filibuster, the white house says the presidents did not have the authority to drone noncombatant united states citizen on american soil. and that's "the fox report's" top five. and on this day in 1897, doctor john kellogg served up the very first bowl of corn flakes at a health resort in battle creek, michigan. the doc was known for pushing a healthy lifestyle at the san sanitarium. his original batch of flakes had no sugar. but the doc's brother recognized the food's market value so he added some sweetness and brought the cereal to the store shelves. that led to a big fight and dr. kellogg sued his sibling for selling the flakes. doc lost. brother cashed. in his signature, even became the company's iconic logo but a breakfast staple first hit the table 116 years ago today. but without sugar. and now you know the news for this thursday, march the 7th, 2013. i'm shepard smith. back tomorrow for "studio b," noon pacific, 3:00 eastern and for "the fox report" right before the factor. >> the o'reilly factor is on. tonight: >> my message to the women of egypt is

authorities are trying to scare us, it's scary stuff doesn't materialize is the white house scared that this president then gets marginalized? >> republican presidential candidate the mayor of this fine city of new yorkas deemed by new yorkers to be the best mayor they ever had. that's a tough lot. they hate everybody. mayor, good to have you. >> good to be with you. >> neil: what do you make of this? >> of the sequester? >> neil: yeah. >> the president seriously here. it goes to his credibility. he spent a month on the stump telling us all the dire consequences, how terrible this is, how awful. >> neil: not coming true. >> you and i turn out to be correct. he tirns out to be misleading. i was on your show last week and we said 2.5% of a cut from an increase is hardly going to have any impact. >> neil: wasn't 2.5%. >> actually less than that. it's a cut from an increase. how the heck is it going to have dire consequences. >> neil: now he has to justify it after the fact or does he just say all right, steady as she goes, i'm still worried? what does he do? >> the president has done something really seriously damaging. you can't break trust with the american people. and i don't care how much the media

house, here on c-span. in the senate there will be voting on new york court nominations. on tuesday they plan to debate a measure authorizing expenditures by committee. coming up as early as tuesday, the intelligence committee -- committee votes on the nomination of john brennan. you can watch the senate live on our companion network. >> you have to understand that all of the founders, their primary concern, number one was with national security. o would they think, for example, about a company like lockheed? i am of the opinion that based on how they acted in other instances they would have grudgingly bit -- grudgingly favored a bailout of lockheed because it supplied the united states at the time with its top reconnaissance jets and fighter planes. you can make an argument that they would have supported the bailout of chrysler in the 1980's but not the bailout of chrysler today. the difference? back then chrysler made tanks. in fact they were our only tank manufacturer. it is interesting, when chrysler comes out of debt and repays the government loan and comes back to health, the main way they did that was by selling off

authorities say there was a man inside the house, but he was not hurt. wow. >>> bad news for tourists and history buffs here. new york'sning anytime soon. the national parks service says damage from superstorm sandy was so bad, they don't have a projected reopening date. repairs could cost up to $59 million. >>> he claims to know everything about the 82 phillies, but what about march madness? jake tapper, his bracket, my bracket, next. >> wherever she goes, they follow. but at the same time, yes, as she is traveling through many different lands, there are other languages she comes across. >> we have other languages coming up on the show that are not -- also need to be investigated and we hope david will do those for us as well. >> i would love to keep creating languages for projects like "game of thrones," for tv shows, for movies. that's the dream of everybody is to create a language. with so much competition, finding the right job is never easy. but with the nation's largest alumni network, including those in key hiring positions, university of phoenix can help connect you to a world of opportunity. so if ydead batte

authors, mrs. maloney from new york, we heard testimony from new york city fireman ted sacardio. he was wounded and two of his fellow firemen were killed when a gunman lured them to a house that that gunman had set on fire and then started shooting at them. the shooter, the shooter had his neighbor buy the gun for him because he could not pass a background check. the fireman said yesterday, and i quote, putting a gun in someone's hand that isn't supposed to have one must be stopped. so let's pass this bill this bipartisan bill, and let's stop it. i now yield to my colleague and good friend from maryland, the author of this legislation, and a leader on this issue, mr. cummings. mr. cummings: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise today to ask every member of the house to join our bipartisan efforts to combat firearm trafficking and co-sponsor h.r. 452, the gun trafficking prevention act. earlier this year, i was honored to join colleagues on both sides of the aisle to introduce this commonsense proposal to make firearms trafficking a federal crime for the first time and to impose stiff new penalties on straw purchaser. since then the number of co-sponsors has swelled,