attentio attention. in india, these women are planting rice in hopes to get enough rain to grow. the monsoon season has been below average this month. children clash with police outside of a courthouse in cambodia before the women were released. they protested after being evicted from their homes. now to australia. these elephants, and look at them. they are giving their stamp of approval for a conversation program. the handles helped to dip their feet in paint before they feet in paint before they stepped on to the canvas. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello, everyone, top of the of the hour, i'm don lemon. suzanne is off today. in this hour of the "cnn newsroom," we are focusing on the major health care decision coming down from the supreme court and how it will impact your pfinances and your health.

we want to get right to it now. we are less than 24 hours away from a supreme court rule ing that will affect a president and the legacy and the race for the white house and the future of medical care in this country. of course, we are talking about the decision on president obama's health care reform law. been dubbed as obama care as it has been become known here. and as we count down to the ruling tomorrow, we are taking an in-depth look at what is at stake, and the possible outcomes and the court's impact on the decision of all of our lives. and starting us off is athena jones, and jeffrey toobin with a breakdown of the legal issues. athena, the nation is on pins and needles, and do you get that sense at the white house? the mood, what is going on? >> well, certainly, something that they are watching very, very closely and the president's biggest and cigsignature legislative domestic accomplishment here. he has spent a lot of political capital on this, and the

president continues to talk about this. listen to what he had to say about this last night in miami beach. >> i believe it is right to make sure that everybody in this country gets decent health care and is not bankrupt when they get sick. that's what i believe. but it is up to you. you decide. >> now, that you decide, of course, is referring to the fact that the republicans, and the presumptive republican nominee mitt romney wants to repeal obama care. getting back to tomorrow's decision, people around here are not saying what they believe will happen, but what they belief should happen to this law. they say that this law is constitutional, and they point to jay carney to just the other day in talking to the reporters the white house spokesperson who is pointing to several quotes of legal scholars talking about how this law is constitutional, and they have pointed to decision of appellant court judges about this law. so it is something that definitely everyone is paying attention to, and we can't wait

along with them to see what happens tomorrow. >> and they are keeping it close to the vest, and not saying how they believe that the court will rule, but also talking to other appellant courts? is that plan b or another plan b if the law is thrown out? >> well, that is one more thing they are keeping close to the chest. they believe it is constitutional and that the supreme court will uphold it. officials will -- all they will say is that they are standing by and ready for the ruling whatever it may be and in terms of the details of what the next steps could be if they throw all or part of the law out. we will just have to see what happens. but it is something that the president and the first lady and others have been touting on the road. some of the 450 provisions that have already take en into effec and like the ones that allow young adults to stay on their parents' health care until 26th birthday and allowing children with pre-existing conditions to get coverage, and so we will

have to see what the next step is depending on the supreme court tomorrow. >> now over the jeffrey toobin and you know about the "book of nine" and i have read the book, and tell me about the core legal issue here. is that the individual mandate? >> well, it is the most profile and frankly the most important issue in the case. does congress in passing this law have the right to impose the requirement that every american have insurance. now, most americans already have insurance through their work or through medicare, but the issue is in this law, every american eventually will be required to have insurance either to purchase it themselves, get it through their work or if they can't afford it, have a subsidy for the get it through the federal government. >> okay. the outcomes here, everything struck down to parts of it to nothing. walk us through the possible scenarios. >> well, i think that this is

one reason why there is so much anticipation for this case is because there are so many different possible outcomes. obviously, the simplest and certa certainly the one that the obama administration is hoping for is to simply affirm it. that is what most of the courts have done so far, but as most people remember the oral argument of this in march did not go particularly well for the government. so possibilities that part or all of the law may be struck down. if the individual mandate is struck down, it will be comp complicated and difficult to expand the number of people who get insurance if the individual mandate is struck down, but there are certain many other parts of the law that would remain in tact. it is possible as well that the entire all 2700 pages are struck down. that is really the nuclear winter for the obama administration. frankly, i don't even know how that would work out, because

there are so many provisions that have already gone into effect, and many of -- many parts of the federal government are already working on this law. that would certainly be the worst outcome for the obama administration, and also, you know, just talking about allabs case where 30 million people will get insurance or not. >> of course, we will be watching. big news, big news. >> 10:00 tomorrow. >> 10:00 tomorrow morning. than you, jeffrey and athena. as complex as the law may be, it is about real people and the rules put in place to p protect them. our medical correspondent is elizabeth cohen who is here to explain how tomorrow's ruling may affect your family. you have three types of people to talk about, and who's first? >> leukemia bobby. okay. lieu keem eukemia survivor bobb

having a terrible time, because nobody wants to insure a leukemia survivor, because they say pre-existing condition and we are not doing i. in 2010, bobby got insurance because of obama care. if the supreme court overturns it, the entire law tomorrow, bobby is out of luck. bobby does not have insurance. the insurance companies will not be required to cover him anymore, and again, insurance companies are businesses and not charities and why would you cover someone who is a cancer survivor, because the chances of him getting cancer are there. >> i wonder if that weighs into the court decision, and that would have been a good question for jeffrey. okay. young adults, and remember, you can be on the parents until you are 26, correct. what about young adults? >> so we have gwen the graduate, and gwen is happy, because obama care let her stay on her parents' insurance. she is 25, and allowed the stay on her parents' insurance, and there are 3 million gwens out

there who got coverage because of obama care. tomorrow, if the supreme court throws to s out the entire law, is in trouble, and won't have insurance. >> say it is overturned and saying we will cover people like gwen anyway. >> several insurance companies have said they will still take care of the gwens of this world even in the law is thrown out. >> and obama care, as it is called the affordable health care act, obama care, the largest expansion of medicare ever. who qualifies? >> under obama care 17 million people will be able to get medicaid, because right now medicaid is only pretty much more families or pregnant women or disabled people, and also the income has to be really, really low. meet medicaid marlene who earns $15,000. right now, she can't get medicaid, because one, she is an individual. and she is not disabled, and number two, the income is high,

believe it or not, $15,015 too to get medicaid, and under obama care, she would get in medicaid. this is a huge and overlooked part of the law, because it is the expansion of medicaid, the biggest ever, and if this law is overturned, she is out of luck. >> you look at medical costs and $15,000 a year is not a lot of money to put in. >> and she could never afford her own policy. >> and thank you, elizabeth cohen. tomorrow's supreme court ruling has major political implication implications a wnd e will talk about the potential fallout this next hour. here is what we are also working on. >> people are fighting this fire all night long. >> 32,000 people chased from their homes by the wildfire in colorado springs. it is so bad that colorado's

