today more than half a million tandem jumps in the u.s. '70s. look how well it's accepted. yeah. we'll be there some day. >> reporter: so far only al few hundred people across the country signed up to par pr take partake in one of the world's most dangerous sports. >> three, two, one -- zero! >> oh, my -- >> reporter: but if all the reviews are similar to this -- >> that's awesome! >> reporter: the risks may be well worth the reward. >> i love you, honey! >> oh, man. >> that's nice. alex is here at the table. i'm wondering if those who love and care for you know you do this? >> i tell my mom after. >> you looked like you hit the ground hard there? >> it's a very dangerous sport. the main thing, you only have a few seconds. not much reaction time. skydiving, 45 seconds if something goes wrong. here, not much. also winds can pick up. people jumping off cliffs and stuff like that can get pushed against that. >> even though doing it in tandem with somebody who's done it many, many times. >> yes. with tandem base out of twin falls, idaho, they'

." >>> a tandem ultralight flight turns to mid air emergency. >> and down they come. >> see their harrowing journey at full speed, straight down. >> a man collapses on a city street while his dog refused to move from the owner's side. >> wh happens when the ambulance starts to tyake his master away. >>> thugs decide to rob a chicken joint. when the manager decided -- >> not on my watch. >> see who's chicken now, huh. >>> plus, where do christmas trees come from? >>> and what do you do if you're stuck in the atlanta airport? >> if you're one of justin bieber's back-up dancers -- you dance! >>> nothing quite like the feeling of flight. yes, two people here in a tandem ultralight flying slow and low over the gorgeous countryside, it looks like fall time, the colors on the ground are spectacular. don't you want to be up there? >> this gives me chills, this is southeast and this is how beautiful it is. >> chills, you say? >> yeah. >> how about now, when the engine sounds goes like this. >> the roar of the engine suddenly turns to more of a -- purr. the ultralight immediately starts to lose altit

working in tandem with the military as it does in operations like this, and as it did in the taking down we see the c.i.a. collecting actionable intelligence, and then the military, the seals going in and using that intelligence to conduct the mission of this sort. i think we're going to see more and more of this as the c.i.a. becomes more militaristic in a way necessarily so because of the kind of war that we're fighting. >> cenk: you know, i don't know how hour liberals and progressives feel about it i think it's terrific. i am against drone strikes because we don't know who we're bombing half the time. but in this case you have a specific target, specific mission. you land guys on the ground. that's heroic. that's the way you do it, you go after the bad guys with as little collateral damage as possible. i may be being naive, but i hope that's the way we go more in the future. ben mankiewicz is also here lizzie ben and i we often talk about this, and we'll do that today. i have to give a spoiler alert. if you give away a clip, they get angry. there was apparently some tension with the

now, we know you guys are -- you're a tandem on the air, partners.s, do you have things in common? do you hang out together? what goes on with you? >> we hang out, phone calls, mostly late night stuff. it's -- >> i'll text jon at 1:00 a.m., i'll go, "you up?" >> and this is kind of our thing, i go, "you know i am." >> i think we're both products of isolated childhoods. >> yeah. nice to have another, like, nerd friend. >> jimmy: are you nerds? i wouldn't think of you guys as nerds. >> really? >> jimmy: not really, no. >> more like geeks? >> jimmy: i don't know, maybe so i don't have to think of myself as a nerd. i don't think of you have as nerds. >> i look at you as -- >> more of a spaz. >> jimmy: thank you. >> really? i see him as more of a guy that would take my lunch money. >> you had lunch money? >> i was living the dream, baby. he is much more literate -- the man's recall and photographic memory -- i know of no one in the world -- >> thank you. >> that is fluent in the bible and "lord of the rings." like, he can do both -- >> they're very simila

