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Candidates talking about the urban areas, some places actually work. we can certainly a building of a prison complex getting parents involved works. >> the finest speech that i heard that barack obama made in the '08 campaign was in miami and he said that problems of the cities, of the metropolitan areas, rather, the cities can be the solutions and i'm going to commit and the kinds of things he promised and spoke of doing, i have been wanting to see more of that because you're absolutely right. if our cities are not held up -- >> you know, jay, part of what i hoped was that the trayvon martin ...

Race against the mississippi river. cnn's brian todd is at the louisiana state penitentiary which is also known as angola. brian, inmates there are being called on to actually help hold back that river in what way? >> reporter: well, fredricka, they're hoisting sandbags to shore up one of the key levees. the levee that i'm standing on right now. this is the last line of defense against the floods for this massive prison complex. this is floodwater that's coming right up against it. an outer lying levee has already been breached. the floods have already come up several miles to this levee. this...

benjamin netanyahu is scheduled to speak to aipac tomorrow. earlier i spoke with elyse labbott. i asked her if mr. obama's speech today may ease some of netanyahu's concerns. >> i think president obama went a long way to making the prime minister feel better. he was really looking for a strong statement on hamas and the president did say that the israelis shouldn't be expected to negotiate if hamas does not accept israel's right to exist. he's saying any country can't be expected to negotiate with someone that won't even accept its right to exist. and so i think as the prime minister...

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Disproportionately affected by school closings. black students comprise 81% of those who will be impacted by the closures and 93% of kids affected are low income. meanwhile, governor corbett has no money for schools. he fished under his cushions and found the cash to build a $400 million prison complex in suburban philadelphia. and that's on top of the $1.8 billion corrections budget already signed by corbett. when it comes to pennsylvania's budget winner, the department of corrections all the way. so what we have is hundreds of millions of dollars being invested in incarcerating people from p...