we went to texas city to investigate further.tour of the refinery, but they declined our request for an interview. they referred us to their own report on the explosion, which concluded... but when we spoke to the chief government official who has been investigating the explosion, she told us that's not true. >> the problems that existed at bp texas city were neither momentary nor superficial. they ran deep through that operation of a risk denial and a risk blindness that was not being addressed anywhere in the organization. carolyn merritt, appointed by president bush to chair of the u.s. chemical safety board, has led an 18-month investigation into what happened at texas city. >> these things do not have to happen. they are preventable. they are predictable, and people do not have to die because they're earning a living. >> you think this accident could have been easily prevented? >> absolutely. >> merritt's investigators found problems at texas city just about everywhere they looked: antiquated equipment, corroded pipes about

. >> like many big city, dallas has a texas sized problem. the city is charging a fee to drive on a less-crowded road. >> this is the second-most congested highway in texas. 270,000 use the 13-mile stretch. a 5-year 2.7 billion project is underway to relieve congestion. how, by allowing driver to pay more to drive. how does it work. next to the 3 highway lanes there are toll lanes. between noon and three on tuesday traffic was moderate. the price $0.35 to drive here. at five, during rush hour it cost $0.45. by 6:30 the highway is more congestive. the cost in the toll lane $0.65. a cost benefit on the time it saves us versus what it's going to cost. it's about making sure that traffic moves - there's no congestion, economic development grows. >> john marks is a salesman on the road constantly and thinks the new toll lanes are great. >> i have experienced driving in a situation like that in seattle. it seemed to work well to control the traffic. >> depending on where i needed to be, i'd take advantage of it. i think the concept is good. >> criti

undamentals considering our future is what i city, thatthe great is something i need to take care of. >> given that same-sex marriage is not yet allowed in texas -- >> i thought your name was over. -- ipad q&a was over. over.hought q&a was [laughter] inthere was a referendum 2001. it added to our charter provision at the city could not offer domestic partner benefits was that the reason i am able to recognize spousal benefits is the language in the charter is specific. unknownte it at a time anticipated that there would ever be legal marriage for same- sex couples. the language says they can only offer help and other benefits to legal spouses. we are recognizing spouses. not a lot of them, but we will see more. we are operating in a state with its own doma. the defense of marriage act review the recognition of same- sex marriage in texas or the granting of same-sex marriage in texas. until the supreme court sorts this out, we will nibble around the edges on it. domestic -- i am in a 23 year domestic partnership. i've been looking forward toward the opportunity in the state of texas to mirror. i might get tired of waiting. i want to be young en

the snow kept falling and falling, but in the big city texas didn't stick so you were -- big city, didn'tç point. did it snow? yes, did it stick? no. >> thank you, shepard. most of the forecasters got it right in general we were talking about one to four inches. some areas getting higher totals, like parts of maryland, six inches for you.ç virginia, five inches. delware, three inches, and new jersey, there's your!j jackpot, 4.3 inches. so, not a big, big storm system, but it came at the rush hour and a lot of things were delayed and schools were cancelled, andç ks had a snow day. here's the radar. s a you said it is exiting the coast very quickly. light snow for providence, rhode island. new york, just cloudy skies. philadelphia, cloudy skies for you as well. airport delays,ç yes, still consistent here in boston, la guardia, jfk, newark, and philadelphia. the other big story is the extreme cold. shepard mention mentionedç the coldest temperatures this time of the year. these are the lows tonight. that's not wind chill. so, in the minus teens, it is frigid. people are urged to stay ind

