now go look at the comparable number, which i did look at with the expansion that we're talking about before. the expansion from 0 to 18 or even 0 to 6. and while you can argue those numbers, it's pretty hard to argue that they aren't roughly comparable as a percentage of the prior program or as a percentage of gdp. if i'm right on those numbers, or even roughly right, i don't guarantee them, then what you have to say well, indeed, medicaid has been unconstitutional since 1964. and if not, why not? >> the answer is no. that's because we're here saying three things make this unique. >> what are your second and third? i'm on pins and needles. >> one is the sheer size. two is the fact that this statute is uniquely tied to an individual mandate that is decidedly nonvoluntary. and three is the fact that they've leveraged prior participation in the program notwithstanding that they've broken this out as a separately segregated fund going forward. >> so on the third, suppose you have the current program and congress wakes up tomorrow and says we think there's too much fraud and abuse in the program and we're going to

the first -- the first point really is that that this expansion is different from -- medicaid expansions because it's uniquely onerous. in fact the opposite is the case. this expansion of medicaid is uniquely not onerous compared to past expansions of medicaid. the average share of state medicaid spending now is 59%, which i didn't know before but i'll take it for granted. for this expansion of medicaid, the federal government is undertaking to pay $100% of what it will cost to pay for newly eligible people through 2016 and after that the percentage drops to 90% until 2020 and it is made permanent at 90%. so the federal government is covering much more of the shared costs of funding medicaid for this expansion than it has for any of the past expansions. so the argument that this is uniquely onerous as a constitutional matter is completely nonsense. three minutes left. the rest of the arguments. next argument -- they have actually said this over and over again. never before has the federal government done this when it's expanded medicaid. never before has it said if you don't accept the n

some of this is cutting the expansion from the affordable care act. is there any thing in the budget that would suggest we will hold states and governors accountable for providing the services under medicaid? i am concerned about poor women and children but the call for action in nursing homes and seniors, we will talk about that later. is there any way there is something in the budget that holds governors accountable for states accountable for continuing to provide support for seniors in nursing homes or the elderly or disabled or is that up to the governors? >> our assumption is that states would still be required to spend their medicaid allotment under medicaid eligible population. we don't go into that level says of the play in the budget but that is the assumption. on the medicare side, you'll see over the long term, although the numbers are going down, in part because the medicare reform assumes responsibility for the population. we have an additional low income supplement given to the medicaid-eligible. >> do you have a definition about that? w

expansions as you call it under medicare. one was that the donut hole was going to be os real benefits. additional expansion as you call them benefits for, from, prescription drug coverage. they no longer have to pay the 20% co-pay for preventative and that you consider an expansion and goes away. the attention to primary care, patient centered medical additn expansion under, medicaren particular, but there are others you expansions, inappropriate, they're going away. sometime in the future the committees could change their hey could find the money. but under this budget the assumption is that is an expansion, that was a bad idea, >> yes, the chairman assumes repealed. in terms of. >> those benefits go away. >> in terms of specifics we can go through individual assumptions. the budget committee doesn't determine what happens with the donut hole and the assumptions the we set an overall number. resolution sets overall numbers. the committees of jurisdiction determine the details. >> again because theea affordab will be now the assumption news be that that those expansions will,ques but clear those will be repealed? and again, committees could

the supreme court saysth not fly, will past expansions of the program be lost? >> no. past expansions won't be lost. you know, the mandate really is separate from the medicaid expansion issue. so that cou place, and they still could mandate thprram cover more peop. the question really is, the whole goal of the health reform was to cover all verye had insu. what it does, it breaks that circle of continuity they everybody has some kind of insurance. it will now put a bigger burden on the a lot of people they didn't have to cover before. >> go to the phones and hear from linda in t our democrats' line. good morning. >> caller: hi. i have two questions. first being, if the individual mandate is severed, and struck down, doesn't this,othe provisit this really ultimately hurt the private insurers that are going to be a part of the exchange? and my second question is -- it's broad. but we don't have a constitutional right to food. we don't have a constitutional right anything else. if we can strike down health care based constitutionalism, why not food stamps? why not public schools? why not anything the government provides that's not in the constitut

