would you believe that i'm from pensacola to understand no joke i really am. to say happy passover to her brothers and sister in christ the hope that all hope will become her brothers and sisters in christ i would also like to say in spirit biarritz are not with love to beater they could embolus and with her family so we went to say we miss you would know you're in spirit, shoe iq shippers chapel at all the staff for all you do, she think he/they stay please charlotte from california were about california cd valley where the ronald reagan library is oh boy you got honored there with the library at the beautiful library, and even studying with the chapel about 20 years while wow armory baptize me in 99 he sure did that with my first passover is my second fix for, back with the back of their dates but we finally got to speak away this year have you watch them in california have a satellite dish on the big seabed we also have directv would pick him up on the weekdays to channel 224 yes he's there 24 hours a day seven days five days a week most of the day i watch

he joins us from pensacola in his district. joining us to question him here in the c-span studio, with a journalist rick maze of "the military times," and jeff from "usa today." >> the number one issue for veterans is and has been for sometimes the backlog of claims. you have had a lot of questions about this and answers from the va about what to do with the 1 million claims that are pending. there are personally -- i know many veterans personally who are waiting for their claims to be addressed. what should be done? how much confidence do you have in the va? >> i think we need to start with what the va is doing now. they need to get credit for the million claims that they injured rick -- adjudicates on an annual basis. secretaries and secchi -- secretary shinseki has vowed to wipe out the backlog, making sure that every claim has a 95% accuracy rate. i think that he is way overestimating the ability of the department. it is very unfortunate that the veterans find themselves in this situation. there are regional offices doing r

office, she explained to me that she's been receiving collection notices for unpaid bills down in pensacolan her name off her personal information, and she explained to me that she believes that brenda heist was able to get her information due to the fact that brenda, before she left, worked with chelsea's mother susan smith, and she feels that brenda was able to obtain her information before she left without her knowledge. >> we just spoke, detective, to a woman that brenda lived with in pensacola who she also worked for, cleaned her apartment, took care of her kids sometimes. she paints kind of a nice picture of brenda's time there, talking around pools, nice houses, certainly far from the narrative that we've been hearing about brenda being homeless all this time, living under bridges. what do you make of this? >> you know, again, with this story, things have changed every day. but my initial interview with brenda back on monday, april 29th, she painted a picture that she was living a homeless life, living under bridges, eating food from -- discarded from local restaurants, and living in

thank you so much for joining from pensacola today. we're joined here at this round table by greg [indiscernible] and rick mays. from what we learned today? >> it is clear that there is a real effort to watch and see what happened, that he is trying to monitor it and make sure that the secretary keeps up reducing the backlog, but it is a complicated problem that is sometimes hard to understand in point alt.e >> what kind of threats can he wheeled? what kind of promises can he make? >> it is a nice question. the proposed bills, the solution is not really legislation. there is no lack of ideas on what to do, it is not a matter of no one thinking of this. people have thought of absolutely everything and maybe they are trying to many things at once. but the fact is that veterans are tired and weary. three years, four years, you should not wait that long to have your initial claim decided. it is a simple fact. 20,000 people died before their benefits were decided in the last year. a terrible thing. part of that is age, but that should not b

and katrina i was the commander of the medical forces in pensacola, florida, and i owned the branch clinics that existed in new orleans, pascagula and gulf port, mississippi. we thought we had dodged the bullet and then the levies broke and who would have predicted that there was a sea of humanity in the super dome that basically was in extreme miss? who would have predicted in this day and age we would lose many, many people based on the fact they couldn't be medevacked, that the hospitals themselves had been flooded and the hospital staff was having to carry critically ill patients up to the top floors to avoid the water that was filling in the rooms. who would have predicted that? and were we set up to handle that? and who would have predicted in the early goings there would be civic disorder and civic disobedience and lack of command and control and then the military came there and provided that stability for a while until the civic authorities took over and eventually got things moving in a fairly organized continuum. we learned a tremendous amount of lessons from that, lessons that i

