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Inmates that are assigned to the laundry. well follow up, see if we can find more metal, more contraband. go up to the cell, strip the inmates out, bring them out of the cell and complete our cell searches. get to the door, go ahead and pop them. >> pretty much looking for any kind of contraband, weapons, drugs -- >> turn around. >> you smell -- im telling you right now -- you will be -- did you swallow something? >> what would i swallow? >> you tell me, im asking you. >> some chips. >> thats yo...

About whether what we were saying was true, whether our experiences and the way we felt was really accurate. >> asia? >> and it was an immediate backlash that was very similar to what we experience in class but more overt. and it really shows. before prop 209 was enacted, there were 46 black students in the first year class alone. now were there and they tell us that 11 is remarkable and that we should feel good about that. these low numbers are not normal. and what they do is they breed this en...

Studies janelle wong. when we look at yesterday, ward, doesnt measures like this like the one in california that wants to allow affirmative action? >> well, i think that the decision helps everyone, because it says that this is one that the people can decide if they choose to do so. the complaint that had been filed by any means necessary said that the people should not have the right to make that decision, and this is of course, changes that, allows people to do that. >> right. you are in calif...

Increasing in california prior to prop 209 and they have not increased as much since prop 209 was put in place. theres no evidence in the state of california that this will necessarily harm the admissions processes for chinese americans but politico seeing an opportunity to continue the fight to assault and dismantle affirmative action. >> increasing representation of asian americans in schools is one we see around the country and part of the changing landscape on this. ill go to you on that, vi...

That theres one party in favor of fair pay and one partys been holding it up so the republicans in the senate have a choice this week. they can join us in moving forward with this legislation or they can block it as they did several times in the past. i hope they join us in this. >> pennsylvania senator bob casey, senator casey, always good to see you. thank you for being with me this sunday. >> great, thank you. also making headlines, the white house announced that president obama will be att...

One plane floating in a vast ocean? at the end of march, the search area was roughly 123,000 square miles. which is little bigger than the state of new mexico. now, lets say the plane is a rectangle. nose to tail. its about 209 feet. and wing tip to wing tip, its 200 feet. so the square footage of a 777 is about 41,800 square feet. so to make this simpler, lets scale it down using mathematics and algebra. if the search area was, say, the empire state building, its roughly like finding your walle...

But if there is anything down there, we will find it. >> ships and aircraft from countries, including australia, china, india, japan and great britain, are combing the waters off the coast of perth with more ships headed to the area. however, an advanced u.s. search plane wont be able to join efforts tomorrow due to maintenance and required crew rest. the u.s. has spent almost $3 million in the search but even with all the resources in the world the search would be one of the most daunting ever....

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The 27-year-old co-pilot. we can expect to hear a bit more about him soon. but of course investigations also going on into the engineers and ground staff who worked on the plane before it took off and/orand all the passengers. the malaysian police said today at this press conference somewhat surprisingly that so far, not all those background checks have been returned by some countries. they did say that nothing suspicious has been turned up. >> thank you so much for that comprehensive report rig...

Right now, i think the search is not under sea. its still on the surface of the ocean. and that area, those corridors, are huge. when youre in a plane searching you can look as far as the horizon. beneath the sea, youre lucky if you can see 30 feet. once -- in the searcher of 2008, 2010 and then 2011, we had the fortune of knowing the last known position and we agreed there could be debris there and eventually there, five days later we found that. were a long way before we get on with this progr...