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Tom perriello in virginia. he won it in 2008. he voted for cap and trade and for the health care bill. republicans have said this is his undoing. does he switch or not? i think he is someone rahm emanuel has named him his favorite member of congress for his willingness to vote for these two pieces of legislation. he has cast in moral terms that this is the right thing to do. the question is, is voting for this bill sealing his political fate and does he make the calculation that yes, its bad to ...

Democrats, folks who describe themselves as moderate to conservative and have fiscal concerns and last time around 29 voted for health care, in the house and 25 against, and, there could be votes that could be flipped, where democratic leadership is focussing and jason altmire from pennsylvania is one who voted no last time and this morning will not publicly commit to a yes or no. and he admits democratic leadership has a tough task ahead to get the 216, and heres what he says: >> in putting the...

Focussing too much on process, but this is process oriented. were talk about procedures theyre going use to either vote or not vote on the bill. the media is not creating that story line. the house and senate have. scott brown probably created that story line when we won that special election. >> thank you, chris. read more from chris on his blog. and coming up next, janet napolitano joining us live with the latest on what is being done to improve security at our airports. youre watching "andr...

She died of cancer and in the last six months of her life, she was on the phone in her hospital room arguing with insurance companies instead of focussing on getting well and spending time with her family. im here because of the millions who are denied coverage because of preexisting conditions or dropped from coverage when they get sick. im here because of the small businesses who are forced to choose between health care and hiring. im here because of the seniors unable to afford the prescripti...

Explain. do you feel its a tourism board advertisement? >> its the birthplace of the united nations, one of the most dynamic, economic cities in the united states and arguably, the most creative workforces. a city that is always on the leading and cutti inting edge o ideas. we also have universal afterschool. weve seen seven years in a row of improved test scores. we even put salad bars into our public schools to focus on wellness and prevention. and focussing on reducing costs by getting smart ...

Disagree but youre never disagreeable. have a good weekend and stay out of the snow and whatever else. chris, thank you. >> you, too. >> neil: all right. weve been focussing on another sort of mother nature act here. this one off the coast of japan. they have tsunami warnings after magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit off the japan southern coast. were told right now that there are no actual tsunamis being reported, that the tsunami warning is there. just by comparison, when we had off the pacific, the ...

Were in charge, we are. thats the good news. if we make the decisions here, we can decide to solve this problem and thats precisely what so many of you are doing right now in your states. youre experimenting and innovating. many of you are ignoring the naysayers and the old partisan divide and focussing solely on what works. in pennsylvania, prampl, folks started a fresh food initiative to bring grocery stores to underserved areas. i got to visit one of those communities yesterday when i got to ...

Connections got them this work. >> witt associates told fox news the firm was already in haiti drawing up disaster response plans for clinton global initiative pro bono when the quake struck and shaw sought out witf for help. kim said we want to help and said witts offer wasnt in terms of a contract, yet witt got a contract. she december put disputed the nl and she responded and said -- i think with emergency situation, the call for no-bid contract might not be an issue. the help was needed imme...

Connections got them this work. >> witt associates told fox news the firm was already in haiti drawing up disaster response plans for clinton global initiative pro bono when the quake struck and shaw sought out witf for help. kim said we want to help and said witts offer wasnt in terms of a contract, yet witt got a contract. she december put disputed the nl and she responded and said -- i think with emergency situation, the call for no-bid contract might not be an issue. the help was needed imme...

About teaching on college campuses. you have dr. karen gupta doing something on the war on children. can you tell me about that? >> we are focussing on what is going on in the school and what the kids are being taught. so to many parents are not aware of the curriculum that are given to the children. we bring in people talking about some of the things that are actually in classrooms. we talk about the wonderful story of america because its not talked about in the classroom. >> glenn: i tell you,...