my mom is from southern mexico, very close to the guatemalan border. she is actually half chinese and half mexican, so my grandfather immigrated from southern china to southern mexico, and i grew up with a merchant family. when we emigrated to the u.s., my family also had family businesses, but even though i had all that preparation, opening my own business and working in a family environment, i was not prepared for the obstacle and challenges of having my own business. this is where the women's initiative program really helped me to develop actually technical training, business plans -- all of the things that i have not done because my mom had a very old school way of is this mentality, which was basically sink or swim. my company -- i have four full- time staff and two part-time in the low season, but in the high season, that can expand up to five or three part-time employees that all live and work in the mission district, so this is really, to me, about grass roots economy, rebuilding this country, and the recession gives us an opportunity to reevalu

mexico. the quake so strong it was felt from southern california to yuma, arizona. >>> next up, a funding battle gets personal. >>> and a different kind of gender bias in the workplace. what women are doing behind the desk that could be setting them up for health problems, plus the one thing that could fight it. zblncht. >>> and the big thing from the airlines that could mean more deals. >>> and more potential flight delays with rain staying with . us us. here's some much needed rainfall in san jose with cold temperatures. 40s across the entire board tonight. we're also tracking heavier rainfall across fremont and hayward. i'll have more details coming right up. >>> a reversal of fortune. delta airlines which made the fare increases monday has now rolled back those prices. the move was mirrored by american, united, con nen tall and u.s. air ways today. they watch each other closely for fares. this may be a sign that business travel isn't back up to speed along with the sinking economy that happened in 2008. >>> ikea is issuing a recall of baby cribs because there is a potential they might collap

mexico. that's near the border. no surprise how people in southern california and arizona felt shaking.ut there's no reports of any damage or injury. >> turning our attention to the latest winter storm to hit the bay area this week. >> caltran video here of i-80 and truckee shows the snow has not let up and strong wind gusts. chains are required, those on interstate 80 and highway 50 unless you have a four-wheel drive with snow tires. >> the bay area is getting another good dose of rain. downtown san jose is one of the weather spots this morning. definitely a wet start to our president's day weekend. the latest from meteorologist mike nicco. >> a live look at downtown and san jose. the way it looks right now, you can see it's still raining down there, raining for the better part since midnight. also to show you the circular area of the radar returns and because of that most of this in the north is not making it. that's just the radar hitting the tops of the clouds. let's focus in on the green area in the south and the yellow where we've had moderate rain in the santa cruz mountains and

mexico. that's near the border. no surprise how people in southern california and arizona felt shaking. but there's no reports of any damage or injury. >> turning our attention to the latest winter storm to hit the bay area this week. >> caltran video here of i-80 and truckee shows the snow has not let up and strong wind gusts. chains are required, those on interstate 80 and highway 50 unless you have a four-wheel drive with snow tires. >> the bay area is getting another good dose of rain. downtown san jose is one of the weather spots this morning. definitely a wet start to our president's day weekend. the latest from meteorologist mike nicco. >> a live look at downtown and san jose. the way it looks right now, you can see it's still raining down there, raining for the better part since midnight. also to show you the circular area of the radar returns and because of that most of this in the north is not making it. that's just the radar hitting the tops of the clouds. let's focus in on the green area in the south and the yellow where we've had moderate rain in the santa cruz mountains an

madam speaker, i bring you news from the war on our third front, the southern border with mexico. last saturday two american teenagers were brutally shot and killed in mexico in the mexican border town of juarez, mexico. that's right across el paso, texas. on thursday, drug cartels gunned down eight people in a bar in juarez. on sunday the head of security and intelligence for the state of nuevo lion in mexico was shot in the head and his car was set ablaze. it is close to the u.s. border and was was considered one of the safest towns in all of mexico. this murder is evidence that the narco terrorists are continuing to expand their control with our neighbors to the south in mexico. there are portions of mexico that are under the chrome of the drug bandits, and honest law enforcement is unanimous existent. however, secretary of homeland security, janet napolitano, has said that the situation on the border has, quote, been mischaracterized by lawmakers for political reasons. well, the same can be said of homeland security director napolitano. she mischaracterizes the border region c

