>> stephen: the state of north dakota may not exist. it's like south dakota's canadian girlfriend. she's up north supposedly really cool and beautiful, but nobody has ever seen her. this shocking revelation comes from 82-year-old john robinski, who noticed a discrepancy while reading the north dakota state constitution because that's the most exciting thing to do in north dakota. [laughter] he's a thrill seeker. now, turns out the u.s. constitution requires all state legislators, executives and judicial officers to swear an oath of allegiance to uphold the u.s. constitution. but north dakota's state constitution omitted that requirement for its governor, which means technically north dakota isn't a state, which brings me to threat number three, fake states. nation, and i'm not talking to you, north dakota, there are now over 670,000 foreigners masked

matt's roots are deep in north dakota. he returns every chance he gets with his family, his wife and his children, elderly come and meet and will come his sister, susan, is with us as well. as i said, i've known this family for a very long time coming and they are the best that it gets. his father was the chief of staff to the man the white defeated for the united states senate. and so i know how good he really is. van passed away three years ago, but i know he's looking down with a twinkle in his eye today proud of matte and all that he has accomplished. you know, after defeating the boss for the united states senate, i came here with some trepidation of what my relationship might be like with a van and his wife, the treated me with the greatest courtesy over time the cancer indifference. the highest quality people that our state has to offer, and i believe that the highest quality of people in the country. these are the americans through and through. you're father would be so proud of you at this moment. he would be look

north dakota, you can see showers in the mountains of wyoming. we can see thunderstorms as we head throughout the afternoon. a closer look at some of these showers going through idaho. light stuff right now. this is where we can see the stronger stuff by this afternoon. you can see the stronger stuff right there. also in parts of north dakota. starting out in the cool side, it is warm in salt lake city. casper checking in at 69. the forecast for today, mostly cloudy skies in seattle. all up and down the pacific northwest. >>> all right. not too bad, although looking at some strong storms in the northern plains. that would be the hot spot for today. >> good thing to keep an eye on. >>> consumer spending dries up. at&t makes promises, and talk about ceos you're probably not going to like. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> what's forcing george clooney to give up a coveted upcoming film role. >>> coming up, ryan howard hits the century mark. benches clear, and you want basketball? we got it. you're watching "early today."

cnbc's brian shackman is live in kill dear, north dakota. how does this work? >> reporter: you have to wear an outfit like this. you're in the baake next shale deposit. there's 24 billion barrels of recoveriable oil. billions of investment dollars have come in creating thousands of jobs. we have a dynamic in willston, north dakota where they have more jobs than people available. they don't have housing for people. they're paying $15 at a local mcdonald's because everyone wants to work in the oil business. the walmart is understaffed. they sell out of things every day. unbelievable stories. one story a man came in from spokane, washington, they stayed overnight in the walmart parking lot. woke up, got a job for $90,000, he was making $30,000 a year before. one day he has a job fracing. >> i've got to ask about the environmental concerns. >> reporter: it is an issue. if it was restricted this place would go away. right now there's no big picture environmental concerns. they're going full bore, full speed ahead with it. right now it's no problem out here. >> brian

the meeting announcements that went out at the time i was in north dakota. and that was you know it's not a it's not a large state it's not a populous state i guess it is a large state so tight it was state but clinically active in north dakota has traditionally been at the forefront of a lot of different movements for the last hundred years so i was interested in going to some of these meetings i went to a couple and originally i was very sympathetic they were basically people who for the last i would say twenty years been getting screwed by kind of the correction. of american economics for more attention to wall street and start profits and less attention to a middle class income so when was it they've you decided that the fiscal issues when it came to of course like i said protesting all three bell out protesting health care reform now not why the debt ceiling to be raised but as a you decided that it was really more about religion and more about creating a christian nation as you sad. well i think that the the through line started to come more apparent a

kansas, nebraska, north dakota and south dakota. and just to their west using the same baseline a tier of mountainous states less good agriculture with four degrees of height; colorado, wyoming and montana. and if you look at iowa, it has almost exactly three degrees of height. but more to the point what we see here is that jefferson's vision of states being created from a mathematical prototype has finally emerged on the map. in fact, congress also started frequently making these new states with seven degrees of width; north dakota, south dakota, wyoming, colorado, washington and oregon all have seven degrees of width. washington and oregon, you know, give or take because of the coast. others come close to seven degrees of width. so we have this prototype of jefferson that emerge. so we go from jefferson to robert lucas to samuel vinton to steven douglas, and jefferson returns to the american map. well, here he is again. when you leave here today, you will know why stephen douglas was famous before he debated a one-term congressman

