. >>> a real mess taking place here in the states and south texas near beaumont, texas, specifically.y sizable vehicle pile-up which means it's shut down in both directions. this is 70 miles east of houston. pretty sizable wreck taking place there involving up to 50 vehicles. we understand there are first responders from every direction there trying to get to this. initial reports are it could have been fog that has caused this 50-vehicle pile-up there on interstate 10 closing both directions there. of course, when we get more information on it, we'll be able to bring that to you. we understand there are no reports of fatalities at this time. the us u.s. secretary of state is getting lots of credit in brokering a cease-fire involving israel and gaza. hillary clinton chalked up plenty of miles her shuttle diplomacy mission and cnn's foreign affairs krnlt jill dougherty has more on that. >> reporter: close to the end of a grueling trip to asia, her last international s trip with barack obama. halt the fighting between israel and hamas before it spins out of control. shu did it. a cease-

rain in south texas. cooling down across the midwest.howers in the pacific northwest. and we also have some mountain snow in the cascades and in the northern rockies. >>> and finally from us this morning, anticipation is growing as the end of the "twilight" saga draws near. >> thousands of fans got as close as they could on the red carpet for the world premiere of "breaking dawn 2." kabc's george pennacchio was there. >> you're still here. >> so are you. >> reporter: the whole gang is back one more time for the "twilight" saga, "breaking down 2." >> we put everything into every, single movie. but especially this last one. we pay tribute, not only to this film but to the entire franchise. i think the fans will appreciate that. >> reporter: the stars greeted the fans who lined the entrance to the theater. and some fans waited for days. >> i'm still in shock. from the first one. but just thinking how sweet everyone is this time, just showing their appreciation for the whole series. >> i'm not going to watch the movie so i can go back out. i

rain soaks south texas. snow-covered passes in the cascades and northern rockies.rom seattle to northern california. >> if you're traveling, airport delays are possible in boston, new york, philadelphia and washington, d.c. >>> and now, more details on the breaking news overnight. the top commander of afghanistan has been caught up in the scandal surrounding former cia chief, david petraeus. the pentagon is investigating general john allen for sending inappropriate e-mails to jill kelly. >> kelly, she's the florida woman who triggered the investigation, which led petraeus to step down. >> we want to get more insight on this quickly-developing story from lama hasan. she is live in our london bureau this morning. lama, can you break down for us, exactly, how big is an investigation is this? >> reporter: well, good morning to you, rob. there are reportedly between 20,000 to 30,000 pages of e-mails and other documents from general allen's communications with jill kelly, between 2010 and 2012. and they're underreview. defense department officials will not say whether th

some foggy highways from south texas to new orleans. snow-covered roads in the upper midwest.a wet drive in the ohio valley. >> if you are flying, airport delays are possible in a lot of different cities. minneapolis, chicago, detroit, cleveland, houston, new orleans, seattle and portland. good luck. >>> more than 50 million people tuned in to watch the macy's thanksgiving day parade. and 3 million folks turned out in person right here in new york city. were some of those folks coping with the aftermath of hurricane sandy, the balloons and the festive mood of the day provided a welcome relief from thinking about everything that's been lost. >> we're finally having fun. nothing is terrible. it's happening. >> what are you most thankful for? >> i'm thankful that my family's alive. i'm alive. that's all i'm thankful for this year. >> those kids were especially excited because they watched from special bleacher seats set up just for thousands of families from some of new york and new jersey's hardest-hit neighborhoods. we sincerely hope they enjoyed that day. >>> many of us usher

a little bit warmer in south texas. everyone else is the same, 20s and 30s. very typical for this time of years. we don't have any big storms to track. we had the rain moving up through georgia, south carolina, north carolina. that's trying to push out of the outer banks and west virginia. it's a cold morning but there's a lot of sunshine. all of the stormy weather is all through california and the west coast. if you're traveling in the west, that's where you'll deal with that. here are some light rain showers kicking off the carolina coast. it looks like a nice friday. everywhere east of the rockies should have a good deal of sunshine and even on the eastern seaboard after a mix of clouds we'll try to get you into the 50s. looking good heading into the weekend. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look at the weather outside your window. today's forecast, you can pretty much write this down and take it all the way through saturday and sunday. most areas in the country won't see a change in the weather pattern all the way through the beginnin