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has doubled in size in the last 48 hours and forced 32,000 people from their homes. the fire is only 5% contained. we are joined by a radio personality from wwkf in colorado springs, and her station is on the edge, and she has special permission by the mayor to broadcast to the very last minute. gina, be safe there. what are you seeing there? >> well, good afternoon, don. we are truly seeing something devastating and extraordinary all at the same time in our fine city. as you mentioned over 32,500 people evacuated. and over 15,324 acres burned, and to put it in relative terms that is almost 24 square miles of land that is gone. >> and this is obviously an emergency situation in your area. you have been given special

dispensation by the mayor to keep broadcasting. you are a rock station, so are you playingt by ear and giving updates to the people on the air? >> well, it is absolutely essential not only to give the colorado spring friends and family updates just about every time i open up the microphone, it is an update where people can donate, shelters, where to take your animals and pets and livestock, but also our whole cluster of radio stations continuing to play the music that colorado springs wants to hear, because we are a city. we still have business to conduct. but at the same time, we want to stay on top and in front of these flames that are really devastating colorado. i don't know, don, if you were aware, but some estimates and they are early, too, over 100 homes have been affected, so structures, and thankfully no injury or deaths occurred with

the firefighters or the citizens, but it is something to stay in front of for sure. >> and i have to ask you this, because you appear to have a good voice or putting on a good face, but personally, how is your house? is it threatened? >> i many home is not threatened, but i can tell you that i haven't stopped crying since yesterday. one of our biggest attractions here in colorado springs was called the flying w ranch which has over 60 years of heritage here. it had cattle drives and it just a great place, and in fact, i have goose bumps telling you about the flying w ranch. yesterday, all of the citizens watched it go up in flames as well as people's homes. i can't tell you at one point, you stop being a broadcaster and you start being a human, and you just cry. your heart bleeds for people. for sure. >> and i have to move on here, because we have an update from the meteorologist chad myers,

but i want to know what about your coworkers? >> co-workers, we have had several co-workers evacuated right here in the building. their structures seem to be intact, but although, they don't know. nobody is really telling you other than the flying w ranch area where those homes were truly affected and being right on the front line, don, of the mandatory evacuation, we have little brushfires and what they call pop-up fires happening really right over the road from where our radio stations are at. it is a smoky city at this moment, and waiting for the afternoon thunderstorms to pop up which really rears its ugly head, because then the winds come from a variety of different directions and can take this fire to -- >> gina -- >> to different lengths and magnitudes that we have seen it. we saw it yesterday from a 4,000-acre fire to 15,000 acres in 12 hours. >> we want to get to the meteorologist to talk more about that. and gina, thank you and we wish

you and all of the cowork es the best. chad myers, they say this is as bad as it gets, and so why is this considered worse than any of the rest of the wildfires in the west? >> well, gina was rite ght on i because houses are being burned down. i watched this from the colorado springs tv stations and also ksua out of denver. we are not talking about some wildland fire with trees in some national forest, but talking about a fire that was blown over a ridge because of the thunderstorm that gina was just talking about. this is i-25 and colorado springs right through here, and the western edge of colorado springs. there's the air force academy right there, and don, there is the fire. let me tell you what happened last night. there was a thunderstorm on up into the jefferson county and farther to the north, right there. and that thunderstorm eventually died and put out outfull

boundary which is a gust of wind, and blew the fire down the canyon. there was no fire in the canyon yesterday. it blew it straight down, and the wind continues and that is the flying w ranch. it is no longer there, and it is comple completely gone. the firefighters tried to save the structures, but blown around by 60-mile-an-hour winds and the flames and the embers were blowing farther in. and here is pis pair -- peregri and this is the area that the firefighters were working so hard to fight, and this is midnight their time, and i was still watching it and the governor out there, and i was mesmerized how terrible this

fire is in that area. >> and chad, anything in the forecast to help or -- >> well, no, not really. here is what happened yesterday, and this is the same thing that is going to happen today. there is colorado springs and a thunderstorm popped up to the north, and that is the storm right there and as it went up, it died and the thunderstorm blew out the wind, and the wind right down into the canyon and there it is, idaho springs and a terrible storm, and the change and the thing that changed the fire from what was kind of a wildland fire to a residential fire, it was awful last night. >> oh. chad mmyers, thank you, gina wa right on, and our thoughts and prayers with everyone in thatter ya. and the debate that illegal immigration plays out in american restaurants and why some high profile chefs say those workerers need to stay. pizza!!!!! [ garth ] olaf's small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase, every day! put it on my spark card!

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for the past two weeks immigration issues have been dominating the supreme court, and the politics. and the restaurant industry says that 1.4 million restaurant workers in the u.s. are foreign-born. eatocracy editor joins us now to talk about that. kat, one famous chef weighing in on this issue and not the last to weigh in. >> that's true. in this past week, we had chef john kurnts from oxford, mississippi, and he came out with some home truth that a lot of people didn't want to hear. when you go into the restaurant, we have this glamorous vision from the food tv that it is this sort of place where people are

dicing things and it is all really pretty, but what really goes into the meal is that there is an unseen workforce who get there early in the morning and do the dirty work of being a line cook, be ping a prep cook and cleaning out the grease trap, and being a porter after everybody is gone, and if they didn't do what you they were doing, but you would not eat out anymore. >> and it is not only the sausage made and what happens after you eat it. >> right. >> and why are the chefs so adamant about this? i imagine because they believe that if it weren't for the people, they would have a hard time keeping their doors open? >> well, the interesting thing is that they said and anthony bor dane h b bordain has gone on record sa g saying that every american born worker sees the glamorous chef world and they want to run the