impose costs on the insurance industry and these costs are supposed to be offset by about 350 billion in new revenue from the individual mandate and 350 billion from the medicaid expansion. if the 350 billion, maybe you'll disagree with the numbers, but assuming that they are in the ballpark, if the 350 million from the individual mandate were to be lost, what would happen to the insurance industry which would now be in the hole for $350 billion over ten years? >> first of all, for the court to go beyond text and legislative history to try to figure out how the finances of the bill operated, it's like being budget committee. but we think the economists have added up the figures wrong. if there is medicaid expansion and the insurance companies are involved ichb that they are going to be reimbursed. >> what if there isn't medicaid expansion? does the government have a position on what should happen if the medicaid expansion is struck down? >> we don't think that would have effect that could be addressed in the next argument. we don't think that would have effect. >> so the government's position is if medicaid expansion is shut down the rest can operate? >> in the past con

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the states' medicaid expansion, the interaction of two provisions, one the medicaid expansion itself and the individual mandate will lever state general fund expenditures to sky-high levels. that's the bottom line that emerges from my research. so the medicaid expansion part is basically two components. one the income eligibility limit is increased from 100% to 1089% of the federal poverty limit. and all adults rather than all those with dependent children are now eligible for medicaid. the individual mandate has really nothing necessarily intrinsically to do with medicaid expansion as such. it's really to accommodate the coverage of those with preexisting conditions to avoid the adverse selection that would go with that. but the interaction of these two elements really spells looming disaster for state budgets. so to understand how that would come about, think about two types of new medicaid enrollees that will emerge once obamacare becomes effective in 2014. first of all, those who are newly made eligible for medicaid under obamacare, these groups of medicaid eligibles will be 100%, 100% federally funned through 2016. and the federal funding rate gradually ramps down to 92% by 2019. but still that's a fairly l

. >> maybe it gross to 30% so i just understand some of this is cutting the as you call it expansion from the affordable care act. one of my questions for you is what standards or is there anything in the budget that would suggest that we're going to hold states and governors accountable for providing the services under medicaid? many of us are worried about women and children, but also as you know the big costs are in nursing homes and frail sick seniors. is there any way that there is something in the budget that holds states accountable for continuing to provide support for seniors in nursing homes, very frail or elderly or disabled or is that up to the governors? >> so our assumption is that states would still be required to spend their medicaid allotment on their medicaid eligible population, we don't go into that level specificity in the budget. that's the assumption. on the medicare side, too, you'll see over the long term though the medicaid numbers going down, medicaid numbers growing in part because the medicare reform assumes the double eligible population. we have an additiona

supreme court looked at the expansion of the medicaid program by the federal government. this case is on appeal from the 11th circuit. the court ruled that congress overreached and that individual mandate is unconstitutional. but the medicaid portion of the statute can stand. this is an hour and 25 minutes. >> we will continue argument this afternoon in 11400, florida versus the department of health and human services. mr. clement? >> mr. chief justice, and may it please the court, the constitutionality of the act's massive expansion of medicaid depends on the answer to two related questions. first, is the expansion coercive, and second, does that coercion matter? >> mr. clement, can i ask you just a matter of clarification, would you be making the same argument if, instead of the federal government picking up 90% of the cost, the federal government picked up 100% of the cost? >> just kagan, if everything else remained the same, i would be making the exact same argument. >> the exact same argument. to that really reduces to the question of why is a big gift from the federal government a matter of co

the medicaid expansion review? raising questions this goes beyond sovereign -- >> obviously, from the first time with served petition in this case people questioned whether or not the court would really be interested in the coercion doctrine, something discussed in their cases but haven't struck down a statute previously on the basis of this doctrine. there were people suggesting that maybe this wasn't the strongest part of our case. the supreme court ob outsidely thought differently and took the case. i think you saw in the questions from all of the justices and the fact that argument, that the justices actually gave both sides a little extra time. you can see they were certainly taking this case and this challenge seriously. >> are you satisfied with you and the -- just on the individual mandate and the government prevailed on the others? what's the impact of just winning on the individual mandate question? >> well, obviously, we are interested in winning, getting complete relief. any litigant, if you take the traub litigate to the supreme court you're looking for complete relief at the end of the day. that said,

