the phoenix house program was a life changing program for myself. it totally changed my behaviors and helped me to appreciate the person that i was, and help me to really like myself better. going through there was one of the most single influential events of my entire life. it was an opportunity that presented itself at a time when i was ready to change my life. it provided me with the tools, the social support, in order to move forward in a more positive way with my life. everything that i have i really do believe, to the bottom of my soul, is because i was accepted into this program. somebody knew that i was going to need this before i knew i was going to need it, and had it set up and it was in place. and when i got here, the phoenix house was ready for me to come in. i had been through a few programs before and i had always failed to create a social support system for myself. through this new start program at [inaudible] i developed a core group of men that have, to this day, become my close friends, and supporters. i do have that sense of secu

i think what keeps adults coming to phoenix house is the modality of treatment that we have, which is peer driven. they get a lot of support from their peers and they begin to have a sense of family, and i think that community feeling and having a function while they are in the house, a job while they are in the house, really does help them respond to the structure that we provide, and then they begin to understand that they deserve their lives to be different than being back incarcerated or out on the street. i think it is an individual thing, but i think that is very helpful. people should understand that the phoenix house really has the power to change lives, and i would like to see it around for years to come. keith, we've been talking about healthcare reform and how some of the programs that are going to help folks in recovery are going to be integrated into the whole healthcare system. talk a little bit about that. yeah, i'd be glad to. this is a very exciting time for this field due to some real changes in public policy. the first one is parity, which was a law passed at the ve

the phoenix house program was a life changing program for myself. it totally changed my behaviors and helped me to appreciate the person that i was, and help me to really like myself better. going through there was one of the most single influential events of my entire life. it was an opportunity that presented itself at a time when i was ready to change my life. it provided me with the tools, the social support, in order to move forward in a more positive way with my life. everything that i have i really do believe, to the bottom of my soul, is because i was accepted into this program. somebody knew that i was going to need this before i knew i was going to need it, and had it set up and it was in place.

diana olick has that story. >> reporter: well, jon, the rebirth of the phoenix housing market is all ilders and bidders. the builders out here 40 miles outside of phoenix is taking advantage of the zero money down usda rural loan program. they just started opening up the model again. they're seeing folks coming through and they just permitted to build two new houses. back in phoenix, the story is about foreclosures and investors are rushing in to buy them up. we spoke with colony capital who expects to spend over $1 billion this year buying foreclosed properties to rent. they say they could see returns of up to 25%. jon? >> thanks, diana. >>> an attorney for ratings for egan jones, the company expects the fcc to file an administrative proceeding next week. they did not indicate what relief they are seeking from egan jones. and finally the new york daily news identifies the woman at the center of the secret service hooker scandal. posted photos of a 24-year-old single mom, it says she is the alleged colombian escort that called police over her $800 fee. so far the ouster of three secre

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housing market. tonight, we head to phoenix in the heart of arizona. it was one of this sand state's hardest hit housing markets. but as mike sauceda reports, buyer demand is building. >> reporter: cristal romney of avondale, arizona wants her own home so she can move out of her sister's place. she's taking a tour of a place in gilbert, arizona, has a good credit rating and a 20% down payment, but sti it's been difficult to find a home. >> it is very frustrating to buy a home because when i look at the house i want, i put in an offer, it has a multiple offers. i go way above the listing price and it goes for more than what i put the offer in. >> i am seeing the market tightening up. there are less homes for buyers, which is causing a buying frenzy on properties. >> reporter: that frenzy is being fed by a shrinking housing inventory in the phoenix area. it has fallen from a high of 58,000 homes in 2008, which would be a 19-month supply at average sales rates. however, up to 8,000 homes are being sold monthly now, and the nearly 16,000 homes on the market

housing program. they're just far enough outside of phoenix.sda has done 2,000 loans in arizona since the beginning of this year. one interesting point tells me a lot of the customers coming in here they don't actually want to do 0% down. they want to put some skin in the game because they're afraid of the housing market again and afraid they might become under water and not able to sell. not everybody wants 0% even though you can actually get it. guys. >> diana, we're going to come back to that 0% question in just a minute. stay with us. joining us meanwhile to discuss how even or uneven the housing recovery is overall and whether we've finally hit bottom is executive vice president with carrington mortgage holdings. rick, welcome. i guess my take on what i'm seeing in housing is things have to stop getting worse before they get better. and it feels like we're at a point where things have kind of in many markets stopped getting worse. right or wrong? >> i think you're right. i think you can make a very compelling argument that things are getti

