u.s. southern command and general charles jacoby jr., the commander of u.s. northern command and commander of the north american aerospace defense commander nor rad. this is general jacoby's first appearance before the committee as commander, and we look forward to working with you. general, many in your new position, general frazier, this is likely to be your last posture hearing and we greatly preached your testimony and advice over the past three years. i appreciate your 37-plus years of service in the united states air force. i understand that you and your wife rena are plans to enjoy some much deserved downtime after your change of command, and we truly wish you all the best. in addition to thanking you for your long and distinguished service to our nation, we ask you express our heartfelt gratitude to the men and women that serve with you for their exceptional service and dpor their many contributions to our security. we offer our thanks to your families and the families of all your personnel since they share in the sacrifices of their service and becau

u.s. southern command will continue defending the southern approaches to the united states and enhancing regional security and preparing enduring partnerships. i prepared a full statement and respectfully request it be made part of the record. >> it will be made part of the record. >> i want to previously discuss two topics with you this morning and both you and senator mccain briefly talked about it and that's countering transnational organized crime. my other topic is building enduring partnerships. as i have discussed with you in previous test, the u.s. southern command has increasingly focused on a concern that permeates the region, transnational organized crime. biden discussed during his visit to mexico and honduras, transnational organized crime is impacting citizen safety in north, especially guatemala, el salvador and honduras, they threaten to overwhelm law enforcement and spread violence and halt the spread of these military groups. to address this growing threat, last year the president implemented a strategy to combat transnational organized combat organized crime. in spaurpt of this

u.s. southern and northern commands. they oversee military operations in the western hemisphere. later, new york mayor michael bloomberg and antonio villaraigosa. >>> following the outcome of the 2010 census. some redistricting plans have landed in courts. stanford law school held a conference in january and what is ahead for the redistricting for the coming decade. this panel on the voting rights act is 90 minutes. >> we're going to get started again. thank you all for coming back in. thank you for being here. one of my favorite philosophers is satchel paige. who is famous for many things. telling you to avoid eating fried food. thank you for helping us with the lunch along those lines. to the people at the levin center. one of the things that he says is let whomever sits around recollecting, i'm looking up the line. that is redistricting partisanship of the voting rights act. i want to start with the past of the voting rights act. it situates many of the debates today. the year the voting rights act was passed, a poem was published called "long view negro." through the telescop

u.s. southern command developed and implemented a strategy to disrupt trafficking in south america and arrivals tons of central america. in central america we train our partner militaries to support the law enforcement organizations. u.s. southern command supports interagency international efforts by providing network analysis of transnational criminal organizations and their operations. we are developing a regional maritime interdiction plan to enhance the capability of our caribbean partners. in south america, we will sustain our support to colombia and peru as the fight narco terrorist groups in these countries. bau.s. and a command is working to build partnerships by enhancing cooperation and promoting information sharing with interagency operations. we are strengthening our partitions through traditional military engagement programs and activities with our counterparts across latin america. we work with and to strengthen humanitarian assistance. we remain ready to respond should our assistance be requested. last year we conducted hundreds of training and educational events, 12 major multin

u.s. southern command talks about organized crime and cocaine trafficking in central america. and later the u.s. senate returns for general speeches at 2 eastern followed later by a debate on a bill to repeal tax subsidies for large oil companies. >>> go to c-span.org/can campaign2012 to see the latest on the presidential candidates and president obama on the campaign trail. other features include a video for candidates' views on major campaign issues and a social media link to read what people are saying about the presidential race. it's all about c-span.org/campaign2012, your resource for this year's presidential race. >>> in march of 1979, c-span ban televising the u.s. house of representatives to households nationwide, and today our content of public affairs, nonfiction books and american history is available on tv, radio and online. >> my personal appreciation that i owe a great debt to others reinforces my view that a certain humility should characterize the judicial role. judges and justices are servants of the law, not the other way around. judges are like umpires. umpi