texas. >> i'm going to push back on one thing. the part about the race. if it was a wealthy black kid, they may come up with the same defense. >> there's corruption in courts in all city. in texas, new jersey, in all areas. there's corruption in atlantic city. people say that too. the inverse of your point. we've got to go. >> there should be hanging. >>> the latest development of the woosfication in sports. what's next, pillow fights? that's next. baseball games of all time. remember when pete rose flatten flattened posse. they plan to ban collisions at home plate in hopes to prevent injuries. you played this game a long time. how are they going to call that? >> it's absolutely insane. it's the wussification. i played short stop. a guy sliding into second base high and hard. i've got cleat marks in my leg still to this day. what's the difference between that and somebody getting to home plate? it's absolutely ridiculous. you can't throw to the guy anymore? >> this is just can -- eric is exactly right. i can't believe. this is the whole idea. look where catchers are standing. the whole idea is block the base. of course you've got to run over him. >> pete rose said loo

city. we will see the cold air not just pay stay put but expand through parts of texas, arkansas up into ohioh cold temperatures. highs only in the 20's. in louisville, little rock and also the city of dallas by this saturday and a dangerous situation also setting up with some of the cold air at the surface. we have warmer temperatures over riding that cold air at the surface. we will be seeing icing out here from texas including the city of dallas all of the way up to ohio with anywhere between a quarter of an inch to about three quarters of an inch, heather and ainsley. that means power outages will be possible including arkansas, missouri and slippery roadways. it will be a huge concern with possible car accidents as well. send it over to you. >> thank you, maria. >> other stories, the man accused in last month's shooting at lax is being denied bail at his first court appearance. the judge saying he is a flight risk and danger to the community. he is charged with killing tsa officer hernandez and ciancia committed an act of violence. kr kiancia has bruises and scars on his face and what ap

from nineteen eighty five the orange on his face the new q khan's in the texas to the city and the region. the combined u s was registered and delinquent tax revenues. he was answering can email me if you guys can redeem him a call from a depended on him and that was the only reason why he even has it. this is her late husband does the mayor of the town. lucas was registered. i was approached by a top managers of the company lucrative offer the state offered to reach an agreement on a cold and optimization of taxes. next the production reached about seventy million tonnes of oil easy and they said it was too n tonnes to be more than enough that the present pope refused to strike a deal. moreover he went on hunger strike demanding an investigation into its landing gear collapsed a scheme involved in many regional officials several days later he was found murdered the investigation found his killing was ordered by the co owner of the eucharist. but many don't agree with them pointing. they believe that because merger was in schenectady to chris and the lady tax fraud scheme that cost to him

plus public calls to curb fracking in texas get the attention of dallas city county. which is put in place the furthest lol we're strict in the industry this and the rest of the world's top headlines coming your way just among. the. problem it was a problem very hard to take a look at once again long here the club has never had sex with me there's no. telling. what's. going to. play. one of the problems. of the. joining us are international research the unlikely pairing of saudi arabia and israel are reportedly teaming up in response to washington's middle east policies representatives from the country's intelligence services apparently met for talks in jerusalem they are united in their disdain for america's reversal on intervention in syria that of course followed by the agreement over an historic nuclear deal with iran let's get deeper into this now here's a guy in a chicken. the two countries saudi arabia and israel found themselves in one but in their frustration over washington israel and saudi arabia hate the nuclear deal that the u. was now the world power str

city. i want to take you further south. parts of florida, texasty of new orleans and into parts of arizona, southern california. you will be seeing temperatures already on the warm side. here is the extended forecast for atlanta, georgia. today you are expecting highs only in the 50's. look at this warm-up over the next few days by this weekend. you could be looking at record high temperatures in the 70s. across the northeast we could be seeing highs in the 60s. the quick moving storm produced 9 inches of snow in maine. we are expecting snow in parts of the rockies generally not too bad 3-6 inches expected out here. we will keep an eye on the storm. back over to you. >>> the time is now 41 minutes past the top of the hour. before you pack your suitcase for the christmas vacation surprising new information about what baggage handlers are doing with your luggage. >> pop star justin bieber making a big announcement that is unbebeibable. >> join us for an all american special on the fox news channel. ♪ before y book it and i got great deal without bid