. >> orlando was a tandem master. tandem master is those guys, when you go forthtires time, they attach to you and they're the ones that actually take you for a ride. >> orlando's experience should be an asset for the group jump. but when it's time to board the plane, the packers haven't completed his chute. he rushes the packer through the process so he can take off with his buddies. it's a decision he's about to regret. norman presses record on the camcorder strapped to his helmet. >> on that jump orlando and myself were the only ones wearing a camera. it's a good thing to have video so you can tape your friends and they can tape you and you can see what you did wrong and fix any problem that you have, just to become better. >> with norman's camera recording, no one is ready for what happens next. as orlando turns his back to the door, the pack opens, the chute flies out yanking him out and snagging him on the plane's tail. he twists out of control. he strikes the side of the plane. orlando's own helmet cam also rec

the size of a small washing machine, they started mapping the gravitational field in tandem.hey think the moon has a shallow or cross than expected, the result of asteroids and comets impacts. this could provide a better understanding about how moons and other planets evolved. running low on fuel, nasa took a decision to hasten the spacecraft. alone, they would have been slowly drawn toward the moon surface and eventually crashing in. say there is a seven and 1 million chance they could have come down on one of the apollo landings. they said the spacecraft on a more direct course towards the lunar surface. the point of collision, a nun named mountain near the moon's north pole. traveling at 6000 kph, it will be destroyed on impact. the area will be in shadow meaning there will be no images of the crash. it will send an unprecedented it will send an unprecedented amount

they're going to do the tandem jump and they jump -- ah! >> everything goes according to plan. see she's got her hands out like she's supposed to have. then the parachutes deploy. everybody lands okay. >> she doesn't even have time to catch her breath before alex does something. >> since the day i met you you completely swept me off my feet and stole my heart, will you marry me? >> oh, my god, yes! >> to tell us all about this big event, we have samantha floto and her fiancÉ via skit "right this minute." where did you come up with this idea? >> i spoke to my sister. and she said, this is something that every girl dreams about and you have to make it special, you have to make it something great. and this crossed my mind and it seemed to be right. >> sam, did you even remember anything from the sky dive after he popped the question? >> absolutely. i jumped and i was so nervous. like you were saying, it was my first time, my heart was just going crazy, right. and alex popped me a giant sign that said, sam, will you marry me. and yeah, it was just an incredible moment. i remember e

carefully it is more in tandem with the assad regime so that's a tension in itself and and given the fact that the second group was not invited to the newly built established syrian national coalition ok that that would prove tension in the future so i think you know they may be after some sort of autonomy or federalism but there is no there is no consensus within the syrian opposition groups actually they are they are against it as far as i understand at the moment so so we are looking for some sort of our tense situation as in maybe as in iraq between syrian kurds and syrian arab ok edward if i could go back to you it looks like the turks have really shattered selves in the foot here i mean because kurds are part of the opposition in syria as well. it peter you ask a very interesting question and it could because that's really the party here with the most to lose you spoke about the kurds winning so we should keep in mind the party here we have. turkey. you're right to highlight this. turkey obviously looks at the kurdish problem with a great deal of anxiety and one could even ask

has said there are also deaths in american prisons why isn't that being being brought up and going tandem obeyed he angrily pointed out haven't been closed in eight years and he cited that as a grievous example of breaches of human rights by america. russia also protests against the case of victor boot a businessman considered by russia considered by america a dangerous arms dealer dubbed the merchant of death he received a twenty five year prison sentence after being extradited to the u.s. russia maintains they consider he was wrongfully imprisoned. certainly some already calling this an act of retaliation you've given our service some of the issues here any others that you can cover for us exactly what is russia responding to here. yes it is all goes back to the case of surrogate magnitsky who died in suspicious circumstances many human rights groups and others say in two thousand and nine to move putin himself has called the case a tragedy a lot of the u.s. lawmakers who signed this bill think it's a lot more than that some people say that he is was allegedly. denied medical care in pr

. >> tandem. >> honey boubou. >> the shuttle endeavor will sit down the streets.et us take a look at the man, general david petraeus. >> and despair in syria, and this has gone on for over 20 months. >> the red line and warnings. >> the projection is that barack obama will be reelected president >> terror at an elementary school in connecticut. >> 20 children dead, there are six adults also dead. >> so, our heart goes out to the victims' families. as it says in scripture. to bind up their wounds. (music) (music) >> developing news out of oakland there are two teenagers. a 15 year-old girl is dead and a 14 year- old boy is hurt. spirits. >> of he is believed to be carrying a handgun and they are just leaving the scene. this line creek crossing apartment complex. lyon way is where the shooting happened. this group was family, friends and he opened fire on the family and friends. he struck a 15 year old girl she is dead on the scene. hospital with non-life threatening injuries that will live through this. the police department says that these are not known if there i