$700 billion on the insurance industry and that these costs are supposed to be offset by about 350 billion in new revenue from the individual mandate and 350 billion from the medicaid expansion. the 350 billion i may disagree with the numbers, that they are fundamentally wrong but assume they are in the ballpark. 350 million from the individual mandate would be lost. what would happen to the insurance industry which would now be in the hole were $350 billion over 10 years? >> i mean first of all for the court to go beyond text and legislative history to try to figure out how the finances of the bill operate, it's like being the budget committee. but we think the economist had added up the figures wrong. if there's medicaid expansion and the insurance companies are involved in that, they're going to be reimbursed. >> we have talked about the individual mandate that does the government have a position on what would happen if the medicaid expansion is struck down? >> we don't think of that would have any effect. that could be addressed in the next argument. we don't think i would have any effect on the rest of the act. >> so the government's position is that if medicaid expansi

the economic expansion. but the influx of migrant workers from rural to urban areas is slowing. coastal areas are suffering from a chronic labor shortage. at the same time there aren't enough jobs for university graduates. more and more young people have to survive on part-time jobs. party leaders are also concerned about an impending decline in the working age population. as a result of china's one-child policy. the number of people aged 15 to 64 will start falling within a few years. this means that workers' productivity would have to be raised just to maintain current living standards. >> a large fraction of the population don't feel that they are living a better life. so what we can do or what we should do right now is to re -- to reallocate capital to solve this structural problem. >> reporter: given all the problems, a half-point adjustable to the national growth target is hardly a solution on its own. but after years of rapid growth, the downgrade is symbolic. china's leaders are signaling their determination to shift gears. the new focus is social stability. to achieve t

. >> he says that is unlikely an unfortunate, a lot of the president's decision to block expansion of the keystone oil pipeline from canada. >> it is bringing in more supply rumps politically friendly areas. >> consumers are not interested in the political wrangling. he is spending more time on his bike. if oil prices continued go up, and natural gas prices are trending down. kerry cavanaugh, wbal-tv 11 news. >> speaking of oil and gas, western maryland could become home to 365 national -- natural gas wells. according to the maryland petroleum council, it could include more than -- could employ more than 1800 people. it could produce gas for more than 30 years and more than $200 million in revenue for the state. the state panel will decide whether or not drilling in western maryland can be conducted without risk to the public or the environment. a robbery took place run out of a school in anne arundel county. police responded to chesapeake academy around 10:00 yesterday morning. a man attacked a school employee and took her purse. the suspect was in the building just moments before that attack. >> he went into a sc

cheap labor has played a major role in the country's rapid economic expansion. the influx of migrant workers from rural to urban areas is slowing. coastal areas are suffering from a chronic labor shortage. at the same time, there aren't enough jobs for university graduates. more and more young people have to survive on part-time jobs. party leaders are also concerned about an impending decline in the working age population. a result of china's one-child policy. the number of people age 15 to 64 will start falling within a few years. this means that workers' productivity will have to be raised just to maintain current living standards. >> a large fraction of the population don't feel that they are leading a better life. so what we can do -- or what we should do right now is to reallocate capital to solve this structural problem. >> reporter: given all the problems, a half point adjustment to the national growth target is hardly a solution its own. but after years of rapid growth, the downgrade is symbolic. china's leaders are signaling their determination to shift gears. the new focus is social st

