environment. he sees his opportunity when najib karger, now a journalist, says he wants to shoot a film about mujahadin in yemen. the access that he gave me in yemen was very unique. it was crazy, you know, some of the persons that he introduced me to. including the radical cleric anwar al awlaki. jihad against america is binding upon myself. they talk a lot about jihad, for example. and, again, storm was an extreme guy. storm was being talked down by anwar al awlaki. talked down from an extreme view? yes. awlaki was telling storm to chill out. yet, storm won t be calmed. he decides to join jihadists in somalia. and i had to join that. i had to join a call to my religious belief.
this specific decision in response to the little sisters, cap a group of nuns who oppose this mandate. their lawyer said they were delighted with the decision. a denver-based order of nuns, they don t want to include it in health insurance they offer to their employees who help them run nursing homes for low income people. the group was turned down by federal appeals court earlier yesterday and an emergency request to the supreme court. justice sonia sotomayor granted the request for implementation of the mandate for now. a lawyer praised the decision saying in a statement our government has a lot of ways to deliver contraceptives to people. it does not need to force nuns to participate. if justice sonia sotomayor had not stepped in, they would be facing large fines today if they didn t comply with the mandate.
overtake bin the brown and the black and the poor and people they see as less worthy of sort of the america they believe that they created. so the idea that they resent these entitlements, resent these programs, feel they re enfeeb lg and destroying america, that is what designs them as conservatives. it s very difficult to have a proactive positive agenda other than their proactive i want to cut taxes, for instance, on the wealthy, because they feel that would be better for the country. we keep hearing they are going to reach out and there s no such thing as a war on women. that s what we keep being told. let me play you something one of the panelists said moments ago about rush limbaugh, sandra fluke, and birth control. take a listen to this. rush limbaugh, the great talk show host, called her a bunch of unfortunate names. even if you look at women voters overall, when you look at the rank of what they care about and what they vote on, birth control is, like, down by, like, makin
shut down by, who else, the federal government. fredrick is one of 23 towers at small and medium airports the faa may close because of forced spending cuts. we re awarded the money, and you know, ten months later they say that you don t need a tower here. so it s the world of mixed messages. reporter: in florida, the government also giveth and now may taketh away. $1.8 million in stimulus money went to construct this new tower at opa-locka. one million for this new tower in st. petersburg. now, all on the chopping block. look to be at three miles. reporter: a navy veteran hases been clearing pilots for takeoff and landing for the past 11 years. it s all she knows. it s scary, because i m going to have to figure out something else to do. for an income. it means i m going on unemployment, and that s the only income i ll have for me and my daughter. reporter: while airports will
i leave tomorrow or take some flight tonight by different airplane lines, then continue. the last time the faa grounded a plane was 199 of a tragic crash involving a dc-10. that turned out to be the fault of an airline maintenance crew. so we have to see about the boeing battery issue. that hurt mcdonnell douglas back then. like to give you a little good news. apparent good news, on the jobs front. the labor department reporting the number of americans filing for first time unemployment benefits fell last week, down by 37,000 to a total of 335,000. that the lowest level since right after the recession began five years ago. but the economists are warning the drop could be due to seasonal volatility because the numbers can actually vary from week to week in january, especially, as retailers and other companies lay off all the