have any fans. those guys are vandals, says this downtown office worker. we should have harsher laws and better education, says another. we recently followed a group of pixadors on the prowl. after 40 minutes of walking they find what they want. a well-lit underpass where they work will get a lot of attention. before they can finish, a patrol car pulls up. most of them rush into traffic and get away. one woman is caught. but they tell us they went back later that same night and finished the job. shasta darlington, cnn, sau palo. i'm suzanne malveaux, this hour on "cnn newsroom" we're focusing on the rising costs of health care, politics and gun violence in the united states. i want to get right to it now. forecasters warn florida's northwest coast could see

another 8 inches of rain today. tropical storm debby is forcing more evacuations, rescues and road closures. just last hour, officials in pasco county, florida, ordered the evacuation of 2,000 homes because of a fast rising river. 38 people were rescued from their homes overnight. >> i was kind of panicking because the water came up over the wall where i live. if you're looking to sell your home, you may get a little more for it than just a few months ago. home prices, they have now risen for the first time in seven months. they were up about 1.3%. some cities did better than others. phoenix prices have gone up more than 8%. still, prices are down 34% compared to just six years ago. now, to chicago, where a 13-year-old boy died in his mother's arms after being fatally shot at a party. more deadly violence in the city endures every single day. we've been following this story. others are following it, too.

"the new york times" is reporting homicides in chicago are up 38% from a year ago. the paper also reports 240 people, that's right, have been killed in the city so far this year. most of them shot. those are some of the numbers behind what is going on in chicago. want to meet some of these families. their lives being destroyed by deadly gang violence. >> reporter: devonte's family wants you to take a good look at something you may need to brace yourself for. devonte's body in an open casket. this, they say, is what violence an the streets of chicago really looks like. the 20-year-old had recently returned to chicago from college in georgia. he was gunned down in what police are calling a gang shooting. >> he's a handsome young man, too. you know, very handsome young man. and he got killed. you know, nonsense. >> reporter: devonte's funeral was friday a few hours before the start of another violent weekend in chicago.

>> i'm a gang banger. i ain't going to lie. i'm going to keep it real with you. >> reporter: cyrus and maurice are both 16. both are associated with a gang and say they wouldn't be surprised if they were shot today. >> just walking down the street. you never know. it could be your time to go. >> right. you always got to look behind, turning your back. >> ain't got no name. >> they might want to kill me, they end up killing you, you and you and not kill me. >> reporter: the kids are matter of fact about the things they do and what they've seen. >> i've seen people get shot, killed, robbed, stabbed. i've done some of that, all that. you just face it. >> reporter: according to chicago police, the murder rate here is up 35% compared to last year. people living here say the gangs have taken over. some say they'd like to see the national guard come in. >> we need help. you know, you need help. that's all i -- that's the only way i can put it. >> reporter: maurice and cyrus say there are no jobs and people

have no idea how hard it is to survive. >> have they ever had to wear the same clothes a week straight in your life, wash area underwear out in the sink and hang it up and hope your school clothes will be ready or not knowing when your next meal's going to come. >> reporter: while they'd like to finish high school and get a good job, the dropout rate in chicago schools is a staggering 40% and maurice and cilis say they know it's very possible they'll end up in prison or in a casket like devonte flanoy. ted rowlands, cnn, chicago. what the young people face on the streets of chicago, every day, it is simply heartbreaking. people are afraid to leave their homes. to enjoy the summer. what is the city actually doing to handle this violence, to get a handle on any of this stuff? joining us, pat camden, spokesman for the fraternal order of police. we also have felicia davis, deputy chief of staff for the mayor, rahm emanuel. i want to start off with pat camden, first, who joins us from

chicago by phone. pat, police union leaders have criticized the mayor, saying he's got to be hiring more officers, not fewer. you've been quoted in "the new york times" saying it's penny-wise and dollar foolish. what do police need to do? what kind of help do they need to get a handle on this if anything can be done? >> suzanne, it's not only the manpower issue. it becomes a question of community involvement and, you know, you heard the young man saying, yeah, i'm a gang banger and i don't expect to live beyond this. we have to change that attitude. the city's working toward it. they're trying to put youngsters, young men to work in a productive environment. from the police end, you know, if we could hire 2,000 more policemen tomorrow, it would be wonderful. but obviously that's not going to happen. it's just going to take a more concerted effort on the part of the city to start hiring officers so that we can start to build up forces, to be, you

know, to contend with this gang violence. >> and pat, one of the things caught our eye that you said is that maybe the city's been too successful in getting rid of gang leaders. explain what you mean by that. >> well, i don't know if too successful would be the words. you know, over the past seven or eight years, we've been very successful in getting gang leaders out of the picture and into the penitentiary. unfortunately, when that happens, it's kind of a domino effect. now we have youngsters taking over gangs where there used to be discipline. now there is none, so now we have gangs going block to block, fighting for turf. no respect for life, no respect for elders, no respect for anything. and, you know, that's wherein this -- a 13-year-old gets killed sitting on his porch. he's not involved in the gang but the people shooting at him are. >> you've also explained new strategies police are using. you're actually going to neighborhoods and doing kind of audits of gangs, creating a

database of gang affiliations. how does that help? >> well, it gives the officers the knowledge of who in the community is, in fact, involved in a gang. that's been out there for a while. it's something that's being used, but the difficulty becomes the officers that we have are busy answering 911 calls. the city is in the process of changing response to those 911 calls. some of the calls we have absolutely no business responding to. and in the past, we always have. so we're looking to free up manpower. that's where, you know, the marijuana, 15 grams and under, becomes a ticket. so that manpower doesn't get tied up. again, no matter how we look at it, manpower becomes an issue. >> pat, i want to play a little bit of sound here. this is what the major talked about speaking out about the violence last month, calling for folks to essentially come together in the community. i want you to listen to this. >> i take responsibility and i'm accountable. everybody has to be strengthened to deal with the violence that's

there. there are forces that are bigger than just the police department or a school or a principal or pastor, alone. i do believe this. combined and coordinated, our forces are stronger than gangs. >> so he says he's accountable. what does the mayor need to do? does the mayor need to do more to address the situation and the bloodshed that's happening in your community? >> well, the mayor's accountable. he's absolutely right. but the community is also accountable. you know, we -- we need people to start standing up and defending what is theirs. that's the streets of chicago. we need leaders, not only the mayor, but leaders within the community to step up beyond rhetoric, to step in and get involved with these young men that are creating this havoc that's wreaking parts of the city. >> pat camden, fraternal order of police. thank you very much. we want to bring in felicia davis, deputy chief of staff for

