the drug cartels have pushed hard and made this southern arizona district the corridor for most of their we need to do better and i hope to do it as well. so there's a lot of work to be done. i have been a problem solver in my work with people of disabilities and in my work with my wife, those experiences, and those priorities that i'll take to congress and i think they are similar to what the congress woman was working on and i hope to continue that legacy. >> we know you are not opposed, ron barber and we know a republican primary is coming up, so we are not sure who your opponent will be, but lots of luck. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you very much for having me today. >> and coming up next, alice stewart, her first interview since joining the santorum campaign. what does she have to say about santorum's record on women's issues? plus it's do or die for mitt romney in michigan. and president obama is expected to speak in milwaukee just minutes from now, stay with us, live coverage ahead on "andrea mitchell reports." okay... is this where we're at now, we just eat whatever

the guy that owns this bugatti decided to go down to southern arizona, down i-8 and stretch the legs of this 1,005-horsepower super car. this thing is a beauty. its top speed reported 268 miles per hour. >> something tells me the police cruiser is not going to run this guy down. >> they're not going to catch this car. they did seven different speed runs. they got it up to 215, to 225 miles per hour. the driver kept this thing in what's called handling mode. because, the road surface here isn't perfectly smooth. so they were afraid to attempt the 268-mile-per-hour top speed mode. this is out on a public road. on a public highway. >> reports that i read say this was done on arizona's i-8. a public highway. >> did they give out some kind of warning signal to cars to get off the road? >> it's pretty desolate out there. and i imagine they probably had alert vehicles on either end of their run. >> no problem if it was a closed road. but this is a public road? i don't think i agree with this. >> they did come in touch with an arizona department of public safety officer at one point. now the

brian terry died in a shootout in southern arizona. scene were traced to a controversial operation run by the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. it allowed hundreds of weapons to be smuggled into mexico in hopes of tracing them to criminal gains. >>> in health news, a controversy over sugar. some say it's just as bad for your health as tobacco and alcohol. and should be regulated in the same way. terrell brown has that story. >> we all know too many sweets pack on pounds. but they're often too hard to resist. >> i love sugar. >> a commentary in the latest issue of nature says sugar is responsible for the high rate of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer and should be regulated. >> because of the way sugar is metabolized in the liver, it will turn sugar into fat causing insulin resistance and all of the diseases of metabolic syndrome. >> the author say it's time to put restricts on sugar similar to the ones on tobacco. >> what if we had an age limit to purchase soda, for instance. carding kids for coke. i think it's a great

had the pleasure, about 25 years ago, of also being an affiliate director for the council in southern arizona, and then in '91 started my own company 20 years ago now, jorgensen-britts group, and we attack it from a couple of different angles. providing direct treatment back in the nineties, to now running full-service employee assistance programs, where we work to intervene in the disease and get folks into recovery before they lose everything. i'm bev haberle, and i'm a person in long-term recovery, and that means that for the past 40 years, i haven't used alcohol or any other mood-altering drugs. (applause) as a result of that, i have lived a remarkable, wonderful life. it's allowed me to give back, to help others. it's allowed me to be a wife, a mother, a productive citizen, as well as an elder in my church. so i'm truly grateful to be standing here today. my grandmother taught me a song that kind of saw me through a lot of the worst of my alcoholism, and i thought i'd just ask you to join me on it, because i think it's always a nice way to close any discussion about past, present, and fu

low pressure sitting over southern arizona, new mexico. it's moving to the southeast.dy raining along the texas coast. low pressure down here. very warm, gulf air. temperatures there in the 70s and 80s. water temperatures, still quite warm. because it never was cold this winter. low pressure with rain developing. they need that in texas. that's moving off to the east. low pressure is going to move across georgia to the carolina coast, by sunday. then out to sea. the big question mark, we still don't know exactly, exactly how far north or south that low is going to be. if it's pretty far south, we may not see a flake of snow this weekend. but it's still a possibility. right now, based on our current models and information, we are calling for, as you mentioned earlier, maybe 1 to 3 inches of snow across much of our region. maybe a little more to the south. heavier amounts down across the mountains of virginia. some areas down, there if it all comes together, could see 6, 7, 8 inches of wet snow. this will be a wet snow, until sunday night, when the low passes. the winds