south texas may see some showers and storms, near 80. the deep south looks good, going through hartsfield will be fine. florida may have a couple of showers, orlando up to jacksonville and charleston. and as we head towards the northeast, even that's looking good, through detroit or pittsburgh or up to new york and boston, problems look few and far between on thanksgiving evil and that's a good thing -- thanksgiving eve and that's a good thing. tonight dipping into the 30s in town, 20s north and west. tomorrow and sunday look decent as well, maybe a little bit more sunshine tomorrow, 55, 54 on sunday, and then next week check it out, we're going to be looking at temperatures in the mid if not upper 50s and potentially over 60 by thanksgiving. we'll be back with more 9 news now at noon in just a moment. >>> we are back with c.c. williamson. she is an expert with the usda, and she's going to tell us how to really prepare great stuffing. i've been tasting it. it is so good. and how to stuff the turkey safely. so she's been sautis some onions

the only change here in south texas is change obama took away from us. there's no jobs. ntrol in texas. our coverage continues tomorrow. -- joel in texas. mitt romney will begin in florida, virginia, also in columbus, ohio, and ends his stay in manchester, new hampshire. both candidates ending their days late tomorrow night, around 11:00 eastern time. look for live coverage on c- span.org. look for coverage on election night at 8:00 eastern time here on c-span. c-span radio and c-span.org. we will bring you the victory in concession speeches, and of course, your reaction. thank you for watching tonight. >> today we feature a live debate >> welcome back, today we have a live debate in the sixth district including cities like st. cloud and monticello. i am joined by the incumbent knowing that you are down to the final hours of your campaign, hopefully we can learn something from the both of you. the opponent in many of your ads pain to as big spending jim. you do not often hear democrats referring to themselves as conservatives. >> i am really a fiscal conservative to the b

we brought in different ranchers from the south texas border area with our law enforcement officials and we asked them to -- what else can we do to work with you? we came up with a series of solutions. i am interested in not paying a picture. i am interested in finding solutions. just to say something about the two retired generals -- i respect our military. all i did was simple. as any individual, i asked a question. i asked -- were you paid to come up with a record when you never came down to talk to anyone about the borders? they did not like that question. i asked if they talked to law enforcement people on the border. i asked them simple questions. if somebody cannot handle the truth -- i was asking them questions. did you do that? if people get insulted, they can come in and insult the border by saying it is a war zone but you cannot ask some questions as to how they did the study. i am a realist about what is happening on the border. i know what is happening on the border. i have a general idea with what is happening across the river. i sat down with the new president coming i

ahead of that system mild across the south. texas, dallas, houston, 82. 50s. they'll turn into 60s as we head on towards the weekend. let's move into the weekend. saturday brutus continues to move across the west. cold air coming all the way down towards the southwest. phoenix only in the 60s. l.a. also plenty of snow breaking out towards the plains and risk of severe weather and windy weather up and down the central u.s. got football games going on saturday from texas all the way up to missouri. windy conditions. warm wind here, 81 in houston, 70 in kansas city. cold air behind that system. only 20 in billings. some 20 plus degrees below average for this time of the year. as we head towards sunday, the east coast is warm and dry. 60 in new york city. that's some brightening news. also more showers and thunderstorms here across the midwest. look at the temperature contrast. ahead of it 68 in louisville, behind it 30 in denver. should be in the mid 50s this time of year. back to school on monday. more showers and thunderstorms into the ohio valley. behind

jamie lynn lives in arlington texas a middle class suburb just a few miles from south like. the fracking activity here in the past two years has been feverish. this is been like i guess my worst nightmare it's like a bad dream and i keep thinking ok i'm going to wake up and it's going to be back to normal and it's not and it's. it's really sad compressed natural gas tonight at the arlington city hall jane lynn is one of a growing group of concerned residents hoping to block proposals for more wells in the neighborhood these drilling rigs are marvelously engineered pieces of equipment the place is packed and it quickly becomes apparent not everyone is on his side but it's a good thing for everybody these days seems like the tail wag the dog and i think it's time for the dog to stop that thank you thank. you to money development and perceptions of the national interest dividing the residents thank you. to not generally in an activist friends won and lost council voted against one well sought proposal but approved a number. everyone was so pro journalling and this is the red wh