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dakota. huntsman's campaign says scaling back regulation, including epa regulation, will be a major part of his jobs creation plan, because it will create certainty. joining me now is jonathan capehart, msnbc contributor, thanks for joining me tonight, jonathan. >> hey, lawrence, nice to be with you. >> jonathan, it's hard out there for a president trying to talk about the economy when you have these republican candidates able to say whatever they want, beginning with the really wild bachmannism of i can turn this whole thing around in 90 days. how can the president change his rhetoric and how does he have to change his rhetoric to deal with the world where bachmann is considered a credible economic manager? >> she is at this point a credible republican candidate for the nomination for president. i think the president has to keep doing what he's always been doing, that's being the adult in the room. i know that's taken on an aura because people want to see him get mad, get angry, fight a litt

we share a border with north dakota and barely missed visiting the mayor of oslo, north dakota. their entire town, they had a dike and that is the only way that they survived the flood. i appreciate the difference that weather forecasts have made. st. paul, minn. -- decisions were made because we had so much flooding, how high the sandbags have to be, completely based on these forecasts. and they're completely dependent on them and made a huge difference in reducing damage and the loss of life. i must applaud what the weather bureau is doing. a tornado with the bleachers were found two blocks away. not one person died there. this is all neighborhoods for the got the warnings, the sirens went off 25 minutes at a time. a couple with 40 kids with only life scart -- high-school lifeguards. the high school kids to across the street to a basement. this is because of emergency warning. basements made the difference. in some unique things that we're doing with let's now, literally there are cameras on the flooded areas and towns all over our state so that citizens can watch the river so

, what is now north dakota close to montana. he just didn't go west as one urged as a young man. he was compelled to go west. events forced him in that direction, and we will get to that, but before we head off into the badlands, i want to give you a brief background on the roosevelt. the aficionados are probably familiar with this, but points 20 -- to touch on. he was a city kid in new york city, member of a social elite, the nickerbockers who traced ancestors back to the does back in the 1560s. it was an old new york family. his grandfather was one of the five richest man in manhattan. they made money on glass, producing a lot of window glass that new york city needed as it grew. they were also into banking and a lot of wise invest. s in new york real estate. young roosevelt was an avid outdoorsman and hunter. he was sickly as a child. he suffered from as ma and from the stomach ailment related to stress. it was something that left him sickened for days at a time, and this would pop up, you know, as i said during times of stre

. >> and joining us now is north dakota republican senator john hoeben who voted yes in favor of the bill. senator, first, explain your vote. >> thanks for inviting me to be with you. this is an important step forward. this is the first step we've said for any increase in the debt ceiling we've got to have safings. we've got to have reduction to get our financial situation, our fiscal house back in order to get on top of the deficit and debt. very important step forward. more work to do. at the same time we do have to focus on growing this economy, stimulating private investment and job creation. >> now you're a former governor and you know the impact this is going to have on the states. i want to ask something about what lindsey graham told chuck and i a bit ago. he said that he sees a shift, a philosophical shift in the republican party against support for the armed services against defense spending. his concern for the trig ere is it really would place huge burdens on defense and that he is less eager to take that hard and fast no tax pledge. he sees ways where loopholes could be

a storm system could bring powerful thunderstorms to parts of montana and north dakota. the great lakes will have showers and a few thunderstorms, the desert southwest could see an isolated storm or two as will south florida. >>> here's another look at this morning's top stories on a wednesday, floodwaters from hurricane irene have washed out more than 250 roads in vermont and cut off a dozen towns, a similar story in new jersey, more than 600 people had to be rescued from the floods. >>> a growing wildfire in dry north texas has destroyed at least 20 homes and a fast moving grass fire in oklahoma city burned ten others. >>> a remarkable story of survival and recovery an arizona man fell face first on to a pair of pruning shears that ended up half way into his head. tucson station klod has the story. >> when i felt up there, i sort of pulled on it a little and seemed real solid so i left it alone and realized that it was clipper. >> reporter: 86-year-old leroy leutcher fell onto the clippers, the handle went through his right eye socket. >> there was blood all over, anyw

