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Minneapolis expecting a half a foot. rain in the northwest in california. snow in the rockies and wind in the southwest. >> upper 60s to 80s across the southwest, a cold start in the northeast, warming up to the 20s. teens and 20s in the upper midwest. a new york lawmaker had learned the hard way the power of social media. video of congressman michael grimm threatening a reporter went viral in just minutes. at first, grimm refused to apologize, blaming the reporter instead. but after a barrage of criticism, the republican congressman saw the error of his ways and said he was sorry. preside...

Make ends meet, so i need everybody here and everybody who's going to be watching, tell congress to make this happen. give america a raise. making work pay means doing more to help americans all across this country, but it also means improving the economy, because one of the things that's been holding our economy back is wages and incomes being flat, means consumers aren't spending as much, which means businesses don't have as many customers, which means they don't hire as much and they don't invest as much and we don't get that lift-off on the economy that we could. if we want to make work pa...

At heart what you've been talking about, getting people back to work and making that work pay. >> but part of the list of things that congressman ryan pointed out, that he was unwilling to give up is the extension of unemployment benefits for 1.3 million people who will suffer greatly if there's not an extension. i know this is something that makes -- that unsettled -- that is unsettling to you but however, what is there -- why do you believe or is there confidence that the republicans will support this measure that you would like to push through? >> first of all, this is important to 1.2 mill...

Stamps. the average food stamp income has gone from $33 to $25 as part of this. you got a discussion about the minimum wage. >> you can't live on it. >> there's a whole bunch of things that come together in a perfect storm for people at the bottom and so they feel very picked upon and i think rightly so. >> joe, you would agree you got to make work pay in order to get people network. asking people to work for something they can't afford to support their family on that's not really how welfare reform works. >> i agree. republicans certainly, i think, willie, republicans can make the argument th...

Workers protesting this weekend and minimum wage laws being pushed in localities and states. people are really at a place where they realize, we have to pay people enough that they can afford to buy goods and support their families and not rely on the government. this should be a conservative thing, making work pay as you point out. one other thing i did get a little gift. proud supporter. they were amazing. and incredibly inspiring because they are risking their jobs to be there and to speak out on behalf of the workers. >> a lot of people there with you are not actually workers at that walma...