elephant in the room is money. if you look at the critics of the epa proposals, you ve got frud upton, a republican of michigan getting $210,000. and steve scalise, mary landrieu. getting $159,000. david vitter. getting a lot of money. the senate is bought and paid for by the oil and gas industry or it has to go through them or not at all. the oil and gas industry has been incredibly effective in lobbying. i m in favor of the epa regulations, auto emission are a much bigger issue than keystone. but and also it s time for americans to start realizing we have very cheap gas in this country. nobody else pays as little for gas as we do. i mean you know go to europe. and you re paying four times as much as here. and i think that it actually
problems. the proposal now heads to mayor michael bloomberg s desk. yesterday in raleigh, north carolina, the city council banned smoking in all but two of the parks there. a nonsmoker s rights group reports that more than 400 towns and cities across the country have banned butts in public parts but the smokestacks still rise. the auto emission is still there. times square? really? he was ready to die in egypt s fight for freedom. but now a google executive has gone missing in cairo. one of his final tweets has his friends quite worried. a live update just ahead. plus, another security breach at the vatican. this time this little boy, who managed to get face to face with the pope himself.