rahm emanuel and former police officer. felicia, first of all, he says more needs to be done. pat says more officers need to be on the streets and leaders need to be held accountable there. you're one of those leaders. what are you doing? >> i think that pat and i agree that community engagement really is extremely important here. we need to make sure that the community is rejecting violence. you know, our young people are so precodominantly affected by e gun violence in chicago. the two young men in the piece earlier echo that. we need this community to stand up, reject violence and also to reject this code of silence so we can work together to eliminate the violence happening in our communities. >> let's get specific here, because i understand that before, you have stated the mayor's office has stated you have these specialize the gang units and they were dismantled because they really weren't getting the job done. is there anything that has replaced them so you can deal with the gang problem? >> so there are a couple of

things that have been working. chicago has a gang reduction strategy, or violence reduction strategy. so you talked a little bit about the gang audits that are going on. we have over 600 different gang factions. the social analysis to build the network, these young men frequently hang with each other, hanging around with each other. the analysis helps prevent next crimes so that when we know that one particular faction is involved and we can predetermine an area where a likely retaliation is to be, is to occur and the superintendent and the chicago police department deploy resources there. so that's one way. another way is to really work, really block by block, we have a wraparound strategy where when there is a takedown and captain camden talked about this. take violent street criminals dealing drugs and damaging our communities off the street, we work with the communities. we give them an influx of city services, we bring in ources

to make sure that they are strengthened. the reality is they own those blocks. we want them to take the leadership charge and be accountable for what happens in their communities and work in partnership with the city and police department. >> to you think the mayor is getting a bum rap here? do you think this is out of his control? >> you know, the mayor said he's accountable each and every day. there's no more important issue in the city than reducing violence in chicago and the mayor is at the forefront of this. he talks about it every day. there's a morning call every day to discuss it. and to also talk about strategies and where we're going. so that's the bottom line. but there are a lot of efforts that are being undertaken right now. i think those things aren't -- crime is down overall in chicago 10%. i know that's comfort -- as a parent, mother, former police officer, any time a young person is harmed on the streets of chicago, it really tears at the fiber of us all, at the fiber of our community and fiber of our city. the mayor has said if a kid is shot in inglewood, a south side

community, that kid, that shooting, that incident hurts all of us throughout the city. there are a lot of things being done. today, for example, at inglewood in one of our high schools 200 young people started work yesterday. we have over 200,000 young people engaged in summer programs. there are a lot of activities and programs put in place to address specifically where young people are involved. >> felecia davis, thank you so much for swrojoining us, clearl hope chicago can get a handle on this problem. it is just heartbreaking every day to see the number of people who are impacted, a number of young innocent people who are killed on the streets of chicago. thank you very much. we appreciate your perspective. here's what we're working on for this hour -- >> florida gets drenched and it keeps on coming. tropical storm debby could dump another foot of rain on florida's gulf coast. plus, searching for survivors after a deadly mall collapse in canada. rescuers continue digging through the rubble. risking their own lives. you can't let them die. what if it were your son or your daughter or your wife?

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evacuations just an hour ago. yesterday rescuers plucked dozens of people from their flooded homes. the storm killed one person, dumped two feet of rain in some areas. debby is far from finished. the center of it is 85 miles west of the state. john zarrella is joining us from soggy downtown tampa. chad myers from the cnn weather center. john, let's start with you. it looks like you're standing in a lake almost. you know, what is -- >> reporter: it does, doesn't it? yeah, it's not a lake. this is bay shore boulevard. it's a main thoroughfare in downtown tampa. it has been shut down for a couple of days now. as chad will tell you, this is not rain water flooding. this is tidal flooding. you're looking out there at the bay, at tampa bay, as it is overwashing the seawall there. and what you've got is this onshore flow that has been constantly pounding the shoreline, bringing with it all of this water. now, what's interesting,

suzanne, and i'm sure you'll be down here in august, when the republican convention is in town, just down there about 400 yards from me is where the convention is going to be held. and, of course, now this is low tide. in about four or five hours all of what you're seeing is going to be under water again. but, you know, the local officials have told us they've taken the convention into consideration. if they had this kind of event, they'd be able to deal with it. but one of the worries, of course, is the end of august, height of hurricane season, you don't want to see one of these interfere with the republican convention. but it's always a possibility. it is florida. and that will be the height of hurricane season. suzanne? >> yeah, that would make it pretty difficult for those folks attending. thank you very much, john. i want to go to chad and talk a little bit more about the rain. how much rain is expected to get today. >> probably could still another 4 to 6 inches in some spots. the problem is we've had 20 inches in other spots last night. i'll get to that in a second.

i want you to notice that we didn't have an eye for a very long time. we have what i consider to be the center of circulation. that could mean this thing is trying to regenerate a little more power. we're down to 40 miles per hour. maybe we could bump this up before it makes landfall. we don't need more power with this. it's in very warm water. not expected until thursday mhere a long tim. an awful lot more rainfall to come. this is the rainfall that came down last night. last night some spots got 5 inches of rain per hour for three hours straight. that would be south of tallahassee right through here. here's lake city. we'll have pictures there. then this rain moved on up even into the shore area there of georgia. it was a disaster last night. the flooding, flooding still going on. still trying to get better pictures because the numbers are just, are devastating. you can't even think, 20.96 inches of rain in 24 hours. something else that happened last night on my watch, we were tweeting all about this, is

richmond, virginia, had a wind event. i lived in that beautiful town. there are some very big, old trees. when the winds blow, those old trees come down. this happened last night. 1 180,000 people without power for a while. that number is down to 49,000. that's an awful lot of power, awful lot of tree stumps to get off cars and homes. so far, no one injured from that. >> my brother lives there with his family. i'll have to give him a call and see how they're doing. >> love that town. rescue crews are working frantically to save anybody that might be trapped under the rubble of a collapsed mall in canada. workers are going to use a crane and heavy equipment to dismantle the outside portion of the mall. yesterday when officials announced they were stopping the rescue, people in the community spoke out. >> we come from a mining town where mine rescue never gave up on their people and it didn't matter how bad it was.

