[applause] wyoming. wyoming has struggled with the issue of suicide. my office and the department of health have been working to further delay to plan on how we can make improvements and it's not easy. the one such person who's been leading the way in this effort is bj heirs, creator and executive director of grace for two brothers foundation. bj is a strong advocate for suicide prevention initiatives. she lost 2 cents to suicide, thus the creation of her foundation. she's wicked and statewide is being an authority in suicide prevention. she does great things locally and across the state. we appreciate the courage you've shown, helping to prevent the tragedy of suicide. please stand as we thank you for your work. [applause] so when i say the state of the state is strong, it is one of dollars cents. it's because tremendous people like i've introduced to this warning. we are small in population, but we are big and talent. we are big and potential and we know our people are wyoming's very best resource. november 30 days that it may budget for 2014th, a ba

i know my friend from wyoming, how many people in wyoming? [inaudible] 562,785. and we have 38 million people. all right? i want to tell you what it means that we voted the way we did. 400,000 people this morning. 400,000 people this morning will lose their unemployment insurance, unless the house acts. and if the house acts as we did, they will not lose it. what does this mean to people, 400,000 of them? and as my friend in the chair, the presiding officer, who's so good on economics knows, there's a multiplier effect here. for every dollar we give in unemployment benefits, we give a bang for the buck of $1.42 in the community because the people on unemployment, they spend it because they're out of work. and they're about to lose this help. we need to help them and in this package we did. two million nationwide, 600,000 jobs at stake from the multiplier effect. and in my state, 400,000 people. almost as many people as reside in the state of wyoming. they are about to lose their unemployment insurance. imagine almost that. i'd ask for an additional five minutes.

. >> a bill before the wyoming state legislature would make a federal legend a person trying to enforce a ban on farm guilty of a funny. there are similar measures under considation in nnessee and tetexas. the governor in mississippi wants to make it illegegal in the state to enforce any new federal n laws. how many tis have we had this debate? ththis time after the murders of the children in newtown, conn. the president tells us is different. signed 23 executive orders aimed at reducing gun violence and has urged congress to reinstate a ban on so-called assault weapons, limit the size of the magazines, and mandate criminal background checks for all and sales. he is also o asking americans to put heat on members of congress to get there. >> ask for a member of congress if they support universal background checks to keep guns out of the wrong hands, and if they say no, ask them why not. >> and our response predictably was immediate. >> are the president's kids more foreign than yours? and why is he's skeptical about putting armed security in our schools when his schools are protected by

i do represent the wyoming nurses association. i've been a registered nurse for almost 30 years, worked in acute care, long term care, education, and administration. wyoming is the ninth largest state in the u.s. with only 100,000 square miles of land, but our population is the smallest in the nation with just a little over half a million people. wyoming's frontier of rural environment impacts our health care systems. wyoming has 25 hospitals, 16 designated as critical access hospitals, 25 beds or less. there's two veterans' hospitals and 16 rural health clinics. there's eight community health centers, three special population health centers, and three are satellites of larger health care centers. dealing with the extended number of patients and barriers to care for the parties, several components have to be considered. one is the ain't for providers to be able to practice to the full scope of the education and license. another is addressing the shortage of providers due to retirement, and a shortage of qualified faculty to educat

the senator stated i represent the wyoming nurses association. i have worked in acute care, long-term care, education, and administration. wyoming is the largest state and the u.s. with almost 100,000 square miles of land. our population is the smallest and the nation with a little over a half a million people. the rural environment impacts our health care systems. 25 beds or less. there are two veterans hospitals and 16 rural health clinics. there are eight community health care centers. three are satellites of larger health-care centers. when dealing with the number of patients and the barriers to care for them, several components need to be considered. the ability for providers to be able to practice to the full scope of their education and i said sure -- licensure. a short of all five faculty. the quality of care for rural areas. with baby boomers turning 65, there will be an increase in demand for healthcare along with expansion of nonhospital sessiottings. wyoming's nurses practice act allows advanced nurse practitioners to practice indepen