we're getting drenched in southwest sections of iowa and also in north dakota. a pretty good line of storms just barely went through bismarck. worst of it was to the south of town. now it's traveling on interstate 94 in fargo. probably about an hour or two from now you'll get wet weather. hot in texas and what a nice day in chicago, 83 and sunny. tomorrow, lynn, the 83 and sunny will head to new england, we'll enjoy it tomorrow. >>> well, google jump-starts the week on wall street. your "first look" at the morning's business headlines is straight ahead. >>> coming up, jim thome jones an exclusive club. the dodgers find a new way to speed up the season and push comes to shove on the racetrack, you're watching "first look." [ male announcer ] imagine all of your missed opportunities in one place. ♪ the front-row tickets you never bought. the lucrative investment you never made. the exotic vacation you never took. but there's one opportunity that's too good to miss. the lexus golden opportunity sales event, with exceptional values on the lexus rx. but only until

north dakota has the nation's lowest: 3.3% as we continue our series, how to fix the economy, tonight we focus on jobs. darren gersh reports on some out of the box solutions that could boost job growth. >> reporter: if there aren't enough new jobs to go around, how about this: instead of laying off one worker, reduce the hours of four or five people. and then use unemployment benefits to make up some of the lost pay. it's called job sharing and economist dean baker says preventing a job from being lost is as almost as good as creating a job. >> it doesn't make sense to say the government is going to pay you to be completely unemployed with unemployment benefits, but it's not going to pay you, if you are working short hours. so why not have that option available to firms, available to workers. it's really very much a conservative idea. >> reporter: another creative way of thinking about jobs is to focus on helping improve the skills and mobility of workers who have lost jobs in hard-hit industries like construction. wells fargo chief economist john silvia says people who have lost thei

they're very happy in north dakota. largely because of its -- they call it a very employment-rich state. meaning job opportunities are going out there. that was one of the factors the study measured. last place, sorry to all our viewers this morning in west virginia. they're not doing too well. they're at the bottom of the list here. >> maybe we should all rent "fargo" again and see what was the draw. i can't remember. >> what was it? so happy on there, north dakota. >>> all right. now, this next story is not for the squeamish. >> this story is foul. >> rob didn't want to touch this one. >> no. huh-uh. >> but there is a trend among new moms to eat their placenta. now, before you turn off the tv, let me explain. apparently, there are lots of nutrients in the placenta that can help new moms with postpartum depression, that can aid in breast milk production and lactation. it can act as a uterine tonic. it is prepared as a vitamin capsule. >> oh, you don't bite into it like a slim jim? it's actually a pill? >> no. although

dakota after floods so if news corp can get a drone can anybody any news organization any private company well that's the exact question that our guest tonight has been trying to figure out joining me from our studio in new york is kashmir hill staff writer at forbes katherine i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and i know that you have been digging into this trying to get to the bottom of the whole story fairly it's a no go for commercial use of drones at this point but when you asked the f.a.a. about news corp drone in particular what do they tell you. they were surprised by the use of the drone news corp when i first they kind of. asked whether a hobbyist have flown the drone and given the footage to the daily and i said no this is a drone that the daily owens and after i told them about they said that they're actually going to be launching an investigation to see whether their use was legal or not how do we have any idea how the daily actually got their hands on this drone i mean is it that easy to go out and buy one at this point you can buy drones it's not a legal to

dakota and nebraska with negative thirteen and negative sixteen points respectively i guess i want to get your interpretation of the story behind these numbers. well marching to the sea is the economic ideal of the rest of the country should be a lot of people there are working a lot of people there have government jobs which means they have retirement benefits they have a secure income they have the right not to be arbitrarily fired and on and on and on so washington d.c. it is a little mini country that is the country the united states used to be in it's days of greatest prosperity and ought to be again so naturally they're feeling good about themselves a washington d.c. economy is being infused with national security money and other kinds of government money contractors are doing great in the military and security areas the government jobs are are still there so believe me i don't want this to turn into a diatribe against government because i think government is a great participant in society so that's not what we're saying at all i think what i'm really saying is that washington d

