the fracking of natural gas which as you pointed out made cheapest almost in its history in real terms came about by a couple of entrepreneurs doing what engineers said could not be done. and that is how you get cheap energy. and by the way, the president may not know it but natural gas is a very clean source of energy and yet his government is doing everything it can in terms of regulation to block its development. bill: natural gas as you know in new york is being used more and more in our municipal vehicles driven around the city. hear is the truth. we ve dumped millions into this sector going back years. yet the production is increased in mini school amounts. minuscule amounts. in geotherm pal it actually decreased. we ll we re getting less than we put in by substantial amount, steve. absolutely. in terms of break throughs, break throughs come from entrepreneurs doing things that people think can not be done. steve jobs of the world. henry ford creating a car once was toy for t
in connecticut some 215,000 people remain without power, more than a week after that freak october snowstorm. connecticut light and power is promising 99% of their customers will have electricity by tomorrow night. this morning the governor said that a 99% threshold must be reached. anything less than 99% restored number is unacceptable. we ll get a live update on the swan the situation in connecticut later. five of the republican candidates spoke at the annual ronald reagan dinner end des moines. mitt romney and herman cain were no shows. rick perry drew applause with his plan that would freeze the pay of a lot of federal workers. until the budget gets balanced i m going to impose an across the board pay freeze for congress and all federal employees pay outside of the military and the public safety areas. iowa s first in the nation presidential caucus is on january 3rd. across america now growing anger at big banks and their rising fees and some of those banks co
sanitation. police say they arrested 14 protesters today who blocked traffic and turned over trash cans. texas governor rick perry is unveiling his national energy plan in suburban pittsburgh right now. live pictures. he says president perry will expand drilling on federal lands and get rid of clean air rules and other, quote, activist regulations. perry says getting bureaucracy out of the way will mean 1 million or more new jobs. perry has stumbled in the polls. his wife came to his defense. it s been a rough time. we ve been brutalized, eaten up and chewed up in the press, to where i mean, we re being brutalized by our opponents and our party. so much of that is, i think they look at him because of his faith. anita perry went on to say, we didn t have to do this. she says we are running to save our children and the soul of the country. end quote. presidential candidate herman cain is on a roll in more ways than one. he s kicking off a bus tour across tennessee nex
documentary of diana nyad. she is a 61-year-old long distance swimmer who set out to do the impossible. something that people tolder that simply could not be done. she wanted to swim from here in havana and swim all the way to florida. more than 100 miles. no rest. no shark cage. complete exposure to the elements. the swim was planned to take over two days through day and night. more than 60 hours. she had to do this again without any rest whatsoever. what we now know is diana lasted about half that distance. about 50 miles, 29 miles in the water. the currents were rough and the waves big. her shoulders started to bother her. it was no less inspiring to watch her near the end of that swim. the big question on a lot of people s minds, including mine, is what is next for you? that is part of our story today. although we are 100 miles away from florida, we are miles away from the health care system. if you talk about the cuban health care system, prepare for a fight. it is a con
thank you. i want to start with you, ellis. you wrote another book called rage of a privileged class. it received a lot of critical acclaim. in this book, you find new optimism in the country. what has changed from 1993 to 2011? in short, we ended the cast system in america. there was a sense in 1993 when i wrote this among very highly educated african-americans that it was impossible to break through the glass ceiling. you saw a number of break throughs. you saw colin powell and you had the mega event of obama. whatever else it made clear, made clear it was no longer a ceiling for some people. reverend, do you agree with the assessment that racism is less for the generations to come? i think we still have racism. i think the racial disparities