u.s. base in southern afghanistan. >> u.s. forces are providing the highest level of care for those injured. we are still attempting to ascertain the facts. >> reporter: cbs news has learned the suspect from fort lewis, washington was on his first tour of afghanistan, but had served a couple of prior tours in iraq. afghan president hamid karzai called it an assassination and says the shooting cannot be forgiven. president obama phoned karzai to offer condolences and express his shock and sadness. nato is working with local villagers to help understand what happened. >> what the motivation of the perpetrator has to be found out in the investigation. >> reporter: the shooting could not have come at a more sensitive time in u.s.-afghan relations. tensions were just starting to ease following the accidental burning of muslim holy books last month, sparking widespread protests across afghanistan that left dozens dead, including six u.s. service members. there's certain now this latest event could trigger new protests and more blood

u.s. base in southern afghanistan. >> u.s. forces are providing the highest level of care for those injured. we are still attempting to ascertain the facts. >> reporter: cbs news has learned the suspect from fort lewis, washington was on his first tour of afghanistan, but had served a couple of prior tours in iraq. afghan president hamid karzai calls it an assassination and says the shooting cannot be forgiven. president obama phoned karzai to offer condolences and express shock and sadness. nato is working with local villagers to help understand what happened. >> what's the motivation of the perpetrator has to be found out in the investigation. >> reporter: the shooting could not have come at a more sensitive time for u.s.-afghan relations. tensions were just starting to ease following the accidental burning of muslim holy books last month. that incident sparked weeks of widespread antiamerican protests across afghanistan that left dozens dead, including six u.s. service members. there's concern now this latest event could tr

u.s. base in southern afghanistan. >> u.s. forces are providing the highest level of care for those injured. we are still attempting to ascertain the facts. >> reporter: cbs news has learned the suspect, from fort lewis, washington, was on his first tour of after been stan but had served a couple of prior tours in iraq. afghan president hamid karzai called it an assassination and says the shooting cannot be forgiven. president obama phoned karzai to offer condolences and express his shock and sadness. nato is working with local villagers to help understand what happened. >> what's the motivation of the perpetrator? it has to be found out in the investigation. >> reporter: the shooting could not have come at a more sensitive time for u.s.-afghan relations. tensions were just starting to ease following the accidental burning of muslim holy books last month. that incident sparked weeks of widespread anti-american protests across afghanistan that left dozens dead including six u.s. service members. there's concern now this latest

u.s. southern command called it the deadliest place in the world outside of active war zones. >> the homicide rate in honduras alones that doubled in five years. cnn's kaj larsen journeyed to the heart of the violence. >> reporter: in the past year, over 17,000 people have been murdered in guatemala, el salvador and honduras. in honduras, over 90% of crimes like murder are never solved. they call it the impunity rate. i asked the chief of police in san pedro, the second biggest city here, if they would take us along when a call came in on a crime. a minute later, we got our wish. so we jumped in the trucks and we're headed there right now to see what's going on. it's completely real. we're not making up how violent this place is. we've been here four hours and our first bodies turn up. appears that he's been shot. the impact wound appears to be right here on the right side of his head. and the police commissioner told us that, you know, as is very typical in these situations, nobody saw anything, nobody heard anything, and nobody knows this guy. [ speaking spanish ] >> reporter: nobody wants

u.s. forces. lee thinks about them but then he writes and says, ica not march on fellow southerners. he goes home. he resigns his commission in the u.s. army and he will later rise to the leadership of the army of northern virginia and eventually to the leadership of all confederate forces. that's the situation by the time we're in late -- once you have the secession of all the upper south, by the time we're in late may, june 1865. when y'all get back on monday is when we'll pick up with the start of the war. now do you want to go ahead? we can open up the mic if you want to be able to record any of the questions. y'all are going to freeze at this point. don't make me talk on television. all right? do you have any questions? go for it. >> fort sumter was held by the north? >> it's a u.s. military installation. it would be like fort hood in texas. if texas is he seeds and you have a u.s. fort in this country. >> they were guarded by the north? >> it's all the united states. the question is fort sumter is in south carolina but it's the north. what's going on here. wait until all the que

