young people of race in tandem close to $50,000 in support of the haitian community, we are trying to figure out how to spend their money and we are working to continue to work. i will take just a couple minutes to talk a little bit about the relationship of haiti to the united states. i am never sure what we mean when we say the united states. in some ways it is a road test. when we look at the relationship of these countries to haiti we see the relationship of these countries to each other and ourselves. congresswoman clark couldn't have put it better. we stopped being part of the united states along time ago but it is part of the world. i don't know there's a consensus about what we is. several great themes quickly. 80's role in the rise of the modern world system. haiti as the crown jewel not only of the french colony of possession but western colonial possession. of course haiti is big on sugar and we talk about cocaine and other things. is really about the sugar. that is why i am speaking english and we are understanding it. tobacco, sugar and that kind of thing. he is the engin

both measures rise in tandem during the recession, but during the recovery, unemployment duration remains consistently high for quite some time even as the on and on its rate declines. we expect to see a similar pattern in the near future. as i noted earlier, long-term unemployment tends to lead to permanent earnings losses particular for those who previously invested in a job and industry -specific skills. to summarize this discussion, labor markets, plummet indicators appear to roughly follow the conventional track, given the severity of recession, but these measures may not fully capture the weakness in the rise in unemployment duration and withdrawal of workers from the labour force. this raises the risk that the recovery and labor markets could be slow even as output returns to a well-established growth pattern. the other side of an economy experiencing growing output but low labor utilization is high productivity growth. productivity has been strong lately, particularly in the past three quarters. this is often the case in the early stages of recovery. as firms meet higher demand fo

. >> as our population grows, our public transport networks need to grow in tandem. >> reporter: road pricing works in singapore because the country offers a viable alternative to driving in its public transportation system. bus stations here are lifestyle hubs with free wireless hot spots. commuters receive text messages with updated transit information. you can shop, bank, eat and transfer to other busses or the subway known as the mrt. the mrt is the backbone of singapore's public transportation system. it opened in 1987 and has an average daily ridership of 1.7 million people. that dropped nearly 70% since the road pricing system was implemented. >> we want to make our transit system a welming place. people will use it. they will feel comfortable using it. >> reporter: and people do like it. the 2008 gallup poll names singapo singapore's mrt the best in the world in terms of customer satisfaction. >> we too extra care to ensure when we designed the station we wanted to make sure it was spacious so people would feel comfortable walking in them. >> reporter: but not too comfortable.

police commissioner said three undercover officers spotsed a could prius moving in tandem with another car and become suspicious. they found marijuana in the car and tried to remove two pass >> jerry:s. one officer was shots ins right hand, damaging hits pinky finger. officers returned fire, kills man and the commissioner saids driver showed fatal north. >> we enters vehicle and watts able to gain custody of a..25 caliber semi-automatic gun he had. >>>s officers are expected to be okay. but the sits speck's family deathsputes accounts of what the police said happened. in the studio, abc 2 news. >>> 12-year-old girl remains at johns hop kins hospitals after she watts hits by a car. it happened in et cetera e on saturday. the girl watts riding a bicycle when witnesses say a red ford focus hits her. >>> it's 5:06, watch this game again, michigan states, shots after shots after shots. this will go donates one ofs all time -- took hits best shots and brought the terms back. it's over. michigan states wins this ball game 85-83. can you believe that? what a game this watts. ed. >>> he admits

the announce will come in tandem which will reject some drilling in alaska. the president will make speech at andrews air force base. >>> this is 24 hours after president obama signed new student loan regulations in to law. dr. biden's wife is a teacher there. the government will now handle most student loans, a move he president says will save money that is passed on to students. >> not only will we offer 800,000 additional pell awards over the next ten years but raise the am they are worth to almost $6,000 so that inflation does not erode the value of your grants t [ applause ] >> reporter: so what do these new rules mean to the average family? go to wusa9.com and visit the "living $mart" page. we have questions and answers on the student loan plan. >>> president obama is also pushing for international sanctions against iran. he's joined in that call by the president of france. nicholas sarkozy met with this president and the two presidential couples shared a private dinner. earlier in the day, carla, france's first lady visited a charter school and read a

