i grew up in suburban chicago and i drove there to date.t usually takes me to an hour or norrington ministry today took me less than 35 minutes. people are off the street. they are not going out. they are not behaving ways to behave. they don't have money. they are pulling back. they said that they did a big christmas and they have to get serious about saving the family budget. >> i think republicans and democrats are at fault. we need to get spending under control. i don't think the president even sees a spending problem. so i hope to be more optimistic now that but i don't see anything makes me that we. >> i am not optimistic at all. obama wants redistribute wealth is going about it in a very methodical way. the way that they do it if you've read any history lessons is increased federal debt and can calculate people can change their behavior, cause them to do things that will cripple this country and destroy the fundamental nature of the country. neil: very interesting and i thank you very much, sir. >> thank you, neil. neil: coming up ne

authority charges united fuels a subsidiary of the airlines with operating a sham business in suburban chicago. the lawsuit claims united does not pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales tax by claiming to buy fuel from the suburban office. the office is only one part time employee. not even a single computer. united says the operation is legal. >>> drivers are paying a little more for gas again if you didn't noticed. aaa reports the biggest jump in the bay area is san jose. where the price of regular is $3.59. that is up a little more than a nickel since last month. the smallest increase is in san francisco where it has gone up just a penny in the last four weeks. drivers paying $3.68 there. >>> what we now know about california's babies. what is changing here that has some concerns this morning. jack! what happened? me and jason came back with drinks and all 20 nuggets were gone. we got nugged. there was a nugging. this guy just came running up... dip! dip! dip! shoveling 'em into his face! give me your nuggets- -we're like "no! save some for our boyfriends!" need more nuggets? jack's

united airlines, for example, moved a ton of jobs, thousands of jobs, from suburban chicago to downtownhicago. it's trickier to -- you can't start fresh. i think what you see, and, again, talking about trends, and trend start slowly, and they move slowly, and it's always, you know, looking at what now is opposed to a couple years ago, and there's market changes, and market changes create markets, but i think that the main reason -- one of the main reasons why american corporations all go from the inner cities to the suburbs, that's where they go to live, and suburbs follow them, the companies follow them. i think as more and more people live in the cities, we start to see companies follow them back to the city. there are, and most american cities, there are undervalued, gray field industrial areas where it is possible. it's called the south lake union district in seattle, there's a great example. the pearl district studied you and did what you told them to do. amazon moved there, and one of the bill gates foundation moved there. they built a streetcar there. it is a trend we're seeing.

a death of a north chicago man while on police custody has been ruled a homicide. 45-year-old darrin hanna died in november, 2011. demonstrators marched in suburban north chicago today. remembering a man who died a week after a physical struggle with police in november of last year. the demonstrators were demanding justice for the death of 45-year old darrin hanna. authorities said earlier this year that seven police officerrs "acted reasonably and appropriately" to subdue hanna. who they said was combative when they went to his home after reports he was beating a pregnant woman. a lake county coroner's report ruled hanna died of several factors. which included his on- going health problems as well as taser shocks from police. his family filed a wrongful death suit against the city of north chicago and some of the police officers. president obama's second term is well underway but he still has a few inaugural-related events today. this morning, the president and first lady michelle obama attended the post-inaugural prayer service at the national cathedral in washington. vice president joe biden and wife, doctor jill biden, also attended the praye

you're looking at a cooking class in a shop in suburban chicago.rs in the corporate world. you don't think that the gdp number you saw today matches what you see on main street in glen ellny, illinois? >> it doesn't seem to. we've seen optimism in the holiday season and january. >> spent 30 years. part of it as coo of united health care decision. you watched the fed announcement very closely back then. does it have that much of an impact on main street? >> now it is more of a trickle down effect with us. what is happening with interest rates impacts home building and improvement in people's homes. they will come here and shop when doing something new with their homes. >> ultimate discretionary spending perhaps. over here these ladies and men i think too engaged in a cooking class. you wouldn't do that if you felt negative about the economy perhaps, folks. ashley: jeff flock, that's a very good point. if you're that worried would you be going to cooking classes? looks interesting, does it. tracy: can't afford to go to restaurants. you have to cook a

