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Red tape held up the bidding process. finally when they had a bid awarded back in december of last year a lawsuit was filed, there were nor problems with who had jurisdiction over the installation of these shelters and that bidding process, as of last week, now has to go back to square one. the county emergency manager, anthony cliff ton is just about at his wits end here. hes been trying for two years to get the storm shelters in. at the end of this month hes got to send all of these things out...

Union as opposed to put it up for an open bidding process. >> estimates are that it costs 12% to 18% more because of this national labor relations act and more importantly, because youve got to have union work rules, it takes a whole lot longer to complete any project. all with federal taxpayer money. >> all this as california is broke. when youre looking at the situation when you can get the work done cheaper, it seems like a silly rule for people who live in california. >> it is. california is...

Announce specific plans to help egypt and tunisia transition into democracy. taking a look at your thursday forecast now. stormy in the southern plains, hail, gusty wind, isolated tornados in texas, oklahoma, kansas. showers, thunderstorms for minnesota, to northern illinois. heavy snow in the rockies. another rainy day for cleveland, detroit and much of the east coast. boy, are we getting a lot of it. >> yeah, messy coming in. indianapolis gets up to 72. omaha, 69. fargo 76. 70s from seattle ...

Third time the pentagon has attempted to award this contract for all of us who have been following this. the previous two times, the decision was overturned over allegations that the bidding process was rigged and the rules were discriminatory. hopefully the third time will be a charm, and we wont see any more challenges. you can bet the congressional delegations from washington and kansas will be coming out soon with releases. >> great news for boeing, no doubt about that. they always make thes...

Through far enough, but it was, it was an encouragement to people. >> reporter: beth did not have a paycheck coming in from november through right now, but because of the job that she had for 17 months working this project, she was able to squirrel enough money away to be able to live comfortably. shes got another construction job lined up next month, and as far as a pack, the lead construction company, they are now searching for work in other states because there isnt enough work in missouri to...

Including the women a minorities. >> it turns out many are not getting the cash, at least not in the way intended and joining us now is president of nikon contracting and engineering, jean louis, thank you for jing us. >> good morning. >> some of the stimulus money was minority owned or women owned businesses, your contracting company is, why havent you gotten any of the stimulus min money? >> you ask me, i dont know, why, im bidding and doing everything thats necessary and even spent my own mon...

The ground learning how to use the sikorski. american tax dollars will pay for whatever helicopter is chosen. megyn: when do they expect a resolution to this. the gao, government accounting office, is looking at proposals. there is another company who put in a protest to say they are against the way the bidding process was handled. they are not helicopter manufactures. they do integration systems its up in the air which helicopters will go but sikorski is pushing hard and they have an argument y...

Russian helicopter manufacturer and they are the ones to get the order likely. so american sikorski want to get to be part of the bidding process, but they were excluded by the terms of the proposal. those are the two helicopters side by side. a defense industry analyst describes it this way. >> at the end of the day the afghan military veterans who are still in the military are familiar with how it works, how it operates and how to maintain the. the sikorski product is built by an american comp...

Money is spent and action is taken, the rebuilding of haiti cannot really begin. >> its interesting. he basically -- his company took a big gamble. theyve spent $25 million to build this facility, to get the equipment down. theyre good and ready to go. the question is, will they get hired to do the job? there are obviously other companies dha are qualified and there will be some sort of bidding process for, it but its not clear at this point whether its usida, clinton commission, the haitian gov...

Family whenever we went to new york, the boys, to sean. he was just -- he -- i tell you, theres two sides to him. he could fire someone in a second. we prevented him from firing someone. there was a security guard, wouldnt letmy two boys on the field. of course, they didnt have passes -- >> larry, thank you. >> larry: he went up -- >> were out of time. larrys back tomorrow. time for anderson cooper and "ac 360." were live in port-au-prince keeping them honest. thousands of people are spending ye...