could be some storms in south texas.ver to florida, the southeast, yeah looking pretty nice although charleston on wednesday, maybe a shower there. that's one of the few areas across the country that are showing any sort of weather that could be a problem with clouds, but 40s and 50s in the great lakes to the northeast on thanksgiving eve. looking at our forecast today, 55, more sun this afternoon. 30s tonight. upper 20s in -- in the suburbs. tomorrow 55 and sunday 54 and next week, still looks nice. 56 monday and 57 on tuesday. 5:50. lot of 5s in the forecast. here comes monika with timesaver traffic. >>> five days to thanksgiving too right? something like that. i can't wait. i love thanksgiving. six days get your turkey this weekend. if you haven't gotten it yet. and planning to head around town? no problems to report on the north side of town. looking good. college park toward bethesda. although on the outer loop of the beltway there had been an accident after -- or near university boulevard along the right side of th

this is bringing the risk of severe weather in south eastern texas and southern louisiana. even tornadoes cannot be ruled out. it's going to be moving along the eastern seaboard from tuesday evening into your thursday. that means the east coast where hurricane sandy devastated will be seeing another round of stormy conditions ahead of the middle part of the week. rain will start in atlanta on tuesday and washington, d.c. and new york city will see rain showers on your wednesday and even snow showers are possible overnight wednesday and thursday. on tuesday when the presidential election will be taking place sunny weather will prevail with low temperatures here and sunny weather also continue in los angeles getting up to 29 degrees on tuesday. finally let's go over to europe. severe weather in the baltic states. it will be moving ai away toward the northeast. showers will remain. any slight amount of rain could trigger further flooding as well as land slides and a big storm system is moving in from the north. that's going to affect central europe as well add much of t scanda

the only mild air is south florida, south texas and the desert southwest. phoenix only in the 50s. weak system is what we're seeing across the country. one in the northwest and the other one that will affect us with just some clouds more than anything. this is coming through areas in the midwest this morning. a few rain and snow showers here but the bark worst than the bite as just some clouds. the air is dry, chilly. the clouds will be here mixing with the clear skies as we head into tonight and during the day on thursday. so when lieu at the futurecast -- you look at the futurecast, we see very little significant weather heading our way. by noon still sunny and quiet. by 6:00 clear and cold. temps in the 40s dropping to the 20s and 30s. the system is going to pass to our south with a little more in the way of showers across the carolinas thursday morning. that will throw a few clouds up our way tonight and during the day on thursday. we'll stay dry around here. traveling down to maybe raleigh or rocky mount, going to have to dodge a couple of raindrops. looking at our forecast to

the time he was 20 years old and he was teaching the mexican/american kids in a little town in south texas, he says to goodwin, you know, i promised myself then that if ever had the power to help these kids i'm going do it. now i'll tell you the secret. i have the power, and i'm going to use it. >> i think one thing bob writes so brilliantly about is johns johnson's appetite. he was always in a hurry and would also get sick he would drive himself so hard. jefferson always learned to projektd an image of calm. that was part of the ek question namety of the time. but one of the things he learned from a failure, johnson learned from teaching those kids, what jefferson learned from being a very unsuccessful wartime general from virginia is to always seize the opportunity. louisiana, when the opportunity came, he did not hesitate. he at first thought he would have to get a constitutional amendment. he didn't think he had the authority to do it. then he got a letter and suddenly the constitutional scruples went out the window. one of the things that marks great leaders is the ability to know how

