.> the festival runs every weekend---throu gh sunday octo20 a 10-year-old north texas girl wants more than anything to play the flute in the school band. there's just one problem--it takes two hands and she only has one. but as carla wade reports, with the help of a retired musician, she's fiding tt rehe' yt's abby gieseke was born without a fully developed left hand, but for years she's wanted to play a o handed instment--the flute. she knew it ould be hard, bu j10 already learned that when you can't change your circumstances--y ou change your attitude. " i've always found my own ways to do things that other people can do andso i knew tat i would eventually fid wa d." er searching the internet for a solution, abby's mom contacted retired musician and instrument repairman clarence wood--or woody as friends call him. "iirst thought 'that' an impossible thin fingers on her left hand just couldn't possibly play a flute, i couldn't make one but she insisted, she as determined to play a flute." so woody ecame equally determed help. "it can be a adjusted in or out this way." since abby cant

way too close for comfort there north texas with some thunderstorms yesterday. let me show you what's going on around the country. look at all the activity over the middle of the country. rain and thunderstorms far north as the canadian board. minneapolis, thunderstorms all the way down into texas from the mexico board all the way to seattle. dry eyewitness news up and down the west coast. they are not going to change the next couple days. big bubble of high pressure. we will stay sunny and mild. if you like today's weather, you will love it wednesday. warm but not hot. low pressure slides imland not giving us rainfall. it will give us a light on shore flow. if you live near the water, temperatures will drop a little bit but stay well within that comfort zone. sunny skies everyday this week. tuesday through friday. nights will be pretty chilly. good cooling. it will be chilly when you wake up. the fire danger will remain elevated because it is so dry. that said, look at these highs. san jose 79 degrees tomorrow. sunny vail 78. freemont 76. low 80s for concord. pl

they happened early yesterday morning the store on north texas street of the investigators say the teen walked into the store and set a wicker basket on fire that spread to several containers causing them to blow up. no one was hurt. >> another website glitch allowed unite 9 customers to purchase overseas tickets for $50 but this time they did not get to use them. customers were able to set you will a mileage plus account and use frequent flying miles they did not really have. united said it will not honor the tickets because the system was manipulated. last month united sold tickets for nothing but the company honored those tickets because they were caused but human error. >> tourists visiting the big apple are looking to resident space in stranger's homes and apartments to avoid paying steep new york city hotel rates and are using websites like san francisco based b and b to find rooms for as low as $35 a night but the top prosecutor says this is illegal avoiding taxes and threatening building safety and undercutting the hotel industry and wants them to turn over data to determine if

believe teen caused several explosions independent a wal-mart early this morning at 3:30 am on north texas street. tonight police release photo of the person they say did this. the teen you could natural store wet set whether i canner basket on fir and walked away. it caused them to blow up. authorities say the store was evacuated and nobody was hurt. >> for the second night a row dry ice in plastic bolts explode at los angeles international airport on roomp not open to the been. 2 other did he advice found near by. police fbi on scene investigating tonight. and one was planted inside airport mye bathroom last night where it exploded. don't believe the incidents are linked to any kind of terroris >> restaurant in alameda pay more than 4 80,000 dollars for became theft violation. commissioner cited the thai qui sen and mye worked more than 10 hours a day after 7 day a we can but not paid for strt hours or given proper break. 13 mye will split 3 73 dollars in compensation. >> coming up next. we are following ongoing bart talk happening rate now. this is live look outside cal traps building i

what is the justice department doing vis-a-vis particularly texas and north carolina, voting laws. >>h carolina under section 2 saying both laws are discriminatory. the real problem in north carolina is not the comments, the problem is the law itself. the comments were insane but discriminatory law is still on the books. north carolina is just arguing right now the lawsuit against it should be dismissed. we have to look at the substance here. yes, there are republican officials saying crazy, racist things, admitting the law is about kicking democrats in the butt but the bigger issue is that so many people in north carolina don't have ids early voting, same day registration, allowing vigilante poll watchers, public funding, judicial elections, all these bad provisions in the bill. >> lets put up a little of that, sunday voting, no more straight ticket in north carolina, requires voters to show government issued voter id. as you said eliminating same day voter registration. it's interesting how blatant the laws are targeting exactly what kind of voters. now a republican official saying,

