we're celebrating him and everybody who is here feels him here, which is great. it's great to see his family here. >> larry: we've been at the neverland ranch. we have been here all day and we've had quite a night. we'd love to come back again. from the neverland ranch, this has been "larry king live." tonight, holding out hope. a worried family speaks out about this video. their loved one in the hands of taliban militants. what now? lifeline, unfolding news about a big-time lender who helps the little guys now in desperate need of help itself. the government said no. we'll tell you who just might say yes. and coming to america. iranians bring the election fallout right here to the u.s. we're live tonight. and "black in america" soledad o'brien is here to kick off part two of her special. we'll talk solutions right now. i'm don lemon. reaction is pouring in tonight from across the country as

americans get their first look at images of a u.s. army soldier held captive by the taliban. this is private irs class bowe bergdahl from the ketchum, idaho. on the video he's heard talking about his captivity, his family, and his fears. >> well, i'm scared. i'm scared i won't be able to go ho home. it is very unnerving to be a prisoner. i have my girlfriend, who i was hoping to marry. i have my grandma and grandpa. i have a very, very good family that i love back home in america. and i miss them every day that i'm gone.

i miss them and i'm afraid that i might never see them again and that i'll never be able to tell them that i love them again. i'll never be able to hug them. >> a spokesman for u.s. forces in afghanistan condemns the video calling it public exploitation and humiliation of a prisoner and a violation of international law. private bergdahl's family has also released a statement. it says, we hope and pray for our son's safe return to his comrades and then to our family and we appreciate all the support and expressions of sympathy shown to us by our family members, our friends, and others across the nation. thank you and please continue to keep bowe in your thoughts and prayers. private bergdahl's home state of idaho, a family friend had a message for the young private and all of the men and women serving in uniform. >> bowe, if you see this, know that we love you and we are praying fervently for you and prayers are going up for you

from all over the world. stand tall and stand firm, and to all of our valiant men and women in uniform, know that the american people believe in you, support you, and are 100% behind you. we thank god every day that you have our backs. >> we talk now about private bergdahl's capture and what happens next. we will do have with tim crockett, the executive director of a private security and intelligence firm. tim, you know, you have some -- i was talking to you about this before. you have mixed feeling about the airing of this tape. why is that? >> well, straightaway when you air something like this, it increases their value. it's not a good situation for him to be in, going from a private now to on the air in front of thousands, if not millions, increases his situation. >> because the more people get to know him, the more they get

to have some sort of connection to him. >> a connection to him, yes. >> so the captors may ask for even more than what they're asking -- it >> it increases their leverage. >> but you think it's good in the sense that other people in the armed services can learn from it? >> well, there are questions being asked, why he wandered off base in the first place. i think it will be used to reinforce the need for their own safety, their own security, and not to do things like that. >> tim, talk to us about what's going on behind the scenes now, especially the military. how are they going about securing this soldier? >> well, they're going to be perhaps meeting with other agencies, other countries, armed forces and so forth to try to find out where he is. that's their number one obstacle at this stage. once they find him, then they can obviously plan to execute some rescue mission or appeal to

his captors for release. >> and they're working with the faep as well. >> of course. they will ensure they're getting the right information to make sure their concerns are taken care of. >> i have spoken with peter bergen earlier tonight, he said the captors will have a list of demands. >> they will ask for the release of prisoners from bagram air force base in afghanistan, taliban prisoners. they may also ask for a large ransom. the u.s. government, it is policy not to release prisoners from american custody, policy not to pay ransom. so unfortunately, this is an extremely difficult situation. >> so as you listen to, that it's kind of what you said, you don't think this video being aired will help with any of that. >> no, it gives them more leverage. they will ask for higher demands. we have seen in the past they have asked for the release of prisoners and then been satisfied with a ransom of some sort. hopefully this will be the case in this situation, but, again,