they stuck it out. they were there. you never left a man under ground, ever. you can't let them die. what if it were your son or your daughter or your wife? >> that is so emotional. you can imagine what people are feeling. the desperation there. i want to get the latest from the scene from jeff harrington of c-tv. jeff, we understand, we're hearing earlier that one person was hanging around the scene waiting to see if his fiancee was actually trapped? >> right, suzanne, that's right. he is frantically waiting by. he believes that his fiancee is the survivor in the rubble. at this point, we know there is at least one confirmed fatality, but officials have also told us that there is one survivor and the way they were able to determine that is through some special surveillance equipment. they detected breathing. so they were never able to get a visual of this person to tell whether it was male or female,

but certainly this person has strong reason to believe that it's his fiancee. >> jeff, do we know if there's any other evidence they're getting that people might still be alive? are they hearing tapping or anything at all that gives them hope? >> well, suzanne, the tapping has stopped. they heard it yesterday morning during the early hours. once again, just some knocks on the rubble. crews called for complete si silence on the scene. they didn't hear more tapping, but officials have said all along that is not a reason to believe that this person has passed because in many cases, you know, similar to this, this isn't a situation that happens often in canada, a rare situation. it happens in other parts of, you know, the world, developing countries where buildings collapse. but they say in these types of circumstances, it's quite usual,

typical, rather, i should say, that people slip in and out of consciousness. also the weather has heated up here as well. so that's adding to the rush to get to this survivor in terms of hydration, in terms of, you know, the urgency to this rescue and as you mentioned, you know, some help is on the way in the way of heavy machinery and a massive crane. >> jeff harrington, thank you so much. appreciate it. we certainly hope if there are survivors that they are found. tensions are high after syria shoots down a turkish warplane. now turkey has a warning for its neighbor. and our communities... america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices. developing smaller portion sizes and more low- & no-calorie beverages... adding clear calorie labels so you know exactly what you're choosing... and in schools, replacing full-calorie soft drinks with lower-calorie options. with more choices and fewer calories,

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tough talk, no action coming today from nato.

the alliance is not considering military retaliation against syria for shooting down a turkish fighter jet that happened last week. both sides say that the jet strayed into syrian airspace. crashed into the mediterranean and its two pilots still missing. but turkey insists that the warplane accidentally crossed into syrian airspace and quickly corrected. ivan watson is joining us live from istanbul, and first of all, ivan, turkey now says that it's going to treat any future approach from ssyria's military as a threat. do we think these two countries are any closer now to confronting each other and potentially creating some sort of conflict? a war? >> reporter: well, i think this is a pretty serious warning to the syrians. if you going to shoot down our planes, if they accidentally slip into your airspace, then expect the same from us. so it does raise the tension on both sides of the border between two countries who were already

diplomatically, their relations have been cut for the better part of the last year. i don't think the turks want a war. they do not want to invade into syria. they have resisted calls to establish a buffer zone inside syria to help the armed syrian opposition in the past. so i don't think they want to go headlong into any kind of conflict. they're basically saying they will not tolerate this type of an attack, which brought down one of their planes and also quite possibly has left two pilots who were still missing after four days dead. >> what has been nato's response? so far it seems like they're condemning the fact that this plane went down, was shot down, but they're not really offering much military assistance. do they have a plan in place? >> reporter: i don't think there's any appetite in any western capital for any kind of military intervention in to s e syr syria. that has been the pattern for a year and a half now despite

atrocities and thousands of people we've seen killed inside sere wyri syria. this was an exercise nato headquarters had at turkey's request the nato allies stand behind turkey and all with one voice condemn the syrians, but the nato secretary general, himself, said i don't think this is going to escalate any further. so i don't think we should anticipate this being the type of belly that could bring a nato military alliance to suddenly start bombing syria. one important issue to look at, and question that we'll be following, could we see an increase in support for the syrian armed opposition, perhaps in response to this syrian action against turkey in the days and weeks ahead? that's something we'll have to keep a close eye on. >> all right, ivan watson keeping a close eye on everything there. thank you, ivan, appreciate it. if you have health insurance but you still could get sticker shock when you take a look at the medical bill.

i want you to check out the prices. >> take a look at your hospital bill, you might see an iv bag charged. it's an iv like this, about $280 for the iv bag. they might strike people as very high. stapler, this is a stapler off used in surgery. something like this. costs about $1,200. hi, i'm phil mickelson.

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its position. if you're obese, government panel wants doctors to do more than just tell you that you are. the panel wants doctors to provide counseling for obese patients or refer them to a weight loss program. one in three americans is obese. now, under the current health care law, being challenged in court, most private insurers would be required to of the entire cost of weight loss services including counseling. if you ever looked at the hospital bill, item by item, probably you would do a double take. almost $300 for an iv bag is part of the reason health care costs is soaring. in two days, the u.s. supreme court is going to decide the fate of president obama's health care reform bill and right now, dr. sanjay gupta is giving us an in-depth look at how much hospitals charge for basic items and why. >> one of the questions that comes up all the time is what about these hospital bills? how exactly do they break down? how do you make sense of it? no question it leaves a lot of

people scratching their heads. i want to give you a little bit of an example by taking you inside this operating room. this is the hospital where i work where i'm a neuroroneurosu. having an operation performed in a room like this costs $3,000 an hour, for starters. come on in. give you a couple quick examples. if you look at a hospital bill, you might see an iv bag charge, an iv like this. about $280 just for the iv bag. that might strike people as very high. stapler, off used in surgery. something like this costs $1,200. this is a chest tube. if someone has compression of a lung, they might need a chest tube that costs $1,100. you'll find examples all over the room like this. suture, used in every operating room in the world. this type of suture over here costs about $200. if you look at even devices like, this is a needle that's used for biopsy. if there's a concern someone has a tumor they would use a needle like this. this is going to cost about $800. it's important to keep in mind if you ask the manufacturers of

a device like this, why so much money? they'll say, well, it took years to develop something like this. the research and development costs are significant. also, the guaranteeing a certain level of effectiveness of this needle costs money as well. something maybe you didn't know. when you look at a hospital bill, it's not just the cost of the supplies. there's also administrative costs, cost of covering people who don't have insurance or can't pay. that's built into these costs as wi well. keep in mind what is charged and what is ultimately paid are two very different numbers. >> the typical hospital collects about 4% of every dollar that they -- about 4 cents of every dollar that they bill. so it's not coming out in massive profits. it's coming out as a result of underpayment from the government. >> i'll tell you, you know, the cost breakdown like i just gave you on lots of these digit supp different supplies people don't see. a lot of people don't care as