street from that warehouse fire that you mentioned during the intro and, yes, tonight news that a chicago suburbanspaper the daily herald say there may be as many as 7 cold related deaths just in the chicago land area alone. up in green bay, got confirmation of another cold related death. a 38-year-old man found in his driveway on monday. the cause of death severe hypothermia. now, the severe cold conditions up in green bay prompting a truce between the city officials and the saint john the evangelist shelter. this shelter had been sighted multiple times overnight for housing more men than allowed in the permit. the men at the shelter is the way they make it enemy morning. >> if saint john's wasn't here, a lot of these people wouldn't have nowhere to go and there would be more people dying out in the streets or something. >> now the city officials, the city attorney specifically says that he will no longer be serving them with more citations as long as the cold is as cold as it is up there. and, of course, throughout the region. shep? >> shepard: steve brown in chicago tonight. steve, thanks. secr

wave of violence filed by these outside guns flooding into the city. 6,000 guns came into chicago just from suburbaninois in the last five years. more have some from neighboring indiana, and thousands more have come there mississippi, which has some of the loosest gun laws in the nation. of the 20,000 guns confiscated in chicago in the last decades one in ten game from mississippi. so how successful can the local laws be in the absence of a national strategy. >> obama: i wanted to first start off by expressing my concern and sympathy to congressman rush for the recent tragedy where his son got shot. our prayers are with him, and i'm hoping that everything turns out for the best there. >> jennifer: and tragically congressman rush's son died. he was just 29 years old, killed by two gunmen on the streets of chicago. this year, now president obama addressed the same issue at his second inauguration. >> obama: our journey is not complete until all of our children from the streets of detroit to the hills of appalachia to the quiet lanes of newtown know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe

today, a tweeted a great story, the interview he did with "the daily herald" in the suburban newspapers there in chicagoit's really worth the read and worth your time. >>> massachusetts republican senator about to be ex senator scott brown hasn't officially announced whether he plans on competing in the assumed special election to fill senator john kerry's seat, assuming john kerry does become the next secretary of state. he seems to have taken -- mr. brown, that is, taking on ed markey, who is a possible opponent. yesterday on the jim and marjorie show, their last program of last year, brown questioned markey's residency. >> you have to check the travel record. i see most of the delegation. i have never seen ed on the airplane, ever. >> senator kerry, by the way, is back, the long-time massachusetts congressman, markey and a whole bunch of others rallied around him. scott brown is supposedly wondering whether to become governor or attempt to be not someone who loses two senate seats in less than a year. south carolina governor nikki haley announced the special election to fill soon to be scott's house

are lots of folks in places, the ones who are still there in the northeast and suburban districts, for example, around chicagowho are going to feel a lot of pressure to move on this, even if they are republicans. >> bob shrum, howard fineman, great to have you with us tonight. thanks a lot for joining us on "the ed show." >>> coming up, florida governor rick scott continues to use faulty statistics, even after analysis telling him he is wrong. analysts i should say telling him he is wrong. just how wrong? well, 2,500% wrong. it's a heck of a number, isn't it? stay tuned. we're right back. >>> aig got billions of dollars from the federal government to save them from bankruptcy. now shareholders are saying they didn't get a fair deal? details ahead. stay with us. >>> and we are back. florida governor rick scott is dead set on preventing his state from participating in an expansion of benefits under the affordable care act. and he is willing to cook the books to get his way. to justify denying almost one million uninsured low income residents health care insurance coverage, scott is using republicans' favorite k