the more attention it receives, the higher the stakes increase and then who knows. >> all right. tim crockett, we appreciate your insight on this. thank you very much. we're going to keep following this story, developing story. coming up, ken robinson share his thoughts. he's a veteran of u.s. military special operations and a former military intelligence officer. that's coming up on cnn. a helicopter plunged to the ground in southern afghanistan today killing 16 civilians. the chopper crashed just after taking off from nato's kandahar airfield, a major hub for coalition operations. this is the latest in a string of air crashes this weekend in afghanistan raising urgent safety concerns amid an anti-taliban offensivoffensive. new developments in a murderous rampage. 30-year-old jacob shaffer is held in a tennessee jail on five counts of murder. police say they found him sitting on the porch at one of

the crime scenes. he's accused of killing his wife, her 16-year-old son, her brother, her father, and a 16-year-old family friend. friends of shaffer's wife say they thought trouble was brewing. >> you knew she was having problems with him. she kind of had a hard time in life, but she was a very kind-hearted person and definitely loved her children and loved her family and was a typical concerned mom. >> a sixth and unidentified victim was found 30 miles away at a huntsville, alabama, business. shaffer has yet to be formally charged in that death. investigators believe the motive behind the murder was domestic related. a lender that keeps the lights on at nearly 1 million small and medium businesses could get a bailout, but not from uncle sam. bondholders are reportedly cutting a big check for the struggling c.i.t. group after the government failed to give it

more funds. poppy harlow is in new york tonight. she joins us by phone. a lot of people are upset about this, asking how this company keeps main street running but yet no one will get behind it. tell us us what going on. >> that's exactly right. this is the subject of a lot of debate throughout last week. this is a 101-year-old lender that services nearly 1 million small and medium-sized businesses in this country. the largest lender to those small businesses across america. but they made some mistakes. they made some aggressive pushes into subprime lending. it took a big hit. i should say, this group, c.i.t. group, this lender did get $2.3 billion of t.a.r.p. money last december, but it found out a few weeks ago that it needed more help and it went to the government, the ceo really working with people in washington trying to get additional ate, and it was not able to secure that additional aid. you heard from lawmakers coming out last week talking about how this bank is not like others,

for example not like aig and others that -- and bank of america, citigroup, that posed systemic risk. it's not too big to fail. so, therefore, don, it said you're not getting more money. what we know tonight reportedly through "the wall street journal," we're working to confirm this, is that c.i.t. group is securing a deal with its bondholders for an emergency $3 billion loan and what that would do, don, is that would stave off chapter 11 bankruptcy which would be a big hit to the bondholders and all of these small business that is rely on this company not only for startup loans but for loans to continue their business. that's reported from "the wall street journal," again, that they could be secured that $3 billion in emergency funding as early as monday morning. >> poppy, i have to ask you this. what happens if this reported deal does not go throw? >> what we'll probably see, don, as early as tomorrow morning really would be a chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing, restructuring process similar to what you saw with chrysler and similar to what you saw with

general motors but this for a financial institution. if we see a failure of c.i.t., which i don't think a likely, it could be the biggest collapse since lehman brothers. it's nowhere near as big as lehman was, but it's still substantial. what this really means is it could really hurt medium and small businesses because, again, it's one of the largest lenders to them. that's what we could see a chapter 11 restructuring. our team is on top of it. take a look at our home page. we have continuing coverage on there, don. >> cnnmoney.com is where you can go, and that's poppy harlow. thank you very much. make sure you stay tuned to cnn tomorrow and throughout the day. we will be covering this story for you. growing signs that president obama's health care plan is on life support. his big push could dominate the news this week. it is a topic for tonight's political panel. there they are, mark preston and april ryan. they'll join us in a second. plus, a new development in that deadly home invasion in florida involving the children left behind.

