david rhodes, held by the taliban for eight months. he wrote beyond war, imagining american influence in the middle east. and david pollock, a former state department official, and now for institute of near east policy. and so with mub artic being ousted, it seems to be a return to that era. and we have all of these very violent clashes, and one has to ask ones self, is egypt better off today? >> it's a good question. there was been a lot of twists and turns since hosni mubarak fell almost three years ago. and exceeded control from mohamed morsy, and then of course we have the coup of july 2013. there are some indications that the old order, the uprising that brought mubarak down is coming back, and they lay out personal and political freedoms, but it does institutionalize the autonomous rule of the military. and egyptian is have laid out personal freedoms, only to have them undermined by laws and be actions from the government. it doesn't look good three years hence from egypt is the bottom line. >> now, david rhode, the current regim

senator reed of rhode island. mr. reed: the pending amendment is the reed amendment, will be accepted by a voice vote and i yield back my time. the presiding officer: is there further debate? if not, the question is on the amendment. all in favor say aye. all opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it, the ayes do have it. the amendment is agreed to. there are now two minutes equally divided -- the senator from new jersey. mr. menendez: move to reconsider and lay on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. there are now two minutes equally divided on the amendment from senator whitehouse of rhode island. mr. whitehouse: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: i hope my colleagues will vote enthusiastically for this amendment across the country ciewnts and local organizations are trying to revive rivers that have been damned and blocked -- dammed and blocked and when they go foaferred to put in a fish ladder, when they redesign a culvert to allow for water passage t

and that's not just true in rhode island. it's true across new england. i suspect it's true in a the love places across the country. so -- in a lot of places across the country. as local communities are restoring these rivers, they tend to be small rivers and small dams, what we want do is remove the old dadges s old dame original flow is restored. in some cases we want to actually keep the dam but build a fish passage so that the fish that are working their way upstream to their traditional breeding grounds find a passage and aren't blocked by the dam. and that is part, again, of bringing these old rivers back to life. so when you do that, it's usually in my state towns, small towns often, and local community organizations that have to apply in order to make those changes. part of the application process is a flood map revision to show what change, removing the dam or change the culvert or adding the fish ladder, will affect -- will make on downstream conditions, a and so the flood map gets redone. the flood map gets filed with fema, and fema requires a

david rhode is a 2-time pulitzer prize-winning journalist held by the taliban for eight months. and david pollock is a fellow of new age policy. >> it's the second anniversary of the longest serving president hosni mubarak being ousted. the regime took over and in many ways it seems to be a return to that era, right. i mean we have got all these reports of oppression before the vote. we see violence clashes. one has to ask themselves, is egypt better off today than it was when he was in office. >> it's a good question, a fair question. there has been a lot of twists and turns since hosni mubarak fell three years ago. we had a long period of military rule under the supreme council of armed forces ceding control to mohamed morsi, and then the coup of july 2013. there's every indication that some semblance of the old order that was supposed to have been done away with result of the uprising is coming back the new constitution upon which people were voting lays out important personal and political freedoms and institutionalized the autonomous role of the military, and egyptian const

that is in my home state of rhode island. that is in states across this country, nevada, tennessee, arizona. states that have unemployment numbers that are above the national average, above 7%. in my case it's 9%. we have to help these families. and as senator durbin pointed out, we've done this on a bipartisan basis until very recently. this is a smart economic program. this program will, according to c.b.o., create 200,000 jobs next year if we extend it. those are jobs we're going to give away. and the minority leader was talking about how we've got to do more to create jobs around here. well, if we don't pass this measure, c.b.o. has told us we're going to forfeit 200,000 jobs. so from an economic basis in this country, this is smart. but from a human basis, from helping people who have worked their lives, the only way you qualify for this program is you work, and then you're let go through no fault of your own. so we have to do this. and the other side we're talking about, and other colleagues are talking about, we've got