we did this in tandem with the work that was done with the accuracy study and got some good news there -- 95% of the consumers that disputed information on the credit reports and then saw the results indicated they were satisfied with those results. automation really is not a problem. we have some fundamental problems for consumers with automation is a web at-based system that wires together. law requires that we resolve a dispute in 30 days, these systems allow us to allow the -- to resolve the dispute in 14 days. cfpb indicate roughly 44% of the time, a communication is sent through the mail. however, 85% of the time, it is a standardized form or standard letter and 10%, it is identity theft report and 2%, it is more than that. the perception has been that consumers are spending big stacks of validating data but we see consumers satisfied at 95% and a system that is working today even though it is automated. one of the biggest challenges for re-vesta gay and his credit repair. 43% of the mail we receive comes from fraudulent credit activity. it clogs the system and interferes with th

and significantly the median wage has declined in tandem., over the last 30 years most workers have seen no increase in their wages at all. well 30 years ago marked the major beginning of the decline of unionization in america. since the year 2000, the median wage is now 8% below adjusted for inflation what it was then and the attack on labor unions continues. right now, in contrast to the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s when more than a third were labor unions, right now fewer than 7% of workers are unionized. yet apparently that's still too much for the radical right for the billionaires, for the koch brothers, for sheldon adelson and others who have been fighting unions for years. they now in the heartland in michigan with republican majority in a lame duck session of the michigan legislature they are pushing through anti-union so-called right-to-work legislation. >> eliot: look we certainly don't want to appear as though we're ignoring the other multitude of factors that relate here. technology globalization. as you point out as the percent

we've seen a lot of salt trucks, mostly on the thoroughfares, plows are working in tandem to be as efficient as possible but some residents reporting driving at a snail's pace. >> it's slippery. you have to drive slow because you see accidents everywhere. >> the main roads were ice, averaging 15, 20 miles an hour. >> already 600 flights have been canceled today. 1600 canceled yet. as far as delays, at newark, laguardia, jfk, all 90-minute delay or less. >> bethank you. >>> we by the way will have a lot more on the winter storm and the problems it's causing. maria looks at the forecast and what is in store for travelers across the country. >>> after more than a month in the hospital, doctors move former president george h.w. bush to intensive care. the latest on his condition and the word from his family is next. [ lisa ] my name's lisa, and chantix helped me quit. i honestly loved smoking, and i honestly didn't think i would ever quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. it put me at ease that you could smoke on

. >> reporter: we have seen salt trucks on the may thoroughfares and salt trucks working in tandem. >> i've lost count of the number of cars in the ditch. a jackknifed tractor-trailer, a horse trailer turned over. so people are not really driving slow enough for the conditions. >> reporter: already more than 600 flights have been canceled today. 1600 flights canceled yesterday and delays in new york, laguardia and jfk and newark, new jersey under delays of 90 minutes or less. iana know you wanted me to make a snowball for you. this is a pretty hard one already made for me. i'm diagnose. >> i saw your snowball earlier. you can do better than that next time. >> just fell apart before the conditions got a little bit nastier. it's a winter wonderland. a ski resort in vermont reports 20 inches of snow to kids who got skis are enjoying that. >> that's a great point. ski resorts had a hard year last year. thank you very much. >>> now arkansas, where up to 140,000 people are without power and could be for some time. y vet with with the arkansas department of emergency management arkansas got

sierra leone in the 18 30s was wracked by warfare primarily because this group called the fly in tandem with its banished slave traders in this region had gone into the interior making war and capturing people to bring them back to the coast to sell. to be transported to places like cuba and brazil especially. so, understanding that these people were warriors helps you to see why they might have been successful in carrying off this rebellion and it actually proves to be a very important fact. this is the image of the tempeh warrior ,-com,-com ma the same period. a warrior with poison arrows. i show you this image because the band around his neck has what's called a -- bag that they frequently wore that contained spiritually charged substances that would protect the warrior in battle. and just to give you an example of how this operated, one eyewitness said that he walked into court one day with a box on a ribbon. that person had no idea. he didn't know that this was a protective power of the warrior. but that is the way it played out. now for the mendi, the weapon of choice was not the