kated, maryland's had a long history of accountability for its schools, and i believe this is in tandemief that we have to perform. students are counting on us to perform and there have to be change fess we're not performing. >> nancy, great to see you as always. we'll talk to you again soon, i'm sure. >> thank you. >> let's do this, let's get a quick check of the top stories and a major sandbagging effort in fargo, north dakota, where the red river continues to rise. it is expected to crest 20 feet above flood level later this week. >>> wells fargo is cutting more than 400 jobs in the sacramento area. it is a result of last year's merger with wachovia bank. the company is consolidating to call centers. live pictures, do we have live pictures? terrific. how about this? savannah, georgia, right now feeling the irish spirit. this is the second largest st. paddy's day parade in the country. only new york's parade is larger. we're talking about 10,000 marchers, 51 bands participating and check out the crowd when we get a shot here. hundreds of thousands of people expected there today. of vi

the budget committee realizes it will be in tandem with the senate bill.this legislation, it would produce a sweeping overhaul of the health-care sector and fundamentally change the relationship between patients and doctors and put washington in control and raise taxes by 56 -- it didn't raise $500 billion, just as the economy is struggling to create jobs. it will add a trillion dollars entitlement program on top of the fact that we have $76 trillion in liabilities we don't know how to pay for. with you believe this should be enacted, i doubt there is disagreement about the sweeping nature of this legislation or the convoluted process unfolding here. the majority will cite cases of abuse. you will not find the midst of abuse in this legislation. it is breathtaking. you are the experts on house rules. i want to focus on the extraordinary and unprecedented abuse of the budget reconciliation process. reconciliation has been abused in the past which is why the senate adopted the bird rule. reconciliation has never been the abuse to the extent that it is today.

the budget committee realizes it will be in tandem with the senate bill. this legislation, it would produce a sweeping overhaul of the health-care sector and fundamentally change the relationship between patients and doctors and put washington in control and raise taxes by 56 -- it didn't raise $500 billion, just as the economy is struggling to create jobs. it will add a trillion dollars entitlement program on top of the fact that we have $76 trillion in liabilities we don't know how to pay for. with you believe this should be enacted, i doubt there is disagreement about the sweeping nature of this legislation or the convoluted process unfolding here. the majority will cite cases of abuse. you will not find the midst of abuse in this legislation. it is breathtaking. you are the experts on house rules. i want to focus on the extraordinary and unprecedented abuse of the budget reconciliation process. reconciliation has been abused in the past which is why the senate adopted the bird rule. reconciliation has never been the abuse to the extent that it is today

in tandem with the reconstruction, it must provide for continuing emergency relief, food, sanitation, health care, and most urgently, at this moment, shelter. you all are away, how difficult the situation is right now. the rainy season is fast approaching, som displaced perss at risk of flooding, health and sanitation issues are growing more serious. we are also very concerned about the security situation in some of the camps, especially for women and children. i therefore appeal for further support for the revised humanitarian appeal for $1.4 billion, currently only 50% funded. as we of move from emergency aid to long-term reconstruction, let us recognize that we cannot accept things as usual. what we envision today is a wholesale national renewal, a sweeping exercise in nation building, on a scale and scope not seen in generations. in partnership with the united nations, haiti's leaders are producing social contracts with the people. [speaking in native tongue] [speaking in native tongue] >> translator: responsibility abandon accountability between the government and the private. be

hike in the rate we pay on these reserves will cause other short-term money market rates to rise in tandemuse banks will be unwilling to lend in the money market at rates below what they can earn in their secure fed accounts. eventually, i would like to see the federal reserve's balance sheet shrink toward more normal levels. and i'd like the bulk of our holdings to be treasury securities, as they were prior to the crisis. selling off some of our assets could play a role in this shift, but my expectation is that the fomc will reduce the size of our balance sheet only gradually over time. the message i hope i've conveyed is that i don't think we're due for an outbreak of inflationnot in the short run as a result of the fed's economic stimulus measures, and not in the long run as a consequence of massive federal budget deficits. if the fed acts responsibly by unwinding its recession- fighting programs in a careful and deliberate manner, then we can avoid an upsurge of inflation in the near term. and as long as the fed remains an independent central bank free to pursue its objectives of maxim