peter joins me now along with ben pace, jim key from south texas money management, and our own rick santelli. gentlemen, nice to have you on the program. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> how do you navigate this, peter anderson? you have a market that keeps losing steam. you have uncertainty knowing we're not going to know tax rates. certainly until we get information on the fiscal cliff. we're waiting on that. once again, we find ourselves in a holding period. what do you do? >> well, you know, i think that quality is just totally masked right now by volatility. as we get closer to january, it's a beautiful thing. what we will start seeing is convergence of some of the facts in terms of what the solutions will -- the proposed solutions will be, maria. right now i think everybody's just in a holding period. but that -- it takes a lot of courage to do this, but we're telling our clients to stay fully invested at this point because we think this is just a short-term volatility. i know it's very, very difficult emotionally to navigate right during this week. i think come january we will

rain in south texas. and morning frost along the gulf coast.lorida to new england. >> mostly 50s in the northeast. just 30s and 40s in the midwest. 75, phoenix. 63, sacramento. >>> and on ""monday night football,"" it was the chiefs visiting the steelers. it was a tough good morning to watch. we pick it up late. chiefs driving the field goal range. they tie it up as the clock winds down. yep, we're going to o.t. >> that's where the chiefs' quarterback, matt cassel found lawrence timmons, the pick deep into territory. just enough for the steelers to kick the winning field goal. steelers win an unwatchable one, 16-13. but their quarterback, ben roethlisberger, taken to the hospital in the third quarter for a right shoulder injury. so they're hoping he's not out for an extended period of time because he's having a career year. >> fourth qb injury this week. rough week for the qbs. all right. >>> coming up. kirstie alley making an encore performance on "dancing with the stars." >> but right now she's dishing about some of her former partners of the

hey, the forecast temperatures today, you can see the warmth in the southwest and south texas, but look at all the light blue here. those are temperatures in most spots in the 30s and 40s. so a cold air mass in place. and this is going to play into the developing storm system for later tomorrow, tomorrow night, especially up along the jersey coast and up into parts of new england where interior areas could be talking about several inches of snow. we're watching a developing nor'easter. it's an area of low pressure now which is coming in toward atlanta. you can clearly see the counter clockwise circulation here in northwest georgia, trailing cold front there. this is going to get to the coast, get some more energy here, just past us. it seems to be one of those situations where the storm really starts to develop as it's passing us. so for us, we're going to get a glancing blow, we'll get a few cloud, a little wind, a few showers, maybe a wet flake mixed in, but the bigger precipitation periods, the bigger ones will be north and east of us. clouds start to build tonight late. mostly cloud

american citizens, the unfortunate incidents where we have more enforcement like the sheriff of south texas involved with the cartel being placed in prison for 25 years. a recent county commissioner also been indicted for their ties. my answer is there is no actual hierarchy that happens but we have a big concern. i will share this with you. in 1981 i did another apps case in chicago where i arrested gentleman named floor as isolde 13 pounds of heroin and 20 years later a couple years ago his two twin sons were arrested for being part of the cartel. it gives you an idea what we have in our cities. >> you want to speak to that? >> cartels are the most sophisticated business organizations and once we started policeing the border with 23 additional border patrol agents they simply set up shop in the united states because it was easier than crossing the international border every day. they use illegal immigrants and anyone that needs money and hierarchy and system been and is as simple as that and this unsophisticated notion of good guy bad guy because they're too busy trying to simplify, would

you need to bundle up from the south into parts of texas.d air is moving through the portions of the northeast. we have areas of showers and storms all associated with the cold fron. you can see them coming down hard. we are seeing the transition to snowfall in up state new york. not expecting significant accumulations but we could be looking at delays on the roadway if you are heading out to work early this morning or out of town. before the front moves eastward by this evening. across the southeast not a lot of moisture the front is relatively dry but you are going to have cooler air from the southeast as well as we head into the afternoon and into tomorrow. take a look at the current temperatures behind this front again. cool 26 right now. chicago 29 in kansas city. in the 30s in the city of dallas. high fps as we get into this afternoon. highs early this morning through out the afternoon. >> it is time to entertain this. thousands of twilight fans gather for breaking dawn part 2. they camped out for four-days leading up to the event. rob