well. if you're insured, some people may not open the hospital bill. there are about 50 million people uninsured out there and they care very much about hospital bills like this. and what you can do is you can call the hospital and get a detailed breakdown. while you're on the phone with the hospital, if the cost seems still too high, or just hard to understand, you might be able to negotiate some of the prices down. >> sanjay is joining us live. that's a little surprising you can negotiate. i want to first of all -- >> it's not easy to do, as you might imagine. it's a laborious process. you can. >> you actually could negotiate down. >> you can. people don't call the hospitals negotiating prices, asking could some of the prices for various products be negotiated. it's possible. most people don't get to that point. the sticker shock alone is too much. >> so explain to us why this actually happens. i know we are already paying for a lot of uninsured folks in the tune of billions of dollars. is that why, if you look at that price and it's so high? >> it's a big part of it, suzanne. when people say, look, there's something known as uncompensated

care. someone who doesn't have insurance, goes to the hospital, goes to the emergency room, gets care, they don't have insurance. it's uncompensated. that's about $56 billion a year. the thing is everybody else, people who are insured through different ways, they know this, they end up picking up a lot of the bill. they may pay higher premiums to the insurance company or have higher cost to the hospital like i just showed you there. that's why this issue matters to everybody about insurance and the ramifications if people don't have it. >> tell us about the mandate. we know president obama under health care reform would mandate folks buy insurance or face penalties. would that actually by putting more people into the pool lower the costs? >> i think it would make it so the costs wouldn't go up. i think it's very hard to say it would lower the cost. but i will tell you two things. one is this has been tried before at the state level. for example, in ckentucky we're going to pass health care reform with no mandate, not to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions. what happened there, aefb's premiums went up a lot, up to

40%. people who had health care insurance they were happy with, they had to pay for everybody else. it would be like if you bought car insurance after you got into an accident and car insurance companies would have to absorb the cost and pass it on to everybody else. that's what it would like if there was no manmandate. >> we're going to watch closely on thursday, a huge day when it comes to health care. >> good, good. live coverage thursday. supreme court decision on the president's health care reform law. the moment the rule is announced we're going to break down the decision, what it means. this is a huge deal. in-depth coverage here on "cnn newsroom" and throughout the day is on thursday. the battle for campaign cash is more intense than ever. forget $1 billion. we're talking about $3 billion campaigns.

he i thetha ing y day.t landmark. famous for its ago he blasted the president for jobseconomy, and health care. leound s his opeech a short tim political editor is joining us live. romney talked about the upcoming supreme court decision on health care reform. here's what he said. >> the supreme court is going to deal with whether or not obama-care is constitutional. if it's not, if obama-care is not deemed constitutional, then the first 3 1/2 years of this president's term will have been wasted on something that has not helped the american people.

if it's not -- if it is deemed to stand, then i'll tell you one thing, we're going to haveo ha i'm that one that's going to get rid of obama-care. we're going to stop it on day >> both sides trying to play it to their advantage. here's what the president said moments ago. >> and the american people understand that we're not going to make progress by going backwards. we need to go forwards. they understand we don't need to refight this battle over health care. it's the right thing to do, that we have 3 million young people who are on their parents' health insurance plans that didn't have it before. it's the right thing to do to give seniors discounts on their prescription drugs. it's the right thing to do to give 30 million americans health insurance that didn't have it before. >> so, if the court does overturn obama-care, paul, what to we think is going to be the messaging from both sides? >> both sides are going to be vocal about this and regardless

of whether the supreme court rules, suzanne, they're going to play it to their advantage, no doubt about it. if you talk to political strategists on the democratic side or republican side, this is kind of what they say. if the supreme court strikes down the law or the whole law or just the individual mandate which is the key to the heart of the health care law, in a way it actually may benefit the obama campaign. even though, listen, be honest here, this is the domestic signature achievement of the obama campaign. it would be a black mark on his presidency. but at the same time, it would take away a rallying point for republicans and it could energize a lot of liberals and progressives who would feel their health care was taken away. so, you know, a loss could be a gain in a way, suzanne, for president obama as he goes for second term. >> and how is the obama campaign dealing with this, in this new ad that they've just issued? >> a lot of tough talk today. you heard tough talk you just played from mitt romney there. the obama campaign, remember last week the big story from the "washington post" that mitt romney's private equity firm that he co-founded, bain capital, was outsourcing jobs

when he was running the company? well, take a listen to this new ad by the obama campaign. >> president romney's first 100 days, creating thousands of new jobs for virginians. >> but would he? the "washington post" has just revealed that romney's companies were pioneers of shipping u.s. jobs overseas. >> that has played in virginia where mitt romney was earlier today, playing also in ohio and iowa, two other battleground states. the romney campaign pushing back on the whole story saying it was very flawed. suzanne, you're going to hear more of this tough talk and tough commercials on both sides between now and november 6th. stay tuned for that. >> okay. paul, the president is here in atlanta raising money, big money here, playing a huge role in this campaign selection season. we're not just talking about $1 billion. is it true we're now talking about potentially a $3 billion campaign? >> yeah. isn't that incredible? i mean, the numbers are just outstandingly high. and you're actually right.

the federal election commission, releases numbers in a report yesterday that talked about if you put everything together, suzanne, this entire cycle which started at the beginning of last year, all the campaigns, money they've raised, all the money raised by the parties and by these individual independent groups like the superpacs, put it all together, have up to $3 billion raised and spent in this campaign. the president today fund-raising in atlanta. he's going to raise over $5.5 million over two days. mitt romney, another big week of fund-raising. the money is huge on both sides. campaigns get more expensive every cycle. >> unbelievable, paul. it's dizzying to keep up with it. one in seven people is now on food stamps in the united states. the government wants even more to sign up. don't forget, watch cnn live on your computer while you're at work. head to cnn.com/tv. [ mechanical humming ]

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for the past few months federal government has been running an ad campaign to get more people on food stamps. that is right. the government is trying to get people on food stamps and the logic here is that there are some people who are missing out on this who should be on food stamps. alison kosik at the new york stock exchange to talk a little bit about reaching out to folks who might be eligible but don't have them. can you explain? >> exactly. what this really is, if you ask the government what the whole campaign's about, they'll tell you this is all about giving people, you know, what they're entitled to. look, right now, just over one in seven americans are on food stamps.