believe teen caused several explosions independent a wal-mart early this morning at 3:30 am on north texas street. tonight police release photo of the person they say did this. the teen you could natural store wet set whether i canner basket on fir and walked away. it caused them to blow up. authorities say the store was evacuated and nobody was hurt. >> for the second night a row dry ice in plastic bolts explode at los angeles international airport on roomp not open to the been. 2 other did he advice found near by. police fbi on scene investigating tonight. and one was planted inside airport mye bathroom last night where it exploded. investigators don't believe the incidents are linked to any kind of terrorism. >> restaurant in alameda pay more than 4 80,000 dollars for became theft violation. commissioner cited the thai qui sen and mye worked more than 10 hours a day after 7 day a we can but not paid for strt hours or given proper break. 13 mye will split 3 73 dollars in compensation. >> coming up next. we are following ongoing bart talk happening rate now. this is live look outside cal

police believe the man in these photos intentionally started a fire in the walmart on north texas street early yesterday morning. take a look. the fire caused several carbon dioxide containers to explode no. one was hurt. >>> new details police say one of the dry ice bombs that exploded at l.a.x. was found at a gate. two other similar devices were found nearby outside the airport tom bradley international terminal. this is the second dry ice explosion at l.a.x. sunday night a dry ice bomb went off in a men's bathroom no. one was hurt in either. police say they do not believe the incidents are acts of terrorism but they are looking for the person responsible. >> it's 451. an interesting link between popcorn and memory. >> we'll tell you howie joying a snack could affect your ability to take in information. >> we're looking here toward the bridge. the san mateo bridge. smoothly as you cross the bay. there may be other issues. >>> welcome back everybody. 4:54. you're looking at a live shot outside the caltrans building in oakland. that is where the talks continue right now. no b.a.r.t. stri

several explosions inside a wal-mart and they happened early yesterday afternoon at the store on north texas street and these are photos of the teen that police are looking for. investigators say he walked into the store, set a wicker basket on fire and walked away. the fire spread to several containers causing them to blow up. authorities evacuated the store and no one was hurt. >> authorities are vetting after a second explosion at house anxious international airport in as many days. dry ice in a plastic bottle went off last night in a section that the international terminal opened only to workers. they found two similar unpleased devices in that area. on sunday someone planted a plastic bottle full of dry ice in an employee bat room where it exploded. no one was hurt. >> and now traffic, leyla gulen? >> we have more than 20 trains that are now rolling and we have a word an accident before you get to the altamont pass and i will get to that in a moment of the we have a construction project that can slow you down if you are trying to make it to the maze along the nimitz through oakland, nor

three masked men burst into a home in rural north texas in the middle of the night. a bedroom where they attack the sleeping victim, but he fights back and chases the men out of the house. the homeowner actually installed the night vision cameras earlier when he rented out rooms to deter theft. suspects are still being sought. >>> and a memorial service is planned thursday for a family killed in a rock slide in colorado. last night hundreds of people attended a candlelight vigil to remember the five people who died monday. as manuel bojorquez reports, they were killed by rocks the size of cars. >> reporter: search teams reached the site where 100-ton boulders fell on a hiking trail. they recovered all five bodies despite the unstable ground and the threat of more falling rocks. chafee county sheriff steve palmer. >> you see the steepness of the slope and the size of the boulders. this was a risky, risky operation carried out by all volunteers, members of this community. >> dwayne and donna johnson and their 18-year-old daughter kiowa died in the monday morning collap

