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top of the hour, i'm don lemon here in the cnn news room. several developing stories, we're going to get you straight to it and begin with tropical storm debby. the storm is headed straight for panama city, florida, but people from the texas coast to the florida panhandle are getting ready. debby's 60 mile per hour winds and torrential rain are causing tidal surges and the fear of tornados. louisiana's under a state of emergency because of what the governor calls an imminent threat of flooding and high winds have shut down the sunshine bridge. alexandria steel, what's the latest here? >> you're right about that.
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we have had report of tornados, tornado warnings are posted and with the land falling tropical system, tornados are not out of the question. so tropical storm debby, the latest coming out at 5:00. national hurricane center did make a few tweaks. with its intensity and path, which is quite interesting. it is a broad circulation. as you heard don said everyone from the florida to the texas coast needs to be mindful of this. also, it's moving very slowly. what does that mean? it won't be a quick hitter. 10 to 15 inches of soaking, flooding rain will be a part of this picture, also, we've seen western florida get dumped on with rain. also, southwestern florida with tornados today. the problem is, the future is to uncertain with this because the track is so uncertain. this is what we call our spaghetti model. there are a loft computer models out there and each has its own con vekture of where the track of debby will go.
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now more of a consensus moving that way, but national hurricane center now at 5:00 changed their official track before just the hours before, had it within a beeline toward here, southwestern louisiana. and now, that is not the case. now, it has it moving north, kind of a beeline toward an ko latch cola and the bay. expectation to make landfall potentially on wednesday as a strong tropical storm with winds of about 70 miles per hour. tropical threat. here's where the tropical storm warnings are and watches, but again, the biggest threat with this, really seems to be the flooding. also of course, the isolated tornados. rip currents, coastal flooding and when you look at the potential rain, take a look at the beeline of this. over ten inches of rain. apalachicola, apalachicola bay. certainly, that will be the biggest troublemaker in the calling card of debby when it's
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all said and done. >> thank you. more bad news for colorado residents. extremely hot, windy conditions have led to yet another dangerous wildfire. the entire town, 11,000 residents, were given mandatory evacuation orders. >> very scary. >> starting with manatoo avenue. >> we need them to leave when we ask them. >> he was asleep, so i pounded on his door to get him out. >> pretty scary. right there. >> orange. a lot of orange. >> fire crews have zero containment of the fire and are not expecting conditions to improve any time soon. we're going to go live to colorado at the bottom of the hour. to egypt and the massive celebrations going on in tahrir scare. this party that you're looking at is in honor of morsi, who was
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just declared egypt first democratically elected president. got about 50% of the vote. morsi is a long time member of the muslim brotherhood. in his first televised address, he paid tribute to the mar tars who led last year's revolution. >> to all sectors of the people, to my people, my tribe. i say to them, to this moe men tus day, that today with your election and with your after the restoring of god, that i am the present full eegyptians, whoeve they are, inside or abroad. >> christiane amanpour is our chief global correspondent, she
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joins us live just above tahrir square. this is egypt's first democratic election. the army is still holding the reigns of power, so what difference will this election make for the country? >> reporter: well, it does in fact make a huge difference and all you have to do is look over this balcony. i was down there a lot today to see what a difference it does make. it is the first democratic, free presidential election in egypt's thousands of years of history. it is a big deal for people here. particularly as you mentioned, that the army still is in effective control and has actually executed a massive power grab in the last week or so where it dissolved parliament, basically put in it own interim constitution. this all has to be worked out. what will the president be able to do? the constitution say once they actually write one and what kind of powers will the
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democratically elected president have? but for the moment, the people of egypt are really very, very happy. we've spoken to so many of them who have said this is the first time we've been able to cast a vote that actually mattered. the first time we've been able to choose our president. he did only receive about half the vote. the other half of the people voted for the old guard, who was hosni mubarak's last prime minister. he is very aware of it and did pay tribute to all egyptians, christia christians, women, all sectors of society and said this he was going to be a president for all egyptians. >> i want to ask you more on the substance of what's going on, what are we hearing now? are those fire works or people chuting guns into the air in celebration? r. >> reporter: no, no guns. let's be very clear about that. these are fireworks. there seems to be an endless
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supply of sort of smallish fireworks, none the less, sky keeps get lit up from the crowd that's bee gathering ever since the results were made offici there was a crowd before, it's become really big since then. you do mention guns because i know people were afraid there might be some violence depending on which way the election results went and as you know, of course, both sides were claiming victory for r a last week. it does actually turn out though that morsi, who did immediately claim victory after last sunday's election was completed, it does turn out that almost exactly to the numbers, what he predicted is being born out today. the percentage of his win. so lot of back and forth is been going on between the candidates, between the officials and the whole election commission. to get to today's final announcement. but by and large, people are happy. even those who are not voted for the muslim brotherhood
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candidate, which is the islamist party, and this makes really egypt the first of these arab uprising, the first of these revolutionary countries to have an islamist head of state. that is a very big deal and it does pose a huge number of questions as to which direction this country is going and there many, many people, women are concerned, business people are concerned, ordinary egyptians are ncerned about whether an islam i islamist president will have the authority or the desire to restrict freedoms and to restrict life here even though he says he wants a democratic, constitutional and modern egypt. don? >> christiane amanpour, great reporting as usual. we're going to talk more about the substance of this first democratic election, join us, 8:00 p.m. eastern for n's special coverage, egypt's new
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president and the road ahead for the new democracy. 8:00 eastern, 5:00 pacific. alex trebek is in the hospital tonight. we'll tell you why. and it's one of the most anticipated health care decisions in years. could it be political disaster for the president or help?
