We begin with the breaking news. Arizona governor jan brewers longawaited decision on sb 1060. The passage of it touches off major backlash, with big names calling for a veto. Several companies and businesses warnings this will hurt business in the state of arizona and jobs. Governor brewer got the bill on monday. Just minutes ago she went before the cameras. Listen. Good evening and thank you all for joining me here this evening. Im here to announce a decision on senate bill 1062. As with every proposal that reaches my desk, i give great concern and careful evaluation and deliberate consideration, and especially to senate bill 1062. I call them like i see them, despite the cheers or the boos from the crowd. I took the necessary time to make the right decision. I met or spoke with my attorneys, lawmakers and citizens supporting and opposing this legislation. As governor i have asked questions and i have listened. I have protected religious free doms when there is a specific and pressing concern that exists in our state. And i have the record to prove it. My agenda is to sign into law legislation that advances arizona. When i addressed the Legislature Earlier this year, i made my priorities abundantly clear. Among them are passing a responsible budget that continues arizonas economic comeback. From ceos and entrepreneurs to business surveys, arizona ranks as one of the best states to grow or start a business. Additionally, our immediate challenge is fixing a broken Child Protection system. Instead, this is the first policy bill to come across my desk. Senate bill 1062 does not address a specific or pressing concern related to religious liberty in arizona. Ive not heard of one example in arizona where Business Owners religious liberty has been violated. The bill is broadly worded and could result in unintended and negative consequences. After weighing all of the arguments i have vetoed senate bill 1062 moments ago. To the supporters of this legislation, i want you to know that i understand that longheld norms about marriage and family are being challenged as never before. Our society is undergoing many dramatic changes. However, i sincerely believe that senate bill 1062 has the potential to create more problems than it purports to solve. It could divide arizona in ways we could not even imagine, and no one would ever want. Religious liberty is a core american and arizona value. So is nondiscrimination. Going forward, lets turn the ugliness of the debate over senate bill 1062 into a renewed search for greater respect and understanding among all arizonans and americans. Thank you. Governor jan brewer just moments ago. We just heard the governors statement. There have been crowds out there for several days. How did people react around you . Reporter well, they began chanting they were chanting veto one moment and they were chanting thank you jan the next. Theyre starting to gather over near the Senate Building here at the legislature. They are listening to democratic legislators now make announcements there in front of the senate here in arizona. Enormous jubilation this has been vetoed. Not a huge surprise for folks, though, given the way this thing has broke throughout the week. Members of the senate that we oke to today who had met with the governor said she expressed surprise and concern that it seemed to be rushed through both the house and senate so quickly. She wanted to understand how they got to this place. You heard her statement tonight saying very unequivocally there was no reason for this and she vetoed the bill outright. There was a previous bill last year almost exactly the same as this one she vetoed on other grounds. This time shes come out and vetoed the substance of this particular bill. Miguel, you should still point out, there are still this bill was vetoed, but other than three cities in arizona there are no state antidiscrimination statutes protecting people based on Sexual Orientation, correct . Reporter this is the crux of this, what the fight was over this bill cities like phoenix, tucson, bisbee, flagstaff that had nondiscrimination laws, felt that those City Ordinances could have been trumped by this state law. On the other side of it there is a concern among conservatives and very religious people that there is an initiative for gay marriage coming down the pike here in 2016 that either the state or the federal government may make Sexual Orientation a protected class. And thats what this bill was trying to get at. Creating a little bit of a cul de sac and protection for those people for what they see as a threat from this new world order that the governor addressed tonight, anderson. Miguel marquez, appreciate the update. Want to bring in New York University professor kenji. Hes been our legal guide to whats in the bill and the larger implications of it. Your reaction to what the governor said. Well, i think it was a really smart decision. She didnt wait until the very end. So i think that she had until friday i guess to veto it. I think it was good she did it early. It was fairly decisive. I think she gave dog whistles to both sides in the sense she said the family