york. [applause] we propose the casino plan to go to upstate new york. the plan is to bring it downstate new yorkers to upstate. if you put a casino in new york city, they will go to the new york city casino. the people coming in from out of town will go to the new york city casino. we want them going upstate and using this as a magnet to go up state. we propose a revenue split of the funds for education, 10% for local taxes, we believe the local government and the committees should have a right to support or not support and that should be a factor in this election of the facility of the location. we believe that we should have the local competition. -- hold a national competition. we should have the best casino companies in the world should come to compete. we should keep the politics out of the decision and leave it to the gaming commission. this would require a november referendum. in terms of education, the governor said the standard of education should be elevated to the highest of the chief of our responsibilities. it is true today. when it comes to

it's based on space and editing i believe it's the it's a clear bias against the palestinians the new york times has a history of being values towards a palestinian and being in support of israel i mean this area that israel has called it one is. on palestinian private property in the west bank israel is planning on building illegal settlements on the sill and internationally the whole world recognizes the west bank as occupied territory occupied by israel the new york times went ahead and change the headline six hours after originally putting it up and it showed as a clear bias towards the palestinians and in favor of israel. and i do want to be fair and mention that the term israeli occupied the term that was used in that title and then removed that is used in the actual body of the article so. does that not negate these accusations of a bias or what do you think i don't begin to get the bias because the headline is what attracts people to read the article it's that stands out it's what it's the headline it's a headline or so and it's not just this issue the new york times has a troublin

york. fowe propose the casino plan too to upstate new york. the plan is to bring it downstate new yorkers to upstate. if you put a casino in new york city, they will go to the new york city casino. the people coming in from out of town will go to the new york city casino. we want them going upstate and using this as a magnet to go up state. we propose a revenue split of the funds for education, 10% for local taxes, we believe the local government and the committees should have a right to support or not support and that should be a factor in this election of the facility of the location. we believe that we should have the local competition. we should have the best casino companies in the world should come to compete. we should keep the politics out of the decision and leave it to the gaming commission. this would require a november referendum. in terms of education, the governor said the standard of education should be elevated to the highest of the chief of our responsibilities. it is true today. when it comes to education, i say two words, mor

but that leak to "the new york times" and then citing the "new york times" as having published it, thate. part of the colin powell presentation to the u.n. around that same time, about why the u.s. was going to invade iraq was what he described as evidence of iraq's mobile biological weapons labs. that intel, which was publicized to try to get us to war with iraq came from an iraqi defector nicknamed curveball, a guy who later admitted he made up everything he told to german intelligence, specifically to try to get the west to go to war with iraq because he thought saddam was an enemy. the complicity and direct help of our own government in selling us that bullpucky that was not true in order to make it politically possible to go to war in iraq, that is the original sin of the george w. bush era in america. but it does not mean that they cooked up all that fake and misleading intelligence all by themselves. some of it came from enemies of saddam and iraqi exiles and expats who shoved it to the u.s., knowing it was false, but hoping we would nevertheless fall for it because they wanted u

the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: i'm pleased to yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. andrews. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. mr. andrews: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. andrews: i thank my friend for yielding. 78 days ago a tremendous force of fury hit the northeastern region of the united states. today we make an act of national interest. this is not an act of excess or an act of charity. for those who claim that there is excess in this bill, i would suggest that they read it. throughout this bill the bill says that the spending is limited to, quote, necessary expenses related to the consequences of hurricane sandy. period. this is throughout the text of the bill. this is not an act of charity. these three states -- new york, new jersey, and connecticut, threes three states pay almost 16% of the taxes collected in the united states of america. three states,

