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Lives that have been lost. we are facing a major catastrophe. i'd like to announce if i may, my constituents, a good many of them, are still in harm's way. i spoke to the mayor in missouri city in fort ben county. this is where the tornadoes hit, they'll have to move out of that office, it's a satellite office. the mayor has indicated there's a possibility of flooding that will take place in an area that would cause a good many people to move out and tough decisions have been made. people are doing the best they can under unusual circumstances. you had water in one day that would be a record l...

And welcome back. investors are watching the dow, wondering if today is the day it closes above 17,000. the dow briefly bumped up against it yesterday before slipping back. the 17,000 figure is mostly psychological and does not mean anything special as far as the markets are concerned because it is already a record level. president obama is having lunch with a group of economists looking for ways to boost growth and increase job opportunities for more administration. the administration has revealed salary information for the men and women who work inside the white house. despite the president'...

Just reached a record level . if you go to one of the 50 most expensive colleges, the cost of the degree is now higher than the average cost of a house in this country. >> look at the numbers. >> amazing. >> $127,000 for a private college. $37,000 for a public university. $73,000 for a two-year community college and even if you don't go to a major ivy like you it costs a lot of money. >> and college education has gone up faster than others. >> why is that? >> it's an arms race, a race to build better buildings, facilities, more faculties because people pay it. when you look at the applications...

Higher than before the last crash. and it's cheaper, because we've eaten up this crisis, we through this. this record breaks out we're not going to have a depression like a lot of people are calling for, the negatives you're talking about are real and that's why we're not at dow, 18, 19,000, if these were gone it's not a wildly overpriced market. it's not tied to unemployment it's tied to earnings and that's a record high, therefore, the stock market, all other things being equal should be a record level. >> toby, it's often said that wall street has predicted six of the last three recoveries,...

Powerhouse. although nobody really believes it. our exports are on a record level, they're up 50% from 2009. the ports in south carolina and georgia and miami and the west coast is where so much economic activity happens. and these are democratic states and republican states. exports as a percentage of gdp are higher than they've ever been in the last 30 or 40 years. i don't think he makes the connection between having good ports and railroads and bridges and roads on the one hand, and not just the jobs you create when you build new stuff. but the way that it enables businesses to expand, to t...