trade agenda south america has fallen off. it took forever to get the colombia deal through congress. the only active trade initiative is the transpacific trade partnership in asia. is the united states doing enough to make sure that american companies are able to take full advantage of the market opportunities that are coming in south america and for everyone on the panel or all of you? >> it's just interesting that the chamber hosted a session between brazilian government and us. the president was just here and met with president obama and talked about areas of cooperation. and i think, you know, from what i heard from it, i participated in part of it. it was a recommitment to really -- we are the two big countries in this hemisphere. and there should be a lot of opportunities there. also the council on competitiveness has a sister organization that works with a number of other countries and in particular brazilian government on innovation and ways that we can spur innovation to the good for all. not just for one country pit

. >> you both mentioned south america as promising developing markets for your products. when you think about the u.s. trade agenda south america has fallen off. took forever to get the colombia deal flew the congress. the partnership in asia. is the united states doing enough as a government, apart from what you're doing as companies, is the u.s. doing enough to make sure that american companies are able to take full advantage of the market opportunities in south america for any one on the panel or all of you. >> it's interesting that the chamber hosted a session between brazilian government and us. >> was just here. >> and bet president obama and talked about areas of cooperation, and i think from what i heard from it, i participated in part of it, it was a recommitment to really -- we are the two big countries in this hemisphere and there should be a lot of opportunities there. also the council on competitiveness has a sister organization that works with a number of other countries and in particular brazilian government on innovation and ways that we could spur innovat

runs on dunkin' coffee. >>> next up this morning right here on wjz -- >> reporter: scandal in south america america and the growing investigation into the president's secret service agents i i i am gigi barnett, that story is next. >> remember that boy shot and killed? police make three arrests in that case. that story next. >> missed deadlines and a possible shake up with the promoter of the baltimore grand prix. why the mayor is still hopeful though an expert doubts this race will happen. >> and sharon gibala here with wjz traffic control. if you are about to head out on the jfx or any or roadway we will let you know if there are problems. that is next. right now over to marty -- >> -- coffee with talking about writing and her incredible fashion design. you stay tuned. it is the morning edition and we will be right back. ,,,,,,,, >>> this is wjz tv, wjz hd, and wjz.com, baltimore. >> good morning, maryland. now don scott, marty bass, and the latest breaking news, from wjz's news team, your first warning weather, and wjz traffic control with sharon gibala, it's wjz, maryland's news station

throughout south america, scientists study the tragedy and vow to prevent the next one.hey may get their chance here, in ecuador. the ngurahua volcano threatens a town of 17,000 at the base of the mountain. it is called baños. although baños is very near the equator, its elevation in the andes gives it a mild climate. add spectacular scenery and soeothermal hosprings and you have aibrant urist economy. on the surrounding hillsides, adequate rainfall and fertile volcanic soils sustain agriculture. but the same natural forces that sustain the economy are also a source of danger. hoping to avoid a agedy, geographer patty mothes maps and monitors several volcanoes for ecuador's geophysica institute,nclu tungurahua. she is looking for any changes that might signal an eruption. moes and one of these ways thate hat is to put a prism that's highly reflective, or a number of prisms up on the flanks of the volcano, and then, shooting with this very high-powered laser beam... narrator: the beams reflect off the prisms and back to patty's measuring device. it can dett subthangesin t

and most of the slaves who come to the new world go to central and south america. we estimate maybe 5% of the millions of slaves who are brought from africa to the americas end up in what is now the united states. now, the cotton gin in the 1790s as we mentioned, the cotton gin gives slavery a new lease on life. it's a new way to make money from a slavery. and the typical slave in the period from 1830 to 1860 works on a cotton plantation. although not all of them. some slaves work in industry, slaves helped build railroads in the south. they work in mining. ev

and most of the slaves who come to the new world go to central and south america. we estimate maybe 5% of the millions of slaves who are brought from africa to the americas end up in what is now the united states. now, the cotton ginn in the 1790s as we mentioned, the cotton gin gives slavery a new lease on life. it's a new way to make money from a slavery. and the typical slave in the period from 1830 to 1860 works on a cotton plantation. although not all of them. some slaves work in industry, slaves helped build railroads in the south. they work in mining. believe it or not, they had that gold strike in georgia in 1828. some slave owners mined gold with slave labor. but most of the slav in agriculture, most of them work in crops, plantations that raise crops like sugar and tobacco and so on. mostly of them work on cotton. well, the bell has just sounded.