i thank the gentleman from rhode island for being here tonight. rhode island mr. cicilline: i thank the gentlelady and i thank my good friend, the gentlelady from connecticut for her extraordinary work and for her incredible passion on this very, very important issue and for giving me the opportunity to speak on this serious issue tonight. madam speaker, the gentlelady from connecticut, has been a great champion for policies to fight hunger and protect a crucial safety net for our nation's most vulnerable children and families. i stand with her against these devastating cuts to the snap program. you don't end hunger by cutting nutrition programs. you make it worse. we should be working together to find ways to end hunger in america. we can do that. this is the greatest country on earth. we should be certain that no man, woman or child in this country goes hungry. unfortunately, some of my colleagues filed the farm bill conference report that would be absolutely devastating to families struggling to get by. if i can for just a moment, i would like to walk through s

the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: if i may presume that we are in a quorum call and request that the pending quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. wouldmr. whitehouse: thank you y much. madam president, i'm back again today now for the 54th time to urge my colleagues to wake up to what carbon pollution is doing to earth's climate and oceans. facts that we see all around us but can't seem to penetrate the politics of congress. we in this body are willfully ignoring changes that we've never seen before, changes that threaten our planet and its rich array of plant and animal life, our homes, farps farms, and facs and our very health and well-being. carbon-driven climate change can be seen in warming surface temperatures and in shifting seasons, but perhaps nowhere is carbon pollution doing more harm than in our oceans. the year 2013 brought ample new evidence of these changes in our oceans. here is what we know: people often talk about climate change as if it were a theory. here's w

that is in my home state of rhode island. that i ss in states across the country, nevada, tennessee, arizona, states that have unemployment numbers that are above the national average, abovege 7%. my case it is 9%. we have to help these families and as senator durbin pointed out, we have done this on a bipartisan basis until very recently. this is a smart economic program. this program, will, according to cbo rather, create 200,000 jobs next year, if we extend it. those are 200 jobs we'll give away and minority leader was talking about how we need to do more to create jobs around here. well, about we don't pass this measure,'r cbo told us we'll forfeit 200,000 jobs. so from an economic basis, in this country, this isn't smart. from a human basis, helping people who worked their lives, only way you qualify for this program is you work and you're let go, through no fault of your own. so we have to do this. and the other side is talking about, and others colleagues talking about, well, we've got to pay for these benefits. this i

the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: first let me thank the senator from illinois for his great leadership on the appropriations defense subcommittee and for joining me in rhode island to see those great workers at electric bode. i want to commend chairwoman barbara mikulski and chair woman murray. we would not be here without their extraordinary efforts, herculean efforts by two extraordinary individuals. i also want to thank my colleague from the great state of alaska, lisa murkowski, for her work. she is an extraordinary colleague, collaborator, and we worked together to make this subcommittee bill a very good one. chairman ken kalb on the house, ranking member jim moran collaborated on this effort. jim is retiring. i want to thank him for his distinguished service to virginia and to the nation. i am very pleased in particular in this interior subcommittee bill that we could make a strong investment in clean water, in drinking water through the revolving funds, or known, the s.r.f. funds. this is not only about

take the example david rhode brought up. tunisia is the possible success story in the middle east. united states supported this. tunisia is a country the size of florida. and has left international influence. egypt is the largest country in the world. sits on the suez canal, is the means to a variety of american interests and beyond. that's where the calculations are different. in a perfect world everyone would want egyptians to live in a democracy. egypt is not a success for many, many egyptians. there has been good that the united states has done, but, of course, the deterioration of the economy and the political system post hosni mubarak suggests although we have invested in egypt we have not invested in durable things, durable areas that can help the country develop and ultimately become a more open and democratic society. we have not been able to resolve the dilemma between short-term security and longer term. until we do, we'll default to those issues of security. >> as i hear you rattle off all the leverage that europe has and $1.6 billion is a drop in the bucket. why are th

