what tom and dennis did is no different as board of elections have done in the past in cuyahoga county and republican counties and democratic counties have been allowed to be open on the weekends. and an important point is this law was written by john husted. the current secretary of state. he wrote the law in 2006 with the republican governor that allowed us to have early vote on the weekends. what dennis and tom did is no different than what republican board members in cuyahoga county did over the course of the last four years. but what john husted has noticed is democrats organize better than republicans. we get our people out to vote. and we win elections. and john husted can't win elections the right way. he's got to win them the wrong way. and firing dennis and tom is the wrong approach. for the first time in ohio boards of election members will be fired for opening up the process rather than closing it down. >> this is unheard of. it's despicable. what the democratic party do? what can anyone do to help deal with these two men being fired for basically standing up for people hav

. >> he did not ask me or the residents of kikko ga -- cuyahoga county. this is nothing more than uniform voter suppression. ohio and four other states cut early voting hours. in ohio and florida, they cut sundays. we know exactly who their targets are. again, in cuyahoga county, african-american make 26% of the registered voters, but in 2008, early in early in-person voting, they were 56% of the vote. how dare we forget how african-americans had to dodge the barks and bites of dogs and leap over grandfather clauses and literacy tests, and poll taxes, and here we are in the 21st century with the elections officer who is supposed to adhere morally and legally to expanding the vote. but here he is serurpsing the vote. if you are poor, working class, middle class, elderly, african-american, hispanic or a woman, you are s.o.l. when it comes to republicans. they are making it very clear that they don't care. that they are here to suppress and oppress and they don't care how they steal the vote. >> jennifer, do you agree with that? >> i think we've got some rea

if you take my county in cuyahoga, we have over a million residents. if you go to the county some of the counties where they are republican counties, they may have 100,000 people. how can you say they should be the same? >> make it relative. i got you. i've run out of time, but thank you. we'll have you back and certainly be watching this. congresswoman, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you so much, reverend al. >> we'll be right back. clusters of pustules, pimples. i had this shingle rash right next to my spine. the soreness was excruciating. it was impossible to even think about dancing. when you're dancing, your partner is holding you. so, his hand would have been right in the spot that i had the shingles. no tango. no rhumba. you can't be touched. for more of the inside story, visit shinglesinfo.com you'll inevitably find yourself on a desolate highway in your jeep grand cherokee. and when you do, you'll be grateful for the adaptive cruise control that automatically adjusts your speed when approaching slower traffic. and for the blind spot

and ed, i will tell you in cuyahoga county in 2008, 56% of the early in-person voting were african-americans. you tell me what's going on here. call it what it is. >> well, you are doing just that, and it's very interesting statistic you point out there, but if it's that intense and severe, could this not throw the state for mitt romney, could this have that big of an impact, senator? >> it could have that kind of impact, ed, but i want to encourage folks in ohio and other viewers across the country not to be sidelined and sidetracked by the foolishness. my republican colleagues are stuck on stupid and dazzled by dumb, but the people in the state and country make sure to know the rules of engagement in their state when it comes to voting and you get out and vote. >> i got to mention, it's funny that republicans are saying they don't have the money to expand early voting when they spent millions and millions and millions of dollars on necessary and costly voter i.d. laws, so it's okay to pass a voter i.d. law to make it harder for democrats to vote but not okay to spend money on early voting.

. >> the gator bit down on the man's arm during the show at the cuyahoga county fair on thursday. it let go after 20 seconds. the trainer escaped with a minor flesh wound. i didn't know you could train an al gator. >>> coming up, more from bob schieffer's exclusive interview with mitt romney and paul ryan. i'm terrell brown. this is the "cbs morning news." [ music playing ] [ music playing ] hgotta start the day off right. wardrobe. cute. then new activia breakfast blend. a great way to help start the day. mmm... creamy lowfat yogurt with grains in yummy breakfast flavors, like apple cinnamon. its hearty, with twice the protein of regular lowfat yogurt and helps regulate your digestive system. our morning routines are important, aren't they? new activia breakfast blend. currently 61 in winchester. cumberland even better at 67. mid-60s in fredericksburg and gaithersburg. a lovely monday morning out there. it is 4:26. she's back. i'm talking about monika samtani with timesaver traffic. >> reporter: i'm happy to be back. commuters will be happy to hear things are looking great. i'm g