plus public coals to curb fracking in texas getting the attention of a dallas city council which is now put in place the first law were strict in the industry this on the rest of the world's top headlines just around the corner. and this is the magic of the automobile to connote. freedom particularly in american pop culture the automobile has always been the icon of freedom i see that ford motor company is going to market a mustang for the globe so that they can export america's idea of the open road and freedom to places like china where the air pollution is so thick it's wafting into the lobbies of buildings and people are falling dropping like flies and because of the mustang because of ford motor company environmental full cost proponent and propagator. right. first rate. and i think that you're. on a reporter's. instrument. to be in the. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international today the kaiser report soon for now though the unlikely pairing of saudi arabia and israel reportedly teaming up this in response to washington's middle east policies by representatives from the cou

plus public calls to fracking in texas getting the attention of the dallas city council which is. put in place. restricting the industry this is more the world's top headlines coming up after the break. pleasure to have you with us here today. when you talk about working with the society of one. in charge of trying. to make sure that the people. the governments this is not a. right or left it's an issue about the mentalities more extremist. so what we need these hate speech. all. this excessive. even. lots of news. international thanks for joining us the unlikely pairing of saudi arabia and israel reportedly teaming up in response to washington's middle east policies representatives from the country's intelligence services apparently met for talks in jerusalem now they are united in their disdain for america's reversal on the intervention in syria followed by the agreement of historic nuclear deal with iran. as a look. the two countries saudi arabia and israel found themselves in one boat in their frustration over washington israel and saudi arabia hate the nuclear deal that the u

areas developing it amarillo texas number of cities one hundred cities have already made inquiries to do the cleveland so called the cleveland model of worker co-ops supported by the purchasing of hospitals and universities so it's beginning to spread all over the country now and i think you're going to see more of it again young people could really make it happen at universities if they begin putting the pressure on and telling them you know this is being done lots of places why don't we get on the bandwagon start doing it or i think i think the first step is that you know people are just so overwhelmed where do they even go how do they meet up with people to start these referendum to start these movement the pressure what's your recommendation first thing resources tools we have about a minute left ok well the book what then must we do is filled with these kinds of examples that's why we wrote a website what then can i do that's just ten list of things that kean and i put together another web site it's called w did about the community dash well but the dashi in that org and you'll f

texas. >> i'm going to push back on one thing. the part about the race. if it was a wealthy black kid, they may come up with the same defense. >> there's corruption in courts in all cities, new jersey, in all areas. there's corruption in atlantic city. i'm sure people would say that too. the inverse of your point. we've got to go. >> there should be hanging. >> coming up -- the latest development of the wussification in sports. baseball is the latest victim. what's next, pillow fights? touch football in the nfl? that discussion, moments away. a test test sleep train's interest-free for 3 event is ending soon! get 3 years interest-free financing on beautyrest black, stearns & foster, serta icomfort, even tempur-pedic. plus, get free delivery, free set-up, and free removal of your old mattress, and sleep train's 100-day low price guarantee. but hurry, sleep train's interest-free for 3 event is ending soon! superior service, best selection, lowest price, guaranteed! ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> it was one of the greatest baseball games of all time. remember when reds slugger pete flattened the pos any 1970? hold on to that memory, you won't s

>> in toronto, mayor rob ford danced along with other city council members to celebrate an agreement to promote a live music along with austin, texasin city council ends their meetings with music, toronto did the same. >>> morgan stewart who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy was honorary sheriff for a day in georgia. hundreds turned out to participate and even nba great shaquille o'neal made a special appearance much to morgan's delig delight. >>> the winner of the voice is tessmine chin. >> she was the big winner on nbc's blockbuster "the voice," along with winning the crown for herself and adam levine, she'll receive $100,000 and a record deal. >>> now here is a first look at business. we turn to cnbc. >> good morning. here's our news that we're watching. a super sized talent agency is in the works. reports say william morris has a deal with merge with img for $2.3 billion. img represents celebrities such as justin timber lake and taylor swift. >>> retailers are rolling out the red carpet to help the last minute shoppers. there are extended hours. best buy is using at which timer to promote deals and several stores embraced to