we have seen a lot of plows going in tandem trying to work the roadways.icially possible but salt trucks have been out and about but some folks in upstate new york are used to lake effect snow but this first storm of the season, off-guard. >> you can never be prepared for this kind of stuff i don't care how long you live here, you can never be prepared for this kind of stuff. it is cold. it has got to get done. >> roadways are absolutely nasty in some places. listen to what some commuters are saying. >> a little bit slippery. you have to drive slow because you see accidents everywhere. >> the main roads were eyes. everyone was averaging 15, 20 miles an hour. >> more than 500 flights have been canceled, 1600 flights canceled yesterday. as far as airports go there running on a two hour delay at la guardia. liz: stay warm. lori: how will this affect retail sales which are coming off of the worst holiday season for years? joining me with some answers, evan gold, analytic senior vice president of client services. nice to see you. what is your take on retail spe

was an effort, an effort planned over the last couple of years, where the development partners in tandem with the government, the central government, would deliver resources to the north. again, with the government in the lead and with donors supporting. unfortunately, the pace of that was too slow. and not very effective. another point moving forward i think is that we do need to concentrate on decentralization. and making connections between government, delivery of services and the individual at the community level. >> to build further on the comments about the resource base within mali, clearly there are difficult choices for the government there involved between guns versus better types of decisions and the resources for the maliian armed forces was insufficient, relatively speaking to the building threat that they now face vis-a-vis aqim. i think in terms of the u.s. support to the maliian military, we provide training and equipment for many years now but in relatively modest quantities and i don't think that level of resources -- resourcing was commensurate with the threat either.

i find incredibly persuasive when it is used in tandem with the same-day cloture.they say that i want to block the amendment or this amendment due to the partisan ploy and it is symbolic and designed to be part of the political ploy. this is what he also says about filibusters and cloture methods. but you're basically done two things. you have truncated debate and excluded the minorities to dissipate in the process. and the 110th congress, 56% of all bills that had a same-day cloture motion -- in the 98% -- 98%. we are in the 112th congress, so we are still going, but it's like that. there is new development that the senate majority leader is now using. one is taking a minority to the exclusion of other minorities. but the minority has now had a chance to offer the amendment -- not always 1 foot on the priority list, the ones that offer anyway and they are complaining against voting against cloture because i don't get amendments. we have seen a number of times. lastly it is the thing that colin walker motion. in the senate committee only part of the majority leader

government does and of course the government will say it's the banks, both of them have to work this tandem to get credit to businesses. we don't have the same kind of culture in our banks here in the uk as they do in germany. local saving banks which actually see part of their purpose ensuring those access to credits for those small businesses. they don't think they're operating quite the same way here in the uk. for example, local bank managers relationship managers are not given the sap kind of discretion to make lending decisions in respect to businesses in their community that they know that they see every day. so we have to change the culture in our banks. but there is also a market failure in terms of having a financial services sector of small to medium sized businesses and that's why p opposition is arguing strongly for british investment bank. we're alone in not having a state backed investment institution to plug that market failure. and i think the officer of budget responsibility, our independent fiscal council here, has made clear part of what is holding back growth is this cr

i do think the that our movement has got to be done in parallel, in tandem with international developments, international movements. you know, we've seen what happened at copenhagen in the time of justice coming together from all over the world. we see what cannot seen what can have been and paul hoch and read a book, blessed unrest in which he just lists goes on about all the different protests, injustice, and sustainable develop movements around the world. and it's extraordinary. we ought to be part of that and learning from it. in part because so many of the problems we have to deal with our international problems with cooperation. the institute went to rio with a proposal that called a widening circle to try to bring more coherence and cohesion in this international movement. i wish them while with that. consumerism is very different than consumption. consumers then associate that more staff is going to bring more meaning and real happiness into our lives beyond meeting i reeled and it is a disease that we have a bad case says. i guess it was my friend, john took rather pointed to this

plows have been working in tandem along the highways to work as efficiently as possible.ennsylvania but still coming down in new york and the new england states. governor andrew cuomo setup an emergency operations center and warned power companies to really be on their toes especially following the criticism they receive for their slow response following superstorm sandy. we had to change our plans last night and stay here ritter and traveling north because the road conditions deteriorated so quickly. we still have several inches on the ground. i spoke with the council president who says she is happy the conditions are not any worse and this wasn't a major blizzard for them. >> it is a snow that hasn't been a difficult one. last year we had a budget surplus. as long as a pretty safe, we like winter sports. >> also able to stockpile assault from last your using that to solve the roadways here this year. as far as travel goes for holiday folks over the river and through the woods trying to make it home there were 1600 flight cancellations yesterday and now we are reporting

