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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A watchdog group critical of pork barrel spending released its latest findings Wednesday targeting the top Congressional "porkers."

Some of the pork projects, according to the group, include a Lobster Institute; the Rocky Flats, Colorado, Cold War Museum; and the First Tee, a program to build young people's character through golf.

Members of Congress requested funds for all these pet projects and thousands of others last year, according to the latest copy of the annual "Pig Book" released by Citizens Against Government Waste.

"Congress stuffed 11,610 projects" worth $17.2 billion into a dozen spending bills, the group said in the report released Wednesday.

The "Pig Book" names dozens of what the citizens group considers the most egregious porkers, the lawmakers who funnel money to projects on their home turf.  Interactive: Pork barrel spending Â»

Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, requested the most money, $892.2 million, according to the group.

In a statement to CNN, Cochran said he doesn't "accept the premise" of the group's claim that "any and all federal spending not specifically requested by the Executive Branch is wasteful and irresponsible."

"The Congress is vested with the power to appropriate funds to be spent by the federal government by the U. S. Constitution. We will continue to carry out that responsibility with care and a commitment to serve the public interest," he said.

"There were several candidates for the Narcissist Award," Tom Schatz, the president of the group said. Read the group's 2008 report

"But this one went to House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel for the Charles Rangel Public Service Center at the City College of New York -- $1,950,000 [for a project] that he named after himself."

Rangel, a Democrat from New York, said last summer he was "honored that City College chose to have my name attached to what is an important project, not just for the residents of my congressional district, but for New York City and this nation."

Some lawmakers defended their earmarks, such as Rep. Mike Thompson, D-California, who channeled $742,764 to olive fruit fly research.

"The olive fruit fly has infested thousands of California olive groves and is the single largest threat to the U.S. olive and olive oil industries," he said.

Schatz responded that his organization is criticizing the way lawmakers direct money to specific projects, not the projects themselves.

"There are existing programs for virtually everything in the 'Pig Book.' If members [of Congress] believe they should be given additional funding, give them to the agencies rather than to specific projects," he said.

The problem with earmarks, he said, is that "we don't know if [the projects] are valuable or not."

Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-South Carolina, the third ranking Democrat in the House, defended his earmark for a program that funds a youth golf program for children on U.S. military bases.

"It's a character building program, that seems to be working well for low income kids and that's why we do it throughout the United States of America. I just feel that children living on military installations ought to have this program as well," Clyburn told CNN.

Clyburn also defended the practice of earmarking federal funds.

"I can name earmark after earmark, there's absolutely nothing wrong with congresspeople responding to their constituents and funding programs that they feel are necessary to improve the quality of life of the people who live in their districts."

Clyburn also raised questions about the group releasing the "Pig Book" saying, "they're not telling the truth about this earmark no more than them telling the truth about where they get their money from. The committee against government waste isn't against government waste."

He cited press reports from the St. Petersburg Times that the Committee Against Government Waste received money from the tobacco industry and other private groups to lobby Congress.

Both parties came in for criticism, with the Democrats, who control both houses of Congress, topping the Republicans in spending.

The Democrats were behind 5,199 projects worth $5.5 billion, while the Republicans earmarked 3,408 projects worth $4.4 billion, the citizen's group said.

And in a sign bipartisanship is not dead, the two parties jointly backed 2,518 projects worth $3.8 billion.  Interactive: Map of pork per capita by state Â»

The three senators running for president were not among the top targets of criticism, and one got an entirely clean bill from the watchdog group.

"Sen. [Barack] Obama had 53 earmarks worth $97 million dollars, and Sen. [Hillary] Clinton had 281 earmarks worth $296 million. Sen. Obama recently said he would not request any project for this upcoming fiscal year," said Tom Schatz, the president of Citizens Against Government Waste.

"And of course Sen. [John] McCain has never requested them and he won't be doing so in 2009. So now the question is if Sen. Clinton will join the other major candidates in saying that she will not request any earmarks for 2009."