that's moving into southern arizona and new mexico on the way out. one system moves through, strong low moving in and that front is going to knock down the high. this is the forecast. there's not a lot of green here, but there are a lot of clouds. this takes us through noon. look what happens along the coast. by 10:00 tonight there could be drizzle or very light rain to the north, more likely drizzle here overnight into saturday morning at 6:00, that's a pretty good cloud deck. saturday afternoon we start to see clearing. i think it will be a little faster than that, but you get the trend. it's going to be a cooler pattern. sunday night, start to cloud it up at 6:00. look, late, coming offshore, maybe late sunday into early monday. after that, things calm down considerably. partly cloudy, fog near the coast. it will be cooler. upper 50s, very low 60s inland. i think we'll have clouds in the morning and later on. low 60 it is mid-60s, not the spread we had yesterday. sunday morning looks okay and clouds sunday nigh, maybe rain and then cool and breezy

but an area of low pressure over southern arizona, new mexico. some of that energy is going to be transferred to the area of precipitation developing in the gulf of mexico. this is expected ecipitation. much-needed rain to georgia. that serious drought here. all across the south. they're going to get 1 to 2, maybe 3 inches of rain down there. this area of low pressure is going to head down to our south, off the carolina coast by sunday. now, it's going to spill moisture above it, into our region. now, to our north, there's a weak frontal system that may be just enough cold air by the afternoon, and later, particularly, that any precipitation that moves into our region, probably starts with some rain, mixes with snow. and starts dragging down some colder air from aloft. and then we may see several hours of snow, sunday afternoon, sunday night, before it quits. we talked about maybe a 1 to 3- inch accumulation for most of the region. heaviest is going to be down across portions of southwest virginia, where it's going to be colder. and the higher el

i have decided that to honor her and her legacy and to try to do something for the people of southern arizonas a right thing to do right now. i feel ready to do it and announced my candidacy today. >> what is the spirit of america that you will be pushing to try? i suppose endure is the right word. you know, to keep alive. what is it that you want to bring to the political system that maybe isn't there at the moment in enough quantity? >> well i really feel very strongly that the tone of our political discourse has gotten way out of control. certainly, we saw that in the 2010 election. and after i was shot and in the icu with my family, the first thing that came to me was, we have to do something if we can to change the tone. and so we established the fund for civility, respect and understanding. and we're launching several projects, they're under way. an anti-bullying program and a mental health program to bring civility and respect to the political process so if the campaign is about anything it is about civility and respect. but also, there's some really serious issue that is we need to ta

forward and hopper her legacy, her conviction and strength and govern like she did so well for southern arizonald reach across the aisle to work together with republicans and democrats to solve problems tore the people in my community. and that is what i'm going to emulate. that is what i do now in the state house, and that is what i do every night when i'm on shift in the hospital as a physician. >> i want to talk to you about something that happened inc california while i have you here. as you are one of arizona's only openly gay lawmakers i want to ask you about prop 8 and what was your take on that decision yesterday where the appeals court has said it is unconstitutional. >> tremendous victory. i was very, very pleased to hear that, and it is another step forward for equality. it is a very -- it's a focused decision. it doesn't actually apply, i think, more nationally, unfortunately, but it is certainly a great step forward for the community and for marriage equality in california. and i hope that's another step toward full equality nationally. >> arizona state representative matt heinz, t

heavy snow in the mountains of southern california and arizona. rain in phoenix and tucson. snow showers in the northern rockies. >> 40 friends boise to albuquerque. 36 in the twin cities. upper 40s here in new york and much of the northeast. 67 in atlanta. and an always warm 82 in miami. >>> coming up next after the break, the new rankings of the most and least dependable auto marks. >>> new debate in the powell family tragedy. should the dad who killed his two young sons be buried next to them? >>> and the alert about babby formula. arsenic found in certain kinds of @drmula. we'll showh@ y what to look for >>> welcome back, everybody. cars are getting a little more dependable. in fact, a look at 3-year-old cars found dependability is at its best ever. the j.d. power survey says lexus, cadillac and porche are the most dependable. and chrysler, joj, and jeep are the least dependable. >>> overseas you markets mostly low because of delays in the greek bailout deal. hong kong's hang seng dipped 88 points. in london, the ftse opening lower. and on wall street, the dow lost 97 po