every single decade is the democratic majority in tandem turning off this program? for four years after this year than are you going to have you're 21, 22, 23% pay cut for doctors under the medicare system? for clamming medicare savings twice on your revenue side. you're claiming 520 billion in medicare cuts, 210 billion in medicare taxes, but this is double the counting. you can't have it both ways. either the money is used for the solvency of the medicare system where it is being used for your new entitlement. that brings us to the class act, the new in title mind that you are putting into this program. five years of premiums, $70 billion that he were taking out of your brand new entitlement to do is to reduce the cost of this. so are you going to pay it back? even the democratic head of the budget committee said, quote, this is a ponzi scheme. this is the democratic chairman of the senate budget committee describe this scheme as a ponzi scheme. reeds on social security. $53 billion in new social security revenue to achieve the appearance of deficit cuts but they

believed all along, which was obviously these two pieces of legislation needed to work largely in tandem is a correction to the bill that previously passed the senate and we are hopeful passes in the next few days in the house. i believe it does demonstrate the senate's willingness to move that proposal forward and enact those correction into law. thanks, guys, let me address that in the next couple of kays -- days after the president has his meeting. thanks. >> tomorrow mortgage, we'll address -- announce the 75 winners of c-span's student cam documentary contest. nearly 2,000 middle and high school students entered a short video on one of our country's greatest strengths or a problem the country faces. view the winning videos at studentcam.org. >> a poll released today shows the attitude of the public about whether the supreme court proceedings should be televised. we'll hear from peter woolley about the results. t about a new poll that shows that three in five u.s. voters think that televising the supreme court proceedings would be good for democracy. joining us on the phone is profes

believe all along which was obviously these to pieces of legislation needed to work largely in the tandems a correction to the bill that had previously passed the senate and we are hopeful that they pass this in the next few days in the house. i believe it does demonstrate the senate's willingness to move that proposal forward and enact those corrections into law. thanks. let me address the the next couple of days after the president has his meeting in the next few days. thanks guys. [inaudible conversations] >>> on today's washington journal, we took to a wall street journal reporter about the war and its financial markets and increase's debt crisis. this is 40 minutes. >> host: this is the headline in "the wall street journal" this morning. greece seeks u.s. support for training and speculation. peter eavis is joining from new york this morning reporter with "wall street journal." peter, let me show the viewers with the greek prime minister had to say yesterday on this issue and then we will come back and talk about it. gues>> billing without traffic lights would slow down the cars. let

as you would expect both measures rise in tandem during the recession but during the recovery phase on implementation remains persistently high for quite some time even as the unemployment rate declines. we expect to see a similar pattern in the near future. and as i noted earlier long-term unemployment tends to lead to permanent earnings loss is particularly for those who previously invested heavily in job industry specific skills. so high unemployment regions can have long-lasting affects on consumer confidence and demand. to summarize this discussion the labour market headline in planned indicators appear to be roughly following a conventional track given the severity of the recession but these measures may not fully capture the weakness displayed in the rising unemployment generation and withdrawal of workers from the labour force. these development raise the risk the recovery in the labor markets can be slow even as output returns to a well established growth path. the other side of an economy experiencing growing output but low labor utilization is high productivity growth. indee

the budget committee reported on the reconciliation bill, but we realize it is going to appear in tandem with another bill. this legislation would produce a sweeping overhaul of our health care sector. it will fundamentally change the relationship between patients and their doctors and put washington in control of their health care. it will raise taxes . and put washington in control and raise taxes by 56 -- it didn't raise $500 billion, just as the economy is struggling to create jobs. it will add a trillion dollars entitlement program on top of the fact that we have $76 trillion in liabilities we don't know how to pay for. with you believe this should be enacted, i doubt there is disagreement about the sweeping nature of this legislation or the convoluted process unfolding here. the majority will cite cases of abuse. you will not find the midst of abuse in this legislation. it is breathtaking. you are the experts on house rules. i want to focus on the extraordinary and unprecedented abuse of the budget reconciliation process. reconciliation has been abused in the past which is why the

