florida isn't so warm and while animals in other parts of the country can handle the cold, this sarasota animal shelter is preparing for winter conditions. >>> switching gears a little bit, no doubt mentoring changes lives. the mentoring for young mothers program provides special opportunities to pair an experienced mom with a young expecting or new mother. fox 5's beth parker sat down with a pair that started as mentor and student who say it's a bond that will last a lifetime. >> that's a good idea. look at that. >> reporter: julia is spending her afternoon with priscilla and her two boys, something they do at least once a week. the two mothers are joined by the mental health association's mentors for young mothers program. >> i got into this because my kids all grew up and went away. so i had this burning need to nurture. >> she takes us out, sometimes to the libraries. >> reporter: other days they go to the park. julia is around for an extra set of hands for a mom trying to get her life going. the program pairs experienced moms with new or expectant mothers to provide support, advice

sarasota county was going to make a cut up 40 million. for all of us, including me who stares at numbers all day long i don't have a sense of which ones of those are big numbers and which are small, unless you pull out the district's budget or the state's budget or the county's budget and start looking at it. so what it would have and it is convert that into per pupil terms and you can see in new york at the time they were talking about a 256-dollar per pupil cut over $1000 per pupil in alabama and close to $1000 in sarasota county. so what you get when you start pulling these numbers out is the sense of the real magnitude and millions when you're starting to look at exponents and 0 cents hard to take a sense of what that really means. i think this entire presentation is probably worth committing one number to memory and that is that the average district in this country spends about $10,000 per pupil. so when you start to look at numbers that are close to a thousand per pupil you configure their minds those are pretty big cuts. we're talk

sarasota -- saratoga springs, new york. caller: it is because haiti does not have a bunch of oil.n is taken way out of hand. pat robertson, what is it is crazy, almost as crazy as the guy who called in and said a machine called the earthquake. we got to get off all of this religion. you got the people here and other countries -- religion can be perverted into anything and i kind of thing it was more of a senile old man than any religious thought. i just feel sorry for those poor people. it is just a shame we have so many ignorant people in this country and we are supposed to be educated about i listen to c- span all the time and believe me, they will be calling in. that is all i have to say. host: john from saratoga springs. i mentioned the president will be making a statement. secretary of state hillary clinton has been sent to all six morning shows beginning at 7:00 to talk about the administration's relief effort in haiti. we are taking your telephone calls about one sidebar stories lighting of the internet, pat robertson's comments on "the 700 that cause people to be cursed. o

sarasota was going to make a cut of $40 million.for all of us, including me, who stares at numbers all day long, i don't have a sense of which of those are big numbers and which are small, unless you pull out the district's budget or the state's budget or the county's budget and start looking hat it, so what i went ahead and did is convert that into per pupil terms and you can seetalkg aboul cut, over $1,000 per pupil in alabama and close to a thousand in say set county. so what you get when you start pulling these numbers out is a sense of the real magnitude, in millions, with you're starting to look at exponents of zeros, it's hard to take a sense of what that really means. i think it's in this entire presentation is probably worth committing one number to memory, and that is that the average district in this country expense about $10,000 per pupil. so when you start to look at numbers that are close to a thousand per pupil, you can think in your mind, those are pretty big cuts, we're talking about 10%. and it's not just to think

our city in sarasota, florida, they've got to balance their budget. families have to balance their budget. businesses can't continue to spend. i grew up in detroit, down the street from general motors. if you look at most powerful, successful corporation in the world, made a lot of commitments to a lot of folks, my brother was there, when he was 18. many of them went 30 and out. now they've reneged on the benefits and irving else. we've got to stop it, it's crazy. we've got to bring common sense to this whole process. that's why we've got to have a constitutional balanced budget amendment. as my colleague mentioned, we're one vote short, 94, we've got to go back in that effort. it defies logic why we don't do that the other thing, i came here and i want to be the best i can bipartisan. the kems -- democrats talked about pay-go. that's a joke. pay-go, it sounded good, you know, better than nothing, i thought, but we had our largest deficit ever, a $1.4 trillion pay-go. now we want to have a commission and talk about that on a bipartisan basis. again, t