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we strug toll get out of the 40s.sunday we spring forward one hour and 70 be by next week. >> the baltimore blast get ready for another playoff run. the teams practicing for the start of the indoor soccer league playoffs that start this weekend. the blast has clinched home field advantage after finishing on top fort eastern division and now the focus is getting the job done and winning a 6th title and their first since 2009. >> you want to try to win every game you play in the regular season but you know every team's goal, every athlete's goal is to get playoffs. that starts saturday night. >> danny boy, i tell you what they play the lancers in game one. 7:35 saturday night at the first mariner arena and then game two on monday up there in rock chester. >>> they have been named honorary chair couple. this event races money to find a cure for als. oj who played for the cfl stallions and then joined the ravens in their season in a form erin ten with abc 2news, found out he had als in 2007. never showed him down. as he g

. >> many of us strug toll get struggle to get to the gym but for one man he is on a mission. >> reporterat any gym anywhere you can find great demonstrations of strength and determination. at the league of disabilities in baltimore you can find not just incredible strength but also heart. look at tony harris. he is all muscle and might but it took a disability to get him here. >> i tried to ignore it at first and continue on with life in normal, manner. >> reporter: he has ms. there. was a time right after i found out i think -- i believe it was from june of 2006 to july of 2006, i slept for the month. >> reporter: few years ago he read a blog that exercise would help and now he is in the gym six days a week sometimes almost three hours at a time. >> i didn't accept the fact that this was how my life was going to end. my last visit in the hospital in 2009 they had to push me around from clinic to clinic in a wheelchair. >> reporter: he became a personal trainer. his story was featured in a local magazine for people with disabilities. he is moving people along the way. his best friend is

. >> reporter: she could have been in a violent strug until a car that looked like this. they say load was found inside as well as evidence that a gun was discharged. 9 washington license plate is 169vvj. the car belonged to martha's son. >> we are hoping that people who may have -- may have seen it maybe on a road, thought it was suspicious, maybe didn't call the police, so now if they did see that car please call us. >> reporter: able sot his sister and then killed himself wednesday night. she was a 6th grader. her classmates made a mural and wrote memories of her today. this mother said her daughter didn't want to go to school. >> i just told her that maybe being with her friends she will feel better, they will give her support. right now i just came to pick her up because she is very upset. >> reporter: employees of head start are also having a difficult time coping. martha has worked here more than 20 years. >> everybody worries for -- everybody expecting to find him alive but we don't know. >> reporter: police found martha's cell phone in her son's car. they have be

it was strug that would help lay down the foundation of civil rights law to the benefit of human rights activists several decades later. for example, woe vesz hopkins that any law applied in a discriminatory planner whether to u.s. citizens or foreign aliens is unconstitutional. another case upheld the principle of birthright citizenship which would prevent american born non-white people from being stripped of their citizenship and relegated into a permanent foreign underclass. many anti-chinese laws disappeared from the books after world war ii, but the chinese-americans remain publicly and politically active. for example, during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, chinese and american students staged sit-ins and demonstrations. they forced universities like san francisco state and berkeley, to establish ethnic studies departments. and since the 1980s, chinese-americans held huge rails and raised legal funds to fund hate crimes such as the brutal murders of chin and lu and organizing a successful boycott of the u.s. laboratories after the government engaged in illegal racial profil

european union, the european central bank and international monetary fund, four irish banks who are strugging with some of the mortgages they've given far too favorable terms for mortgage borrowers. is this a question of the others wanting one, too, having seen what a generous deal greece has got? >> i certainly think so. i think it's a question of fairness. ireland has played by the rules with respect to this bailout, implemented all the austerity measured asked for them. the economy is growing. i don't think it's unreasonable for them to expect some sort of quid pro quo. and eu finance ministers have to really think about whether or not they want the irish to pass this referendum on the fiscal compact. i think they need to play ball on this. >> of course they do. other interesting issue is portugal. many people are saying portugal are the next people who maybe will need a second bailout. >> yes, i certainly think that's right. i don't think we need to obsess about it too much. i think they are fully funded till later in the year. more interesting than that, people talk about second bailout

