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And the state is the most in doubt out of the 50. so youve got a lot of cost-cutting going on, at the same time, you had this massive influx of low income people from the public housing developments into the new neighborhoods and the crime began to surge. and you had a lot of anger in the police department over the job cut backs. the fop was quite upset about that. that colors everybodys perceptions. ive had police officers calling me to talk about how the statistics have been monkeyed with, and...

Higher prices now for a couple of consumer favorites. >> yeah. well, theyre my favorites. so the big issues that we may see that were talking about today is coffee bean prices may go up and also the cost of chocolate may go up. and so the coffee bean prices may go up because brazil, where 1/3 of the coffee is produced in the world, has had a spade of very bad weather. it wiped out a bunch of the crop. so were going to see more volatile swings in the coffee prices. in terms of the chocolate, its ...

To fade. just to throw some numbers at you, common estimate is that fiscal cut backs cost us 1.8 percentage points of growth this year. in other words, wed be growing 3% absent that austerity. because were not scheduled for any new austerity, that suggests that that headwind will fade considerably and that should be good for the coming year. for the federal reserve, i think theres a strong underlying desire to dial back the money printing, the quantitative easing as they call it. i think this re...

But bob dole with newt gingrich right there and thats what people saw. this isnt what they wanted in their leadership. >> eleanor, take us to the nuts and bolts of medicare spending and what was the 1995 shutdown about? >> well, the president had endorsed a balanced budget in the spring of that year, and so the debate was not about whether the budget would be balanced, but now and the republicans had cut backs in medicare and so it became a confrontation over whose values do you support. the rep...

This is a congressman from arkansas, i believe. so here are the headlines on the wic program, which is nutritional assistance for women and infant children. s there there is a republican congressman from arkansas saying, okay, lets just do funding for wic. its like, whats the headline today thats bad about the shutdown, and then the next day, heres a mini cr to fix that thing. >> i think the thing that -- i think republicans are deluding themselves if they think this message is getting across to...

Shooting that is there and not too surprising when you have cuts. you have increases in crime and more gangs. >> and the new york city, obviously the biggest city in the country, their murder rate went down 19 percent. what is new york doing that other cities should follow? >> you know, the surprising thing, the new police chief from chicago is from new york. you would think he is doing the policies. but politics have judged in and tied his hand. and new york has done a lot of things. large size...

Only 2% actually engaged with anything on the site. todays state department spokeswoman said in response to the report they have cut the online advertising budget to $2500 a month. a california college student was told to remove her cross necklace because it might be offend difference. an attorney for the 19-year-old said shefther supervisor took i with the necklace saying there was a policy against religious items. on a second occasion, the supervisor asked jarvis to hide the necklace under h...

It. >> i think it was important to innvenience people in this t really unacceptable way. >> inconvenience people in an unacceptable way. here is what i wish could happen today. i wish every single cancer patient and every kid who is getting kicked out of head start and every person losing a job at a government facility because of cut backs or furloughs. every family losing section 8 housing assistance. i wish every single one of them could have gotten together and bussed by the thousands to all ...

Air traffic controllers and airport security will see cutbacks which means more delays at airports across the country. >> when you have to go out here at reagan airport and wait in lines to get through security you are going to be pissed and so is everyone else. when that happens we are going to come back to congress. and we are going to put the partisanship is side and fix this problem. >> boy can i relate. millions of americans fly on a typical friday which next week will be the first day of s

Force base. >> maybe a sock puppet that looks like that. >> having to do that himself looks pretty tough. >> thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> coming up, the reality of the see quester. how bad will it be next friday when it kicks in with cut backs and air traffic control. you will have trouble getting to your planes and the planes will have trouble getting off the ground. we have ap an award. tweet me your guesses which senator or member of the house emplors the most in competent s...