the host of today's homeowners joins us now from pensacola, florida.ave no known you for a long time, and you have faced many of these storms personally. can you tell us about that? >> all my life i have experienced a lot of storms. it is very dramaticc you really have to kind of look at it from a mental endpoint, kind of superiors all for it, a little bit of anxiety or two from time to time. going to get better every single day during the aftermath of the storm. gerri: it is difficult for people to react logically and rationally. you know, that her stay, today, three days after a very big storm is critical in protecting yourself and your family, what you do? >> it certainly is and that is one of the first things that you need to do is take a breath of fresh air and just realized that you just have to take it a step at a time. you want to make sure that you're looking attthe big picture and documenting every single bit of the damage. photos, videos, make sure that you are making that list are you keep the list handy because you are going to be adding t

. >> near pensacola. >> yeah. >> and have the same experience. >> palm trees and sand.s to go to maui. >> gee. you are fun. >> what song are you going to sing for us? >> i can get drunk and lay in the dirt anywhere. >> all right. >> i don't have to fly, you know, i don't have to fly to hawaii. i'm just saying. >> all righty. >> a good place to have a navy base, i guess. >> hopefully your wife had a better time than you did. >> yeah, well. >> trace is going to sing for us. >> a little song a little later. and also the celebrity final for the all-star apprentice will be sunday night at 9:00, 8:00 central. >> we'll be back everybody. >>> oh, you got your own cartoon. >> we are back with more on this wines-day wednesday. it's that time when national radio deejay elvis duran picks his hot new artist of the month. >> today it's singer/songwriter nikki williams. a brand new single today. it's called dploeing. >> i love coming in every month. >> don't you love it? >> bringing new music to my girlfriends. i'm in love with nikki williams. first of all, originally from south afric

sinai hospital, and pay less than you would in pensacola where the ceo of that hospital makes over a and 840 million dollar business that is highly profitable. it depends very little on the charity dinner that you probably went to as a congressman. that accounts for 0.3 of 1% of its revenue. what accounts for all of its revenue are the charges like you see in the "time" piece. >> you have zeke also. from this report in the times today that you not only we talk about montana, pensacola, fifth avenue, even in new york city, 20 blocks, 30 blocks apart. two different hospital charging two different prices. >> when steve's article came out i said this is i think is the silent spring of health care prices. experts in the community have known this for more than a decade. certainly decades that these different charges exist. now some of these charges are, you have sicker patients and it's hard to know. some of the charges are because some of these are training hospitals and others are not. the fact is there is no rational as steve said to the pricing. >> there's no market there. we know how

. >> our house is only 25 miles from the air base in pensacola. we get to see them practice here and there. >> it was a disappointment that they were not going to fly. >> reporter: alex demetrick, wjz eyewitness news. >> and no date for the blue angels to return to the air has been set. >> history is made for baltimore. chief james clark announces that the promotion of captain charlene b. stokes to battalion chief for community chief. she is the first african american female department chief in the department's 154- year history. she has serviced since 1987. >> congratulations to her. >>> still to come on wjz's eyewitness news. >>> maryland's cover girl, first lady, katie o'malley, appearing on the cover of "style" magazine. a look behind the scenes at the shoot. i'm jessica kartalija. that story coming up. >>> expanded gambling pays off in paychecks. i'm pat warren. look who is hiring now. >>> incredible video. a man opens fire inside a busy philadelphia bar with an assault weapon. the latest from police. >>> and feeling the summer heat. how long

and we were always amazed in pensacola that you would have a car or a boat lifted up from pensacola beach be pushed all the way over into gulf breeze, after the tuscaloosa tornado a couple of years ago, you actually had items from tuscaloosa that were found near anniston, alabama, almost 90 miles away. >> undoubtedly will be the case here. >> and that's the case here. >> and a guy that has seen devastation before, though i don't know if he's seen it on this scale when it comes to a tornado. jim cantore, you're in moore, as well, tell us what you're seeing. >> hey, guys, we've been moved to a media staging area, which is at 19th. so we're actually, if you will, south of the debris, which is where you are up to the north. the main path of the tornado to my north. what we're looking at with the clouds is the thunderstorms to the south. we're on the north side of this and the storms moving to the south. i don't think this area's going to get more rain, at least with the current movement of this. i remember after joplin, we had a ton of rain to deal with. and that as you know complicates searc