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pushback in congress on president obama's health care plan could be pun reason his approval rating has been slipping. here to talk it, april ryan is white house correspondent for american urban radio network. she joins us from maryland. and mark preston joins us from washington tonight. good to see both of you. i'll start with you, mark. the president wants to make his health care plan a done deal, but it looks unlikely. he's getting resistance even from those in his own party. can he do anything right now to help move his case along? >> well, don, you're sleuabsolu right. his biggest problem is not republicans, but his fellow democrats. their big concern is cost. the congressional budget office came out and said the democratic health plan is not going it save

money. what does the president have to do? he needs to really interject himself more personally into these negotiations. we haven't seen that so far, but president obama needs to do that. don, guess what? if he is not able to do that, if he does not do that now, you know, sooner rather than later, this needs to get done because, you know, the more it slips into, you know, october, november, december, we might not see a health care bill. >> and, april, he brings up a good point. his inability to get this done is affecting how americans are feeling about him. his approval rating is 57% now. it was 61% in june. >> some leaders on the hill are saying look at the president, if he leans in, puts his shoulder in a little more, something could happen. but it's also about expectations. when we talk about the numbers, the expectations of this president are very, very high. he came in, people were expecting him to change the world, and to see a little bit of a tug of war with the republican party is one thing. but within your own party,

that's causing the problems. >> i think you're right. there were also a lot of promises made on the campaign trail, and he took on a lot as well. so it's not just people's perception about what they want him to achieve. mark, let's talk about supreme court justice sonia sotomayor -- nominee sonia sotomayor. she handled herself well during last week's hearings, but there are some ranking republicans who are wanting to delay her confirmation process. why? >> well, don, you know, what they're looking for is a smoking gun. we won't see a vote this week. they want another week to look into her history as a judge, some of the things she might have said even before she was on the bench, but the fact is we will see a vote in two weeks. i was told by a senior democrat on capitol hill today just a couple hours ago that when that vote occurs, which will be at the end of this month, don, they expect her nomination to be on the senate floor and within one or two day that is she will be voted out and she will become the next supreme court justice. >> president obama had some tough love for the naacp last night.

listen, both of you. >> it also means pushing children to set their sights a little bit higher. they might think they've got a pretty good jump shot or a pretty good flow, but our kids can't all aspire to be lebron or lil wayne. i want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers. i want them aspiring to be a supreme court justice. i want them aspiring to be the president of the united states of america. >> all right. so, april, you rode with him on the plane before that speech on the way to that speech. you were there for the speech, and i would imagine you rode back with him. tell us about the reception in the room and then the praise afterwards and also some criticism. some people did not like that speech. >> well, i talked to some of the board members of the naacp, and they're saying it was balanced, and one thing you have to remember, there has been some criticism of this president

because he has not really in the first six months really targeted the african-american community. this was his first speech to black america as president. this is something that he does so well. he connects. he goes from politician to preacher, and he even evoked, yes, we can, and at the end of the speech, they were chanting, yes, we can. he came in, thunderous applause, standing ovation. during the speech, even during that clip that you paid, p. diddy, former rapper, still rapper as well as entrepreneur, he even stood up and aapplauded. saying i don't want you to be just a rapper or a baller. >> i want to know if you took any pictures. i didn't see them. did you take any pictures on the plane or did you have some behind-the-scenes moment? there are some pictures there. >> he was in a very good mood that day. and he did realize the graph vi

of the day because he had seven black journalists in a round table discussion with him on air force one. one thing he said for sure, just because i am president does not mean that racism still doesn't exist. the number one issue is education, and bridging that divide, the education gap in the black community and also stopping crime. he said education, if that is a lack thereof for young african-americans, it trickles into unemployment. it trickles into crime. >> and all of the other things that are problems in that community. april ryan -- >> and he wanted people to know he was part of the group. that's why he said that. he said there but for the grace of god go i. >> april ryan, thank you. >> mark, thank you. got you in there a lot at the beginning, but she was on the plane so i had to get the backstory on that. thank you, guys. always appreciate you joining us. for the first time since the story broke about dug up bodies we finally hear from the cemetery's lawyer. >> there was not a situation