is under attack so that satisfies the religious right. Then she also said i believe in nondiscrimination which satisfied the Lgbt Community, played it down the middle. Before she made her ruling, you and i had a discussion with nancy barta, state senator in arizona supporter of this bill, was a supporter and remained a supporter of this bill. And i pressed her on we both discussed with her if she could come up with one single example of discrimination based on religion in arizona that people of faith have suffered through. She couldnt come up with one other than hypotheticals that maybe might happen. But she had no actual example of it actually having occurred. Thats interesting because governor brewer specifically pointed that out. I want to play some of that exchange we had with nancy barta, one of the authors of sb 1062. Lets listen. Senator, do you have any actual example of someone in arizona being forced to do something against their religious beliefs . Well, in arizona it could be happening all the time, yes. Do you have an actual example . Well, surely. People may be being asked to i mean where its actually happened. Well, obviously if people arent bringing it to court we dont know about it at this point. But we do know that without this law, people would not be able to defend themselves in court. But again, you cant name actually one example where this has happened. Because people opposed to this say look, this is a problem this is a solution in search of a problem. You actually have not had this problem. It absolutely is not. You cant name one example. Here in arizona yes, i can raise a hypothetical just as our opponents are raising tons of im talking about an actual case of discrimination. An actual case could happen right now because people are having samesex ceremonies even without a samesex marriage ordinance or constitutional right in arizona. Theyre getting married. Theyre having samesex ceremonies in arizona, all over the state, in fact all over the country. So are you telling me that if somebody wanted a photographer, lets say in arizona, to do their samesex wedding photographically, that that person would have protection without this law . I say no. We need to learn from what happened in new mexico. One more chance, do you have any actual example where someone of faith has been discriminated against in arizona ever . You know, i havent seen that raised in the newspapers here, but i know that things are happening. Without this law they will be. Kenji yoshina joins us again. You actually did the research on discrimination in arizona from the eeoc. You found thousands of cases of different forms of discrimination. But she cant come up with one example of religiousbased discriminations. There are federal and state protections already in place. Absolutely. I did a little follow on there. I asked how many phone calls had come to their help desk out of arizona for lgbt discrimination. They said almost 400 in the past four years i think is the statistic. So theres a significant number of charges based on Sexual Orientation. But she couldnt come up with a single one. I think this is a place where the media really helped frankly. Because i think that youve shown a light on the fact they didnt have a factual record. Then you heard governor brewer say that was one of the reasons why she vetoed the bill. Stick around. Were going to hear more from kenji. And representative klinko, the only openly gay member of the arizona house. Governor brewer, in vetoing this, you had previously called this statesang chuped discrimination. What are your thoughts . To see a bill move through the house and senate and land on her desk is very discouraging for the Lgbt Community and gay rights throughout, i think not only our state but really throughout the country thats really a setback. In her vetoing the bill i really feel like theres a possible hope for reconciliation within our state and we can maybe move forward past this really sort of unfortunate chapter. In vetoing the bill, the governor said the bill could bring about unintended consequences and the state respects religious freedom but doesnt believe in discrimination. Certainly strong words from the governor. But it is still not protected except in a few cities in arizona, discrimination based on Sexual Orientation. Thats absolutely true. And i really hope that out of this perhaps will start a dialogue in the house and in the senate and put forward legislation that will really ensure that the Lgbt Community and other important minorities in our state are really protected into the future. I would hate to see another discriminatory bill come forward. We have a tradition of this. And id really like to see an end to that in our state. Its interesting. I talked to a representative yesterday, a senator who had originally voted for this bill and then reversed himself, said it was a mistake that it would lead to discrimination. Seemed like a lovely guy, very nice guy. He clearly seemed to have felt the whole process was rushed. He felt that he didnt really hear opposing viewpoints. Is that accurate . If people were listening, were all these issues