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He feels school administrators discriminate against him over his hair because he knows students to wear hair extensions of any color or length. >> because of my appearance. i am not doing anything wrong. >> reporter: williams says he has lost a weeks worth of learning. >> i was out of class for a whole week. and they tried to start it again this week. and i just dont think that was cool. im missing too much school. >> reporter: in shreveport, angela cruz reporting. >> the haircut looks like a lo...

you get 60 seconds and you get 30 seconds to respond. would you please wait? are you just going to keep talking. let me finish what im saying. >> boy, you know what it was? it was illegal immigration that sparked that conversation. rick perrys numbers dropped. the governor tried to throw the issue back at mitt romney last night. >> mitt, you lose all of your standing from my perspective because you hired illegals, in your home, and you knew about it for a year. and the idea that you st...

>> all right. first, though, big news today. the trial of the accused underwear bomber begins this morning with earnest with opens statements at the federal courthouse in droit. umar farouk abdulmutallab is charged with trying to blow up a flight on christmas day 2009 with a bomb hidden in his underwear. >> the defendant is acting as his own attorney. cnns deb feyerick in live in detroit, where you were the night this all developed and christmas day 2009. deb, what is the situation? >>...

indicators, monitor them. theres an overwhelming message when we look at those indicators that is consistent only with the new recession starting here. if you think back to 2008, when we made that call, then it was prior to the lehman crisis economists were looking backwards at gdp. and all they saw was positive gdp. >> once we saw the lehman crisis everybody was on board with the fact there was a recession. before that there was a question. >> correct. when you see gdp positive or job...

this is based on the forward looking indicators of the business cycle. thats all we do is watch those indicators, monitor them. theres an overwhelming message when we look at those indicators that is consistent only with the new recession starting here. when you think back to 2008, while we made that call, then it was prior to the lehman crisis economists were looking backwards at gdp. >> once we saw the lehman crisis everybody was on board with the fact there was a recession. before t...

now is not my time. >> we saw the governors sense of humor, the command of the room as he answered questions for a long time. gin acosta was right there. he was heavily urged to run, he was flattered, the pressure came from people of high stature, in the end it wasnt enough, why? >> reporter: well, john, answering that question should take a couple of minutes but chris christie, who never is at a loss for words held court in the news conference room for an hour and listened as every re...

Workers laid off. its sort of hard to figure out what the argument is for continuing. i mean, how could the american people have an enormous amount of confidence in it if indeed thats whats transpired? any hints as to how worried the obama administration is about this, both politically and economically? >> they see this as a political problem certainly in the short term because of the way this has played out, with the donors that are involve, the white house contact. the bigger issue is that bec...

Workers laid off. its sort of hard to figure out what the argument is for continuing. i mean, how could the american people have an enormous amount of confidence in it if indeed thats whats transpired? any hints as to how worried the obama administration is about this, both politically and economically? >> they see this as a political problem certainly in the short term because of the way this has played out, with the donors that are involve, the white house contact. the bigger issue is that bec...

either changed their stories or recanted their testimony, raising doubts that have gone global. anti-death penalty protesters are out in force tonight in georgia and over time, the pope, nobel peace prize laureates, desmond too tou and jimmy carter have been among those who have appealed for leniency or a new trial. the original prosecutor in the case say they are executing the right man tonight. >> there are two troy davis cases. there is the legal case, the case in court, and the pub...

pain of the unemployed temporarily. some will put people back to work. but they do not make for a complete solution. yet its a start. as long as congress passes the bill. while the politicians bicker, many americans have no place to live. as many as 1 million people may have become homeless during the recent recession. with some living in tent cities like this one near st. petersburg, florida. these are people who used to have solid, middle-class jobs. whats more, almost half of americ...