To qualify for the Pig Book, a project must meet at least one of these standards: it was requested by only one chamber of Congress; was not specifically authorized; was not competitively awarded; was not requested by the president; greatly exceeded the president's budget request or the previous year's funding; was not the subject of congressional hearings; or served only a local or special interests. E-mail to a friend

CNN's Ed Hornick and Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- Texas authorities are investigating "the safety of children" at a ranch occupied by about 400 followers of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, officials said Friday.

An aerial view taken last year shows some living quarters at polygamist leader Warren Jeffs' Texas ranch.

Authorities have sealed off the 1,900-acre ranch near Eldorado and no one is allowed to enter or leave, officials with Child Protective Services and the Department of Public Safety said.

The people living at the ranch are cooperating, authorities said.

Escorted by police, social workers entered the compound in south central Texas at 8 p.m. Thursday after receiving "a referral," said Child Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner.  Watch police seal off the compound Â»

Child Protective Services "is conducting an investigation into safety issues of the children who live within the compound," she said.

Meisner would not provide details about the referral but did say officials responded "within days" of receiving it. As of Friday morning, Meisner added, her agency had "not determined that there is a safety issue with these children."

Several law enforcement agencies are assisting with the investigation, said Tela Mange, of the Texas Department of Public Safety. "The people at the ranch have been cooperative and they are providing the investigators with everyone they want to talk to," she said.

Jeffs' Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) bought 1,900 acres near Eldorado four years ago and built the ranch, which they call the YFZ Ranch. It is now home to as many as 400 members who relocated from their Arizona and Utah compounds.

Jeffs, the 52-year-old leader and "prophet" of the 10,000-member church, was convicted in Utah last year on two counts of being an accomplice to rape, charges related to a marriage he performed in 2001. He still faces trial in Arizona on eight charges of sexual conduct with a minor, incest and conspiracy.

State and local law enforcement agencies set up roadblocks around the ranch Thursday evening, preventing journalists from seeing what was happening on the property, according to Randy Mankin, editor of the Eldorado Success weekly newspaper.

"This came totally out of the blue," Mankin said.

There were no indications of any violence around the ranch, he said.

When CNN crews have visited the ranch, it was guarded by armed men equipped with night vision gear and other high-tech surveillance tools to prevent intruders.

When CNN flew over the ranch in a small plane last year, the crew saw a massive temple, the three-story housing units where Jeffs' chosen followers live, the water tower, the school and community center, the dairy and cheese factory and a massive concrete mill.

The FLDS church openly practices polygamy in two towns straddling the Arizona-Utah state line -- Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona., but members living on their Texas ranch rarely venture into Eldorado, four miles to the south.

Critics of the sect say it arranges marriages for girls as young as 13, and that competition for brides may be reduced through exiling young men. If male followers are excommunicated, the critics claim, their wives and children can be reassigned to someone else.

Jeffs is now being held in the Mohave County Jail in Kingman, Arizona, where he will be tried on charges of being an accomplice to incest and sex with minors.

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(CNN) -- You can't get much more "inside baseball" than this: the story of how statisticians trump scouts when it comes to putting together a winning team.

But thanks to a great script by Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, a quietly compelling performance from Brad Pitt and shrewd direction by Bennett Miller ("Capote"), "Moneyball" should appeal to audiences well beyond sports fans. It's one of the classiest movies of the year and a strong bet for a ribbon of Oscar nominations.

Michael Lewis' book chronicled the 2002 season of the Oakland As, when general manager Billy Beane infuriated conventional wisdom by applying "sabermetrics" to squad selection. Because the Athletics couldn't compete with wealthier teams for the big hitters, he looked to a different set of criteria, and especially at on-base percentages.

It didn't have to be pretty. If the As walked their way to the World Series, that would be just fine.

There's a conventional revenge-of-the-underdogs scenario lurking beneath the surface: something like "Major League" and "The Bad News Bears." There's the catcher who is drafted in to play first base (Chris Pratt as Scott Hatteberg), the pitcher with the wacky arm (Casey Bond as Chad Bradford) and the star who spends too much time partying in Vegas (Nick Porrazzo as Jeremy Giambi).

Mostly, though, "Moneyball" ignores the clichÃÂ©s by keeping the focus off the field and on Beane and his new statistics guru Pete Brand (Jonah Hill).

They make a great odd couple, and because the roles have been cast so well, Miller doesn't need to labor the point.