raised while this was being debated . These issues were absolutely raised during the debate. But i think more importantly, this is part of a series of bills moving through our house and through our senate that really provide discrimination whether its against women or the Lgbt Community. Theres another bill that deals with the solemnization of marriage thats moving through the house and will probably come to the floor in the next week that again is another attack on the Lgbt Community. So its a series of a whole number of bills during this session that attack really progressive views. Listen, i appreciate your time tonight. I know its a good evening for you. Youre happy about this. Appreciate you joining us tonight. Let us know what you think at home. Follow me on twitter andersoncooper using ac360. Up next, gentrification happening in many cities across the country. Spike lee is not happy about it in new york city. Well talk about it in my exclusive interview with spike lee. 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Your point c. Capella university. Start your journey at capella. Edu. Tonight a 360 exclusive with spike lee. His movies have focused on topics such as Race Relations here in new york city. Lee has weighed in on the subject of gentrification. Obviously many cities in this country are being transformed as people with high incomes in many cases, many of whom are white, move into neighborhoods previously home to those with lower incomes. Many of them africanamerican. Speaking to students last night at the Pratt Institute in brooklyn, lee denounced gentrification thats changing new york city and harlem and brooklyn itself where he was raised. Listen. I grew up here in fort greene. I grew up here in new york. Its changed. And why does it take an influx of white new yorkers in the south bronx, in harlem, and bed sty and Crown Heights for the facility to get better . The garbage wasnt picked up every [ bleep ] when i was living in 165 washington park. P. S. 20 was not good. Rothschild 294. The police werent around. When you see white mothers push their babies in strollers 3 00 in the morning down 125th street that must tell you something. And then comes the mother [ bleep ] Christopher Columbus syndrome. You cant discover this. Weve been here. You just cant come and bogart. [ applause ] there were brothers in the street with mother [ mute ] african drums in mount more park for 40 years and now they cant do it anymore. Because the new inhabitants said the drums are loud. My father was a great jazz musician. Because his father was playing bass. He said there has to be respect for cultures generations old. Spike lee joins us now. Good to have you on the program you talked about the trash getting picked up, facilities getting better, police being more active. All those improvements after a Community Starts to gentrify. To you is that because white people have moved into the neighborhood . Or could it be a function of pure economics . Like it or not in this society the more money you make the louder your voice is heard, the more politicians and police Pay Attention . I think its a combination of the two. But i dont think you could deny the fact that race takes a part. Now, id like to say first of all, last night i spoke at Pratt Institute. I was invited to speak there for black history month. And people there have a very short memory. Theres a thing called white flight where with the decay of urban cities, white americans left these cities. Theyll flee away from taxes, crime, whatever. And went to suburbia. It followed them. They said why are we spending three hours a day on the long island expressway . Lets move back into these cities. So for me its about people get displaced. Where the black population of new york city has declined. The hispanic or puerto rican population of new york city has declined. Its about having Affordable Housing so people whoever they are can live in new york city. And its not just new york. D. C. Used to be called chocolate city. Chicago, they knocked down the Cabrini Green projects and now black people are stuck on the projects outside of chicago. Sorry. Isnt this something that has happened to in every generation to all sorts of different groups . Little italy in new york has gotten smaller as parts of chinatown have grown and other neighborhoods have grown. One an area that used to be predominantly jewish then changes over to another ethnic group. You dont see this as something you think its escalating . Heres the difference, anderson. Because those, they were moving up. When you had the ghettos in the lower east side, they wanted to move to long island. Were talking about historically black neighbors, harlem, bedford styvesant. Its not like its totally different i think. There was an opinion piece in the times recently written by a man who has lived in harlem for ten years and owns a restaurant there. The headline was, is harlem good now. Hes asked all the time it when he goes to high profile events if harlem is good now. He said quote that is a question loaded with longheld ideas about race and class, one that dismisses the complex vital history of