it's the greatest power in south america. that's it.litary it's not a great center power. >> china is its number-one customer. >> china is number-one trading partner -- >> doesn't that concern you? >> the chinese are getting all this money from the united states, and they take it and invest it in in the world! >> to the extent -- oil production anything that diminishes the middle east is a good thing. but we can't just -- get oil from brazil. and what they're upset about it brazil is the tightening of the sanctions on iran because 30 see that disrupting the oil market. so when the leaders get together it's a good thing the president has good relations with this country. it's an emerging power. >> i have to say with all due respect, what is happening with the iran has raised oil prices, which raises the revenues that brazil gets. >> one of issues she raised -- >> i'm sure it is. she's hoping they raise prices even more. >> how is brazil's relationship with iran? >> good. >> it's a good relationship. i don't know that it's a close relatio

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-- in south america. it's led to a sense of gridlock. the legislature is controlled by one group. the presidency by a different party. there's a perception that things don't get done, presidents get frustrated and so then they start to just govern by executive decree, unilateralism. this has led in south america to coups. you see some possible pathologies in the united states with divided governments, presidents tempted to do all sorts of things by executive order. so there is a very interesting question about -- and this is -- it's not just true of the u.s. constitution. it's true of 50 state constitutions. where governors are elected independently of state legislatures, where the legislature might be controlled by a different party than the governor. and it is a very interesting question, whether that's the better model. it is the american model. >> there is another dimension of american constitutionalism which seems increasingly relevant, and that is federalism. we have a deeply conflicted feeling abou

we report agents were partying at a strip club in south america less than 48 hours before president obama's arrival friday, april 13th. >> guests had to be signed in. >> reporter: 21 people responsible for the president's security are accused of soliciting prostitutes in colombia, south america. those include 11 secret service agents and ten members of the u.s. military. now republicans senator susan collins wants to know if what happened is isolated or cultural behavior. >> i am worried that this is the only time that they were caught. >> reporter: wjz learned a former agent from maryland says his brother, a current agent, was in colombia, south america when the scandal broke. dan is a republican from the parks running for the u.s. senate in maryland. he says his brother is not accused of anything involving prostitution. >> i have personal relationships with some of them. one of them happens to be a family member who's assisting in the investigation. >> reporter: now some lawmakers say what happened could have been disastrous had the women been working for let's say a terrorist organizatio

secretary clinton will also accompany him to south america. >> good news for fairfax county kids.ess there's an unforeseen emergency, fairfax county public school students are ending the school year early. yesterday the school board approved a revision to the calendar. the last day of school will be friday june 15, instead of tuesday, june 19. that is because the school system used just one of its three planned weather make up days. >> somebody in the area could be a millionaire and not even know about it. an unclaimed ticket for wednesday's powerball drawing is worth $1 million for. the ticket was sold at mayfair liquor, on georgia avenue in d.c. the winning numbers are on your screen. powerball -- 2. you have 180 days to claim the prize of. >> someone will be very excited when they discovered that is their ticket. it's 44 degrees. >> still ahead, some of the biggest stars in music from past and present gathered in d.c. last night. what they said about the reopening of the historic howard theatre. >> by the mayor of newark, new jersey, is being called a hero. >> first, traffic an

before i left for argentina, i spoke to the foreign secretary. >> many of the countries of south america have been pushed as far as they want to go by argentina on this. they're not willing to join together. they're getting rather irritated behind-the-scenes sometimes at argentina raising this subject of one regional meeting after another. >> this has been a summer day of reflection here. president fernandez chose not to change the mood by launching an angry attack. britain's diplomatic offensive has been rather successful until now. it will start to ease off a little. bbc news. >> firefighters in moscow have been battling to control a fire that has engulfed the top of a skyscraper still under construction. helicopters doused the flames, which broke out more than 60 floors above ground and were visible across the capital. the fire broke out inside the federation tower complex, which is due to open next year. it was designed to be europe's tallest building. a small plane has crashed into a central florida shopping center. initial reports indicate at least five people have been injured. se

on the president's trip to south america, it is expanding. who else is now involved? preparing for the worst outbreak of potentially deadly storms in years. the midwest already hit with large hail and a few tornadoes. good evening. already hard hit by severe weather, the middle of the country is bracing for more. the national weather service has issued warning. several potentially deadly storms on the way that could affect millions of people. already today one tornado touched down on the kansas oklahoma border. and baseball sized hail broke windows and tore off the sighting of homes in nebraska. people in need, people need to stay informed and be ready to take action at a moment's notice. >> the plain states are preparing for the worst, a large area from minnesota to texas could be at risk for an outbreak of deadly storms. the strong production center in oklahoma says that it could be a high end life-threatening events. affecting five and half million americans. >> this is just the beginning of a long duration severe weather outbreak including the potential for strong