believe teen caused several explosions independent a wal-mart early this morning at 3:30 am on north texas streetpolice. tonit police release photo of the person they say did this. the teen you could natural store wet set whether i canner basket on fir and walked away. it caused them to blow up. authorities say the store was evacuated and nobody was hurt. >> for the second night a row dry ice in plastic bolts explode at los angeles international airport on roomp not open to the been. 2 other did he advice found near by. police fbi on scene investigating tonight. and one was planted inside airport mye bathroom last night where it exploded. investigators don't believe the incidents are linked to any kind of terrorism. >> restaurant in alameda pay more than 4 80,000 dollars for became theft violation. commissioner cited the thai qui sen and mye worked more than 10 hours a day after 7 day a we can but not paid for strt hours or given proper break. 13 mye will split 3 73 dollars in compensation. >> coming up next. we are following ongoing bart talk happening rate now. this is live look outside

he is suspected of starting a fire at 3:30 yesterday morning at the wal-mart on north texas street. that store was evacuatend evacuated but no one was hurt. >>> boniva police are investigating a rash of vehicle thefts. this truck was among those stolen. it was found a few hours later abandoned. the owner says it had been stripped of $30,000 worth of tools and other equipment. . >> the containers were open, pretty much nothing in it. there were cleaning supplies that they took. they took almost everything out of the truck with the exception of a few small screws. >> benicia police say a dozen commercial truck asks vans have been stolen. they think the vehicles are being targeted because of the large amounts of valuable tools that they typically carry. police are encouraging truck owners to install antitheft devices. >>> some people are ignoring the government shutdown signs posted in national forests. the closed sign at lows pad race national forest near santa barbara is not keeping everyone out. hikers and bicyclists are going around the gate. others who aren't so daring say they're

>> reporter: hail, flooding rain and damaging winds ripping through north texas this weekend.ck out this time lapse as severe storms rocket across galveston skyline. the 40 to 60 mile an hour wind gusts forcing cranes to swing wildly, sending trees into pools and onto cars. a dangerous lightning show putting the tcu and texas game on pause. hail piling up at door steps, peppering roads. the two to three inches of rain in 30 minutes leaving streets overwhelmed. >> ginger, right there in front of the map everyone wants to know how big is this storm and where it is headed? >> it's big for a lot of folks, especially in the west. let's start in montana where we've got winter storm warnings in hot pink here tonight and then the winter storm watches that extend all the way into the dakotas through the next couple of days. let me show you how much we're expecting. a lot of places going to get blasted with four to eight inches. that's the pink area and then you look for some spots to get a foot or more. that's just the northern side of the storm. through the mid week we've got a southe

forty's as we head all the way southward, even into north texas seeing that after some 20's and 30's starting off the day this morning. we have more areas starting to freeze. that means that end to the growing season. first snows, places like denver, we've seen light snow, dodge city this morning seeing some of that. the cloud cover at least acts like ing blanket, helping to insulate things. temperatures could have dropped more. the other good thing is from last week to this week, it has helped with drought areas, some of that big rain we've seen recently. >> investigators reveal new evidence in the kenyan mall attack as video surfaces showing the chaos that took place inside. >> call it vigilant tee justice, the hacker group anonymous getting involved in a missouri rape case. what impact will it have on the case and justice. >> oil workers in brazil bringing that country's business to a a halt as they go on strike. the demands they are making just to get back to the job. >> the latest big retailer announcing it's starting the holiday shopping season early. >> two bodies have been re

. ♪ come sail away come sail away come sail away with me ♪ >> the oil and gas boom in north dakota and texas just benefiting the midwest. it's also adding jobs right here in philadelphia. and you will not believe where we are. we're in the philadelphia shipyard and we are right now on top of goliath. we are more than 200 feet, hello airplane, 200 feet in the air, get a shot of this. that is the liberty bay. we are high up here, folks. the reason that we're showing you this is that ship and these jobs, direct beneficiaries of the shale gas boom. because this shipyard is a contract to build six oil tankers. this one more than 800 feet long and can hold nearly 800,000 barrels of oil. it's being built here in philadelphia. it's going to be floated next week and going to be put into service taking crude oil from alaska down the united states west coast. more than 1,000 women and men working here at the philadelphia shipyard. as soon as she's done you will get some -- if we can get a shot of the next ship. see the hull bits going in. they're going to put it together like a giant puzzle. these are