this neighborhood and its people, their contributions to civil rights and art. Under one word bad. Does that ring true to you . Yes, it does. And when we began this piece tonight, you played some of my speech. And my thing is this. I dont hate anybody. I think anybody is entitled to live where they want. My problem is that when you move into a neighborhood, have some respect for the history, for the culture. And im going to explain the word bogart for people who dont know. Bogart comes from Humphrey Bogart meaning you come in and just taking over. You cant do that. These historic harlem is a historic black neighborhood. History. Bedford styvesant. Fort greene. Just come and be humble. Dont come in saying were here now and this is the way it has to be. Thats crazy. To me. Its interesting, because you were talking about your own dad who bought a building in the 60s. We bought our house we bought our brownstone at fort greene for 40,000 in 1968. My father is a great jazz musician. No one has ever complained about my father playing music. Until last year when the new neighbors, they called the cops on him. We bought the house in 1968. Now theyre calling the cops . The new neighbors are calling the cops . Hes been there way before they were. Its interesting that people move into a neighborhood because they like the neighborhood, often its they like that its a unique neighborhood, that it has personality. But even in the process of moving in, as you say, theyre not respecting the culture that exists there. The thing that maybe even attracted them there in the first place. Well, sometimes theres a saying you want it but you dont really want it. And i just hope that theres Affordable House for everybody so new york city can stay the great city it is. Because if you cant if you have to be a millionaire to live in new york city, new york city not going to be the great city that it is. Because the arts arent going to be there. You cant afford to send your children to private school its just going to be a disaster. We need Affordable Housing, and just whole rethinking of what the citys going to be in the United States of america in my opinion. So as somebody who sees the headline what you are talking about and you talking gentrification, to you is there any good that comes out of a neighborhood attracting new people . Theres good. But what cost . If we lose half of the africanamerican population, in my neighborhood fort greene, and the schools become better, what happened to half the people that left . And its not just about people owning homes. Everybody cant own a home in a neighborhood. People rent. So people cant afford the rent. And we talk about the borough of brooklyn after coney island its the atlantic ocean. Where are you going to go . In terms of though Property Values for people who have owned a building for like your family were saying bought in the 60s, and as an area gentrifies, Property Values go up, people benefit in that way. So i mean, thats a benefit for those who own property. But for those who are renting youre saying thats not a benefit obviously . Yes. Everybody is not fortunate enough to own a house. So im not going to say theres absolutely no benefits. Im just saying at what cost. And i just find it interesting you have to have an influx of white new yorkers to move into these neighborhoods for the services to go up, for the schools to be better. They get better sanitation, get more police protection. Right. Those services should have existed before. Why not that happened before gentrification . Were still paying taxes. Still new yorkers. Right. There are, i know youve heard this, there are some people out there who take an issue with the fact that youre talking about these neighborhoods, your Old Neighborhood of fort greene that you dont still live there, you left fort greene however many ten years ago. The reason why i left fort greene, everybody in fort greene knows me and they ring my bell. My wife said we have to go. My office is still in fort greene. Woody allen does not live in mid wood. Barbara streisand moved out. Jayz moved out. Spike lee is not the only person from brooklyn whos left the borough. My heart will always be in the republic of brooklyn, new york. I havent heard anyone calling out woody allen for leaving brooklyn. Spike lee, its good to have you on the program always. Its interesting. Thank you. Anderson, anytime you call me, im on. All right. I appreciate it. Take care. Up next, it sounds like something out of a spy novel. Private bankers, a secret elevator, statements hidden in the pages of a magazine. 