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new developments in that home invasion that claimed the lice of foster parents near pensacola last week. ashley markham, the 26-year-old daughter of melanie billings, plans to raise the 13 special needs children. eight people have been arrested and charged. byrd and melanie billings were laid to rest on friday. for the first time since the arrest of four employees in an

alleged burial plot scam, an attorney for the embattled burr oak cemetery outside chicago is firing back at the sheriff's department saying conditions described by investigators have been grossly overstated. but the attorney does concede the cemetery's owners did not have full-time oversight of the graveyard. >> apparently it happens when you hire what you think are good people and you leave them to do their jobs and they find schemes of taking money where they shouldn't. there was not a situation where bones simply littered the cemetery. we have people in and out of the cemetery every day. >> a spokesman for the cook county sheriff scoffs at the discussions by the toattorney. workers allegedly drug up hundreds of plots and resold them dumping the bodies in gs graves. the alleged scheme is thought to have pocketed more than $300,000. the iran election dispute comes to american shores, but

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rk rockers with keep iranian roots hit the stage in new york city tonight singing politically powerful songs to a packed house. reza sayah is in new york tonight. before we talk about the concert there, is some developing news about the resignation of a key government official. >> this does not look good for the ahmadinejad administration. three days after president ahmadinejad appoints a new vice president, the vice president resigns under fierce criticism from hardliners. these are hardliners, supposedly supporters of ahmadinejad. let's tell you about the former appointee. his name is raheem mashai.

ahmadinejad's son is actually married to his daughter, but that wasn't the problem. the problem came last year when the vice president who was head of iran's cultural tourism said iranians are friends with everyone, including israelis. this did not go down well with the hardliners. he came under harsh criticism. that's why when three days ago ahmadinejad appointed him as the new vice president, there came another wave of criticism and he resigned. this is significant because it's the first sign of in-fighting among hardliners themselves. of course, we have seen reformists and hardliners fight. never hardliners fight within their own camp, but it looks like it's happening in this case. >> so take us now to this concert in new york. it was powerful songs from bands who are from iran with really deep iranian roots. >> yeah. interesting scene today in new york city. iranian leadership is really trying to shut the door on any kind of rallies for the

opposition inside iran, but they haven't been successful, obviously, in shutting up iranians outside of the nation. this was the scene in new york city tonight. a bunch of artists born in iran. they couldn't do what they love to do inside iran, so they left the kcountry and they have realy been inspired by the opposition movement. what electric black and other groups did was to play their music in order to raise awareness of what's happening in iran and show the iranians back in their home country that they have their support. here is what they had to say. >> our role is to support them and show solidarity so they don't feel alone and understand that there are millions of people all over the world who sympathize and think that their fight is righteous. >> it's just been such an absolute pleasure to be a part of this because we feel that we really want to help out our

brothers and sisters back home in any way that we can and hopefully this is only the start. >> iranian rockers in new york city, they call this collaboration the freedom glory project. moralies in support of the opposition coming up, a hunger strike in front of the u.n. and a worldwide rally scheduled for saturday. >> reza, thank you very much. the search for private bergdahl. the military is handing out pamphlets in eastern afghanistan asking for the public's help. plus, get ready for our talkers. there they are. oh-oh. chris on the right, warren ballentine on the left. they tackle the big issues in the week ahead and each other. we're back in a moment. two separate ribbons. the white cleanses. the gold moisturizes and has a touch of mineral shimmer to enhance skin's tone. olay tone enriching body wash. for skin that shimmers. dddddddddddddddd

want to update our top story. the military says this taliban video shows bowe r. bergdahl of ketchum, idaho. it's the first time he's been seen since he disappeared more than two weeks ago in southeastern afghanistan. he can be heard talking about his family and his fears. >> scared i won't be able to go home. and it's very unnerving to be a prisoner. >> a spokesman for u.s. forces in afghanistan has issued a statement saying we strongly condemn this public exploitation and humiliation of a prisoner. it is a violation of the international law of war, and we continue to use all resources available to us to return this soldier to safety. private bergdahl's family also released a statement saying, we hope and pray for our son's safe return to his comrades and then owe our family, and we appreciate all the support and expressions of sympathy shown to us by our family members, our friends, and others across the

