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Martha: sure is. bill: mitt romney is about to speak live in the sunshine state, he's on the stage right now in tampa. romney calling it a pre butt alto the state of the union tonight. he's in tam tpa in part because that's where the votes. you go back to 2008 you see on our touch-screen billboard behind us here and the results of that contest and the primary between john mccain and mitt romney in florida. mccain won by 5 points. 1.9million votes cast in florida alone four years ago. here is tampa, this is hillsboro county. to the west, pinnellas county. also the votes found in the southeast w...

Making these bets and not public money. i have one more, if i may, green jobs training program. it trained 80,000 people of whom 8,000 actually got a green job. >> 10%. >> of whom only 1,000 still have that job six months later. net cost and this is a firm number, $153,000 per job that lasted six months. maybe longer. >> it almost sounds like they trained -- because there are so few jobs, they had to train a whole bunch of people to make it looks like more people were involved. >> what do you think is a green job? for example, do you think that if you're a professor and you teach ecology, is t...

defended a controversial $535 million government loan to a california solar panel company that eventually went belly up. the solyndra drama continues. >> reporter: continues, and will for some time. the president when asked about that, jonathan silver, the man who has been heading up the loan program, which, of course, is the controversial part of this program, because of a guaranteed loan that was given to that solar panel company that president obama visited, and that went belly up in august, that's really what all of this stems around. well, he has resigned, and to listen to the d...

It's a financial birth defect, and the parents aren't warned. >> reporter: in many cases, police don't have the time or resources to catch these crooks, leaving parents like katie's dad out in the cold. in a nutshell, what have the police done for you? >> nothing. it's almost like they don't want to be bothered. >> reporter: they don't want to be bothered, but we found two of the suspects pretty easily. in fact, we found manuel contreras in arizona in just two days. jeff rossen from nbc news. according to the credit bureau, you've been using a young girl's social security number and getting ho...

In a nutshell, what have the police done for you? >> nothing. it's almost like they don't want to be bothered. >> reporter: but we found two of the suspects -- >> pretty easily. >> reporter: we found manuel in arizona in two days. you've been using a young girl's social security number. and getting home loans racking up nearly half a mill dollars in debt. >> million dollars? >> half a million. have you been using a young girl's social security number and using your own? >> i don't understand. >> so we brought in a translator. 2006, $153,000 and also in 2006 for $238,000. that's against the law...