, anytime it's memorial day, i think i'm that teenager again, and you feel like the surfers from pensacola coming up. excited about the boardwalk. excited about maybe, you know, a summer adventure. love. all that good stuff. you know what, though? it was 19 years ago that we first saw the house that we live in now. you know how your life can change like this? and it just -- it's a long, long story. but sometimes you just remember, we have crystal clear how that day was and there were boats -- >> and you found the perfect house. >> yeah. it's been such a gift all these years. and you're coming to it this friday night because we're having a wedding there. >> bobbie thomas's. all right, kids, has this ever happened to you? have you gone to sleep and you have a dream and in your dream your spouse is cheating on you? in your dream. you wake up, and there he is, sleeping like a baby. and you get so mad at him just laying there sleeping. unaware of what he did. and then truly, you treat him a little bit cruelly that day because you think -- you know, sometimes dreams come true or it's a premoniti

>> it was a while after the season because i was in pensacola for a month. so we hashed everything out. we talked. and we're moving forward from it. >> you kind of communicate and get to know each other better. every practice, every year you'ring e together, you get tow his personality. you talk about things you could have done differently, things that went poorly during the season, things that went well, but overall we had a great conversation. >> there was an unfortunate situation there at the end of the season. i don't think there's anything that needs to be repaired. obviously we all just need to move forward and continue to just let that bad taste that was in everybody's mouth just get out and move forward to the next year. the only thing that needed repair from last year was my knee, and that is repaired and i'm ready to go. >> he answered anything and everything during that press conference. >>> nationals off today after going 4-6 on their west coast road trip. they're home tomorrow for a weekend set against the phillies. after that series, the nation

it was a while after the season because i was in pensacola for a month. so we hashed everything out, we talked, and we're moving forward from it. >> you kind of communicate. you get to know each other better and you talk about the things that you could have done differently, things that went poorly during the season, things that went well. overall we had a great conversation. >> obviously we need to move forward and continue to just let that bad taste that was in everybody's mouth just get out. move forward to the next year. the only thing that needed rye pair from last year is my knee, and that is repaired and i'm ready to go. >> griffin plans to be ready for the season opener but he says this process has been tough, especially immediately following the surgery. >> i woke back up and, you know, told everybody who was there in that room with me. and it was tough. i mean that's the easiest way to say it. yeah, i cried. real men cry, it doesn't matter, and i moved on. as soon as we finished our little cry festival, i put the data of the first week in my pho

joining me now from pensacola, florida is john arthur eaves a maritime lawyer who has represented passengers from both the costa concordia and carnival triumph and has a trial for costa concordia in july. thanks for joining us. do you think royal caribbean handled things better than carnival? are we seeing some progress when it comes to these debacles at sea? >> there is no question they handled the situation after the fire better than carnival but the real problem is what caused the fire to begin in the first place? we know that is because basically just like you have a tuneup with your car this industry is not regulated, not controlled, and not responding to the insurance industry so that is a race to the bottom so that they just basically take the vessels, bring them into port, unload them with passengers, refuel, and restock the pantry and turn them right around without giving them the service they need. >> why are there not stricter regulations when it comes to these cruises like we see with airlines? they both travel internationally but my impression is these cruise ships do not have t