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alex tremendous baek beck is recovering from a mild heart attack. he checked into the hospital yesterday and he stayed there today for some tests. good news, the good news here is he should make a full recovery and return to the show when it begins taping its 29th season next month. jeopardy won the best game show emmy last night. let's get right to it. we have to hold that up because will was talking. they're here for our weekly discussion slash food fight. going to talk about a couple of thinkings that are very serious. supreme court decision on health care, but i want to start with
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fast and furious. the botched atf gun operation that led to the death of a border agent in 2010. a house committee voted along party lines to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress. a full house is set to vote this week. we're going to start with you. how you guys doing? everybody all right? >> good, thank you. >> we're great. happy summer. >> i know you were traveling yesterday. you were tweeting me. just hanging out in new york. >> that's rig. >> is this debate, will, a problem of perception or something really being hidden here or won't we know unless all of these documents are turned over? >> well, something is being hidden. i think the the question is what. executive privilege has been invoked. that means there's something the executive office doesn't want going out to the public. the question is, what is that, don? there are some on the right who
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have alleged some kind of conspiracy, suggest this is a public policy employ to put the second amendment in the spotlight. we'll never know unless we see the documents. but we know something is out there that the obama administration does not want the public to see. could be as simple as incompetence. a program that was no good in bringing up before a house inquiry, but we don't know. >> or could it be, we don't know what it is, something that should not be made? that the public should not be made aware of? >> exactly. i mean, you know, i think back of that scene in a few good men, you know, when jack nicholson's character is on the stand and tom cruz, i want to truth, you can't handle the truth. i really believe in that. there are just some things we don't need to know, or don't need the outside world to know.
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this isn't something created by eric holder and president obama. this has been going on longer than that. it's my understanding, this is the third sort of incarnation of a fast and furious sort of operation. >> what i meant by that was if there was some sort of security securities, you know, that we, the public didn't need to know about. >> absolutely. >> but this administration did run on transparency, lz, and to hear the president years ago talk about executive privilege and that the bush administration was hiding and then have him invoke executive privilege, it doesn't really bode well. >> this is the first time he's done so in his presidency. president bush did the same thing six times. president clinton did it four times. by comparison, i would think he has been the most transparent president. so i'm not necessarily seeing this as an example of him not keeping his word.
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there might be something in there, seeing how long this program has been in place, that we don't need out that could affect our relationship with mexico. >> move on to the next topic, but why do you say it's irreleva irrelevant? >> i think it's a totally legit questions. are there security issues that the obama administration is trying to keep that from coming t? if that's the case and have to go through all these documents and categorize them and say why this is a threat to security? the burden is on them. >> here's the thing. it's terrible and i saw the terry's interview, the parents on fox news. it's heart wrenching for that family. of course they want answers, but to say from both sides that this isn't a political issue, i think it's being, disingenuous. >> it's obviously being
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politici politicized. everything that comes from the gop is going to be politicized. it's unfortunate because i believe national security, it should be the primary issue, but right now, it isn't. >> politics is definitely a part of this, but just because you say something is politicized doesn't mean it's frivolous. politics is the check on this process. in the end, whether or not something was done wrong here, politics will be the check. the hammer on those who did or did not do something wrong. >> and depending on what's in those documents and what comes out either side, both sides stand to look badly. one if it's nothing in there and the republicans, it's going to look like a fishing expedition and if there is something in there, of course the white house and democrats are going to look back. we can't get to health care because you guys just sort of talk and talk. >> will talks too much. >> finding limits on the federal government's power. no big deal. >> i'm being told by the boss in my ear, health care overturned or not next week.