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Ask your doctor about cialis for daily use and a 30tablet free trial. Rick turns out these were a sign of things to come at home. Back home, you can see the same kind of pictures on local lakes, rivers and because ice takes up more space than water, you can see it hammering into bridges piers and gary tuchman, these days hes looking like a south pole scientist. Where are you, what are you standing on . Reporter anderson, right now im standing on top of the kankakee river, about an hour south of chicago. Just a few days ago this weekend, this was iced over. Then it started to thaw and melt and it got ridiculously cold again. The windchill is about 20 below zero and this has become a river of ice bolders. It looks like scenes of the arct arct arctic tundra. Everyone were talking to who lives around here say theyve never seen the river looking like this. During the summer, this is a popular place to go boating. Right now it looks like a glacier landscape in alaska. Most residents have left for the season or left out of fear. How concerned are you when it starts to thaw . Thats when the water is going to come up like a backed up toilet. The ice is going to take out everything. Its like somebody took a bulldozer and ran it through these homes. Reporter what do you think will happen to your home . I dont know. Im praying for the best. Its in gods hands. Reporter an ice jam can be deadly deceiving. While the water looks to be still, nothing is moving, but in fact, there is still water piling up underneath. So this will break through and you can see big pieces of ice into peoples homes. You can see the ice dam up and flooding around it. Reporter this is what it looks like when an ice jam finally breaks. Suddenly, the entire river started moving. Extremely fast, like a freight train. Reporter this was ohios rocky river last week. When the jam broke, the river rose six feet in just minutes. This week, that flooding is responsible for at least one presumed death. In this small town in illinois, rescue crews searched a second day for an elderly man. His boat capsized when he was trying to reach his home. The surrounding ice made his rescue next to impossible. Theres not a lot of open water in the area where the victim was, and a lot of difficult stuff to deal with. Reporter ice jams have taken over waterways in the midwest and the great lakes. In fact, this nasa photo shows the great lakes over 75 frozen. Ice jams as far east as pennsylvania, with warmer temperatures expected, these communities are bracing for the worth. Incredible images. When is the thaw supposed to come that the residents are so worried about, when is that supposed to happen . Reporter the forecast for here, anderson, at least another week of temperatures nowhere near the freezing mark. But by about thursday, temperatures will be in the 40s and 50s and thats when we can see the big trouble here. It looks like youre in the middle of a churning ocean that just suddenly froze. Gary, thanks. Susan hendricks has a 360 bulletin. An International Arrest warm has been issued for viktor yanukovich, the ousted president of the ukraine. He was forced in Office Following protests. Autopsies show that two Security Officers found dead aboard the maersk alabama died of possible heart attacks. But a lot of questions surround their deaths. Those who knew the men are spoked by their deaths. Police say a syringe and heroin were discovered in the cabin. Victory in texas for a lesbian couple who were two of the plaintiffs in a suit that banned samesex marriage in that state. Today, a judge struck down the law, but his ruling will not take effect until supporters of the ban have a chance to appeal it, which they vow to do. A weather forecaster in california was interrupted on air by an unwanted visitor. 61 in bakersfield. Oh, my gosh. Did you guys see that . Sorry. There was a spider that fell. 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Reporter barrons shocking discovery prompted an investigation by the state Health Department, which showed that in three counties in a threeyear period there were 23 cases of anencephaly, a rate four times the national average. What could be causing such a high rate here . Is it just a coincidence or something more serious . This epidemiologist at the Washington State Health Department conducted the investigation. Did you find an answer . We have not found an answer. And its very frustrating because this is such a devastating diagnosis for a woman to have. Reporter but sarah barron wonders if perhaps they didnt find anything because they didnt look hard enough. For starters, the state hasnt spoken to any of the families who had the babies with birth defects. Not a single one. They havent asked key questions like what they ate or if theyd been exposed to the pesticides sprayed in this agricultural area. And that outrages Andrea Jackman whose daughter olivia was born with spina bifida, another type of neural defect. When this happens, they wonder did the moms all have similar occupations or similar diets. Has anyone called you to try to ask you these questions . Nobody has asked me anything. Reporter if they didnt talk to moms like jackman how did the state do the investigation . We looked at all the information included in their medical records. Reporter for example what prescription drugs they were take or if they had an underlying condition such as diabetes. But medical records dont have details about diet or pesticide exposure, two key considerations for this type of birth defect. In their own press release, the Washington State Health Department says medical record reviews might not have captured all