because we already have the cooler air has settled in in some places, kansas south ward into north texas, we have different frost advisories, because this is it is coldest air of the season so far. that's today. some temperatures into the 20's, a lot in the 30's or 40's. by tomorrow morning, temperatures will be cooler in a lot of cases. denver at 28 with the chance for moisture. we could see rain switch to a little snow by the time we start off tomorrow morning. here's that moisture that i'm talking about, so you can see it's fairly hit and miss across the region, but still, you have chances for some of it over the next couple of days. in the meantime, also a line of showers heading into new york and northward, as we get into the northeast for today. back to you. >> the parents of a florida teenager accused of bullying a classmate so badly that she took her own life are speaking out. the 14-year-old faces charges after authorities say she bullied late teen rebecca sedwick. >> her mother said: >> rebecca killed herself on september 9 after months of on line harassment from her pierce. th

should get the rest of that game in but we could see some severe weather south of that region across north texasstorm warnings in effect. we'll monitor this situation, harris. this is going to be a doozy out of the north rockies. heavy snow starting tomorrow in some cases over a foot or more of heavy wet know and the front as it pushes across the plains could give us the threat for severe weather heading into wednesday. so this is a storm system we're certainly going to keep our eyes on and of course, we'll bring you the latest in severe weather across the central u.s. this evening, as well. back to you. >> and of course, that game, oklahoma and texas tech as you said delayed by more than 90 minutes because of this. janice, thank you very much. that's how fox reports on this. i'm harris falkner. as always, i'll be back with updates. follow me on twitter. i love to keep you informed when you're on the go, as well. my mantra? trust your instincts to make the call. to treat my low testosterone, my doctor and i went with axiron, the only underarm low t treatment. axiron can restore t levels to norma

i can't speak to other parts of the country, but not in north texas.here were stakeholder conference calls that include a large number of people. there was no let's get all the congressional offices together. there were polite down in dallas that morning, but the really did not answer much in the way of questions because at that point @booktv this was the end of august. we don't have been an informational rate information, expecting the september 15th. then it was not forthcoming. even today it's been difficult for the texas exchange to get information on the plan available and the cost. one of the things you talk about, me being to fund the president himself. but the white house is done. mayors of congress to repeal the number of times. several of which have been successful. the 1099 problem. various other pieces have been picked off and signed into law pre-existing conditions. you cannot sign up in the federal pre-existing condition program today because they're close to and have been sense of your first of this year. that program basically worked fo

. >>> the oil and gas boom in north dakota and texas isn't just benefitting the heartland. it's also creating jobs in phil mile at a shipyard. that and more tonight on "nightly business report" for friday, october 25th. >>> good evening everyone. i'm susie gharib, tyler is off tonight. more positive momentum on wall street today. the s&p 500 closed at a another record high, and the pmajor stok averages were higher for the third consecutive week. two tech companies were the talk of the trading day. amazon surged 10% and shares is of microsoft shot up 6%. investors brought up the stocks reacting to quarterly results that came out late that we told you about. here is a look at the closing numbers, the dow rose 61 the nasdaq rose 14 and the s&p tacked on seven closing at that new record 1,759. >>> so with the s&p at a new record and the nasdaq closing in on 4,000, it may be getting tougher to find some real value in the stock market. but as seema mody found, there may still be some value plays out there. >> reporter: it's getting tougher and tougher finding value in this market

in north texas, in the area that i represent, the 33rd congressional district, families miss out on over 300,000 meals because f.d.a. cancels shipments. it's ridiculous. and mill yops of americans may closing. d due to the these are two examples of widespread direct efforts of the republican shutdown and here's what republicans need to know. they should go in their district and talk to workers that work in the defense industry and military bases and talk to people that have been furloughed, talk to people that because of the sequester problems that we have been unable to solve here. over 400. and if they talk to people and go into their districts and speak with every day common people that are working hard every day, what they'll find out, it hurts to lose their job and when you lose your job as we get closer to the christmas season and lose that job and sole medical emergency pops up that costs you money, you start to struggle as a family and starts to hurt. that is what is so shameful about this republican government shutdown because it doesn't take into consideration the real pell tha