kitchen and they don't want to wash dishes and schlep the plates and do all of the dirty work that goes into preparing a restaurant meal. so they are not finding a workforce of domestic workers who want the take on the incredibly brutal and grueling tasks. one chef i talked to said he gets the people who want to be a chef and they show up at the restaurant and move on for experience, because they are not staying around to learn the craft of it. >> that isn interesting thought, but another school of thought that if the jobs if they paid more for these jobs it would attract workers that are not foreign born. i want to talk to you more about the survey, because eatocracy is conducting a poll if they knew that a restaurant was hiring undocumented workers, would they still eat there and what did they say, kat? >> most people did not care. it does not bother them, and that actually surprised me because the debate is so hot and heavy and the next biggest group said that they don't like it, but they are willing to put up

with it. you know, there was a vocale group and the comments that we got nearly 1,100 on this saying they would not eat at a restaurant where they knew undocumented workers were working, but at the same time, they have to be prepared to pay more for the food starting at the farm end where there is more ip grant labor to the lovely restaurant where they are getting the food. somebody has to pay the price, and for the most part, it is the consumer, i think. >> interesting story. kat kinsman, thank you very much. >> thank you for having me. the senate reaches a deal to stop the student loans from doubling, and hear how they want to pay for it. and now head to cnn.com/tv to watch cnn at work.

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a grim discovery in canada today. crews digging through the rubble of a mall collapse, and they found a body, but the coroner's office is working to identify the victim. the officials are not saying how many people are still missing, but the search continues. 22 people were injured in the roof collapse on saturday at a mall in elliott lake, ontario. the supreme court les tomorrow on the fate of the health care reform law championed by president obama. it is considered one of the signature accomplishments, and it is a major issue in the presidential election of course. if if the law survives the republican nominated mitt romney promises to get rid of it. larry salbido is a professor at the university of virginia, and he is here to talk about the impact of the decision tomorrow. and so, there is a lot of political capital used early in

president obama's administration to get this law passed. he talked yesterday about the law being the right thing to do. i want you to listen. >> the american people understand that we are not going to make progres by going backwards and we need to go forwards. they understand that we don't need to refight this battle over health care. it is the right thing to do that we have 3 million young people on their parents' health insurance plans that didn't have it before. it is the right thing to do to give seniors discounts on the prescription drugs. it is the right thing to give 30 million americans health insurance that didn't have it before. they want to go forward. they understand it is the right thing to do. >> okay. so larry, how much does it hurt the president if, if this law is overturned? >> well, it certainly takes away a major achievement of the administration and probably the most talked about achievement of the administration other than

the death of osama bin laden, but don, politics is a funny thing. the person or the party that loses the case tomorrow may win politically. let's suppose that health care is tossed out. well, president obama can probably whip up a lot of democratic votes, and whip up the democratic base by saying, you see, we have to work hard, and the opponents won't give you anything and we need to get this back. you are as angry as i am at the supreme court decision. mitt romney will do the opposite. so it all depends who gets more enthusiastic and excited about the decision, though i would add, and this is really important, it is june. we are going to have world war three style headlines for two or three days, but the elections in november and a lot of this will be forgotten by then. >> and larry, mitt romney has promised to repeal the law if it is upheld and yesterday he weighed in on the upcoming ruling as well. listen in. >> as you know the supreme court is going to be dealing with whether or not obama care is

constitutional, and fit is not, and if obama care is not deemed constitutional then the first three-and-a-half years of the president's term is wasted on something that has not helped the american people. >> i heard what you had to say, politics is a strange thing and it could work in the president's favor by saying he is up games at roadblock no matter where he turns, but is that effective pinning it, the health care debate, as a waist ste of time? >> that is not his argument. say that health care is upheld, because he says to the republican base that he needs to whip up, the only way to get rid of obama care is if you elect me president and republican house and senate, and the first order of business is to abolish obama care. that is the best political argument, because it was a political impact on turnout. >> so we have talked about, you know, that if it was, and if it is struck out down how it might actually help many believe the president obama, but what about the other way around.

say it is upheld, then does this help mitt romney galvanize supporters? >> yeah, because he makes that argument. he says to republicans, you are all opposed to obama care, and we went the supreme court route, and we had hoped that the court would rule the individual mandate and other parts unconstitutional and now we have to rely on the political process. you must give me more money and devote more time and effort to volunteering and work agent the -- working at the polls to elect me and republican congress. that is the argument he would have to yuse in that circumstance. >> my goodness, it is all about spinning it in your favor. larry sabato, thank you. it is reaching the end of the line, but lawmakers say they have reached a deal to keep student loan interest from doubling. allison kosik joins us. what is at stake? >> well, once it comes time to

pay back the loans that are doubled, it is a lot of money. lawmakers have until sunday. the interest that is 3.4% currently are going to jump to 6.8%, and when the students take ten years to pay off the loans, it is going to make a huge difference for them. this is going to effect 7 million more students who take out loans for the next year. this is a bitter fight between the democrats and the republicans because of lots of questions of how the government can continue to absorb the cost for subsidizing these loans, and the government at this point needs to raise almost $6 billion just to support the loans. how the raise the money is a tough compromise. the senate says they have a deal, and the house still needs to give the thumb's up, and if it is approved, it will buy some time at least a year that the rates will stay 3.4% until june 30th next year. don? >> that is a lot to absorb. now, moving on, it has been a

bumpy week for the market, and how are things looking today? >> lots of green arrows. the dow is up 80 points on bet better than housing report pending home sales jumped 6% last month to the highest point in two years. this is building upon the momentum happen ing ing in the housing sector where the prize prices have risen, and we are watching the home builder shares rallying and a decent report on u.s. manufacturing keeping the stocks in the green. once again the dow is up 86 points. >> alison kosik, thank you very much. sure. president obama edging out mitt romney in the latest polls.