wyoming is the ninth largest state in the u.s. i'm almost 100,000 square miles of land, better population is most of the nation with over half a million people. wyoming is 25 hospitals for 16 designated as critical access hospitals. 25 beds are less. there's also two veteran hospitals in 16 rowhouse clinics. wyoming is a committee held senators special population and three satellites which are health care centers. when dealing with the expanded number of patients and barriers to care for patients come in several components to be considered. what is the ability for providers to the full scope of their education and licensure. another stooge retirement and shortage of qualified faculty to educate new providers. others include perception of quality of care in funding for rural areas. baby boomers turning 65 at 310,000 a day will be day will be an increasing in demand for health care in traditional acute care settings with one half of setting such as home health care. wyoming's practice back allows advanced part is coming nurse practi

so you've got representative joe carr in tennessee and wyoming state represent kendall kreker saying we are not going to listen to the federal laws, we're not going to listen to that. we are going to do whatever we want. >> that's one of the best accents i've ever heard. >> cenk: i remember that going down a couple of decades ago. how did that turn out for the south, tennessee and texas? >> it didn't work the way they

we do in wyoming. time for this senate and the house and the president to get serious about limiting our spending and specifically the wasteful spending that continues. >> so bottom line, bill, both parties have staked out oppositions virtually identical to the positions they staked out during the last debt ceiling fight. no signs of bipartisanship ever. >> we mentioned the deadline midnight next month. in reality we have already hit that debt ceiling limit. is that so? >> we hit the debt ceiling with the start of the new year. treasury secretary tim geithner managed to pull off manipulation of the numbers which extended any impact of the debt ceiling for a couple of months. even so, critics maintain that the united states government could continue paying off its debts for some months into the foreseeable future based upon tax receipts alone. at least a majority of our debt. but the divisiveness of the two parties at this point in time is setting very bad signals to the credit rating agencies. one of w

wyoming is the nineth largest state in the u.s. with almost 100,000 square miles of land but our population is the smallest in the nation with a little over half a million people. in rural environment impacts our health care system. we have 25 hospitals. there are also two veterans hospitals and 16 rural clinics. when dealing with the number of patients and the barriers to care for these patients several components need to be considered. one is the ability for providers to practice. another is addressing the shortage of providers due to retirement and the shortage of qualified faculty to train other providers. with baby boomers turning 65 at the rate of 10,000 a day there will be a demand for health care professionals. wyoming's nurses practice act allows nurse practitioners to practice independently in our state. disability helps to provide patients in rural access to primary care. some federal laws limit the nurse' ability to practice at their full scope. a medicare law has kepted r.n.'s from certifying medicare patients from a h

so wyoming sort of sending a message to washington, we don't care what you do. things are going to stay the way they are here in wyoming and not only that, but if you pass some law banning semi automatic guns and magazines and try and arrest somebody, we're going to arrest you, and charge you with a felony. chase going on here? >> well, megyn, you remember when we had the obamacare stuff, the president's health care law, we've had states across the country pass constitutional amendments saying you cannot mandate the citizens of that state to purchase health insurance and we're going to see the tests on that play out in the months and years to come and we've seen states rebel against the law by opting out of the medicare or medicaid provisions of it. we saw that before and now we'll see it again and we're preparing again to see states push back on this. and in this case, it's the response is going to be even more intense because you're dealing with black and white, you're dealing with what the second amendment says. this is a clear discussion where half-- not hal

companies like genesse and wyoming and others. liz: define pro cyclical. everybody has a different definition. >> right. we have been in this long drought of predictable growing economic activity. in china we have seen stability there and a slight up tick but not just in china but in other geographies as well. you don't have about small cap having exposure there, but many small cap companies do including the genesse and wyoming. liz: let's get your macro picture now on what's happening. i hate being a pessimist and i'm not, but when you see since the first of the year suddenly we're hitting more than a couple of five-year highs on the s&p 500. is the run-up too quick and are we heading for sort of a mini correction? >> well, we talked about last year that we had uncertainties to overcome, whether -- first, it was whether obama care was going to be the law of the land, then who our president was going to be, and then last piece in the puzzle, which unfortunately is going to take a little while to figure out is the fiscal cliff because the next component of

right down into wyoming. into salt lake city and moving through colorado as well. seattle is finally going to see some sunshine today. northwestern california will see a little bit of light rain but for the most part the trouble spots will be across the middle of the country. high temperatures today look fairly typical for this time of year. we should top out in the 50s down in san francisco. that's a look at fallon, nevada, 30 degrees with finally a break from some of that snow. we are going to see a break from the rain today in seattle but more rain will move in for the weekend. >> looks like it might and good ski weekend for a lot of folks there. >> that's the plus side for sure. great ski snow. >> thank you. >>> stocks rock as the s&p hits a five-year high. an update on stranded whales and thousands of white collar jobs coming to the u.s. >>> plus, the huge cruise liner that ran ashore. we go toitly lto italy to see costa concordia is one year later. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back. some stories now making news this morning. california governor

