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Reside in that state. and in the same report, arizona ranks 9th out of the 10 states with undocumented legislation and arizona passed proposition 200 back in 2004 and requires residents to provide proof of citizenship to vote and consequences for state workers who do not report illegal immigrants trying it obtain to obtain govet services. were a little more than 24 hours from the start of president obamas landmark trip to the mideast. as president obama gets ready for his first visit to israel s...

Wilmington, north carolina, or savannah, georgia, where a lot of films are made, they want movies to come to their town so they get the publicity for tourism. >> reporter: yeah, thats right. in fact 40 or 45 states are offering tax breaks to movie productions to get them into their town. i think youre right for the publicity, for the image. but states say they create jobs. governor jerry brown says hollywood created nearly 200,000 jobs for the state. but you know what? for these other movies and...

This could be a type of storm to linger in terms of people getting back to where theyre going and traveling and lingering in to this coming weekend. back do you. >> paul, thank you so much. north to new england. expected to get hit the hardest. nbcs ron mott in providence, rhode island. >> reporter: hey there, krystal. beautiful winter wonderland behind me. not so beautiful on the roadways. a lot of folks heeded the warnings and gone home or stayed home today which is a very good thing. traffic ...

Out an extra $95 million over the life of those bonds. and it gets worse from there. >>brian: they only have themselves to blame? >> yes because they cannot come to an agreement on how to deal with their massive pensions for their retired state workers. they cant come to grips with it. >>gretchen: when we first started talking about illinois being in so much debt, they were talking about this 67% tax increase on the people who live in that state. what ramifications will this now have on that tax...

>> i love this. the los angeles city council, they are paid $150,000 a year and they meet all the time. in texas, for the whole state, they only meet for 140 days every two years. >> neil: really, but there are more state workers in texas. >> that shocked me. more state workers but they pay them so much more in california, that is why california is going broke. its not just the pay. and the pensions, you put up the number unfounded liability per government worker in california is more than $400,...

But its a bailout none the less. >> eric: and very dangerous. what you reference is the unfunded liability, right? >> yep. >> eric: give us a sense of illinois, $96 billion? >> 96 billion. >> eric: nationally? >> 300% in illinois since the late 1990s. nationally, the unfunded pension liability for state workers only is well over a trillion and mounting constantly. >> steve: we were speaking earlier in the break about how that bell, california fiasco where so many people were getting such rich pa...

Wait a second. they havent got anything. theyre getting worse to the tune of $17 million a day. look, in illinois, its very typical of many states around the country where young people are being laid off by the government and services are being cut so that they can pay the pensions of retired state workers. illinois is the worst case of the lot. >> steve: so they may be looking for a federal bailout. have been have to go in front of the american people and say, hey people in texas, and people in...

Plan to hire 22 former state troopers for $230,000. they also paid for a new insurance policy. i wonder, ryan, these fights in washington over money, will they play into this at all? >> i think the fight over money is one reason that some democrats are actually going to be okay with more funding for police officers at schools, if the school wants it. because those are state workers and thats stimulus and more jobs for people. and if the school does want them, youre going to have plenty of democr...

Allowed gays to marry. the 10th case comes from arizona where they are challenging a law state took away health benefits of domestic partners of state workers. its possible that the court could take those up as well, bill but most think they will take a doma case up. well find out, maybe today, probably monday. bill: interesting. william la jeunesse, thank you. live in l.a. watching that story for us. martha? martha: in syria people are losing access now to the outside world as fighting continue...

Outnumbered by people dependent on the government. if you plan on buying a home or investing your money there you may be putting your hard-earned dollars at significant risk. melissa francis. you love it. >> reporter: i never get tired of hearing you say this. megyn: i noticed one of the states is new york. >> reporter: absolutely. there are two factors that put a state on the death spiral list which i like because its very dramatic. one is one of the things you are talking about, the ratio of t...