presidential race is tight, but some new polls show president obama with a slight edge over mitt romney. brian monroe is the editor of cnnpolitics.com, and he is in washington right now and joining us. so, brian, start with a new national poll, the nbc news "wall street journal" poll shows president obama at 47% compared to 43% for mitt romney. given the margin of error, that's basically a tie, but with a slight edge maybe, and is that surprising to you? >> that has him tied on the national level, but also as we look at the individual states, it is a close race and will be for the next four or five months

and even in the cnn poll of polls, we have the president up really almost tied at 48 to 44. even there, that has really played or stayed the same over the past few weeks. >> talk about the battleground states and it is interest, because one of them, florida, a conservative state, and polls showing that president obama, the president is leading in key battleground states, pennsylvania, and florida and ohio. is this significant to predict that this is where the race will be won or last? >> well, florida is going to be a tight state. i has traditionally leaned a little bit more conservative, but the president has fought hard down there. that is going to be the place where you will see mitt romney who is battling the economic message that the economy is not doing so well, and doing well among the white male voters versus obama who has made serious ingrounds with the latino votes and blacks and women. and particularly among the latinos they have supported his

message when he changed the poll i is pollicy on immigration. >> well, in two of the states and particularly in florida the economy is doing better than around the country, and for the most part doing well. and governor rick scott is saying that people need to know that florida is doing well, but the romney campaign we are hearing is saying that you need the back off on this, because it is hurting our strategy. and do you see that in florida the message is changing when it comes to the economy to get the poll numbers in romney's favor? >> well, in ohio and florida, because ohio has seen some significant growth in employment numbers and partially due to the auto industry coming back and doing so well. the romney campaign has had to walk that fine line and sending the message to governor rick scott in florida, hold out on touting how great the economy is doing, because it is against their message. >> and look at strategy and

lookinged forward -- what do you know? >> the president is launching a two-city bus tour, and he is going to ohio and pennsylvania, two significant states. you have governor romney here in d.c. today and tomorrow, and tomorrow is oddly enough the big health care ruling at the supreme court. so they are going to be continuing to hit the road, and the president earlier in the week is going to be doing a lot of fund-raising, because he has to catch up with the money in the bank in order to wage a significant campaign this fall. >> bryan monroe, thank you, sir. the nra is pushing to hold the attorney general eric holder in contempt over the national scandal. why is the national rifle association getting involved? we will tell you.

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house republicans are not backing down in their standoff with attorney general eric holder. today, they said they will hold a contempt of congress vote against holder for withholding documents on the botched fast and furious gun running program. here is how the white house press secretary jay carney responded to that news. >> it is unfortunate. we hope republicans change their minds as to what the right course of action is, and what is the best thing to do for the american people, but we certainly understand or see and agree with the assertion by some including the leading house republican that this is

politics. >> all right. drama here, joe johns, and there he is from washington. joe, so officials from the white house and the justice department met with house republicans to try to reach an agreement on this. and so what happened here? >> they didn't get it. i have to tell you, and i mean, this is sort of an international embarrassment for the united states. you had a gun running operation, fast and furious and supposedly guns walking across the border to try to catch cartel members, and really a botched thing from the very beginning, and everybody knew it. and now, we have this continuing drama and the spector of the top law enforcement officer of the united states being cited for the first time in history of full contempt by the house of representatives, and so far, it still looks like it is going to happen, and no negotiated solution that we know of. l listen to the speaker of the house today. >> we are going to proceed. we have given them ample

opportunity to comply, even as late as yesterday. the white house sat down with some of our staff to outline what they'd be willing to do. unfortunately, they are not i e willing to show the american people the truth of what happened. >> don, the administration has claimed executive privilege and so to that extent this sich way has been defanged, but it is still symbolic, and it could happen in washington for the first time. >> it is interesting the contempt, whatever it is, has to go back to the attorney general's office where he is of course from. >> right. >> and i want to ask you about the nra that has been -- i hate to use word interesting so much. >> involved. >> but the twist in this, and the republicans are influenced, conservatives by the nra and they have a lot of influence on the hill, but how will this affect democrats here? >> well, it is very interesting, because they sort of jumped into

the fray. they have never liked yishg holder quite frankly and always worried he would try to impose new gun control measures and in fact, the nra has been saying on information they have gotten from darrell issa, the chairman of oversight committee over on the house side who has been pushing this thing so much, but they have been told, they say, what the justice department wanted to do essentially is to put in more gun control measures and using fast and furious as the precursor to that. so they are going to count this vote, and certainly keep all of the nra members or a lot of the nra members on board and in opposition to eric holder including perhaps some democrats. probably 20 or 30 democrats are in districts that are very sort of pro nra leaning, and those members in an election year probably would not want to go against the nra, because it would affect them at the ballot

bo box, and that is what we are watching here. >> and can you talk about the nra influence, and tell me if i am wrong, but if the gun running operation had influence, and what they were trying to do is to influence gun control in some way by doing this operation. explain that. >> well, what they are talking about is that by doing the operation, they could use it to sort of open the door to creating regulations that would lead to more reporting, particularly on sort of the long stem weapons, you know, some of the high powered rifles and that kind of thing that you see. so -- >> well, to show that we need more regulations, because look at what happens, but many voices who are saying not just on the left, but the right, that is farfetched. >> right, right. people are calling et especially the democrats, conspiracy theory,ed aed aed aed an aedee

wo word nuts today. there is a strong feeling though among people in the national rifle association that the obama administration and eric holder have been looking to impose more gun control restrictions. so it is a continuing political battle that we have seen really ever since barack obama and eric holder came in the door. >> and nonetheless, there is a standoff now, and they are sa g saying that they are going through with the contempt. thank you, joe johns for that explanation. appreciate it. we will be watching capitol hill. they receive little recognition for their contribution to the country and the history. the first african-americans who served in the marine corps will be honer no ed t r nored in con. they are known as the montford marines. you will hear about their fight at home and abroad. we built a guitar, we did things with electronics and mother boards.

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it's been a long time coming but today the first african-american marines will be recognized by congress with the highest honor, the congressional gold medal. you may not have heard of them. in 1941, president roosevelt established african-americans to join the marine corps. they were segregated from their white counter parts. they were called the montford point marines.

we caught up with a few of them. >> we fought two kinds of wars. one in combat and the other was right here. we fought jim crow and we fought the enemy. >> the men were trail blazers. they were the first hand picked to integrate the u.s. marine corps, the last branch of the armed services that was still segregated. >> these men were so proud to be the first, and they were eager to learn. >> their initial excitement would be replaced with the reality of racism in basic training and the lack of support waiting at home. >> in the corps, at that time, they were hell bent on making sure we were not going to succeed in what we were doing.

