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Howard Kelley sat in his SUV just before noon on Friday near an empty parking space off Southeast Maricamp Road. It was the space where one of the Big Lees - Serious About Barbecue food trucks would typically be serving the smoked ribs he was eager to try. "Ive had their burnt (brisket) ends, but I heard so much about their ribs I had to get some," he said. Turns out, the truck assigned to the location was disabled and customers were directed to the local barbecue restaurants recently estab...

Assumes the presidency next year? >> unclear right now, but it is what he has said all along. if you listen to donald trumps speeches all through the campaign, he described, you know, when ford was going to make cars in mexico, he said, well, i would call up the ceo of ford, and id talk to them. and he would threaten, you know, a tax on cars coming, imported back into the united states. he said this all along, that he would be a very hands-on president and that he would talk to ceos of companies...

The -- alberta all the way down to texas. congress did this years ago when the obstructionists were against the alaska pipeline back in 1973. after four years, congress said enough. congress passed the legislation and it became law so congress has that authority. >> congressman, he just used the word obstructionists, is that what democrats are being in the house and senate to not create jobs as the republicans argue this pipeline would? >> i dont think thats the case. what we really want to do i...

Look at that. its almost solid red in some parts. so this is not like it would be the only pipeline out there, right, congressman? >> thats correct. there are thousands of miles of pipelines throughout the country and people dont know that because generally speaking, theyre safe. and this pipeline will go all the way from alberta down to my district in port arthur, texas and create millions of jobs, raise tax revenue for the states along the route. it has been changed over the questionable porti...

you have the vest on there to make sure that everyone can see you and make sure that they know that youre not part of the construction project. but you can tell us all about it. kareen? >> reporter: yeah, i cant believe you noticed this very, very conservative vest. well, fred, i have to tell you, as someone who lives here in southern california, i take the 405 all the time. this is definitely, definitely eerie to see. no cars on the roadway. this is something that is so unprecedented,...

Have an update for you. we talked about the nasa constellation program, the space program that was supposed to bring man back into space. this was nasas big project. a quarter billion in stimulus funding has been spent on it. the white house says its not efficient and they will put money into another program. now we hear from nasa that they will put $50 million in stimulus money now into whatever this new technology is going to be. so they are saying this is a new chunk of stimulus funding they ...

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