. >> the idea that we are going to put vigilantees along southern arizona and have them to enforce law, it's crazy. the liability that you put the state of arizona in, the fact that there is no vetting process, on those folks that want to participate. this is crazy. this is nuts. martha: wow, interesting battle. group would be paid for with a $1.4 million fund set aside for border security. the arizona, mexico border is 373 miles. that is 19% of our total southwest border. about four out of every 10 illegal immigrants who is caught sneaking into the u.s. gets picked up in arizona. gregg: new fallout over president obama's budget. the president characterizing his plan as restrained and responsible but critics say this plan will squeeze money out of government programs partly just to keep you will with payments on the crippling interest of our debt. about 13 cents of every dollar spent by the federal government is spent on interest. john fund joins us, senior editor of "the american spectator". any american consumer with a credit card who doesn't pay it off every month realizes it the in

. >> the idea that we are going to put vigilantees along southern arizona and have them to enforce law, it's crazy the liability you put the state of arizona in. the fact that there is no vetting process on those folks that want to participate, this is crazy. this is nuts. are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. hey, it's sandra -- from accounting. peter. i can see that you're busy... but you were gonna help us crunch the numbers for accounts receivable today. i mean i know that this is important. well, both are important. let's be clear. they are but this is important too. [ man ] the receivables. [ male announcer ] michelin knows it's better for xerox to help manage their finance processing. so they can focus on keeping the world moving. with xerox, you're ready for real business. martha: well it is time for the defense side of the story now in the case of the former university of virginia lacrosse player who is

through southern california and some of the cool air will be arriving through areas of southern nevada and arizona. here's the storm system. the upper-level low off the coast, apparent low, down at the surface, the one heading over las vegas. lot of cloud shields with this extending far north of areas into idaho. another low brought more chilly air up there to the pacific northwest. again, not a lot of rain or snow with this. see how limited it is. we're starting to pick up a little snow to the north and northwest of yosemite. we're not looking at a lot of rain out there. may be showers, possibly aisle lated thunderstorm near l.a. but temperatures have dropped for 45 in vegas, 42 in san francisco. one of the cooler temperatures you've seen lately and below freezing in seattle. today's forecast not a bad winter type day for many areas in the northwest. a slight chance of some of the showers or storms but my bet most of the day will be relatively dry. that's a look at the national forecast. here's a look at the weather outside your window. again a chance of showers in california. arizona will have t

seven marines are dead after their helicopters collided in the air in southern arizona.. now, the military says they could lieded during routine training operations at the marine corps air station yuma. the seven were part of the 3rd marine aircraft wing. in fact, this is video. this is file video of the same unit conducting live fire exercises at camp pendleton back in august. i want to bring in miguel marquez who is on the ground in yuma on the phone with me. i know this is so fresh into this investigation. what can you tell us? >> reporter: we have a bit more information. we just talked to the base commander here at the air station. he says that this happened around 10:30 eastern time, 7:30 pacific. the crash happened in the chocolate mountains. if you look at pictures of that crash, the only thing that tells you that this was a helicopter crash is you can see that rotor. it was a mid-air collision according to the marines. it will appears that there must have been an explosion. the colonel we just talked to says that there was live ordinates on those helicopters so i