>> here we are returning from combat, from war, 18 long months, 18 hard months and having some of the relics. we had japanese flags and we showed the crowd, this is what we earned, what we did and what we had to do to get these relics. despite that, that did not help. the fact that we were black men and so racism continues on. >> across the armed services, african-americans were delegated to serve in noncombat support roles and the marines would be no exceptions. >> what happens when you place someone in a support role and they have to fight their way to support you, they demonstrated what marines have always done.

they rose to the occasion. >> the lieutenant understands the importance of the montford point marines and how the legacy has paved the way for him to rise through the ranks as a three star general. >> when they see me and i'm wearing three stars, they say i know it was tough for me but it was worth it because now i see you. >> definitely was worth it. we thank them. more than 400 of them today will get that congressional gold medal and we congratulate them. thank you for your service. we're going to take a look back at the life of hollywood screen legend nora ephron.

nora ephron is being remembered as a talent who accomplished everything she set her mind to. here is a look back at her life. >> reporter: many argue that nora was born to write. the child of well known screen writers and playwrights, she had the pedigree to write for the screen, but it wasn't her first career choice. after a brief stint in the house, she landed a reporter job for the new york post.

her talent with pen caught the attention of other pub llicatio like new york magazine and esquire. it wasn't long before she began writing scripts making her first splash in movies. >> i can't quit now. >> reporter: it was a romantic comedy that put the name nora on hollywood's map. when harry met sally is about a man and a woman who explore risks became a huge hit. >> i'll have what she's having. >> reporter: known for her humor and writing appealing female characters. over the years more hits followed. >> all of these fantasties abou some man i've never met.

>> reporter: like sleepless in seattle which she co-write. it also put ephron in the director's chair, and you've got mail which brought ryan and hanks together again. though she had a knack for making romance on the screen, she struggled with her personal life early in her career. in 1976 she fared karl burnsteen and has two children. their marriage ended in a messy divorce four years later. she would later write a book, heartburn that described her rocky marriage. she adapted the novel into a screen play. her third marriage was a success. in 1987 she tied the not with goodfellas screen writer.

julie and julia four years la r later. she wrote more than a dozen screen plays and directed eight films. >> anything in life can be turned into a story, which is really the first rule of humor. if you understand that, you understand everything there is about making things funny. >> reporter: sound advice from writer who helped make audiences laugh throughout her career. >> 71 years old. she will be missed. what accomplishments. >> i think i've been embarrassed to say how many times i've met when harry met sally. impressive woman. >> take it away brooke. i want to begin with some news. it's just in. we read this and thought, wow, wow this is a huge development.

the government siegning off on new pill designed to fight obesity. it tricks your brain when it comes to eating. we have elizabeth cohen here. it's something like in a decade. >> it's been a long time. this is a big deal. >> how does it work? >> it's an appetite suppressant. >> are there side effects potentially? >> there are side effects. before i talk about the side effects, i want to talk about how well this works. people think i'll take a pill. i'll look great. not necessarily. let me give you an example. on average the people that took this pill, 7,000 people tried it

out. they lost about 13 pounds. starting at 220 and losing 13 pounds, that's good. their blood pressure went down and cholesterol went down. they dent go frdidn't do from 2 150. that's not gigantic. doctors are not jumping up and down like finally, we nailed it. they're not saying that. >> what's the name of the pill? >> it's arena. it's for people who are obese. someone who is 5'6", if they are 180 pounds or more, they are considered obese. they're not supposed to be giving to people who just want to look a little better for their high school reunion. doctors thumb their noses at

those guidelines all the time and give it to someone that wants to lose five pounds. >> if there's someone that is thinking great. i could qualify for being an obese person. do you just go to the doctor and s ask about it. >> you go to the doctor but i want to put a couple of things into your head. the side effects were things like headache and nausea. once they started trying this out in millions of people. they might see it's more serious side effects. they night not, but they might. when you tripe it out in bigger groups, you find out, this drug has more problems than we thought. that could happen with this drug too. we could be sitting here five years ago going remember that drug that got approved. >> thank you so much. >> thanks. now to this.

32,000 people forced out of their homes. 15,000 acres up in flames. right now these images show what's being quoted as a fire storm of epic proportions. that's a quote directly from the fire chief in colorado springs. these are obviously evening, perhaps morning pictures. waldo canyon wildfire. firefighters successfully battle the fire there for three days, but finally saw a number of homes like these just burning last night. >> there are some homes impacted. i'm not prepared to release that number. we don't know the number. this is an active fire. it's not even remotely close to being contained. >> the blaze jumped fire lines overnight doubling in size. let me say that again. doubled in size overnight. it's reported to be nearly 5% contained. high speed winds and thunderstorms could make it grow

more. crews are calling it explosive. they are calling it like being in a convection oven. our eye reporters who we're so grateful for these pictures, that show us look like the sky is on fire. this is just one of some ten different fires threatening homes in colorado right now. this is another "i-report." time lapse video. the "i-report"er says his community was mountain ridge away from disaster. chad myers watching all these different fires preponderate first, we have the governor on the phone. welcome. i'm sorry to have to talk to you under the circumstances. your state is battling multiple fires. i know this is unprecedented. i saw you, i think it might have

been this morning talking about one specific fire. you talked about how your blood is boiling. you're infuriated. what were you referring to? >> the question was asked about the possibility that the waldo fire down in colorado springs was set maliciously. it was not a lightning bolt or an accident. some stupid fool going out and playing with fire. >> do we know? do we know how it started? >> we don't know. it's still under investigation. there's suspicion out there that we've got some idiot. we're working as hard as we can to approach and get the real facts and not jump to conclusions. we're just encouraging everybody to be very, very careful. we ban fireworks any place where there's woodlands.