i grew up in pensacola, which i one giant suburb. drive through, mcdonald's, driv through starbucks. i miss that. you drive through every where. drive through heart surgery. you drive home. [laughter] nobody walked. and it is sort of the same way. i absolutely love connecticut. but you know -- >> more and more towns are trying to make people walk more but it has to become a part of our national conversation because it is unbelievable how disconnected we are physically from each other. and we do everything by compute now. >> okay. which means we can do about 12 more of these. >> actually, you are going to have to choose. >> we will do rapid-fire. right in the middle. yes. stand up. both of you stood up, so you both have to ask questions. go ahead. shouted out. lightning around. [inaudible question] >> this social figure. >> that is me. amylum the cause of the socialist. she takes the other side of it. >> writing his book and found that. [inaudible question] [laughter] >> with bloomberg i think mike is a friend of ours. there is always

pensacola, florida, republican buddy. caller: how are you? that we could keep our medicare. the i've been on medicare quite some time, but i have some doctors that are refusing it now. the thing about it now is it seems like obama is catering to the hispanic community and bringing all these people in. he wonders why our deficit is ourup. because there's more welfare, more food stamps, more everything going out. host: do you vote? caller: yes, they are voting. anybody with aen card. purdue get obamacare? host: attorney, independent -- ernie, independent. caller: this is not obamacare. it belongs to mitt romney. it came out of massachusetts. you need to ask yourself, every citizen in the u.s. needs to ask himself who is paying for this now, was paying for your care now and why don't you have insurance if you don't have it? you need to answer a few questions annd out exactly what this is going to cost you, because you are already -- i am paying wait too much for my health care. i know that my insurance is only covering about three-quarters of it. and then if i go to a hospital

we also have heavy rain right over the gulf of mexico, so pensacola, florida, is seeing moderate showers but the bulk of the showers are over the water. our biggest threat would be through virginia, southern new jersey, and also into northeastern north carolina where we could seen see some downbursts today, so wind damage is possible with the storms later on this afternoon. so today it looks nice and mild up and down the east coast but as we go into mother's day, everything drys out. it looks like a nice sunny mother's day but it will be chilly in the great lakes, only in the 50s, and we'll drop back down to the 60s in parts of the northeast. >> okay, dylan, thank you for that. >>> the first of its kind space walk is under way right now, and a bit later the likelihood of jodi arias getting the death penalty. meet the 5-passenger ford c-mc-max one. c-max two. that's a super fuel- efficient hybrid for me. and a long range plug-in hybrid for you. now, let's review. introducing the ford c-max hybrid and the ford c-max energi plug-in hybrid. say hi to the c-max hybrids. >>> a big i'm sorry fr

he joins us from pensacola in his district.oining us to question him here in the c-span studio, with a journalist rick maze of "the military times," and jeff from "usa today." >> the number one issue for veterans is and has been for sometimes the backlog of claims. you have had a lot of questions about this and answers from the va about what to do with the 1 million claims that are pending. there are personally -- i know many veterans personally who are waiting for their claims to be addressed. what should be done? how much confidence do you have in the va? >> i think we need to start with what the va is doing now. they need to get credit for the million claims that they injured rick -- adjudicates on an annual basis. secchi --s and has vowed toinseki wipe out the backlog, making sure that every claim has a 95% accuracy rate. i think that he is way overestimating the ability of the department. thes very unfortunate that veterans find themselves in this situation.

>> he's got the fleece and the frayed polo shirt from pensacola. >> you ask lewis how he steamed a pairf pants. >> not sure i want to hear this. >> it was all bad in the back of a car. i don't really get it, but we can maybe have "vanity fair" on to discuss. you know what i think the list is? only guys in news. not the best dressed guys in news, only guys in news. they named everybody. >> it's well known "vanity fair" has a pervasive alcohol dependency problem. >> true. >> i don't know what you're -- >> they're all drunk over there. >> okay. anyhow, we'll take a closer look at the list coming up. we'll ask joe about it. >> good weekend, mika? memorial day? >> i saw "kinky boots." it is the best broadway show i've seen in years. has anyone seen it? >> no. >> you have to see this. cyndi lauper did the music. this cast is one of the greatest casts on broadway in a generation. they are fantastic. every single person is there because they should be there. it is just -- i had my family there and everyone was in hysteri hysterics. >> oh, my. >> this is when jordan roth came on the show. rememb