andrea fujii explains that thousands of marylanders are still strug struggling to find jobs. >> reportery call it schmoozing. others call it survival. >> it's very challenging. just due to you have to know someone that is already inside the business business. >> reporter: william bol wear is one of many at the national careers careers fair. he spent the last six months looking for work. >> it's actually really tough to actually get the job in the field you study in, it's really tough. >> reporter: but the bureau of labor statistics shows the job market is the best it's been in two years. maryland's unemployment rate is now at 6.5%. almost 2% lower than the national average. >> reporter: and almost all of the growth was in the private sector, adding about 5,000 jobs in january. >> reporter: this employer says there are fewer candidates to pick from lately. >> each time we have been here, i've seen a little less each time. actually, today has been the least busy. >> reporter: but those still out of work aren't as positive. >> i don't have my bachelors degree. i just have an associate's. th

the caps have strug told score as of late. they only gave up one goal.hia would need and if can you believe this, the caps suffered back-to- back shutouts for the first time since march 2007 falling to philadelphia 1-0. now, they are on the outside looking in right now. we've still got some time, caps fans torque get back in the playoff picture. they have to pick it up. so far, not so good for the caps. >>> now, our stephen strasbourg update. made his debut yesterday in spring training. that is the strasbourg we have come to know and although. he was on a 50-pitch count. but this one, get on and ride the magic carpet. home run off strasbourg. it is only spring, people. nats did lose 10-2. we are expecting big, big things from our nationals this year. >> we certainly hope so. >> the good thing is he is back on the mound. >> the bad thing is that is the only good thing about it. >> how is the arm though? >> the arm looks good. looks like he will have his velocity. that is all we really care about. as long as he is healthy, this should be a good soap for st

economic issues, says he understands what it's like to work two jobs, understands what it's like to strugs. i hadn't heard that from mitt romney before. again, as steve was pointing out, those blue-collar voters, right now are not coming to mitt romney. i thought he turned a corner, i thought he sustained things in michigan. now it looks as though he can't sustain it with very conservative, tea party voters and the blue-collar vote. >> megyn: rick, quickly? >> the margin now -- and it ought to be on the screen, i would think, is down to something like, barely 3,000 votes, if that, ohio -- so, it's just tightening -- >> bret: romney folks are saying they are confident, pointing to hamilton, cuyahoga, franklin. they insist, quote, santorum cannot copy up in ohio. almost 90% of the votes in. and as you can see, too close to call. charles krauthammer coming up and john bolton, straight ahead. back in 3 minutes. stay here on america's election headquarters. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! >> >>. >> and my hands were full. i couldn't sort

one half borrowed money from family and friends and one third strugged to meet housing expenses.ay have long-term consequences for their family's as well. for example, studies suggest the unemployment suffer from higher related incidences of depression, heart disease and may have a lower life expectancy. in addition, unemployment, especially long-term unemployment, imposes important economic costs on everybody, not just the unemployment themselves. elevated unemployment strains public finances because of both lost tax revenue and the payments of increased unemployment benefits and other income supports to affected families. people unemployed for a long time have historically found jobs lesse easily, perhaps because their skills erode, they lose relationships in the workforce or they acquire a stigma that deters firms from higher them. in the shorter term because the process of matching the long-term unemployed to jobs typically takes more time, the currently high level of long-term unemployment might in itself be a reason that further progress in reach duesiduesing unemployment r

the passionate strug many of the internal opposition will not be deterred by the abuses occurring daily at the hands of the castro regime. these recent crackdowns by the redeem illustrates its fear, paranoia, concern that the cuban people are no longer afraid of the regime and are demanding a democratic change on the island. the citizens of cuba are denied basic human rights by the castro regime, including the freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and due process of law. these fundamental freedoms should not be reserved for the citizens of some countries while denied to those in other nations. i urge free nations, responsible nations to condemn the recent actions by the castro brothers as shown here to speak out against the atrocities that are committed daily in cuba and to reaffirm unconditional support for the cuban people who seek to break free from the shackles of the castro tyranny. i thank the speaker for the time and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from washington, mr. mcdermott, fo

economy was strug manying to recover from a recession, and we had high unemployment. . we need to do much more to restore growth and balance to our international, strategic relations with other countries, especially china and we should end this massive transfer of wealth from our people to china. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin. mr. levin: i now yield two minutes to another member of our distinguished committee, mr. blumenauer from oregon. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for two minutes. mr. blumenauer: thank you, madam speaker. thank you, mr. levin. i appreciate mr. camp, our ranking member mr. levin, are here today advancing h.r. 4105. we're not going to unring the bell. the chinese government is an important part of the world economy. we are interrelated and interdependent. people buy things from china every day. i was happy to have them be part of the w.t.o. so there will be rules of the road. it's not about protectionism for the unite