information preventing a cause from being identified. Medical records dont tell you everything. No, they definitely dont. So why not just call the women and talk to them . Well, we have to weigh that heavily. This is a devastating diagnosis. And we know that for a lot of these women they had to make some hard choices. We do have to weigh about how invasive we want to be with these types of interviews. Reporter jackman says that attitude is condescending and paternalistic to moms like her and harmful. She wants state investigators to ask her questions. After all, her answers could help solve the mystery and prevent more tragedies. Anything that will help another mother to not have to go through what i went through, i would have been fine with it. What are you researching if you havent physically called the families to find out . What are you researching . Reporter in her mind, theres no way a fourfold increase in the birth defect rate could be by chance. If it just happened to one person it could be random. But fact that there are so many different people that its happened, to theres got to be something that you can pinpoint that caused this. Reporter star, the state epidemiologist, says the investigation is continuing and they may interview moms like jackman at some point. As time passes and you call these women years after their children were born, wont memories start to fade . Its very possible. And thats why were definitely continuing on with following up with the question. Were still trying to find what may be causing these. And were still investigating this. Were not ruling anything out at this point. And as we so monitor cases for 2013, were considering just about everything at this point. For a woman who might be pregnant right now in one of these three counties, should they be worried . I dont think so. Reporter but nurse barron isnt so sure. I think its very scary. I think that theres absolutely something going on that needs to be investigated more thoroughly. Reporter and olivias mother isnt so sure, either. Theres got to be something. Could even be the smallest thing. Not knowing is scary. Scary indeed. Elizabeth cohen joins us live. Its been a year and half since the birth defects were first reported. The state Health Department still havent interviewed the families . Reporter no. They still havent interviewed the families. And the state says look, we know this can be frustrating but these investigations take time. But anderson, bottom line there are certain things you can only learn by talking to these women. There was a cluster of these birth defects in texas the 90s. They figured out it was the corn the women were eating that was contaminated. You would never know if the women were eating a lot of Corn Products unless you picked up the phone and asked them. The state of washington is standing by the investigation. What do experts have to say about it . Reporter the experts we reached out to were pretty hard on the state of washington. One researcher whos been very prominent and done a lot of research on birth defects she said look this is bad research because medical records are of such low quality. Lets take a listen. The problem with medical records is that doctors note what they have to note in their records, which are diseases and medications they prescribe. What they do not note in medical records often are all the other risk factors that we might be concerned about when it comes to birth defects that are from the environment. Reporter now again, the state of washington says they might still reach out and speak to these mothers. Anderson . Elizabeth cohen, appreciate the report. Thanks. Up next, well tell you how senators say a swiss bank helped americans hide billions to evade taxes and that cost everybody here money. Well talk about that ahead. I dont want to think about the alternative. I dont even know how to answer that. I mean, no one knows how long their money is going to last. 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Leaders of switzerlands biggest bank said they he will deeply refret helping american clients hide money in secret. Brian todd reports on how the swiss bank helped americans cheat on their taxes. Reporter an elevator with no buttons, operated by remote control. Whisking clients to secret banking rooms. A wealthy customer hiding a quarter of a Million Dollars in panty hose wrapped around her body on airplane flights. This isnt a White Collar Crime thriller. This what is a Senate Report says switzerlands Second Largest Bank was doing to help rich americans hide their accounts from the irs. You dont want to be in the dirty business any longer of helping u. S. Clients cheat on their tax. Reporter big wigs of suisses were grilled before a senate subcommittee. Before 2001 and 2008, they held more than 22,000 accounts for rich american customers, totalling up to 12 billion. Nearly all of the accounts never reported for tax purposes. You can have a foreign bank account. It just cant be a secret foreign bank account. You have to disclose it on your income tax return. Reporter but secrecy was an obsession. There was the swiss banker who according to the