>> i yield one minute for his floor debate, the gentleman from new york, sean patrick maloney. >> the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, my name is sean patrick maloney. i'm new here. i don't know all the rules of washington but it seems like the rule here is to put off till tomorrow what should be done today even when our fellow americans are suffering. a long time ago i honored from my mom and dad, jim and joan maloney, and father bill nolan, a much better rule, the golden rule, americans by all parties live by it, the people of new york, new jersey and hudson valley live by it. bart and diana tyler of kellogg's hardware store in catona live by it. they lent critical supplies in the hour of maximum need and consoled them. they didn't make their neighbors wait 68 days for help. they didn't say they could do more later. they acted with speed and with caring. this new congress can start a new today. we can act with speed and caring. we don't need to wait. i urge my colleagues to bring this additional relief to the floor as soon as possible and suppo

. >> i don't mind the police being here, but not the harassment. >> new york police are not allowed tooutinely stop pedestrians outside private residential buildings in the bronx. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. at least five people have been killed in u.s. drone strike in pakistan earlier today. the strike hit a home in north waziristan. it was at least the seventh u.s. drone strike in less than two weeks. the attack comes as the cia nominee john brennan continues to come under scrutiny for his role in the obama administration's drone warfare overseas. in his remarks at the time, brennan had said there was not a single collateral death in the previous year of drone attacks. his letter qualified his remarks by saying he had no information to the at the time. it has been revealed the u.s. a massacre at the time convict pakistani concerns directly to the highest levels of the obama white house. the concern centered around a march 2011 strike that killed 42 pakistani, most of them civilians. vice-presid

the decades old dispute over the west bank what a simple headline says about the hidden bias in the new york times office ahead. it's tuesday january fifteenth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r.t. . today family and friends laid to rest are young man that helped make the internet what it is today aaron swartz is remembered for his dedication to a free and open internet but he was haunted by a federal case in which prosecutors called for extremely stiff sentences in his death the new debate has emerged about the government and prosecutorial overreach our t.v. producer many were awful i was intercom go today with a look at the ceremony. relatives friends activists and several alternative voices arrive together on a somber note at central avenue synagogue in chicago to pay their respects to an internet pioneer aaron swartz who at the age of twenty six took his own life swartz was co-founder of the online publication reddit and demand progress and was an influential figure in his own right a passionate activist and a web freedom fighter he rallied for an open and

world, "the new york times." he will talk about what has been a decade of crisis, a question about whether any newspaper can survive. from my perspective here at the museum, this is a critical question. not only because of the iconic nature of the newspaper, which i just mentioned, but also because their role of the newspaper itself here in our mission of document link the city's history. "the times" is the city's newspaper of record, the way in which we document the stories we see here at the museum as we look across this archive and the vast decades of more than a century. it is more than that. the challenge is what to me "the times" and the print industry is facing. one of the things we are committed to documenting, something that is so characteristic of new york, the theme of perpetual transformation of the city. we here at the museum are not ourselves immune from this, and we, as i think about the stories that the professor describes, we ask many of the same questions today about the nature of physical artifa

times at this particular moment the new york times is base of support is basically the upper east side of new york city that's its main readership its main constituency and so it's eager to please the very wealthy jewish constituency in the upper east side it's very easy to tell in the new york times and these story that the story having to do with jews say there is a story about the production of blintzes in brazil you will always see listed as one of the top ten stories of the day and anything having to do with jews is a media really top ten most read most read article list that's their base of support and so the new york times is obviously at the end of the day it's a money making enterprise and that wants to please its base constituency and so we tell you the news and it cuts cuts up the news in such ways as to please their constituency and you're not allowed to say basic facts like the west bank east jerusalem these are occupied palestinian territories right very interesting and really appreciate you coming on the show and weighing in that was normal norman finkelstein activi