u.s. forces on tuesday allowed media to observe the transportation of stryker armored vehicles. 36 units of the vehicle arrived at the southern port city of bhusan from hawaii. they will be sent to a u.s. base in south korea to take part in shooting exercises. >> the strykers being introduced in the korean peninsula for the first time. again, it speaks volume to our resolve and our partnership with the republic of korea and the united states alliance. >> reporter: tuesday's demonstration is widely viewed as an effort by the u.s. and south korea to highlight their unity ahead of the launch by north korea. fumitaka sato, nhk world, seoul. >>> u.n. delegates revisited an issue they've been ask ydiscuss for months, syria, but they can't agree on how to stop the fighting that's gone on for a year now. president bashar al assad's groups attacked deir al-zor. a human rights activists says the opposition free syrian army had to flee the city. large quantities of weapons are believed to have been smuggled into deir al-zor from anybody g i iraq. government forces have already taken the central city of homs and the northern city of idvi

u.s. military is warning soldiers to be prepared for retaliation. >> villagers pointed to a bullet hole as they pointed to damage to a home in southernvince. the u.s. serviceman went house to house in afghanistan killing people in two villages. the deaths of 16 people, mostly women and children, cannot be forgiven. nato has launched an investigation. >> we are lacking into the background what actually happened in the villages. >> reporter: the soldier is in custody. cbs news has learned he is an army staff sergeant from fort lewis in washington state who was on his first tour of duty in afghanistan. president obama all the afghanistan's president to express condolences. the president says the incident does not represent the exceptional character of our military. sunday's shooting comes less than a month after u.s. soldiers accidentally burned copies of the quran at a base in afghanistan. >> reporter: six american soldiers were killed in

attacked a afghan government delegation visiting the site in one of the two villages in southern afghanistan. >> u.s. soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians and all this comes as a prayer vigil is planned in our area for u.s. forces in afghanistan. sherrie johnson is standing by with the very latest. >> reporter: well, this breaking news has just come in. we have learned that militants have attacked an afghan delegation visiting the site where u.s. soldiers accused of killing 16 civilians including children. the attackers opened fire at the delegation 90 minutes ago. it's unclear if anyone was wounded or killed in the attack. also hundreds of students in eastern afghanistan held the first protest against the shootings overnight. closer to home, the family of a local marine gary roundtree is having a prayer service worried about more retaliation from the shootings over the weekend. >> there's good and bad in every organization. and i don't think one person can speak for the entire marine corps or the army. >> reporter: the prayer service is planned for tonight at the fire filled full gospel chu

that same system we will continue to track it very, very slowly last it inches across the southern u.s. here and the central part of the country. now thursday into friday we should get the sunshine across the state much of the day here, a warm day and that system to the west, again, crawling steadily east, probably going to make its move into maryland saturday night, saturday night into sunday. that could mean cooler and damper weather, especially for that second half of the weekend. mostly cloudy, fog developing. your thursday forecast 74, patchy fog again. tomorrow night humid again in the mid-50s. your seven-day forecast, there are some changes in the outlook. i promise you that. briefly warmer friday. the weekend looks cooler. sunday the system arrives. that will cool us off into early next week. kelly? >>> a warning about a strange charge many of you may be finding on your cell phone bill. the worst part if you don't check that bill carely you could easily miss this. john matarese explains. >> reporter: most of us feel our cell phone bills are too high but how carefully have you g

more violent weather could come today and tomorrow in parts of the central and southern u.s. >>> in onef the hardest hit communities, harrisburg, illinois, is trying to clean up the damage there. the city is under a dust to dawn curfew ave a devastating ef-7 hit. an estimated 250 to 300 homes have been damaged. 25 businesses are destroyed or damaged. authorities say winds of 170 miles an hour whipped through the rural town, bringing down almost everything in sight. >> overturned semis and cars and apartment buildings shredded to bits. >> we've lost children and loved ones and part of our family in this community. >> the tornado ripped through a popular part of branson, missouri, as well. it shirred some of bran son's famed music theaters.