have you to pay attention to south america, china is another good example. they are a big corn area, it's very cold and dry right now. russia the drought affecting the wheat crop in france and germany and poland. you just can't look in your own backyard. >> when we come back, one of the things i want to do is look in our one backyard and predict what the prices will be this summer, what we need to watch for. when we return in just a moment. . >>> tom into yan grain company, i said we would look at what the prices would be. i will just start out with you greg. we will see 15-dollar beans this summer. >> i don't think we will any time. >> you don't. >> i think we are getting near a top in the bean market. leaning oner one way, open interest at record levels, we have had production concerns, which are real in south america, demand has been great. >> i just talked to another analyst and he said we will probably touch 15-dollar beans, 5-dollar corns and -- our -- who is going to buy, who isn't and who will produce and who won't. i just --. >> who will buy at thes

the secret service scandal that is casting a shadow over president obama's trip to south america. >> they say it happened in columbia while president obama is there to attend the summit of the americas. a senior law enforcement official tells fox, employees at a hotel witnessed the inappropriate behavior by one of the secret service agents alleging a prostitute was in at least one of the rooms. we are also learning that five u.s. service members have been disciplined for misconduct at the same hotel where the secret service agent was accused of that inappropriate behavior. the u.s. southern command says the military members violated curfew and may have been involved in inappropriate conduct. we will have more information as it becomes available. >>> another big story we are following tonight. storms in the south yesterday are leading to a rare and ominous warning from the national weather service. the areas at highest risk, parts of oklahoma, kansas, and nebraska. mike has the latest now from norman, oklahoma. >> oh man, that's a tornado. >> reporter: amateur video captured. a tornado

more than 2.5 million tons of fertilizer go from here to farmers in the caribbean and central and south americane oils that are produced not far from this port get shipped to countries throughout the hemisphere. everything from recycled steel to animal feed gets sent from a year to customers all across latin america. while i am in columbia talking with other leaders, i will be thinking about you. i will be thinking about how we can get more businesses like david's access to more markets and more customers in the region because i want to sell stuff but i want to put more americans back to work. [applause] one of the new things we are doing is launching something called the small business network of the americas. obviously, a lot of exports that leave from america to other places are big businesses and that is great. we want their big corporations successful and selling products around the world because we have a lot of small businesses that are suppliers to them. we also want our small and medium-sized businesses to have access to these markets. this initiative will help our small businesses, la

this led in south america to seeing a possible pathologist with divided government and being attempted to do things by executive order. there was an interesting question. it's not just true of the u.s. constitution. it's true of 50 state constitutions. governors are elected departmentally. it is the american model. >> there is another dimension of constitutionalism that seems increasingly relevant and that is federalism. we have a deeply conflicted feeling about our own federal history, but the fact is that europe is on the edge of failure and they are going to fall apart. that could have global implications of disastrous skprd that is built into the system and the system of burden sharing and transfer of payments. we could handle things that the world will need to handle on an increasingly large scale. >> isn't there another issue there? i heard the governor jerry brown in sell say the other day that if the legislature won't agree to something, it goes to the people. the people can create a referendum and decide that way. it is truly taking the government or the governing of that stat

when you think about the trade agenda, south america's kind of fallen off.took photographer to get the -- forever to get the colombia deal through congress. is the united states doing enough, the government apart from what you're doing as companies, but is the united states doing enough to make sure that american companies are able to take full advantage of the market opportunities that are coming in south america? for anyone on the panel or all of you. do you want to start off, sam? >> well, it's just interesting that the chamber hosted a session between the brazilian government and be us -- >> the president was just here, yeah. >> the president here and talked about areas of cooperation x. from what i heard of it, i participated in part of it, it was a recommitment to really -- we are the two big countries in this hemisphere, and there should be a lot of opportunities there. also the council on competitiveness has a sister organization that works with a number of other countries and in particular brazilian government on innovation. and ways that we could s

on his plane to south america, defense secretary leon panetta said those with security clearances have had them revoked. >> frankly, my biggest concern is the issue of security and who could possibly have been jeopardized by virtue of this kind of behavior. >> reporter: the first to blow the whistle on the misconduct was paula reid, a 21-year veteran of the secret service seen here guarding president george w. bush's limb know 2001. now the agency's south america chief, reid was in cartagena preparing for the president's arrival when she first heard of the agents' behavior and acted decisively. she pulled registration records from the hotel caribe, helped remove the 11 agents and officers from the country and worked to replace them with new secret service officials. vermont senator patrick leahy is chairman of the judiciary committee which overseas the secret service. >> she acted very, very quickly, very strongly, and right by the books. if there was ever a time that should be done, it's this time. >> reporter: now, tonight investigators in cartagena are wrapping up their investigatio