we then had the unfortunate incident where we have long force on like a sheriff in south texas who was involved with the cartels and ended up being placed in prison for 25 years. a recent county commissioner has also been indicted for their time. my answer is there's no actual hierarchy that you will see that happen. but we have a big concern. i will also share with you in 1881, i did an undercover case, a case in chicago where i invested a gentleman by the name of margarita flores where he 28 years later at couple years ago his twin sons were arrested for being part of the sinaloa cartel. gives you an idea of what we have inner cities right now. >> you want to speak to that, chris? >> the cartels are the most sophisticated, savvy business organizations in the world. once we start policing the border more with 23,000 additional border patrol agents, they simply set up shop in the united states because he was easier than crossing the international border every single day. so these illegal immigrants that need jobs. to use anyone that needs money. there is no hierarchy. there is no syste

i loved in cities in the south including texas and louisiana but i have never seen a good old boy system than right here. through the years i have watched many of my local neighbors including medical doctors throw up their hands and surrender to this harassment and oppression. but i believe we need to stand up to bullies, not just the children in recent documentaries but all bullies and the foundation shrewd billionaires and the well paid lobbyists and business friends and associates who stand to reap millions of dollars from their agenday bullies ask that we turn a blind eye and ignore their corrupting influence. i had some of you sitting here would stand up for citizens who are simply willing to present a balanced perspective. maybe you can't be bothered to think about my personal safety or my family or even my neighbors but i thought at least you would have wanted to find out about the men who attacked me for the soccer parents who all of you have been well informed to continue unwlittantly untrust their children to these violent criminals. thank you. >> is there any other public comm

we sat down with the border patrol and other law enforcement from south texas after your conversationem. we still need to do more. they set up liaison's. i can give you a complete list of what they're done. robert harris was the chief of commander of border patrol. they have sat down with them. i have lived in a range. i understand it. i live on the border. i understand that the border -- if there was a war zone, the border is growing faster percentage wise than any other parts of the state. i do understand as a realist that there are problems. this is why i fought to bring in new technology. i've got to bring in the uab. fought to bring in the access of commitment from iraq and afghanistan after coming back. we are doing all this. we have to work together. >> i appreciate your efforts. the people that are pulling the string -- president of the united states -- it is being undermined to allow those new resources to happen in to get what we need when we give mixed messages. last year, you have a press release that said the u.s. has not seen any spillover violence. saying that when we a

laws in wisconsin, south carolina and texas and they have done it again. >> if you are pennsylvania voter you will not have to show a photo i.d. this election. a judge ruled against the measure for now saying he didn't believe there was adequate time for voters to easily get a photo i.d. before november 6th. >> stephen: that is ridiculous. they will have their i.d.s by november 6th if they go to the dmv now. but folks, as bad as this is-- (cheers and applause) as bad as this is, there is a silver lining to this story. because according to the ruling, election officials can still ask for photo i.d.s, they just can't prevent people from voting if they don't have it. this could still work. asking for the i.d. is now meaningless but we're still allowed the consolation prize of harassing voters for no reason. and if we just add some other intimidation tactics i think we can make the wrong kind of voters so uncomfortable, they'll just turn around and go home. i say we start with a cavity search. you're free to vote but first you have to let us pull back your curtain and take a few yanks on that

the one we're really watching, actually a couple of them, one developing to the south down in texas thatbe going out on the coast and out to sea and another one developing up to the north that will lockstep with another development in the south in the middle of the week and the two will combine. we know how storms combine and give us trouble. looks like we could see something like that again. overnight, the low 42. lot of clouds. northwest winds at 2 do 7 miles an hour and by the way, standard time goes into effect so set your clock back one hour tonight before you go to bed. tomorrow's forecast, yeah, we may see a few more sun breaks. we'll call it partly cloudy to partly cun -- sunny skies. this is still plote average for the season so still chili. -- chilly. northwest winds at 12 to 7 miles an hour. one storm missing us, out to sea. several models are calling for this one to come up the coast. some have it farther away, some closer, some have snow possibilities in it, some don't. not real clear on how this will develop. some want it to do it on thursday, some on wednesday. amp that we