are lots of folks in places, the ones who are still there in the northeast and suburban districts, for example, around chicagog to feel a lot of pressure to move on this, even if they are republicans. >> bob shrum, howard fineman, great to have you with us tonight. thanks a lot for joining us on "the ed show." >>> coming up, florida governor rick scott continues to use faulty statistics, even after analysis telling him he is wrong. analysts i should say telling him he is wrong. just how wrong? well, 2,500% wrong. it's a heck of a number, isn't it? stay tuned. we're right back. with the spark cash card from capital one, olaf gets great rewards for his small business! pizza! [ garth ] olaf's small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase, every day! helium delivery. put it on my spark card! [ pop! ] [ garth ] why settle for less? great businesses deserve great rewards! awesome!!! [ male announcer ] the spark business card from capital one. choose unlimited rewards with 2% cash back or double miles on every purchase, every day! what's in your wallet? >>> aig got billions of dollars from the federal governme

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this can happen in newtown, massachusetts, it's certainly happening in chicago -- >> respond to what the governor said about the suburbanovernors who aren't right wingers. if you were still party chair, what language would you -- how would you position your party on guns? >> i would position it where the party has always been, working towards common sense solutions that, number one, enforce those currently on the book. there are good, enforceable laws on the book. two, let's look at where the loopholes are, if that's the gun shows, if that's, you know, with having a database that's incomplete, let's fix those things because, again, that's where the nra has been. >> governor, you made the point that a lot of the things being talked about, the president will come out with tomorrow. we don't know for sure, but we got a pretty good line with "the new york times" today. look at these. i don't think these are at all authoritarian, as you pointed out. a tougher prosecution of people who lie on their background checks. why would the nra be for people lying on their background checks? >> they should be supportive of that. >> and

affected all so you will have to pay more for 10 ride tickets but as one suburban i reminded us >> everything is better in the city of chicago>> coming up small signs of change returning to normal after last month's tragedy at sandy hook elementary. and the state of pennsylvania is now suing the n.c.a.a. a new club in colorado is allowing members to bring their own marijuana. don't miss the kmart home sale. up to 40% off all bed and bath. this week only. at kmart. students and staff of sandy hook elementary school will return to school thursday this is the first time that everyone will be back together since the shooting rampage that left 20 students and six adults dead instead of going back to sandy hook bay will go 6 mi. away to a building where another building needs to be located. gov tim corbett's cost to discuss the filing of a federal lawsuit that follows former assistant coach sandusky's conviction of sexually abusing boys the n.c.a.a. find the school $60 million, took away winds reduced scholarships and bay and penn state for the post season.and bannedband penn statefor thebanned penn state for the game season. the

we want the guy on the tractor, the guy in chicago, the guy in the suburban white to say,' wait a minuteair'. if you get that publicity we'll see that and we'll get it." it was reaching out, getting guys to go to work for him. we didn't have an organization like the one obama is thinking about -- >> how big was the white house staff when you were there? >> it was about 25 people. ( laughter ). >> not any more. >> not any more. >> there were only about five senior aides. think about it. i had the first domestic policy operation. i had four people working for me. what, 267 today in domestic policy? it's actually it's way too big. it put the president deeply into this thing. and the last thing, immigration reform, something tailor is very conscious of. you look at this presidential election. right after he passes the voting rights act, breaking the filibuster, he says, "we've got to get immigration reform." we closed most of the world off. you had to be northern european and blond and blue-eyed if you wanted to get into this country. un, there were quotas on italians purpose there were quot

chicago. a freight train derails in a suburban neighborhood.irst stop on this fox trip across america. >> missouri. that train coming off the rails just south of st. louis. no word on what caused the derailment. amazingly. nobody hurt. roughly 20 homes evacuated after rescue teams detected fumes coming from one of the chemical cars. it's all cleaned up now with everyone returning home. pennsylvania. a philadelphia man just wanted to catch some z's but wound up with a bullet lodged in his shoulder instead. >> i survived and you know i'm lucky. >> he was treated at a local hospital. police saying a gunman armed with an ar 15 assault rifle fired 17 shots into two homes. hitting the man as he was resting in bed. bullet holes piercing his windows and walls. >> maniac. crazy. i hope is he watching this too. you are a maniac, you are crazy. >> the hunt is on for the gunman. north carolina. firefighters blame barrels of hay for fueling a nasty barn fire outside charlotte it took crews several hours to contain it it thankfully no animals were inside the