Pitt is the ex-golden boy grown restive with a game he feels he can't win. Hill's an overweight computer geek straight out of Yale, the only guy wearing a suit to work.

Naturally authoritative and at ease with himself -- except when a game's on (he can't bring himself to watch but can't resist checking in every other minute) -- Beane takes this awkward, earnest kid under his arm and shows him the ropes: how to cut players, how to trade. It's an unsentimental education for Pete and for us, too, as unexpectedly entertaining as the entrepreneurial maneuvers in "The Social Network." This is the everyday business of baseball, a side we might read about but rarely see for ourselves.

The movie falls into a more familiar groove when the As season turns, and there isn't much Miller or anyone else can do to make short flashbacks to Billy's playing days anything other than functional. But the writing is always sharp and smart, it's lovingly photographed and delicately scored (by Wally Pfister and Mychael Danna, respectively).

Yet it's Pitt's movie. Whether he's brooding in the dark as the As lose again, having it out with the team's recalcitrant coach (Philip Seymour Hoffman in a thankless role) and angry head scout (Vyto Ruginis), or trying to reassure his precocious 12-year-old (Kerris Dorsey) that his head isn't really on the block, Pitt has a watchful, introspective quality that makes "Moneyball" more than the sum of its statistical components. It's a fascinating portrait of a man who's given his life to baseball and is trying to figure out if it's worth it.

The movie itself is not a game changer by any means, but it's more than good enough to make you think again about what success adds up to in the long run.

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Washington (CNN) -- Greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to public health and welfare, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said Monday.

"The overwhelming amount of scientific studies show that the threat is real," she said.

The announcement stems from a Supreme Court ruling which ordered the agency to determine the impact of carbon emissions not only on the environment, but on public health.

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"These long-overdue findings cement 2009's place in history as the year when the United States government began addressing the challenge of greenhouse-gas pollution and seizing the opportunity of clean energy reform," Jackson said.

Immediately after the announcement, Jackson was leaving for Copenhagen, Denmark, to participate in the Copenhagen Climate Conference ahead of President Obama's appearance at the end of the week.

Her statement could provide evidence to the conference that the agency and the Obama administration are taking global warming seriously.

However, Jackson said that Monday's announcement does not require any immediate regulatory action.

The Obama administration is pushing for comprehensive energy legislation from Congress that puts a price on carbon emissions, a so-called "cap and trade" policy that uses market forces as an incentive for businesses to reduce carbon emissions.

Jackson said carbon dioxide emissions go beyond damaging the environment -- they also endanger public health.

The agency made the announcement because it is required to issue an "endangerment finding" -- evidence that carbon emissions are dangerous to the public health -- before it can regulate carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases under the federal Clean Air Act.

The EPA said in April that it would likely make such a ruling regarding carbon emissions and public health. The agency completed a public-comment process before making the announcement.

CNN's Suzanne Malveaux contributed to this report.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The commander in chief's priority is preventing another terrorist attack in the United States, President Bush told CNN's "Larry King Live" Tuesday.

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush sit down with CNN's Larry King Live on Tuesday.

"The most important job I have had -- and the most important job the next president is going to have -- is to protect the American people from another attack," Bush said.

Accompanied by first lady Laura Bush and engaging in a wide-ranging conversation with King, Bush also said that his administration has been involved in stopping specific threats against the United States since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"We've learned a lot of information about al Qaeda that we didn't know before," Bush said of intelligence activities during his tenure as president. "We've stopped some specific threats -- we're decimating [al Qaeda's] leadership."

He did not offer specifics, but he did offer a self-assessment of his leadership in national security post-9/11.  Watch Bush talk about the aftermath of 9/11 Â»

"I told the American people I wouldn't tire and I wouldn't falter, and I haven't," the outgoing president said.

Bush brushed off the low opinion-ratings and declining polls that have marked his waning presidency by saying, "Look, opinion polls are nothing but a shot of yesterday's news."

"Opinion polls aren't going to be high when the economy is in the tank," he added. "People aren't happy with the economy. Neither am I. But you can't make decisions based on popularity polls."

Bush took that train of thought on to another topic, Iraq.

