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President obama and that of crists hispanic primary opponent, marco rubio. he said, "you know, we just got through electing a politician that can run his mouth at mach 1, a black one, and now we have a hispanic who can run his mouth at mach 1. you look at their track records and theyre both pretty gritty." crists reaction, "everyone has a right to their analysis and how they think somebody performs in office." is this what you call analysis, analyzing people by race? charlie crist, youve got pro...

Crist reaction -- "everyone has a right to their analysis and how they think somebody performs in office." is this what you call analysis? crist youve got problems. so far just over half of u.s. households have filled out and returned their u.s. census forms which are fun and easy to do, by the way, ahead of tomorrows official deadline. which state has the top participation rate so far? well as of yesterdays count, way out west, south dakota with 62% in the mt. rushmore state, didnt know that ...

Hospital. the teenager also reportedly took money for sex and now is being charged with aggravated actual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes. the parents reported both girls missing on sunday afternoon. the police went to their house to investigate. when the smaller girl, the young girl finally arrived, police were there waiting. the u.s. government confirms today an iranian nuclear scientist missing since last summer has defected to the united states. shahram amiri was working a...

The government will count. thats not the only change youll see. the u.s. census questionnaire is no longer black and white. the latest version includes a lot of new choices for americans who identify themselves as multiethnic. nbc news digital correspondent joins me now from los angeles. so now youre faced with even more choices, but does that, in fact, make it easier for folks filling out their census forms? >> well, in some cases it may. for the second time in census history, now people can ch...

Filmmaker raquel spaeda asked new yorkers to look over the census forms. their answers were revealing about race in america. >> are you at all confused by the racial categories that are offered to latinos in the census? >> absolutely. because there are a lot of african and there are a lot of black that are latino and hispanic. what i also see very interesting is under beneath the hispanic, latino, or hispanic organization, youve got a mexican, cuban, puerto rican spot. i was born in puerto rico,...

Until april 6th. so what im really going to be keeping an eye out for is reaction out of d.c. this week. >> there you go. great information. we appreciate both of you. thank you so much. in the meantime, on thursday, the president has a deadline to return the u.s. census forms. its supposed to be a simple counting of all americans for every ten years, but this time questions about race causing some anger and some confusion. questions eight focuses on hispanics, but it prohibits anyone from claim...

State. >> overall the census bureau defends its outreach efforts which include $85 million in mailers to encourage people to return their census forms. >> its very important we get an accurate count. as such, its costly. but we could actually save about $1.5 billion in the taking of the census if every single person mailed back the form. >> census data helps determine everything from congressional representation to where more than $400 billion is directed each year in federal funding. but really...

Over budget. >> reporter: and then theres the super bowl ad. >> isnt that kind of what the census is doing? uh-huh. >> reporter: republican congressman jay, a leading critic of the census, calls that an expensive embarrassment. >> i just think that we need to go back and look at this and say, was this well-executed? was this well planned? and right now i see by the tens and millions of dollars going out the door its not going to count that person that was hard to find and some part of whatever s...

The helicopter encouragement and uptick in violence in mexican border communities underscore the urgent need for more u.s. law enforcement and surveillance along the texas-mexico border. how does the united states of america take a picture of itself? that is sort of what is happening starting today and not an easy thing to do. we will take a look at the pro-serks the cost, and what it means as the first census forms show up at our mailboxes. plus jihad jane maybe had an atis. find out what the f...

Births. demographers believe the large number of hispanics migrated to the country is one reason minorities will become the majority with 40 years. >> well find more about that. the census forms are getting mailed out. >> a reminder about that. >> did you? >> got that in the mail. >> why didnt they just send the census? why do they need a reminder? how much money is it costing to send them out? >> we talked about the post office. its 16 minutes past the hour. had we come back, good news for pe...