high pressure really protecting areas of nevada, arizona, and southern california. you can already see where the green on the map is the rain. snow levels are above 6,000 feet. that's well up there in the cascades. we're also getting heavy rain over the olympics. what's interesting is that the olympic mountains produce a rain shadow effect that kind of protect the downtown urban corridor near the puget sound. we're going to get four to five, maybe six inches of rain in the mountains. downtown seattle, maybe a half inch at most. it's the rivers we'll worry about in the days ahead. there's your forecast in the northwest. we're just fine in many areas of the south. that's a hours. we're not going to call for too much snow there. the other mountains will get it good. so flooding rains are more of a story than the snow. >> all right, bill. thanks so much. >>> coming up, greece gets bailed out again, amazon scores big with customers, and why you should always follow the rules. at least when it comes to home construction. your early morning business headlines are straight

behind it is another system moving quickly through the southern rockies into northern arizona. this could impact our weekend. temperatures are not that cold, even up to international falls, minnesota. it is only 30 degrees there. it is just a batch of rain coming in for now. it looks like we'll have some scattered showers in the morning and more substantial rain coming in the afternoon and early evening. still a cloudy day, highs of 45-50 and southeast winds at 5- 10. there is a small craft advisory in effect with a two-foot waves on the open waters. maybe a little sleet or snow mixed in with the rain thursday morning, and then it will clear up nicely at western maryland for friday. 49 and 54 with sunshine and a brisk wind across much of south and east maryland on friday. what weather tomorrow, and then sunshine on friday. the second storm should make its way up from the gulf and into the deep self on saturday at about 7:00 in the evening. saturday night as the temperatures drop, the potential is there for rain or wet snow, depending on the exact track of that storm. it will st

but in southern arizona, that wasn't it. forest service has yet to determine who started that fire that spilled over into new mexico, and cost hundreds of millions of dollars of damage. but they have ruled out everyone except, well, illegal aliens that happened to be close to the known smuggling trails where the fire started. what happens down there is, there are three types of fires that are started. two of them on purpose. one is a distress fire new york which case there's somebody coming across the border, in a dire situation, lost their ability to go any further and they need rescuing, you start a fire because obviously the firefighters will come an you'll get rescued. there's also diversion fires started specifically. a diversion fire is to make sure when the fire starts over here and everyone runs over there to stop the fire, it means over here is now open for your diversion into this country. the drug cartels have this down to a habit and style all their own. the third part, simply an accidental fire. i think the assu

william la jeunesse is live -- along arizona's southern border. william?was at this border check point about 70 miles south of tucson where ice agents stopped a load of southbound guns that belonged to an atf operation. a dispute ensued. then ice was told to back off and not interfere with fast and furious. >> there is going to be a disaster that's going to happen. someone is going to get killed. unfortunately, brian terry is that nightmare that came true. >> former tucson drug enforcement chief tony coal son says atf wasn't the only federal agency with a hand in operation fast and furious. >> on two occasions that i know of. that weapons that atf were trying to walk into mexico, ice actually intercreeded and seized those weapons. >> the dea also helped. providing intelligence suspected ringleader manuel. >> the atf shared the same wire room inside this building with the dea. monitor live conversations of their targets. this lasted for more than a year as the atf tried to identify two high level cartel associates. the money men behind fast and furious. acc

arizona to the united states. in 1853, president franklin pierce saw an opportunity to build a transcontinental railroad connecting the south to southern california and purchased the remaining bottom half of the arizona territory from mexico for $10 million. what today would be the equivalent of $244 million. it was around this time that american pioneers began to settle the towns of press scott, flagstaff, sedona and yuma. during the civil war, arizona became a short-lived strategic interest to the confederacy. the war's western-most battle was fought at pachacho peak. it lasted 90 minutes and involved about 25 soldiers. in the years that followed, cattlemen and mining speculators flocked to develop arizona's natural resources in the towns like tombstone, bisbee, and st. johns, the birthplace of morris udall. the boundaries of the state soon began to take shape thanks to explorers like john wesley powell, whose famous three-month expedition down the mighty colorado charted the first known passage through the grand canyon p. efforts in congress to pass statehood began around the turn of the 20th century. one proposal sought to combine