>> one that has broken the hearts of so many investors from the dot-bomb explosion in 2000 to 2003, to the greatest expansion ever from 2003 to 2009 to the flash crash where billions vanished in minutes to the ponzi schemes and insider trading scandals that have now become legion. you have to figure after all that, who the heck would want to own anything connected with our stock market? but just like with anything no one wants, eventually the price gets to a point where it's reflecting a ridiculous amount of pessimism that it gets so pessimistic that it gets tempting. that's where we were when we came into the year. the level of skepticism that made it so the portion of the aisle with the best bargains of the whole global financial super market, the united states, simply had no shoppers. think about it. the banks, probably the most hated group in the world, no one was looking at that part. as long as employment stayed off while housing and stocks were in the dumps, the principal sources of wealth could not be tapped. the fear was palpable and the confidence was non-existent. however, in a few short months em

the community development block grant? any decision to potentially fund is a dramatic, it seems to me, expansion from the existing 79.2, and i would urge that language to be dropped. does not deal with the findings. i do not know what it is supposed to mean, but it is extraordinarily confusing and bay. thank you. >> good afternoon. san francisco human services network. i want to echo the remarks regarding the vague language in this proposed ordinance. when i hear that, i think of a phrase that my father used to use with very young people where he would say cassette and i knew you when you were just a gleam in your father's side -- "i knew when you were just a gleam in your fathers eye." if someone did not get required notice, could they sue and it definitely hold up a project well into its approval process? i also need to mention, around the original legislation as well as this that we do see this as an attack on projects that benefit people are or arepoor -- who are poor and who are disabled. if we want to open a child care facility that is privately funded, but is only for child care facilities that our city budget, and

abundant cheap labor has played a major role in the country's rapid economic expansion, but the influx of migrant workers from rural to urban areas is slowing. coastal areas are suffering from a chronic labor shortage. at the same time, there aren't enough jobs for university graduates. more and more young people have to survive on part-time jobs. party leaders are also concerned about an impending decline in the working age population, a result of china's one-child policy. the number of people age 15 to 64 will start falling within a few years. this means that workers' productivity will have to be raised just to maintain current living standards. >> a large fraction of the population don't feel that they are leading a better life. so what we can do -- or what we should do right now is to reallocate capital to solve this structural problem. >> reporter: given all the problems, a half point adjustment to the national growth target is hardly a solution on its own. but after years of rapid growth, the downgrade is symbolic. china's leaders are signaling their determination to shift gears. the new focus is social

purchasing managers index for manufacturing coming out now the states showing expansion at fifty one points whereas the private sector data from h.s.b.c. showing contraction of forty nine point six anything which is below fifteen means contraction above the means expansion is pretty much i guess overall manufacturing is that's not really providing much support to the chinese stocks and you can see them saying down three quarters of percent now also overnight the u.s. markets closed in negative territory the dow jones was down point four percent nasdaq point seven percent all eyes there on the ben bernanke ing speech now it indicates there's little chance of a new wave of wanted it easy and therefore a lot of money was transferred into the dollar out of assets like gold for example well right now what we're seeing in gold and precious metals is a recovery from. yesterday's drops gold is up one point four percent the sell want to fell four and a half percent around eighteen dollars per ounce in the end of the previous session . and while it's not providing that much support the russian stocks it's still relatively high it's one

tribute was the business of the aztec empire, the real purpose behind their warfare and expansion. the aztecs exacted tribute from everyone, and they did it in several ways. as the empire grew, kings enlarged the great temple at tenochtitlan. and when they did, rededication ceremonies signaled a time for tribute. archaeologists discovered caches of tribute buried inside successive versions of the temple. one included these stone soldiers found leaning against the stairs. offerings came from all over the aztec empire -- gold and silver jewelry, jade masks, pottery and sculpture. interpreter: the majority of the objects found in the offerings were from areas that were controlled by the aztecs. one of the offerings that we found in front of the templo mayor consisted of skulls of sacrificial victims that had small knives placed in the nose and in the mouth. keach: the aztecs were not above requiring sacrificial victims as tribute. sometimes they would even specify that the victims must be the friendly neighbors of the conquered state. they knew this would drive a wedge between their neighbors and discourage them fro