>> well, i did my fishing then in wyoming. i used to go to british columbia every year for steal head. salmon fishing from canada but i did not do that while i was vice president. partly because there were alternative uses for the gear. they wouldn't let me go just sort of on the local economy. i always had to have a military lift i couldn't justify using the helicopter and the crew to take me up to some place in british columbia and fish. >> you ever get president bush out here to fish with you? >> we fish together but always on his pond in crawford. >> we p haven't fished there since we left office. he and i fished. he love it had. bass fishing that's what they had down there. i would go out and sit in the small boat i would use my fly rod. he's a good fisherman. >> that is all the time we have left this evening. thank you for being with us. hope you have a great night. >> good monday morning to you. i am ainsley earhardt. >> i am heather nauert. it is monday january 7th. thank you for watching "fox & friends first". it is t

. >> a bill before the wyoming state legislature would make a federal agent who tried to enforce a ban on firearms guilty of a felony. there are similar measures under consideration in texas and the governor of mississippi says he wants to make it illegal in the state to enforce any new federal gun laws. how many times have we had this debate? this time after the murders of the children in newtown, conn., the president tells us this is different. the president has signed 23 executive orders aimed at reducing gun violence and is urging congress to reinstate a ban on so-called assault weapons, limit the size on magazines, and mandate here are some background checks for all gun sales. he is also asking the public to put heat on members of congress. >> remembers of congress if they support universal background checks to keep guns out of the wrong hands. the response from the nra was immediate. >> is the president's kids more important than yours? why is he's skeptical about putting our security in his school's, when his daughters have arm together school? mr. obama demands of will to pay t

almost 4 years, whether it was going off to sundance or to writer's retreat they have in sheritan, wyoming -- is that where you went? . >> that was in utah and la as well, down there at the institute. >> they have another writer's retreat in sheritan, wyoming, so i spent time out there and we workshoped this in san francisco, we have done readings at the asia society in new york. each time we did a workshop, each time we did a reading, it moved the piece forward. i think in large part it has to do with working with cary pearloff, the director, but she is also an excellent dramator. she worked closely with me in terms of the writing of the material so as we went along, we were able to shape the piece as well as figure out how to stage it. it's an interesting piece in that i wrote it with a number of small themes and the choice is you either present it like a doll house, or rear view window where you have kind of a cut out and you kind of jump from one room to another, or -- and this was my preference -- to develop some kind of cinematic approach to allow for there to be a fluidity in all th

. >> you have new york and andrew cuomo, wyoming, where you can walk into the public gallery in the state legislature with a firearm. >> and bars. >> only 26 states ban guns are all is served. >> and get the massacre happened in connecticut, not wyoming. >> true. >> states obviously have different cultures, different values, different political imperatives. that is the reality of new york with the sullivan law, which was the most draconian, some would say, most progressive control of private fire arms of any place in the country. as i look at this right now, are we not about to go into the debate over privacy versus public safety? isn't that where we are treading into? it just strikes me -- charles could answer better than i. the whole treatment out of people who are mentally disturbed is pharmacological. it is not institutional. just another prescription. am i wrong? >> that is true, and the tragedy, when -- in the kennedy era, when he started the community of mental health service, the idea was to close the snake pits, he put them in the community, give the medication, which was new, in

we do in wyoming.this senate and the house and the president to get serious about limiting our spending and specifically the wasteful spending that continues. in the last hour stewart varney and martha talked about some of the abuses that continue to go on. people know that their tax dollars are being wasted. we need to get the spending under control. bill: two days ago brit hume told us this will be bloody, this battle. will it? >> the future of our country is at stake here and the president wants to continue on his path of spending. he has said in the past spending is not the problem, the american people are very disappointed because they know that the president is wrong here. spending is the problem. we have to get the spending under control. bill: what does that say about our economic health when they come out and say we are going to downgrade you anyway, whether you cut a deal now or in a month from now? >> and fitch has specifically said it's because they want a credible, credible deficit reducti

