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Getting top notch hotel rool, free drinks, all at a $34 million soirn california conference. and the more than 2,000 people who did attend, they got gifts for coming and enjoyed a keynote speaker who cost taxpayers more than $27,000. and house ways and means committee opened hearings yesterday to take testimony from members of tea party and other conservative groups that say all during these conferences, they were mistreated by the irs. listen. >> the copies of our own tax returns that we have i...

Within the florida department of law enforcement who were really quite calm in terms of describing the location of george zimmerman. there was quite a panic set off yesterday when his former attorneys indicated that he had left the state. they were no longer in contact indicating, including to theh trayvon martin family, that he might be some sort of flight risk on the run. but the florida department of law enforcement has, through its investigative methods, apparently been able to track the lo...

Wire is pvc pipe, holds all the pressure. and the sprinkler valve is what release the pressure and electronically opens and a safety switch here and trigger switch. >> okay. how did you feel -- obviously the president was pretty impressed with your invention there, how did you feel when you saw his reaction? >> i really didnt get to see his reaction later on when i saw the picture, i was shocked, it was funny. >> he sure seemed to pay more attention to yours than anybody else, didnt he? >> one o...

Say its time to blow it up and do it all electronically. simply what theyre trying to do in clark county is saying send us all the ballots and well recount them and make sure theyre right. in some precincts a certain number of people signed in and that vote total might be more than the number of people that signed in. >> thats a problem! >> in many cases, its just one person. theyre off by one. anyway, theres a possibility that in some of these places where there were a lot, theres a vast discre...

We know that the u.s., the british, the french troops are going of what they call command and control headquarters for the libyan military. the commander of the libyan military is gadhafi. are they trying, in effect, to kill him? >> well, i think first what theyre trying to do is isolate gadhafi from his forces. electronically or through kinetic means so hes up able to command his forces. but theres a second message and every one of those generals and colonels sitting in those command centers ne...

Dollar. for example, when you go to a doctor, were still filling out forms in triplicate on paper as only business there is that where you still have a whole bunch of paperwork. and what were trying to do is encourage information technologies so that when you go into a doctor, they can already pull down your medical records, electronically, if you take a test, then, its sent to all the specialists who are involved so you dont end up having to take four or five tests and pay for four or five test...

Electronically and dont have sober second thoughts when things are going through a computer. >> during those 20, 40 minutes, when the stock market was going crazy, some stocks going for $30 went down to 3 cents or 4 cents. >> accenture went to a penny. its taking long to figure out, worrisome, by the way, theyre going through thousands and thousands of trades to fig here triggered what. what it was a handful of stocks. about 200. why a limited number, why not other things? it seems the computeri...

Incriminating. its almost like having a timeline to someones actions and being able to re-create them step-by-step. >> a footprint if you will. >> exactly, an electronic footprint. much more accurate than eyewitness testimony and what a neighbor might remember. and in this case, especially if there are potentially international connections, the presumption is that if there were communications abroad, they would probably not be over a telephone, which is insecure. they would probably be over an i...

So if sikes says the accelerator was stuck and he was pressing hard on the brake, why didnt his car slow down. >> maybe what was happening was, not that his engine was overpowering the brakes, but his brakes were incapable of overpowering anything. >> reporter: the same memo says his brakes were worn out. it doesnt say whether they were that way before or after the incident. a toyota investigator told congressional staff it does not appear to be feasibly possible both electronically and mechanic...

Hitting the brakes. it wasnt slowing down at all, it was accelerating. >> reporter: after two hours of trying to dup my indicate what happened on his car and another exact model. investigators and toyota came up short. every time the technician placed the gas pedal to the floor and the brake pedal to the floor the engine shut off and the car immediately started to slow down. experts say thats a key safety feature of the car. if sikes says the accelerator was struck and he was pressing hard on th...