deputy national security advisor ben rhodes is our guest. plus will congress push for new iran sanctions, we'll ask margaret and john. and who to expect when jack diamond and matt damon hit davos. i'm julianna goldman in for al this week. we begin the program with ben rhodes, thanks for joining us. after an extensive review, the president unveiled his changes to national security agency to the surveillance program. let me ask you, if i'm joe schmo, average citizen, if i'm google, what changes are going into effect beginning for me today? >> the program with the most attention is metadata relating to phone calls, the time of calls and phone numbers, that is in a database that the government controls and can query for information. there is a risk for potential abuse of that database. so what we're going to do immediately, the government cannot query that database to access information from it without going to a court first and getting judicial review beforehand. we're going to transition out of that program and have somebody other than the gov

about what happened. 77-year-old med drick mills collapsed across the street from a fire station on rhode island avenue on saturday. his daughter says she and other witnesses begged for help. and firefighters told them it was against procedure to respond. mills died of a heart attack. >> i would prefer a person to break a procedure, and if you can't break a procedure, then you're in the wrong profession when you're dealing with life and death situations. >> i was absolutely furious when i saw it. the investigation is under way. >> investigators are also trying to find out whether dispatchers sent an ambulance to rhode island avenue northwest instead of rhode island avenue northeast. >>> president obama hit the road today going to prince gorges county to push for a higher minimum wage. he spoke at the costco store in lanham to support his state of the union pledge. workers at the warehouse shopping chain average twice the minimum wage in their earnings. theresident is also taking action where he can. he will issue an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay employees at least $

change has come to his former cellmate, joey rhodes.received permission to transfer to an all straight, male, general population dorm. >> i quested to be moved out of the first police i was in. only because i had stalkers. it got a little hectic there. it wasn't what i was really expecting out of all of that. i was going there to, say, hey maybe i will have more in common with these people. maybe i will find better friend. every day i was getting two, three people coming to my window trying to get me to expose myself to them. and every time i would go take a shower, i would get people coming in sitting on the benches just watching me. i was like, hello? it's kind of scary. i am not going to lie. finally i talked to classification, they moved me out of there. i am in a great new pod. there is a lot of cool people here. a lot of cool new friend. it's interesting. >> while rhodes must keep his homosexuality under wraps, for general population, meet at least a few inmates willing to share their opinions. >> i will be straight up. i do have

she's the director of the rhode island health benefits exchange.previously, she spent close to eight years as a research professor at the george washington university school of public health and services. she also has served as commissioner of the massachusetts department of public health. as the director of the rhode island department of human services. and formerly as counsel and deputy chief of staff to the late u.s. senator jon chaffee of rhode island. so we're very happy to have christy with us as well. mili kaufman also has joined us. she's the executive corredirect the d.c. health benefit exchange authority. and served as the superintendant of insurance of the state of maine from 2008 to 2011. she also has served in key leadership positions at the national association of insurance commissioners and was formerly an associate research professor and project director at the georgetown university health policy institute. and joining us on the line by phone from california we're happy to have peter lee who's the executive director of covered calif

it was duking it out with rhode island. i had a little more experience with rhode island.florida? >> oh, chris, you got to be kidding me. i mean, the past 35 years we've averaged one conviction for political corruption every week. we've led the nation -- >> that's pretty good. >> -- five out of the last 12 years, chris. i mean, we had a mayor in miami beach convicted not for one instance of bribery but 41 instances of bribery. in tampa, the county commission was so corrupt that there wasn't one who was convicted of bribery, there were three at the same time. >> you also had -- the story of the florida senate president, i really like this one, the florida senate president -- >> yes, sure. >> so he got -- tell me his story. >> well, his story is that he wrote a book report about the florida state legislature. never published in any form, anywhere at all. and the state paid him $152,000 which he never was punished for. i mean, a lot of the worst corruption in florida goes completely unpunished. >> he was not punished for his $152,000 book report? >> no, no, he wasn't punished

