victims and getting them to understand that we re here to help them. harris county attorney linda geffen gets a firsthand look at the girls who work at the cantina. she s trying to make a connection to encourage one of them to get out of the life. you see the ones in there that are prostitutes and the ones that aren t. if you walk up and look at them, they look down like this. they re the ones you need to talk to. with the help of jose, geffen zeros in on a couple of the younger girls. this is virginia from mexico. she says she s 25 years old. so do you work here? she take care of little babies. babysitter. yeah, babysitter. do you work here as a waitress, too? okay. what else do you do for work?
unfortunately, marguerita is not quite ready to change her life today and all that geffen can do is offer her a business card. but one day, that card may be a lifeline to marguerita or other girls like her seeking to leave the world of prostitution behind. most of your viewers need to realize, if you wake up in a strange country that you re not familiar with, and you don t speak the language, and the person that s keeping you tells you the police are bad, don t trust them, what are you going to do? you have no money, no support system and you ve already been threatened. so that s the situation they re looking at. there will be no arrests here today but for the tabc, the visit is still a successful one. inspectors uncover numerous electrical and fire code violations like this one, where a series of extension cords snake power to a taco wagon in the parking lot. all in all, today s surprise visit from inspectors will set back the cantina thousands of dollars in fines. it s all part
we re seeing people march, rights groups coming to washington in a couple beaks. people are outraged. i think part is the arrogance and insensitivity of saying geffen this economy, given that our people are suffering on the ground, they are actually fight you you in the senate to maintain that millionaires having no i want to say it s better than that and here s why it might be. mitch mcconnell said yesterday, wet to vote on the president s package. we want to vote on it. we re going to say tomorrow, here s what we want to vote on. we want to vote on the president s jobs package, paid for with a 5%, just a 5% surtax, and let s see if mish mcconnell s let us, if he instruction his republican members to kill us or let it
significant first quarter profits laer this week. analysts say these companies are firing on all cylinders. the first quarter earnings will be much, much better than a year a ago. they must be so proud, but exactly how much better? exxon mobil s profits should rise 56% from a year earlier. occidental petroleum is expected to be up 35% year over year. chevron s profits up 29%, according to expectations. now, geffen these profits, president obama and the democrats are pushing for an end to the $4 billion this country spends in oil subsidies. that s $4 billion of your money going to these companies when they re making record profits and you re paying near-record prices at the pump. it has to stop. that s exactly what we bush what we ve been pushing for on this is program. while companies are raking it in