u.s. military base in southern afghanistan.e'll have a live report from washington in about 10 minutes. >> also new this morning a school bus crash killed at least two people in indianapolis this morning. we have video from the scene a few minutes ago. crews are at the scene of the crash. one student and the driver of that bus are reportedly dead. two are critically hurt among the ten children injured. the bus hit a concrete bridge support. no word what caused this crash. >> here in the bay area police investigating an oakland shooting. it happened last night on the 2200 block of high street. two people were shot. they are expected to recover. police do not have information on the suspects right now. >> 6:33. a major cash infusion will move b.a.r.t. to the south bay further down the track. stephanie chuang joins us live with the historic ceremony set a few hours from now. good morning. >> reporter: marla, good morning. this is the final piece of the puzzle for a b.a.r.t. extension project funding what they have been waiting for

u.s. some southern states coming up on the calendar and navy they'll be competitive with the this coming saturday but in the month of april we have a whole slew of states including rhode island's pennsylvania and connecticut in new york and places like that's where mitt romney is likely to win the lion's share of not all of them and to extend his lead significantly so it does mean that if your santorum you're really going to have to bank and getting the seven states later and taking in the running is still willie has a to one delegate count and what that means a going forward is his best bet at this point is to hope for a convention slowdown and a don't think the republican party let that happen to maybe for rick santorum are you really have to do is make a case yourself and bp said its ticket to shore up romney's weaknesses with conservative republican voters in the south. did we decide the u.s. plan as now? >>> idea of a nosy the gloves off that they say in politics and by the way in the campaign so far one of the ones we saw on illinois about being nice for not being nice is that romney was ef

u.s. for helping out. >>> in southern california, >>> hundreds of people marked the anniversary with a rallystrators questioned the safety of the nuclear generating station in the aftermath of a possible earthquake or tsunami. local officials say the plant's design in the area geography make it unlikely that will be a japan-style disaster. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the latest on the deadly shootings in afghanistan. plus, a look at hygiene and its link to higher allergy and asthma rates. i'm terrell brown. this is the "cbs morning news." i'm terrell brown. this is the "cbs morning news." ñ [ female announcer ] when your child has a fever, you should know that just one dose of children's advil® gives up to eight hours of fever relief. allowing your little one to get back to building a better afternoon. children's advil.® relief you can trust. children's advil.® mid grade dark roast forest fresh full tank brain freeze cake donettes rolling hot dogs bag of ice anti-freeze wash and dry diesel self-serve fix a flat jumper cables 5% cashback right now, get 5% cashba

u.s. military base in southern afghanistan. he's in custody. >> nato's sitting in a tinder box, and this could be the spark that unravels our presence in afghanistan. >> reporter: president obama called president karzai sunday to apologize, saying we'll investigate and hold the shooter responsible. >> we're committed to an enduring relationship with afghanistan, to obtain greater peace and security in the region. >> reporter: karzai in a statement called it an intentional act that will never be forgotten. one month after accidental burnings of a koran sparked deadly protests. >> unfortunately, these things happen in war. you had an israeli soldier killed, worshippers by the mosque. you just have to push through these things. >> reporter: in washington, lawmakers say this latest incident underscores why we need to get out. >> our timetable is pretty good. we're moving out, as the president said, and i think that's the right thing to do. >> reporter: but perhaps not too quickly. >> we should not forget that the attacks on the uni

or the southern part of the u.s.ttern has held it way to the north. so we have had cold air in canada and the arctic and alaska and cold with big hits of snow in alaska, but the bulk of the country has not seen it here. >> how much of this comes down to just bad luck in the end? or for many people last night, good luck in that they survived it. but looking at the general pattern and the area it hit, you know, most of these tornadoes, i guess, just hit fields or waste land or whatever it may be. they don't hit directly on small towns, do they? >> well, i tell you, the way this goes with this, this is, you know, 15, maybe 20 tornadoes in a cycle is not an incredibly bizarre pattern. it happens. it just usually happens about two months later than now. you're not usually looking at an outbreak like this in february. in this rural area, it went through towns, fields, did a lot of damage with the tornadoes and

u.s. military base. home to the southern european task force and one of ten major u.s. bases in italy the area designated for the new base is the x. a billion airport. the plans for the new base include forty eight buildings over twenty acres of land i couldn't give a damn about the chance of because if it said you have four people it said three or four are over the age of ninety and the base is a nothing of a base it doesn't generate smoke noise there are no planes landing so anybody of complacency chait's from my point of view is a dirty commie ok but why because the italian government to reach and your target is of decided yes and they want to make a noise even though these are entirely harmless people it's like having tourists they don't have tanks they don't have the helicopters that own question airplanes and so it's purely ideological and negative by a bunch of people who don't do anything in a worthless. in april two thousand the king live and yet is elected mayor of beach and so the promise of holding a referendum on a new base it is said to be held on october

