but it's because of the shift from south louisiana to north louisiana with the shale plays. but in south louisiana, we still are experiencing tremendous downturn because of the slow permitting process. the deepwater plays are significant, but the shallow water drillers have really been hurt. and according, mr. chairman, to this report, which is really the hidden story of the mccondo spill and the, i thought, inappropriate moratorium, put down 41% of the respondents said they are not currently making a profit. these are the small oil and gas independent marine operators. 70% said they have dipped into their cash reserves. so they're not laying off their employees, but at great hardship to these small and independent businesses that are servicing an industry that the top line looks good, but there's a lot underneath. so i'd like to submit that for the record. >> we'll be glad to include that. >> secondly, in the report, supply rising in the west growth at risk in iraq, i think it's -- the page is not numbered, but this is in your report -- you all say that we have pencilled in

but it's because of the shift from south louisiana to north louisiana with the shale plays. but in south louisiana, we still are experiencing tremendous downturn because of the slow

levels of drilling for unconventional oil and gas like pennsylvania, west virginia, ohio, north dakota, louisiana, texas. all of those states have seen rising tax revenues and lower unemployment levels in recent years. so it's something to consider in our discussion of how far do we go with renewable portfolio standards? are they the best option? and i think there's a real good case to be made that the subsidies and public expendit e expenditures that are devoted to renewables can be best spent for r & d to lower their costs in the future. and pushing them on to the marketplace before their time may be counter productive. and my findings indicate provide some evidence to support that argument. thank you. >> great. >> that was very good, and you stayed on time, which is nice. i'm going to turn the discussion over to my colleague who is less likely to keep us on time. but i will be ruthless in waving my fingers at him if he strays beyond his allotted segment. ben's a visiting scholar at aei at the research institute. he's also an associate in the intelligence community associations program of the o

alabama, alaska, arizona, arkansas, colorado, florida, georgia, idaho, louisiana, mississippi, montana, nevada, new mexico, north carolina, tennessee, texas, and utah. essentially, what those of us from states which had higher tanf benefits said to ourselves was that poor kids are a matter of concern no matter what state you represent. and that there had to be some provision for states with very, very low levels of assistance, that the kids did not go hungry. that program has been continued until july -- mid 2011. and so as we look at this tanf program and the extension, i think it would be wise to discuss whether the supplemental program should be continued that assists kids in these states who would receive i think a very inadequate assistance through the tanf program. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. i'll just take a few minutes and say that i appreciate the consensus i've heard around the table this morning about extending the tanf program. i think we're finding an area of common agreement here. i do want to point out that i believe that the supplemental grants that my friend from michigan mention read

rain in louisiana. north of dallas. across the red river, getting into snow.rnings posted for arkansas and the snowfall we expect to see, four to six inches in some spots, but stretching into chicago and the good news with this system is it exits the mountains, we're looking at a decent amount of snow pack that continues to build thankfully out west. new york, you got winds, travel delays there in the morning dallas maybe delays and san francisco and los angeles, your next round of pacific storms heads into the west coast. back to you. >> rob marciano, thank you for that. >>> still to come on "early start," heard of this? lin sanity? lin incredible, lin it to win it, that was my own, i made it up. >> lin it to win it. >> it may be. >> may catch on. >> it may catch on. his name is jeremy lin and if you don't know about him now, you need to know about him in the next segment. stick around for it. >> if you have a little super star in the making he gives those little guys hope. >> it's a great story. >>> two big wins for mitt romney this weekend, so why does it f

north america. and it doesn't play out. in the aftermath of the war of 1812 this border land between louisiana and texas is a hotly contested area. and one of my favorite characters in all of american history -- it's not john smith -- lature. how many of you guys have heard of le? my wife has. lature is an enigmatic figure. he lived in the shadows of american history. he's a frenchman. he makes it to louisiana in he'. he's an engineer. he had trained as a military engineer. well, by the time of the war 1812, he's a having a hard time making ends meet. so he joins andrew jackson to fight in this war of 1812.fact, who designed the defenses for le, jackson halmette. dismissed the army by march of 1815. lature is unemployed. he speaks fre speaks english. so he's actually going to be hired by the spanish government to go on an expedition. he claims it's an expeditio of arkansas. yeah, you can actually find gold in arkansas if you're lucky. so he aia jean lafit will go up ithanfor eight months, th out of sight. when he return, being an architect/engineer, he drafts a map, he writes a pretty lengthy reportlly he had visits the hea