al, ed fits jirald has said very publicly, in fact, i think at a press conference, even today, that cuyahoga county has budgeted for these extra hours, that that is not a problem in his county, so i don't think that that's an argument that holds water. i think it is more of an excuse and what we need is uniformity and the secretary of state has a responsibility under the law, i believe, to make sure that all voters in ohio are treated equally. regardless of what county they come from. >> absolutely. governor ted strickland, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you, reverend. >> i'm in ohio tonight as they are -- cutting back on early voting days. as they are using other measures that will make it difficult for people to vote. voter i.d. we have been defrauded. we have been to georgia, we have been to florida. we have been all over since the march in alabama. we raised this on this show. i don't care if you are

al, ed fits jirald has said very publicly, in fact, i think at a press conference, even today, that cuyahoga county has budgeted for these extra hours, that that is not a problem in his county, so i don't think that that's an argument that holds water. i think it is more of an excuse and what we need is uniformity and the secretary of state has a responsibility under the law, i believe, to make sure that all voters in ohio are treated equally. regardless of what county they come from. >> absolutely. governor ted strickland, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you, reverend. >> i'm in ohio tonight as they are -- cutting back on early voting days. as they are using other measures that will make it difficult for people to vote. voter i.d. we have been defrauded. we have been to georgia, we have been to florida. we have been all over since the march in alabama. we raised this on this show. i don't care if you are republican, democrat, independent, or undecided. we must

in ohio in cutting early voting and saying it's because of financial reasons. >> that's right, and cuyahoga county was one of the counties willing to pick up the tab. so ari hit the nail on the head. >> state senator nina turner and ari berman, thanks for joining us, appreciate it. >> a fantasy commercial is putting the campaign in a tough spot, plus sister simone campbell wants romney to join her bus tour. she thinks mitt needs a lesson about america's poor and joins us tonight. >>> mitt romney thinks corporations are people but not when it can hurt mitt romney. the panel weighs in on more hypocrisy from the middle class millionaire. now count the number of buttons on your tablet. isn't it time the automobile advanced? introducing cue in the all-new cadillac xts. the simplicity of a tablet has come to your car. ♪ the all-new cadillac xts has arrived. and it's bringing the future forward. ooo no. the hotel lost our reservation. nonsense! you book at travelocity, your reservation's guaranteed. well, i did not book with travelocity, okay?!? [ female announcer ] get the travelocity guarantee

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not by accident that president obama in 2008 won cuyahoga county by about 70%. when we get to butler county speaker boehner's county, it is the reverse for john mccain. you see very, very clearly in republican-leaning counties the vote has been extended. and in democratic-leaning counties, the vote has been suppressed. even ray charles sees what's going on here. flat-out voter suppression in democratic areas and areas predominantly african-american. >> we did reach out to the ohio secretary of state and waiting to hear back from them. he said, in fact, that he may step in to make this -- to make the change, to extend voting hours across the county. you see it as voter suppression but you what are the answers given? some might say we're trying to save money. >> well, deb, you know, there's a cost to run a clean and fair election and then there's a cost to run an election that is a debacle to return us to 2004 that will make a mockery out of the democracy. yes, there's a cost and we should err on the side of extending the vote. you know, a lot of people work, they

