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For candidates for are city council and they are present at the table during labor negotiations. >> those negotiations in some cases have bound san bernardino to pay employees just as much even after they retire. >> that is not going to work. it is not going to work. >> you cannot retire people at the age of 50 years with literally full pay and bridge their health benefits until medicare. >> the salaries and benefits you are saying have to be renegotiated. >> you bet. >> why has that not happene...

66. ♪ get your kicks on route 66 >> on old route 66, san bernardino was known as the last stop before l.a. ♪ san bernardino >> with freeways and major railway station it was the ideal hub linking the ports of los angeles and long beach out to the rest of the country. san bernardino symbolized the promise that economic growth held for middle class america. it was even the location of the first mcdonalds. but today, this city of around 210,000 has a shortfall of $46 million. over a quarter of ...

Renegotiated. >> you bet. >> why has that not happened yet? >> it will happen under the guidance of chapter 9. >> in other words, bankruptcy court. but public is sector unions are saying not so fast. they point to state precedence that suggests their pensions are are untouchable. however, morris, a former judge believes that in this unprecedented crisis the courts will allow cities to it modify at least some of their contracts. meanwhile, he is dealing with the day-to-day trials of a city gone b...

channel has not been able to independently confirm that ryan has been chosen as romneys running mate. ryan, seven-term congressman from wisconsin, a favorite among some conservative. chairs the house budget committee and also the author of a house budget that would slash spending and overhaul entitlement programs including social security and medicare. presidential hopeful mitt romney will announce his vp pick this morning at 8:45 a.m., according to the "associated "associated " chosen...

>> democrats electric unable to resist if it is paul ryan, attacking his budget. we will have a change of discussion, right away. i promise. >> this comes after the overseas trip that has been described as rocky. do you think that -- do you think that played out in moving -- do you think that this moved the announcement up a little bit? >> no. i think that mitt romney knows what he is going to have for breakfast three weeks from now. i dont think hes in a rash mood. >> a point well tak...

>> why has that not happened yet? >> what is the fix? >> when we come together as a city there is nothing we cant accomplish. >> fox news reporting cities going broke. reporting from wall street in new york city here is bret baier. >> this hour we will take you inside an alarming trend. cities that have slid deep into debt. even bankruptcy. new york is not on the list today but for a number of other reasons we begin our report from this spot, americas financial nerve center. the first ...

know -- were sure he was on their team. when he did that, that made his bone inside the conservative movement. >> chris, as we talked, the associated press is quoting a republican official saying that mitt romney has indeed chosen paul ryan, this is off the associated press right now. does that surprise you? >> well, you know, it would have surprised me if mitt romney were up in the polls twould have been a surprise. but with mitt romney trailing and needing to change the discussion, i...

$6.7 million. then there was reid abouts attempt at a wild west my you see yum. he spent $8 million over 16 years on artifacts from six-shooters to doc holliday abouts cane. much of the collection is still stored in this warehouse. the museum never opened. the national civil war museum did hope in 2001 at a cost of more than 30 million. >> you have all that together in one town, wow, you are a nationally scaled national class tourism attraction. >> democrat linda thompson was on city c...

$6.7 million. then there was reid abouts attempt at a wild west my you see yum. he spent $8 million over 16 years on artifacts from six-shooters to doc holliday abouts cane. much of the collection is still stored in this warehouse. the museum never opened. the national civil war museum did hope in 2001 at a cost of more than 30 million. >> you have all that together in one town, wow, you are a nationally scaled national class tourism attraction. >> democrat linda thompson was on city c...

>> pelley: good evening. gunfire took down three more people last night in chicago. homicides in americas third- largest city are up 38% this year. almost all of them casualties in the gang war. but the victims are not all gang members. innocent children are being shot. monday mayor rahm emanuel said this: >> you got two gang-bangers, one standing next to a kid. get away from that kid. take your stuff to the alley. dont touch the children of the city of chicago. dont get near them. >> ...