of the united states and that violence is coming across our border, along our southern states, especially states like arizona, texas, we still have problems in california, and i'd like to hear what is our focus in south america? obviously we have significant problems in central america, but we've got big problems right on our border, and these are our friends and by golly we need to make sure that we can help them out and help ourselves at the same time. i just want to mention i head up the meth caucus, a number of us, bipartisan group. the methamphetamine coming across the border is the worst drug we've ever seen, it's tremendously addictive. 90% of it director mueller i think comes from mexico. precursors coming from china, india, and everybr elsewhere they're mixing this stuff up and the amount of money made is corrupting to the folks in mexico and to the united states. we've seen we've seen significant problems so i want to hear all your comments about what can we do in south america to focus on that problem that we have, which i think is a huge national security issue. thank you. >> let me start and the

heavy snow in the mountains of southern california and arizona. lighter in the northern rockies.e songs of all time. you're hearing it now. ♪ tomorrow >> "tomorrow." you're so sweet, paula. 40s from boise to albuquerque. 33 in fargo. 36 in the twin cities. and 42 in the windy city. 49 here in new york. 67 in atlanta. and 82 in new orleans. annie. ♪ and grin and say >> the sun is going to come out in new york if you're a knicks fan, right? >> yeah. >> speaking of which, by now you've likely at least heard of the nba sensation that's sweeping the nation. of course we're talking about jeremy lin of the new york knicks. i did have a point with that previous comment. i was going somewhere with it. >> he was at it again last night, handing out 13 assists, scoring 10 points. another double-double. in the knicks' win over sacramento. for those counting at home, that is seven straight wins for lin and company. >> no need for last-second buzzer beaters. lin only played about three quarters. just enough to keep the legend of lin growing. so he started sleeping on a couch, and now he's got h

it's important for people to understand first and foremost, those of us who have lived in arizona and southern california, we have a diverse population. the hispanic population has been part of all of our lives since we've been born here or grown up here. so it's not about race and it's not about bigotry, it's all about the rule of law. it is against the law to come into our state lowlily. but more than that is we need our border secured. the simple fact is that the drug cartels are coming in through arizona. arizona is the gateway for all the narcotics and the crime that is connected with it. they kidnap people that are coming across illegally, they take them to drop houses. they ex tort money from the families in mexico. they torture them. and they talk about civil rights. and they're right in our neighborhoods and our people on the border are afraid to go to sleep at night on their ranches. >> after the debate tonight there'll be just a handful of days before the people of your state finish voting. some might have voted already. will you endorse tonight after the debate? will you wait a day

two helicopters conducting routine operations collided over southern arizozone california n arizona border is amateur video of the shuttle "challenger" exploding after takeoff in 1986. you may remember this day. this was shot by a man at an airport in orlando. amateur video of the disaster is rare because camcorders were new at the time and cell phone video as you know, not invented. >> the irs says it has $1 billion in unclaimed refunds from taxpayers who still have not filed their tax returns, pnow there's a deadline. they must be filed by april 17th or any unclaimed money is turned over to the treasury. >> and soon there won't be any need to travel to australia to visit the great barrier reef. scientists are teaming up with google to create a virtual dive so anyone with access to the internet can explore the reef, but i'm thinking it may be better to go. who knows. back to you. >> tim pawlenty talked to soledad about the state of the gop race and why he's supporting romney, and we analyze the economic plans tomorrow on starting point with soledad o'brien. >>> coming up for all of you wh

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southern california. but they collided above the chocolate mountains in southeast california near the arizona border. >> the marine corps motto fight like you train, train like you fight. as dangerous as combat is, to be able to succeed in it the things we do, back here training-wise, do have a lot of inherent risk in them. >> marine corps investigators are reviewing the crash site and flight plans to find out what caused the collision. >>> syrian violence resumed after calm overnight. anti-government activists say at least two more people were killed today as syrian troops shelled a rebel-held district in the city of homs. a conference on the crisis is getting under way in tunisia. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and other diplomats plan to work out a series of demands for syrian president bashar assad. >> we must never lose sight of what this is about, a regime making war on its own people. >> diplomats are expected to order assad to call for an immediate cease-fire and allow humanitarian aid into areas hardest hit. if he doesn't comply, he could face tougher sanctions. humanitarian groups say mor