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Base. the president returned to visit with service members and the families. he has no public events on his schedule this week. just some downtime for the first family. britains prince phillip is reported in good spirits but remaining in the hospital after doctors cleared a blocked artery. as the bbc reports, the queen and her family celebrated without the 90-year-old duke of edinborough. >> reporter: christmas morning at church without one absentee and one royal newcomer. the queen led the fa...

He could not. this voter laws exempt the one area with voter fraud, which is absentee balloting. its the only conceivable place. no ones showed up with mickey mouse as their i.d. and tried to vote. >> its curbing people posing as other people at the poll. but absentee tends to be a more republican form of voting so they leave it alone. >> if you look at the supreme court this issue came up from indianas really restrictive law in 2008 and a lot of people were hoping that the court would say this ...

Informed about road blocks they may face. dozens of states are expected to have some form of voter i.d. laws in place, and the new legislation could keep millions of americans with an impact. richard means is an election law attorney. richard, i want to put up a map that shows how widespread this is. some numbers, 20 states considered i.d. legislation this year. 5 million americans, though, could be deterred from voting in 2012. what is the overall impact of these laws, special on minority and l...

In cooperating with their investigation into the events over the weekend and were also going to conduct an internal valuation so we can learn from this event because at the end of the day you deserve better and we expect better from our crewmembers and our operation. we can only earn your loyalty and trust one flight at a time and we ask you to give us a second chance. bill: now that airline may have to pay a hefty fine. a bit later in our program well talk to one of the passengers who was stran...

>> in freds world, there are plenty of people to impress. you never see them, but you hear them. lucas voices them all. >> dont take off any of your clothes in front of that camera unless someone pays you. >> besides freds alcoholic mother and absentee dad, theres freds crush, judy. >> this is getting kind of stalkerish. oh, my god. >> no, no, judy. you cant come in. nooooo! >> theres freds arch nemesis and judys pseudo boyfriend kevin. >> lets go beat up fred inside the pool. >> no. do you want...

You never see them, but you hear them. lucas voices them all. >> dont take off any of your clothes in front of that camera unless someone pays you. >> besides freds alcoholic mother and absentee dad, theres freds crush, judy. >> this is getting kind of stalkerish. oh, my god. >> no, no, judy. you cant come in. nooooo! >> theres freds arch nemesis and judys pseudo boyfriend kevin. >> lets go beat up fred inside the pool. >> no. do you want me to get the cat with rabies to bite you again? >> and t...

>> so you went an extra effort and finally at the second place, you voted absentee, because you were denied the right at the first place. now, even during jim crow days, you didnt have any problems voting in tennessee? >> no, i havent had any problems at all until this time. this is the only time ive ever had any problems. >> now, youre 96 years old. you took the extra effort to go try to get the idea, even to a second polling play, so we can imagine that people that are not as energetic as you ...

Tell me, ms. cooper, what happened when you went to get your i.d.? >> well, we stood in line for a while. we were thinking we were going to get it. then we found out that i would have to have my marriage certificate, so we went -- we left there, and we went to another place. thats when they asked me if i would like to vote absentee. >> so now, for 70 years youve been voting with no problem, and when you heard about this voter i.d., you tried to get this, and you wouldnt give it at one place. at ...

Absentee you have to xerox your i.d. and mail it in, too. the bill requires a very specific photo i.d. that hundreds of thousands of wisconsinites do not have. according to the wisconsin legislature nonpartisan fiscal bureau 20% of people in wisconsin dont have the kind of i.d. that will be required to vote. thats what they were fighting about in the wu wi state senate yesterday. a bill that makes it harder to vote. the new law would say for example, that you can use a student i.d. in order to v...

>> please wake up, i cant keep shaking you. let me tell you whats happening in the news. massachusetts congressman bill keating learns a tough lesson. his lexus was stolen after he left it unlocked with the keys inside. police caught the two brothers who stole the car when they stopped at mcdonalds and a woman in the florida keys was tackled by a 300 pound sting ray. it jumped on to her boat and wouldnt get off. wildlife crews finally pried the ray off. both were unharmed. well follow that story...