again prepared a study and looked into contamination and pavillion wyoming this again residents there were complaining that their water tasted and smelled like chemicals so after three years the e.p.a. finally did the studies there issued a draft for. or found in fact they believe that hydraulic fracturing had contaminated the water there were synthetic chemicals in the water there that are used in drilling that are not naturally occurring and we come to find out after that study was released again the a.p. did an investigative report and found that the state leaders the governor of wyoming had exchanged eleven thousand e-mails with the e.p.a. and had forced them to delay the release of their findings to give the state agency and the industry time to respond to what they were going to find in their report this led to. a problem you know very prolonged additional studies being done by the e.p.a. there were hearings held in the house on on the methods used by e.p.a. for the study there was this tremendous backlash by the industry and just this week the e.p.a. again extended the draft st

you see it's coming wyoming. walter cronkite says on television there's teddy kennedy hurrying across the floor. and he's hurrying over to the wyoming delegation and you see him say something to the delegation chairman. he says, wyoming casts is fifteen votes for jfk. so after kennedy has the majority, of course, a number of states switch to him. actually it close that he was going make it on the first round. c-span: i started asking earlier, you say lbj and robert kennedy, they were both ruthless. >> guest: yes. c-span: explain what it means and give us examples, if you can. >> guest: of course, it's easier to do it with johnson. janson's ruthlessness throughout his life was striking, you know, in the last volume. he ruined -- he destroyed the senate career of the senator named earl by forcing him to vote what later and early version of medicare. he clemons knew if he vote for it he would be destroyed because the ama had been active in his state. they called the social laws medicine. so scwawnson says unless i n

the disturbance out to the west in montana and wyoming will ultimately do that. that happens about monday. the upper midwest, you can see the beginnings of that cold air invasion coming in. international falls, 5 below. minneapolis is for below right now. -- 4 below right now. this is the influx of chilly air that comes in. tonight, freezing for the low. mostly clear. southwest winds at 2- 7, holding the temperatures up. the day tomorrow, not quite as warm as today. still above average for this season. 45-50 for the high. it will be breezy. winds gusting to 25 mph. 2-3 foot chop in the open waters of the bay. what we will be watching with great interest is this one coming out of the dakotas. tomorrow this one goes through. this one comes through on monday. you can see the remnants of it in here. monday, chance of snow shower activity. then the cold air spills into the area. tomorrow night, the ravens patriots game. partly cloudy. temperatures in the 20's. it will be windy. cokld game, but at least dry. 37 tomorrow. 27 on tuesday. snow showers in the forecast. tow

the neighbors in the neighborhood are saying pavilion, wyoming, this is a sult of the fracking going on nearby. there is a case they would point to saying it is bad for the environment. >> listen there is nothing just fine. fracking also has its problems. we should dinitely have it well-regulated. most water you get is from 100 feet down and most fracking is like a mile down. not like the two are intersecting you have to drop your ddill through the water. you need to inlate that you need regulation. melissa: right. >> you have to recognize if you care about global warming, if you care about cheap energy prices and if you care about energy independence this is a great opportunity and a lot of people in the business make the point when you see something like this there is always miske in the well and something went wrong as opposed to pollutions a result of general fracking going the way it was supposed to. you alsoake the point it has lowered energy prices which is absolutely trueue. and that it is going to make us more energy independent. the problem is though it doesn't replace. it

. >> this is the wind river dancers, the wind river reservation all the way from wyoming. they are here to honor all of us with their performance. $6,000 short of their scaled-down fundraising. they are marching anyway and doing an excellent, excellent job. right now i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer here in washington, d.c. we're right across from the president of the united states on the reviewing stand. there it is, the reviewing stand on the north lawn of the white house. kate bolduan is here, jim acosta is here and we're in "the situation room," a special edition of the situation room watching the wind river dancers from the wind river reservation in wyoming performing for the president of the united states. he's still there. he's still in the reviewing stand. the first lady, sasha and malia have gone inside. i suspect they have to get ready for the balls for tonight. >> it's a very special day, obviously, but a very long day for the president and first lady. up next, they will get ready and head to the balls and