u.s. . heavy rains in southern peru triggered a massive landslide threatening roekel houses dozens of homes have already been destroyed by the mud flows and farmers say they suffered serious losses however no casualties yet reported authorities say it's not the first major landslide in the region since the rainy season started in january. thousands of election web cams were installed tamara rush's presidential vote but they also provided hours of entertainment value authorities have decided to give a multi-million dollar project a second booster it is a carrot approach over tricks are exactly how big brother could be of use. those videos went viral from cultural dancing in chechnya to some quite impressive workouts five hundred years worth of light video recorded on one single day was part of electing the next leader of russia what cameras were installed at all polling stations don't want to tour any possible fraud but the relatively few violations were obvious shadowed by the entertainment provided some have already done after the election the most expensive light show in russia's history

u.s. forces. and then lee thinks about it and says i cannot march on fellow southerners. he goes home, resigns his commission in the u.s. army and we will later resign to the army of northern virginia and to the forces. that's the situation by the time we're in late. really, once you have the succession of all the upper south, by the time we're in june, late may, june, 1865. and when you all get back on monday is when we'll pick up with the start of the war. now, if you want to go ahead, you can open up the mike if you want to record any of the questions. you are all going to freeze at this point, though. oh, don't make me talk on television. all right? but do you have any questions? about lee? maria, go for it. >> fort sumpter was held? >> it's a u.s. military installation. it would be like, i don't know, fort la hood in texas. you've got a u.s. fort in the middle of this country. >> well, it's all the united states, right? i mean, the question is, all right, fort sumpter is in south carolina. but it's the north, you know. what's going on? you're just waiting until all of

u.s. military base in southern afghanistan. he's in custody. >> these incidents and in particular the short distance between the incidents that we've seen in the recent weeks are a burden and are of concern for us. >> nato is sitting on a tinder box and this could be the spark that unravels our presence in afghanistan. >> reporter: president obama called president karzai to apologize. karzai called it an intentional act that will never be forgotten. one month after accidental burnings of the koran sparked deadly protests. >> unfortunately these things happen in war. you have an israeli soldier killed soldiers. you have to push through these. >> reporter: lawmakers say this latest incident underscores why we need to get out. >> we're moving out as the president said and i think that's the right thing to do. >> reporter: tracie potts, nbc news, washington. >> we can tell you there aren't many details about the shooter. he served three you tours in iraq, this was his first in afghanistan. the u.s. embassy is warning americans to a

u.s. military base in southern afghanistan. president obama called president karzai to express his condolences and insisted it does not represent america's military or its respect for afghanistan. mr. karzai called it an act of terrorism that will never be forgiven. >> the larger problem will be, this is a spark landing on this tinderbox of afghanistan. >> we're saddened by this violent act against our afghan friends. our thoughts and prayers are with the families and their entire community. >> the soldier turned himself in to military official and is being detained in kandahar. leon pan net that has promised the afghans a thorough are investigation and swift justice. >>> take one for the conservatives and drop out. that's the message from rick santorum today. coming up next at 5:00, santorum asks one of the other republican candidates to move out of the way of the nominating process. >>> and another major player. we will show you the first ever 408k honoring pat tillman. >>> pleasant weather conditions for the race in the sout

