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And stick it on. so theyre just so easy to wear decides one of those hats that you knock into everybody because theyre so big and hard to balance on your head sometimes. >> very fascinating. now to get back quickly to the race you mentioned that we could see the first african-american jockey winning. theres also a female jockey hoping to make history. >> yeah, thats rosie. shes riding mylute. its the number 6 horse. and i actually picked that horse to win. because 6 is my lucky number. you know,...

Forecast. the rain, it looks like its going to get in later this afternoon. and so that could really make for a mess on the track, and of course peoples bets. we spoke with donna brothers earlier, who is the nbc on track analyst, the one who rides a horse and gets right up on them right after the race and talks to them, and she said dont place your bet until right before the race, because of the rain factor. so, that is certainly going to be what everyone is talking about today. and then the bea...

Them? or precludes any of them from getting through? immigration being one? >> no, doesnt preclude them. it delays them. the people who, as you know, im co-chair of bipartisan policy commission immigration task force with condi rice and governor haley barbour and henry cisneros and we put out a statement saying, look, its okay to have a thorough examination of all the issues on immigration. no one should rush to judgment. its too important a thing for the country. but to delay, to put the immigr...

Much more confirmation on that. i can tell you from here in south carolina where i am talking to senator graham last night he actually said he agrees with the president that boots on the ground arent necessary. but that perhaps some international coalition could set up a no-fly zone, put more pressure on the syrian government to get out of the way, theres a big concern he has, certainly, for how things might destabilize across the region, whether its in jordan, south to israel, and of course ove...

Investigation by removing tsarnaevs back pack from his dorm room entered the country on an expired student visa. how did that happen? and is it fair to say that this case is exposing some vulnerabilities in this country? >> yes, i think its true. i think weve got to tierten it up, clearly. weve god to have nobody coming in on expired visas. thats a mistake. lets tighten it up quickly and you know another thing to build on what you said is tamerlan was on a terrorist list, a large tide list which...

Investing. >> lets talk about the housing information that you have for us. whats the news on the housing front? >> right, if theres any indication that housing market is improving, this is it. the housing prices are starting to rise. now the case shiller index, which is an index that takes the home prices in 20 metropolitan cities, has gone up about 1.2%. and one of the reasons why is because inventories are so low, and people are out there buying these new houses, thats driving up the prices o...

These questions, why is it that officials didnt examine him a little more closely? >> well, because i think the list is so large, you know, and when we look at things in hindsight, everything is just so clear all the time. but when youre looking at, you know, 700,000 people on the list, a large no-fly list, i mean its pretty hard to tell who in there is the one you want. so, theres got to be some checks and balances built in to the system like we just discussed. so if that check was in there, li...

One of the bombs is not a match for katherine russell, the widow of tamerlan tsarnaev. russells attorneys say shell continue to meet with law enforcement to provide as much assistance to the investigation as she can. meantime, the death certificate for tamerlan tsarnaev says he died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma following a gun fight with police. authorities say he ran out of ammunition before his brother dzhokhar dragged his body under a vehicle while fleeing the seen. 19-year-old dzhokh...