. >> the gator bit down on the man's arm during the show at the cuyahoga county fair on thursday. it let go after 20 seconds. the trainer escaped with a minor flesh wound. i didn't know you could train an alligator. shouldn't have been in there in the first place. >>> coming up, more from bob schieffer's exclusive interview with mitt romney and paul ryan. i'm terrell brown. this is the "cbs morning news." paul ryan. i'm terrell brown. this is the "cbs morning news." [ music playing ] [ music playing ] hgotta start the day off right. wardrobe. cute. then new activia breakfast blend. a great way to help start the day. mmm... creamy lowfat yogurt with grains in yummy breakfast flavors, like apple cinnamon. its hearty, with twice the protein of regular lowfat yogurt and helps regulate your digestive system. our morning routines are important, aren't they? new activia breakfast blend. announcer: who says, you can't teach an old dog new tricks? maybe you should go to your shelter and get a mature dog... who will make your blues disappear. how's that for tricks? i got picked! wow! >>> te

alligator show has been thrilling audiences at local fares and festivals, but on thursday night at the cuyahoga county fair grounds, the show took a dramatic turn. >> just started recording. all of a sudden things went wrong. >> he recorded the cell phone video from the audience. he is attempting to show them how quick think and forcefully the alligator can snap. the crowd cheers. >> give him a nice big round of applause. things go wrong. the alligator lashes towards him. >> he snapped down on his arm. you heard the bone crushing or something. >> children in the audience scream as the alligator clamps down on his trainer. the announcer drops the mike. >> then went and got a stick. >> 21 seconds later, the alligator finally lets go. >> there was blood and guts and muscle, bones just showing in hi arm. just something i never expected to the. dan walks offstage and is taken to the hospital where he was treated and released. >>> one lucky man. up next, three people killed in the shooting near the campus of texas a&m. >>> news off the top tonight, three people are dead, several others are wounded in

. >> why is it okay to pay for early voting in warren county and not early voting in cuyahoga county? i mean, yes, it costs some extra money. democracy is worth spending a little money on. and the noegts if thetion, if t financial problem in some of those counties, that should be taken care of. you cannot allow an election to be tilted by money. we are already allowing them in the campaign finance system. this is the kind of indirect poll tax. if you live in the wrong county and they have more budget problems, then, sorry, you're not going to have the same voting rights as people in other counties. i think that's at least -- well, no. the voter fraud thing is a huge red herring. this is another red heading. red herrings may make it easier for people to vote in ohio, real people. >> provided they live in democratic-leaning counties. e.j. dijon, "washington post" columnist and msnbc contributor and the author of "our divided political heart." thank you for your clarity on this and thank you for taking the time. we asked the secretary of state of the great state of ohio to join us to dis

>> but why is it okay to pay for early voting in warren county but not early voting in cuyahoga county? yes, it costs extra money. democracy is worth spending a little money on, and the notion if there is a financial problem in some of those counties, then that should be taken care of, because you cannot allow an election to be tilted by money. i mean, we're already letting elections be tilted by money in the campaign finance system. this is a kind of indirect poll tax. if you live in the wrong county, if they have more budget problems, sorry, you're not going to have the same voting rights as people in other counties, so it is -- i think that's at least -- no, the voter fraud thing is a huge red herring. this is another red herring. red herrings may be easier for them to vote in ohio than for real people. >> real people, provided they live in democratic leading counties. e.j. dionne, of course, the author of our divided political heart. e.j., thank you for your clarity and taking time to join us. i really appreciate it. >>> it should be noted, we have asked the secretary of state of o

johnny minor was recording it on his cell phone thursday night at the cuyahoga county fair ground something happened. >> oh, my gosh >> i don't know what went wrong but something definitely happened. >> reporter: according to the company's ceo, one of his seasoned trainers, danny beck accidentally placed his arm near the gators mouth. >> and it landed basically in the alligators mouth so the gator did what alligators do and clamped down. >> reporter: thousands of pounds of pressure from the 7.5- foot, 180-pound aquatic reptile. >> he starts pressing down on the bone, muscles start coming out of the arm, bleeding everywhere. >> my god i don't even know just craziest thing ever. >> reporter: incredibly some quick thinking saved danny's arm and possibly his life. >> idea he grabbed a hold of the alligator when he did, he kept him from being able to roll over, which would have caused severe damage. >> reporter: the mc, himself a trainer helped get the gator off danny this seconds. >> -- in seconds. >> crazy. >> reporter: as bad as it looks the wound was mainly flesh repaired with stitches. >> j

