this is part of a year long effort to bring about an end to slavery. reporter: according to estimates, the number of modern day slaves ranges from about 10 million to 30 million people. the problem that widespread, it is easy to feel that individuals like you and i can t do anything to stop it. but we can, and the right apps can go a long way to help. you want to make sure the products you buy are not the product of slave labor. talking about both the materials used to make them and their manufacturer. that is where this app comes in. it is called free to work. it was developed by the not for sale initiative. it s a handy guide to help consumers make ethical choices. the app shows how companies around the world rate according to the labor practices. as you can see, there s a whole list of companies to choose from. for example, you can bring up adidas it scores an a minus or we can bring up godiva which
minutes. we talk about tornadoes all the time. but eight people died in georgia last week from wind damage. we can t just focus on the tornado anymore. that s right. i mean severe thunderstorm can produce the damaging winds we saw last week. tree damage was extensive and if a tree falls on a home or on a car and it could have devastating consequences, and that was unfortunate in the case of georgia last week. and again, back to your earlier point, i believe those occurred in the middle of the night. so very difficult to get the word out that the danger s on the way in the middle of the night and that s when severe weather can be at its most dangerous. old weather radios used to be thrown out the window because they would go off all night long for every county in your state. that doesn t work that way anymore. it s s.a.m.e. technology. tell me how that s different than old boxes that used to go off for hours and hours. well, like any technology, there have been improvements
construction, the women, infants and children nutrition program would lose almost $500 million and payment to united nations would drop by almost $400 million. the pentagon and veterans affairs would see almost increases $6 billion in total. big, as all this is, it s a prelude to the budget fight that president obama entered yesterday in a huge way. cnn s senior political analyst gloria borger joins me to talk about that. talking fiscal 2012 and beyond, now we re into the trillions not the billions. yeah. we are into the trillions. you know the president really did enter the fight into a big in a big way. i was surprised, though, i have to tell you, randi, because he was a lot more partisan than we ve heard him lately. clearly under a lot of pressure from his left flank. the republicans gave him an easy target in house budget chairman ryan s proposal, which calls for medicare vouchers without tax
on it, for those of us actually thinking that they could get something done in a large way before the election, i m thinking not so much right now. yeah. we know exactly what your thinking because i ve actually read your column at cnn.com. it s a great column. great article that you ve written, gloria. you can read gloria s column on the big fight ahead at cnn.com/politics. she puts it all out there. a pleasure talking with you. thanks again. we know smoke and pollution is bad. but now there s a t-shirt actually that shows what it s doing to our lungs.
saying that he has given notice to the irs for a political organization, not to be confused with an exploratory committee, to be president. but in some ways this allows ron paul to look at the idea of running again, congressman from texas, to look again at running in a way that he can use the money that he raises through this organization for presidential run should he decide to do so. will he decide in a spokesman says 60/40 chance he will again get in race. mitt romney who does have an exploratory committee, is also hiring up. he has a new spokesman and others on his campaign. so this is a serious campaign moving forward. we do expect at some point there will be the official announ announcement. on the presidential watch, we think donald trump, you may have heard of him in the past couple of days, is now talking to a news organization about the relationship between blacks and