police believe the man in the photos we're about to show you start add fire in the walmart on north texas street early yesterday morning. fire caused several containers to explode. no one was hurt. >> earlier this year our investigative unit exposed major problems with santa clara county's restaurant inspection system. today the first step in repairing the problems begins. the department of environ itle health will hold the first in a series of meetings this month. they are syracusing input on a restaurant grading model presented to the board of supervisors earlier this month the board is expected to vote on this scoring system by the end of the year. >> 6:26. still ahead alameda county's second largest employer about to get shut down. why a deal on capitol hill cannot come soon enough for thousands of workers. >> and b.a.r.t. trains are running but for how long? new details about the ongoing negotiations next. >> a step outside and look, that's a gorgeous sunrise coming up. that's san jose. you'll notice it's crystal clear. if you are thinking about warm temperatures your wish is christi

this cold air is bringing a hard freeze into cans, parts of north texas, this is cold air going well south from canada down to texas. this time of year we're not even really to the end of october yet and on average we start to get our first snows around nebraska and north platt as we get into later first part of november. this is an early storm system again cold rain from missouri work its way towards st. louis. we're going ocontinue to see that rainfall tracking across parts of southern canada and that cold air is going to take your temperatures into the low 30s for parts of the north. >> welcome back to aljazeera america, i'm john in new york. and here are the top stories. many americans are having trouble enrolling with the government's healthcare exchanges and exchanging data with the website. house republicans are investigating the problems with the healthcare program. >>> travel was a problem with oakland in the bay area. rapid transit trains left 200,000 riders stranded for their daily commutes. union employees walked off the job at mid. this is the second time this year that

according to mother jones which uncovered the video, he made those comments in cement of last year at a north texashis son was running for senate. now ted cruz calls his father a hero. is the younger cruz on the hook for his father's remarks? "outfront," political analysts, great you have to both with us. senator cruz often brought his father on the campaign trail. he has bragged about how many campaign stops his father has made. obviously they're very close. here's what he said after won his senate seat in november about his father. >> my father has spent virtually every day past year crisscrossing this state. telling his story and speaking on his son's behalf. my dad is my hero. he has been my entire life. >> given that, does senator need to denounce those comments by his father? >> i think he needs to distance himself from those comments. a failure to distance himself ends up being association. he's been very clearing his father is his here loe and that's a great thing. his father has lived an american dream in many rms. it says a lot about the environment from which ted cruz spreads. it says a

he's suspected of starting a fire at 3:30 yesterday morning at the wal-mart on north texas street. store was evacuated, but no one was hurt. >>> tonight the city of richmond may approve a ban of alcohol billboards near schools. the ban is intended to protect teenagers from ads that glamorize drinking. council member jim rogers claims five times as many minors who start drinking at age 15 become problem drinkers than those who don't drink until after they turn 21. his ordinance would keep alcohol billboards 1,000 feet away from schools. the city council is set to vote at tonight's meeting. >>> black bears trying to bulk up before hibernation are getting stuck inside cars around lake tahoe. this bear got stuck inside an suv in a residential area of truckee on sunday night. this is truckee police's third case of a bear in a car in two weeks. one person recording this 300- pound bear steaming up the windows. >> as i did that, the bear charged the driver side window and head butted the window, and the window came out about 2 inches from the frame. >> yes, that would be a little scary. h

desc and then they started to backtrack and say north texas we really didn't mean that. you want to do backgroundit w interviews, the other one. i also think that there is a way that this could get solved ath little bit more quickly. there was an amendment or question whether or not republicans and democrats agree that federal employees shoulderl get back pay whenever this all gets settled. i think if i were a republican, i would introduce an amendment that says all federal employees should get back pay except for political appointees and anyone at a grade gs 13 or 14 or executive service. that's all the top level people. that would get solved more quickly. >> john boehner was fired up today. he said this is not a game andd. had pretty harsh words for president obama. >> i was at the white house the other night and listened to the president some 20 times explain to me why he wasn't going to negotiate. sat there and listened to the majority leader in the united states senate describe to mee that he's not going to talk until we surrender. and then this morning i get the "w