in rhode island i've met people who they've worked for 30 years. they are in their 50's, they were white-collar professionals, trying to take care of an elderly parent, they have responsibilities to children, and they desperately want to work. one constituent who wrote to me has been out of work since december of 2012. he has applied to over 300 jobs, taken additional classes at a local community college in the hopes of become ago more traikiv-- becominga more attrac. another constituent had to move in with her sister because she couldn't pay the rent. this is not some academic exercise, some rhetorical ideological debate. this is about helping real people who want to work, and they can't find the jobs after desperately looking for them. a third constituent wrote me the following letter. "i never thought that i would be among the unemployed, but here i am after over 30 years of experience in my field in higher education administration. i used to make $60,000 a year and now my unemployment benefits run out in mid-march. i have been searching for a j

but don't expect rhode islandeners to say the same anytime soon.t water for the plans she has for her multimillion-dollar waterfront property. known more for her ballads and breakups. ♪ i knew you were trouble when you walked in ♪ >> reporter: some are saying taylor swift is causing trouble. she spent $7 million for this mansion. 16 rooms and 5 acres, it's located in the exclusive neighborhood of westerly. the pop singer is spending big bucks on improvement to the property, including a seawall, that some locals claim will restrict access to a public beach. >> i don't think any celebrity should have the right to do that with such a historic area. >> reporter: swift maintains she has all the required permits for the work and is restoring the wall after it was damaged in hurricane sandy. others say huge boulders being placed by construction crews restrict use of the area popular with fishermen and bathers. >> that's something that's just going to stick. and we won't be able to surf there. >> reporter: the historical preservation and heritage commissio

it'll be 8 dollars in rhode island and new york and 8-70 in connecticut.21 states now have a minimum hourly wage higher than the federal level of 7 dollars 25-cents.washington state has the highest minimum wage of 9.19 an hour.this could be the year raising the federal wage becomes a national issue. from the white house to congressional races, democrats have been buoyed by polls showing public support. something to note if you're in the midst of a holiday road trip--which states are stepping on the gas - tax? wisconsin has the lowest tax in the nation - just a quarter a gallon. wyoming, california, kansas and new york are just a few cents higher.at the high end of the tax scale. oklahoma and hawaii charge you just over two dollars a gallon.florida puts the highest tax on its gas - three dollars 50-cents a gallon. and that's a full dollar more than the next highest taxing state which is, alaska. airline delays are on a steady decline for more than a decade. u-s airline delays fell 33 percent from 2000 to 2012, the report says. flight cancellations dropped 56 percent at the nation's la

rhodes is asking for. it's not much different than what i just verbally relate to you but we can provide that information to the budget analyst. >> given this is an ordinance it won't be approved until january. we are not going to have a massive holiday timeline here. colleagues, any questions or comments? supervisor avalos? >> it's not for mr. rose, but thank you for your report. i have comments or questions about one of the sources of funding, the appropriation of the car born and it's actually that it's not on here is actually a pretty important moment in the car born history. we have many of the documents that we've been trying to get together to assure that the car born is ready for the capital project and raising money for the car bar and we have to raise all of those documents have to be ready. we have done the review and potential tax credits for new market tax credits and we have a new executive director who has great experience. tim who is here and has great experience and capital financing. so w

the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: mr. president on december 28, 1.3 million americans lost their extended unemployment benefits. they are the first wave of what will be more than 3 million other americans much these people have worked, qualified for unemployment insurance. they need help and we have to help them. if we don't do that -- the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: mr. president if we don't do that not only will these families suffer, but our economy will suffer. c.b.o. has estimated that we will lose 200,000 jobs if we don't extend unemployment benefits and .2% of growth. so if you want to help working families people who qualified because they work, who have to look for work to be qualified and if you want to help our economy, then tull a vote for at least to let us go afford. give us three months to work on issues work on funding work on anything else. but don't leave these people without anything, throwing them off the cliff. a senator: mr. president? the