you already pay a lot for the new york times. it is expensive. but ultimately, the paper will be for people who want paper, and the information will be on- line and available through the various pay walz they are creating. >> i am a freelance journalist. you were talking about abrogating and curating. i started off as a writer/reporter. the thing that strikes me is that when you talk about the new york times, the one thing i found is that quality costs money. there is a lot of crap out there. >> tell me about it. [laughter] >> my question to give is, where is the money going to come from to finance quality journalism? it is a combination of the heavy stuff as well as up and coming stuff. but where is the money going to come from? >> it is a deep question, the question that everybody asks. the new york times has created a partial pay wall. it is actually doing pretty well now. old and barely perhaps the new york times and daily newspapers in general, they used to be one-stop shops. you had your movie reviews. you had a whole bunch of sections that

the articles in "the new york times" were attacked by the "new york times" ombudsmen as being not fairphotograph is not an epidemiological study. we need to look at the science. >> what is the science that you cite this as the fracking is harmless? >> fracking has been going on since i believe 1947. there have been no scientific epidemiologic studies that shows that fracking has harmed human health in any way. the water in pennsylvania was the poster child. we need to ask them, do they believe the epa? you called the epa and a local environmental regulator said the water is safe. this was not good enough for the residents of carter road. in a community of 1500 people, 1500 people signed a petition saying our water is fine. 11 people were litigants. those 11 people are the 1%. the people who say the water is fine is the 99%. i come to america and i hear the people refer to the 1%. these are the litigants' of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit with no science to back them up. we should not confuse allegations and lawsuits with scientific evidence. >> i will respond to that. so if there is no

but the gentleman from new york. >> i yield two women's to the gentlewoman from new york. >> the gentleman is recognized. >> mr. speaker, the victims of super storm sandy can wait no longer. it has been 11 weeks. haven't they suffered and waited long enough? the people we represent to send those to washington to serve and who are now not nearly crying out for help but screaming for assistance, they demand we act without further delay and pass this bill to immediately increase the borrowing authority o ffema and carry out the purpose of the national flood insurance program. the help is noverdue. if we fail to act, there are 120,000 flood insurance claims payments that will be delayed. the bill before us now will temporarily increase the borrowing authority by $9.70 billion for the flood insurance program. much more is needed and a boat has been promised on january 15th. that absolutely needs to happen. funds for katrina passed the house in two weeks. we have been waiting for 11 weeks. funds for icap and gustav passed very quickly -- funds for ivan and gustav passed. it should not take much

the new york times has not been singled out over and over again. it had been 30 years of creation of this notion that meet the media reports in a liberally biased way. there were about the people who felt ill served by mainstream media. in fact, there was one completely dead form of media that was singly handed, resurrected by rush limbaugh -- that is am radio. it was a place for people who felt ill served by mainstream media could go. and that formula was applied to fox news. although fox news, i watched them almost exclusively on election night. >> who didn't? >> i did not meet for gloating purposes. i does wanted to see how they covered it. shep smith is a very fair guy. their coverage, the commentators have to talk about the election results, were m ore diverse and more on msnbc by far. then there was the great moment when karl rove produced that rimal scream and you saaw fox try to address this in as open the way as they could. the head of fox news sent to the staff before the election, if it looks like obama is winning, don't act like somebody

so let's talk about the hearings i know last time you were here and it was right after kind of the new york times and. to the network for saying you're not covering this enough what has the media presence increased at all set the stage for a rolling stone is there or has been if not at this particular motion hearing the new york times is there scott shane was there and in fact we were reading him earlier today about the fact that you know we were part of the sort of people who were saying the new york times was in there the washington post is there the a.p. has been there throughout. so i think that the media is starting to take interest especially because of the discussion at the last session regarding aiding the enemy and the press is going to talk about that there was basically a discussion around witnesses about whether or not they would have charged the government would have charged the case had the media organization been the new york times and the prosecution said yes and so i think that there is suddenly an upsurge and also the trial is sort of around the corner although you said ju