here's a little from the comments on sunday night the matter tandems do not enhance our safety.y exacerbate our flaws. they beat us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it. in coming days, javon pilcher's actions and attention to football will be analyzed. who knows, but here is what i believe. if joe-pa melcher didn't possess a gun, he and senator perkins would be alive today. you will. megyn: he went on the air to say that he really had clarification of what he said. >> here is what i said. people should be able to own guns for their own protection. those who are hunters. but there there is a proliferation of guns in this country, and the access to guns is too easy in some cases. i don't see any reason why a citizen should be able to arm himself as they can in some states and in some cases, arm themselves in ways that only the police or the military should be able to. they have a virtual militia, purchased at gun shows or why do you need to semi automatic weapon? is either forces that have semi automatic weapon? 's one joining me now is kirsten powers. and also ch

it is planning for a military intervention in tandem with the african union's work for the resolution of the crises in malli. department of defense through u.s. africa command is activity supports the planning effort through the provision of planning expertise. the broad strategic concept is sound. more specific planning is under way to address the myriad operational details. the u.s. government exploring options for supporting countries for the mission this u could include the provision of training and equipment to countries that would contribute forces to deploy to the military force and advisory support. i'll stop for now and look forward to your questions. thank you. >> thank you very much. i'm gradeful to the panel and for the opportunity to explore further this complex and very challenging situation. if i might first just on the question of sort of sequencing. all three of you have spoke to the interrelated and complex challenges on the path towards restoring democracy dealing with humanitarian issues. addressing historic grievances in the north and resolving security concerns i

we've seen a little bit of a switch in this in tandem with the notion that europe is becoming a littleit more solid, as well. but i'm just wondering whether when we're going to see a big shift in thought heading stateside. >> yeah, i wouldn't expect a big shift anytime soon. but, again, you know, not my area of expertise. >> jonathan, real quick when we start to look at a timeline going into this weekend, too too, we know we're going to have that 3:00 p.m. event down on capitol hill. what would you expect out of that today? if not, what should we expect this weekend? >> this is a show. if these guys want to get together and talk, they do it by phone. they do it through their aides. they would cut a deal that way. i think this is an opportunity for the president to show these making an effort for the congressional leaders to show that they're making an effort. but we've already heard from speaker john boehner going into the meeting that he's going to reiterate what he's been saying all along, which is that it's the senate's turn to act. i don't expect to hear much different from the sen

we need to go after both of these issues and we need to do them in tandem.imagine they'll get separated but for me they go hand in hand and we have to do both. >> congressman ron barber joining us. nice to talk to you, sir, nice to see you. appreciate your time this morning. >> thank you very much. >> you bet. >>> still ahead on "starting point" students in newtown are going back to school this morning. we'll tell you how the community is preparing for that coming up next in a live report. we leave you with what was a really nice tribute that we saw from the judges and the contestants of "the voice" remembering the victims of this massacre at sandy hook elementary. ♪ hallelujah ♪ i did my best, and it wasn't much ♪ ♪ i couldn't feel so i tried to touch ♪ ♪ i told the truth, i didn't have to fool you ♪ it's like being nestled in an eight-way, adjustable, heated and ventilated seat surrounded by a 500-watt sound system while floating on a suspension made of billowy clouds. or you could just hand them your keys. ♪ ♪ sfx- "sounds of african drum and flute" look

we've seen plows like this one going by, and they've been working in tandem to work as expeditiouslyssible. harris: well, and travel has been a nightmare for so many people, anna. >> reporter: right. one jet liner actually got stuck on the tarmac in pittsburgh, and then a southwest -- i believe we have some video of this -- flipped off the runway somehow in long island and got covered in mud. fortunately, we're told nobody was injured in that, laguardia's airport, also newark airport operating on a one-hour delay. 1600 flights were canceled yesterday and about 500 so far today. harris: anna, live for us in pennsylvania, thank you. jon: well, president obama is heading back to the cold, just back from his family vacation in hawaii to deal with the fiscal cliff issues. air force one touched down a short while ago at andrews air force base in maryland. we're learning now the president has resumed talking with congressional leaders about trying to solve this crisis that lies just a few days ahead. molly henneberg keeping an eye on that live from the white house. molly? >> reporter: hi, j