that amounts to 46 million people on food stamps in this country. and look at this. the department of agriculture is spending $2.5 million to $3 million on paid radio spots and public service announcements to bring that number up to have even more people go into the food stamp program. now, what this campaign is meant to do is target hispanic, unemployed, the working poor and the elderly. for more than a decade now, food stamp use has been on the rise. still more than a quarter of people who are eligible for food stamps aren't getting them. the biggest problem here is that people just don't understand what's required of the program. and the usda says even when they do understand, a vast majority of these people don't apply, because they say they want to be independent. suzanne? >> i imagine that there are some members of congress who are upset by this. they're trying to find ways to cut the deficit and clearly they don't see this as helping in that regard. >> of course. upset is putting it mildly. sure. i mean, when you look at what the deficit is projected to be

for 2012, it's expected to top $1 trillion. sure, this is a big point of contention. you know, republicans and democrats have been fighting over the safety net programs like food stamps and housing assistance for a long, long time. republicans want to reduce funding, but democrats aren't willing to make any major cuts. this campaign will most likely bring in even more people into the food stamp system. and push these costs even higher. the usda says the federal government spent more than $75 billion on food stamps alone last year. suzanne? >> and alison, tell us how the markets are performing today. >> interesting day. you know what, the markets have really been trying hard to pick up steam today. we got a better than expected report on home prices. home prices went up from march to april. the problem is limiting the gains today is consumer confidence came in showing that it fell more than expected. the big worry there is with consumer confidence low, that means spending could be, you know, could be sort of kept close to pocket, meaning people aren't willing to spend more if they're not confident in where

the economy's going. also, europe is still a huge worry that's limiting any gains in the market today. suzanne? >> all right. thank you, alison. he's a young journalist from afghanistan and dodging bullets to bring the horrors of the fighting to life and he's doing it on twitter.

a land slide in uganda has killed 18 people. rescuers fear the death toll is going to rise.

heavy rain crashed down burying everything in its path. heavy logging has left the land stripped of trees. in afghanistan, on friday, insurgents armed with guns rushed to a hotel. they killed 19 people and held others hostage. while this went on, three journalists rushed there sending out a stream of tweets as the insurgents fought afghan and nape toe troops. he sent sort but powerful messages describing the action. he tweeted here, people pray for us. heavy gunfight all around. several bull lets cross overhead and god, hundreds of shots flying toward us. last hour i asked him what was going on in his head as he went running to that attack. >> there's two minute or one

minute of time when you move out of the home and you head to that area where yhi wil not come back alive. it's not a new feeling to me because throughout several past years when i went to combat coverage, i did think i may not come back home alive. you will think you may not survive seeing the situation down on the ground. >> you're a young guy. i imagine your parents are worried about you when they see this live. i called my parents when i was in the middle of all that mess there. did you talk to them? are they concerned? do they tell you come home? >> my family is living in another part of the country. i'm leaving alone here. they usually, when they get to know about an attack from tv, they have a sense of me gg to t is call me oelat gotay t i'm tell them i'm not going.

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president obama and mitt romney on the move raising money. the president is making stops in the south today bringing in campaign cash. he arrived in atlanta a short time ago. check this out. he arrived at the varsity at institution in atlanta. folks shout what do you have. about a couple of chili dogs. a couple of onion rings. >> the american people understand that we're not going to make progress by going backwar backwards. we need to go forwards. they understand we don't need to re-fight this battle over health care. it's the right thing to do that we got three million young people who are on their parents health insurance plans that didn't have it before. it's the right thing to do to give seniors discounts on their prescription drugs. it's the right thing to do to

give 30 million americans health insurance that didn't have it before. >> that was the president a short time ago. also, mitt romney on the road today as well promoting his energy policy at a virginia business that sells machinery to the coal industry. the president's health care law and the upcoming supreme court decision very much so on mitt romney's mind as well. >> the supreme court is going to be dealing with whether or not obama care is constitutional. if it's not deemed constitutional then the first three and a half years of his term will be wasted on something that's not helped the american people. if it's deemed to stand, then we're going to have to have a president, and i'm the one that will get rid of obama care. we're going to stop it on day one. >> also, it's primary day in handful of states and republican senator hatch is one facing a spirited challenge. he is favored to survive the

attempt to deny him a seventh term. he says he's overcome ethics and health problems and at his age it's an advantage. >> the only thing that age really means to me, it's symbolic of experience i have as a former prosecutor as someone that served as a state legislature and i've been in the halls of congress. i'm slated with success. i don't really just follow the vote. i lead in the vote. you said that in the announcement. you can't get a record like this and be 25 years old. >> also today, some are calling it a catastrophic flood. neighbors are holding their collective breath as debby makes the slow march all the way across the strait. i'm talking rivers and lakes and streams. flooding homes, business, highways. a portion of interstate 10 is

closed in both directions because of standing water and debby, not finished yet. the storm we're told could bring in another foot of rain and add to all of that, this concern. check this out. sink holes because you have the rain soaked ground making it unstable for walkways and roadways. this family is safe and sound of some pretty quick action from the u.s. coast guard. high wind, rising water forced them from their home. i know the storm surge is an issue. tell me about the new mandatory evacuations we're learning about. >> reporter: those evacuations took place north of us. they evacuated a couple,0 thousands people up there. they ordered them to evacuate. it doesn't mean they will leave their homes. what you're seeing behind me

here is not rainfall flooding, but this is tidal flooding. this is base shore boulevard, one of the main arteries in tampa. social securi it's susceptible to flooding, but they haven't seen this in a long time. this is low tide. let me walk you across the street here. >> careful. >> this over here is tampa bay. it's not deep. it's less than a foot here right now and it's low tide. you can see tampa bay. it's broiling in. the problem they've had is two days of this constant on shore flow. it just keeps pushing the water. pushing it up inland. that's the problem. you don't debt an out going tide. it all keeps coming in. down here to the right about 400 yards from me, that's where the republican national convention will be held in about two months, the end of august or so and of course, one of the big concerns here, that's the height

of hurricane season. what if you get something like this in the pam pa bay area. i just talked to the mayor and he said when tampa bid on the republican convention they figured out the analysis, less than 1% chance that they would have a hurricane in tampa bay the same week they had the convention. he said i don't want to be the major of tampa when that takes place. you can see it's pretty close. they do not want to deal with a hurricane or high water conditions during the convention. >> i know where you. i was there for the florida primary day. you have the crazy wildlife in florida, the snakes an a gators. john, we appreciate it. stay away from that crazy wildlife as well the stay safe. one of the areas worst hit, stark county, they have all kinds of rain like a half a foot of rain already and could see as