connecticut, massachusetts, and rhode island. that's where the snow has been coming down so far today. here are some numbers. making a run at 10 inches and it's still snowing in many testimony cities right now. so we are easily going to get to the one foot. although you may never see one foot. you may see zero to two feet. so that's kind of the range because of the way the scouring, the wind is going to blow these drifts shire and higher tonight. there will be more snow. probably another 4 to 6 inches. philadelphia you have six more hours of snow. new york city probably 12. here still 1 inches it before the storm finally pulls away tomorrow morning. we're still going to have snow copping down in many major cities. if you have travel plans tomorrow, especially through the airports, 3,000 planes are canceled today. there will be more canceled tomorrow for sure. this is going to be another multiday storm with multiday travel problems. this is a big cold storm. some of the locals here though, to be honest, they're calling this a nuis

number two, you just heard ben rhodes talk about this. it's not clear who will hold the data. will it be these phone companies and will they create another entity whose job solely it is to hold the data. is there some way outside of the government that it exists now -- that's a whole other hornet's nest in terms of who wants to hold the data much less whether we should collect it. the thing i thought that was most interesting and chuck touched on this, this speech struck me as an attempt to reassure the american public, reassure foreign leaders and reassure foreign citizens that there is reason to have faith in the american government and what they are doing in regards with the nsa. this was not a rejection of the surveillance programs. it was an attempt to largely defend why the surveillance programs are necessary and yes, we understand you're not happy so here are a few things we'll do to make it more transparent or make it sort of -- change it in some way but we're not going to fundamentally alter what president obama frankly still thinks judging from his record is the righ

developments in ukraine with nikolai petro is a professor of political science at the university of rhode island who's in the south of ukraine right now mr petro thank you so much for joining us now taking a look at what's happening on the ground there right now do you actually think that the parliament revoking the majority of the laws that triggered these riots and the government stepping down will be enough to persuade the protesters to actually leave the streets at this point. i doubted it will certainly not be the case that the radical will leave because they are already taking credit for what has been accomplished and what they will probably do is move as your previous journalist said back to my done and continue to hold on to that territory to serve as a guarantor of what has been accomplished to make sure the revolution continues. ok so we've got these these sort of extremist protesters sort of taking things over in a lot of in a lot of ways now but a lot of the local government sort of the heads of local government have been there's been an attempt to sort of take over the buildi

connecticut, massachusetts, and rhode island. that's where the snow has been coming down so far today. here are some numbers. making a run at 10 inches and it's still snowing in many testimony cities right now. so we are easily going to get to the one foot. although you may never see one foot. you may see zero to two feet. so that's kind of the range because of the way the scouring, the wind is going to blow these drifts shire and higher tonight. there will be more snow. probably another 4 to 6 inches. philadelphia you have six more hours of snow. new york city probably 12. here still 1 inches it before the storm finally pulls away tomorrow morning. we're still going to have snow copping down in many major cities. if you have travel plans tomorrow, especially through the airports, 3,000 planes are canceled today. there will be more canceled tomorrow for sure. this is going to be another multiday storm with multiday travel problems. this is a big cold storm. some of the locals here though, to be honest, they're calling this a nuis

but, a completely different conversation in rhode island. so each of us is going to come at it from a slightly different perspective in terms of getting those innovative products online. but it's one of the reasons why the states, like ours, who chose to go the direction of the state-based exchange, are really going to be able to use this investment very, very effectively to be a catalyst for the overall change that needs to take place in the health care system. >> and susan, i know we're wrapping up here but i just really want to underscore that. what christine said, and the differences, and the importance of the state-based exchanges. it is so important, and you know, we you are state-based, when our governor announced that we were going to go the state-based exchange route, what he said then couldn't be more true today. which is he was making the decision to do this state-based, even though it was not the politically more popular decision, however, he was doing it because he felt as though we knew our insurance market best, we have the pe