-- colombia, south america are under investigation after allegedly bringing prostitutes to their hotel room. >> if it turns out allegations made in the press are confirmed, then of course i will be angry. >> the agents could have been blackmailed, by these prostitutes they were married, the prostitutes had leverage over them and could have you know, been in concert with terrorists or drug cartel people. >> the scandal came to light after one agent allegedly refused to pay his prostitute for her services. >> embarrass the president rather than protected the president they went wild and about the last people you would expect to go wild is secret service they keep the rest of us from going wild so they got a price to pay for this one. >> eleanor homes norton sits on the house committee. >> this is a lot worse than relaxing a lot worse than r and r on your time off and a real offence when secret service go s with the president there is no time off. >> 11 employees, uniformed and agents are suspended with pay. >> assuming all this is correct, they have to be very tough responding to this. >

plus it may be the 100 year anniversary of the titanic >> president obama down in colombia, south america big powwow on trade, security and energy. the latin america summit coming one week after the president's wheeling and dealing with the leader of brazil. a country we're buying twice as much oil from as we did one year ago. amelia, you say stop making deal to buy other people's oil and start pumping one of our own. >> you start at home before you go out. i don't understand why he's not putting the energy right here. we have plenty in our backyard and we have businesses ready to go and desperate to start doing oil here and he's -- look where eggs! why would you do that? even sales force. sales, start from your graund -- ground territory and then go out. >> jonas, you think this is an old fashioned way of looking at things. >> this is part of the problems of the president's policies. he thinks all business is good to encourage. we're selling 10 times as many iproducts to that country than years ago. that's the trade. they're pulling the stuff out of the ground. we used to do it 150 years

south america is not even 1%. >> what you said is the basis of your book it is not obvious how leads to a prosperity that we have been if that is true then why we have a march toward democracy but to has spread around the world people say this is said natural a pollution but it is natural to our way of thinking. >> i don't but when you see whether people have you say water we doing wrong? in communist china they saw prosperity. and we should try experiments. they let each province set its own rules. the blog, the bureaucracy that resist all the becomes more powerful but then they see johnnie is happy to go to school, she wants what he has. if they are at a private or charter school it fights the states. the spiderweb does continue to grow. >> from the manhattan institute. talk about the appeal that government can solve our problems another is growing and the quality is a serious problem. do you agree with the data that to there has been stagnation anti-think it is a problem also with the policies but to what if it was not? would you say that was a problem? >> no. if people are freed

it's essentially now a democratic hemisphere north and south america. this is on balance extremely good news. we've seen a couple democracies cliek colombia get on the ball and figure out how to use their democratic process to find leaders who can make a meaningful difference in their violence and the vie thaens that afgts us, too. we've also seen president obama one of his most significant accomplishments has been to ignore chavez. you recalled he tried in the first few months to say hello to him and it was a little uncomfortable. some salespeople thought he smiled too much, some people thought he smiled not enough. he shook the guy's hand and he hasn't spoken about him sense. that's the perfect way to handle chavez who in one way or the other is on the way out. i don't see him gaining any popularity in the region. he has a message that's broken. his country tragically is not doing well. it has one of the highest violence rates in the entire hemisphere even though it has some of the greatest oil resource. he's a failed leader. i'm not as worried about

the proposals and this whole idea that that the drug war in central south america is underfunded is a complete myth i mean would be allotted one point four billion dollars to mexico for the marathon initiative to help them fight the drug war and that money has led to increased violence fifty thousand deaths since two thousand and six as well as human rights abuses by mexico police and how difficult would it be like to make changes to these policies policies that seem to be failing right there are so many businesses making so much money off of it yeah i mean this is i think this is a big question i'm not sure the drug policy reform advocates have moved this far in the debate yet but we're going to be looking at is how do we answer the question of what kind of jobs program is the drug war and essentially that's what it is now it's not a public safety campaign it doesn't any public safety that taking a drug you off the street is completely eliminated by the fact that you're encouraging this competition to move in with violence so it's what do you do with the ten thousand agents that work