reports traveled to the u. S. , had a discreet breakfast meeting with a client at a Mandarin Oriental hotel, then did something out of an old cold war movie plot. Investigators say he handed the client Bank Statements hidden in a Sports Illustrated magazine. To entice rich americans to do their banking in switzerland, the report says, Credit Suisse set up a special office at the zurich airport. Clients could fly in, service their bank accounts, then fly out, or hit the ski slopes. It really didnt mean much that you had an office right there in the zurich airport. It was really an office whereas you say was an office of convenience for our clients. It certainly was. Who would come in. But basically they held relatively small amounts of money. And there was no active management. Reporter quote small amounts most of us couldnt dream of, between 30,000 and 75,000 per account. Credit suisse Officials Say this was all done by a small group of bad bankers. They say theyll get to the bottom of it. But so far the banks handed over only about 230 names of american clients out of those 22,000 accounts. Why . Is the swiss government going to prosecute you if you complied with our laws and turn over those names . Are you going to be prosecuted . Is that your fear . Yes. Thats my fear. Absolutely. The swiss government. Whats the swiss government saying about all this finger pointing and secrecy . Reporter anderson, theyre essentially telling us dont look at us for any finger pointing. They say they had an agreement, amendment under a swiss american treaty that called for more sharing of client information about alleged tax evasion that they had ready to go that theres an amendment in the u. S. Senate but that amendment is blocked by the u. S. Senate. So the swiss government is saying you can thank the u. S. Senate for blocking this amendment to the treaty that calls for more information sharing. Thats why youre not getting the names of these account holders. Interesting. Brian todd, thanks for the reporting. Thank you. That was brian todd. The ridiculist is next. Stick around. Did you run into traffic . No, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. You stopped by the house . Uhhuh. Yea. Alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. You leave the house in good shape . Yea. Yea, of course. [ sportscaster talking on tv ] lastsecond field go yea, sure ya did. [ male announcer ] introducing at t digital life. Personalized Home Security and automation. Get professionally monitored security for just 29. 99 a month. With limited availability in select markets. Youre an emailing, texting, master of the digital universe. But do you protect yourself . Apparently not. 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Luckily he had activated 2 alarm system before he left. The last thing i did before i locked the door was turn billy bass on. At hooked on fishing much like in countless basements and garages throughout this great nation there is a motionactivated fish that sings take me to the river or dont worry be happy when someone enters this shop. In this case, billy bass was not just a delight for everyone, but also a topnotch guard fish. I saw the door had been damaged and the dead bolt was actually bent at like a 45degree angle. I think he just did his job and scared whoever it was right out of their tracks. I think were going to need to see a dramatic recreation of what might have happened to send the robber reeling. I think when he opened the dooshgs i think billy kind of turned himself on. When i saw billy bass on the floor that something really was up. An then when i tried to close the door and it wouldnt close at all i just knew that billy bass had done his job and let somebody know that it wasnt just empty or something. I like that billy bass. I used to have one. Thanks to billy, nothing was stolen from the store. Local Police Sergeant says the bass really took one for the team. Who better than a novelty fish to make sure the scales of justice swing in favor of the righteous. Now hes my good luck charm. Im going to keep billy until he cant sing no more. As he should. There are also security cameras at hooked on fishing so theyre not relying totally on billy bass for security. But it is a good reminder while youre checking your smoke detectors do not forget to also check the batteries in your latex fish. Which is a lesson you should have already learned from watching the original british version of the office. Do you have batteries for billy big mouth . Ill pay cash. Cant put a price on comedy. There are those times when its undeniably good to have a big mouth on the ridiculist. Thats it for us. Erin Burnett Outfront starts now. Next, republicans and their war on the 1 . One congressman wants to close a tax loophole and wall street is fighting back. Plus, spike lee fired up, the film director unleashing a seven minute rant about race and real estate. The man who sparked the tirade. Breaking news out of arizona. The government expected to make a major announcement about the controversial bill that critics call antigay. Lets go outfront. Breaking news. Much anticipated announcement