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Part of what we do in head start is teach parents to advocate for their children. so we will tell them to -- where to write letters and to talk to their congressmen about this. there's really no place to send them. the head start families are the poorest of the poor. in some ways, becoming a head start student is like winning the lottery of early care and education. there's nothing like it for low-income children in los angeles county the way there is with head start. >> amanda, let me bring you in. part of the sequester, which we've all said this line over and over, is it was supposed to be s...

Manifestation of climate change, as we discussed yesterday. no sound science yet that a warmer atmosphere necessarily means more severe tornadoes. yes, it does mean more instability, there's more water vapor, more fuel for these severe thunderstorms. but in a warmer atmosphere, you should have less wind sheer and that would tend to negate some of these other factors. you can't connect the dot, there's no causal connection, but it's something we're going to be watching very carefully. >> that was really a satisfying explanation. the image of my head is this sort of pitching on its axis situatio...

>> the gun owner next door. it's not people who are doing the right way and following the law, it's illegal firearms out there. there's a lot of talk about gun control. we need a national conversation about nut control. >> eric: we need to point out people upset with the map aren't gun owners, it's people next door whose house doesn't have a dot so you're telling the criminal don't go to the house with the dot. a stupid idea. >> a gratuitous slap in the face. i deal with their editors and go before them every two years when it comes to getting endorsement. >> eric: bad idea or illegal? >> it's...

Capital gains taxes going up. connect all the dot, and you've got -- megyn: those are taxes people pay on the money they make from their investments. >> yes, okay. if i buy a stock for $100, i sell it for $200, that is a a capital gain, and i'm taxed on it. next year it might be 20% or even 23.9%. megyn: and the argument is if the tax goes too high, then you decide not to invest, you decide to put your money maybe in real estate or in the mattress or someplace else, and that hurts the economy not to have your money out there. >> more to the point, if i sell now, this year, and pay 15% capital ...

Than 150 passengers from orlando to los angeles forced to make an emergency landing in texas after a man became terribly ill. the unexpected landing leaving passengers stranded for 16 hours, much of that time no food, no water, no blankets, left to sleep on a floor overnight. the airline says once the plane was on the ground they then discovered a mechanical problem which further delayed the flight. >> the aircraft is heavy at this time, still has all the fuel on that and everything else. when they do that they need to make sure everything is working and everything is proper at that point. gre...