sanders received his undergraduate degree from louisiana state university, a masters in education from north georgia college, another master's degree from the united states naval war college, and a ph.d. from kansas state, where he has been teaching since 2001. his research is centered on military history, and he has written a well-regarded book on military prisons in the civil war titled "while in the hands of the enemy." one reviewer for the "georgia historical quarterly" wrote, quote, no one can claim to be a serious student of civil war prisons until reading sanders' book, unquote. what i admire most about dr. sanders' ability is his skill as a teacher, which i have heard about from students and others at kansas state. one anonymous student posted a comment on the ratemyprofessor's website exclaiming best teacher i have ever had! seriously! dr. sanders changed my life and outlook in history and critical thinking. if you go through college without taking a class from him, your education is incomplete. it's the kind of praise that all of us who are university educators envy. today, dr. san

north america, and it doesn't play out. in the aftermath of the war of 1812, this border land between louisiana and texas is a hotly contested area. and one of my favorite characters in all of american history -- it's not john smith -- lature. how many of you guys have heard of lature? my wife has. she's lived with me all these years. latour is kind of these enigmatic figures. he's lived in the shadow of the american history. he's a frenchman, as can you tell by the name. he makes it to louisiana in 1803, and he's an architect. he's an engineer. he had trained as a military engineer. well, by the time of the war of 1812, he's a having a hard time making ends meet. so he joins andrew jackson to fight in this war of 1812. and, in fact, he is the person who designed the defenses for jackson at shalmette. well, after the battle, jackson dismissed the army by march of 1815. latour is unemployed. he speaks french. he speaks spanish. he speaks english. so he's actually going to be hired by the spanish government to go on an expedition. he claims it's an expedition into the gold-producing regions of arkansas. yeah, you can actually

louisiana. the storm track along the virginia-north carolina border.re will be moisture, but without the cold air in the east, most of our precipitation will be the rain. the snow is still coming down in the foothills of the rockies, parts of nebraska, south dakota. another stripe of very heavy snow expected tortes omaha, parts of iowa, approaching chicago the next few days. on this end of the storm system, a lot of rain, a little bit of snow expected to the north and west, primarily late tomorrow night. starts as light rain showers, temperatures drop. rain will mix or change into wet snow, especially north of baltimore, cecil county, harford county, the mountains of southern pennsylvania. sunday afternoon, the system will glide out of the region. if it stays on this track and temperatures are cool enough saturday night, perhaps an inch or so of snow. a couple inches possible in western maryland mountains. in this strange winter, it is a hint of the season. increasing cloudiness tomorrow, rain in the evening, 45-50 during the day. rain/snow mixture off

north carolina and tennessee. the parent low pressure area is just about into northwestern louisiana now.ad of it now is rob being some of the moisture that we would have otherwise gotten. so now we have this huge dry slot here inside of this storm. and that is also going to start to limit our ability to generate snow around here tomorrow. so snow lovers, this may not be the one for us. here we go, 3:00 tomorrow afternoon, snow firing up across southwestern virginia. i do think there will be a time late tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow evening where we get snow here into the washington area before the storm races on out to sea and then sunshine back as early as monday afternoon. overnight tonight, here's our snow forecast. clouds racing in early during the course of the day tomorrow. and snow amounts, i've lowered them just a touch now. here's what i think my latest thinking is for snow totals. only trace amounts now, north of the washington area. trace to maybe two inches at the most. two at the most to four inches down towards cull pepper, and that's about it. overnight tonight, clear e

north, blackened catfish. classic fried shrimp poboy. and louisiana red beans and rice. yum, yum. we are always talking about food lately. >> went to college in the south. i lived down there for years. this is classic, good old- fashioned heart attack stuff. >> yummy, yummy, yummy. if you eat it once in a while, you shouldn't get a heart attack. >> it's good bad food. >> i love it. moderation. >> you got it. >>> still ahead on eyewitness news. free breast implants for t- shirts? which school district is charging millions to taxpayers? >>> plus, why do more women die of heart attacks than men? details of the study in health watch. >>> i'm bob turk. in the first warning weather center. more mild air headed our way. i'll have the exclusive first warning five-day forecast. ,,,,, >>> from top chef annapolis, brian bitagio fights as he speaks in front of maryland lawmakers, in hopes that all students have full stomachs. >> i made a sorbet are using pineapple. >>> frederick native, brian baltagio was a world-renowned chef and finalist. his passion is now at his hometown restaurant's lunc