thursday night at the cuyahoga county fair grounds in berow a something happened. >> oh, my god! >> i don't know what went wrong but something happened. >> reporter: one of the seasoned trainers, danny beck, accidentally placed his arm near the gator's mouth. >> and it landed in the alligator's mouth. the gator, obviously, did what it does and clamped down on his arm. >> reporter: thousands of pounds of pressure from the 7 1/2-foot, 180-pound aquatic rep tile. >> he starts crushing down on the bone. muscles start coming out of the arm. bleeding everywhere. oh, my god. i don't know. >> reporter: incredibly, some quick thinking saved his arm and possibly his life. >> the idea that he grabbed a hold of the alligator when he bit him kept him from being able to roll over, which would have caused severe damage. >> reporter: the emcee, who is a trainer, helped get the gate ear off of dany in secs. >> it was crazy. >> reporter: wilder. as bad as it looks, it was a flesh wound repaired with stitches. >> and this was a simple mistake on the handler's part and sneeze fines of things happen.

in that same year, cuyahoga and franklin counties went for democrat barack obama by 60% or more, but election offices in those two predominantly democratic counties will be limited. it will be open to you in ohio if you're likely to be a republican voter, but not if you're likely to be a democratic voter. the ohio press is now getting all over this. the new report in the toledo blade called for a new poll tax and back door voter suppression, and john hue stead facing that kind of pressure is telling the columbus dispatch he's considering establishing standardized early voting hours across the state, the same in every county. this is after he personally intervened as secretary of state to make sure the democratic counties would have fewer hours. now he's thinking about reversing it, considering it. we have been covering the story about ohio voting rights for about a week now. ohio republican secretary of state john huh stead had agreed to come on the program for an interview. he's apparently changed his mind. his office telling us today he's backing out. [ male announcer ] now you can

but in the counties that tend to go democratic like cuyahoga and summit, the republicans on those county election boards are voting against early voting on nights and weekends. and guess who gets the break? in the tie votes in those counties, guess who gets to break those ties? this guy, republican secretary of state john housted who is voting, intervening to make sure there are fewer early voting hours on nights and weekends in democratic counties while there are more early voting hours on nights and weekends in republican counties. former ohio governor ted strickland who is a co-chair of president obama' recollection re-election effort joins us on this next. >>> your right to vote and who is trying to stop you from having that right to exercise anymore is coming up next. >>> we're not 7-eleven, we can't stay open 24/7 and let anyone vote by any rule that they want to. we have standards. the debate about voting this year in the state of ohio continues mostly with the republicans' effort to cut off the last three days of early voting. but what no one in power in ohio has yet answered for

in two of the largest counties in ohio, cuyahoga county and franklin county n. t, nearly 20 the casts early cast were early votes. it's very clear that this has been a coordinated, precise action by the republicans as if it was a joint military effort across the country to try to roll back voting rights, whether you're in florida, whether you're in michigan, pennsylvania. we've seen this act before. in ohio, let me add this one point, ed, they tried to pass a bill that suggested if you showed up at the wrong precinct, you couldn't be told which was the right precinct to get to and vote. it's outrageous. >> why are republicans attacking these labor-rich states? i have a theory that of course the labor movement in this country has tremendous infrastructure. they can get boots on the ground and they've got to put strength against strength to try to suppress the vote where the labor-rich state workers are. what do you think of that? >> well, i think it's an outrage and for someone like myself who's actually flown ballots in baghdad and watch the iraqis perform their