see that became a problem that the southerners recognize is that the geography in some areas like new mexico was such that slavery would never exist there. they couldn't grow the cotton or the tobacco or the sugar that you need if you're going to have a big force of slaves to work it. and, you know, they were working against what looked to be a loss to this country, that they would be reduced to a small area in the south. and that was impossible for them to accept, especially if they felt that the government was doing what it could to help the north against the south. >> we're out of time. thank you for coming. [applause] >> robert remini has authored biographies of john quincy adams, daniel webster and henry clay. he also received the national book award for his work on andrew jackson. you can watch other programs with robert remini at booktv.org. >> we are here at the conservative political action conference talking with amanda pritzker from sentinel. can you tell us what's coming out of this your? >> absolutely. would you cannot with secretary rumsfeld's book this week. we are very, very

mexico and the southern border, in fact, has become a gateway to worldwide human smuggling into the unitedtates. during the last fiscal year, the cues ms and border protection saw an increase in apprehensions of immigrants from afghanistan, iraq, iran, syria, yemen, more than a dozen came from iran and iraq, and more than a thousand, 1100 i should say, illegal immigrants were detained coming from china. now, these are shocking numbers, but they don't include the tens and thousands of immigrants detained by the mexican authorities themselves in the interior of mexico. like cartel violence, increasing illegal immigration from nations beyond the western hemisphere, especially nations to harbor terrorists should strengthen our resolves to secure borders. unfortunately, a person with enough money to pay a human smuggler and with sufficient determination can find a way to immigrate illegally into the united states. in a post-9/11 world, i would hope we all agree that it is important to deal with this national security as a vulnerability. on the other hand, the economy, we know, it much worse tha

a couple from southern california and two people from seattle were on board. the yacht is heading closer to northern somalia. >>> in mexico, the last three days mark one of the deadliest time spans in the country with more than 50 people killed. president felipe calderon declared war on the drug cartel. violence has been increased in the resort city of acapulco. in response, president calderon announced armed forces will strengthen their presence. >>> and in brazil, dancers are prepping for carnaval season. a wearhouse fire destroyed costumes. even so one of the schools says it will still perform in the annual parade. thousands came out to watch the students finish their technical performance. rio's parade season culminates with parades. carnivals are viewed by millions on brazilian television. >>> the nascar season gets off to a roaring start. it was an unknown who took the checkered flag and we'll hear from him coming up. >>> take a look at this. today was the break in the storm that many people in the bay area had been eagerly anticipating and at fort funst oh, n, hand gliders to take the magnificent view of ocean. any

southern border. all of the violence and many of the immigrants that come from mexico are coming from a place where the rule of law is not respected. i think it is important for us and america if we really care about our country and if we really care about new immigrants, we need to enforce the rule of law. >> in your view -- so what should be done for presidents living here undocumented for years jackie makes the argument about the passage of time has some bearing. in your view, what should be done for this person's? >> well, first of all it is up to the american people to decide what should be done. until they have made the decision through their elected representative that has not been compromised i think we should enforce the laws that are on the books. and if we are enforcing laws on the books, we say we cannot deport 12 million people. first of all, we don't know how many are here. it could be anywhere from 12 to 18 million. we don't know how many are year. i don't know wire sank of million. if we enforce laws on the books and go after the employers that are hiring, you know, illegal aliens i thi

we believe some go to the war zone inside mexico near our southern border.there how many slip into here? where are they now? our government should know. it doesn't know. we're going to make them find out. [applause] everywhere around the world it's the same story. day and night chavez is cultivating alliances with countries that would like to undermine the u.s.' power and position to make the world a more dangerous place for us, russia, china, syria, libya, belarus, north korea. all are his diplomatic ports of call. meanwhile, venezuela has been a port of call for the russian navy, and now there's talk of basing uranium-supplied missiles in venezuela. sound familiar? and chavez is making moves that look like he wants to acquire nuclear weapons. add all that to chavez's global weapons buying spree including planes and submarines that have no defensive purpose, can we doubt what he has in be -- in mind? shrinking through the shadows of diplomatic back alleys throughout the world with a whispered, come on, he has been gathering a gang of thugs that, like himsel

southern plains where the buffalo were. that was where it was. so the idea of sweeping northern mexico clean which people had suggested they could do too or sweeping to the -- that's more of the european idea. that's not so much an indian idea. they never thought that way because there would have been no point. from their point of view, there were no buffalo there, so there were no buffalo over by the mississippi. all they wanted was that. they never really did understand property, and i think some indians still have -- >> i was going to say we have the five-minute signal, so maybe we'll do another question or two. i'm sorry if we don't get to everybody but, please, go ahead. >> i was curious -- it was a great book, i really appreciate it. i learned a lot. what about the canyon and how did that inform their society and talk about how i that was sort of almost the way you describe it a kind of fortress and undiscovered place that white man didn't know about? >> if any of you've seen it, it's the second biggest canyon in the west. it became toward the end of the comanches' era kind of gr