"If the military thinks you're making decisions based on the Gallup poll, they're not going to follow a commander in chief," he said.

Asked about inaccurate intelligence reports on alleged weapons of mass destruction that led up to the war in Iraq, Bush refused to criticize the CIA, saying only that he was "disappointed."

On Iraq, he maintained that actions taken by his administration were correct.

"I don't think Iraq was wrong," Bush said in response to a question from King. "What I was worried about, (was) Iraq going to fail -- not Iraq was wrong," he said.

"And the surge has worked and a young democracy in the heart of the Middle East has taken hold. There's more work to be done. But al Qaeda has been denied the base in which they wanted to operate.:

When discussing the nation's economic slump, Bush cautioned his successor "not to become an economic forecaster once he gets to be president."

King and Bush discussed President-elect Barack Obama's predictions for a bad year ahead for the U.S. economy and King asked Bush, "That's not a good idea to say?"

"I don't think so. I think he can say it's going to be a tough period, but to predict what the economy is going to do ... it is going to be bad. How bad? How long?" Bush responded. "What he ought to be saying -- and I know he feels this way -- is he's going to take the steps he thinks are necessary to get us back on the road to recovery and we will recover."

Bush said he is looking forward to the inaugurationTuesday, describing it as "a historic moment for the country."

Asked by King if he liked Obama, Bush replied, "I do. I do like him. You'd like him, too."

But Laura Bush said she took some of Obama's critiques of her husband personally.

"Were you angry at it?" King asked.

"Yes, sort of. George didn't really even know about it because he didn't really watch it that much," Laura Bush said, laughing.  Watch Laura Bush express her disapproval Â»

"So what's new?" Bush piped in. "When you make big decisions and tough calls, you're going to get criticized."

"During the course of this presidency, I've been disappointed at times by the silly name-calling that goes on in Washington -- it's really not necessary," Bush said.

"I've done my best, though, to make sure I didn't bring the presidency down to that level."

On other topics:

â¢ Bush said he favors closing the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but only "under the right circumstances.

"The problem is, you've got a bunch of cold-blooded killers down there that if they ever get out they're going to come and kill Americans, and I'd hate to be the person that made that decision."

â¢ Asked by King, "Are we ever going to find (Osama) bin Laden, Bush replied, "Yes, of course, absolutely. We've got a lot of people out there looking for him, a lot of assets. You can't run forever.

â¢ As to whether the United States had ever come close to capturing bin Laden, Bush said, "I don't know -- I can't answer that. I really don't know. I'm not trying to hide anything."

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Washington (CNN) -- Air Force Lt. Col. Ken Bourland hugged his wife, Peggy, goodbye and headed out for his two-day mission.

The date was January 12, and the destination was Haiti.

Neither knew it would be the last time they'd see one another.

Upon his arrival in Port-au-Prince, Ken Bourland sent his wife an e-mail saying he had settled into his hotel room.

Ten minutes later, Peggy Bourland and the couple's three sons began watching television back in their suburban Fort Lauderdale, Florida, home. That's when the news broke: Haiti had been struck by a major earthquake.

She describes the panic that set in.

"I sent him another e-mail, you know, 'Please tell me you're OK'," she recounted to CNN. "And, at that point, I didn't get anything back."

The ensuing minutes and hours turned to days of waiting.

"It was painful not knowing," she said. "But not knowing, you still had hope. You still had hope that he could possibly be under there just surviving, just doing everything he could to survive."

Eventually, Peggy Bourland began to fear the worst.

Lt. Col. Ken Bourland worked at the Caribbean desk at the U.S. Southern Command. His job involved helping the Haitian military with security issues concerning both countries, such as combating illicit drug trafficking, uncovering money laundering and distributing humanitarian aid.

Bourland had been to Haiti previously, and this trip was to be a 48-hour mission escorting a new commander to meet his Haitian counterparts.

His e-mail to his wife of five years was titled, "Wow. Haiti."

"He actually had seen what true poverty was. And it was a life-changing experience for him," Peggy Bourland recalled.

"And he said that he wished that my son, Chance, and I could have been there to see it. I could tell from his e-mail he was moved, beyond words, at what he'd seen," she said.