much as another ten inches. joining me is brad green. he owns a rental home there. i know water is already flooding in. as we talk through these photos, how high was the water in this background? >> the water in the background got up to three and a half feet deep. >> three and a half feet deep. this is the backyard. this is the home you rent. no one was home. the home is not rented, correct. >> there was no one in the home at the moment. we had just move ed recently. >> how heavy was your heart when you went to take the photos. the last thing you want to do is pay a bunch of money to fix it up. >> we had a storage unit that

had family photos and personal items that were ruined. >> i'm so sorry to hear that. we're looking at the pictures of the sand bags. were the sand bags successful in keeping this water out of the main part of the home. >> we had a quarter inch of water that did get into the house. ruined some baseboards and sheet rock and a little bit of carpet. all in all i guess it could have been a lot worse. >> you lose the family photos and hopefully you and your family are okay. tell me about the rest of the town? >> we live close to alligator creek and everybody that lives next to that was hit the hardest. one of my neighbors stepped out into about six inches of water. ended up with 12 inches of water inside their home. all along the creek is hit the hardest. >> when you say alligator creek,

are we talking gators as well? you laugh, not so funny. >> hopefully not. in florida there's gators in water almost everywhere. >> we appreciate your toe toes. a quick reminder, as long as you've safe, send us those pictures. a lot more news coming in. the rules of engagement are changing after syria shoots down this turkish jet and turkey says anymore action is a threat. i'm brooke baldwin, the news is now. a land slide buries entire villages and hundreds are missing. a shoot out inside an airport as

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in early 2003. let's get alison kosik. >> reporter: there's always a plus and a minus. the prices may be super there's a glimmer of hope for those tryingto sell their home. even though one month doesn't make a trend, that 1.3% rise in home prices from march to april, it is a positive sign. a closely watched index of 20 major cities showed the biggest price increases are happening in washington, d.c., phoenix, cleveland and atlanta. even portland and seattle showed decent gains. it's going to take a long time to make that value up. there's still this huge inventory of unsold homes on the market. it's still very tough for people out there trying to get a loan. >> still some bright spots. some places in the country where it's going up. how are the markets reacting?

>> reporter: at first they did. the dow is up 56 points. a report that came in here about consumer confidence. that's a big worry. if consumers aren't confidence, they're not going to spend the the market is higher today on the housing news. thank you. firefighters appear to be winning the battle for now to save homes, save people in these wildfires. they say they've had no injuries or homes destroy frd the aggressive waldo canyon fire. it's 5% contained. officials say it could be as long as three weeks before the flames are totally contained. i'm going to talk to one of those people considering evacuation. i went to high school with her and she's quite nervous. rescue crews are trying to

save anyone that may be trapped under the rubble of this collapse. it's possible one person may still be alive. rescuers dringing in a crane and heavy equipment to dismantle the outside portion of the mall. it's so dangerous that the crews were told to stop working. the community outcry just couldn't be ignored. >> we could from a mieping town where mine recue didn't give up on their people. it didn't matter how bad it was. they stucked it out. they were there. you never left a man underground, ever. >> you can't let them die. what if it were your son or your daughter or your wife. >> that's awful. the mall collapsed saturday killing one person. it's the ultimate home alone fear. burglaries break into a florida house with an 11-year-old boy inside all by himself but the child's call to 911 led to the

arrest of three people. his dad had gone on a food run. five minutes later this boy heard glass shattering. he calls dad and told him to call 911. take a listen. >> is the person inside the house? >> yes, yes, ma'am. >> what are you doing? hiding. >> i thought it was two people but then there were three. they were yelling across the room. >> what were they saying? >> i couldn't hear them. i had to whisper to the operator. >> why? >> so i wouldn't get caught. >> dad finally did rush home and police rescued the boy through the window. no rainbow flags at this lgbt event. president obama and defense secretary leon panetta kicked things off with speeches and a

defense lawyer gave a speech. hundreds of people are missing after this massive land slide. rescue efforts now underway as survivors try to find their missing loved ones. those tensions are escalating between turkey and syria. turkey promises you hit one of our jets again, you're going to pay. you can keep watching cnn, just hop on your mobile phone. you can watch us on cnn live.

close to 100 people injured

and so many more missing after this massive land slide buried three different villages in uganda. clearly people are absolutely devastated. this is a mountainous district. it triggered this landslide. survivors are being asked to move to safer locations. the death toll stands at 18, but the number is expected to rise. 86 people died in gun and shelling aattacks. much of the violence around the capital city. opposition groups documented 20 people killed. syria's neighbor to the north says you want to get tough, let's talk tough.

turkey says it's prepared to take military action if any syrian military approaches the tu turkish border. it was in international waters when the plane was shot down. any potential threats from syria will be dealt with accordingly. ivan is in istanbul. how serious a situation are we talking about here? >> reporter: it's not entirely clear yet. this announcement just came out today. since the syrians argued they shot down the jet in self-defense, the turkish prime minister said we've had five syrian helicopter cross intentional or unintentional

into our air space within the last couple of months and tu turkish officials are saying maybe we're not going to tolerate it in the fuch. we have the right now to retaliate in kind i've been saying throughout the day if i was a syrian helicopter pilot, i would be very nervous if i approached turkish air space in the days and weeks. >> turkey, a member of nato, says if you go after one of us, you're going after all of us. it's secretary general sounded pretty tough at meeting with other nato countries today. take a listen. >> we consider this act to be unacceptable and condemn it in the strongest terms. >> nato isn't promising any action in response to the incident. probably safe to say we don't

have twor ri about u.s. military involvement in syria right now. >> reporter: there's no appetite that we can see. this uprising has been going on for a year and a half. no western government has been willing to put boots on the ground or jets in the air to put a stop to it. the turks aren't asking for that. they don't want to be dragged into war in syria. we could see is perhaps a change in the support for the syrian rebels inside syria. this could give incentive for the turks or other sympathetic countries to provide more support to the rebels and the syrian government has been accusing turkey and other countries of doing that from the very beginning. the loss of life continues inside syria as well and the turks continued their criticism of the regime. the prime minister saying that the syrian president is not a legitimate ruler of his country

because his military kills women, children and the elderly, their own citizens. >> 15 months and counting. i feel like we can't talk about syria without talking russia. they are saying the downing of this turkish jet was not a provocation. how is that being received in turkey where you are? >> reporter: when the fighter plane was shot down, they turks went on a full court press. not only did they reach out that their traditional nato western allies. they also made calls from their top diplomat to the russians and the chinese who have been more sympathetic, if not direct supporters of the the syrian regime. the turks are trying to make their case. the syrians shot down our plane in international air space even

though the syrians are organizing the opposite. the turks have passed another message alone. we've had disagreements over their treatment of their own citizens. this will no longer be viewed in that frame work anymore. this has now become a bilateral issue between turkey and syria. it could lead to use of force in the future. this has changed the dedate and argument between the two napes. we've never seen relations this bad between these two neighbors in the last decade. >> thank you. obese americans can get help from doctors to count calories and lose weight. insurance companies are required to cover the costs, but there's a big if here.