are three states, california, rhode island, new jersey that have sponsored paid maternity leave.rce from their looking for ways to introduce a nationwide. >> what are the economics europe maternity leave? have there been any studies showing what the cost is two employers or what the potential benefit is to society at large question mark -- society at large? be a cost the employer. it will be a cost to the employees. it is worth it. women will get 12 weeks to take care of their children. then they will return to the labor force and they are more productive. >> how does the u.s. compared to other countries? >> that is a great question. it does not look great. there are only two countries in the world that do not have paid maternity leave. the u.s. is one of them. the other one is pop in new guinea. >> only 12% of americans have access to paid maternity leave. how is that possible? like bank ofyers america, dell, they offer their employees maternity leave. requirementroduce a in states like california, new jersey, rhode island where they require that women who leave benefit from tha

connecticut, massachusetts, and rhode island. that's where the snow has been coming down so far today. here are some numbers. making a run at 10 inches and it's still snowing in many testimony cities right now. so we are easily going to get to the one foot. although you may never see one foot. you may see zero to two feet. so that's kind of the range because of the way the scouring, the wind is going to blow these drifts shire and higher tonight. there will be more snow. probably another 4 to 6 inches. philadelphia you have six more hours of snow. new york city probably 12. here still 1 inches it before the storm finally pulls away tomorrow morning. we're still going to have snow copping down in many major cities. if you have travel plans tomorrow, especially through the airports, 3,000 planes are canceled today. there will be more canceled tomorrow for sure. this is going to be another momentum day storm with multitie day travel problems. this is a big cold storm. some of the locals here though, to be honest, they're calling thi

t deputy national security adviser ben rhodes is joining me. caucuses with the democrats saying it's a good start but the nsa is still violating the fourth amendment to the constitution. what do you say? >> well, wolf, as the president said, we did not find any instances of abuse in terms of the nsa going beyond what is approved by congress in the courts. what we found is a potential for abuse when they hold this bulk metadata. so on this program that collects metadata, telephone numbers, the times of phone calls, what we've said is immediately we're going to move to a situation where we have to seek judicial review before we seek a database but the president has decided that the government should not only this data and over the course of the next 60 days we'll review the options for how we map terrorist communications without the government holding possession of this database of bulk telephone metadata. >> well, one option that the president apparently doesn't like is letting the telecommunication firms, companies themselves hold all of this b

there is a reed amendment from rhode island. this would require fema to conduct a study on the viability of offering community-based flood insurance policies. my notes say there's broad support for that. there is a coburn amendment which is an alternative to the narab. that amendment will probably not receive the votes required, but we're happy to talk about his amendment and have him offer it. and there is a merkley amendment that will subject nfib policyholders to place policies or let their policies lapse. it is a technical amendment. there is has rubio-nelson amendment that's being discussed. those are the only amendments that we know about. so if there's anybody else that has an amendment on flood that would like to offer it or have it considered, the next couple hours would be the last opportunity to get those amendments in. i know everybody is busy. ive has got lots to do. i have cleared my calendar, had meetings, cleared the calendar do this today because it is very important that we not just get so busy with other thing

young guy who does communications for national security. >> rose: at cbs we think of him as david rhodes' brother. >> (laughs) exactly right. and ben said barack obama does not believe in the great man theory of history. he believes in the great currents of history. >> rose: oh! >> and obama said "i'm not sure i agree with ben." >> rose: (laughs) he does believe in the great man theory, in part. >> again, up to a point. in other words, he can see from his chair -- >> rose: man make history and history makes the man. >> there are things that a president or -- maybe not like a king but a president can do but it's limited. there are limitations in terms of time, in terms of opportunity. >> rose: does he feel he got cheated by the time in a sense because, one, he had this whole first year of his presidency had to be totally focused on economic recovery, number one. number two, some of the things he did produced the tea party which has produced a kind of resistance seldom seen in which people don't have a -- >> well, we do forget sometimes-- and maybe even barack obama forgets in a way that m