we want to celebrate the 4th of july. we don't want to limit our freedom. at the same time we have to be careful about open fires. >> tell me what you have seen so far with your own eyes. for you to see it in person, i'm sure it's surreal. >> i flew down yesterday on a national guard helicopter and it was like out of a, somebody put a set together for a film of what real disaster might look like. what happened yesterday is a rare combination where you get the high winds. we've had a wicked drought this

spring and we had the fire. >> it was a perfect horrible storm. chad, i want to bring you in here. feel free to throw a question to the governor. >> i watched your press conference last night in colorado springed. when you arrived it was quite civil. before you arrived it was a lot less civil. people pointing fingers. people asking questions. who is really in charge here? is it the government, the state, the county? how can you describe what's going on in this fire fight. >> obviously, the u.s. fire service, who are the finest firefighters in the world, they're in charge. they're coordinating all the resources right now. i talked this morning with general charles jacoby who is the head of north comm based in colorado springs.

we are standing of mutual control that allows us to be able to look at using military access more efficiently. this is what they call dual status and allows us to work directly with them. >> final question to you. it seems like the panic went up yesterday evening into today. what is your piece of advice who isn't in mandatory evacuation area but curiously close to the fire? what do you say to them? >> obviously, we want people to be careful. a lot of people are staying with their friends. in the west and especially

colorado, people do come together. it's been amazingly little finger pointing. we still got 40 state parks that are beautiful and open. 23 million acres of public land. the fair has affected less than a percent of what our public lands are. let's not let the fire beat us. we're going to be safe and beat this fire. the firefighters, two things you always know. the fires always start small. you want to get it as soon as you can and fires always go out. it's going to take some work. we'll be back. >> to quote you, if it is some stupid fool who set this thing, i have a feeling you'll be throwing the book at whoever that might be. we appreciate your jumping on the line. best of luck to do you and amazing crews fighting the

fires. chad talk to me about the winds. it's the wind and the heat, right? >> the firefighters had no chance yesterday. normally it's like a wall of flames kind of gradually moving in one direction. last night the winds gusted 65 miles per hour out of a thunderstorm up in jefferson county. when the winds blew out of that thunderstorm, the fires and embers all jumped. what the firefighters thought hay had a good line, that line wasn't even close. they never had chance. all of a sudden that wind continued and a lot of houses burned. this is a dramatic fir that we got permission to use from the d denver post. there are too many onfire at the

same time. people were very upset and said why can't i just go fight my fire. >> leave it up to the pros. >> you want to go water down your house, they can't let you do that. they can't let you in there and put yourself in danger. >> we're going to keep talking about this next hour. we're going to talk to a young colorado mother who has two little ones. dad is deployed and she has now evacuated. we'll see what she is facing there. also, you can find out how you can help those affected. in colorado go to cnn.com/impact. we have lists of different organizations and ways you can help. a lot more news coming at you today. watch this. the countdown is on.

in less than 24 hour, president obama hears the fate of his biggest legislation. we're taking you behind the scenes. in the making, the queen meets the man who led the group that killed her cousin. cutting off the arm to save the body. a city in california becomes the largest to go for broke. are more cities next? the news is now. meineke's personal pricing on brakes.

i tell mike what i can spend. i do my best to make that work. we're driving safely. and sue saved money on brakes. now that's personal pricing. the battle over health care in the united states has been

with us so long. one thing seems so clear that whatever the decision here, the fight will continue. you can hear that in what lawmakers are saying on both sides of the aisle today. first, i want you to hear house democrat. >> the worst outcome we could see is a 5-4 decision because i think that will go a long way in confirming this growing belief in the gut of the american people that the supreme court no longer cares so much about the constitution. it cares more about politics. >> now republican house speaker john boehner. >> i'll make it clear one more time. if the court does not strike down the entire law, the house will move to repeal what's left of it. obamacare is driving up the cost of health care and making it harder for small businesses to hire new workers.

our focus has been the economy and it will continue to be the economy. >> shortly after 10:00 tomorrow morning, we're going to know whether all or part of the president's health care plans survives. that's when the supreme court is said to announce the ruling. i want to begin with what happens if this entire law, the whole thing is tossed out. what happens to the people who have started benefitting like the young adult who are on parents insurance. can they just drop them? >> they can. they don't have to do that anymore. we've been doing some reporting on this. we talked to some of the insurance providers and trying to get an idea what is their plan if the law is completely overturned. some say we may not change things dramatically, at least in the short run. for example, the example you

brought up people up to 26 stays on their parents plan, they may keep that in effect. they don't have to do any of the things the law originally intended. >> there's a chance the whole thing could be struck done. the individual mandate itself could just be struck down which leaves a lot more of that legislation and pre-existing conditions could be tossed out. if that happens, what's left? >> there's a lot of things in the bill. it's worth pointing some of these things. what happens if the mandate is gone and the discrimination on

pre-existing conditions are gone. there are some important things that are worth mentioning that might stay in the bill and would be helpful. if a person buys health care insurance and becomes sick, as things stood before, they could be dropped from their plan at the time they became sick. it sounds outrageous, but that was possible. no lifetime limits. as a doctor, if patients have chronic disease, you can get to your lifetime limit very, very quickly. no co-pays on preventive care. employers having to provide insurance and at the bottom, young adults up to 26 staying on their parents plan. i talked to a lot of small business owners and they say they are much more likely to hire people in their mid-20s because they can stay on their parents plan until age 26. >> that's factor to hiring them? >> yeah because they don't have

to provide health insurance. it changes a lot of things. it has a lot of ripple effects. >> tomorrow morning will be huge. we will be all over it. don't go too far. i know we'll be talking next hour. if you do have health insurance did you want guarantee you'll use it. we'll talk about your personal responsibility to your health care. the country's attorney general could be held in contempt of congress and republicans are making a big, big move. tomorrow is a huge day. you can keep watching us here at cnn on your mobile phone. you can also watch us on cnn live straight from your desktop.