north. already rain just beginning to break out tonight. georgia into the louisiana area. that's moving up in our direction. so we could see a good solid rain event tomorrow. we need it. we are down below normal right now. storm out to the midwest in the plains. is going to cause snow out across the northern plains. maybe even blizzard-like conditions in the dakotas. for us, a little snow to the north. just cold enough, a little rain shower activity breaking out in ohio. eventually, clouds will break out tonight. and we do look for rain during the day tomorrow. and the front goes through late tomorrow night, early thursday, leftover clouds. and it clears out. a nice west wind, warming up, even into the 60s. with pacific air. not arctic air. not canadian air. thursday, looks like a nice day, breezy. should be dry and mild. southeast winds, 10 to 15 knots. bay temp, around the 43-degree mark. takes a while to warm up. 35 tonight. incoming -- increasing clouds overnight. rain in the morning in the afternoon and evening at least. and drizzle at times. and maybe some fog becaus

area of low pressure that is bringing it down like a pack of hammers across louisiana, into mississippi, into alabama and norths hour. this area of low pressure that is causing all this mess is not going to stay locked in place. it's not going to remain anchored to the ground. we anticipate that it's going to pull its way to the northeast. in fact, as you make your way through the afternoon, it's going to pull its way into parts of florida and alabama, heavy rain on all i-65. let's fast forward again into sunday morning, sunday mid day, even into sunday night. that low pushes out towards the atlantic, back half of the system with the cold air coming through. and back into the appalachians. we'll have more on that coming up. gary, let's toss it back to you. >> thank you, reynolds. >>> saying good-bye to a legend. at the top of the hour, we go live to new jersey where music legend whitney houston is being laid to rest today. >>> also ahead, i visit whit knew houston's home taun and talk to those who knew her best. what they're remembering about their hometown hero. >>> it's 59 minutes after the hour. i'm gary tu

north and west, not the case. we showed you new mexico yesterday. we'll zoom into texas and louisiana today because this is the moisture. it will kick off a storm that will develop in the gulf of mexico and that's going to move northeastward into alabama and eventually off the north carolina coast sunday. not a direct hit for us, not a perfect storm, but pretty much all we got. 50 now in bethesda, 51 rockville, 50 great falls and 52 in springfield, even still 51 in arlington, a very nice evening. so more like a march storm. i say that because we're in the 50s now and will be in the 50s tuesday. grab a coat tonight, still mild and nice tomorrow, no worries saturday night. we had a heavy burst of snow or whatever burst it is, but it's heavy or moderate. the heaviest will be between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. sunday. tonight clear skies, chilly, one to two blanket night, 28 to 38 and still above freezing downtown, winds out of the northwest at 10. for tomorrow morning mostly sunny and chilly, very nice, 30s and 40s, winds north at 10 and by afternoon high clouds come in but still a very pleasant

louisiana and eastern texas. temperatures divided by warmth here and the colder air to the north where you see the blue shading. 46york city as we move through friday, plenty of sun here for the northeast. but the showery weather is across the south and on the other side, this will be a severe side as we track isolated thunderstorms. we have all the snow and it is going to be a terrible rush hour in denver friday morning. and even into friday evening, the snow is spreading across nebraska and kansas, as well. you can see that cold air diving in. friday's high only 30 degrees. this will stick around on saturday, with snow continuing across the high plains. rain stretching through the ohio valley, mid-atlantic and the southeast. that brings more rain back into the atlanta area, as we move into sunday. all eyes on indianapolis, of course, as we expect some cold rain to move in late saturday into sunday, just in time for the super bowl. doesn't look like a big snow event, but a little changeup to your weather over the weekend. rain showers moving further to the east as the storm continues in that direction. new york c

line of showers and storms pulling out of texas into louisiana, another heavy batch of storms into the panhandle of florida. we'll zoom further northuthwestern virginia and extreme southern west virginia, this rain will work its way west ward overnight. kind of a quick hitter. if i had to draw a line through town like 66 and 50 south is the best chance for significant rain tomorrow. so not looking at a lot but maybe 1/4-inch to 1/2-inch of liquid precipitation, 63 rockville, 59 gaithersburg and 62 in laurel. here's the deal. it's going to be a little cooler, but still mild as we go through the rest of the week. a dry evening commute, a wet morning commute primarily south of 66 and also south of 50. still mild on thursday, though, and a very nice finish friday, not talking 60s or 70s but still very nice. by 11:00 tonight you can see the precipitation may be getting through fredericksburg and southern maryland. we get into the late night hours, early morning hours, showers back to the west and south and this kind of moves through just almost right along 60 and 66 and 50. it gets through pretty quickly. you may have lingering showers