juggling in south america where chevron was drilling is almost no restriction it's a poisonous no this cancer child kenya is our epidemic we don't want to bring that to the united states i hate to see it happen in south america a lot to talk about unfortunately we're out of time but thank you very much for coming on the show that was a great palace and that's the good of journalist and author of cultures i think. well as the weather warms up occupiers are aiming to revive the movement but there are signs that the civil war is brewing within the occupy lawless within occupy wall street that organizations like move on dot org jumping on ed some say the establishment left is trying to co-opt a movement to get president obama reelected suck more about the future of the movement i'm joined now by jesse leg raca and activist and i think the other posts i get the nice to see you so i know that you have been have been part of this movement from the very beginning how do you feel about this you know it really doesn't bother me that much because the way i will get is if we're going to sit there

they started from the tip of south america at visiting other islands in the area >> luckily the engines later could be completely different subject >> ceo alarm tension systems bob bonifas is traveled all over the world past 11 years >> when i get off of the boat photographer on the boat amateur photographer and he said kiss the ground and i got off and got down and kissed the ground >> on this trip to one of the most remote locations of the globe bob bonifas at 73 passengers on board 291 ft former oceanographic research vessel had to make the best of it bad situation. >> we had a very restless nights in bed side rails on the beds to keep you in there at the boat was rocking back and forth it was doing all kinds of gyrations >> bob bonifas 75 years old searching for another flag to hand also planning his next the biggest invention >> i have some things plant in the one that i missed this year because that would not take me at the arctic poll >> trip coming up sometime soon with only 10 flags left to collect before having and that all locations around the world safe to say bob bonifas w

learning some new details about the secret service scandal over shadowing the president's trip to south america. >> there may be a prostitution scandal involving the secret service. one doesn't secret service agents have been fired. richard reeve joins us with details. >> 5 members of the u.s. military stationed in colombia may be a part of this scandal. all this has -- as president obama is attending an important economic conference in the same country. their assignment is to protect the president and other high- level officials. now a prostitution scandal has rocked the secret service. authorities say 12 agents relieved from duty are returning from the u.s., one of them accused of misconduct with the prostitute. >> if he is having something like that, he does not need to be a secret service agent for very long. >> in anticipation of coming -- in anticipation of president obama's visit. >> they are protecting the president. >> a hotel employee says the agents were drinking heavily during their stay. why >> of the agents did not pay the prostitute -- >> one of the agents did not pay the prostit

is described as a rising star who was recently promoted for the miami field office and all of south america. she was -- she heard about a prostitute complaining she was not paid by one of the secret service agents. she quickly notified washington and rounded up the 11 agents involved. they were then sent home a day before the president arrived. today, american officials are asking if the culture needs to be reexamined. >> i can help but wonder if there have been -- if there had been more women as part of the detail, at this would have happened. >> there are plenty of women in the the ranks. she was once the number 2 highest-ranking official and a secret service. >> in my experience, it has not been condoned. when an issue comes to their attention, they react swiftly and decisively. >> we may learn more this week about the fate of the five remaining agents under investigation. one agent is planning to fight back. congress is getting closer to a formal investigation. >> joining us now to talk about the secret service and scandals that have rocked washington is abbie phillips. this has not bee

it is south america. he might go to south carolina but it would be on the way.arles payne, unbury me from this. bottom line, we have plenty of that stuff here why get it from these folks? >>guest: and the main stuff, he is so eager, actually salivating at the notion of buying brazil's oil, and, what the heck? and this is the same person that stopped the keystone xl pipeline in i don't get the timing of the visits. why get the intensity of the visits. you remember when our nafta partners were here the president of mexico said in the rose garden and he dogged america, he dogged everything about america and he said nothing about mexico's responsibilities with respect to the drug lords and the drugs coming into the country. it was all america. you would think that maybe the greatest debate to mexico was whether they shouldable wall to keep americans out. it was amazing. >>neil: so, now, i guess i am wondering, you have to be careful, republicans -- you have to be careful and i foe you are just a fair and balanced critique and you do got like the money wasted but rep