Army Lt. Col. Chris Thomas worked with Ken Bourland at Southern Command. The two traveled to Haiti together and were in their respective rooms at the Hotel Montana when it came crashing down.

"We arrived Tuesday morning, met with the ambassador at the embassy, and got briefings," Thomas told CNN in an interview at Southern Command's headquarters in Miami, Florida.

"Ken and myself then went back to the Hotel Montana, and that was the last time I saw him," Thomas said.

Thomas stayed on the hotel's top story, in a fifth-floor corner room. Ken Bourland's room was on the second floor.

Thomas recalled the horrible events of that afternoon.

"I was standing in the middle of the room, and the building just erupted," he said.

"The room just shook so violently, and the noise was deafening," he said. "I rushed to the door, and the door and the wall fell on top of me. As the building pancaked, I guess I rode it down."

Thomas suffered a broken arm, a separated shoulder and a torn ligament in his knee.

But in the immediate aftermath of the quake, no word from Bourland.

After two weeks, Peggy Bourland was emotionally exhausted from waiting and worrying. She took a military plane to Haiti to stand near where her husband was last seen alive.

"I just felt like, if that was going to be where he took his last breath, that I owed it to him and our kids to be there, to see it, to pray for him," she said.

Once she got back home, she continued to wait for word about her husband's fate.

Eventually, "they called," she said, tearfully recalling the moment when she got the definitive word that her husband had died in the earthquake-ravaged Hotel Montana.

Immediately following the phone call, she worried, "Oh my gosh, how am I gonna make it through this? What am I gonna tell my boys? You know, how am I going to explain this to them?"

Bourland served in Iraq in 2004.

His safe return there holds a certain irony for his wife. "To make it home from a real war zone, and be taken like that. It's just ... it's hard," she said.

"He was honest, confident," she said of her late husband. 'He was very dedicated."

Peggy Bourland is unsure of "where I go from here. It's still just kind of, every day I get up, take a deep breath and ask, 'How are we gonna get through today? What are we gonna do'," she wonders. "Never, never ever would I be prepared for this."

"It's so vivid in my mind, him giving me a hug, kissing the boys," Peggy Bourland said. "I still see him walking out the door Sunday on his trip. And you know, 'Bye! See you when I get back. Love you! Love you, too!' "

Asked about the necklace she wears, she said, "This is Ken's wedding band, one of the things they identified him with. I wear it around my neck, to keep him close to my heart, always."