it is an extreme western north dakota. he didn't just go west as horace greeley might have is a young man. he is compelled to go west. events forced him in that direction and we will get to that. but before we head off into the badlands i want to give aid reef background on theodore roosevelt, the roosevelt aficionados will probably be familiar with this but i heard there were high points in his life we need to touch him. started life as a city kid in new york city and he was a member of the abbey social elite, the knickerbockers here where people who could trace their ancestry american back to the dutch that arrived in the mid-1660s. he was a fairly old new york family. his grandfather was one of the five richest men in manhattan. the family made their money on glass. they produce a lot of the wind of glass that york city needed as they grew. there were also into banking and a lot of wise investments in new york real estate. young roosevelt was an avid outdoors person almost from childhood and also an avid hunter, but he

on north dakota in recent years. talking about regulation, i'm not up on the details, but i think the obama administration has recognized the concern about some regulations. an order that was going to roll back or hold back some regulations in the last week or two. clearly republicans in congress, the chamber of commerce here in d.c., have been very active in making those issues well known. host: last week on "washington journal," steve forbes talked about his thoughts on quantitative easing and the strength of ben bernanke's handling of the monetary policy. take a look at what steve forbes had to say and then get some reaction from scott lanman of bloomberg news. >> i'm look forward to, i hope, minimal damage. it was a year ago that the chairman announced what they call qe-2, quantitative easing two, and it ended up doing the economy more harm than good. there's plenty of liquidity in the financial system. we just got to remove the headwinds, the barriers that just stand in the way of creating an environment where t

dakota and this late spring, that continues. this means that all individuals claims will be funded. >> and there have been 10 separate billion dollar natural disasters in the united states had -- and that is a record. >> flights to and from the east coast are finally getting back on the ko.. >> and not only people, virgin america had to post tone a flight today that would have transported abandoned chihuahuas to a shelter in new york. this morning, virgin announced a no chihuahua left behind sale. >> pledging 25s frdz every mexico ticket sold to support future air lifts like this one. >> and this next story under thing that's don't inspire confidence when flying. >> yeah. it seems pilots are forgetting how to fly, they say it's weakened pilot skills to the point where some don't know what do if a plane stalls. >> they call it auto maigs addiction and they say it's caused hundreds of airline deaths. the study found in smaller carriers, pilots only have manual control of the plane for 80 seconds on a two-hour flight. >> and airlin

dakota with its 3% unemployment rate should be your guy. joining me now is jim hightower, former agricultural commissioner of texas, and erica greider, for many this is their introduction, rick perry, of course, you ran against perry in his first successful statewide race, he beat you, how did he beat you and what did you learn from it? >> actually, chris, it wasn't he who beat me, it was carl rove. in order to run against me, the chemical lobby and other special interests were offended in our state that i had promulgated some pesticide regulations to help family farmers and consumers to help farm workers, so they were out to get me. and carl rove basically sent perry out to west texas to roam around from one farmer meeting to the next. he put $3 million dollars into one of his patented negative campaigns to come after me, but the significant thing about perry is that he has become a formidable campaigner, but not anything really when you probe it all that strong. for example, he won reelection last year as governor of texas, and he's now b

nebraska is doing well, north dakota is doing well. not because of the governors in that state. it's because of indodge nous thing -- indigenous things that have happened in those states. can perry stand up to the full national spotlight. i cannot tell you -- i've done reporting in texas. i know people in texas politics. there are so many people in that state that hate him so much. i'm not talking about liberal democrats, republicans, conservatives. he's almost unanimously loathed in the state of texas by the political class by the political spectrum. can he come bopping around the country when trailing behind you is this chorus of people talking about what a terrible job you've done in texas. >> what a terrible job you've done in texas. let's just name it. the oh things that the conservatives and the republicans say about rick perry in texas is they personally have no confidence in him in terms of his intellectual capacity. that's what it is. you get unsourced republican and conservative quotes out of people who hate him calling him dumb as a bag of rocks. many people -- that's

as far as the dakotas getting drenched, look at this, basically the entire state of north dakota is under some sort of a flood alert, two to three inches of rain, bismarck and huron, the bigger picture for the good old u.s. of a, we'll show you the beautiful air mass out west, that's the place to be. we have scattered storms pushing through portions of the midwest. that's a quick look at the national picture. here's a closer look at the weather for your weekend. >> all right, everybody, happy saturday to you. jeff, over to you. >> lonnie to you as well. >>> up next a wild week on wall street, as the dow fell sharply. so did your 401(k) likely. advice on how to protect your retirement money. you're watching "the early show" here on cbs. 7 ♪ thank you! ♪ phew! [ ernie ] we make our cookies the way only keebler elves can: with a little something extra. so every bite can be uncommonly good. hey, uh, what's up with your naked toilet paper? yeeaah, i noticed that, man. inappropriate. naked toilet paper? i don't know what you're... your cottonelle roll just sittin' out? seriously... it's pri

