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Chance. overall is the effect of the negative attention. we won't know until 2014, 2016, will there be a backlash? >> one thing these laws do is force democrats to divert resources that might otherwise be used for targeting undecided voters, that kind of thing, just to overcome the effects of these laws. the reverse or flip side of that is that in the last election, in 2012, these laws and these efforts angered -- caused so much anger and so much indignation that turnout in the targeted groups actually increased. the question is, is that kind of motivation going to slop over, going to continue...

>> that's a very fluid situation for the opportunity. this happened around 12:30 this afternoon. a gentleman entered the bank. he's a u.s. citizen from this area. he was born in california. he's 20 years old. family moved over here. the only convenience store. this is a rule area. the parish is 5,000 people. the town is about 1500, farming area. they own a convenience store here. he entered the bank, took three hostages, they work at the bank. we are negotiating with him, talking with him. we've been on the phone. we talked to the hostages there. nothing is more important than the hostages. it...

Serious fashion. not even the upper middle class. but tell us about those clinging to the bottom of the ladder? >> well, those clinging to the bottom of the ladder are not the most impoverished people in america. they tend to be folks who we know, our sisters, our brothers, our cousins. somebody down the street, who got laid off at the start of this deep, deep recession. and as things started to get better, maybe they lived in a part of america, particularly a rule area, or an older industrialized city, where the economy has just not come back as rapidly as it is in some, in better-off parts o...

Necessary, this as firefighters continue to battle the blaze. the sheriff's department says it was ignited by a lightning strike. so far it has burned 227 acres and is at 45% containment. firefighters are getting help from a small air tanker and helicopters but the crews on the ground are battling more than flames. >> the fire is kind of hung up in very rocky, remote terrain, so we're hoping that we're able to go direct attack on the fire and succeed in some type of containment. a lot of it is going to be weather dependent and resource dependent. >> reporter: this fire is being fought about tw...

Covered. you have a lot of people. this is a rule area. this is a big area where the tsunami video rolled through. in some placeses they didn't have the technology necessarily to know that tsunami was coming. most of the country has a warning system. it's a fantastically prepared country for an earthquake. how do you prepare for 30-foot wall waves of water. you have people staying in the 30 mile areas where the government is telling people to evacuate. as you know some of the stuff may not be known for years if they have been exposed. that is something that the government is dealing with here....