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Outskirts. and it looks like that residence has been abandoned. no sign of the president. no sign of the presidential guard. some state workers still guarding the gate. but these workers say the residence now belong to the people. and theyre keeping people out, because they say, they believe, inside the residence is evidence of the presidents crimes, of what they believe has been the corruption and so forth of this government. so it is really quite a powerful sign of how the power structure in t...

>> due you think this money grows on trees? >> republicans and democrats -- >> taxpayer dollars. >> investment. nobody says money grows on the tree but when you engage in austerity without understanding the economy was near cratering, then you are being blind to historic reality. >> let me -- >> what you think the government can create jobs then im sorry. thats absolutely not true. >> allow me -- >> you have to understand. we were sold a bill of goods that this would create jobs. remember the sh...

Employers need, and match them to good jobs that need to be filled right now. >> ive talked to governors who have said before kind of privately, look, our retaining programs are not the best. in some cases, programs to keep state workers employed, not necessarily to retrain people, and the skills are changing so much. you used to also have a very, very vibrant labor movement in the country where labor would force companies to pay for the retraining, and now you dont have that agreement any more....

That rick scott, the governor of florida has made his bones on which is drug testing. drug testing state workers, everything. how us that sandusky that play into this question of legalization? >> drug testing welfare recipients polls well. speaking of things that they support the poll well, thats one of those issues. but rick scott has been pretty anti-drug. he had a family member who had at least an alcohol problem so hes made that kind of a top concern and a top issue. but, you know, scott has...

Harder. there you go! there should be a brief break today from the snow and the rain that fell late into the night. but guess what? its all going to pick up again. in connecticut, state workers are being told to come in late this morning as crews try to clear the roads and move the snow thats piled up. some cities are actually trucking snow away. they have run out of places to put it! >> welcome to my driveway. some parts of maryland were buried under more than 2 feet of snow. these pictures a...

Going, oh, here we go. yeah, you have to wait, you have to let the shot resolve itself right there. all right, there the car goes, finally. we know that car gets going. state workers in connecticut getting to come in late this morning to give crews more time to clear the roads. some cities are actually starting to truck away the snow because theyve run out of places to put it when this plow. >> maryland was among the worst hit from the snow, buried underneath 2 feet in some places. these are p...

Here, support 71% to 27%. the white house cites 288 pairs of counties with minimum wage differentials from 1990 to 2006. there are a lot of facts to support raising the minimum wage makes basic economic sense. chris christie yesterday was talking about the income inequality argument. he as governor turned down a $1 raise in the minimum wage in his own state, which was overturned by voters in new jersey that went against christies ideas to raise the wages for state workers. it appears the republi...

Precedent. so i suspect there are ways in which it could rule in a less radical way. for example, it could say that these workers dont have to be deemed state workers, which would be slightly different from saying you are a state worker. you now have to pay into a union. so i suspect theyre going to look for a way to be less sweeping in their ruling. >> aside from this case, unions have been taking blows, as you mentioned, just by their membership across the board. also you have the boeing case ...

Youve been reporting on voting issues, well, this is one part of a comprehensive assault that this governor has launched on the constitutional rights of the people of florida. we have been involved in about 12 different lawsuits, mostly on voting. some on drug testing. theres a companion lawsuit that we have in which he is insisting upon drug testing, not merely applicants for territory assistants, but all state workers. everybody who works for state government. this is part of a comprehensive a...

Were ready. we have about 700 pieces of equipment for our public works department and weve had our police. the cars were off the roads so public works could do their job with plowing and pretreating the roads. >> mayors in cities all across, hey, listen, if you dont have to go out in this, stay inside. are people heeding those warnings? >> they are. during the evening commute we saw very light numbers but it memorandums the governor has allowed state workers to go home early and i think some of ...