really shaping the perception of how we view this conflict is a truly unfortunate incident at the new york times where as you said they had a headline which noncontroversial terms describing situations of reality where the occupied territory the israelis occupy and in fact in the lead to that article they mention israeli occupied territory and so you know i think the problem was when they went and changed it because then it made it seem as if there was something wrong with describing it in that way in that purely factual way and so yes i think it calls into question you know the way the media really represents what is going on the ground and the big problem with that of course is our understanding of what happens between israelis and palestinians runs through this filter of the mainstream media and in turn as americans that shapes our opinions and shapes the opinions of policymakers and our representatives who are making policies that frankly have not been helpful for the situation so i think it's really disappointing to see things like that and if the media could be more candid about the

you already pay a lot for the new york times. it is expensive. but ultimately, the paper will be for people who want paper, and the information will be on- line and available through the various pay walz they are creating. >> i am a freelance journalist. you were talking about abrogating and curating. i started off as a writer/reporter. the thing that strikes me is that when you talk about the new york times, the one thing i found is that quality costs money. there is a lot of crap out there. >> tell me about it. [laughter] >> my question to give is, where is the money going to come from to finance quality journalism? it is a combination of the heavy stuff as well as up and coming stuff. but where is the money going to come from? >> it is a deep question, the question that everybody asks. the new york times has created a partial pay wall. it is actually doing pretty well now. perhaps the new york times and daily newspapers in general, they used to be one-stop shops. you had your movie reviews. you had a whole bunch of sections that could be done e

the new york times =-- "new york times" was not alleging any wrongdoing. their computer started coming under attack. they believe the hackers were trying to find the information, the sources for that story. it does not believe they were able to. the "new york times" says it brought in security consultants which said it had all the hallmarks of other chinese attacks. what we have seen is that the chinese side have come out, the chinese government, the defense ministry, calling this irresponsible, saying it is groundless, there is no evidence this has happened, and that china itself is a victim of hacking. the "new york times" believes this fits a pattern which is a concerted campaign of chinese cyber espionage targeting american companies, american government organizations, ngo's, and media in attempts to steal information and control china's image at home and abroad. ever since they published the story in october, their own website has been blocked in china as another reprise o -- reprisal against it. >> beijing has been shrouded in thick smog. the air qual

we have some problems left over from the heavy rain. parts of york road are closed because of flooding in the cockeysville area. also some flooding south on york road. westbound 50, we have some debris blocking the right lane. there is an accident at sandy point state park. york road at, harrisburg expressway, things are moving fine. it is still pretty windy. things are moving find 95 at o'donnell street. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> the fight over the future of john leopold. the judge is expected to set a sentencing date today. >> the council is taking steps to have leopold forced from office. >> the council gathered yesterday to begin the process of removing leopold from office. he was convicted on two counts of misconduct. the council resolution that would oust leopold passed easily yesterday. the county attorney says removing him so soon may be illegal. his opinion centers around the word "conviction.' >> they have no authority to remove any official convicted of a crime until the conviction is a matter of record, until the convicti

the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york, mr. nadler, for he three minutes. -- for three minutes. mr. nadler: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, sometimes events occur that are so out of the ordinary, so unusual as to defy belief. such is the decision of the speaker last night not to permit this house to vote on relief on aid for the three states and some other areas that were devastated by hurricane sandy. i have been in this house for 20 years. there have been many disasters, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, wildfires and every single instance this house has voted aid for the appropriate -- necessary states. in every single instance. usually within a week or two. never more than three. it has now been nine weeks since october 29 when hurricane sandy devastated three states and parts of more. nine weeks. the senate passed the bill to aid us. the house was ready. the bill was prepared, an amendment was prepared. we were assured the bill would be on the floor last night or today. the last minute the speaker without eve

don't tell me that the leadership and the governors of new york and the governor of new jersey and the governor of connecticut and the mayor of new york and mayor bloomberg and others have immediately address the needs to the extent possible by them have addressed the needs very carefully as to what federal participation was needed. don't tell me that the house of representatives is going to ignore that mr. speaker, much has been said about the need for more civility in politics and government. that stability reflects to how we speak to each other and how -- and their enthusiasm about the issues we care a great deal about. the real stability that people expect is how this congress treats them and treat their needs and never is that tested more clearly than in a time of a natural disaster. that is when people feel the most helpless . by and large, it is a long road back but those first few steps like emergency relief that was provided by law -- by the localities must be compensated for. the next stage of recovery is so essential to the character of a community. after the storms last yea