had the opportunity to vote on nights and weekends while voters in traditionally blue counties like cuyahoga county would not have that chance. in order to rectify that problem, in order to fix that blatantly biased set of rules, ohio's republican secretary of state last week came out finally and decided to take away expanded early voting hours for everyone. at least it was sort of standardized. for every single county across the state, he directed every county elections board to adopt the same hours for early voting during the weeks leading up to election day. but this is important. this is important. he did not say what should happen on the weekends. the hours that he distributed only laid out the rules for early voting on week days. in montgomery county which again had voted in a bipartisan manner to have early voting on weekends this year, the democrats on the board, when they saw this ruling from the secretary of state that was just for week days, they decided they would give the weekends question another shot. so thomas richie and dennis lieberman voted on friday to go forward with wee

in that same year, cuyahoga and franklin counties went for democrat barack obama by 60% or more, but election offices in those two predominantly democratic counties will be limited. it will be open to you in ohio if you're likely to be a republican voter, but not if you're likely to be a democratic voter. the ohio press is now getting all over this. the new report in the toledo blade called for a new poll tax and back door voter suppression, and john hue stead facing that kind of pressure is telling the columbus dispatch he's considering establishing standardized early voting hours across the state, the same in every county. this is after he personally intervened as secretary of state to make sure the democratic counties would have fewer hours. now he's thinking about reversing it, considering it. we have been covering the story about ohio voting rights for about a week now. ohio republican secretary of state john huh stead had agreed to come on the program for an interview. he's apparently changed his mind. his office telling us today he's backing out. gomery and abigail higgins had

in that same year, cuyahoga and franklin counties went for democrat barack obama by 60% or more, but election offices in those two predominantly democratic counties will be limited. it will be open to you in ohio if you're likely to be a republican voter, but not if you're likely to be a democratic voter. the ohio press is now getting all over this. the new report in the toledo blade called for a new poll tax and back door voter suppression, and john hue stead facing that kind of pressure is telling the columbus dispatch he's considering establishing standardized early voting hours across the state, the same in every county. this is after he personally intervened as secretary of state to make sure the democratic counties would have fewer hours. now he's thinking about reversing it, considering it. we have been covering the story about ohio voting rights for about a week now. ohio republican secretary of state john huh stead had agreed to come on the program for an interview. he's apparently changed his mind. his office telling us today he's backing out. [ kate ] many women may not be

in chi hoe georgia -- cuyahoga county where we're located, the incidence of smoking has gone from 28% to 15% in five years. so you can make a difference, and perhaps we've saved more lives by doing that than one would in a cardiac surgical career. the epidemic of obesity iser the pieing. right now -- terrifying. right now one-third of the united states is overweight, one-third is obese. obesity is leading the epidemic of diabetes. right now 10% of the cost of health care in the united states is secondary to obesity. and the projections are in the next ten years that that will go to 20%. so we will not control the cost of health care in the united states unless we control the pandemic of obesity. so, again, we've figured that we needed to begin to address this. so we started out with food. we took the trans fats out of all the food we serve in the hospital. we made 40 changes in the cafeterias of the food that we served. we took the candy bars out of vending machines, the sugar drinks out of the vending machines, and then we turned to exercise. we gave our employees free curves, free w

members of the occupy movement who were arrested by the fbi on may 1st for attempting to blow up the cuyahoga national park valley bridge and trying to blow up the fed, the federal reserve in cleveland. these are potential acts of terrorism. and this story was absolutely buried. you had one, one article from the a.p. they buried the lead at the bottom. don't get me wrong. you can find. >> we're looking at the folks who have been arrested now on the screen. we are seeing them now. >> we are seeing their mug shots. these guys are self-proclaimed anarchists. what's your claim that they are part of the occupy movement. >> the evidence of them being part of occupy is that they identify as part of occupy. the real story here is that nobody is willing to open up this conversation and say this is what these people are about. look how quickly they will go to jump at the tea party like aurora, colorado and try to blame them for the shooting there. this is something that happened. these member were arrested. they tried to blow up a four lane bridge over the park area. and the federal reserve building. w