from the university and from peoria. >> what have you learned? >> i learned that do not know as much as i thought i did. it has been humbling but i learned -- i enjoyed learning the things that were wrong so that i can pass on information to people that do not have this opportunity. >> you learn that you did not know as much as you thought you did. give us an example. >> one of the things i have learned the most is the redistricting process and how really political and it has been. in my political science class, the class's i have taken, they touched on gerrymandering and reapportionment, illinois is the state to retain their democratic government so i am interested on how they will play out in the future. i do not really know or understand the full scope of the issue until this week. >> was there a moment when you said i did not know that, and now i do chris a margin it is a continual learning process. lightbulbmember all moment. i just continue to expand on the moment. >> if we get up fairness doctrine, should we call on you? could you run that

. >> peoria, illinois. what brings you to the washington center? >> i loved d.c. for as long as i remember. i would have the opportunity -- i took the opportunity to come to college. >> i started college in the fall, so it was around the time the primary started. i started canvassing with the campaigns and i love talking to people. during their stories of what issues affected. it was so much the issue itself, it was how their lives had changed because of the things that happen. >> have you changed your mind about anything since you have been here? >> not particularly. over the past few years, i would not say cynical but i have a loss that nike mine said i had when i was younger, where there is good and bad. i think it comes to looking at all the sides and all the possible angles to understand an issue and understand that there is a solution. there are multiple roads to get to that solution. >> you all were here when the tragedy happened in arizona. you were altogether. what was your first reaction to that? and what has happened to your thinking since then? >> i wa

. >> in peoria, illinois. >> i am from northern chicago. >> what brings you to the washington center? >> i have loved the sea for as long as i remember, and i wanted to i've the opportunity to expand my horizons. >> why? >> i started college in the fall of 2007, so it was about the time the primaries started. i started canvassing and going door-to-door and volunteering with local campaigns. i love to talk to people. hearing their stories of what issues affect them. it was not so much the issue itself, but it was how their lives have changed because things have happened. >> have you changed your mind about anything since you have been here? >> not particularly. over the past few years -- i do not want to say i am cynical, but i have lost that now leave mine said i had when i was younger. i think it comes down to really looking at all sides and all possible angles to understand an issue and understand that there is a solution and we have to figure out there are multiple solutions. >> so you were here when the tragedy in arizona happened. what was your first reaction to that, and what ha

as we go throughout the day, the ice begins to break out from kansas city back into peoria, illinois. i-70, i-76, expecting travel delays, and airports like denver and minneapolis running slow because of the snow. then this storm will feeds on all the moisture out of the gulf and expands over a large area on the entire country, from denver back into chicago and eventually even new york city getting a bit of snow overnight. you can see why we'll have a tremendous amount of delays. not only in areas getting the weather but the ripple effect across the entire country. we'll also have icy concerns along i-70 continuing into the night. the storm will continue to track eastward all the way into the mid-atlantic by wednesday where we are expecting even an icy mix in d.c. and new york city before bringing blizzard conditions into tuesday morning in chicago and detroit. back to you. >> we aren't the only ones coping with extreme weather. a strong tropical cyclone is bearing down on northern australia, already hammered by nearly three months of flooding. officials warn this could be the worse s

we had the little girl dying in peoria -- dining. >> the reconstruction of the palace has not even started. what used to be a part is a makeshift camp. carlos has been living here with no regular supply of clean water. the people here are depended on aid organizations. his girlfriend used to live with him. >> i lose my job, no? [unintelligible] in this country, nobody help nobody. but that is as difficult today as it was after the quake. yet people here survive by washing cars. there are no incentives for companies to invest. the infrastructure is in ruins. it is estimated that not even one-third of the bubble has been cleaned up. -- rubble has been cleaned up. not to mention the cholera epidemic that has claimed 300,000 lives so far. rosa movie has come to help. the pediatrics nurse from germany looks after babies who have contracted cholera. >> they guts' cholera from their mothers. -- they got cholera from their mothers. >> many were born prematurely or abandoned. baby leo spent one day in the house -- and a half a lump he rereadaid -- aid has slowed in -- flowed into haiti since the qu

host: peoria, ill., suzanne on the independent line. caller: i wanted to point out of when you hear people talk about the bailout you never hear anyone mention that the courage of a a a sort -- the current shareholders, it was confiscated. and when it was raised again, the shares were not given back to those who from whom it was confiscated. guest: we wrote about that. you can hear about it from us. gm declared bankruptcy and when that happens, existing shareholders pretty much get cleaned out. gm posted bond holders -- and we're talking about old general motors, those bondholders get stock. it will not get 100 cents on the dollar. there will get anywhere from 26 cents to 45 cents on the dollar. that is right. shareholders to get white dog and a bankruptcy. that is not just with gm -- shareholders to get wiped out in a bankruptcy. that is not just with gm. host: let's go to the next caller from washington state. caller: i have a 1998 cadillac and i have an early '70s dodge pickup with a cummins motor in it and i get 22 mpg in nothing. r

host: peoria, ill., suzanne on the independent line. caller: i wanted to point out of when you hear people talk about the bailout you never hear anyone mention that the courage of a a a sort -- the current shareholders, it was confiscated. and when it was raised again, the shares were not given back to those who from whom it was confiscated. guest: we wrote about that. you can hear about it from us. gm declared bankruptcy and when that happens, existing shareholders pretty much get cleaned out. gm posted bond holders -- and we're talking about old general motors, those bondholders get stock. it will not get 100 cents on the dollar. there will get anywhere from 26 cents to 45 cents on the dollar. that is right. shareholders to get white dog and a bankruptcy. that is not just with gm -- shareholders to get wiped out in a bankruptcy. that is not just with gm. host: let's go to the next caller from washington state. caller: i have a 1998 cadillac and i have an early '70s dodge pickup with a cummins motor in it and i get 22 mpg in nothing. r