where the atascosa and frio join with the nueces river -- the historic dividing line between anglo north texas and the mostly mexican american south. woman: i've lived here all my life, and i love three rivers, texas. and i was only 11 when the longoria affair happened. you know, we were accused of racism and being a racist town. man: it was such a traumatic experience that polarized this town when this town really was not polarized racially. woman: the anglos just claimed that everybody was lovey-dovey. but they had signs that said "no mexicans." plana: three rivers was created almost 100 years ago by an ambitious land speculator -- charles r. tips. he had a bold idea --

i turn now to the dean of the university of north texas at dallas college of law, himself a recently-retired member of the united states district court for the northern district of texas, the honorable mr. royal furguson. >> thank you very much, mr. chambers, mr. chairman, and thank you for this opportunity to appear today in order to discuss the challenges facing the judiciary because of sequestration and the government shutdown. for over 19 years, i was honored to be a united states district judge serving in texas. i retired on may 31, 2013, and now i'm the dean of a new law school. may i begin by sharing two stories in order to give context to my testimony. the first story is about my service as a border trial judge, the second is about my chairmanship of the judicial resources committee of the judicial conference. i was sworn in as a federal judge on march 31, 1994, and began my service in el paso and then was transferred to the midland division of the western district of texas. the pecos division coffers 420 miles of the border with mexico and is a far-flung region of open range and sma

and whether you're from houston, where sheila is, or the north texas where, where i'm from, in the dallas-fort worth area, people are concerned. people are starting to get very worried about the very dangerous prospect of approaching the legal debt limit, since we are only three days away from default. in 2011 the credit agency standard & poors downgraded the u.s. credit rating for the first time in history. s&p said this back then, the political bringsmanship of recent months highlights what we see as america's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective and less predictable than what we previously believed. the legal debt ceiling and the threat of default have become political bargaining chips in the debate over fiscal policy. following that particular downgrade, it is estimated that job growth took a 28% nosedive. can we afford a 28% nosedive right now? i think not. this also cost americans more than 200,000 jobs, right when we're starting to do better. the economy is starting to be kicked into motion, from what was a very bad period over the last several years. we can'

that includes cases in arkansas, hawaii, michigan, texas, north carolina, virginia and new jersey which says that governor christie has now dropped his option. >> secretary of state john kerry is, new charges again leaked by former nsa contractor edward snowden. phil edner joins us and tell us about these latest accusations. >> del, these latest accusations were published in french daily lemonde, and the paper that broke the story about nsa edward snowden monitoring the program. not the least of which the announcement that apparently the nsa collect eld phone records on -- collected phone records on 70 million people in just a 30 day period. quite significant there. we have seen things like the u.s. ambassador to be summoned to the french foreign ministry to explain what the nsa mass been up to. del. >> do we expect any fallout from these latest allegations? >> the french foreign minister released a statement saying it was unacceptable, it should stop immediately and cannot be repeated. there is an awful lot of anger coming out of france not the least of which on the french streets. the

involving gay marriage and civil unions across the country including arkansas, hawai'i, michigan, texas, north dakota, virginia, and until today new jersey. >>> secretary of state john kerry is in france for talks on advancing the middle east peace process but he is caught in a diplomatictive. france's team is upset over new revelations concerning the nsa and who that agency spies on, which is in this case france. here to tell us more about thesel gas stations, phil ittner. >> reporter: these allegations came out in the french newspaper "la monde." it was authored by the journalist who broke the story along with edward snowden on the nsa surveillance program. it just infuriated the friend. it included things like the information that the nsa collected 70 million phone records over one month, obviously something that the french are very concerned about. while secretary of state kerry is supposed to be in paris talking about the peace process, and the situation in syria this is stealing some of the limelight even so much as the french government have summoned the u.s. ambassador to come toward a

