but then, the supreme court killed section five of the voting rights act in shelby v. holder and isbel made his move. >> he said we're going to redirt the city. >> the justice department can no longer tell us what to do. >> so, this summer, isbill arguing some don't care about city wide issues, moved to put his own plan on the ballot. >> the mayor's quite aware of what this does, but he just seems to not care. >> on tuesday, the folks of pasadena went to vote on proposition one and the majority won by a margin of 87 votes. now that section five is dead, there are thousands of potential pasadenas all across the south. we should note that patricia gonzalez who we spoke to in that report is a rez dment that community, also activist. joining me now, julie fernandez. a senior policy analyst at the open society foundations. you used to work at a desk, getting applications from places that wanted to do changes like this. how common or anomalous is the story of pas dadena? >> well, i think change to the method of election are actually the second most common type of voting chan

shelby's comments are important because democrats would need to pick up only five republicans vote to clear procedural hurdles and bring yellen's nomination to a full senate vote. yellen's nomination needs only a simple majority. joining us this morning from washington is eamon afterers. this is getting back to some tense times in the senate when it comes to these nominations. we thought we had averted these issues. >> mccain threatening to pu put a whole here on janet yellen in the united states. they wanted to see more of these documents related to ben fwazzy. they wanted to see the survivors of benghazi testify on capitol hill. they would like more information as to what exactly happened there. they don't have any particular animous towards janet yellen herself. this is just the leverage they have to get this done. it's been a very bad week for for obama admin appointees. yesterday, the senate rejected mel watt, the housing agency nominee for the obama administration. it's a very rare thing for a sitting congressman to be rejected. but they did that yesterday in the senate. it's a

>> i think i've taken shelby like a big shelf. >> a shelf. a wooded shelf. >> the ground war for speedy delivery as the battle for your holiday dollar heats up. >> hey. >> janet shamlin, nbc news, new york. >> wow. pretty cool stuff there. pretty interesting technology and only -- you said five bucks? >> yeah. but i tell you, what's old is new again. i'm old enough to remember cosmo.com back in the late '90s, early 2000s this model, local delivery for -- >> you played with fluze, the whoopi goldberg currency. >> the idea wasn't terrible. the chief technology of that founded max delivery.com that's still running in new york. what's interesting is that this time you got a big company like ebay, trying to make this take off. they bought a company, european couple called shuttle that does this. trying to expand as many as two dozen cities within a few months. the model could be different this time because local information is so precious so maybe there's more in it for them than trying to make money on the delivery. >> one more nail in the coffin

. >> senator shelby, thank you. welcome, governor. would you describe the portfolio of the federal reserve as unprecedented, the size of it today? >> yes, senator. >> have you -- you're an economist and you've been on the fed and you also are the chairman of the economic advi advisers to president clinton. have you looking back in recent history, the last 30, 40 years, have you noticed any portfolio of the fed approaching what it is today? >> not at the federal reserve. >> that's what i mean. >> but other central banks. >> i'm asking about the federal reserve of the united states of america. >> no, i have not, senator. >> okay. would you describe what you're doing here by -- you call it quantitative easing, a term you make up, i guess, we all make up terms, but is that a stimulus for the economy, tool? you used the term "monetary tool", is that what you would call it to help augment, stimulate the economy? >> it is a tool that is intended to push down longer term interest rates. >> yes, ma'am. i understand that. >> and to stimulate de

we reached the superintendent of shelby county schools right next door. the superintendent told us that he served on a board with her. of the youth united with senior citizens group. and she was a helpful, responsible member of the board. he doesn't know her very well. but, joy, there is a moment there where i see her make what is the fateful decision. when the officer tells her she is behind the car. turn around. face your car. that's when she believes. i think what we are seeing. she believes she is going to get handcuffed. arrested. take any way from her children. with this mother. one thing she cannot allow is being taken away from her children. >> she panicked. earlier on in the encounter. she was refusing to get out of the car. kids were terrified. screaming. crying. didn't want to get out of the car. leave them there afraid with not knowing what was going on. when she realized. i am about to get arrested. she panicked. her op-ed points to the good work, she loves her children. no doubt about it. obviously a mother who was terrified. look, i got to

among the ones who have done it successfully on a statewide level, richard shelby elected as a democrat in 1978, joined the republicans in 1994 and has been re-elected three times. phil gramm from texas elected as a democratic congress, switched to the gop, served as republican this-in the house and eventually the u.s. senate. ben nighthorse campbell switched in '95. served for ten more years. on the state level, alabama governor fob james served as a democrat from '79 to '83 then won a turn as a republican back in the '90s. david beasley served in the south carolina statehouse as a democrat but was elected governor as a republican. sonny purdue, served eight years in the georgia senate as a democrat, then switched parties and became governor in 2002. nathan deal switched to the gop in '95 and became georgia governor in 2010. tougher trick to go from republican to democrat, most of those with a southern change that we saw over the last generation. joining me now, your new democratic candidate for governor of florida, charlie crist. governor, good morning to you. >> good morning, chuck.

to some of the problems other fed chairman and other fed nominees have had, for example, when rich shelby was the chairman on the ranking committee, that had to do with proilg unsatisfactory answers. at this point, i just don't see anything getting in the way of her confirmation. >> ip, did you see that mckenzie study? >> which mckennedy study? >> it said qe did nothing for the stock markets, but saved governments around the world $1.3 trillion in funding costs. >> i didn't see that, but i'm looking at the stock market 20% this year and -- >> check it out. it's a mckenzie study that says -- you know, mckenzie, i don't know if i believe it, but they somehow determined that it had nothing to do with the rise. but the funding costs, it was something like $1.3 trillion saved global government. .after reading that, i was thinking why not make it permanent? if you can get governments to run $1.3 trillion cheaper, then hey, let the good times roll. but -- >> swroe, this is a great question. i think actually they're going to get this question because a lot of people in the markets are asking this

a letter came into the white house like this from shelby bennett, she wrote, dear mr. president, thanks for moving thanksgiving up. while you are at it, would you move sundays to wednesdays, turn mondays into christmas. reserve friday and saturdays as days for fishing trips trips down the potomac. there was simply general confusion telegrams from a restaurant in alliance, ohio asked when should we serve our thanksgiving turkey. some states, some fdr friendly states chose to act knowledge the date set by president roosevelt while others didn't. a nation with two thanksgivings just didn't work. in 1941, two years later, the holiday was changed for good. congress officially declared the fourth thursday in november a national holiday, thanksgiving. roosevelt admitted his experiment had failed. and that was that. thanksgiving and not franksgiving. now more than 70 years later, we are once again grappling with the idea of a holiday changing on us. this is what thanksgiving looked like for many americans this yearle. not just shoppers, but also all of the people who work in t