there are so many oil and gas jobs in north dakota. when you look at income levels. 42% or 31 million americans lived in low-income cfamilies i 2009, and that's an increase from 2007. what stood out about the study, randi, 31 million kids live in low income families, and also 5.3 million kids were affected by foreclosures since 2007. that means their home entered the foreclosure process. what this is showing us is the trickle down affect of the recession and the jobs crisis that the president just addressed and what that is doing to kids in america. when you look at it from that point it's obviously very troubling. >> yeah, not just those unemployed but families and children behind it as well. that's disturbing information. poply harlow in new york, thank you. >>> a world class restaurant and youth looking for direction. see how they both come together next. >>> first, the results are in, we have the money magazine list of the best places to live. we look at some of the small towns. can you guess which one we are highlighting today? >>

i go back to my roots of fargo, north dakota, and i think of senators -- what would he do if he was facing an avalanche of $8 or $9 million, in a rural area, in a small town? i just find it absolutely -- put on the tv, lawrence, without seeing one bad ad over another, you can't turn on the radio without hearing one bashing ad over the other, it's one of the archives, it's exciting being -- >> ed, the polls close at 9:00 p.m., how quickly will they get the votes counted in these districts? >> that's a great point, there are some election experts here in wisconsin that think this is going to roll in pretty fast, that we may have all totals in by 11:00 p.m. eastern time tonight, and so i think we're going to have some conclusions here within the next probably 90 to 120 minutes. i think it's going to roll in pretty fast. there really have been no stories of any kind of real voter problems. down and that was quickly replaced and the county clerk assured everyone all the votes were counted and everyone in line was able -- >>> coming up, everyone has criticized president obama for not doing enoug

what is now closed against the montana border, and extreme western north dakota. he didn't just go west as horace greeley might have urged as young man. he was compelled to go west. events forced him in that direction will get to that. before we head off into the badlands, i want to give you a brief background on theodore roosevelt, the roosevelt aficionado. i think there are some high points in his life that we need to touch on. he started life as a city kid in new york city and was a member of the social elite, the knickerbockers who were people who could treat their ancestry in america back to the dutch were raised here in the midst 1660s. it is a fairly old new york family here his grandfather was one grandfather was one of the five richest men in manhattan. they produced a lot of the window class at new york city needed as a group. they were also into thinking and a lot of wise investment in new york real estate. young roosevelt was an outdoors person, almost from childhood and also an avid hunter, but he wasn't very healthy. he was very sickly as a child. he

on north dakota in recent years. talking about regulation, i'm not up on the details, but i think the obama administration has recognized the concern about some regulations. an order that was going to roll back or hold back some regulations in the last week or two. clearly republicans in congress, the chamber of commerce here in d.c., have been very active in making those issues well known. host: last week on "washington journal," steve forbes talked about his thoughts on quantitative easing and the strength of ben bernanke's handling of the monetary policy. take a look at what steve forbes had to say and then get some reaction from scott lanman of bloomberg news. >> i'm look forward to, i hope, minimal damage. it was a year ago that the chairman announced what they call qe-2, quantitative easing two, and it ended up doing the economy more harm than good. there's plenty of liquidity in the financial system. we just got to remove the headwinds, the barriers that just stand in the way of creating an environment where t

my gosh, in north dakota and in pennsylvania and ohio -- [ everyone talking at once ] >> hold on. jonathan martin, on rick perry. >> yeah. >> we spoke to bob schuman, who's running his super pac, aligned with perry, and i caught up with him yesterday on the grounds here and asked him about what would make him so formidable. this is what he said. >> he's america's senior governor. i think he is the kind of guy that can appeal to social conservatives, fiscal conservatives. he got 39% of the hispanic vote in texas last time around. i think it brought appeal there. entrepreneurs, businessmen, blue-collar workers. i think he's a different kind of republican, has a broader appeal than some of the guys nominated recently. >> that's what they said about the last texas governor who became president, a different kind of republican. does it hold here? >> therein lies perry's challenge. he has a great first sentence, as mike says, best job-creator in the country. the broader problem, though, is this -- can he get to that message? can voters in suburban philadelphia, suburban columbus, milwauk