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louisiana cooking two weeks ahead of mardi gras. >> it's never too early. after a calm winter, we're getting ready for at least some snow, especially if you live north and west of the beltway. howard tells us just how much to expect, when it will start falling and when it will stop. more on that when we come back. >>> agustas savage was part of the flourishing scene in the early 1920's. she won a fellowship to study abroad in paris in 1929. when she returned to america, she taught and open add studio to african-americans could learn about their culture through the fine arts. savage opened the first african- american art gallery in new york. for information on historical figures in black history, log on to wusa9.com. never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. 60 miles in 3 days is-- is huge. if my mom can fight and beat breast cancer, i can walk 60 miles. you just put one foot in front of the other, and you know that you're walking for such a great cause that you just keep going. (man) that you have all these people coming together for one common goal. (woman) the goal is to bring an end to breast cancer. (woman) the fund-raising was th

louisiana for gingrich. then you get here. at this point, with a rough projection, romney has almost 2-1 in the delegate chase. so gingrich would have to do much better in the northf we won the texas primary, if that's his definition of relative parody, okay. but that's in the ballpark of where it would be things play out with romney winning. so that ice a long haul to go. and went through a lot of states right there. that requires a lot of money and organization and when you're losing, the money doesn't keep coming in. so he's going to have to run a very disciplined campaign to get this far in and have the resources to compete not only in texas but the other places. that's april 3. >> he seemed 100% determined to do that. he's not going anywhere because you can see how angry he is at mitt romney. let's take a quick break. we'll go back to that special caucus in las vegas. we'll see what happens there. stay with us. our special coverage continues in a moment. financial advice. back then he had something more important to do. he wasn't focused on his future. but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide retirement planning for our military, veterans and t

alabama, alaska, arizona, arkansas, colorado, florida, georgia, idaho, louisiana, mississippi, montana, nevada, new mexico, north carolina, tennessee, texas, and you talk. -- and utah. essentially those of us from states that had higher benefit said to ourselves "poor kids are a matter of concern, no matter what state you represent." there had to be some additional provision to make sure that in those states where there are very, very low levels of assistance, that the kids did not go hungry. the program has been continued until mid-2011. as we look at this program and the extension, i think it would be wise to discuss whether the supplemental program should be continued. we need to look at the state's that would receive inadequate assistance. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. i will just say i appreciate the consensus i heard around the table this morning i ran extending the program. i think we are finding an area of agreement here. i think it is outside the -- i do want to point out those programs, the democratic majority passed, and president obama signed legislation in december to terminate the suppleme

louisiana can be imported to the midwest. in other pipeline from chicago is also being built. much of the pipelines in the united states that would bring oil from wyoming, north dakota, and to get the oil to the refineries that have the capacity are being done in the private sector. this is on a path that is creating jobs. it is going to be helping. in the end, the gasoline prices, we are very concerned about, and the administration has taken -- this pipeline activity occurs because once you see big price differentials, the industry's steps in to say we can fix that. in addition to that, we're doing a lot. twice, we have changed the mileage standards of automobiles. this directly affects american public. by 2025, the average savings would be $8,000. >> mr. secretary, what you'll have been part of this administration, gasoline prices have gone up 90%. we are looking at $4 gasoline by memorial day. you're willing to build all types of pipelines, but your honor willing to build the pipeline that would bring 830,000 barrels a day from canada and will help alleviate a bottleneck in my state of north dakota. our oil is discounted $27 a barrel of west texas because

with it down in texas, louisiana, and up into oklahoma and even in canada a little snow associated with it. also a second part of the storm, an element of a cold front up to the north come together over tomorrow. baltimore will be on the north edge of all the action. snow will be marginal around baltimore. an inch or two here. heaviest snows will be off to west virginia, virginia, back toward kentucky and tennessee. in this particular storm, the weight of the snow will be off to our south. our forecast today a good one. toward the end of the day, unseasonably mild. 49 to 54 for the high. tomorrow is the day when we get snow here in baltimore. maybe a little rain-snow mix to our south. again, most of the snow accumulations will be off to our south and southwest. president's day looks dry and nice with seasonal temperatures in the mid 40's for highs. >> thank you, john. thank you for joining us. we'll have another update for you in 25 minutes. >>> well, well, well, welcome to "today," the 18th day of february, 2012. we've got a great crowd with us on the plaza. our thanks for fans spending part of their holiday weekend, presidents' day weekend with us. welcome out on