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text: moved

text: beyond

text: words

text: at

text: what

text: he

text: 'd

text: seen

text: she

text: said

text: Army

text: Lt

text: Col

text: Chris

text: Thomas

text: worked

text: with

text: Ken

text: Bourland

text: at

text: Southern

text: Command

text: The

text: two

text: traveled

text: to

text: Haiti

text: together

text: and

text: were

text: in

text: their

text: respective

text: rooms

text: at

text: the

text: Hotel

text: Montana

text: when

text: it

text: came

text: crashing

text: down

text: We

text: arrived

text: Tuesday

text: morning

text: met

text: with

text: the

text: ambassador

text: at

text: the

text: embassy

text: and

text: got

text: briefings

text: Thomas

text: told

text: CNN

text: in

text: an

text: interview

text: at

text: Southern

text: Command

text: 's

text: headquarters

text: in

text: Miami

text: Florida

text: Ken

text: and

text: myself

text: then

text: went

text: back

text: to

text: the

text: Hotel

text: Montana

text: and

text: that

text: was

text: the

text: last

text: time

text: I

text: saw

text: him

text: Thomas

text: said

text: Thomas

text: stayed

text: on

text: the

text: hotel

text: 's

text: top

text: story

text: in

text: a

text: fifth

text: floor

text: corner

text: room

text: Ken

text: Bourland

text: 's

text: room

text: was

text: on

text: the

text: second

text: floor

text: Thomas

text: recalled

text: the

text: horrible

text: events

text: of

text: that

text: afternoon

text: I

text: was

text: standing

text: in

text: the

text: middle

text: of

text: the

text: room

text: and

text: the

text: building

text: just

text: erupted

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: room

text: just

text: shook

text: so

text: violently

text: and

text: the

text: noise

text: was

text: deafening

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: rushed

text: to

text: the

text: door

text: and

text: the

text: door

text: and

text: the

text: wall

text: fell

text: on

text: top

text: of

text: me

text: As

text: the

text: building

text: pancaked

text: I

text: guess

text: I

text: rode

text: it

text: down

text: Thomas

text: suffered

text: a

text: broken

text: arm

text: a

text: separated

text: shoulder

text: and

text: a

text: torn

text: ligament

text: in

text: his

text: knee

text: But

text: in

text: the

text: immediate

text: aftermath

text: of

text: the

text: quake

text: no

text: word

text: from

text: Bourland

text: After

text: two

text: weeks

text: Peggy

text: Bourland

text: was

text: emotionally

text: exhausted

text: from

text: waiting

text: and

text: worrying

text: She

text: took

text: a

text: military

text: plane

text: to

text: Haiti

text: to

text: stand

text: near

text: where

text: her

text: husband

text: was

text: last

text: seen

text: alive

text: I

text: just

text: felt

text: like

text: if

text: that

text: was

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: where

text: he

text: took

text: his

text: last

text: breath

text: that

text: I

text: owed

text: it

text: to

text: him

text: and

text: our

text: kids

text: to

text: be

text: there

text: to

text: see

text: it

text: to

text: pray

text: for

text: him

text: she

text: said

text: Once

text: she

text: got

text: back

text: home

text: she

text: continued

text: to

text: wait

text: for

text: word

text: about

text: her

text: husband

text: 's

text: fate

text: Eventually

text: they

text: called

text: she

text: said

text: tearfully

text: recalling

text: the

text: moment

text: when

text: she

text: got

text: the

text: definitive

text: word

text: that

text: her

text: husband

text: had

text: died

text: in

text: the

text: earthquake

text: ravaged

text: Hotel

text: Montana

text: Immediately

text: following

text: the

text: phone

text: call

text: she

text: worried

text: Oh

text: my

text: gosh

text: how

text: am

text: I

text: gon

text: make

text: it

text: through

text: this

text: What

text: am

text: I

text: gon

text: tell

text: my

text: boys

text: You

text: know

text: how

text: am

text: I

text: going

text: to

text: explain

text: this

text: to

text: them

text: Bourland

text: served

text: in

text: Iraq

text: in

text: His

text: safe

text: return

text: there

text: holds

text: a

text: certain

text: irony

text: for

text: his

text: wife

text: To

text: make

text: it

text: home

text: from

text: a

text: real

text: war

text: zone

text: and

text: be

text: taken

text: like

text: that

text: It

text: 's

text: just

text: it

text: 's

text: hard

text: she

text: said

text: He

text: was

text: honest

text: confident

text: she

text: said

text: of

text: her

text: late

text: husband

text: He

text: was

text: very

text: dedicated

text: Peggy

text: Bourland

text: is

text: unsure

text: of

text: where

text: I

text: go

text: from

text: here

text: It

text: 's

text: still

text: just

text: kind

text: of

text: every

text: day

text: I

text: get

text: up

text: take

text: a

text: deep

text: breath

text: and

text: ask

text: How

text: are

text: we

text: gon

text: get

text: through

text: today

text: What

text: are

text: we

text: gon

text: do

text: she

text: wonders

text: Never

text: never

text: ever

text: would

text: I

text: be

text: prepared

text: for

text: this

text: It

text: 's

text: so

text: vivid

text: in

text: my

text: mind

text: him

text: giving

text: me

text: a

text: hug

text: kissing

text: the

text: boys

text: Peggy

text: Bourland

text: said

text: I

text: still

text: see

text: him

text: walking

text: out

text: the

text: door

text: Sunday

text: on

text: his

text: trip

text: And

text: you

text: know

text: Bye

text: See

text: you

text: when

text: I

text: get

text: back

text: Love

text: you

text: Love

text: you

text: too

text: Asked

text: about

text: the

text: necklace

text: she

text: wears

text: she

text: said

text: This

text: is

text: Ken

text: 's

text: wedding

text: band

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: things

text: they

text: identified

text: him

text: with

text: I

text: wear

text: it

text: around

text: my

text: neck

text: to

text: keep

text: him

text: close

text: to

text: my

text: heart

text: always

question: Where was Bourland when the earthquake hit?