housing recovery. >> reporter: in phoenix, arizona, a busload of home buyers checked out foreclosed properties. >> do you have any questions about the home or -- >> reporter: for five straight months now in phoenix, one of the cities hardest hit by the recessio recession, house prices have been on the rise up another 1.2% in february. >> we're definitely seeing a turn in the market. >> reporter: michael orr, who heads the real estate isn'ter at arizona state university says suddenly, phoenix is a seller's market. >> i'm hearing a lot of frustration from people who want to buy and finding that whenever they find a home, there's five other offers already in. >> reporter: in our other cities -- denver, detroit, miami and minneapolis, prices also rose in february. but in 15 major markets, prices fell again, nine hit new post-recession lows, including atlanta, where prices are down more than 17% from a year ago. foreclosures continue to drag down prices, but the inventory of new homes on the market has been plummeting, and has now fallen to levels not regularly seen since early 2006. some economists belie

for many in the upscale phoenix suburb, the housing crash meant losing millions.ers who can make their payment have a tough task of figuring out what to do next. >> people who think they're not the trouble are foolish. if you think everybody puts great stock on what is happening in the market, stock market. uh-huh. >> when a homeowners owes 200% or 300% or whatever the case may be, the value of their mortgage, they are going to be paying the mortgage for 10, 15, 20 years. >> it never looked like this. the most common solution seems to be the short sale. but it does drive the home values down. in the long run, increase in sales means fewer homes listed and it should help drive prices back up. bringing some hope to a struggling housing market. in paradise valley, arizona. adam housley, fox news. >> bret: you can see all of our shattered dream series on foxnews.com. click on the link at the top of the home page under the search bar there. there is a wealth of information that could be helpful to you if you are having problems with your mortgage, foreclosure, or you n

phoenix. >>> lincoln military housing did not create the navy's deteriorating housing crisis, decades in theg. but it didn't fix it, either. as a result, many military families are living in toxic homes. deborah feyerick's special investigation continues. >> reporter: as the new landlord lincoln military housing did put in new appliances, fixtures, cabinetry and carpeting, taking homes from this to this. but it appears aging homes continued to be plagued by water damage. persistent leaks. and more harmfully, mold. and more and more families were falling mysteriously ill. what kind of illnesses have you had? >> sinus infections. respiratory infections. the nausea. the vomiting. the diarrhea. >> reporter: the families we spoke to believe lincoln was avoiding what it knew to be a huge problem. >> there was a lot of mold when i first started. >> reporter: meet dinette smith. she worked ten years for the navy and was among the first team hired by lincoln when it took over military housing in 2005. in your opinion, was lincoln trying to save costs, to cut corners? >> 100% yes. they did not want to

you consider the phoenix market, for example. the housen 55% in three-fourth year period. now beginning to come back a little, because some wealthy people are putting money in to buy second homes, maybe retirement homes. if they lose a mortgage deduction -- >> won't change the decision. >> it won't? >> no. too small an impact, at the end of the day, decision-making buying a second home in phoenix is based on the massive appreciation, foreign investors. you talk about that on the show. coming in with a weak dollar. it's on the fringe. i don't want to see any tax increase at all. he is leaving majority of the tax deduction in place. >> everybody else stays in place. it's important, because now we find out some, which loophole of mitt romney take away for rich people. that's part of tax reform. that is the importance of this. >> he is taking heat for being rich. i'm not shocked about the fact that he would do something to make it mitigate the edges. >> thank you for joining us. greg rand, thank you. >>> what is the government doing to add $3,

crack of dawn brings a military-style drill to the women's general population housing unit at the maricopa county jail in phoenixona. >> sound off, one, two. sound, off, three, four. one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. >> tried to get my life straight. tried to get my life straight. ended up the intake. couldn't make it on the yard. pissed off all the guards. march on chains. we dare not run, we dare not hide. >> the nation's only female chain gang is preparing to make its way to a desolate field on the outskirts of the city. today's chain gang assignment is intended to do more than provide the county with free labor for a needed task. jail officials hope it will make a lasting impact on these young women, most of whom are serving short sentences for nonviolent crimes. >> all these people we're burying are indigent. they don't have any family, they don't have nobody that can claim them. the only thing they know is their name and their age. we're the last people who paid their dues and their respect. >> 19-year-old courtney is currently serving six months on a drug trafficking charge. this is her first