gregg: the swine flu death toll is rising in the houston, texas area. the city'sment of health saying a teenager has died from the heighth heighth virus yesterday did, h 1 n 1 virus. reporting the death toll to 13. according to centers for disease control, texasings alabama, new york are hotbeds for the virus. doctors say vaccination is the best defense. jamie: fox extreme weather alert, this has been a really tough week. tens of thousands from michigan to maine are still in the dark heading into a second weekend dealing dealing with frigid temperatures after an ice storm downed trees and powers lines, even snapping utility poles. there are 27 deaths blamed on that storm. meteorologist maria molina tracking all of this live in the fox extreme weather center. will they get a break after the weekend, maria? >> i hope that power is earned to so many people in the upper great lakes and also into new england as we head into this weekend we could look at another round of significant snowfall for some areas. parts of the upper great lakes could pick up over six inches of

some of the strongest areas are oklahoma city, denver, palo alto, california and austin, texas. it's worth noting that some of the cities that fully recovered escaped the boom/bust cycle in the first place. nationally prices are 16.3% below the peak of the last decade, and there are major variations by city. values are 25% lower than their previous highs in roughly 1500 u.s. cities. we'll get another snapshot of home prices tomorrow with the release of the case schilling home price index. pending home sales across the nation were essentially flat for the month of december. want national association of realtors says the pending sales index which tracks the number of contracts signed and not closed rose 0.2% from october, and the index is down 1.6% from november 2012 as buyers adjust to rising prices in some areas and higher mortgage rates. >>> flight delays, cancellations, long lines, hours on the tarmac. it's part of the added price we pay for airline travel these days, but what if you could capitalize on the bad experience? just ahead we will share the secrets from a travel nigh

texas 30-7. at the music city bowl, mississippi makes it ten wins in the last 11 bowls. georgia tech makes it eight losses in the last nine bowls, losing 25-17. in the armed forces bowl, keenan reynolds with 31 rushing tds joins the 30 touchdown qb rushing club. congratulations. middle tennessee state loses a chippy game there 24-6. four more nfl coaches were fired on monday. washington's mike shanahan, tampa bay's greg schiano, minnesota's leslie fraser and detroit's jim schwartz. here's one guy who has a new job, tim tebow. he joins espn as a college football analyst. he debuts january 6th on pregame coverage of the bcs national championship game. finally got a job there. happy 29th birthday, lebron james. his gift, 26 points for his 525th time in a row scoring double digits. james came back from an injury to lead a fourth quarter comeback 97-94 over the denver nuggets. >>> so this utah reporter keeps on getting higher in this because he's losing consciousness during a live interview. hang on a second. she recovers and nonchalantly finishes that interview. she says on

texas 30-7. >>> at music city bowl, mississippi makes it ten wins in the last eleven bowls. georgia tech makes it eight losses in the last nine, losing 25-17. >>> in the armed forces bowl, navy's keenan reynolds, 31 rushing tds for the season. he joins the 30-touchdown qb rushing club. middle tennessee state loses a chippy game 24-6. >>> four more nfl coaches fired on monday. washington's mike shanahan, tampa bay's greg schiano, minnesota's leslie frasier and detroit's jim schwartz. that now leaves six job openings out of 32 teams. >>> and here's one guy who has a new job, tim tebow. the former nfl quarterback joins espn as college football analyst. tebow's multiyear commitment debuts january 6th, and pregame coverage of the bcs national championship game. he's got a job. >>> happy 29th birthday to lebron james. and his special day gift, 26 points, or his 525th time in a row scoring double digits. james back from an injury leads miami over denver 97-94. >>> utah reporter brooke graham, her voice keeps getting higher, and then -- oh, veronica, she loses consciousness during t