gerri: a debate is brewing on the set right site right now about whether preschoolers in rhode islandbe right to get an annual flu immunization shot. joining us for a fair and balanced debate is built from 10 and lis wiehl. a fox news legal analyst. i will start with you first. and your child will be first flu shot? >> you cannot force a parent to get a flu shot. if they want to do it, that is fine, but the state or federal government, you must do this or else, that's something that they cannot say. >> under the police power that is given to the states by the constitution. >> wait, you're talking about a police power for this? >> giving the state the right to regulate health and political subdivisions and ultimately they feel that it is better for health care workers. and the flu can be serious. >> there is no indication, frankly, that the flu shot is really going to help them not get the flu. gerri: parents are willingly vaccinating their children. there's a frustration with officials who have been unable to vaccinate these children against influence. maybe saxony is. >> you can opt

what i'm finding out is i talked to people in rhode island. many of these men and women are middle age, they've worked for decades. they've gotten no unemployment before. this is not their choice. they are at a very difficult position supporting older mothers and fathers and younger children. they want to work. and what we should be doing is focusing on that. so this is not about politics. it's about what's right for our constituents and what's right for the economy. and frankly, if our economy is growing expandinging, that to me is the best politics. >> i want to ask you about iraq. we've seen the claims at least by al qaeda linked forces isis that they have taken over fallujah and ramadi, american leaves were spent in 2004, two of the bloodiest conflicts of the iraq war, you on the armed services committee knows well what was at stake here. was it a mistake to not fight harder to stay behind when we withdrew from iraq? i know this is a spillover also from syria. so we're seeing a regional growth of al qaeda linked militants. >> i think it wa

deputy national security advisor ben rhodes is our guest. plus will congress push for new iran sanctions, we'll ask margaret and john. and who to expect when jack dimon hit davos. i'm julianna goldman in for al this week. we begin the program with ben rhodes, thanks for joining us.

island, you could receive upwards of 14 inches coast alarcon coal, connecticut, and massachusets, and rhode island, lou. lou: what do you cal that? what casting? >> now casting, that is, is you know we're forecasters we predict, the amount of snow, but in thecasion lik this where we have a strengthening system, i low offshore, we're now seeing snowfall totals -- when you see them of an inch or 2 an hour that indicates a stronger storm, that is bringing heavier snowfall totals that areas we didn't forecast that much snow for. we're into a now casting situation, lou, tomorrow morning we will probably see a lot of areas with a foot to a foot and a half maybe even two feet of snow, that is the term we use for forecast we're doing on the fly so to speak. to be quite honest with you. but the wind trusts, any of snow right now is blown around, blizzard like continues on lie, coastal massachusets, parts off coastal new jersey, central new jersey you could also he hit the jackpot of 14 inches, we might bust those up tonight with the now cast, looking at forecast radar, 8:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m., 6 to 12

suffered from a massive heart attack on the sidewalk right across the street from the firehouse on rhode island avenue northeast on saturday. >> i stood on that curb and i cried out to him please come and help my dad. i said please don't let my dad die. >> reporter: when she begged the firefighter to come and help, she got no response. >> he just leaned up against the fire engine with his arms folded the entire time. >> reporter: strangers ran across the street to the firehouse multiple times but were today various excuses and that they needed to call 911, which they had. >> what does policy and procedure have to do with why they can't help the man? on who in the world is going to punish somebody for violating protocol but you save somebody's life in the process? i'm not buying that. >> reporter: paramedics and the ambulance were on another call at the time of this incident, but firefighters trained as basic emergency medical technicians were here at the time and could have easily run across the street within seconds to render cpr. >> dad, help is on the way. they're right across the str

you have a guy that went to oxford as a rhodes scholar. next to a coal miner.ll those personalities and backgrounds can work for you or they can. think you miss judge? >> early on you think you can , or testphysical gifts scores. once they get thrown into the crucible that is seal training, which lasted long time into hell week. it starts on a sunday night on the fifth week of training. it starts on sunday night. it ends on friday afternoon. you get two hours of sleep. you are wet and cold and miserable grade running with a boat on your head. lying down in the surf. >> two hours of sleep for five days? >> it puts you into another world. by thursday, people start hallucinating. >> sleep deprivation. offert we want to do is up multiple and intense opportunities to find out if everyone has that quitting gene. if you don't, if you somebody that we throw all that adds, we know we have a special piece of clay to mold. >> are you convinced that you ?re equipped to be a warrior >> a lot of the men that do well were warriors coming into the program. once you finish, you