texas forces an interstate to close for hours. it happened this morning on interstate 10 in south east texas, 80-miles east of houston.100 vehicles were involved. two people in an s.u.v. died. 120 are injured and more than 50 people were taken to area hospitals. you can see how large of the area that accident site is. people say there were extremely dense fog at the time of the accident. vehicles were on top of each other, a chained reaction accident. the people that passed away were hit from behind in their by a tractor-trailer. eastbound lanes were closed for more than eight hours today. grant lodus -- krons with 4 news. >> >> temperatures on the mild side, 66 in santa rosa. 63 for san francisco. and the upper 60s in redwood city. mid-60s for concorde. upper 60s in fairfield this afternoon. looking outside from the bay bridge toll plaza, clear skies this evening. meaning chilly conditions throughout the overnight hours, temperatures are already getting down there. 48 in nevada, right now, 47 in santa rosa. 47 in vallejo as well. a lot of places in the 40s. widespread 40s, even some 30s, take a look at your morning l

well, we sat down with the border patrol and other law enforcement sheriffs on south texas after yourconversation, and we sat down with them. we still need to do more. they set up a liaison. the chief commander for the border patrol and other folks down there sat down with them, and we need to know. i lived on a ranch. i know what it is. i understand it. i live on the border. i understand it. i understand the border also, knowing the facts, if there was a war zone, the border is growing faster than other parts of the state of texas. the businesses are growing there. businesses are growing there, but i understand it's a realist, that there are problems. this is why i fought to bring in new technology. this is why i fought to, you know, bring the uab. this is why i fought to bring in the excess equipment from iraq and afghanistan after coming barks, and we're doing all of this, but we have to work together. >> i appreciate your efforts there, but i would suggest to you that the people that are pulling the strings, the president of the united states, it is being undermine to allow those

close arizona colorado kansas louisiana michigan is minnesota nebraska new mexico new york south dakota texas wisconsin and wyoming now there's a few things to keep in mind about this first of all some of these states actually have some new polling places that stay open later but in a whole lot of other states virginia being one of them the polling stations were scheduled to close at seven pm we're told there are still people in the line there so the turnout today immense you know some people are saying larger than they could have possibly expected some of these places these are the times that they were scheduled to close as they didn't they weren't quite able to but folks we're getting closer and closer to that time of night when we could start to see a shift or see which way some of these races are shifting so where does the race for the white house stand at nine pm eastern time let's bring back our election night analyst sam sax a sam ok so let's look at where the map is right now there really isn't too much to report the battleground states have closed a lot of the battleground states hav

. >> risk of severe weather as we head across portions of the south and texas arkansas and northern portions are seeing areas of heavy rain thundershowers from illinois and missouri. once the showers and storms wrap up you will see snowfall. light snowfall as we head into portions of wisconsin iowa and portions of missouri. we have warm temperatures we are seeing the severe weather risk. it will be expiring in 30 minutes across portions of southwestern arkansas and northeastern texas. they have a risk to see tornadic storms. moving in any of those areas northwestern parts of louisiana some storms could include not just tornadoes but large hail and wind gusts 60 miles an hour at times. temperatures with this front it's a strong front. we are seeing a sharp contrast right now in the 60s. over in new orleans the kind of storm cold 27 in minneapolis, 34 in kansas city. storm will continue moving eastward and as we head into monday night and tuesday we will be seeing rain across the new york city area. >> warmed up quite a bit here on the east coast. now that will collide with the next system. >>

. >> well, look, i work for a school district in south texas.nd we were dealing with a truancy case in one instance. it was a 12-year-old on her second pregnancy. they said because we have klee claims at a welfare bite. we are not in an ungenerous nation. $1 trillion we pay for 82 means tested welfare programs. >> if you have a 12-year-old who is in a circumstance of pregnancy, it is almost certain that she is not pregnant by a 12-year-old boy. it is almost certain that she is pregnant by someone who is basically in a situation of at a minimum statutory rape and perhaps worse, and yet, you had -- okay. i'm going to back off a bit. i don't want to move too far from our issue of food. i've got it say when i hear stories like that, i want to come back to you, lisa. i wonder why we even get into a kind of ethic cal conversation when talking about food. that feels like it is separate from whether or not someone is moral or ethical that we ought to have as a nation an ethical responsibility toward the provision of sufficient food resources. >> absolut

