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I did. i tried it. i have five shirts on, two wind breakers on and with this wind at 15 below zero, wind chill factor, im still cold. i can only be out here 10 or 15 minutes minutes before everything starts to shut down. my fingers cold, nose cold, my mouth starts to not work. and obviously toes cold too. if youre outside or seeing someone outside, try to at least understand that they dont want to be outside for long, like dock workers or your flight attendants outside or the guys trying to load...

Brilliant. this is other worldly. in both cases, however, athletes pave the way for diplomats to do the heavy lifting. our state department goes postal when its cut out of a deal. former new mexico governor bill richardson, who made a pilgrimage to pyongyang to gain release of mr. bae said testily that mr. rodman had crossed the line. but wait. what if mr. rodman with his tattoos, nose rings, permanent sunglasses and general jive is actually sharing details of his junket into the bad korea with ...

And take care of them. you know? i feel like weve come full circle. [ daughter 1 ] like that! [ daughter 2 ] this is how ill do it. [ sarah ] there you go. >> bret: peter lanza the father of newtown shooter adam lanza claimed his sons body. no word when they were claimed or the plans for a funeral service. it could be months before they produce a final report on the investigation. union influence may be slinking. yet, its power is still significant. shipping in the gulf and northeast ground to a...

They responded to the scene and discovered that employee had a device placed on her neck. bomb squad personnel removed the device. fbi and phoenix police department are conducting a joint investigation. >> lawmakers are working to get a compromise on the looming fiscal cliff . they call on congress to protect the middle class from a tax income hike. senator roy blunt stated in the gop response said it was the democratics inability to pass that got them to this point. >> dock workers in the bocks...

Harris? >> harris: mike emanuel on the phone for us outside of capitol hill. we appreciate it mike, thank you. along with the wrangling over the fiscal cliff. the fourth amendment debated heavily in the senate yesterday and today. and then a vote today to renew the nations surveillance law. its called the foreign intelligence surveillance act. and it allows investigators to monitor phone calls and emails involving suspected terrorists outside the united states. without a warrant. as long as the ...

Took off in a half hour. thats the insanity that were in right now because of these laws and its the unintended consequences as gary says, taking a few incidents and now taking 2 million people to deal with a little problem. >> brenda: thanks, guys, thats got to be the last word. so, dock workers and shippers forging a temporary deal to avoid shutting down major ports and our economy. sounds like good news. why is someone here still seeing a ship wreck ahead?

Workers for what it means to the economy at large, that narrative has a place in mainstream media, and that the, you know, the one-on-one negotiations perhaps do not. >> it was surprising to me, though, as i was listening to the dock workers conversation this week, there was language coming out that some of them make as much as $100,000 a year, and i am thinking that everything that you have comes through their labor, but this very idea that workers ougt to be poor and ought to be underpaid and ...

Businesses and thinking in different strategies and you have unions saying we have to keep the jobs and keep it going, but there has to be new strategies and unions have to start organizing again and there is a momentum move with the unions, and this can be a turn in the tide. i really do. >> and if anything, thats, the whole moment with with the dock worker workers and the industry is proof that if workers are not disempowered and can sit at the table as equals they can work it out and that wha...

That takes place possibly on sunday of this weekend, then 14,500 dock workers walk off the job at 14 major ports on the east coast and the gulf coast. directly affected? retailers who will have a hard time getting supplies in for the spring sales. the warehouses where all this stuff is stored and truckers who move it around the country. it would, as you say, patti ann, another hit to already weak economy. we had weak christmas and hand call sales. we had the start of rising gas prices. yesterday...

Surveillance video recorded on the platform to try to identify the victim and the suspect. >> this is the second time this happened this month. the first one happened in times square. this one happened in queens. i love the fact that new york city has a subway system. im not used to that in l.a. but i have to tell you right now, every single time im putting my back against the wall and looking over my shoulder. >> youre not the only one. there are people now that are watching their back. we dont...