>> the assumptions are that the savings from the affordable care act in the medicare should not have gone to expansions in other entitlement programs, instead should be -- >> that's the same entitlement program. >> no. should be the savings in medicare should not have been in medicaid. they should be devoted to the solvency of medicare. to achieve that the budget assumes the expansions in the affordable care act are repealed. in terms of the other assumptions, how that's exactly implemented beyond that or what congress may do that will be up to the ways and means and energy and commerce committees. >> they could decide that they are going to find money elsewhere in the budget that would meet the additional expansion as you say of coverage for medicare beneficiaries, seniors in this country, three very specific expansions as you call it under medicare. one was the donut hole was going to be closed and they got real benefits, additional expansion as you call it benefits for prescription drug coverage. they no long ver to pay the 20% copay for preventive primary care. that you consider an expansion and go

overturned, if we find out the supreme court says this does not fly, will past expansions of the program be lost? guest: past expansions will not be lost. the mandate is separate fromhe medicaid expansion issue. that could stay in place and they could mandate of the medicaid program covers more people still, but the question is the goal of the health reform was to cover all of the uninsured. it erases that circle of continuity. he will put a bigger burden on the medicaid program to cover a lot of people they have not covered before. host: linda on our democrats line in connecticut. caller: i have two questions. if the individual mandate is severed and struck down, does this not -- leaving the other provisions in tact, does this not ultimately hurt the private insurers that would be part of the exchange? my second question is broad, but we do not have a constitutional right to food, anything else. if we can strike down health care, based on strict constitutionalism, why not food stamps? why not public schools? why not anything the government provides that is not in the constitution? thank you so much, and you have a great day. host: marilyn werber serafini? guest: i

you know a strong independent foreign policy at least the trappings of that have drawn support from the people of russia and i think to be expansive for example nationalist led sure no ski. since probably sit today from russia's military even returns to the kremlin to cancel what he called it a rise in local and regional conflicts old history to fight foreign powers around russia's borders i worry should washington be about that well clearly russia has been a boo boo for the united states since before world war two and yet never an actual threat never made an aggressive move out so that you could maybe say the cuban missile crisis which was really nothing but symmetry for missiles in turkey and in circling the u.s.s.r. but i don't think that this means that the united states has anything to fear unless its intent is to attack russia russia definitely needs to have a modern defense what's happening in what's happening all over the place right now but what's happened in libya was trying to happen in syria with trying to happen in iran with the united states demonstrates that the u.s. has a very aggressive and militaristic foreign po

the states. well, justice elena kagan and others asking how is a 90% funding of that expansion in medicaid, how in fact does that amount to coercion? the argument and answer fromm e states, they would lose if they chose not to participate in the expansion. all of the medicaid dollars going to existing programs. the federal government arguing that the medicaid program has been a voluntary program that states can opt in and out of. right now medicaid is about a $250 billion program over the next ten years as part of the affordable health care act. you're talking about in excess of $3 trillion. the other major headline of the day, the court taking up the question this morning of severability, should the entire health care law be stricten or just the mandate? the court leaning towards taking down the entire law. >> hampton, thank you very much. >>> just a moment ago on street signs, brian sat down for an exclusive interview with j.p. morgan jamie dimon. i felt like he said a lot of positive things, how he feels about the housing market. we have steve liesman and jim cramer here and diana olick. what did you think about with what jamie said with regard to the econo

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this is up from the current 150,000. toyota says the expansion will create 400 new jobs. >>> turning now to domestic auto production, we saw quite a jump in february. the eight major carmakers say their total domestic output last month rose more than 19% from a year ago. the figure comes to over 900,000 units. this is the fifth straight month of increase compared to levels shown in the previous year. automakers are counting on the subsidies to boost sales of ecofriendly cars. applications will be accepted from next monday. output at honda shot up by almost 65%. daihatsu by just under 31% and toyota by a little more than 22%. >>> japanese cosmetics makers is to begin consultations in april. the president announced a launch of the new service on thursday. it had been available only in person, usually at outlets. the beauticians will advise customers about how to choose and use cosmetics suited to their skin. streaming videos will allow demonstrations by specialists and the chat features will allow customers to ask questions as well. they hope to tr

