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Ugly store yo types and prejudices. bear in mind, rachel, this is -- 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. everyb...

Two americans reportedly detained in benghazi, the pair are basketball players and they were taken into custody in the university campus there, it is unclear why. the u.s. state departmented ordering evacuation of state workers in sud an. and a travel advisory urged american citizens to love the country immediately. >> here at home slight improvements in the airport after a monster storm forced the vakz -- cancellation of flights. >> reporter: we havent sewn the snow here but there is a domino...

Talking below 0 for a lot of big cities. >> in massachusetts, the national guard was called in ready to aid in evacuations as coastal flooding the predicted. >> mother nature is unpredi unpredictab unpredictable. changes can occur quickly here in the common wealth. >> reporter: state workers got go ahead to head home around 3:00 this afternoon. still messy out here. tomorrow things could be worse. the brunt of this storm hits overnight. tomorrow, governor patrick says in some spots we could see ...

Afternoon. governor released state workers today and the commute is just beginning to get underway. look at the traffic. nasty already today. we saw a lot of folks coming in for their first day of work after the holidays. a lot of folks are trying to make it home in what looks to be a very slow commute. road travel is not the only difficulty. at the logan airport, all flights are expected to be stopped tonight, resuming not until noonish tomorrow. theyre hoping to get things back up and run; alr...

Travel to this state to raise money for u.s. senator brian shatz? sally. >> i will go which dennis rodman. >> encorrect. >> out to hawaii for a point to senator brian shatz. isaac has pulled ahead 1,000 point. mckay at 200. samly at negative 600. she is down in lawrence odonnell territory there. we have 300 point round, though. this is the ph.d. level. lots can change. with the 300 point questions the game will be decided here. we put 1 h. second on the clock. 300 point round begins now...saddle...

Future nationally. >> connecticut republican john roland was first elected to state legislature when he was only 23 years old. he was first elected as governor of connecticut when he was only 37 years old. and for two and a half decades for john roland, it was pretty much going fine, but then, items that the governor insisted he paid for himself, turns out he did not. it came from state workers and contractors, it came from people who were essentially looking for something from him. the state le...

Affected, who are in most need being affected by this campaign is to have these incredibly, incredibly rich guys -- >> who inherited their money, by the way, did not earn it. >> who inherited -- i mean, theyve done a lot with dads money, but they got it from dad. to see them ideologically campaigning in a very effective way, state to state, and really funding the lions share of these efforts to keep poor people from getting health insurance. is it an economic interest to them in their business c...

Treating them like parasites. this is a new level of contempt, really, for government and those that are doing government work. >> i think so. and i think the reality is we saw or what we hear as far as the venom as you described toward government workers or the government, i really believe is the loud minority in this country speaking. i think most people believe just as president obama just spoke about, that were proud of our federal workers. were proud of our state workers and local workers. ...

>> its no question that the unions are taking a big hit here. the news recently what that the kenosha teachers union was decertified after missing a key deadline in that process. that was big news. ken northern should was seen as a union stronghole and thats being again on across the state. you have seen the wisconsin education association union has lost half of its members. since 2010, afscme saw its members fall. the milwaukee journal sentinel reported its seen members fall from 9,000 in 2010 ...

Continue to look into launching a formal investigation. congressional watchdogs say that the congresswoman bachmann may have illegally taken money from her political action committee to pay for a campaign consultant while using campaign staff to promote her memoir. she denies it all. she denies that she or her team did anything wrong. she acknowledged earlier this year that shell not seek re-election to it a fifth term in congress. a judge has now ruled that wisconsins controversial union reform...