. >>> toronto mayor rob ford dancing along with other city council members to celebrate an agreement to promote live music along with austin, texas. i don't know what that move is. but since the austin city council end their meetings with music, toronto, they did the same. little bit of a jig? what do you think? >>> now for business. we turn to cnbc's seema mody. hi, seema. >> hi, richard. img represents celebs such as justin timberlake. rolling out the red carpet to lure those last-minute holiday shoppers. target, nordstrom has extended hours and free shipping wednesday with guaranteed delivery by christmas. >>> anxiously awaiting the fed's decision this afternoon, central bank may cut back its stimulus programs early next year. richard, back to you. >> seema, thank you so much. >>> just ahead, president obama's message to russia's president putin puts mr. obama's priorities front and center. >>> and the fearless feat of high-flying fancy for you to feast your eyes on when "early today" returns. >>> google is out with its most popular searches of the year that begin with "what is." the top five, what is gluten? what is molly? wh

area is developing in amarillo texas number of cities one hundred cities have already made inquiries to do the cleveland with so called the cleveland model of worker co-ops supported by the purchasing of hospitals and universities so it's beginning to spread all over the country now and i think you're going to see more of it again young people could really make it happen at universities if they begin putting the pressure on and telling them you know this is being done lots of places why don't we get on the bandwagon start doing it or i think i think the first step is that you know people are just so overwhelmed. where do they even go how do they meet up with people to start these referendum to start these movements of pressure what's your recommendation first thing resources tools we have about a minute left ok well the book what the must we do just filled with these kinds of examples that's why we wrote website what then can i do that's the list of things that jean and i put together another website it's called double it is about the community dash of wealth but the dash dot org and

make a promise on television so you can hold meet those to it, i will be back to visit other cities in texas. [applause] randal, where are you sitting? i didn't see where you went to? they are right there. part of the reason i have come, it was randal and suzanne, co-founders of the progress of forum, who put this visit to get there for be. they have expended every one fans courtesy to me. i even have two gondolas at dinner tonight. and i surrounded by flowers, some of which i described in the book, from my beloved part of "the hopkins touch" 11, porter rico, thank you. i am here to talk about my book. and about what , porter rico, thank you. i am here to talk about my book. and about whatmy beloved world" rico, thank you. i am here to talk about my book. and about what, porter rico, thank you. i am here to talk about my book. and about what my book is about. when you write a memoir and hav. and about what my book is about. when you write a memoir and have read many through my life, did i learn anything new about this person? often i have read books or memoirs or autobiographies and thought

the city council in dallas texas has introduced a new norm putting the brakes on the fracking industry and it essentially moves the drilling or wells far from residential areas this comes after texans are voiced major concerns that shale gas drilling is putting them on their homes or tourist. it was shaken by a strain of ask wait several weeks ago with scientists suggesting nearby drilling might have caused this finds me and my mentalist w. mccord was at the council meeting and agrees fracking should not take place anywhere near population centers they weren't drilling in our densely populated urban areas they were drilling out in remote areas with low population where they weren't doing any damage or destruction to anything when you start coming into an area with that dense a population bringing in all that truck traffic all those chemicals to be exposed into the air in the water in the soil where people are harmed and where traffic accidents are are prevalent and we're spills of chemicals are dangerous that becomes a whole different deal other cities are looking to what we're doing t

in the democratic republic of congo the forum he fended off according to the texas today in kinshasa in other cities said the assailants were killed the security forces fought back for the course and some do was make friends with the images in its report disturbing. claire williams has the story elitism in each of these childhood stamina the government says order has been restored in the capital of the democratic republic of congo and on monday on scrapes attack state television station interrupting a toll share while to present is not on end. no one. nietzsche is identified themselves as connolly's they really just need a juice can be a dad shortly off to the national and port and on the head coaches who also attacked and fine team back counting the sixties and even vaccine campaign. he'll start he said calm had returned and i often do you know. yet still the forces of the reaction of the democratic republic of congo has armed forces and of our security forces in general it was quick and severe. in a jason is an act of self defense and our gc to overcome aggression he says that he'll start easy and