to greenville, south carolina. >> houston, texas. >> reporter: abc's linsey davis flying from cleveland early this morning. >> security line is starting to build, starting to wrap around a little bit here. >> reporter: checking in four hours early -- >> this is delta, long, long, long security line. >> reporter: heading to toronto. >> at least we've checked in and we are done. >> reporter: and roads were mostly clear on the way to the jersey shore. >> it's already looking a little hairy at times, but at least it's moving. >> reporter: but no matter how far or how long the journey, at the end, there's that reminder of why it's worth it. a hug from grandpa. >> happy thanksgiving. >> reporter: that look on mom's face. the love of a sister. that embrace. and that kiss. and a sign of just how easy the day has been here at los angeles international, the check-in counter is virtually empty. good news for those of us who are flying tonight, me included, i'm headed home this evening to see my family in san francisco. david, happy thanksgiving. >> and you, too, cecilia. all worth it for the hug a

dollars won the right to drill in the western gulf of mexico about one hundred forty miles south of galveston texas chevron got the top prize conoco phillips will also pay fifty one point eight million dollars for sixty two tracks in the gulf and if you look at the top two institutional investors for both companies you'll see something some interesting similarities state street corporation and bang guard both holding companies own them or most corporate shares of the two all the top thirteen oil companies submitted nearly one hundred fifty eight million dollars in beds the auction kicks off the obama administration's new five year plan for leasing the continental shelf all part of the goal to make the u.s. energy independent by the year two thousand and twenty but if all of the drilling is done by or oil companies including those like b.p. which are owned overseas is this really energy independence talk about this we have chris williams professor of physics and chemistry at pace university welcome chris so looks like the u.s. will be producing more oil this is right on track with a report saying th

the rio grande area in south texas has a lot of mexican- american kids. they feared those kids would not do well but the encouraging news is that over the last 10- 15 years, the graduation rate at the university of texas has gone up steadily and a lot of the students coming in, black and hispanic, have done very well they did much better than you guessed based on their sats course. the use of -- the university put out several studies that said we have been heartened by the fact that students who worked hard and got good grades in high school may not have been at the top of the choice normally because of their s.a.t. scores but eventually did well in the university of texas. the criticism is always or raised in these top 10% plans that it cannot work in many places but my understanding is from what people in texas say, it has worked pretty well at austin. host: from omaha, neb., on the democratic line. caller: thank you for having me. i called about the voting rights but that has been answered so i want to talk about affirmative action. i know there are mor

citrus greening has also been discovered in georgia, south carolina, louisiana, texas. >> we have lost 3.5 billion in economic impact since greening was discovered. >> andrew meadows is with the trade group florida citrus mutual. >> i would say take a look at your glass-- eight-ounce glass in the morning and just imagine that not being there because that's how serious it is. >> reporter: pesticides kill the insect that carries the disease but there is no cure for trees infected with citrus greening. what is it like for you when you look at a tree that has this disease? >> well, first of all, i think about planting that tree. a lot of them i planted, and i think about how hard it's going to be to get another tree to that-- to that point. >> reporter: farmers and the u.s. department of agriculture are spending $69 million to develop a cure. but it could take years. that's left victor one option-- try to grow new trees faster than his old trees are dying. manuel bojorques, cbs news, lake wales, florida. >> glor: british researchers have discovered something interesting about human develop

alabama, alaska, georgia, louisiana, mississippi, south carolina, texas, and virginia.think the voting rights act should stay? a lot of people say we have the black president of the united states. therefore, it doesn't necessarily need to stay. avery? >> well, you know what? the fact with the president, i think that is absolutely nothing. if you think that slavery was outlawed and voting rights were -- became part of the constitution in the 1870s, it took congress 95 years to pass a law. the voting rights act of 1965. the congressional record shows that section five, that free clearance by the department of justice is still necessary. we have elements on the supreme court that don't understand that. and it's up to the department of justice and the friends of the court to make this majority of the supreme court understand that section 5, free clearance, has to stay. >> final question goes to you. on the supreme court's ruling expected by june, do you agree with avery? >> i agree with avery. listen, this voting rights act came about in 1965 at the height of the civil righ