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Beefed up in phoenix in the wake of last month's tucson shootings. phoenix officials will now require people attending city council meetings to walk through metal detectors and submit to bag checks. the metal detectors are on no-cost temporary loan from the u.s. march sshal service while city looks into purchasing them. a cyclone is threatening the region of australia. the slow moving system is dumping torrential rains with gusty winds on the area and could cause more flooding. the centers for disease control is out with a list of the states where adults do the least amount of physical act...

The brigades that left this week will be gone from iraq and there will be a residual force of 50,000 support forces in iraq. the president will want to put it in context as a matter of policy and for those of us who cover the democratic primary campaign, it was candidate obama insistence on troop withdrawal strategy, viewed by liberals more progressive than hillary clinton to help give him toe-hold in the primary campaign. he wants to tell the country he built a strategy then as candidate and carried it through now as president. this is good news. one, of course, big problem that remains in ir...

Either angry about or concerned about. >> shepard: kind of like this road cleaned up by the following. either way, republicans are seizing on it as a political issue. >> republicans know the stimulus is not popular. that most americans, according to wide array of polling date tax not just fox polling data but polling data from across the country don't believe it's generated jobs. they say it's a target politically. darryl ice satisfy california calls this particular type of government funded advertising propaganda. let's listen. >> this is, in fact, a form of government paid for advertising no...

About why they were doing this, they wanted first perhaps, to make the afghan people in this region aware that fighting would take place. in the early hours now, we know that the u.s. marines have gained a toe hold in the town of marjah, but they are encountering gunfire, rocket propelled grenades, opposition from what they believe to be several hundred taliban fighters in these early hours of the campaign. the ultimate goal here, however, the ultimate message if you will is that the u.s. nato afghan forces are here to try and offer the people in this region another way of life. something othe...

Different is that the president seems to be getting more support or louder support from people on the right, particularly congressional republicans. you saw representative gomer earlier, but there are others who are going on tv talking about the fact the fbi's crooked, that they're against the president, that there should be an investigation into robert mueller. they're bringing up the -- the uranium one conversation again. are folks on the right feeling a little more emboldened now? >> yeah, i don't know if you want to say they have the wind at their backs per se on this issue, but there's a ...