to support or refute the president s success claim will not be available for at least several weeks ahead of us. now, as it strands, january deportations trended down by 22% from december, but that was before this week s new dhs memos and procedures. at the edge of the travel ban executive order, that was stopped by a federal judge. systems and border patrol are here, but they re not allowing us to speak to the clients, and we have no access to them. similarly, the family members don t know what s going on. that was from january, the end of the month, when immigration lawyer fiona mcginty who was at one of the airports when over 300 people were detained or processed because of the original travel ban has has since been stopped and joining us now is fiona mcginty. thanks for being with us. tell us about what is now happening in what has been about a month. hi, richard. so during the past week, we got
it is not as politically popular and the supreme court wants to look like they are acting responsibly. neil: the court could be emboldened saying we can strike it down because the insurance companies will take matter into their hands. guest: the number one problem with this law is cost. and unconstitutionality. but cost. costs will go up dramatically if they do not have the individual mandate. and if the court is paying attention to that they could strike down the whole law. neil: the way it strands right now, this move by united, does it help or hurt this whole process? guest: if it shines a spotlight to how much of the cost problems will, it helps us. but the message here is not, the law is good for us and it does not matter what happens in the supreme court but that the law is so entrended in a bad way that we have huge problems in terms of health care costs and, also, providing services. i m worried that even with the law being struck down in certain
chinese were on the ground in serb bee yeah and may have stolen parts. the first u.s. stealth fighter went down in kosovo. the chinese were there on hands and supposedly were trying to pick up the pieces and they may have reverse engineered the special coding that is the stealth coding on board the plane, the j-20. that is the accusation as it strands right now. jon: the chinese and the pentagon officially are denying these reports, right. reporter: that s right. the chinese defense ministry came out today and said in fact this is an inc inch tkeupblg in. they say in fact they don t quibble with that, they say the chinese j-20 tkoet look like an
annie lenox, thank you. thank you, thank you. thank you, atlanta. she is a really good sport. thanks again to annie lenox. also appearing in the show, actress matthew morrison who is from the hit tv show glee. my interview with him coming up 10:30 p.m. up next, extreme weather with. it strands the new york giants football team as they try to make their way to minneapolis for tomorrow s game. we ll tell you where they are. jacqui jeras will be here to tell us just how badded weather is. plus, a rare look behind enemy lines. we ll hear from a filmmaker who was imbedded with the taliban. e and that s what started it. exxonmobil and synthetic genomics have built a new facility to identify the most productive strains of algae. algae are amazing little critters. they secrete oil, which we could turn into biofuels. they also absorb co2.
president obama has declared new jersey a state of disaster. one of several states that have gotten that categorization, meaning they can get federal assistance. the people in patterson tell me when the president comes they want to hear him talk specifically about how they will get help from him from the federal government. one interesting note, a record year in terms of natural disasters. ten weather-related incidents have caused $1 billion in damage alone this year. each of them causing $1 billion alone in damage. federal officials assessing the damage from hurricane irene right now. it strands at $7 billion they believe. back to you. slow-moving tropical storm lee has triggered tornado watches for parts of the gulf coast this morning. the center came ashore in louisiana. lee has forced some to evacuate and others are dealing with