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will first. >> limiting the commerce clause, it's a big deal. >> yes or no. >> absolutely. >> lz. >> yes, definitely. unfortunately, but definitely. >> thank you, guys. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. moving on now, one atlanta jail had a problem with prisoners escaping from their cells, so the jail fixed the problem and is now offering a reward to any inmate who can beat the new locks. sounds odd, right? we're going to explain. [ male announcer ] not everything powerful has to guzzle fuel. the 2012 e-class bluetec from mercedes-benz. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. i took my son fishing every year. we had a great spot, not easy to find, but worth it.
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listen to this. dear prison, figure out how to get out of your cell and get yourselves some free food and maybe some other things. you heard that right. the big whigs at the fulton county jail in atlanta have a new concept for their cons. if you can pop the lock of your jail cell and you can get up to 20 bucks worth of free stuff from the commissary. forgive me for asking this obvious, why are they offering incentiv incentives? are they working with the lock company? you need to fix this problem? >> you're right. it's a safety issue for the prison. some of the guards in the '90s
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got beat up. this is an epidemic there at the fulton county jail. >> when i watch it, it's more broad. i don't want to make it seem like it's an atlanta or georgia problem. this happens at many other jails and prisons around the country. they put the soap in there, the tissue. >> pick that lock. just imagine that you were living near your county jail and you didn't know this was going on. this is the problem that the fulton county residents do know. it would cost $1600 to put in about 1300 of these los. they're testing them out on nine of the cells and they're asking the worst lock popping offenders to get through these. offering $20, our local affiliate caught up with two of the inmates who says this is an every day thing. >> you know how to beat the locks, get out of your cell? >> yeah. >> how often does this happen? >> every day. >> we got off the phone a little
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whil aoithhe the old prison director who said even back in the '90s. this is going back for two decades. >> whewe talked about this story, i wondered around the country, how big a deal it was and if someone has gotten out because it poses a risk to the public. they're going all out here to prove their point and why? is it something they're so fed up with they figure let's get this behind us? >> we don't want to cause panic and hysteria in the united states. they're going down. in 2008, the last stats available from the bureau of justice said about less than 1% of those incarcerated do ge out. it's not just about the outside of thepopulation, the jail. it's also about the safety of the guards, don. >> the guards, people who are not necessarily in jail work in jails and prisons and so we want to keep them safe as well as the general public. thank you. moving on now, a new
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the winner of thefirs democratic election. he campaigned on a pledge to promote islamic wealth, but in his rst address to the nation, morsi called for national unity and vowed to respect the rights of women. much of the gulf coast is on alert for tropical storm debby. d debby seems headed toward panama city beach, florida, drenching some places up to 15 inches. these are live pictures from bay news 9. looks pretty rainy. no one seems to be on the beach. tornado triggered by the storm has already killed a woman in florida. louisiana is under a state of emergency. coastal areas from the flooz panhandle are on alert. in colorado, conditions are worsening for firefighters. the latest to erupt, the waldo can don fire near colorado
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springs. flames forced 11,000 people from their homes last night. we'll follow up on that for you. some people fear the election of egypt's new president will mean a shift in foreign policy with the u.s. president mohamed morsi says he will preserve all national and international agreements. he is even moving away from the muslim brotherhood to in his words, represent all egyptians. want to talk now with congressman david drier. he joins me from new york. thank you, sir, for joining us this evening. >> good to be with you. >> you were in egypt to serve as an official observer for the election process and now that we know the outcome here, give me your impressions of this new presidency. >> first, this is a great day for the cause of democracy. if you go back a year and a half ago and realize that the guy who was president for three deck katds, hosni mubarak, had been elected bay 90% margin. if you said then that 18 months
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later for the first time in 7,000 years, the people of egypt would be able to cast a vote that would count in determining the future of their country in elect i electing a new president, one would have said you're crazy. so tremendous strides have been made in the last year and a half. now, that doesn't diminish the fact that we have a long way to go. there still needs to be a constitution put into place, so the assembly needs to come together and fashion that constitution. they also need to by virtue of the fact they disinvolved the parliament, need to hold elections. democracy is a work in progress. it still is for us and the egyptians have a ways to go. their real challenge now is to get the economy growing. >> congressman -- >> the thing that needs to be done is is they need to grow the economy. >> and that is something that's going to have to happen over time, but isn't it more imminent and something they need to do quicker than that geta is handle on the army becau the
