wearing will be courtesy of ed henry. it will be an improvement. i wonder if senator chambliss has one of these? he s coming up to talk to us about a lot of the things you were talking about. good to see you away from the perch. a lot of people are saying that i should give you a man hug. to cement the bromance. a chest bum? bump? no, that will be later. do i have time, kelly? we ll be right back. to collect your answers. opening your door can open doors to other things in your community, like better education and better healthcare. the census helps determine how 400 billion dollars will be spent each year to help open doors in your community. it s 10 simple questions that take about 10 minutes. and the answers are confidential. open your door to your census taker. we can t move forward until you give your answers back.
and drinks them after. can i real quickly we did a survey how many people think i should wear a tie or not? 71%, what do you think? 71% said no tie. the women tend to like less clothing. i ll move a little closer. i m for a tie. all right. it s always and that s what this whole show is about. differing opinions. brian, by the way, is off today. he ll be back on monday. let s do a couple of headlines. don t be confused, today is census day. tax day is in two weeks. census bureau hopes there will be a surge of census forms coming in today. the deadline to return the form is today. president obama filled his out on sunday. he is one of an estimated 62 million that have sent in his forms. that s a little more than half. the three of us, we re done. those who don t send in the form can expect to get another one. if that doesn t work, guess what? you ll have a knock at your door because the census taker will come to pay you a visit. being called the worst flooding to hit the nort
says i have a right to remind silent. i was more rights as a arrested person than standing in front of a census taker. i wonder why they want to do this. i don t know why they want to do it. in my opinion, there s a potential for danger when the government invades our privacies but a it can t keep the information private. can you be arrested for not answering the census, no. can you be find? yes. 1 you said for every unanswered questions, $500 for every wrongly answered question. you can just send them a czech check and say leave me alone. you can do that if you part with the $5,000. should the government take that from people? of course not. shepard: the same people that
river are to blame for a barge colliding with washington s 14th street bridge. the coast guard spokesman says an initial assessment shows no structural damage to the bridge or the barge. the bridge is open to traffic, and the bridge is tied until the owners decide where to move it. and if you want to save the federal government $1.5 billion, the census bureau has a suggestion. the agency estimates that s how much could be saved if we all mailed in our census forms instead of waiting for a census-taker to show up at the door. the bureau has mailed the first 120 million forms to households to the mandated population count. suzanne, they say it takes ten minutes, ten questions. okay, great. thank you, mary. here s a loaded question. what is the ultimate solution to long-term unemployment? that is jack cafferty s question of the hour, and jack is going to read your answers, just ahead. a secret affair, and a secret child. no secrets anymore for former senator john edwards long-tim
to send a census taker to your door. reporter: it helps determine everything from congressional representation to where more than $400 billion in federal funding is directed each year. the lingering question is just how much does that need to cost taxpayers? kate bolduan, cnn, washington. we still have many questions about why the census costs so much and we know many of you do now. so we invited stephen buckman to help explain some of these expenses. thanks for joining us. this letter. i got one. a lot of people got one. it went out last week. saying the census form was coming. a lot of people think it was a waste of money just to say it is coming. $85 million. what do you say to that? that s correct, don. there s a lot of scientific research and doing survey work that shows that if you send an advance letter or a trigger to someone saying that you re going to send them something in a week, that they ll actually have