let's go to trent in wyoming. trent? >> caller: how's it going, jim? >> all right. what's going on?from the great state of wyoming, man. >> thank you. >> caller: i want to know about resolute energy. what do you think about that? >> i've been looking at a lot of these different oil and gas companies and i believe that oil may still be shaded down, which is why i favor stocks with yield in this sector and that one doesn't have it. you need yield to be in oil and gas. that's why i like things like conoco. let's go to michael in pennsylvania. >> caller: boo-yah. >> boo-yah. >> caller: nycb, please. >> this company had an outsize yield that looked like it was going to be a red flag but now i'm keeping the red flag in my sock because i think that we are in a position where the regional banks are doing just fine and i like it. i need to go with billy in missouri. billy? >> caller: boo-yah, jim, from the home of the once again playing hockey st. louis blues. >> nice. >> caller: i actually am calling about public storage. psa. >> i like that. that's a real estate investment trust. baby boom

but one of the things we have done in wyoming with respect to jackson hole, where i live, with respect to safety in the schools, we have a deputy sheriff -- armed deputy sheriff at the schools in the city. that's probably a more effective deterrent than anything that congress seems to be debating that they -- going to -- they are going to try. >> there are many things that that we can do to help keep guns away from the people who are wanting to do harm to others will. you know, i don't believe that keeping gun away from law-abiding citizens is going to stop criminals from doing bad things. vilearned dedication, determination, skins and the value of hard work, all through shooting. so i think there are a lot of positive things from people learning how to use guns responsibly. >> we have people that, you know, are crazy in our society. and to attempt to eliminate a single tool that they have at their means to harm other people, when they have thousands of tools at their access, from a chevy pickup truck to a machete to a baseball bat, is ridiculous. >> they are taking our rights away. th

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c-span: senator harriet elizabeth byrd, cheyenne, wyoming. >> guest: fifth-generation wyoming, state senator, african-american woman, good catholic. i had a very interesting conversation with her about growing up in cheyenne and what it was like to be black in wyoming. c-span: what did she tell you? >> guest: well, she had a fairly active life. i mean, she'd been a schoolteacher for many, many years, and that's how she became very active politically. her father, i think, rhone not byrd, but had been, you know, a high school and--and college football star, and he'd also been very active politically. i mean, she--it was a--it's a very inspiring and but bittersweet interview in many ways. and she talks about the discrimination she sees going on among native americans as well as black folk out west. and she tells a very moving story about a very good friend of hers, ruby, when she was a child, who was japanese, and how ruby's family--ruby and her family were put in a concentration camp during world war ii and how--i mean, that sort of--she never-- her friend never forgave this country fo

we understand that there's clearly a different underway, but one of the things we've done in wyoming with rehe inspect to jackson hole where i live, respect to safety on the schools. we have a deputy sheriff, armed deputy sheriff at the schools in the city and that's probably more effective deterrent than anything that congress seems to be debating at the present time. there are many things that we could do to help keep guns away from the people that are wanting to do harm to others, and you know, i don't believe that keeping guns away from lou abiding citizens is going to stop criminals from doing bad things. i've learned that dedication, determination, persistence and the value of hard work, so i think that there's a lot of positive things that can come from, you know, people learning how to use guns responsibly. >> we have, you know, just people that, you know, are crazy in our society and to attempt to eliminate a single pool that they ha tool that they have at their means to harm other people when they have thousands of cools at their access, everything from a chevy pickup truck

how he is coming. >> as they might stay in wyoming this is not your first rodeo this inaugural? >> no, candy. this is actually the ninth time i'm seeing a different president come into office. my dad took me to john kennedy's inauguration when i was 8. we come every time, republican and democrat, because of this great country. >> reporter: it is important and we will be watching to see how many of the rank and file republican does show up, don. >> so, athena, let's go back four years ago. did john mccain attend anything last time in 2009? >> reporter: did. he attended the inaugural ceremony. he was also at the luncheon that follows the inaugural ceremony here in the capitol, in statuary hall, and not uncommon to see certainly a senator. if a senator happened to run for president, not uncommon to see them still come to the inauguration, even if they did lose, because they are senators. as i mentioned, most senators do show up. this is seen usually often as a non-partisan event and so yes, senator mccain was there in 2009. >> athena jones, thank you very much. we appreciate it ath

