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Im just looking over the company bills.up? is that what we pay for internet? yup. dsl is about 90 bucks a month. thats funny, for that price with comcast business, i think you get like 50 megabits. wow thats fast.

State prisons set state tax laws, fund the roads and the schools. they have to follow the constitution of the united states, for example. states cant do things that defy the federal constitution even if they want to as a state. but then theres arizona. theres the united state of arizona who does what they want. in gilbert arizona, on the out skirts of phoenix, is a very very conservative part of the state. weve been watching this controversy unfold. where the tea party majority decided that they...

To keep them from freezing. while on the street, potholes proliferated. chicago transportation department deputy commissioner tom carney. >> for the calendar year 2014 were at about 75,000 potholes filled already. >> reporter: 75,000 potholes? >> yes. >> reporter: 75,000 potholes, scott! and by comparison, for the hole month of january last year the city filled 55,000 potholes and, of course, there are four days left in january this year. >> pelley: and 400,000 chicago students staying home from...

And his quick thinking may have averted disas ter. he and his crew used their truck to block traffic on the highway. >> we started slowing down the traffic so nobody would go and the plane doesnt get hit by the cars. >> all three passengers walked away. no one on the ground was injured, not even a contrary car on the highway was scratched. all considered the mayor of new york called it a bit of a miracle. terrell brown, cbs news, new york. >> that is the "cbs evening news" tonight, later on cbs,...

Just wonderful. >> good, im glad you like it. >> its wonderful. ♪ sweet lorraine ♪ i wish we could do all the good times over again ♪ >> and so we choose fred stobaugh, the video for his song has been viewed four million times on youtube. dont forget "20/20" tonight. stay with abc news and well be right here. we hope you have a good week. next at 6:00 were seeing impact of the bay bridge closure on the freeways during this holiday get away. youre looking at live now from sky 7, well have...

And as the temperature drops here, a bad situation may well get worse. in blinding snow crews worked to pull a semi-tractor trailer from the red cedar river. one person was killed when the rig apparently skidded past a bridge and into the water. a stark example of the storms danger. in minneapolis and st. paul, snow emergencies were declared by midday and accumulations inched toward a foot in the midwests third snowstorm in the last two weeks. airport delays and cancellations were happening over...

Attack. the boys are now being cared for by friends and relatives, some of them children themselves. >> one, two, three, four. >> reporter: the turkish government is building new camps as fast as they can and moving refugees into them even before theyre finished. the families that flee here to turkey find safety but very little hope. with no end in sight to syrias civil war, their children are learning to call a refugee camp home. they bring their memories of the war with them the. a conflict th...

Welcome back. higher gas prices topping our look at todays business headlines. according to the industry experts, the average price of gas is now at $2.74, up 14 cents over the last three weeks. california has the highest price, at least $3.02 per gallon there. and millions of dollars in stimulus money used on roads and bridges is not taking a bite out of unemployment. according to the associated press, local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless of how much stimulus money poured out. an...

Credit cards as well as those checking accounts. >> might be time to shop around. >> yeah, if you can. >> thanks for coming in, robin. >> thank you. lets tell you about some other stories on our radar today. at 10:00 a.m. eastern, well be watching for some important numbers about building in this country when the commerce department releases its latest report about construction spending. also next hour, houstons first openly gay marriage is sworn into office. annise parker won a december 12t...

Welcome back to msnbc. im david shuster. brand-new construction numbers have been reported. construction fell for the seventh month in a row down 0.6%, another sign of a weak housing and weak commercial real estate market. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke says that regulatory failure was largely to blame for the housing bubble and the subsequent financial crisis and not low interest rates. bernanke told the american