texas. streets in austin are flooding in that area as well as many parts of north eastern texas.will continue tonight and tomorrow. the frontal boundary and the storm is not going anywhere. all the way through friday the storm will push to the eest. a lot of warm area behind it and in front of it. as we go towards the south there'll be more rain and up towards newark. the winds will be the biggest problem. tropical storm force winds will be seen across the great lakes. 60 miles per hour towards the south. trees are going to be branches falling off powerlines going down. we'll see a lot of people without power over the next couple of of days. it will take a while, through the weekend to get it up. as we drove towards friday, depending when the parade is in boston, friday will be heavy. rain will be pushing across the area. society the front will make its way through. things will look nice. across boston, most of the rain ended, pushing through. they are looking at nice continues. temperatures across the region look like this. we are seeing temperatures in boston into the 46 degree

the first kind of major wind farms in the delaware mount, which is in far west texas north of icann.ore or less go north to big band, up above i attend -- i attend, you get the delaware mountains. it is a very windy place, but when they have the kind of christening of the wind farm, and there was no wind that day. and so, kind of an embarrassment. >> they try to find the windiest site in texas. when they have the opening pair of money, not a second went to be. six months later as i said, way too much wind. >> kate has a great bit of reporting what the people who are studying the christening ceremony, they wanted tablecloths to make it seem fancy. it's so remote a dare. they had to search over something like four counties to look at table class. so the question about eminent domain. do you have any? it's not something i've thought about. do the utilities have powered a minute domain? the public utilities commission has made decisions about the routes of transmission lines. those have been pretty contentious because you know, if you're a hill country landowner come you might not want a

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states like north carolina, texas, california, oregon. those states can protect their own working children without waiting for congress, which has abandoned poor hispanic child farm workers. the states can do something about it. >> from the children's division of human rights watch, thank you for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> you can watch her full report of children at work at fault line. coming up on friday at 9:30 p.m. eastern. >>> coming up next on this program, the use of force that went viral. uc davis. this is the 900-page document we call obamacare. my staff has read the entire thing. can congress say the same? >> now a snapshot of stories making headlines on america tonight. new details in the death of a danvers teacher. she was stabbed with a box cutter, he pled not guilty. >>> a tragedy for a california family after a northern california police officer shot and killed a teenager after they thought it was an assault rifle. he was on his way to his friend's house with a pellet gun in his hand. >>> ugly accusations of

north texas health care system to the william beaumont army medical center in el paso, the carl r.darnell medical center, the michael debanky medical center to the brook army medical center in san antonio, willford medical center and the south texas veterans health care system. i personally want to extend my thanks and express my gratitude to fisher house for making such a tremendous commitment to our military heroes and making such a generous offer for the families of the fallen. secretary hagel was quoted when he announced that fisher house was going to fill the gap left by the cutoff of federal funds. he was quoted as saying he was offended, outraged, embarrassed that the government shutdown had prevented the defense department from filling the most sacred responsibility in a timely manner. well, i agree with his outrage and sense of offense and embarrassment. but i want to recall how we got here. if our friends across the aisle had simply agreed to delay the individual mandate and to eliminate the special congressional carveout under obamacare, this never would have happened. w

. >> ifill: north carolina, texas, and other states have moved to tighten voting laws since the supreme court struck down part of the voting rights act this year. bank of america will pay $32 million to settle charges it made thousands of debt collection "robocalls" to cell phones. under a 1991 law, the calls are illegal without the customer's consent. the bank denied the allegations, but said it settled to avoid paying more legal fees. it faced multiple class action lawsuits involving nearly eight million customers. in iraq, the latest spate of bombings left more than 50 people dead. nearly a dozen car bombs went off around mostly shiite neighborhoods in baghdad over the weekend. the explosions left streets and markets littered with rubble. iraq's interior ministry blamed insurgents linked to al qaeda. the prime minister of greece vowed today to do "whatever it takes" to eradicate the extreme- right golden dawn party. half a dozen of its neo-nazi leaders were taken into custody over the weekend. paul mason of independent television news has this report. >> reporter: the leadership of t

