easing fears about a double dip recession. don? alison, all week we have heard outrage over bank of america s debit card fee. what happened to the outrage? oh, yeah. so everybody has been outraged after bank of america is going to tack on a fee to your debit card early yex year. this woman took her outrage one step further. so what she did was started an online petition. she has gathered already 150,000 signatures on it. she went ahead and presented it at a bank of america branch and sat on the sidewalk before this, though, and cut up her credit card and debit card and closed her account. so she appeared this morning on good morning america and said that the teller didn t seem very phased by it. she didn t really have a reaction. i went in, gave the petitions, and then i closed my bank account and that was kind of it. reporter: she said that she left her 4$400 in cash and intends to stick it in a credit union. that s her choice. alison kosik, thank you. new robo
deadly blood battles, the three year turf war has left a staggering death toll. more than 2700 so far this year alone as the most powerful drug gang in mexico goes up against the longest running to dominate the lucrative border with the united states. we are around 7,000 in the last three years here in juarez and we have something like 82% that they are still we have a big problem here in juarez. just a stone s throw from el paso, texas, bull lets afterren stray across the border, hitting buildings downtown. but the violence has spilled over as well. most esuriently, tw recently ts attending the university of texas in elpass sew were killed
outside their home in juarez. both students were living with family there. the families are not cooperating with us because they are afraid. according to the d.a., this seemingly random murder is why 150,000 have fled the city alone. this city used to be a city where everybody came from other places of mexico. we had a lot of jobs here. we have very nice city here but everythingyears guy everybody started to change from the running gun battle interfered with the drug trade. drug gangs now resort to kidnapping, prostitutio prostid extortion to finance the battle, sometimes using hit men in their teens. we have people here that they are going to kill people for 100 pesos. we have very young people, 14 to 15 years that they won
the kidd nap capital of the world. they go in and spirit the people away and torture them and kill them down in mexico. geraldo: let s get a reality check. raul, what is the truth. how is kidnapping in laredo. that has not been a problem. obviously mr. bonner and i respect his views. we are doing our job. what we are trying to do is get more personnel. geraldo: don t you think mexico needs more help? absolutely. and we need to work and you mentioned it, geraldo, they are our biggest trading partner. in laredo alone we cross 10,000 to 12,000 trucks every day. of course, it is important. that is why we have to maintain the stability. what we need to do, we need to intercept the weapons going south. the solen cars that are going south and the money. we need more personnel in order to do that. i have to say that the working relationship that we have all along the border when you talk about the fbi, dea, everybody
geraldo: welcome back live, everybody. continuing with mayors john cook of el paso and raul salinas of laredo, texas, and t.j. bonner the president of the national border patrol council. t.j., i think that the optimistic take of the mayors is not something that you see as the main headline here is that, correct? that s correct. what we are talking about here is an all-out war down in mexico just yards from the u.s. border. we have had in the past three to four years 28,000 confirmed murders carried out by the cartels. that is about one every hour of every day. that is pretty alarming. u.s. border patrol agents are assaulted once every eight hours. this is a war zone.