to make sure that the white house understood there were agents who were very much against this program and wanted it stopped. >> so newell who is serving for the atf in phoenixs leadership and in a highly unusual move is communicating directly into the white house. now remember, the white house, the department of justice, they've all denied any involvement whatsoever into this, and now we have a communication which, by the way, only comes to light because of a whistleblower. you can see where there's a lot of smoke and not a lot of commitment from the white house to do what they said they were going to do, be open, be transparent. remember that? martha: katherine romo who is the white house counsel who's been involved in this, she says they've looked at this, and this is a quote from her, none of these limited communications between o'reilly and mr. newell revealed the existence of any of the inappropriate investigative tackties at issue in your inquiry, let alone any decision to allow guns to, quote, walk. they're saying they've been through all of these communications, and that there's nothing in them that they believe needs to be addressed. >> well, that'

there was extreme frustration about the fact that our border was not secured, that we had drop houses in phoenix, that we had drugs that came across our border up to phoenix, and distributed throughout the country. phoenix was a distribution and is a distribution point for drugs throughout the country and there was great frustration. when we have border patrol agents killed with weapons used in fast and furious and people not feeling secure in their homes, you can understand, i hope, over time the frustration the people of arizona felt which then triggered the action of the legislation they passed. >> thank you for joining us this morning, senator mccain. >> thanks for having me on. >>> battle is unfolding in greensboro, north carolina, courtroom at the trial of former presidential candidate john edwards. defense attorneys are turning up the heat on his chief accuser, former campaign staffer andrew young. we go to greensboro where young returns to the stand today and good morning. >> reporter: good morning. good morning to our viewers out in the west. this will be andrew young's fourth day on th

emails between atf officials in phoenix and the white house also show that the white house's national security team knew all about this including barack obama's latin american senior adviser on the national security team. megyn: they claim they knew a bit about fast and furious but not the controversial aspects of it, because of course president bush had an operation called wide receiver that was done in cooperation with the mexican government, which is not the case with fast and furious. but the administration this time around has said that's what we new, there was something akin to what was done under the busch administration, not that there were nefarious goals and purposes of letting guns walk and letting them go into the hands of bad guys without tracing them. >> you go back once again and i detailed this exclusively in the book, you go back to the beginning of the obama administration, early 2009, president obama gave direct orders to eric holder to rea assess the policies of gun trafficking on the southwestern border. janet napolitano was on board with that. it was a top priori

phoenix is experiencing a real resurgence. the housingtry is less than a four-month inventory. in texas, that goes without saying. if there is a boom state, it's texas. >> terrific for you guys. >> yes. >> a quote from your terrific conference call. we've had tremendous increase in occupancy. you go back two years, in the low 86% range. well above that now, aren't you. >> correct. we were hit a lot hard every than we thought we would be by the housing crisis. we had a lot of tile and granite providers, cabinetmakers, and they moved out. and we've been pleasantly surprised how we could pick up occupancy back up. over 400 basis points to 93.9%, and that's without a recovery in the housing industry. if we get a recovery, i think we'll really be beneficial for us. >> and also in resurgence, it's very clear the construction company has not come back. not like people are cad adding warehouses. >> no, and our buildings tend to be infill sites, where they are barriers to new entry, and that's become somewhat of a cliche in the real estate busines

house prices bottoming out. in some places certainly like phoenix, atlanta and cleveland you're seeing house prices nosediving byo what they were precrisis, jon. so this is a real dilemma for policymakers down there in washington, d.c. back to you, jonners you mentioned washington, d.c. house prices hardly dropped there because employment is very high because the government keeps growing and hiring all the federal workers. >> jon, we're also talking to the guys on wall street they're basically saying look, the government will do better to have houses sales, selling those houses encouraging house sales because then prices will find a bottom. you saw that happen in the early '60s, the early '70s, early '80s. even after the resolution trust corporation was set up in the early '90s, the way that housing moved again was do more sales, not bailouts. that is the real debate down there in washington d.c. also down on wall street. goldman sachs is saying housing could stablize but bank of america merrill lynch is saying housing could drop another 7 percentage points by 2013. back to you, jon. jon: liz macdonald thank you