answer: Haiti.

text: Haiti.

question: Where did Bourland's wife go?

answer: took a military plane to Haiti

text: took a military plane to Haiti

question: Did Bourland live in Haiti, or was he visiting?

answer: his two-day mission.

text: his two-day mission.

question: Did Bourland's wife go to Haiti to stand close to where her husband was last seen?

answer: near

text: near

question: What was the name of the Hotel?

answer: Montana

text: Montana

question: How many children does Bourland have?

answer: three

text: three

question: Where was the earthquake?

answer: Haiti

text: Haiti


text:
ALTADENA, California (CNN)  -- When she was laid off in February, Patricia Guerrero was making $70,000 a year. Weeks later, with bills piling up and in need of food for her family, this middle-class mother did something she never thought she would do: She went to a food bank.

Patricia Guerrero was laid off in February. Desperate to make ends meet, she recently went to a food bank.

It was Good Friday, and a woman helping her offered to pay her utility bill.

"It brought tears to my eyes, and I sat there and I cried. I was like, 'This is really where I'm at?' " she told CNN. "I go 'no way;' [but] this is true. This is reality. This is the stuff you see on TV. It was hard. It was very hard."

Guerrero is estranged from her husband and raising her two young children. She's already burned through her savings to help make ends meet, and is drawing unemployment checks. She has had to take extreme measures to pay for her interest-only mortgage of $2,500 a month. In fact, her mother moved in with her to help pay the bills.

Guerrero even applied for food stamps, but was denied.  Watch Guerrero describe going to food bank Â»

"I never used the system. I've been working since I was 15-and-a-half. I needed it now and it turned me down," she said.

Stories like Guerrero's are becoming more common as middle-class Americans feel the pinch of an economic downturn, rising gas prices and a housing crunch, especially in a state like California that has been rocked by foreclosures.

On Wednesday, a key government report on the battered housing market found new home sales fell to their lowest level in 13 years in February, suggesting the nation's housing market is still struggling.

Americans also have been attending in large numbers foreclosure fairs where mortgage lenders, financial planners and counselors offer tips to hard-hit homeowners.

"Our economy is struggling, and families in the 'Inland Empire' and across the nation are hurting," California Rep. Joe Baca said, referring to an area of Southern California in his district.

"Our housing market is in a state of crisis due to rampant abuses of sub-prime lending, and unemployment is rising. At the same time, the cost of necessities such as gas, healthcare, and education continue to rise." Map: Foreclosures state-by-state Â»

Daryl Brock, the executive director of Second Harvest Food Bank in California's San Bernardino and Riverside counties, said his organization supplies food to more than 400 charities in metro Los Angeles, from homeless shelters to soup kitchens to an array of food banks. While the majority of people they help are working poor families, he said they have seen some major changes.

In the last 12 to 18 months, Brock said, the agencies he supplies have begun seeing more middle-class families coming to their doors.

"Our agencies have said there is an increasing number of people coming to them for help," Brock told CNN by phone. "Their impression was that these were not people they normally would have seen before. They seemed to be better dressed. They seemed to have better cars and yet they seemed to be in crisis mode."

He added, "The only thing they can do is give us anecdotal evidence that they think it's because of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown and the housing crisis."  See recent trends of foreclosure filings Â»

A former loan processor, Guerrero knows all about that, although so far she has been able keep her house.

She used her tax refund to help pay many of her bills for the first two months, but now that money's gone.

She says she's now in a middle-class "no-man's-land."

"It just happened so fast. It happened in a matter of -- what -- two months," she said.

She's eager to get back to work and to hold onto her home until the market turns. But for this single mom, every day it becomes harder to hang on.

"It's just depressing," she said. "For me, I just don't want to get out of bed, but I have to. That's my hardest thing. I have to." E-mail to a friend

CNN's Gregg Canes contributed to this report.