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army is going to meddle in this process if they don't get et under control. >> obviously, i should tell you that still, even through this difficult time, the supreme council of the armed forces continues to hold a lot of respect. people are concerned about security. having said that, i don't believe they should be in control of the country and from the time that i've spent with the military leadership, they don't want the responsibility of governing the country. i think they want to focus on their priority, security and national defense and the idea of maintain i maintaining the camp david peace accords, which i'm very happy that dr. morsi has ibd indicated he's very committed to arong with the kind of secular concerns that are out there. that being recognizing human rights including women's rights. the christians and other religious minorities that need to be represented. so i think there's an opportunity here for a good balance between the supreme
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council of the armed forces and the government morsi is going to lead. >> the whole military and army question everyone has been talking about that. you said, economy, it's the same as here in the united states. they need to get their economy. and all over the world. >> you're right. since february 11th of last year when mubarak left office, there have been 2 million jobs lost and so one of the things i have done, i've joined with my democratic colleague. we've introduced a resolution calling for a free trade agreement so that we can get into this market. this is the largest arab nation with 85 plus million people. we need to strenten commercial ties. we have an aid package in excess of a billion dollars. i think it's very important as they move on their road to democracy for us to strengthen ties there. i would like to see them become more commercial. see the benefits of being able
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to sell u.s. manufactured products into egypt and i think they should have event greater access to our market as well. >> you believe democracy is is the real goal there. >> it's a positive move. reagan and kennedy would be happy that people are finally playing a role. that is the wave of the future. whatever challenges we face, t the wave of the future. >> thank you, sir. appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me. parental justice. a father kills his 4-year-old daughter's molester and a couple are accused of killing their daughter's pimp. many say they'd do the same thing, but is it justified? we'll talk about it. it's getting away ! where is it ? it's gone. we'll find it. any day can be an adventure. that's why we got a subaru.
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imagine this, losing your daughter to a life of prostitution. you reach out to police, do everything you can, but when that doesn't work, what would you do? well, according to san francisco prosecutors, forand killing t gi mp.dasin. >> reporter: she was a 17-year-old run away. leaving the bay area behind for los angeles and lured into a life of prostitution. her parents tried to rescue her, but according to prosecutors, when those efforts failed, they devised another plan. to kill her alleged pimp. calvin sneed. they were in jail under $2 million bond, charged with his murder. >> what are friends are saying of this case is basically they became the judge, the jury and the executioners all in one.
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>>. >> reporter: as a father, george gaston says he understands how frustrated the parents must have felt. >> the problem is we cannot run the country. we cannot run our society based on how emotional a parent might get. >> so how far should pashts go to protect their child and is what these california parents allegedly did really a surprise? this comes just days after a father in rule texas beat a man to death after he discovered the man molesting his young daughter. a grand jury chose not to indict him. i talked to holly hughes and alex manning. >> i get it, but let's be clear. these two situations are very, very different. the the little girl was currently being molested, he heard her screaming. he pulls that man off and he reacts in a way to get him to
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stop. he beats him. that's inrupting a crime, saving your child's life. big difference when you go out hunting for somebody. >> the kcalifornia couple's lawyer spoke out. >> they were faced with every parent's nightmare and try ied their best to protect their daughter and here they are, end up getting arrested. very overwhelming. >> every case is different, but can you really blame these paren parents? they say they went to police and got in results. >> myself and my partner investigator greg franklin ran into the same situation. we would walk in the office, parents were at our doorsteps. why did you go home? why did you go to lunch? why did you sleep? you've just got to keep going after these people. go up the chain of command. don't take the law into your own hands. >> are there laws in place to protect parents in these scenarios?
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>> there really aren't. they're subject to the same laws as everybody else. they went out and committed a crime. right now, these are just charges. they're allegations. these parents haven't been convicted of anything and while we all get that get reaction, we all understand why they did it, wanted to do it if they're guilty of it, but here's the thing. god forbid an innocent person be in the way when they're out there firing a gun. god forbid they get the wrong guy. >> end up going to jail for a long time. there's a line between jinlg lanty justice and citizen justice starting to blur out? >> absolutely and i think it's the sign of the times. did your spot on heroin. it's the sign of the times. now, this girl out in california could lose her two parents to jail. >> it should have been the end of his career, but find out how one major league player.