perhaps the "new york times" got it wrong and al gore did not try to avoid paying higher taxes. if that's the case, we will be happy to correct the record and give mr. gore all the time he wants on the record to set things straight. but i think we all know that old al-isn't coming on this program. he never has and i didn't believe he ever will because we have problems with hypocrites in the no spin zone. and al well knows it. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. reaction. also president obama's immigration gun control point of view, which is coming up. with us, bob beckel one of the co-host of the five here on fnc. let's get to al gore first. this article in the "new york times" written by a liberal guy. >> right. >> so he is not looking to harpoon gore. looks like it's true. he tried to jam the thing last week to get the lower capital gains and you say? >> i would say 20% of it and one of his partners joe hyatt who i know big conservative businessman of course any will get in more capital gains make more money. >> bill: don't you think it's hypocritical? >> did i

new york's governor taking on the most supposedly intractable issue of our time, calling on new york state lawmakers to take that issue on themselves. forget the extremists, he says. now governor cuomo yesterday got a huge boost from prosecutors throughout new york state. and we think of new york state as being dominated by new york city. but new york state is a diverse state. and prosecutors from all over the state delivered to the governor a list of measures they support in terms of gun control. the list of prosecutors who signed that letter are overwhelmingly mostly republicans. and some of them, like franklin county district attorney derek champagne, which is definitely the best name in news today are themselves gun owners and gun enthusiasts. after signing that letter of support for common sense gun law reforms, derek champagne said part of the reason that he and other gunowners feel comfortable with this list of new reforms that they have given to the governor is that they as gunowners grew up in new york state, which has gun restrictions that are already among the tough nest th

it's now known as the new york act. yes there it is amenable it's through this that i think donation was made to the workers say by way of payment. the new york act orders the managers or from tino to transfer all the property to the workers and retired workers or to their unions it was authentic aided by the colombian consulate in one thousand nine hundred nine the document was then handed over to the government which was responsible for announcing the good news to the miners get us over what happened then. and then says oh see the trade ministry and i mean these they did that all employment ministry at the time and the columbia consulate in new york kept this document secret. for twenty years the workers were unaware the frontino had between them the mines the company was run by local managers who got richer and richer wagon after wagon. but in two thousand while searching through the archives of the ministry of economy by pure chance a trade unionist and earth's the new york act from then on the workers are going to d

." >> the gentleman from new york. >> thank you. i yield myself time. i am pleased that today, on this floor, though it may be late, we will finally act on legislation to increase the barring of party on behalf of the national flood insurance program. by increasing financing 99 $.7 billion, this will provide relief to one or 227,000 flood victims. i support the bill as a recovery from superstorm sandy. i believe the actions are still slow. 68 days have gone by. i know we have got commitments, but we are moving forwards and i am hopeful we will get the full entitlements the individuals from new york, new jersey, and connecticut finally need. some of the programs that need funding include engineers who work to protect new jersey's and york's shorelines. i want to thank every member of the new york, connecticut, and new jersey delegations for working collectively together to make sure our people -- because this as an issue that affects the american people -- they receive the kind of aid they need. i want to say to my friends mr. -- i have seenne they have s

this is new york, the progressive capital! you show them how we lead! >> this is new york. progressive capital. is that mario or andrew? cuomo propose ad specific new gun policy that would enact what he called the toughest assault weapon ban in the nation, period. >> no one hunts with an assault rifle! no one needs ten bullets to kill a deer! and too many innocent people have died already! and t end the madness now. >> environmental groups applauded this line from cuomo on climate change. >> climate change is real. it is denial to say that this is each of these situations is a once in a lifetime. there have been -- there is a 100-year flood every two years now. the time to act is now. >> big line. cuomo marking the territory there on the left inside the democratic party. then there is virginia. last night in his state of the commonwealth address, governor bob mcdonnell defended his proposal to eliminate the gasoline tax. replace it with an increase in the sales tax to fund transportation projects. which has been panned by some conservatives including norquist. >> i know ther