the city council in dallas texas has introduced a new tool putting the brakes on the fracking industry that essentially means the drilling of wells will move from residential areas comes up to texas boys major concerns that show gas drilling putting both them and their homes at risk in the state's been shaken by a string of earthquakes in the past few months with scientists suggesting nearby drilling might have caused the seismic activity when environmentalist nobody mccord was at the council meeting and agrees that fracking should not take place anywhere near populated areas. they weren't drilling in our densely populated urban areas they were drilling out in remote areas with low population where they weren't doing any damage or destruction to anything when you start coming into an area with that dense the population bringing in all that truck traffic all those chemicals to be exposed into the air in the water in the soil where people are harmed and where traffic accidents are are prevalent and where spills of chemicals are dangerous that becomes a whole different deal other cities a

now, on november 8th, we saw it play out in dramatic fashion on election day in one city in texas.suburb of houston sometimes called stinkadina for its stink of chemical refineries, home to 50,000 people. the setting of the iconic film "urban cowboy." >> are you a real cowboy? ♪ >> well, that depends on what you think a real cowboy is. >> but like a lot of texas towns, pasadena has changed radically since the days when john travolta walked the streets in a 10-gallon hat. >> pasadena no longer a small town but a not-so mrks small city. >> the changes come in the last ten years, thanks to explosive growth in the hispanic population, which has risen in a decade from 48% to 62%, making white people a minority in the new pasadena. luckily for them, they are still a majority of the voting population. while the hispanic population accounts for a majority of pasadena residents, hispanics make up only 32% of the city's voters, but the people who are running pasadena see the writing on the wall. they know there are only a few voter registration drives and maybe a comprehensive immigration bi

. ♪ >> waco, texas, is a quiet, modest city, surrounded by sprawling cattle ranches located halfway betweenallas and austin, it's an unlikely place for a modern day armageddon.loc halfway between dallas and austin, it's an unlikely place for a modern day armageddo.locad halfway between dallas and austin, it's an unlikely place for a modern day armageddo located halfway between dallas and austin, it's an unlikely place for a modern day armageddon. ha and austin, it's an unlikely place for a modern day armageddon.aus place for a modern day armageddofor a armageddo for a modern day armageddon. >> we have a fire at the compound in carmel. the entire compound is going up right now. >> it was an epic debacle in united states law enforcement history. a deadly shootout followed by a 51-day siege that ended with more than 70 people dead in a raging inferno. all caught on live television with the whole world watching. two questions rise from the ashes of this american tragedy. who shot first and who started the fires? it began innocently enough. in 1935, a small religious group moved to waco. an off-

it's a small overall number but when you looked at northern california or parts of texas or new york city, it's a much more significant number. cheryl: you just bought chapel industries and that is actually california but 5,000 lots. can't wait to see what you do with that group of lots. doug early -- sorry. >> thank you very much. cheryl: thanks, doug. david: thank you, doug. appreciate it. cheryl: yeah. >>> general motors is getting a new ceo and she is the first woman to lead a major automaker. could it be the beginning of a new era for the u.s. auto industry now that the government bailout is in the rear view mirror? we'll talk about it. david: after regulators vote in favor of the volcker rule we'll ask cftc commissioner bart chilton how will they enforce a law that only the lawyers seem to understand. he is our guest in just a moment. ♪ my mantra? family first. but with less energy, moodiness, and a low sex drive, i saw my doctor. a blood test showed it was low testosterone, not age. we talked about axiron. the only underarm low t treatment that can restore t levels to rmal in about