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flames forced 11,000 people from their homes last night and are threatening more neighborhoods today and with temperatures hovering near 100 degrees. conditions are only expected to get worse. patrick nelson from our affiliate where you saw that video in colorado springs. what are you hearing? just a status update. >> reporter: we just got done with a press conference and it has been an exhausting couple of days for folks living here in colorado springs, about an hour south of denver. you can see what's happened to their mountain backdrop. about 11,000 people have been ev evacuated and the fire continues to burn out of control at this hour. zero percent containment. what we're hearing from fire crews today is simply that they don't plan on getting any hope for containment, however, they are using point protection and simply what that means is that they're trying to protect any
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the stars finally aligned and the biggest star of all carried the miami heat to a championship, plus, the best baseball pitcher you've never heard of has a degree in english lit. jon wertheim, there is an issue with lebron james on the cover. thanks for coming back. lebron finally did it. i was there. i saw it in person. will this silence the lebron haters finally? >> oh, if you're really inclined to hate, michael jordan's won six of these. kobe's won five. as the cliche goes, he has silenced the critics. couple of weeks ago, we were talking about miami, one win from elimination. they beat the celtics.
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they were great in the finals in the game you went to. sealed it. good performance by lebron james. even the haters can't hate that. >> you said it. listen, i wasn't on any side, but since i was in rome, i was with the heat and lebron has had so much hate. hate is going to hate. right? can the heat repeat though? they're still e loaded with the big three. >> yeah, now that they've won, provenhat this dysfunction is actually fairly normal, they've become a very attractive destination for players. if you're a free agent, you're willing to take a salary cut, steve nash is a name that's been thrown out there. they may be better than ever next year. let's talk about the mets pitcher. he pitched two straight one hitters, right? throws a knuckle ball, but live hasn't always been like this for
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dickey. >> this is baseball's jeremy lin. he was thinking about retiring and deep into his 30s, picks up the knuckle ball. funky pitch, doesn't travel fast and this year, he has mastered it. 37 years old and suddenly, he's the the best pitcher in baseball. he's 11-1. last two games have been one hitters. just a great story. >> you wrote this this week, he is unapologetically thoughtful. literary and literate. his locker doubles as a library. he's currently pondering writing a book of short stories. all that and pitching better than anyone else. >> he was thinking about writing as a second career not that long ago. just wrote a r very, very good book. he's a different kind of guy. mostly because of his failure, so there's almost this literary art to his story, the fact that at age 37, he's finally having success.
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he's not like your traditional athlete. this bookworm athlete. a knuckle ball is not a reliable pitch, but 11-1. it's not even july. this has been a great story in baseball. >> we'll talk wimbledon next. thank you. appreciate it. the supreme court could rule this week on president obama's health care plan. what does the health care law mean to you? new venus & olay. olay moisture bars help lock in moisture... while five blades get venus close. revealing smooth and goddess skin begins. only from venus & olay. so how much do we owe you? that'll be $973.42. ya know, your rates and fees aren't exactly competitive. who do you think i am, quicken loans? [ spokesman ] when you refinance your mortgage with quicken loans, you'll find that our rates and fees are extremely competitive. because the last thing you want is to spend too much on your mortgage.
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a landmark supreme court decision looms on president obama's health care overhaul. the ruling could affect the economy and help decide the presidency. elizabeth cohen breaks down some key parts o f the bill. >> what obama came up with is a rule that says everyone has to have insurance and you can get it through your employer, through the private market, in a variety of ways, but everyone has to have insurance. when people don't have insurance, they're really in a terrible pickle l when they get sick. imagine you don't have insurance and get hit by a car or get cancer, how are you going to pay for that? if you don't have insurance and get hit by a car, the rest of us are paying. it comes out of our tax money,
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our snurns premiums. we all end up taking care of the sured. the health care plan was passed two years ago and it's implemented in a series of stages. some things happen quickly and other parts don't happen for a couple of years. health care reform has already made it illegal for insurance companies to say noo a child with a preexisting condition. before health care reform, insurance companies would often tell children with preexisting conditions, no, sorry, we don't want to insure you because it's expensive. insurance companies have already been told no more lifetime limits on benefits. what used so happen is that surance companies would say you have $5 million of benefits and that's it. when you hit that, you can't have anymore care. health care reform laws said you can't do that anymore. there are no more lifetime limits. now, most people never meet this cap, but if you've got a serious illness, you can m