they work in tandem.t i am proudest of that i got to chair the most diversified parliamentary body ever assembled by a nation state in the history of the world. i call it not the democratic caucus but america as caucus. i'm very proud of that and the things that we were able to accomplish. it's always good to see a new come in, the caucus is where you hold a leadership responsible for what their agenda and goals are throughout the year. xavier and joe i think will do a very good job. host: representative john larson leaving the chairmanship of the democratic caucus but not leaving congress. getting ready to start his eighth term in representing connecticut's first district. if thanks for your time. you're welcome. host: we will be looking at social security, next. stephen ohlemacher will join us, followed by roundtable discussion. first news update from c-span radio. >> its data clock 33 eastern. defense secretary leon panetta is in afghanistan today. in remarks to about 100 u.s. service members inside an

congressional aides say the best chance for the full package to pass is if it moves in tandem with a potential agreement to avert the fiscal cliff. the strategy in the house is if they try to move this bill at the same time they move the fiscal cliff bill, it has a better chance of passing them by itself? guest: the house is back to deal with the fiscal cliff bill. the hope to supporters of the sandy supplemental is the house would do something on the fiscal cliff package and somehow they could use that as an opportunity to get the sandy bill through. the chance for the fall supplemental to be passed before the end of the year, it will either be a smaller amount or they will not touch it at all. the senate will have to start over next year. host: raymond hernandez rights that leaders from the hurricane- battered region and urged the house to act. he says states need an infusion of aid to continue cleanup and rebuilding efforts. it sounds like an unusual move. all of these governors are working together as opposed to saying separately "this is what i need." guest: you have a lot of th

congressional aides say the best chance for the full package to pass is if it moves in tandem with a potential agreement to avert the fiscal cliff. the strategy in the house is if they try to move this bill at the same time they move the fiscal cliff bill, it has a better chance of passing them by itself? guest: the house is back to deal with the fiscal cliff bill. the hope to supporters of the sandy supplemental is the house would do something on the fiscal cliff package and somehow they could use that as an opportunity to get the sandy bill through. the chance for the full supplemental to be passed before the end of the year, it will either be a smaller amount or they will not touch it at all. the senate will have to start over next year. host: raymond hernandez i need." >> they joined -- an unusual move they are working together as opposed to saying separately i am in new york, this is what i need, new jersey and connecticut are on their own. they have to make their own appeal. guest: you have a lot of the personalities representing the victims of sandy. they have pulled together

crediting the fact that the president's coming back early but certainly stocks aren't triding in tandemt? >> you know, it gets under my skin a little. what we see in d.c. on both sides of the aisle, the president taking a vacation. if only our ee liblgted officials saw the kind of work ethic that everyday americans show, then maybe we wouldn't be trying to settle for some, i don't know, crazy half deal that will get us into the new year. maybe we can have a real deal that was almost priced in. now you see that risk coming back out because traders aren't quite sure what to do. we're kind of in a quandary. the market didn't catch 1422 like it was supposed to. the next catch point is 1415 for the s&p. there's not that much volume and you have a lot of traders with question marks on their head. >> yeah. talk about the most watched travel schedule. we know the president will arrive in the morning. we know house members say we could call you back with 48 hours' notice but there's been no contact between the president and the speaker as far as we can tell. >> no. >> is that really what everybo

with the support of other partners we're planning for a military intervention in northern mali in tandem african unions were caught country inns of strategic concept for the resolution of the crisis in mali. department of defense through u.s. africa command is actively supporting the military planning effort through the provision of planning expertise. the broad strategic concept for that deployment is sound. more specific planning is underway to address the myriad of operation details. the u.s. government is exploring options for supporting the countries that contribute forces to the equal loss mission and this could include the training and equipment to the countries that would contribute forces to deploy as far as the international military force. and additional planning and advisory support. i will look forward to your questions. thank you. >> thank you deputy secretary to read and grateful to the panel and for the opportunity to explore further this complex and very challenging situation. if i might first on the question just sort of sequencing all three of you have spoken to the in

