whether you agree with the verdict or not, justice was served in a new jersey courtroom where a jury convicted dharun ravi in the cyber bullying case we ve been following more than a year now. ravi a former rutgers student use a webcam to spy on his roommate tyler clementi while way man. he tweeted about what he saw. days later which meantie killed himself. he was just 18 years old. ravi faces up to five years in prison. at time of the arrest, no law on the books making cyber bullying a crime. months after tyler clementi s suicide new jersey passed a cyber bullying law. they were able to convict him under a biased intimidation law instead. only 11 states currently have laws on the books criminalizing cyber bullying. only 11 states nap despite the fact bullying remain as huge problem. according to government statistics kids between 8 and 15 say bullying is a bigger problem for them than racism or pressure to have sex. the toll bullying takes on gay teens and kids is especially
syrian state television trying to show that the state of homs has returned to normal. they showed this videoarve bombarding the city for months. especially the baba amr region. cleanup crews, cars on the streets, even ordinary people returning. that s what they showed on syrian state television. on video posted on youtube today, video how the of homs, you get a far different picture. the streets as you see empty of cars and people. rubble is deeper. destruction more complete. a top u.n. official who just got inside homs today say parts of the city were completely devastated. those were her words. she says authorities kept her out of certain areas even though they promised her complete access. authorities have still not allowed the red cross in to bring humanitarian relief into the besieged neighborhoods. in homs, the guns were still firing. as always we re not there to see for ourselves because the regime keeps out reporters when it s not shelling or killing them. the estimat
republicans to say no. if congress does something, then i can t run against a do nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then it s not a matter of me running against them, i think the american people will run them out of town. democratic political strategist jamal simmons is in our washington bureau along with karen ready. do you think the president is right, he has found way to get the jobs bill with a tax increase, too? i think he does have it right. lining up for the republicans, either you are for the middle class or against the middle class. either you re defending millionaires or on the side of the working people. i think that will be something for republicans to have to wrestle with. i m not sure i want to be on the side of defending wall street and millionaires in this kind of electoral environment. it was interesting, a cnn reporter ran into susan collins, a moderate republican in the halls today and said she didn t like this either which was interesting
$450 billion jobs plan. house speaker john boehner doesn t like it. nothing has disappointed me more than what s happened over the last five weeks. to watch the president of the united states give up on governing, give up on leading and spend full time campaigning. the president dares the republicans to say no. if congress does something, then i can t run against a do nothing congress. if congress does nothing, then it s not a matter of me running against them, i think the american people will run them out of town. democratic political strategist jamal simmons is in our washington bureau along with karen ready. do you think the president is right, he has found way to get the jobs bill with a tax increase, too? i think he does have it right. lining up for the republicans, either you are for the middle class or against the middle class. either you re defending millionaires or on the side of the working people. i think that will be something for republicans to have to