new polls are out today. have you seen them? they show president obama leads mitt romney in three key battleground states. you have florida. obama leads 45% to romney's 41. in pennsylvania it's 45 to 39. our new ccnn national poll show president obama ahead 48% to romney's 44%. an election year showdown said to happen tomorrow. the house of representatives is ready to vote as to whether or not they want to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress for with holding documents related to that botched fast and furious

program. they were supposed to be tracking how guns were sold in the united states and how they made it to mexico used by drug cartel. we're going through the twists and turns before tomorrow's big vote. joe, the white house, the doj, met with house republican senior aids. what came out of the meeting? >> not too much farce we can tell. they came over with some ideas that they waentsed to hash around. apparently the republicans rejected it. now it looks like they are moving full speed ahead. i want to show you a live picture of the house rules committee. this is where they go to lay out the procedure before they go to the floor. there in the fore ground is elijah cummings the he's the top democrat. to his right is darrell issa. they are pointing out how they proceed. mr. cummings is opposed to pit

and mr. issa has been pushing it the entire way. the house of representatives is moving forward on this historic vote. the house speaker early yore today talking with reporters sounded very much like he was committed to it. listen. >> we're going to proceed. we've given them ample opportunity to comply even as late as yesterday. the white house sat down with some of our staff to outline what they would be willing to do. unfortunately, they're not willing to show the american people the truth about what happened. >> this case fast and furious, the gun walking operate sending guns across the border to try to catch cartel members is a real embarrassment for the united states and seems like it's going to get worse tomorrow with this vote. >> it was an embarrassment, at the same time it was the first time the president used his executive privilege upon attorney general eric holder.

despite that, this vote is going on in the house. give me a little context to the vote. is it more substantive or is it just election year politics at play? >> as you might imagine, it's who you talk to. the people at the white house said just today this was nothing more than politics. everybody accepts the fact that it was a botched operation. if you talk to republicans, they say there are things that they need to get to the bottom of. they need to decide if there's a reason to create new law. still, if you look at the involvement of some of the outside groups like the national rifle association, they have certain vested interests including fighting gun control and they believe that they are doing what's in the best interest of their organization by going after eric holder. they're telling members in

congress who support the nra, that they want to see them vote for contempt tomorrow. there's some democrats saying they will hold the attorney general in contempt as well. we'll see how it shakes out. thank you. a television station bombed. you'll hear their target. also, history is made with a single handshake and a nod. the queen meets the man who led the group that killed her cousin.

seven people were killed today when syrian opposition forces bombed a television station. this is according to the state

run news agency. the news channel supports the regime. the same regime accused of slaughtering thousands of people, protesters over the past year and a half. at least 35 people were killed in violence across the country according to opposition groups. president assad said that syria is in a state of war. the u.n. says more than 10,000 syrians have been killed since violence began last year. they need urgent humanitarian assistance. 11 people were killed today in the latest wave of bombings in iraq. a bomb exploded in a home wounding three members. when neighbors rushed to help, a second bomb went off killing eight people. nearly 180 people have died in iraq since the beginning of this

month. it was just one single moment, but this handshake was historic. the historic gesture today. queen elizabeth the second, in green, meeting be belfast. it's the commander of the irish republican army. here it is 14 years after the end of a conflict that claimed 3500 lives including that of the queen's cousin in a bombing. she smiled, but did not speak during the greeting reporters asked mcginnis how it was to meet the queen. >> good. it went really well. >> how was it to meet the queen? >> very nice. >> reporters shouting questions

at him. we're going to talk to him about it coming up next hour. as americans wait to hear whether their health care changes or not. more people say they are against obamacare. you're about to hear from one democrat who admits a big error. should this law fail. ok! who gets occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defend against digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. hit me! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'.

a digs is decision is looming. by this time tomorrow the u.s. supreme court will decide if the u.s. affordable care act if it lives or dies in fragments. we want to a democrat here. he's the top democrat on the house. nice to see you again. >> good to be with you. >> i know you've said that the chance that is supreme court upholds this entire law is better than 50%. honestly, that doesn't sound very optimistic. >> i am optimistic and nobody knows what they are going to say. we'll know in about 25 hours. if you look at statements like the top lawyer in the reagan administration, he indicated that he thought it was very

clear that this law was constitutional under the commerce clause. >> let me go back to you and this 50%. do you still stand by that? you're about 50/50 confident? >> i think there's over a 50% chance that the court will uphold this law entirely, and i think it would be very unlikely that they would toss the whole thing out. if we all knew what the answer would be, then we wouldn't be so anxious about what the decision will come out. >> that's right. i'm sure you've seen the numbers. let me run through this. more americans, 37% would be happy to see it declared unconstitutional than would be disappointed. 37%, you're on the wrong side of public opinion.

>> as with lots of things in washington, it's been easier to demagogue this than to present the full facts about the law. we had all this disinformation campaign. we heard about death panels and government takeover. when americans are asked about the specific provisions this are in the bill. they like them. they like the fact that kids won't be discriminated against because they have asthma or pre-existing conditions. >> 55% said losing the individual mandate wouldn't make that much of a difference. you have your party, the democrats, and folks who have said the democrats could have done a better job explaining it. where did you go wrong? >> i think democrats

collectively and others would have done a better job. one of the main points that's been missed is the fact that republicans just a few years ago said that the frame work, the approach that we took in the affordable care act was the right way to go for the country. that's why the obamacare legislation, the affordable health care act is modelled after romney care because in massachusetts, governor romney understood that if you want to provide coverage to everybody so no one is denied coverage because of pre-existing condition, you need to get everybody in the risk pool. if you want to bring down the costs and avoid people free riding on the system, you need to ask everybody to share responsibility. i think we could have made those arguments better and made it clear this had been a republican idea to begin with and one just a few years ago they said not only was constitutional but the right policy. >> let's talk about obamacare as we know it and the big decision

comes down tomorrow. if the court strikes down this entire health care law, the whole thing, there is no plan b, is there? >> well, brooke, i think the chances of that are very small. we'll know within a very few hours. >> roll with me. is there a plan b? >> this was the democratic p proposal. you're asking me that question when the republicans said not only do they want to get rid of this law, but they said they will replace it but they've got nothing to replace it with. they said if the court strikes down part of it, they will work legislatively to abolish the rest. in the unlikely event that the court strikes down part of it, because i think the chances of striking down the whole thing are very remote that we will work hard to protect what's left. things like making sure that families can keep their kids on

their insurance policy. things like making sure that seniors don't have to pay more out of pocket for prescription drugs. we will have to preserve the important parts that are left. i want to be clear, i think the supreme court will follow the advice of the top lawyer in the reagan administration and uphold the constitutionally of the whole law. >> i asked that same question to plan b to our member of congress next hour. we appreciate it. see what happens tomorrow morning. i'm going to talk with ben quayle. he wants obama care to be repealed but are the alternatives too vague? she wrote the movies you watch. i know i've watched them over and over again. classics, when harry met sally, sleepless in seattle.