texas. all this moisture coming in from the pacific. you can see the rains moving from south to north. they are in a drought in texas, but a little too much rain leading to flooding especially south of san antonio. they picked up a half inch of rain and estimating a foot of rain, so big flooding problems in south texas. the flood warnings continue, and also a wind advisory that is farther north with another storm. these are all the warnings and advisories. we're seeing winter storm warnings. big storm here that is just starting to develop. you see this spi spin developin, and it is windy with the possibility of even more flooding. now here's the future weather outlook here by 6:00 very heavy rain with storms loo look likel. that's moving to the dakotas pushing to the east. that's just in western south dakota. already too much rain and snow on the ground, the moisture is saturated, and this rain coming down and can't go anywhere. that's why flood warnings are issued there. the storms will move through the midwest, minnesota and the great lakes. that cold air there, the snow is drying out

minorities because of the fact there's an agenda that they want to pass in the state of texas and in the state of northt's check this out with representative dukes. do you have any reason to believe there was a markup in texas where a bunch of right wingers sat together and say how could we make it hard for women to vote? how about this? if they're married and took their husband's name which is traditional. it'd be hard for them to vote. >> absolutely. it was orchestrated during the vote on voter i.d. we democrats brought up actual instances in which women would be disenfranchised or minorities or even some elderly persons who didn't have birth certificates on records. and it was brushed off totally and completely. and in the dark of the night during appropriations process and conference committee, language was added to the appropriations bill to put in additional hurdles for even acquiring a driver's license or an i.d. just in case voter i.d. didn't pass. so they were looking at every angle they could in order to eliminate the ability and disenfranchise many from the right to vote. >> you know, it rem

the -- from north carolina reserves, the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. carter: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. price: how much time is remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina has 6 1/2 minute the gentleman from texas has seven minutes. mr. carter: i yield two minutes to another appropriations colleague, the ranking member of the interior subcommittee, mr. moran of virginia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. moran: i thank my good friend from north carolina. let me first address what we just -- an issue we just heard about on the floor. i seem to hear about every time i turn on the news when a member of the other party is speaking about it, it's the suggestion that members of congress want to keep some special treatment for themselves in terms of health insurance. the fact is, the vast majority of large employers pay for most of their employees' health insurance costs. members of congress are part of what's known as the federal em

you have two coaches, nick sabin and matt brown, as texas and alabama making north of $5 million a yearu have 16 coaches making more than $3 million a year. su have 79 kemps making more than a million dollars a year. and that is really, that is just part of it i mean you have schools now that are anting up 100 million dollars, washington state we talked about, in the book, making an 80 million dollar investment in a football facility. alabama has a ritz carleton kind of facility for its football program but rightly so. alabama has, is generating north of 90 million dollars now. so it's really they are-- they're not football programs any more. nick sabin is in charge of a hundred million dollar business. >> brown: you're making the case almost that he is worth 5 million plus. >> he's worth 20 times that to the university of alabama. >> brown: he is an unusual case, right? >> he is, but also matt brown of texas, urban myer at ohio state, brady hoke at mitch minute. let's say the nick sabin affect at the university of alabama. their football revenue went from $52 million to $80 million in

so like so many other republicans from pennsylvania to north carolina, texas to florida, what's a republicandidate left to do to try to even the playing field? cheat. let's bring in our guest, reid wilson, senior political policy blogger for the "washington post." judith brown diannis, co-director of the advancement project. thanks for joining me. reid, i want to start with you and talk a little bit about virginia and the state of the race in virginia. i mean, it's obviously been a close race for some time. then you do see terry kind of -- mcauliffe breaking away to some degree. he certainly seems to be doing better among african-american voters and female voters. >> yeah. that was the goal of the mcco h mcauliffe campaign the whole time, rebuild the obama coalition that enabled obama to win virginia twice. virginia is clearly changing. it's changing in the northern suburbs, around richmond, even down in the southeast part of the state. because of that it's suddenly a battleground state. but for the longest time, since i think 1977, the virginia governor's race, which always coming the year