look, i don't want to get brian salter of the new york times. al warming guru al gore hypocrite on the tv. that is so potent if the media were doing the job they would take the whole deal apart. >> they will start al-jazeera america and that is it the new name of the chan and he will time warner dropped current tv from the line up. do they have a chance? >> there is it a stigma of al-jazeera from 2003, a lot of americans don't fear that. they had lejet myselfed themselves in the eyes of the american public in the arab spring. >> here is it a quote i love from the wall street journal. glen beck tried to buy current tv and rebuffed because of the legacy of who the network goes to is importantitous and we are sensitive to networks not aligned with our point of view. how does injuries al-jazeera fit in? >> same with "newsweek" it is it a political point that outlets are trying to make. i come from the standpoint that all media is biased and al-jazeera is included . you have to balance it out. al-jazeera has come a long way and doing a better job toda

liz: cyber attacks once again in the news, this time "the new york times." learning the "wall street journal" was hacked. up next, exclusively here, the ceo of the company brought in to discover whether these companies are being hacked. "forbes magazine" called it the hottest security startup on providing real protection and really succeeding where the big guys couldn't raising more money. if a possible ipo? david: find out why the carmaker behind a big ad you have probably seen little pieces of before could score big at the super bowl. more of that coming up. and don't forget to log onto facebook.com/after the bell. see if you pay more attention to the game or to the ads. he turned the sound off or not? . ... . . have given way to sleeping. tossing and turning where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. and lunesta®(eszopiclone) can help you get there. like it has for so many people before. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activities while asleep, without remem

now it's in ruins. >> sandy broke records for the biggest waves in new york harbor, for the biggest surge in new york city, and for the biggest pressure north of north carolina. what was the impactful part of sandy was the surge at 12, 15 feet. that surge had never been seen in new york city before. >> when we were here, the water was just below this mezzanine level. >> reporter: nearly a month after our first interview. >> you can see the rusts on these stair treads. >> reporter: jesky, this time dressed in a suit and tie, took us back down underground. >> this was a brand new tunnel station that was built. they've been taken back to the shops and labs -- >> reporter: just rebuilding south ferry station alone can take up to a year or more at a cost he's not even willing to guess about. >> we'll start taking components or pieces of the station down, the finished surfaces, the finished ceiling, the acoustic pieces of it. the signal systems will have to be rebuilt. all the conduits and piping will have to be opened up and drained. >> reporter: not to mention a sophisticated and intricate co

so it begs the question when you put an ad in "the new york times" or "the wall street journal" for a book it's not like putting in an ad for a honda or for a cadillac or chrysler, it's for one book. it's not random house advertising all of its books. it's one book. it's a very very different and very subjective business. which means that you can only plan so much when it comes to marrying books to readers. books for which publishers paid a great deal of money and i remember being at simon & schuster when simon & schuster paid $8 million for the record number -- record size of advance for ronald reagan's memoir called american life. now to earn $8 million, and you know the math as well as i do, you need to sell 4 million books. isn't that right? the million-dollar fans to sell 250,000? the books actually sold 300,000 copies, so it was a spectacular failure even because of the comparison of the size of the event to the actual sales. so it's a highly complex business with a thin margin of profit and you had to that the dramatic changes in technology and the public demands for new ways t

