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Supporters. >> dana: one thing when gingrich is down to 1%, member of his staff left. the infrastructure can matter in a campaign. >> bob: sure. >> dana: can you get the support and resources and pull it together and bring it home? in iowa, where even though people said romney wasnt strong, didnt have a strong enough presence. does the infrastructure problem matter in the next 60 days? >> bob: intensity trumps organization in the caucus. romney got 25% in iowa the last time. he spent millions of...

there a big, new chill in relations between russia and the u.s.? its all about one man. ill explain. next up, where does innovation come from? well ask the man who totally reinvented a household appliance you use every week or at least you should. then a look at jobs, inequality, and the economy with the nobel prize-winning economist michael spence. finally, think you can solve the euro crisis? well tell you how you can try. first, heres my take. this is thanksgiving week in am...

there a big, new chill in relations between russia and the u.s.? its all about one man. ill explain. next up, where does innovation come from? well ask the man who totally reinvented a household appliance you use every week or at least you should. then a look at jobs, inequality, and the economy with the nobel prize-winning economist michael spence. think you can solve the euro crisis? well tell you how you can try. first, heres my take. this is thanksgiving week in america, an...

major blackberry service outage. were finding out more about what went wrong. good morning to you. it is thursday, october 13th. this is your am "wake-up call." the treasury department has slapped new sanctions against irans force. the government describes a money trail starting within that iranian organization. but former homeland security secretary tom ridge says think bigger. >> its a monstrous ly buffet. they are working unilaterally independent of the ayatollah himself. clearly th...

Mississippi river is closed after rising waters caused three barges to sink in baton rouge, louisiana. they were carried into a bridge and further north people in vicksburg are building makeshift levees to keep their houses dry. so far, thousands have been forced to evacuate. those, my friends, are the headlines. >>dave: unbelievable. rick has been down there, unusual to see you in the studio. what is the situation? rick: all the water in bat rouge, it will not get higher. that is a big concern ...

People have no way to get home. as widespread as tokyo is, without rail, theyre paralyzed. if you think about 15 million people unable to move, that is an infrastructure problem, and so what the prime minister, what you just heard him say, hes speaking to a couple of different audiences. to his most populous city, hes telling them to please remain calm, dont panic, dont create a second crisis. to the people of north where weve seen this massive devastation, they need to stay calm so they can be ...

Our reporter kyung lah is there. kyung, you were talking a little earlier there was about several minutes it felt like this earthquake was shaking. we talked to another gentleman a short time ago that said japan is pretty structurally sound. they know how to do this, and tokyo is pretty much intact. we have a two-pronged disaster, if you will. weve got the tsunami and the earthquake. lets start with the earthquake. what kind of shape is tokyo in right now? >> reporter: well, i can tell you at ri...

Struck. she joins us on the phone now. what is the situation like there, kyung? >> reporter: what tokyo is going through now, karen, several hours after the first quake struck, there is a big problem at least within the city of tokyo with infrastructure. the train lines are down. highways are cut off. and so its extremely difficult to travel around this city. the problem is tokyo has 13 million people in it. a lot of people, like new york city, have to commute outside the immediate city center. ...

About? >> i think its a great idea. we ought to be using our bonding power. you know, dylan, its interesting. only the federal government doesnt have a capital budget. every state, every county, every city has a capital budget where we go out and bond for our infrastructure needs. but the federal government doesnt. and to develop those bonds and use as an income stream for those bonds, bringing that money back from abroad, its a great idea. even the little thing that the obama administration did...

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