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On day four of batalis life on a food stamp budget, he told the associated press, im expletive deleted starving. he said hes been having rice and beans for lunch every day and figuring out ever cheaper ways to put food on the table. he said his teenage sons are quote, having more peanut butter and jelly than theyve had in the last ten years. batali has been leading a couple of hundred people who are trying to eat for a week on a food stamp budget. this is an act of discipline and sacrifice that ...

Skin and comfortable with what he did. dont try to go with what youve got. stick with the type casting. go with what youve got and who you are. its not your best option. i think its your only option. you know at the end of each session i asked for a question of a hero of mine, the questions are kind of a raw shock test and since were talking about authenticity, maybe it will be useful to answer them and really reveal yourself, the real -- the real mitt romney. sir, what is your favorite word? >>...

Are kind of a raw shock test and since were talking about authenticity, maybe it will be useful to answer them and really reveal yourself, the real -- the real mitt romney. sir, what is your favorite word? >> delighted. >> least favorite word? >> what turns you on? >> i like being able to fire people that provide services to me. >> what turns you off? >> the plight of the poor. >> what sounds do you love? what sound of noise do you hate? >> obama. obama. obama. >> what is your favorite curse wor...

Let me finish with this. i want to american government to work. i want elections to matter, to have congress when people decide in the voting booth. i want this to be alive with new ideas, approaches and experimentation. we have problems like out of control immigration. the plight of you are inner cities. its a doable list, dont you think? lets try to get working on that list. lets set about fixing these challenges. theres no reason its going to change things. nothings going to get done. another...

Princess cruise lines for negligence. he says he was stranded in the pacific ocean when one of the companys ships sailed right on past him and failed to help. the company said the captain was simply not aware of his plight. and the obama administration issuing new guidelines for spending on federal conferences, hoping to avoid the whole gsa-las vegas canned tkal. listen to this the guideline limit, jon, is spending at a half million dollars. $500,000. anything higher than that you have to get a ...

The reauthorization of the violence against women act. >> why? >> youre committed -- it should be debated separately. were going to change our federal law related to same-sex couples. >> i can imagine. let me go back to congresswoman moore. i cant emergency going back to a district, rural or urban, i dont want to do anything that suggests equality in gay relationships. and by the way, i cant even protect a gay person by being beat up by a gay person because i cant even touch that issue. it seems...

the banks that were too big to fail are bigger than ever and still making multimillion dollar bets. im wore blitzer, youre in "the situation room" of . the latest skirmishes are being fought on college campuses with both president obama and mitt romney but neither candidate is saying much -- not saying much at all about same-sex marriage. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is joining us from new york so. jessica, what exactly did the president say when he addressed the ...

Done to stay in that boat. >> i was in the current and things happened so fast that i dont remember exactly the sequence of things. but i grabbed on to that tree. >> grateful to be alive, mike clambers into the tree and considers his options. >> the current was so strong that i couldnt even move a couple of yards upstream. it was very dangerous and i just stayed where i was. >> further down the river, ed has found something to hang onto. >> i grabbed on to that tree and pulled myself up. i was h...

for the nuts and bolts on this fias fiasco, its the impact on the markets and your own investments. alison kosik joins us now. just what was this massive trading bet all about? before it went south? >> reporter: fredricka, what jpmorgan essentially did was made a big game am. they made risky bets and lost. the bets they made were to protect against possible losses on jpmorgans other investments, but clearly they backfired and the bets produced losses of their own. how did this come out...

older sister, 14-year-old adrienne. mayes was a family friend of the bains and a relative says he believed he was the girls biological father. cnns george haul is live in atlanta with more details for us. okay were going to mind your business instead this morning. u.s. stock futures are down right now, indicating markets here are expected to open lower this morning. lots of uncertainty in the markets this week over instability in greece and overall concerns about growth of the economy....