>> mostly in the rain forest areas of south america and a little bit into central america also. very large and considered the largest eagle species in the americas, he only has a five-foot wingspan. a long wingspan while going through -- just like that. a long wing span while going through the forest is basically going to clip on trees and that's not going to work out so well. >> look at those talons. >> yeah, the talons you see on the back is about the same size as a grizzly bear's claw. about three to five inches. i'm going to take jambo over here. we have a cute and cuddly coming for you guys. >> looking forward to that. >> now, this is a ground cuss cuss. the ground cuss cuss is pretty cool because they have all sorts of adaptations. they're found in new guinea. this one is just a year old, just starting out with our ambassador program. she is a real sweet -- the thing is, though, her name, it does translate to the goddess of death and destruction. but don't worry, hoda -- >> why? >> because when she first came to us she was pretty much following that name quite well. >> i'm

people before have sailed around the top of north america and around the bottom of south america and back. and until now, no one has done the solo non-stop. and here it is, maryland adventurer matt rutherford back on land. among the hundreds in the crowd, the governor wearing shorts and this is -- and maryland's first lady was there for the sendoff in june of 2011. >> and when we called him off, he was wearing the same shirt. >> reporter: how did he feel after a year at sea? >> and i am doing, long time no see. like a dream. any minute and i'm going to be in the middle of the ocean, you know. and it happened over and over and over again and -- >> reporter: the point was to raise mean. for a group called crab, chesapeake's region accessible boating which, hopes to buy a heavy gangway. >> for 20 years, i have been wanting to take a wheelchair user with an electric chair, the heavy chairs, and i have had to come down to the dock and decide not to go in the boats because they have to leave and to leave that chair behind. that is a big thing there. >> reporter: there were dangers for the

we do see it in calinke, you see it in certain incan sites in south america. so it might be a pan american feature. i'm not sure what it is. some hopi people have told me that the t, the bottom of the t, goes down into a mythical underground lake so this is an upside down mountain that leads down into a place called the house of rain. that is where twyla, probably oldest american deity, the rain deity, lives down in the house of rain and this is a t shape from up on the colorado plateau and that is the last picture on these slides, so -- the t shape, the pottery, i followed genetic information that you find in bones and teeth. i followed as many different pieces of information as i could and they sent me walking. i started in chaco canyon and walked north up to mesa verde, around to comb ridge in utah, down into the hopi mesa, across the mugion rim, to mexico and then into the sierra madre, following people, following routes. because everything in the desert leaves a route that leads you somewhere. everything out there is a story. and that's what i'm following

the incident may have occurred just hours before the president's arrival in south america last week. the agents are on administrative leave. and their security clearances have been revoked. >> breaking news from florida. a short time ago, the judge in the george zimmerman case steps down. judge jessica rexider recused herself. zimmerman's attorney made the request when it was discovered there was a relationship between the judge and an attorney. >>> online warnings sent fear across the campus of university of maryland college park. vic is in the newsroom with more for a victim who threatened a shooting rampage. >> a judge ruled that 19-year- old 19-year-old alexander song is competent to stand trial. he told the court he is feeling much better. he's been hospitalized are for psychiatric evaluation since march. he posted that he planned to kill enough people to make the national room. mary, back to you. >> all right, vic. thank you. the prince george's county state's attorney's office says it could be months before the case goes to trial. >>> desperate for a baby. a texas woman confes

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our policies affect south america. our policies affect canada, and we have to take a look at what we are doing and change policies in america. thank you for what you are doing for us. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. the next presenter we have is dorothy, who is president of all of us or none. >> i am not a president, and i am the executive director of services for prisoners with children. on the way here, i was thinking about what i would be saying, and when you said, we have a host of experts, and sometimes it is hard for me to get my head around the reality that they could be an expert. i am in recovery, and i have not used in a thing for 21 years. that is not the main thing i am in recovery from. i am a recovering slave, and the war on drugs is the war on me, so i showed up to ask and you stop chasing my children. i thought about what is to live in a place where 5% of the world population incarcerates 25% of the prisoners. i thought what it would mean to have 2.3 million people locked up, 7 million peop

these photos of secretary of state, hillary clinton partying in south america.viral. critics say when the economy here is down it is no time to be living it up over this. are they right or wrong? today is gonna be an important day for us. . . . how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. >>stuart: as the heat wave grips the east coast the secretary of state is catching heat for what she was doing in south america. she was caught tearing up the dance floor at a colombia salsa bar. first, our guest has a big problem. you do not approve of the secretary of state having a december and dancing? >>guest: well, it is rather embarrassing for the secretary of state to be conducting herself in this way on the world stage. and, of court, at u.s. taxpayers expense. she is on official duty here representing the united states of america and she is partying away in some cuban-themed nightclub in c