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Popular vote total in 270 electoral vote states ends up getting everything. so i think you can devise a way that this can work fine, but the california initiative is sort of designed to be unfair to particular demographics that vote for democrats. >> ron, you first, best guess as to what happens. this thing get voted down? >> yeah, i think so. >> jamelle? >> yeah, this is totally going to lose. i cant imagine anyone voting for it. >> great minds think alike. >> all right, fellas, its good to agr...

American people want to hear about this? >> i do. and i think that theyre really tired of angry talk. they want to hear the stories of how this is helping people. you know, i keep hearing these stories and thinking about -- ed, you and i are not that far apart in age. i came from organized labor. my father was a utility worker, a union member. utility workers, local 270. health care saved my life. i was diagnosed with severe asthma and almost died twice in my late teens. he had affordable health...

Story. you grew up in new orleans, a great town for food. you weighed 265, 270 pounds growing up. what was the turning -- for people unlike us who are not aware of your story? >> i starved. i was bullied a lot. when i go to the bathroom they put lighter fluid under the stall and light at this time with a match. we went understand overweight people then and we dont understand them now. i went on crash diets and went down to 119 pounds. my doctor said do you want to live or die? we dont think that...

Orders that he gave us that day. >> you know 270 words that really made history, just two minutes long. president obama has often looked to lincoln for inspiration. so many have. and president obama is not at the ceremony today. what would his presence have meant there today, do you think? >> well, i think its the other way around. hes an extraordinarily modest man and i spoke to him about it. he invested so much time and energy with dr. kings speech, arguably the second greatest speech in all o...

Thats 270 words long. you know, the townspeople wanted the president to be there. today thought it would be a moment to bridge this historical moment and bring it to the president. he decides not to come and they are disappointed. >> hes sending the interior secretary which is, you know, sort of interesting. this is a war -- the gettysburg battle is viewed as the turning point of the war, a war about slavery. >> right. >> the president claims to have a close identifying -- identification with pr...

Thats 270 words long. you know, the townspeople wanted the president to be there. today thought it would be a moment to bridge this historical moment and bring it to the president. he decides not to come and they are disappointed. >> hes sending the interior secretary which is, you know, sort of interesting. this is a war -- the gettysburg battle is viewed as the turning point of the war, a war about slavery. >> right. >> the president claims to have a close identifying -- identification with pr...

Lets check stop stories knop word why a u.s. boeing 727 crashed in russia killing all 50 peel onboard. russia has a terrible record of air safety, but those accidents involve small airlines that fly small old russian-made aircraft. what caused a silver mine accident that killed two miners. it happened 270 miles from denver. 19 people were injured and take ton a nearby hospital. authorities ruled out an explosion and mine collapse as the cause of the accident. a north carolina couple arraigne...

Contact before. probably double that in the next couple days. >> reporter: fox news got a first look at the carriers humanitarian mission. our helicopter circled a small town on sumar island. many houses had no roofs and others were destroyed. the moment our chopper landed residents formed a human chain unloading more than 150 boxes of supplies in a matter of minutes. >> there are a lot of small villages along these coasts. luckily because of the ships we can access most of them. >> reporter: ac...

Typhoon. that is 1300 more than just yesterday. the devastating news comes as help for thousands of survivors arrives from around the world. william la jeunesse is streaming live from tacloban, one of the hardest hit areas of the philippines. william? >> reporter: another key number, jon, is the number of missing. that is more than 1100. many of them are dead. theyre just not listed that way. as for the airport, it is a chaotic place. aid is pouring in. yesterday we saw a truck leaving, we jumpe...

Stretched to the limit. >> kathy, thank you for that perspective. kathy novak there for sbs australia talking to us on the phone from manila. give us an idea of just how strong this is right now and how big it is. >> about 2,000 kilometers across is the large scale feature stretching from the northern fringe of the storm all the way to the southern fringe of this storm system. the winds have dropped from the landfall 315 kilometers per hour and could be the greatest landfalling form when histo...