anyway, i'll give it to you, wyoming, you are right, that's cold. good morning, everyone, we head outside in emeryville right now. chilly with numbers in the 20s and 30s around the bay. frost advisory for our friends in oakland. while elsewhere from the north is east bay to the santa clara valley it's a freeze warning until 8:00 this morning. live doppler 7hd not picking up anything in terms of cloud cover because we are clear, although a little bit of fog is forming in the valleys of the north bay. otherwise we are talking sub freezing right on through probably 9:00 in most locations. so here's a look at the colder temperatures this morning. mid-20s for our north and east bay vhlleys. 29 in san jose right now. we are looking at numbers in the 40s here. it's the san mateo coast.p% along the north bay numbers are much, much milder. in fact, as muchs 20 degrees warmer than some of the folks in our valleys. 23 santa rosa. 38 oakland. good morning, san francisco. by the time you get into the city or commuting or living in the city, it isn't too bad. red

wyoming minus 22. san francisco, you're at 41. the wind isn't much of an issue but down right cold and will see a struggle tonight with the sunshine getting up to the low 50s in phoenix. l.a. possibly low 60s. watch out for freezing fog over the next couple of days especially oregon state but not horrible. one more thing. our friends in alaska dealing with a big storm today up there. so be careful traveling anywhere in alaska, anchorage and up to fairbanks everybody is getting s large arctic high pressure system and warm up in many areas. without too much snow out of this big cold air mass but cold and dry in the west. >> single digits. a shocking story out of buffalo v.a. hospital. gas prices on the move. hottest wheels out of the detroit auto show. plus caught on tape. the mother of all snowball fights and no pants day on the subway. what? you're watching "early today." . >>> stories making news this morning for you. the veterans administration is saying that 700 patients at the buffalo, new york v.a. medical center may have bee

but wyoming may not want to do that. and the feds should respect the states' rights. what president obama can do is make all gun crimes federal crimes. congress can forbid individuals from crossing state lines with certain types of weapons. bank robbery is a federal crime. so is some drug dealing. why not put gun felonies in that category? let's take a look at chicago which has banned handguns. more people were murdered by guns in chicago in 2012 last year than were killed among coalition forces in afghanistan. obviously the gun ban in coshocton doesn't work. do we all get that? what would work is a 10-year mandatory federal prison term for anyone convicted of any gun crime in the windy city or anywhere else in america. rob a seven blefn a gun. 10 years in the federal pen. illegally possess a gun, staple deal. 10 years. that's how you keep guns off the street. don't believe me? take a look how drastically the crime rate has fallen in the u.s.a. over the past decade. nationwide, violent crime down 23%. why? because of strict mandatory prison terms for chronic criminals

some expected snowfall through northern wyoming. we're looking for about 3 to 6 inches out that way. again, other than that, things are nice and quiet. today's highs should be in the 30s and 40s, 50s and 60s down through california. look at l.a. this is the warm weather they were hoping for for the golden globe. by the time we get into next weekend, temperatures will be i look nice and sunny. it has been above average in the east, below average in the west and things are evening out. >> time for crisp air. >>> coca-cola's controversial take on obesity and nike's newest $100 million golfer. plus, heroes find the strength to lift a car and save a life. you've got to see this. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back. here are some stories making news this morning. in a monday afternoon press conference, president obama said he would not negotiate on the debt ceiling although he said he's open to more spending cuts but he insisted the u.s. is, quote, not a dead beat nation. officials in stratford, connecticut, plan to rename an

some clouds spilling into wyoming and montana. high pressure of idaho will keep all the stormy weather away for a long time. maybe for the foreseeable future. as far as temperatures go a little bit of wind chill in a few spots but for the most part just very chilly, temperatures like the last couple of days struggling this morning but with sunshine this afternoon it will feel a lot and the coast with fog end up in the 30s. just taking a look at the extended forecast for seattle. five days from now still looking sunny and nice. 40. >> some of that stuff in the east coming from the west which they were experiencing earlier in the week. straight ahead a last minute death row appeal but not from the man facing the electric chair. duke and duchess are hiring. and a principal suspended forgoing terminator. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back. here's some stories making news this morning. drivers of school buses in new york city go on strike this morning so 152,000 students have to find another way to get to class. the city p