hike in the rate we pay on these reserves will cause other short-term money market rates to rise in tandem, because banks would be and lip -- and willing to live in the money market at rates below what they can earn in their secure fed accounts. eventually i would like to see the federal reserve's balance sheet shrink toward more normal levels. and i would like the bulk of our holdings to be treasury securities, as they were prior to the crisis. selling off some of our assets could play a role in the shift, but my expectation is that the fomc will reduce the size of our balance sheet only gradually over time. so the message i hope i have conveyed is that i do not think we are due for an outbreak of inflation, not in the short run as a result of the fed's economic stimulus measures, and not in the long run as a consequence of massive federal budget deficits. if the fed acts responsibly by unwinding its recession-fighting programs in a careful and deliberate manner, then we will avoid an upsurge of inflation in the near term. and as long as the fed remains an independent central bank free to

. >> tandem, yeah, buddy, right where they ought to be. pulling the cord!speaking of thrilling, march madness, upset chris wallace and others winning the entire ncaa tournament. number one overall kansas goes down because of that shot. a gutsy shot. three-pointer with plenty of time on the shot clock. northern iowa upset number one, 69-67. >> i wanted them to yell and i was yelling dents shoot that three, don't shut that three. >> another tough loss for the doocy family, 10th seed took down villa nova. 32 points to lead the gales, sorry, doocies, anyway, i guess, if you're the democrats, i'm not making a sports analsy at this point because what happened, a team that everyone said was going to win it all failed at the last second. and if i'm john boehner i'm going to trot out that sports analogy today. >> i'm sure you'll hear plenty today and we'll trot them out for you tomorrow. rick reichmuth is standing near the red river in minnesota. a lot of problems this morning. what's the latest? >> there are a lot of problems and today will be the crest of the rive

hike in the rate we pay on this reserves will cause other short-term money market rates to rise in tandeming to lend in the money market at rates below what they can earn in their secure fed accounts. eventually, i would like to see the federal reserves' balance sheet shrink toward more normal levels, and i would like the bulk of our holdings to be treasury securities, as they were prior to the crisis. selling off some of our assets could play a role in this shift. but my expectation is that the fomc will reduce the size of our balance sheet only gradually over time. so the message i hope i've conveyed is that i don't think we're due for an outbreak of inflation. not in the short run, as a result of the fed's economic stimulus measures, and not in the long run as a consequence of massive federal budget deficits. if the fed acts responsibly by unwinding its recession fighting programs in a careful and deliberate manner, then we will avoid an upsurge in inflation in the near term. and, as long as the fed remains an independent central bank free to pursue its objectives of maximum employment

it is not every government involvement implies in tandem much.t is important to make sure that that is the case, that you've structured properly. >> we had a session here on march 15 and that manipulation of government data to make it more accessible to anybody on line, but also some news organizations who do investigative reporting. the free press can do what it. not to be facetious, if you look back, we have the bill of rights. good intentions. for public interest, we had the fairness doctrine. someone say, it failed andrew broadcasters away from editorials on line. -- some would say that it failed. in the public interest, it had a detrimental effect on the free flow of information. i am not saying -- there is a reason for government and i acknowledge the beneficial aspects of government doing its own thing. but i think we have some historical aspects -- examples where government acting in what it calls public interest in the moment really thwarted the free flow of information. i think the public is -- has a marvelous opportunity to be that wat

every single decade is the democratic majority in tandem turning off this program? for four years after this year than are you going to have you're 21, 22, 23% pay cut for doctors under the medicare system? for clamming medicare savings twice on your revenue side. you're claiming 520 billion in medicare cuts, 210 billion in medicare taxes, but this is double the counting. you can't have it both ways. either the money is used for the solvency of the medicare system where it is being used for your new entitlement. that brings us to the class act, the new in title mind that you are putting into this program. five years of premiums, $70 billion that he were taking out of your brand new entitlement to do is to reduce the cost of this. so are you going to pay it back? even the democratic head of the budget committee said, quote, this is a ponzi scheme. this is the democratic chairman of the senate budget committee describe this scheme as a ponzi scheme. reeds on social security. $53 billion in new social security revenue to achieve the appearance of deficit cuts but they