mexico as these industries moved up, move overseas and to the cut rate embrace of china or vietnam totalitarian capitalism. there was a good book written by berkeley anthropologist on working conditions in southernhina, and he said in sort of classical economic turns, many of these people don't even receive their wages. they cannot be considered as labor. and the message that is being delivered to the american working class is, you have to be competitive. you have to be competitive with prison labor. and so, yes, you're right. i speak at the end of the book about climate change and how it is twinned with this magical thinking, this divorce from reality, from fact. of course courtesy of exxon mobile. how many millions of dollars to they spend to confuse people about the science of climate change? wait for the microphone please. go ahead. >> a little scary. thank you so much for your talk tonight. you have written a lot recently about losing hope and suddenly have spoken quite a bit about that tonight. i understand, as has been told to be by my veterans for peace friends that you are planning on joining the action in december on december 16th in washington, the veteran lead action against the curr

southern rockies and you're picking up between one and two feet of snow. you go above 6,000 feet, now we're talking two and three feet of show. some places like park city, utah, taos, new mexico, the skiers in that era are just going to love it. low pressure system on top of the map, bringing the snow for portions of california, arizona, utah and idaho. all those states, at least a portion of those states, are under winter weather alert. we will be talking one to three foot range for snow, and there will even be a little bit of desert snow out there. the big weather picture, take a look at your satellite radar picture. you can see the flow in the jet stream as it makes its push across the country. a little bit of snow, also, in portions of the midwest, approaching chicago. again the big story, the big storm pushing onshore around southern california. that's a quick look at the national picture. >>> all right, just a quick note for you. the best place to be anywhere in the country, looks like it's going to be the gulf coast states today. no clouds, warm temperatures. russ over to you. >> okay, lonnie, thank you very much. up next a new study has identified a risk for stroke th

southern border. according to the gao report that came out last week, we have less than 2% under operational control of our 4,000 mile with our wonderful, wonderful trading partner, our biggest trading partner is not mexico, it's canada by a huge, huge margin. and as you mentionedhe peace bridge in buffalo, which is, we've always thought, the third busiest croing, i think the first passenger, but in my district and my colleague from detroit mr. clark, where he has the ambassador bridge, the busiest commercial artery on the northern tier, and the blue water bridge in my district is the second busiest border crossing. and we were very concerned about what the gao said about essentially no operational corol for all practical purposes along the northern border. and i would like to address that a bit. because as we think about our wonderful trading partner, our neighbors of canada, there are several islamic extremist terrorist groups that are represented there, as you're well aware. and i thought it was interesting with the gao report coming out on the heels of that, president obama and prime minister harper came out with the u.s./canadian agreement, which was a wonderful step forward, they're going to put th

southern border. according to the gao report that came out last week, we have less than 2% under operational control of our 4,000 mile with our wonderful, wonderful trading partner, our biggest trading partner is not mexico, it's canada by a huge, huge margin. and as you mentioned the peace bridge in buffalo, which is, we've always thought, the third busiest crossing, i think the first in passenger, but in my district and my colleague from detroit mr. clark, where he has the ambassador bridge, the busiest commercial artery on the northern tier, and the blue water bridge in my district is the second busiest border crossing. and we were very concerned about what the gao said about essentially no operational control for all practical purposes along the northern border. and i would like to address that a bit. because as we think about our wonderful trading partner, our neighbors of canada, there are several islamic extremist terrorist groups that are represented there, as you're well aware. and i thought it was interesting with the gao report coming out on the heels of that, president obama and prime minister harper came out with the u.s./canadian agreement, which was a wonderful step forward, they're going

southern border. according to the gao report that came out last week, we have less than 2% under operational control of our 4,000 mile with our wonderful, wonderful trading partner, our biggest trading partner is not mexico, it's canada by a huge, huge margin. and as you mentioned the peace bridge in buffalo, which is, we've always thought, the third busiest crossing, i think the first in passenger, but in my district and my colleague from detroit mr. clark, where he has the ambassador bridge, the busiest commercial artery on the northern tier, and the blue water bridge in my district is the second busiest border crossing. and we were very concerned about what the gao said about essentially no operational control for all practical purposes along the northern border. and i would like to address that a bit. because as we think about our wonderful trading partner, our neighbors of canada, there are several islamic extremist terrorist groups that are represented there, as you're well aware. and i thought it was interesting with the gao report coming out on the heels of that, president obama and prime minister harper came out with the u.s./canadian agreement, which was a wonderful step forward, they're going