. >>> the military's northern and southern commands oversee u.s. military operations in the u.s. hemisphere. we look at the 2013 budget and what it means for the northern and southern commands. that hearing will be live on c-span 3. >>> last year, general motors reported its large effort profit ever. $7.6 billion. just three years after receiving a financial rescue package from the government. gm's ceo dan akerson spoke about the future of the auto industry last week at the commonwealth club of california. >> this is fantastic. >> i will start the radio program. we will get going. welcome to climate one. a conversation about america's energy, climate and environment. today we are talking about the u.s. economy and auto industry with dan akerson. three years after the obama administration bailed out the giant, general motors is firing on all cylinders and posted its most profitable year ever. it paid back half of the $50 billion it received. but the 30% stake in the company could be seen as a financial and political liability. over the next hour, we will discuss this american comeb

u.s. troops at this base in southern afghanistan. two u.s. soldiers were killed. a third one was injured during the return of fire by u.s. troops. two of those afghan gunmen were killed. a third one was taken into custody. it's not exactly clear what the motivation for the shooting was. but u.s. officials say it is likely it had something to do with the anger over the koran burning. this follows in a series of attacks on u.s. troops that we have seen since the announcement that u.s. troops had burned koran about 10 days or so ago. but in a scary statistic that we just realized today of the 60 american and international troops killed here in afghanistan, 12 of them have been killed by afghan security forces. police officers and soldiers. that's nearly 20% of all coalition troops killed here in afghanistan there is a dangerous trend of afghan security forces killing the people and the trainers that they are working with here in afghanistan. that throws this entire strategy here in afghanistan into question about the long-term ramifications of what this will do to th

white southerners, perhaps best exemplified by his attempts to place two conservative white southerners on the u.s. supreme court. nixon's need to win the south in 1972 under the so-called southern strategy. and the general muffling of nixon's rhetoric on civil rights. southern strategy and retreat of interpretation of nixon's civil rights policies was advanced by such journalists as rowland evans and robert novak. and liberal members of nixon's administration who left the administration like leon panetta who wrote a memoir. problems with the southern strategy include that it is simplistic. it is to a certain extent unsophisticated and one-dimensional. it's true it captures nixon's political motivation which was undeniable. it also tends to wrap isolated events into a tidy all policy is politics argument. the second school of thought might be described as the nixonian revision. this we can see in the 1970s, continuing into the 1980s. we see memoirs emerging in the 1990s. this is the first effort to revise the record. it could be found in memoirs by nixon and some of his closest and most loyal advi

the's appeals to white soerns, best attempts to place two conservative white southerners on the u.s. supreme court, haynesworth jr. and carswell. nixon's need to win the south in 1972 under the so-called southern strategy and the muffling of nixon's rhetoric on civil rights. southern strategy retreat interpretation of nixon's civil rights policies was advanced by journalists as roberts and novak and others who left the administration like leanne panetta, who wrote a memoir. problems with the retreat thesis include it is simplistic, it is to a serb extent unfist indicated and one-dimensional. it is true that it captured nixon's political motivation which was undeniable but it also tends to wrap isolated events into a tidy, all policy is politics argument. the second school of thought might be described as the nixonian reversion of nixon's civil rights policies and that revision in the 1970s and continuing into the 1980s to some ex-tent, and we even see memoirs emerging in the 1990s. this is the first effort to revise the record. it can be find by nixon and some of his closest adviser,

u.s. forces. lee thinks about them. but then he writes and says, i cannot march on fellow southerners. he goes home. he resigns his commission in the u.s. army. and he will later rise to the leadership of the army northern virginia and eventually the leadership of all confederate forces. okay. that's the situation by the time we're in late. really once you have the secession of all the upper south, by the time we're in late may, june, 1865. when ya'll get back on monday is when we'll pick up with the start of the war. now, do you want to go ahead, we can open up the mic if ya'll want to be able to record any of the questions. you're like, don't make me talk on television. all right. but do you have any questions? about lee? go for it. >> fort sumter was held by the north. >> it's a u.s. military installation. it would be like i don't know ft. hood and texas. if texas suddenly secedes and you have a u.s. fort in the middle of the country. yeah. >> so they were on the -- >> well, it's all the united states, right. i mean, the question is, all right, fort sumter is in south carolina but it's the north.

