and i think that obama campaign is doing here what it did in denver, which is using convention as an organizing cool tool to recruit volunteers to get out the vote here in north carolina. and in denver, they recruited 25,000 volunteers for election day while during that convention, i think they re doing the same thing here in north carolina. what should we make of the fact the word god god is not in this platform? is that an oversight? or deliberate? what is the . i doubt that the campaign had any clue that that happened until they found i just don t think the campaigns are paying attention to platforms. anymore other than there isn t a problem. why are they spending time doing this busy work and making platforms if they re meaningless? well, their personality contests. what i mean is that it s mitt
here s a cool tool. i like this. this is a wireless thermometer. you put the probe in your beef, chicken or whatever you are cooking, pork. and then turn it on. and it will send the message about what temperature your item is getting to so you don t have to keep opening up the grill and let the heat escape. it s wireless. a wireless thermometer. it goes in. walk around with this thing. brilliant. exactly what the temperature of whatever you are cooking. people really shouldn t open it too often. let out all the smoke and heat and then it takes longer. now you don t have to worry about peeking in there. you know exactly what it is. keep your grill clean. and are we building a house here? this is like the mack daddy. i found this at williams-sonoma. you fill it with water and you can turn this on. so as you are cleaning the grates, it steams. you don t have to buy one this big, but get a sturdy one. this looks effective. here are some items you may not think a
penguins, how this one is using her talents to raise money. good morning, everyone i m randi kaye, it s 7:00. a lot to tell you about. george zimmerman could be out of jail as early as today. a judge has set bond for zimmerman at $150,000 at a hearing yesterday. that means his family needs to post $15,000 to get him out while he awaits trials for the killing of trayvon martin. zimmerman called itse self-defense. he took the stand and offered this apology to the teen s family. i wanted to say i am sorry for the loss of your son. i did not know how old he was. i thought he was a little bit younger than i am. and i did not know if he was armed or not. zirmmmmerman s attorney want him to be able to leave the state until the trial. we ll have more on that later on. the fbi is expected to continue their work today digging up a manhattan basement, looking for evidence in the 33-year-old disappearance of a young boy. 6-year-old etan patz disappeared on his way to school in
well. i m going to demonstrate in a bit. i m going to hit on something touchy in our world. paula deen announced she has diabetes. some say i told you so. it s what you get for cooking such rich food. we love her. i want to take a different approach. sam, a finalist on the show top chef has had diabetes for most of his life. he s learned about eating healthy and we are going to learn and share with you today. first, like a lot of people, i was shocked to get the news of whitney houston dying the night before the grammys. it s going to be weeks before we know the cause of death. given her drug abuse, it s going to be tough. prescription drugs were found in the hotel room she died. nothing out of the ordinary was found as long as houston was taken the medication as prescribed. as prescribed, that s a key point. i want to give you the shocking statistic, one in 20 people over the age of 12 take the medications in a way that is not prescribed. most of them are not addicts, th
spending. right now demand is still very soft on the consumer side. we want to make sure consumers are still out there spending, creating demand. what we re really seeing here is the battle the president has inside the democratic party as well as with a lot of republicans. and we want to boil all this down to how it might affect you. there s this cool tool, i ll show you in a second, called the tax calculator. we plugged in some information, we re using our friendly neighborhood avenatars here and i ll show you what could happen based on different scenarios of this debate on taxes. if we take a couple and put them right in the middle of the income in america, this is the middle, $57,000. if they re paying taxes now, around $3,400, and those current tax cuts were to expire, they d be paying $2,000 more each year. that s a big chunk of change. it would be for you if you re in this income range. but no one wants to take away those tax cuts because they re down in the $57,000 rain. let s