was dependent on securing the border first. i was very explicit about this. apparently nobody listened or cared. i also thought it was important that when we determined whether the border is secure, that congress should determine this not the president. i don t have a lot of trust left over for the current president. but i really don t trust any president to make this decision. i think congress, the representatives of the people should determine whether the border s secure. i was a little surprised, page 35, line 24, in a politan know has veto power the power to veto the border fence and where to put it in the immigration bill. that was surprising to me too. the irony, they threw in a billion and a half dollars for some kind of youth jobs program. that s as much as they were going to spend on the fence. they also threw in a veto for janet innapolitano to veto the fence. the president thinks the border s secure now, i don t have a great deal of hope that
years in the making and is detailed in a 22-page letter to the maricopa county attorney. detailing a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against latinos at the mcso, the maricopa county sheriff s office that reaches the highest level of the agency. sheriff arpaio s own actions have helped nurture a culture of bias. found latino drivers are four to nimz more likely than non-latino drivers and more documenting detention officers at the sheriff s jail using offensive slurs and profanities calling them wetbacks, stupid mexicans and slurs we can t mention on the air. according to the civil rights division they re reviewing allegations that sheriff arpaio s department failed to investigate hundreds of alleged sexual assaults and child molestation cases. many of the victims apparently were latinos. earlier this year, when 360 s ed lavandera spoke with sheriff arpaio he spoke as himself as a victim. have they spoke to you what an abuse of power is? i don t know what
over somewhere? yeah, it would have been a whole lot easier, definitely been a whole lot easier but i won t let this get me down. reporter: a full month after a deadly tornado, and so many still so slow to turn the corner from surviving to recovery. there is an intense determination to rebuild these neighborhoods, but not to rebuild them the way they were before. most people here now believe that these homes should be put back, but better, stronger, and safer. joe? david mattingly in tuscaloosa. more on alabama s tornado recovery in our top stories. homeland security saecretary janet innapolitano will visit. the usda s food pyramid will
when people are on their hands and knees literally sifting through rubble trying to find important documents or just trying to clean up the remains of their house and of course there s been so much focus on the missing and the deceased, i think the last thing on many people s minds was and is when would the president get here. i have not really heard anybody and we ve talk to a lot of people over the last week, the week anniversary, and no one has complained about the president not immediately arriving here. paul vercammen thank you for the reporting. an april 27th in tuscaloosa killed 41 people. janet innapolitano toured that area there. more than 250 people were killed over a three-day period in april. meanwhile, former gop vice
passengers aboard a delta flight. we ll tell you twhapd. and take a close look at the circle on your screen. sometimes baseball fans will do whatever it takes to catch a ball, including dropping their kid just to make a catch, come on. it s sunday, may 29th, 6:00 a.m. in atlanta, 5:00 a.m. in joplin, missouri. the nation s chief executive offering a shoulder to cry on this morning, headed to tornado damaged joplin, missouri. president obama is expected in joplin shortly after 1:00 eastern. te will meet with tornado victims and deliver brief remarks at a 3:00 eastern memorial service at missouri southern state university. his visit comes as the death toll rises to 142 this morning. more than 90 people remain missing, more than 1,000 have been injured. later this afternoon, at 5:41 central, the city is observing a moment of silence, that is the exact time one week ago the tornado plowed a half-mile swathe through joplin. we take you live to joplin. paul brickhaven is there. p