run down for conn's. 22 stores in houston, 14 in dallas, 11 in san antonio, and 11 more in cities through texas. six stores in louisiana, two in oklahoma, one in arizona and new mexico. when you think of the alignment, you realize basically conn's is the retailer for the red hot oil and gas region. the company i believe is seeing the miracle of eagleford and permian playing out firsthand. the beginning of the earnings story that can buck the whirlpool of higher interest rates. and witnessing the wonder of job creation. talk about a cramer fave that won't quit. not to mention the need for so many workers to surround the beehives of activity. yep, this oil and gas boom, we're seeing a tremendous job multiplier playing out right now. think of what's happening with gtls, the company with the best technology for transforming natural gas into something similar to gasoline. as ceo sam thomas told us the other night, all the better to build the hard to construct big boxes that encompass the transfer technology and put them on boats to put them overseas. the company can't get enough workers to make thes

texas. miami, new york city, boston.e do have the silos that are therating the majority of job incidents. geographically the way things look. issue will be very tricky for the rest of the decade. i think the u.s. has to look at itself as what do we really do well on a global basis that generates jobs. baseen't the big knowledge engine of the world. that is where jobs are growing. when you move out of that, you slip to lower skilled jobs. then it is a question of two people have the skills to participate? >> so this is troubling. that is what we should be focusing on. that is what chairman ben bernanke gave us the message? we will be running into a situation in the economy were just doing cyclical monetary policy will not really solve this problem and reeducate or retrain the local label first -- local labor force. >> it is obviously a question of where the jobs are growing -- are going. it does not necessarily mean if the jobless rate will go down. meandoes not necessarily we have to continue to taper or accelerate that.

so you've got these -- literally you've got four or five from texas, georgia city wallnd new york street that manipulates the news. in if was growing up detroit -- in detroit, the democratic party, there was union workers. general motors had a million workers. host: all right. point.et the we're just about out of time. and mary writes at twitter, another big loser, the dysfunctional and therefore increasingly irrelevant u.s. house of .epresentatives one last call on this topic for now. maryland,enna, democrat. caller: good afternoon. good morning. yes, i am over here on the eastern shore. i am a great politician. my mother were during the roosevelt time. eisenhower,ring which i thought was a great president for the things he did country. now i'm looking at the people we elected to go up there, and all they doing is fighting among each other. nothing about our country, country t all about our country. all we talk about is the it's party. and i just wonder why they don't do like the history say the it's beginning.t the go to the shipyards. that's coming over here, going to our wal-marts, b

there was a trip planned in texas was meant to be today's, fight cities. how did this trip, about and why did they go to texas? >> was actually three days. we were going to go to dallas and then austin and then out to the ranch. the trip was planned in the spring of 1963 in a meeting in el paso texas between president kennedy, johnson and governor connally. in 1960, the election was very close so they knew that in 1964 they had to carry some states in the south so they picked the two with the most electoral votes, florida and texas and decided to campaign in those states. november 16th president kennedy went to florida. and he went to cape canaveral, palm beach, tampa and miami. then he came back to washington. then they planned to leave on fears a november 21 for texas. mrs. kennedy was going to go along. >> that's the reason you went on this trip is that mrs. kennedy was on the track. so take us through that first morning and as you are at the white house how does the day began? >> the president had an appointment with the two ambassadors from the united

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host: william, bay city, texas. guest: saying the policy was unconstitutional, that doesn't make sense to me. it seems like some corporate fascism. ohio, democratic caller. our last caller. say i'mi would like to looking at their ratings and they are low because congress is slow because it is impractical nowadays. when the founding fathers made america, they were not thinking about population as large as it is now. basically, there are way too many viewpoints for congress to laws or denyo pass others. we have the technology now where we can actually direct democracy . people have ipads in the internet. if we just voted online or something like that, don't have the infrastructure all laid out, but i feel like that to be a much more effective way to an effective government and more satisfied people. host: we will leave it there. thank you for the calls this morning. that is it for today's "washington journal." has live coverage of the senate. here on c-span, the senate finance subcommittee on social security and pensi

restaurant companies determining the employer is more complicated than many expect great austin texas like many cities around the country is a rapidly developing restaurant community and we like most operators we now participate in multiple restaurant entities. various partners often with family members. that we consider each operation to be a small business many of us are discovering for the purpose of the health care law all of the businesses must be considered one employer to the aggregation rule. this threatens to stop the development of restaurants in our community. application of these aggregation rules is already having an impact on small businesses consuming bible time and resources is businesses attempt to decipher the law's effect on them. those of our small business is each have less than 50 full-time employees in the penalty would not be considered applicable to large employers. two are highly seasonal businesses and may not be considered large depending on the calendar month and uncontrollable factors such as whether or not our legislature is in session and the academic calendars related