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>> this panel says doctors should weigh you, do your height and tell you if you're obese or not? they found that doctors are not. 42% of obese patients are not told to lose weight by their doctors. 42% of obese patients are told. that means that 60 something percent are not. >> it's a disservice to the patient. >> doctors said they don't like to make their patients unhappy. >> if the counselling happens, now successful is it? >> what this group found that if people have counselling once a month, which they considered intensive, it work eworked. people lost weight. it didn't work. they didn't lose weight. we're talking about obese people here. >> who then pays for all of this? >> that's the problem. if you want intensive counselling 101 like with a dietitian or some other

clinician, that can get expensive. a lot of people do online groups or other kinds of groups where they can get a lot less expensively. as you said before, if health care reform survives thursday then insurance companies will have to pay for weight loss counselling if someone is obese. i want to talk about how much weight people lost. i don't want people to get the idea that this once a month counselling solves everything. what they found if someone weighed 200 pounds and was obese that this intensive counselling helped get them down to 188 pounds. that's not gigantic. it's good. if you started out lower, it would be less. it wasn't as if these people got, all of a sudden weren't obese. it helped them lose some weight. they weren't necessarily losing tons of weight. >> it's not a tremendous help in. >> it's some help, and it's a

good thing, but i think people need to remember that when you go into a program, you're still going to need to do your own work and also do your own work to keep it off. i think that's the important off is you need to be able to keep it off. >> we'll be talking about this over the next 48 hours. thank you. to another tough topic. perhaps this has touched one in your family. pancreatic cancer, their time is short. today the woman who stood by his side is on capitol hill begging congress to act. she is going to talk to me live. we're going to ask her what her husband told her moments after doctors delivered the news. that is next. ok! who gets occasional constipation,

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he was well on his way to becoming a star well before he became the iconic bad boy who spoke these now immortal words. >> nobody puts baby in a corner. >> yes, patrick swayze's character. his personal battle against pancreatic cancer ended in 2009 after a nearly two-year fight. his wife continues the fight.

his wife is here in washington. ladie ladies, nice to see you. i'm glad we have on purple. it's lovely to have you on. lisa, just take me back a couple of years. take me back to that room when you're with your husband. he gets the news. he turns to you and says what. >> i'm a dead man. he knew more about it than i did at that moment. his opinion had always been what he heard, which was pretty accurate. he's out of here. of course, my husband wasn't about to take it lying down. we did everything we could to fight it as best we could with the tools that were available, which is why we're here today. they are pitifully few, if nonexistent. >> i want to talk about the why. i was on your blog today. i saw the pictures. the balloons you set off in the sky at sunset.

you said it would have been your 37th wedding anniversary this month. you could have mourned his death. you could have crawled into a corner and let this go. you're in washington pointing it out. why? why? >> you know what, both of us, patrick and i were of the same opinion that when things that are tough and challenging in your life happen, if you don't take them and do something constructive with it that you're dishonoring the experience in way. it sensitized me so much to other people's suffering. i want to see people have the help that my husband fought so hard for and it's such a brilliant way. this disease has been long ignored. it's time for it to change. it's time for it to change now, this year. >> now, today. julie, to you, why does it take an act of congress to raise awareness for a decide that touches to many people.

why has this been so ignored? >> the squeaky wheel gets the oil. the survivor rate is just 6%. it's the only major cancer that has a five-year cancer rate in the single digits. we need to create a movement to get the national cancer institute to create a plan. that's what the research and education act will do is force the national cancer institute to create a plan for this disease and a focus on pancreatic cancer. >> we're talking about a disease that's so lethal. it's the fourth leading cause of cancer death and major cancer. it's the most fatal. the fact that it hasn't got the attention yet is unexcusable. >> lisa, what do you miss most about him every day? >> oh, man. there's a long list.

there's a long list. we were married for a long time. you know you learn a lot about love in that time. love can be perfectly imperfect as i have come to say. i miss all the challenges along with all the brilliantly wonderful parts. >> i like that. you talk about how your husband, it's a disease that really does take a lot of people quickly. he survived something like two years with this cancer. people are diagnosed very often, the symptoms come on quickly. while you are there pounding your fists on capitol hill, lisa, what advice can you provide to people today who are waging that same battle that you waged with patrick several years ago? >> you know what, this is why we're here today because we want, we're going to provide that help for them. also, there's a reason why we're

working so hard. you know what he, at some point there's going to be breakthroughs and amaizing thins are going to happen. why not it be you? that was always our attitude. you never know. we have survivors here today that have really beaten the odds, that are ten years in, five years. it can be done. why not you? >> why not you? we thank you both. best of luck to you. >> thank you. shots rang out inside a major airport. people running for cover, dodgi dodgi dodging bullets. great shot.