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the trubt tributes and memories are pouring in for a hollywood great who was known for her contributions not on camera but behind it. she had when harry met sally, sleepless in seattle. fellow film director said this.

nora was so funny and interesting that we didn't notice she was necessary. she's absolutely irreplaceable. her family says she died from cancer. i want to talk to senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen a little more about how she passed. 71 seems too young. >> it seems too young. it's so sad. we forgot to say she's an author. her scribble inspired me to become a journalist. it's such an awful thing. she had a blood cancer. the bone marrow starts making sort of bad cells. cells that really hurt the immune system and these bad cells start to displace the good cells. it's very, very difficult to treat. >> difficult to treat. >> the survival rate is low. when you look at people who are diagnosed with it and look at them about five years later, only about one out of four is

still alive. >> there were reports that she had mylodysplasia. what happened? did it advance? >> it can become leukemia. it doesn't always but in her case, it did. for six years she knew she had a condition that might become cancer. >> so sad. >> i don't think she discussed it very much. i'm a huge fan so i follow her life. >> i had no idea. thank you. health care reform. we're talking about it here. several presidents tried it, democrats and republican, and now the effort of another president hang in the balance. what happens to president obama if the supreme court rules against him? ♪ ♪

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whether i will we wait for the supreme court to announce its historic decision on health care reform, you may be surprised to know how long the united states has been debating this issue. i want to bring in doug brinkley on the phone. a lot of people think this battle began when hillary clinton was first lady. it so totally goes back further than that. right after world war ii, you had teddy roosevelt try it. i want to go back to harry truman because he proposed something. tell me what he proposed.

>> literally 100 years ago in 1912, roosevelt ran and promoted universal health care. he wanted everybody to have health care provisions. he didn't win. he came in second. fdr had so many great new deal successes and social security. harry truman was trying to do something similar in ways. he fell short as have all democratic presidents. lyndon johnson was able to get medicare and medicaid through. bill clinton tried hard to accomplish what president obama did. >> let me jump in. you're fast forwarding too

quickly. let me take you back. let me go back to richard nixon. this is what we found. take a listen. >> richard nixon, which i happen to work for put forth a very comprehensive plan which looks a lot in structure like the obama plan. >> a comprehensive plan. what did that entail? >> very similar to this. richard nixon is considered the last of the new deal presidents. he did clean air and water act and created the environmental protection agency and for health care because the american people believed the federal government had answers all the way from franklin roosevelt to ronald reagan. it's in the reagan revolution of the 1980s that you see a turn back of if you like great society measures and nixon was part of that era when the belief that government could help in the air. >> we have some reportings from

ronald reagan. >> we do not want socialized medicine. one of these days, you and i, are going to spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in america when men were free. >> that was back in the '60s. those words still a corner stone, it seems like of republican opposition today when it comes to obama care. >> right there. that's the slogan for the tea party movement. that's why we live in the age of reagan in the republican land. they love what he said there and they have been labeling, calling so called obama care socialism. the democrats have been saying no, it isn't. it's americanism. it's in the grain of t.r. and harry truman. tomorrow's supreme court decision is monumental. it will tell us if you're living in the mild belief of the federal government helping

people or living in an age of reagan where the supreme court has become so conservative that most americans and the supreme court feels less government is good. >> the person who really proposed this idea was republican house speaker newt gingrich. we'll see how this shakes out tomorrow. enjoy the rest of your vacation. congress will honor the very first african-american marines who trained during world war ii. they are about to receive the highest honor for a civilian. we'll show you that live. i'm going to speak with the city manager of the largest city to file for bankruptcy in the united states. the question, does this mean other american cities could be next? don't miss it. people with a machine.

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just having to finally take this step, how tough was that for you? >> well, it's a very difficult decision and move. it's not something that i was trained for in my career. it's not something i'm proud of. it's really the only option for stockton. >> the only option. when do you officially file for bankruptcy? >> we will file before the close of this week. possibly thursday or friday. >> i imagine this was the kind of thing where you sort of ran down your different options, alternatives, and determined this was best for the city. would you qualify this as a last resort move? >> absolutely. the irony is when i came here two years ago, i had lots of business people telling me you'll have to file bankruptcy. my response was i can't do that

legally or ethically unless i can prove to myself and the attorneys this is the only and last option. we finally reached that after a couple of years. >> what was the tipping point? >> the tipping point is we tried everything that we have some legal control over, and that wasn't enough. we've ahead some very, very difficult service reduk, staffing reductions. we made some very difficult compensation reductions and labor contracts, but revenues keep going down because the recession is still with us. what's left is spreading the pain to the creditors and retirees. in order to do that, chapter nine and the protection of chapter nine will help us. >> you mentioned feeling the pain. i know there was a difficult

city council meeting. how will the citizens be affected? which services will be cut? >> the very reason why we're filing for chapter nine protection is to protect services. the average citizen is not going to see any change in services. >> no change? >> that's correct. that's the only benefit of filing chapter nine. the council has decided we cannot cut anymore in public safety. we had to cut in places other than public safety services. it's been primarily suspending payments with bondholders and greatly reducing the retiree medical retirement program and ultimately eliminating it a year from now. >> i appreciate your calling in. we'll have to see if there's a ripple effect. stockton now could be another town or city down the road. thank you so much.

more news unfolding right now. rapid fire, roll it. debby is now officially a tropical depression. the state emergency response team says three people did die from this storm. 7,000 home, commercial properties remain under evacuation order. i want you to look at some surveillance video. this woman trying to snatch a purse from another woman walking through the parking lot. you see them going back and forth. the victim here she is, dragged around until she's able to kick the suspect off who gets away sans purse. police in massachusetts looking for your help in i.d.ing this potential purse snatcher. you wonder what would happen if fireworks stand caught on fire? well, mystery solved.