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city. a ridge of low pressure making its way across texas, fuelling weather threats here and into the evening. look at temperatures into oklahoma city. 63 degrees in houston. storms between houston, and damning winds greater than 70 miles per hour. right between the two states. tornados could break out across the area. we'll keep you updated later in the show. >> u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon visited tabbing low ban an area hit in the philippines. for two hours he visited visions that were ravaged. the storm killed 6,000 people. nearly 2,000 remain missing. >> stay with us - ahead - repairing the space station. astronauts step out in space for the first time in months. robots put to the challenge in miami. live reports on amazing technology ahead. autistic self advocacy network >> welcome back. we are used to seeing robots doing all sorts of amazing things in movies. these robots are not merely digital models from a "transformers" movie, they are real robots and some day they may saviour life. today they are competing in a robot change for the defense department. or correspondent joins u

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the storm stretching nearly 2,000 miles from texas to the great lakes to the northeast, where some cities are experiencing record-breaking heat today. abc's alex perez starting off our coverage. >> reporter: the monster storm is packing a powerful punch of snow, ice, strong winds and even devastating floods. the water so high in central kentucky, it washed away this suv, drowning fl ining three pe inside. in ohio, fast-rising waters forced the evacuation of this retirement home and the neighborhood around it. fire crews going door to door and making rescues by raft. this system creating a major headache. and getting home isn't easy. 600 flights canceled. more than 4,500 delayed. on the icy roads, spinoffs and deadly pileups. at least three killed in oklahoma. one shopper in oklahoma city capturing this scary moment as huge sheets of ice fly off a roof into a busy outdoor mall. luckily, no one was injured. in vermont, dangerous black ice left some cars upside down. meteorologist michael paige from our burlington affiliate is in the thick of it. >> here in vermont, everything is caked in a

chance for isolated tornadoes across eastern portions of texas into louisiana, arkansas, mississippi, into tennessee and across west virginia. the citieswe're concerned with, nashville, lexington, and we cannot exclude houston, louisville, kentucky, and new orleans. we're looking at threat for damaging winds particularly across this area through the course of the day. we're also going to continue to monitor the radar. right now the storms are turning severe in south texas. as we see these individual cells and lines that means we're going to see damaging winds out of these particular lines. when you see an individual cell they are capable of producing tornadoes as well. we'll continue to monitor it. right now we do have tornado watch out across eastern portions of texas into louisiana. this will continue to spread towards the east as we track on into the later portion of the day. right now we have a tornado watch that is in effect all the way from portions of houston into texas. back into shreveport towards lake charles, and also into new orleans. that's i-10 territory, i-15,525 as well if you're headed north pound. right now they're go

companies to my determining the employer is more competent than many expect peter austin texas, like many other cities around the country, has a rapidly developing restaurant community. we, like most of the operators we know, participate in multiple restaurant entities with various partners, often with family members. the we consider each operation to be a small business the, each of us are discovering for the purpose of the health care law all of the businesses must be considered one employer due to the aggregation rule. this threatens to stop the development of restaurants in our community. theseplication of aggregation rules is already having an impact on small businesses, consuming valuable time and resources as businesses attempt to decipher their laws affect on them. most of the businesses have less than 50 full-time employees and would not be consider applicable large employers. large depending on the calendar month and whether our lips later is in perth -- is in session. based on my understanding of the aggregation rule, we will be considered one employer under the law that is applicable large