and these guys pretty much have traded in tandem, simon, with the exception of the last three months, last year. mercedes up 18%. all of them said the same thing, play these guys off of each other if you're in the market for a luxury car. they'll make a deal. you'll be surprised what they'll do. they'll sit there and say, we'll not go $3,400 off, they will go above that. >> phil lebeau talking cars today. what would happen to the mortgage interest deduction in your state if in fact we go over the fiscal cliff? the exclusive numbers on that after the break. [ male announcer ] it's that time of year again. time for citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the difference. just use your citi card and register your purchase online. have a super sparkly day! ok. [ male announcer ] now all you need is a magic carriage. citi price rewind. start saving at citi.com/pricerewind. >>> i wanted to updat

i find it incredibly persuasive used in tandem with the cloture vote. says i fill the tree because i want to block that amendment because these amendments are just partisan employees, merely symbolic, scoring points, and this is not real deliberation. that's what he says about filibusters and closure motions. when you take same-day cloture motions, and combine them with filling the free -- tree, there's two things, you excluded the process, and in the 110th congress, 56% of the all of the bills that had a same day cloture motion, the tree was filled. in the 111th, 98% of all of the bills, the tree was filled. 98%. in the 112th, i mean, we are not done, still going, but it's likely to exceed that. lastly, i think i'd like to say there's new developments in agenda control that the senate ma majority leader is now using in addition to same-day cloture in killing the tree. one is picking minority amendments that they filed to the exclusion of other minority amendments, and the making of public argument that minorities had a chance to offer amendments, not j

the market is expected to move in tandem with any headlines across from washington.we don't have the deal, not really a problem for the markets. of course, that could change as we head toward the close and the uncertainty builds. quick check of the european boards today. most of them were closed. those who did trade, i should say, were only traded a half day. the session there was mixed. the concerns over there continue to be will the u.s. go over the fiscal cliff. that kept pressure on some of the indices there. we're keeping watch on the bank stocks right now. we've seen a dourn-around in those there. futures popped earlier half an hour before the open. they have opened broadly to the down side in today's session. you guys were talking about it earlier, another positive reading on the pmi out of china. that seems to be lending some support to the material stocks in today's session, as you take a look at the shanghai composite, which is closing at a six-month high, or closed the new year at a six-month high, well off the lows we saw earlier in the day. gold stocks,

important it was to do things to empower people on the executive side and how they could work in tandem. and i know he took from that experience the fact there are no sacred cows. when you're in that position in a big city and you're doing things you have to do, you're not always taking the most popular stance but you're taking stuff stances against different groups. and he had no sacred cows and he was willing to speak up when necessary. and i think people in this chamber know as well that when he took the floor then, just like he takes the floor now, you want to be the person on the -- you don't want to be the person on the other side of that debating. but even in the incident of a noisy house, something that is similar to both branches, when he would get up everyone would get quiet. they wanted to listen. they were really interested in the intellectual and the humorous sides of the debate that they were about to see. during that time as well we would have our votes up on the board. and i can tell you this. at a time when -- in the distinct minority -- when you were in the distinct mi

during the european crisis, when we saw so many of the asset classes as well as sectors is move in tandemhow do you protect yourself against that longer term? >> well, it's tough. i manage a long/short strategy. and when you have a long/short strategy, of course, what it depends on are correlations, and you love low correlations. the way to look at it now is to look for what i call event risk. i think next year is going to be, if you want to make the market work for you, and you are in a long/short strategy, for instance, the shorts have to be uncorrelated. and the way you have to do that now, i think, is to look at event risk. high event risk situations. that factors into also a scenario of what i would call a sideways market. so i'm thinking on topline revenues, they're going to be pretty flat for the year coming, but you will still be able to find spin-offs, companies that might still pay special dividends and still announce buybacks. you have to find the activist investor movement as one that will try to find the stocks that are uncorrelated to just the general market movement. >> pet

and so, there was an effort planned over the last couple of years where the development partners in tandem with the government, the central government would deliver resources to the north again with a government out in the lead and with the donors supporting. unfortunately, the pace of that was too slow and not very effective. another point moving forward i think is that we do need to concentrate on decentralization and making a connection between the government services and the individual what the community level. >> to build further on the comments about the resource base within the mali clearly there are difficult choices for the government there that are involved in the guns versus butter types of decisions, and every sourcing for the armed forces was insufficient relatively speaking to dhaka building a threat that they now face in aqim. i think in support to the military, the provided training and equipping for both many years now, but in a relatively modest quantities, and i don't think that level of resources and that is commensurate with the threat peter thinks the other lesson lea