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Every minority candidate that was offered a job took it. she diversified the faculty by hiring more diverse professors. they say they wish they had seen more commitment to minority staff as well. jon: thank you. jamie: it took some people by surprise, this wicked weather in the northeast. check out these pictures, now it is confirmed by the national weather service it was a tornado tearing through several communities, uprooting trees and collapsing buildings, and the incredible pictures the late...

I apologize, they wont have -- we dont have it but the mom said this is the worst hell i have of experienced, i cannot explain it. last friday, of course, deputies releasing this questionnaire that went out to people who live here skyline elementary where the mom dropped the little boy off. it had a picture of the little boy, a picture of the stepmom, the car that the stepmom was said to be driving when she dropped the child off but the parents, you mentioned the key word, desperate. hes been mi...

The tension between state law and federal law will continue, and because of the ease of transporting drugs outside of the state of california, many also believe that congress and ultimately the president will have to act. jon. jon: dan springer, live from our northwest bureau, thanks dan. jamie: its a radical form of islamic law, and its gaining acceptance in the u.s. in court. and that that is led -- has head run law make ner oklahoma to try and amend the state constitution there. you know what...

Significant jamaican community, already here, a handful of people to see what happens in the courtroom. but i should also point out that one woman who said she was from jamaica was here earlier today, wanted to see the accused drug king pen, decided to leave, after she was told that the court would not begin for a couple of hours. so there is some irony in the fact, jamie, that this man for whom dozens of people laid down their lives a few weeks ago now one woman said wasnt worth essentially los...

Homeowner who is looking their home for this reason. >> our sales were coming up, you can see our sales coming up the first quarter of 2010. and now all of a sudden we dont know what is going to happen. >> this was our home. this is our home. we are all real people, its not just tourists its your every day person that has an 8 to 5 job and tries to have an american dream, and it all comes to a halt because of something like this, and its happening again, this is hard. >> reporter: jaime we spent...

The kind of momentum and growth coming out of this recovery as people had hoped. and particularly, when the dip was so deep, you expect to have a little bit faster rise up, like a v, down, and then up, an here we kind of have a down, and were not getting the v, were getting the kind of cutoff. jon: almost a plateau in reverse. >> so its not a recession but its disappointing. jon: a lot of this is i guess caused by a lack of consumer spending. if consumers dont have jobs theyre not going to be sp...

There is an open question, were he to adjust the rules of engagement they might affect the way we operate in kandahar when there is a full-blown siege into that city. that remains to be seen. the groundwork is being laid, the civilian pieces being put into place, the political pieces being put into place. as general mcchrystal says its ready to do it right than fast. we dont know exactly how the new general on the ground will affect the approach to the siege of kandahar. as kandahar goes, so goe...

-- cant be engaged in iraqi trades for their own profit and create a resolution authority to wind down firms that threaten our entire financial system. no longer will we have companies that are, quote unquote, too big to fail. >> theres a difference between the u.s. and europe that mirror differences between democrats and republicans about whether the countries should continue to go into debt or whether they should begin to now -- in order to create jobs, whether they should begin now to cut tha...

The rules are going to have to be written down the road. jon: nobody wants to see a meltdown like we saw in the fall of 20 on -- in, 2008, yeah, nobody wants to see that again. but you know, is there a danger, i guess, of overdoing it here. >> i dont think -- i mean, we dont know to what extent this will actually fix the problem. my guess is a lot less than people think, because it really doesnt do anything about too big to fail. the idea that big banks can be taken over by the government, they ...

Person whos been appointed to oversee that $20 billion bp fund. and theyre expecting people to show up who have been victimized by this oil spill, fishermen, charter boat captains, restaurant owners, oil rig workers and the like to talk to them about how this payment process is working out, jon. jon: whats the reaction to the refusal of that federal judge who doesnt want to back down on the drilling moratorium? >> reporter: well, as can you imagine, a lot of folks here are very pleased that judg...