the basic simple issue. medicaid expansion in the aca has a number of aspects, but the main thing is very simple. it expands eligibility to all adults up to 138% of the federal poverty line from where it was before and roger and tim both appropriately described the

growing our business which is now in its 20th year, when you look at the requirements of this law, it's going to keep me from looking at expansion and being a -- another provider of employment to the local community. once you hit that 50 mark, you are no longer going to be in the grandfather clause. it is going to keep you from moving forward in this economy by most of the small business people like would to do. >> basically it will cost you more money to provide coverage if you go into 50 employees, 55 employees, maybe even 100 employees. >> correct, once you -- once you pass that magic number, 50, then you are going to be under a different requirement. and you are going to be under potential penalties if you do not follow the law as it is currently written. >> miss killby, we've heard though there are tax credits that will offset that problem. >> not true. when you are having employees in this range as we do, employees of the numbers between 25 and 49, we are not eligible for those tax credits. that was the low employees of 25. -- below employees of 25, we fall into one of those holes and when those credits are not available,

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and so they are leaving out tens of millions of people from this mandate, from the medicaid expansionretense is, if you let anyone out of the system, they will freeload and then the system will be burdened by the free loader, which by the way, the system has figured out how to account for within medicaid spending. it's called disproportionate share. we know where they are. they show up in big urban hospitals and we send extra money to cover it. so it's a fraud to say that without this, without the mandate, we'll have all of these free loaders. you're going to have 20 million of them at least. >> anyway. >> i think there's a lot of arguments for why they should have gone down the path of individual mandate, especially. jonathan capehart, you wrote this. in arguments before the supreme court this week, the obama administration might have done just enough to keep the affordable care act from being rul ruled unconstitutional. if obama care is struck down, the implications are uncertain. conservatives may be buoyed by a mid year victory. the long-term consequences, however, are obvious. so

the official survey is coming out from the government, as well. which one do you place more emphasis on? >> i think the market would still look to the official survey and that was still in expansion territory, it was above 50, significantly run from the lows of the last quarter. the thing we always immediate to remember, they have the fiscal and monetary capacity to speed up and slow down their economy at will. that's something that europe and the rest of the world doesn't have. if they want toend the year with an 8% growth number, they will do it. >> a lot of people speaking of 7.5% growth, and a lot of people are saying with this data, could actually mean more policy easing. what's your gut pefeel on that interest. >> china has a history of underprime ministering and overachieving. i believe they will target really a growth rate of over 8% at the end of the year and i think they will achieve that. so they will take their foot on and off the gas at will when they need to. >> we've heard this conversation this morning already on cnbc about the shift in china away from industrializing economy towards a consumer driven economy. we look at the data that we've had out of these pmis.

other expansions have taken place, such as the 1984 expansions, where they gave states the option. here congress created a second program. and those individuals are treated separately from the rest of the program going forward forever. they'll be reimbursed at at different rate from everybody else in the program. in light of the sell separation of congress in the newly eligible members of the rest of the program, it's very hard to understand congress's decision to say if you don't want to cover the newly eligible individuals, you don't just not get the new money, you don't get any of the money -- >> i'm sorry. where does it say that? >> where does it say what? >> what you just said. you said congress says if you don't take the new money you don't get the old money that covers the the old individuals. that's what i heard you say. >> right. >> where does it say that ha? >> there's two places it says that. and this is not the point about the funding cutoff. this makes the point that the newly eligible individuals are really treated separate ly. >> i want the part about the funding. that section is what? i have it in front of me. i'll tell you what it says. it's been in the