i'm hearing from people like chris in rhode island. he's 45 years old.oyed before and in the economy in rhode island, we're at 9% unemployment. there are just not the jobs for these folks. >> i hear you on that. senator, i was just looking at the record here from the last big vote. republicans in your chamber that you did get, cochran, graham, wi wickard. are you reaching out to them? >> jack reed is leading the charge and is doing the best to round up the votes that he can. at present, he's not saying that we thinks we have the votes, but that it's in play. >> that it's possible. >> a lot of people are saying, i may, i may not. a lot of people want to see who else is voting, talk to their colleagues. i think it is kind of up in the air right now. this is going to be a vote that will work itself out on the flo floor. >> jared, what's your take? >> jack reed and sheldon didn't get in this business for the last week. for a long time, they've been supportive of these types of measures. i think the confusion right now besides the political dynamics is that t

i've been following the bankruptcy issues there with judge rhodes.hey've had some good plug as recently as a couple of days ago with reframing their loans and their pensions. i think detroit is on its way to improvement, but it has a long way to go just like some other cities do. >> james brooks, david, mark and roberta, thank you all for being with me. >> thank you, ray. >> thanks a lot. that brings us to the end of this edition of "inside story." thanks for being with us. now the program may be over but the conversation continues. we want to hear what you think about the issues raised on this program or any edition of the show. you can log on to our facebook page. you can send us your thoughts on twitter. our handle, aj inside story a.m. or reach me directly at ray suarez news. we'll see you for the next inside story. and we'll see you all throughout 2014. so continue to join us. in washington i'm ray suarez. >> we're just going to have to do it, right? i could've chosen better underwear. are you prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice? >> you can

reed of rhode island, proposes amendment numbered 2631. mr. reid: i ask for the yeas and nays on that amendment, madam president. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the yeas and nays are ordered. mr. reid: i have a second-degree amendment at the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from nevada, mr. reid, proposes an amendment numbered 2632 to amendment numbered 2631. mr. reid: i have a cloture motion on the reed of rhode island amendment. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: cloture motion. we, the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the amendment numbered 2631 to s. 1845, a bill to provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits and for other purposes. signed by 17 senators follows -- reid of never -- mr. reid reid: with the consentf the senate, i ask that the names not be read. the presiding officer: is there obje

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we have not heard from ben rhodes yet. changed these talking points to say it was a video and it was that sunday that they went out and perpetuated the lie. nobody in the military ever said it was a video. it was changed way after the fact, and it was done deliberately for political points. >> and in fact, general ham was testifying. he was also asked two or three times, when you say attack, you mean attack, right? you're not talking about a protest? he was very clear and precise about calling it an attack, not a protest. >> yeah, i am one of the people who would easily forgive an administration over confusing over an attack like that and understanding things are happening incredibly quickly, and there's no nefarious things going on. however, if there was an inclination to blame a video, how easy is that blame taken by the media? why does it happen? because there's an environment that fosters a belief that when there's a conflict between the east and west, generally the west is the goliath. we're the ones responsible for s

police and civilians about the incident that happened saturday right across from the firehouse on rhode island avenue to the northeast. and 77-year-old medric mills was going to this computer store when he collapsed from cardiac arrest, and his daughter, maria mills, ran to the fire station. >> and i was like, sir, can you please, help my father, and are you going to stand there and do nothing and let my dad die? >> reporter: and the firefighter she encountered was a rookie who had to check with the lieutenant who was davis, and the rookie told saying that he could not respond, and today, the mayor for public safety tells me that there are no regulations or protocols that would have prevented fire personnel or ems on the scene from preventing to the take care of mr. mills. >> we want to know what the senior administration did, and what the rank and file did, and we should have responded and responded immediate ly, and thi is not something up for discussion or debate. you react and respond. and we did not do that. >> and now we are told the that as a result of this ongoing investigation