questions about why are they trying to hide these communications from the white house directly to the bureau, the phoenixusly, everybody understands you don't want all of the president's communications released, that would be dangerous, no president wants that, but this is something that at least with operation fast & furious they've long been trying to get to the bottom of. that popular word in washington is the optics. the optics of this makes it seem as they the white house is hiding something. >> again, if it's the optics that drive judgments about separation of powers and executive privilege, we've gotten to a very bad point, and what justin cites is certainly language that sounds embarrassing, but it doesn't really have any smoking guns, as far as i'm concerned. so i don't see any reason why in an election year we should let the republicans do what justin described, which is to play politics. alisyn: guy, we're going to have to leave it there, doug, justin, thank you for having in to debate this, we appreciate it. bill: we're going to take you live to the white house. we've been waiting on this all

phoenix, and washington, d.c. state senator steve gallardo a member of the arizona state senate, representing district 13. he previously served in the arizona house of representatives from 2003 through 2009, he has served on numerous state and local boards and committees, and is the leading sponsor of the state senate bill, arizona state senate bill that would repeal sb-1070. todd landfried is the executive director of arizona employers for immigration reform. a grassroots organization comprised of 400 small, medium, large businesses committed to federal immigration -- sensible federal immigration policy. mr. landfried's organization filed an amicus brief with the supreme court in opposition to sb-1070. gentlemen, your entire statements without objection will be read into the record. mr. pearce, you may proceed as you wish, sir. >> good morning. i am russell pearce, the author and driving force behind sb-1070. which is overwhelmingly supported by citizens across this nation. thank you, chairman schumer, for inviting me here and before this honorable committee. it is an honor for me to appear. as you know, illegal alien problem is a critical issue

everybody comes back to the house and they have great steps, the phoenix coyotes.p as the games wound down here. they took away so many scores chances for mike smith and backed him up. >> the hawks with it again. off the skate and it's cleared by the coyotes. western conference semi final matchups are set. the blues, higher seed with home ice advantage. phoenix will have home ice against nashville. what a goaltending matchup. mike smith against pekka rinne. >> people will think there's no nets out there, sometimes, i think. >> now from the high slot. this is deflected up on the net and out of play and don't overlook the goaltending matchup. jonathan quick played for los angeles and of course both goaltenders, played for st. louis. >> no doubt. >> i would say goals and scoring chances are at a premium in the next hound. >> yeah. what it does and did to chicago here at times is makes the shooters run it too short. they do that to you eventually. trying to feel like you're getting it by them and you miss the net. >> hjalmarsson off the boards. sharp, center ice. sends

phoenix is is experiencing a real resurgence. the housingndustry there is less than a four-month inventory. in texas, that goes without saying. if there's a boom state, it's texas. >> right. which is terrific for you guys. >> yes. >> now, there's a quote from your terrific conference call, february 15th. we've had a tremendous increase in occupancy. you go back two years, we were in the low 86% range. you're well above that now, aren't you? >> correct. we were hit a lot harder than we thought we were going to be by the housing crisis. we had a lot of the tile and granite providers, cabinet makers, carpet companies, and they moved out and we've been very pleasantly surprised at how we've been able to pick occupancy back up. we were up over 400 basis points last year to 93.9%. and that's without a recovery in the housing industry. so we do get a recovery in the next couple of years, i think it will really be beneficial for us. >> but also in the research and comments, it's very clear that the construction industry has not come back. it's not l

phoenix is rising. there is finally life in the housing market there. find out which markets might rebound, next. mcdonald's reports its earnings tomorrow. we'll tell you where the smart money is on this stock today on "power lunch." now back to michelle and more fast. >> time to hit our fast fire traders. sometimes our traders are fast. but sometimes they get burned. take a listen to what our own guy has been saying recently about qualcomm. >> i think it's still the place to go, above 62 the stock still should go significantly higher. if you love apple which i think obviously pete does qualcomm still works here. qualcomm above 65 to me is still in breakout mode. >> shares of the chip maker today down sharply. 4% after a disappointing quarterly and full-year outlook. more than 5%. now 5 1/2%. from the company, guy, do you still see quality in qualcomm? >> i think they're sand bagging but below 65 you have to stay awake. you buy it on a break above 65. otherwise let the stock play out. a lot of people called in. basically i have been talking about it, now you stay away until it breaks back above 6

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