the airline is offering more flights from new york's laguardia airport to pittsburgh, cleveland, new hampshire and vermont. the service expansion also includes buffalo, syracuse and rochester. delta is investing $100 million in upgrading routes and facilities at laguardia. >>> and it's a request more and more job seekers are hearing from prospective employers, give us your facebook password. now two u.s. senators are weighing in on the controversy. charles schumer and richard blumenthal are calling on the justice department and the equal opportunity employment commission to investigate whether requesting social media credentials from someone is a violation of federal law. >> there's a coercive nature here. you want the job so badly if your employer asks, you may be afraid to say no. >> last week facebook issued a warning to employers to not ask job applicants for their password. facebook opposes the practice saying it's a violation of the website's policy and, quote, not the right thing to do. i would agree with that, too. >> absolutely. ashley morrison here in new york. thank you so much. >>> hollywood film maker james cameron

from 7.5% the year before. the brazilian itite o geography and statistics announced the figures on tuesday noting that the economy marked year on year expansion in the fourth quarter. analysts blamed the slowdown on europe'seb csind the depression yags of the currency the real. funds are flowing in from abro, senheng the real and severely impacting brazil's manufacturing industry. >>> tokyo markets are down. les ke lk other asian markets. >> i i back to catherine now. >> thanks very much, ai. a u.s. nuclear expert says japan could have predicted the impact of last year's tnamin the fukushima daiichi plant. >> responsible people from around the world referring to the accident as unthinkable and unforeseen and so on. my view is that it was not unthinkable and it was not unforeen. as we heard earlier, the tsunami hazard was underestimated. >> nuclear regulatory commisoner georg apostolakis made the remark at a symposium in washington on tuesday. nearly one year has passed since the march 11th earthquake and tsunami crippled the nuclear plant. apostolakis said japan's government and the plant's operator tokyo electric power company could have bet

opinion, african people's constituted the majority of people who migrated from the old world to the new world during the formative stages of european colonial expansion in the americas. this suggested a cultural role for african peoples in the colonial involvement than we've even begun to imagine. several sources state, for instance that, between 1492 and 1776 or roughly the first 300 years of what we understand to be the colonial period of american history, 6.5 million people crossed the atlantic from africa and europe and settled in the americas north, central, south america and the caribbean only 1 million were european. the others were african. i know you all studied that in your history books. the overwhelming majority of the people involved in the making of colonial america, not just the united states, central america, south america and the caribbean, the overwhelming majority of the people involved in that were aft africans. the ratio of africans to europeans would come from the old world to the new was still three to one. so those of us involved in the study are faced with two sets of intellectual challenges. the first, s. to set the record s

the french were also concerned not only with the expansion of british population and the movement westward, but also of trade that british colonial traders from pennsylvania and virginia were venturing into the ohio country and with british manufactured goods, they were going to capture the fur trade and draw towards the british colonies and away from canada. and the french realized in canada that if they lost control of the fur trade in the interior, and it was drawn mostly to the british, then canada would be worthless and lost. because the thinking was this, where the native peoples made economic alliances, is they made their economic alliances with the british, they would also make their political and li peoples in a certain direction. settlements but of trade into n? the answer was a fort-building program in what was called the ohio country which had no definite boundaries at the time. the ohio country consisted of parts of what is today the state of pennsylvania as well as ohio. in fact, the most strategic region at the time was in western pennsylvania, particularly at the forks which make the beginning and mark the beginning of the ohi

from the state. the rest -- the rest will come from local sales tax measure voted in by voters in 2008. those on the frontlines lobbying for this expansiony the federal government never would have allotted them this 900 million dollars in funding if it were not for santa clara county voters saying yes not once, but twice on two sales tax initiatives to help fund bart to get this project going major victory for those working to try to expand transportation here in the south bay. we understand construction could start as early as next month. commuters could begin using a section perhaps by 2014. sue thompson, abc7 news. >>> today the future of berkeley's police chief could be on the line during a meeting between a key city councilmember and the city manager. they will be discussing a weekend incident in which the chief sent an officer to a reporter's home to convince him to change a story. >> reporter: was it censorship by intimidation? those are the questions raised the city councilmember wants to meet with the city manager today to talk about the situation. police chief michael meehan was upset about the coverage of a thursday night comm