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an incredible and frightening scene at the mexico city airport. gunmen shoot and kill three police officers. gunmen who turn out to be police officers. why? why are they firing upon officers? >> well, authorities have confirmed already that the three dead guys were federal police officers. the shooters were also federal police officers. they seem to be involved in some trafficking network. >> drug trafficking. >> drug trafficking network inside the airport. they were going to arrest them

at the moment they started shooting at the other three police officers. this is not new. according to mexican authorities, it's a result of an ongoing investigation because this is eight pounds of cocaine intended to be sent to italy. >> how often do you see this kind of violence at the airport? >> it's the first time at the airport. that's why it's big news. this is the first time this kind of situation happens there over there at mexico's international airport. it's not a common situation. >> we talk a lot about drug trafficking coming out of mexico, but to hear that people are running for cover through a huge airport. to think that's happening at the airport is a new frightening story. >> it is. you have to think about this, airports are very busy as a drug

trafficking site. so far more than 440 pounds of cocaine. this is double than last year. it's increasing. the traffic is increasing at the airport. when they start doing something, we're going to start watching this kind of thing. >> what about just corrupt police officers in mexico. it's been a problem. is it becoming increasingly so? >> yeah. i don't know if you have that video but a few weeks ago there was a video of police officers kidnapping civilians from a hotel. there was a lot of rumors but there was no proof. the proof is they were working for somebody else, not the police. now when you're talking about federal police officers a the airport being investigated because of drug trafficking, there's a lot of corruption and they are trying to clean the

house pop. >> it's frightening to think about it at the airport, the biggest airport. thank you. big network spending big time cash to make sure you wake up with the right people on television. today, reports say ann curry is getting the boot. how many millions of dollars are at stake? do moms in america have it better than fellow moms around the world? the 2012 mother's index ranks the countries with the best conditions for motherhood. top five, number five with a one and 11 chance of dying during childbirth is denmark. education a huge priority for ladies in new zealand. number four is sweden. what are the top two places and where does the u.s. factor in? that's next. o

back to the lest list. before break we ran through the top five. you have denmark, new zealnd, sweden. number two, it's good to be a mom in ice land. the number one best country in the world with women in politics and a generous maternity leave,

norway, the best place in the world to be a mom. i know you're curious. the u.s. is number 25. well, this next story has a lot of people talking. ann curry on the way out after one year of co-hosting the today show. this is just more than entertainment gossip. this is huge business. broadcast networks pay serious cash to make sure you wake up with the right people each and every money. >> reporter: on the set of the today show, it's business as usual. >> welcome. >> reporter: matt and an co-hosting the show as they have for the past bee e rect media reports, there could soon be a change. >> now there's this strange situation going on where she's on the show acting like nothing's going on. >> reporter: behind the scenes amidst declining ratings, reports are ramp id that she is negotiating her exit and she

could leave add early as this week. why? insiders say it all comes down to chemistry. >> more tv anchors are like husband and wives on tv. the research showed she was great on her own and the viewers loved her. being paired with matt may not have been the right fight. >> reporter: the news was broken that curry could be leaving. why now and so soon? for one, the competition. >> hello. >> reporter: the numbers don't lie. though the today show has been number one for 16 years and still is, in april, abc's good morning america took the lead and has won the ratings battle several more weeks. >> maybe that's because those people on gma now are people you want to hang out with. people you want to spend more time with. right now, gma feels fresher. >> and the today show? >> it feels stale.

>> reporter: nbc isn't commenting on the reports, but in a recent cnn interview, matt said this. >> when people start to write articles about what might be wrong with the today show, you know where you should point the finger, point it at me because i've been there the longest and it's my responsible. >> reporter: as for curry, in an interview, when asked about the ratings decline, she said it's hard not to take i personally. you worry. am i not good enough? am i not what people need? >> this is isn't nonprofit theater, it's advertiser supported television. >> i'd rather do a good show for a hundred people than a a bad show for a million. >> reporter: problem is, viewers count. the more people watch, the more money tv morning shows make, which is why who sits in that anchor chair is so closely watched. how much money? a lot the today show generated $300 million a year for nbc. that makes it one of the most

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president obama won't know if he had a second term for another two months. it's a bit too early to talk about where his presidential museum will go unless you live in chicago. there's a quiet campaign to bring it to the university of chicago. there is no proposal, no location picked out, no fund raising, but already the idea is alarming some people who think it could hurt the university's image. we have a university science professor who has been speaking out against the idea. what is your main objection? >> well, i don't object to president obama being honored, and i don't object to the university of chicago honoring him. it would be fine to have a

presidential library in the city of chicago. we're an academic institution, and not a partisan, political institution. whether the library was honoring ronald reagan or president barack obama, i would still prefer it to be independent, like the reagan library is, like the clinton library is rather than affiliated with a university. >> you don't object to him being honored, but you object to the idea of the library on campus at the university of chicago? >> that's right. i think people misunderstand a bit what a presidential library is. part of it is the keeping of the papers from the administration. that's run by the government and that's fine. the other part is really a celebratory museum and foundation associated with it that celebrates his presidency.

gives him place to nest, and i don't think that's appropriate for our university. >> let me jump in and say you say this would celebrate his presidency but for example, nixon library, they have an extensive section on watergate. why can't you university present a balanced view of president obama? >> well, it's possible that it could. i'm not saying it couldn't. the fact is president nixon was president a long time ago. no longer living as the time goes. the more it's possible to get a balanced view. the main point of university is to do scholarly inquiry rather than host of something like the museum that the kennedy museum celebrates john kennedy's presidency. there's nothing wrong with that.

>> in boston. i just have to ask. are you a republican? is your objection based upon your political leanings here? >> my views about the library are not based on any political leanings. in fact, president reagan lived for a year on a our campus. if they tried to bring it here, i would have said the same thing. >> you also have hawaii want to have this. it's a shot to add a major draw to your campus. >> i'm happy to have the museum come to chicago. >> what about your campus, specifically? >> it's not a matter of the campus. it's a matter of whether or not the museum would really be part

of the university itself. as for hawaii, i'd be happy to take a number of trips out there to investigate the possibility. >> investigate the possibility. it could be draw for them and not a draw for your university. >> i'm happy to have it in chicago. that's not the issue. the issue is whether it should come to our university. >> you say, no thank you. >> exactly. >> thank you so much. we'll have to wait and see what happens in appreciate it. president obama and mitt romney on the mover raising money. the president is making stops here in the south today bringing in campaign cash. he arrived in atlanta a little while ago. before heading to these big money events with the deep pocketed donors, he popped by the varsity. this place is a bit of an institution. there he is. when he got to the fund-raiser,

he offered a stirring defense of the health care law which the supreme court will rule on on thursday. >> the american people understand that we're not going to make progress by going backwards. we needed to go forwards. they understand we don't need to refight this battle over health care, it's the right thing to do that we've got three million young people who are on their parents het insurance plans that didn't have it before. it's the right thing to do to give seniors discounts on their prescription drugs. it's the right thing to do to give 30 million americans health insurance that didn't have it before. >> that was the president a little while ago. you also have mitt romney on the road today promoting his energy