the gentlelady from new york. mrs. lowey: i rise in strong support of this bill and i want to thank chairman rogers, chairman frelinghuysen for taking the lead on this very important legislation. i rise in strong support of the underlying bill with the addition of the frelinghuysen amendment. it will help families, businesses, and communities affected by sandy recover and rebuild. in the 79 days that have passed since superstorm sandy caused such destruction, i have worked with colleagues on both sides of the aisle, with governor cuomo and christie, chairman rogers, mr. king of new york, mr. frelinghuysen, and all our colleagues from affected states to provide long overdue assistance to our regions. sandy devastated much of the northeast and it's one of the costliest natural disasters in our nation's history. 110 americans lost their lives, 8.1 million homes were without power. beaches across new york and new jersey were destroyed. more than 650,000 homes were damaged beyond repair. sandy ground regional commerce to a h

that money was paid to avoid the high tax rate in new york city. refugee; is that correct? >> actually, that's not correct. what i did, frankly, is that i moved to the place i lived for a long time, moved out of new york city when i was the president of the teachers union in the national president because i spend a lot of time in washington, d.c., and i spent a lot of time in the place i live in long island and gladly pay every sing m bit of my taxes, and, also, when i was the president of both, i actually had my salary cut in half to make sure i did not double dip. you know, at the end of the day, i, you know, it is up to the members, and i think what happens is we work really, really hard to ensure there's the voice of teachers. >> couple more issues, and this is what i want to talk about now. >> sure. >> with the argument over guns at the moment and school safety, it seems like there's a couple choices here. put guns in the hands of teachers, or we can put guns in the hands of professional security officers in all schools. do you favor either of

the badgers led by ten points as they beat the hoosiers 64-59. >>> in new york, st. d a strong come back in the second half against notre dame. the red storm held on to beat the fighting irish 67-63. >>> now to the nba, blake griffin showed some impressive moves as he scored 19 points for the clippers against the rockets. and even without chris paul, los angeles beat houston 117-109. >>> now to brooklyn. the nets passing helped give them a second half lead as they surged past the raptors in the third quarter and beat toronto 113-106. it's the seventh win in a row and they're 9-1 under the interim coach. >>> miss alabama katherine web is drawing lots after tension since she stole the spotlight from her boyfriend a.j. mccarron during the national championship game. webb treated, so zited to be chosen to cover the super bowl 47 lm h. rt for inside edition on new orleans. she beats her boyfriend to the envelope fl. >>> and here the money shot contest you have to see to believe. an atlanta hawks fans throws the shot overhand and gets stuck between the back of the rim and t

the gentleman from new york. mr. meeks: thank you, madam chair. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. meeks: madam speaker, i'm pleased that today on this floor, though it may be late, we'll finally act on a piece of legislation that's vital to superstorm sandy's disaster relief legislation to increase the borrowing authority by fema on behalf of the national flood insurance program. by increasing financing by $9.7 billion, this bill will enable the provisions of the central relief of 120,000 flood victims who have waited for far too long for the payment on their claims. i support today's bill as an important step for recovery from superstorm sandy. when taken as a whole the house's actions today i believe still are slow, 67, 68 days have gone by. now we have some commitments, but we are moving forward and i'm hopeful that we'll get the full entitlement that the individuals from new york, new jersey, connecticut vitally need. some of the programs, of cours

we are currently in the state of new york, the state of new york -- you guys know that. the state of new york has actually been, has had a tremendous success in the populating its prisons. in the last 10 years, new york is actually reduced its prison population by 22%. and has witnessed during this period of time historically low crime rates. so new yorkers really become an example. new jersey as well has reduced its prison population by about 20% and still maintain all time low crime rate. and new york and new jersey and other states like michigan reduced its prison population by 14% in the last several years as a result of a whole host of reform. we know that you can reduce the prison population and actually get lower crime rate. that is something we are seeing around the country. this chart is one piece of evidence for that. we talk about new york and the model of new york. indiana, on the other hand, between 2000-2010 increased its prison population by 47%, and only saw a reduction in its crime rate of 8%. we know that there isn't, the argument that mass incarceration