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text: February

text: Patricia

text: Guerrero

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text: bills

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text: middle

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text: food

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text: food

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text: It

text: was

text: Good

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text: a

text: woman

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text: offered

text: to

text: pay

text: her

text: utility

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text: It

text: brought

text: tears

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text: eyes

text: and

text: I

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text: there

text: and

text: I

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text: like

text: This

text: is

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text: I

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text: at

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text: I

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text: way

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text: ends

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text: and

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text: unemployment

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text: She

text: has

text: had

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text: take

text: extreme

text: measures

text: to

text: pay

text: for

text: her

text: interest

text: only

text: mortgage

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text: month

text: In

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text: mother

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text: the

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text: for

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text: I

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text: working

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text: was

text: a

text: half

text: I

text: needed

text: it

text: now

text: and

text: it

text: turned

text: me

text: down

text: she

text: said

text: Stories

text: like

text: Guerrero

text: 's

text: are

text: becoming

text: more

text: common

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text: middle

text: class

text: Americans

text: feel

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text: state

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text: On

text: Wednesday

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text: key

text: government

text: report

text: on

text: the

text: battered

text: housing

text: market

text: found

text: new

text: home

text: sales

text: fell

text: to

text: their

text: lowest

text: level

text: in

text: years

text: in

text: February

text: suggesting

text: the

text: nation

text: 's

text: housing

text: market

text: is

text: still

text: struggling

text: Americans

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text: have

text: been

text: attending

text: in

text: large

text: numbers

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text: fairs

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text: mortgage

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text: financial

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text: counselors

text: offer

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text: Inland

text: Empire

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text: nation

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text: Joe

text: Baca

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text: of

text: Southern

text: California

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text: his

text: district

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text: housing

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text: executive

text: director

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text: Second

text: Harvest

text: Food

text: Bank

text: in

text: California

text: 's

text: San

text: Bernardino

text: and

text: Riverside

text: counties

text: said

text: his

text: organization

text: supplies

text: food

text: to

text: more

text: than

text: charities

text: in

text: metro

text: Los

text: Angeles

text: from

text: homeless

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text: majority

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text: changes

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text: last

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text: months

text: Brock

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text: agencies

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text: by

text: phone

text: Their

text: impression

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text: that

text: these

text: were

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text: normally

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text: seen

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text: seemed

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text: only

text: thing

text: they

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text: housing

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text: former

text: loan

text: processor

text: Guerrero

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text: all

text: about

text: that

text: although

text: so

text: far

text: she

text: has

text: been

text: able

text: keep

text: her

text: house

text: She

text: used

text: her

text: tax

text: refund

text: to

text: help

text: pay

text: many

text: of

text: her

text: bills

text: for

text: the

text: first

text: two

text: months

text: but

text: now

text: that

text: money

text: 's

text: gone

text: She

text: says

text: she

text: 's

text: now

text: in

text: a

text: middle

text: class

text: no

text: man's

text: land

text: It

text: just

text: happened

text: so

text: fast

text: It

text: happened

text: in

text: a

text: matter

text: of

text: what

text: two

text: months

text: she

text: said

text: She

text: 's

text: eager

text: to

text: get

text: back

text: to

text: work

text: and

text: to

text: hold

text: onto

text: her

text: home

text: until

text: the

text: market

text: turns

text: But

text: for

text: this

text: single

text: mom

text: every

text: day

text: it

text: becomes

text: harder

text: to

text: hang

text: on

text: It

text: 's

text: just

text: depressing

text: she

text: said

text: For

text: me

text: I

text: just

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: to

text: get

text: out

text: of

text: bed

text: but

text: I

text: have

text: to

text: That

text: 's

text: my

text: hardest

text: thing

text: I

text: have

text: to

text: E

text: mail

text: to

text: a

text: friend

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Gregg

text: Canes

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: what was guerrero's salary before?

answer: $70,000

question: Patricia Guerrero said it happened fast, in a matter of what?

answer: -- two months

text: -- two months

question: Where did Patricia Guerrero go for the first time?

answer: food bank.

text: food bank.

question: what happened to her

answer: she was laid off in February,

text: she was laid off in February,

question: what is rising at food banks?

answer: e middle-class families coming to their doors

text: e middle-class families coming to their doors

question: Patricia Guerrero was making how much?

answer: $70,000

question: what did guerrero do?

answer: She went to a food bank.

text: She went to a food bank.