colonel richard brauer jr., retired from the air force, thank you for showing up early from pensacola. >> thank you so much. pleasure to be here. >>brian: brand-new details about the department of justice spying scandal. it turns out the department of justice was spying on more than the associated press. this story blowing wide open. >>steve: a sea lion and little girl playing a game of tag but what happens next? it's the most adorable thing you'll see all day. >>brian: guess we're not bringing my baby pictures in. [ male announcer ] hunt...farm...or trail... polaris has what you want. legendary atvs.. led by the powerful sportsman 850 ho. value-minded side-by-sides... featuring the new ranger 800 midsize. and full-size workhorses including the all-new, class-leading, 60-horsepower, ranger xp 900. polaris. hardest working, smoothest riding. huge rebates d low financing are available right now during the polaris xp sales event. my name is sunshine and i have three beautiful girls. i like taking advil for a headache. it nips it in the bud. and i can be that mommy that i want to be. ♪ [

it's being held in my hometown of pensacola, florida. coast for ten years. get more information at auti autismpensacola.org. one other interesting note, there was a special election held in florida for the house and a guy that nobody expected to win, mike hill, an old supporter of mine who heads the tea party in northwest florida, trounced just about the entire field and yet all of these republicans, establishment republicans who were supposed to win and mike hill ended up winning and i'll tell you what, the news that is breaking and i think we all understand this, this is going to have an impact on races in local state, national level. people like clay aiken in north carolina up for re-election next year. i don't think you can overestimate the impact of what's going on in washington with the scandals and targets of tea party groups. >> good point. >> there you go. >> and mike hill, good luck on your irs audit. >> on tomorrow's show, legendary singer song writer joins us, also, martha stewart will be here on the set. up next, what, if an

saying on the subways, i can tell you what they're saying, though, small business owners across pensacolale america, iowa, they're saying, this is going to cost my small business a lot of money. and the regulations are going to be high. and we're going to have to also cut some of my best employees to blow 30 hours or else i can't afford to stay in business. this -- and this is all going to hit, vern, in 2014. >> yeah. i think a lot of people in the higher employee, this is the thing that gets missed. 20 years ago you hired an employee, paid him $50,000, there was a 22% cost additional costs in hiring that employee in terms of benefits. today it's 42, 44% someone was telling me the other day. at the heart of that is the whole thing on health care. i get questions all the time where someone has 72 employees, they say i'm going to have to cut back to under 50. so there's a lot of uncertainty, a lot of angst out there, and just the cost of health care in general is completely and it totally out of control for anybody in small business. it's not unusual for someone to say they're paying $2,000

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he joins us from pensacola in his district. joining us to question him here in the c-span studio, with a journalist rick maze of "the military times," and jeff from "usa today." >> the number one issue for veterans is and has been for sometimes the backlog of claims. you have had a lot of questions about this and answers from the va about what to do with the 1 million claims that are pending. there are personally -- i know many veterans personally who are

. >> we have golf islands national seashore in pensacola. >> it's known for pink sands.this is another one taken care of because it's a reserve. it's well-preserved in the fact that it doesn't have condos nearby and residential traffic, too. >> that's right. this is a gem of florida. it's beloved by anyone who visits florida. >> we stay in florida and go to one of the keys. siesta key in sarasota, florida. >> that's right. it's great for families and it's free. florida is known for its beaches and it's a great beach to visit, sarasota. >> number five takes us back to where we started, back to hawaii. i'm going to let you say this. >> number 1 is kanapali in maui. it's a great place to relax, swim, water activities. maui and florida top the list of places to visit. you can definitely check out the visit on tripadvisor.com. it looks like the skies are clearing up and the weather is going to be warmer. >> as we see here, the top five being generated between hawaii and florida, are there any other personal favorites that come to mind for you that maybe have not made the top