sensational, it is continuous and it is as painful as these other suburban communities for us to live in inner city america. >> chicagost example of that. let's thank both congressman david price and dr. james peterson. we thank both of you for your time this evening. >>> coming um, paul ryan says the deficit is our number one problem. so why is he backing one of the most extreme anti-choice bills we've ever seen in congress. what are you doing? nothing. are you stealing our daughter's school supplies and taking them to work? no, i was just looking for my stapler and my... this thing. i save money by using fedex ground and buy my own supplies. that's a great idea. i'm going to go... we got clients in today. [ male announcer ] save on ground shipping at fedex office. but i'm still stubbed up. [ male announcer ] truth is, nyquil doesn't unstuff your nose. what? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus liquid gels speeds relief to your worst cold symptoms plus has a decongestant for your stuffy nose. thanks. that's the cold truth! >>> we're less than two months away, the preps are under way and the ceremony is coming togethe

chicago, new york, here in washington. and we need, as faith communities, not only to care about suburban children and suburban -- but we need to continue to care about and do a lot more to stop urban gun violence as well. >> john: dean, only about a minute left. last week on this program, i did a commentary about this growing movement of some gun fans who are christians who are citing luke 22:36 as justification for why jesus would have approved by assault weapons. sell your cloak and buy a sword. he means it metaphorically. he never has anyone buy a sword. how do you respond to people who use luke 22 as an argument that jesus would approve of having weapons designed to kill people? >> well, you know, i've been in this business a long time. that's the first time i've thought about that verse. >> john: check out twitter dean. you will be shocked. >> i'm sure i will be. obviously if you follow -- jesus is the man who said turn the other cheek. and essentially guided the hands of violence. so it is really obscene to me that anyone would try to enlist jesus in support of the use of weapons of any kind. >> john: very reverend ga

suburban environments particularly. because what we're looking at in montana is not quite the same as what we may be looking at in chicagoes around the nation. >> cynthia -- >> what do people need them for in montana? what do people need them for in montana? i grew up in alabama, in deepest, reddest alabama. my father loved hunting. i grew up with shotguns and rifles in the house. he never -- it was a rural area. he never felt the need to have an assault weapon. the deer weren't armed. so why do you need an assault weapon? i don't understand -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> i did not say assault weapon. >> why do you need one? >> i did not say an assault weapon. what i'm saying is when you're putting a solution in place we're still going to have to be mindful or the compliancy in chicago and new york city versus people in the big west. people such as residents in montana or the dakotas. we're going to have to be mindful. i'm not saying i'm defending people having assault weapons. those are weapons of war and they too often get in the hands of people that hurt folks throughout america versus being used for what they were de

chicago. in kentucky a 12-year-old girl lost her battle for life after a triple shooting that killed her father and cousin in a community college parking lot. and today in suburban atlanta, mayor reid, three people were found shot dead inside a house. now, the nra talks about gun rights, but what about the rights of those people, sir? >> well, i think that we're at a unique moment in time. and, martin, we all know that we're now at the hard part. we know that we're at a moment where if we're ever going to get reasonable gun control measures, many of which were supported by president ronald reagan when he worked to pass the assault weapons ban in 1994 when the ban only passed by two votes, that we're going to have to act right now. i think programs like yours are essential to explain how hard this fight is going to be and how motivated every single person that has ever wanted to do anything about this issue needs to do it right now. the president has put his personal prestige behind trying to get this gun. the vice president has worked on common sense reforms, but everybody who is through anything like what you just n d named in cities and communities across the