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I'm going to tweet my weight. >> someone -- i was having conversations with people on twitter about their struggles with food addiction and weight. >> yeah. >> and one woman said she was finally ten pounds heavier like me. i'm actually more. so i tweeted my weight. >> boy, you really are. >> i'm a lot heavier. >> so how much do you weigh? >> okay. we'll -- >> you tweeted it! >> @morning mika and leave it there. >> that's what we call in the business -- >> i'm good, and open about it. let's take a look at morning papers. "chicago tribune" former u.s. representative jesse jackson junior and his ...

That there needs to be something that generationally that americans can all participate in. my dad was a world war ii vet, a kid from brooklyn, stationed in south carolina and hawaii. he integrated himself as an american through his military service and there isn't that rite of passage. which is one of the reasons for this article that i write about is there needs to be a universal rite of passage for americans to serve in some way, either in the military or civilian service. >> there's a hunger out there for it. last year there were like 580,000 applications for 80,000 spots in americorps. te...

And how many other people know about it, too? as far back as 2010 the "washington post" reported a third of all people with top-secret clearances in the country don't work for the government. they work for contractors. in january, the director of national intelligence reported that more than 480,000 contractors have top secret clearance. another 580,000 have confidential or secret clearance. that means more than 1 million contractors now, people working for private companies, have clearance to see highly classified information. after 9/11, the intelligence world changed. not just by getting ma...

Through without being able to readr write. he said like he did as governor of texas. if you don't measure where a student is, how can you tell whether or not they improved and should there be incentives for teachers? okay. so that moves forward, there was a lot of controversy about that, but the states, kimberly, have layered on additional tests. the more tests you take, the more chances you have as a teacher to get more money. we only have a couple minutes. i'm sorry. i'll get to this. the superintendent made $580,000 in bonus money over 12 years. where is the outrage from the parents about h...

All these students being passed through without being able to readr write. he said like he did as governor of texas. if you don't measure where a student is, how can you tell whether or not they improved and should there be incentives for teachers? okay. so that moves forward, there was a lot of controversy about that, but the states, kimberly, have layered on additional tests. the more tests you take, the more chances you have as a teacher to get more money. we only have a couple minutes. i'm sorry. i'll get to this. the superintendent made $580,000 in bonus money over 12 years. where is the ...