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middle class tax cut that has been given to us for -- by name, to reduce the amount that were paying into social security. what we should be talking about the real tax reform, what its going to take to increase our revenues by broadening our economic base, by growing our economy. we arent doing that. we need to be talking about what the american people want to hear. thats where the jobs are going to come from. >> that would be congressman dennis ross speaking there. christine romans is...

Over the years. did she have a proper support system? >> its interesting , as i said my parents came to the set and she talked to them and remarked how close she was to her own parents. you would hope that everyone around her, at this point in her life, would be the type of support that she needed to get through any troubles that she was having. we dont know who was definitely in her inner circle, we know she would keep company with to a point, but the people in you are inner circle, i dont know...

>> im hoping this will show up in about seven minutes, which is 2:00. >> 2:00 be here in five minutes? >> yeah. >> 2:00. >> the team gets another heads-up. girl two has been spotted. >> i see her. just driving through the parking lot of. >> here she comes. >> she said, hey, im serious. im all about business. lets get down to it. im here to do x, y and z. you know, he couldnt pay her the money fast enough and then we took her down. >> got anything in your purse we need to know about? >> when offi...

Federal authorities targeted cantinas run by organized crime figures, the brothers victor and oscar. over 100 women were freed from houston cantinas in the raids. one of them was maria, a single motherhood who left a successful bakery business in el salvador, hoping to make more money to support her family. >> translator: he took me over to some clients who were drinking and said, look, fresh meat from el salvador. he pushed me between the legs of the men and told them, here, you can do whatever...

>> okay. >> what else do you do for work? >> most of the girls will deny any involvement in prostitution. >> i mean, nobody comes to do their business. >> right. >> everybody is talking the same way. >> theyre all babysitters. >> after talking to a half dozen girls, jose finally contacts one who admits to having sex for money. margarita is surprisingly up front about her situation. >> she say, yes, she come here and she drinking and sometimes she go out with the men and they pay her $50. >> unfo...

Or a guy that will take your money for you. $50 was for the sex act and $2 and some change was for a condom, some spermicide lubricant and couple of paper towels to wipe up with, i guess. thats how disgusting it was. >> here in houston. >> advocate jose says every day for the last six years trafficked women and young children come desperately seeking help after being horribly exploited. >> theyre sleeping all day and working in the night. and they never saw the money. >> jose says bar owners giv...

Consider the extreme poverty of this village. most families like wendys live in one-room shacks with no plumbing or running water. wendys mother andrea, like most in her remote village, labors on a pineapple plantation owned by a u.s. company. her daily take for a 12-hour shift, about $5 a day. >> translator: here is a photo of my daughter wendy when she was just 14 years old. >> translator: my mom always said she would never be late to work if she could only buy a car. and i told her, well, the...

>> fine. >> staying out of trouble, huh? >> yeah. i usually come as often as i can. because hes my life. i just want to be with him. any way i can. >> this is all we can do is just sit here and hold hands. theres prisons that allow conjugal visits and, man, if we could get there, you know? yeah. but well take what we can get. this is all we can get. >> it has been three days since we met stacey travillion. today hes going home. >> like i say, im optimistic. got a good support system. so, i dont ...

details. we wrap it up here. "starting point." im going to hop on a plane and get to south carolina. we hand it over to "cnn newsroom." ill see you back here tomorrow ill see you back here tomorrow morning. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. we start this hour with that doomed cruise ship off italy and fading hope to find anymore survivors. people are still missing in those frigid waters. two americans. at least 11 people have been killed. rescue operations...

System and you give them community services and head start programs, they are going to become a productive citizen who creates value as opposed to a citizen of society who needs government support in order to just merely exist. and i think that is, yet again, the lack of forward-looking thinking here in washington. >> its stunning. you wouldnt think such simple principles would require such effort to discuss, like saying, what do you say we invest in our country? what do you say we invest in our...