from the report shois more than 70% started with kills behavior and knowledge to succeed. that's a 10% increase from last year. school officials attribute the growth in school readiness to the expansion of pre-k classes. >>> happening today, treasury secretary geithner testifies before the financial services and general committee. he is spending about the treasury department's responses to the foreclosure cries he is and mounting student loan debt. >>> a:33. a -- 5:33. a 37-year-old man is on the road to recovery after undergoing a 36-hour face transplant. the rains formation is remarkable. look at your screen. this is before the surgery he lost his nose and lips and ability to speak from a gun accident in 1997. now look at this. this is what he looked like six days after the transplant. this is the two-face transplant the hospital -- the second one the hospital completed. doctors say it was one of the most extensive ever. >> he put the mirror down and thanked me and hugged me which is a wonderful gift to give him. ever since that day you can see we will restore the 15 years he lost and making him a functioning member of society. >> doctors say norris is exceeding expectation and the

now the focus is shifted away from growth through expansion in the u.s.ey have better and more profitable. and working. just look at this chart. profit per dealers nearly tripled since 2008. the weakest of the three, chrysler, now has 86% of dealers in the black. part of the formula is to invest in the existing dealerships. you want to get them to look great so the potential buyer can feel great and motivate the dealers. companies like ford, what are they doing? offering interest free loans and bonus vehicles to sell. dealers get an automatic return on their own investment to upgrade a facility. for gm and what they're doing? this is just on the dealership side. $3 billion for 3,400 dealers and 1,000 are either done or in progress. let's face it, the foreign brands are going to continue to expand. and these places are clean, modern and dare i say a little bit fun. and the american dealerships are playing catch-up. >> all right. brian, thank you very much. i really agree with that. there are some beautiful new dealerships around. many of them for the forei

you know a strong independent foreign policy at least the trappings of that have drawn support from the people of russia and i think to be expansive for example national was like sure no escape the election has been held against a background of massive street rallies in russia's largest cities but as a member of the protest movement for a fair election it me high cost we have told our team the opposition demonstrators are in the minority. result didn't come as a surprise and obviously most of the people share the same saying of the great russian classic but no revolution is worth of a. chance cheer i hope there will not be blood on the streets but obviously we don't agree with this result and unfortunately we are in my minority but you have to consider every minority and this is the only we to democratic country three last months show that is civilised society with the lords of needs can go somewhere and it can grow the only thing that lacks that is a position that was there not one solid leader. a little earlier we heard from international election observer john berryman who praised of the use of web cameras to monitor the vote a

as the gentleman from arizona points out, what we are trying to do is facilitate the expansion and growth by the small companies. and how do we do that? and the gentleman from arizona says by the expansion of information. this information can and should get out there, but at the end of the day, we want to make sure that the liability that is imposed on the dissemination of information is not grave to it that you would supplement with this overarching desire to destroy that overall purpose of the legislation and you do that with this amendment. why so? at the end of the day you will get the same protections you are looking for in the sense that there lib strict liability imposed, where? on the prospectus. if you are in the investor and trying to decide whether you are going to invest in this new company or not, the information that you will be looking for will be where? the prospectus and the strict liability standard will be imposed. you do not want to impose that liability as you lead up to this situation with the other information that is going to outside research analysts and i opposed

the proposed pipeline expansion wanted to carry crude oil from canada to the u.s. gulf coast this has been a political lightning rod. and the supreme court has upheld more than 200 convicts. the state attorney general argued that proper notice for all of them had not been posted in newspapers before and former governor issued a pardon. the justices ruled that in lack of prior notice was not as important as governor sovereign power to pardon. we have a closer look. >>reporter: the new governor showed confidence in the court's decision. >> i think the supreme court ruled wisely in the state of mississippi. >>reporter: the former governor and a pardon 200 inmates before leaving office in january, for convicted murderers and an armed robber enjoy their freedom of the attorney general's challenge was reserved for a court. a south african nationals lawyer said it is great news for his family. >> i think they have been waiting for this thing for a very long time that they have been weighted to take their son home. >>reporter: producer brent walker who survive a shooting b