weather map, a line of storms across louisiana and some of the cells potentially showing rotation and could be seeing some tornados forming this morning to the north certainly, heads up. the temps as you're waking up. across the country. looking cool across the areas of the west and not that bad, really, for everybody and temps well above average, and move forward, a look at the forecast today. into the northeast, temperatures in the 30's and 40's and far northern new england and this yesterday evening across areas of southern pennsylvania and west virginia as well and there's your thunderstorms, across the southeast and florida, georgia and the carolinas, and the northern plains looking pretty warm and we'll see snow in and across nebraska and iowa as that storm tapers off and spectacular, a very nice day, sunshine all up and down the eastern seaboard and looks like our shot of the morning continues. the new york city firefighters out here and the guys for pizzas for patriots, thank you very much. guys, back to you inside. >> looks like the great wall of china from outer space as well. >> alisyn: feel free to send some of the firefighters in here

louisiana back to philadelphia, pennsylvania. there in philadelphia, bill's father assumed his own father's position as pastor of the bright hope baptist church in northhia, and bill cemented his roots in that community. he has spoken of the powerful impact of these years, moving from a region where jim-crow laws reigned to a large northern city where his family had ties to other clergy and community leaders. because of de facto segregation in housing at the time, north philadelphia was the neighborhood with african-americans from all walks of life, including many role models for the young bill gray. hobson rentals across the street was the leader of the elks. cecil b. moore, future member of the city council and head of the black naacp of philadelphia, lived two doors down from bill's family at the time. other neighbors include the renowned architect, frederick messiah and sadie alexander, the first woman of any race to obtain a ph.d. in economics in the united states of america. and of course dr. martin luther king jr. at that time was a frequent visitor to bill gray's home, as were dr. king's parents who were close family friends of bill gray's fam

north florida where i'm from. northwest florida, the so-called red neck rivera. if they go more gingrich than romney, that may be a problem super tuesday and beyond. we've got georgia, alabama, mississippi, louisiana lived in my whole life. they're all coming up. and look, is that pink? do we have pink? >> you know what i got accused of last night? >> that's salmon. >> that's orange and green, and i got cused of doing hurrican hurricanes. >> looks like the orange up top. that's newt territory, mitt's still not nailing it with the social conservatives, is he? >> i should point out while we have that map up there. the most stressful of any election day, primary day for chuck todd is going through all of the color swatches, trying to decide what he's going to put on a map. >> salmon and orange. it was a tough decision. >> he has to be in a big room by himself with all the swatches and it's stressful for him. i think it was a good point. and i think there's two things that you have to look at if you're mitt romney at this point, which is, i think if he keeps rolling here, and i believe inevitability has been restored, eventually a lot of these core conservatives are going to fall in line. may not be r

north dakota. there are good-paying energy jobs right there today and if we can get keystone x.l. pipeline to be a reality, we'll have good paying, long-term jobs in the refineries in louisiana, texas, mississippi, oklahoma and all the places that we're going. mr. duncan: what i would like to talk about are these are the president's own words because you he said in his statement and -- because he said in his statement and this is from the white house website, that the rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by congressional republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline's impact. now, how long has this been going on that they've been doing the environmental impacts assessment that you talked so brilliantly about? you know, i came to congress last year. this was going on well before i came here. a rushed assessment? and under the obama administration an $800 billion stimulus package and an unprecedented growth in government, don't you think that we have the personnel in the department of energy to deal with this and do the assessment in a timely manner, in order to approve a pipeline that would provide not only american energy independence but north american energy

louisiana can be imported to the midwest. in other pipeline from chicago is also being built. much of the pipelines in the united states that would bring oil from wyoming, northakota, and to get the oil to the refineries that have the capacity are being done in the private sector. this is on a path that is creating jobs. it is going to be helping. in the end the gasoline prices, we are very concerned about and the administration has taken -- this pipeline activity occurs because once you see big price differentials, the industry's steps in to say we can fix that. in addition to that, we're doing a lot. twice, we have changed the mileage standards of automobiles. this directly affects american public. by 2025, the average savings would be $8,000. >> mr. secretary what you'll have been part of this administration, gasoline prices have gone up 90%. we are looking at $4 gasoline by memorial day. you're willing to build all types of pipelines but your honor willing to build the pipeline that would bring 830,000 barrels a day from canada and will help alleviate a bottleneck in my state of north dakota. our oil is discounted $27 a barrel of west texas because we do