u.s. military base in southern afghanistan. he's in custody. >> nato's sitting in a tinder box, and this could be the spark that unravels our presence in afghanistan. >> reporter: president obama called president karzai sunday to apologize, saying we'll investigate and hold the shooter responsible. >> we're committed to an enduring relationship with afghanistan, to obtain greater peace and security in the region. >> reporter: karzai in a statement called it an intentional act that will never be forgotten. one month after accidental burnings of a koran sparked deadly protests. >> unfortunately, these things happen in war. you had an israeli soldier killed, worshippers by the mosque. you just have to push through these things. >> reporter: in washington, lawmakers say this latest incident underscores why we need to get out. >> our timetable is pretty good. we're moving out, as the president said, and i think that's the right thing to do. >> reporter: but perhaps not too quickly. >> we should not forget that the attacks on the uni

u.s. . heavy rains in southern peru of lead to massive landslides threatening local households and dozens of homes already destroyed by the mud flows and farmers say they have suffered serious losses to no casualties yet reported but authorities say it's not the first major landslide in the region since the rainy season started in january. election webcam secured not only transparency during russia's presidential voting but also provided people with hours of entertainment now authorities are left deciding what to do with a billion dollar project and how they could give it a second life or he's a kinder groucho but checks out how would zach lead big brother could be if you. those videos went viral from cultural dancing in chechnya some quite impressive workouts five hundred years worth of life video recorded on one single day was part of electing the next leader of russia but cameras were installed at all polling stations to morny tour any possible fruit but the relatively few violations were overshadowed by the ins taman provided some have already dubbed the election the most expensive live

u.s. . heavy rainfalls in southern peru led to a massive landslide threatening local homes dozens of houses have already been destroyed by mud flows and farmers say they have suffered serious losses no casualties yet reported but authorities say it's not the first major landslide in the region since the rainy season began j. . election webcams secured not only transparency to russia's presidential vote but they also provided people with hours of entertainment now the authorities have decided to give the billion dollar project a second life archy's a carrot to go travel looks at how exactly big brother could use. those videos went viral from cultural dancing in chechnya to some quite impressive workouts five hundred years worth of life video recorded on one single day was part of electing the next leader of russia but cameras were installed at all polling stations to money tour any possible fraud but the relatively few violations were overshadowed by the name and provide it some have already doubts the election the most expensive live show in russia's history the system cost almost a billion

u.s. southern home front? we must stop the infusion of these cartels at the rio grande, or they will infest the whole united states as the chicago cartel did back in the mob days. families are not arming themselves for fun in south texas, they are preparing for the worst to come. many believe the u.s. government will not be there when the time comes and we need them. if we don't stop them in south texas, then houston and dallas will be infested with cartel influence. i have great concerns that they are already operating in the highlands, bay town area of southeast texas already. thanks for your past support and future drive to protect u.s. citizens. mr. speaker, mr. baggy tells it -- us that he's scared to even go to the south texas border region. he is a businessman and he sees firsthand as the citizens who live on the border, the problem with the drug cartels. he is not alone. mexico is quickly becoming in my opinion a failed state and texas towns are in danger because the federal government just does not ad

. >> the military's northern and southern command oversee u.s. military operations in the western hemisphere. a little later this morning the senate armed services committees look at the 2013 budget and what it means for the northern and southern command, that meeting will be live at c-span3 at 9:30 a.m. eastern. >> this is c-span3 with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week, and every weekend 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our website and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> a new report from the surgeon generals on the one in four high school seniors smoke cigarettes and 80% of them will go on to smoke as adults. surgeon general regina benjamin and house and services secretary kathleen sebelius spoke about the report last week for about half an hour. >> what a well behaved group. well, good morning, everybody, and thank you for joining us here today. i'm delighted to be here to kick off the announcement of the 2

arctic, pushes over to northern europe and central and southern europe for a while, but it wasn't able to make it past, down into the middle of the u.sof the u.s., and to be honest, it hasn't made it into much of the northern parts of the u.s. this year. that jet stream pattern had held it to the north. it has been in canada, the arctic, and alaska, very cold with big snow in alaska, but the bulk of this country hasn't seen it. >> how much of this comes down to just bad luck in the end? or for many people last night, good luck in that they survived it. but looking at the general pattern and the area it hit, you know, most of these tornadoes, i guess, just hit fields or waste land or whatever it may be. they don't hit directly on small towns, do they? >> well, i tell you, the way this goes with this, this is, you know, 15, maybe 20 tornadoes in a cycle is not an incredibly bizarre pattern. it