nation. thank you and please continue to keep bowe in your thoughts and prayers. americans are speaking out in support of private bergdahl. in military towns like pensacola, florida, stories like this one really hit home. >> i think we need to go in and get him out, whatever it takes. send the marine corps in, you know. we've done it for our hostages. i have a son that's a marine. he's been in iraq three times. not only do i worry about him, but i worry about the men and women that are over there that need to come home. >> i can't imagine how their families feel. i'm retired military. i am pretty upset about it. very disturbing. >> a lot of people paying

attention to this story and a lot of people have been writing to us saying this video of the captured u.s. soldier is tough to watch and the captors know t i discussed this earlier with ken robinson. he's a former military intelligence officer with experience in special operations. >> one of the things that in training, survival ofati asian resistance, we tell them if we can get on video they should. if they're willing to take video, yes, they are exploiting the soldier, but it also means there's a potential for communication for some form of negotiation. >> isn't this also a form of propaganda, too, ken? >> it absolutely is. what it does is it strikes fear in any soldier that doesn't want to get captured. we saw that exclusively used with the al qaeda beheading videos in iraq. we haven't seen that same thing happen in afghanistan, and this

is taliban. it's suspected to be the network that is holding this individual soldier. we'll see how it plays out. >> that was ken robinson. you've heard what others had to say about private first class bergdahl. now it's time to bring in warren ballentine and chris plante to weigh in on this and other hot topics. warren, no matter, left or right, republican, democrat, when you see this, we're all americans in this situation and our hearts go out to that soldier and his family. >> well, when i first watched it earlier today, don, the first thing i did was say a prayer for the soldier and his family. i agree with some of the comments made earlier by the people you interviewed. i think we need to go in and get this young man. i think no matter what, whether we have to send the s.e.a.l.s in, i hope the president steps up to the plate. >> some people are talking about the airing of the video, they're uncomfortable with it. >> it does serve the propaganda

purposes of the people of the taliban group that took him captive. it's painful to watch. it's one of the tragedies of war, and obviously i'm with warren and i know warren grew up in an air force family. if you can get him back, you get him back, but there's real concern he may have already been taken to pakistan. it could be tough. >> let's move on and talk about health care. the president says he wants to done soon, he's getting lots of resistance and not only republicans. >> his primary opposition, his central problem is not the republicans, it's the democrats that are not on board with this. they're not on board because it doesn't hit the targets that president obama said he wanted the legislation to hit. it's not being supported because it's not being paid for. it's going to lead to tax increases -- >> not being supported now, but will it pass, chris? >> well in its current form, i don't think that it will, no. the republicans left out of it entirely the democrats won't pass it. they don't want ownership of it. >> warren, will it pass and why

is he getting so much resist frens democrats? >> i don't think it will pass because you have democrats up for re-election in 2010 and they don't want the tax increase. it's going to kill them in this upcoming election term. they want to keep their position and their seats. i think what's going to end up happening is this will be revisited in 2010 and at that point it will pass. >> i spoke to you about this last week, we talked about the confi confirmation hearings. some republicans are saying they want to delay the process. >> i think that's a bad political move. i think she's very much qualified. i agree with some of the republican banter that some of the things, if a white man would have said it, it would have been blown out of proportion. 98% of the time she's ruled the way republicans would rule her. i think they need to shut up and give her that seat. >> i think that she will be confirmed by the senate. i don't think there's any great

mystery about that, but i'm going to tell you, you talk about the republicans, again, this is another situation where the people that are angriest with sonia sotomayor are the liberals that wanted her to go up there and defend her latina woman comment making better judgment calls than white men, who wanted her to defend her 15-year record of social activism, and instead they're very disappointed and in fact there's a guy, mike sideman, who is a law professor at georgetown university, an avowed liberal who questions whether she didn't perjure herself and whether she is morally -- this is a liberal going after her. >> perjure her about what? >> what she believes, what she stands for, what she meant when she said that, her association with the puerto rican activist group, the civil rights group and her involvement with that

group. had she tap danced her way through very exquisitely, but there's a lot of questions about what she said. >> i think perjury she'd have to be under oath in a courtroom. >> i didn't raise it. >> if you're saying she misrepresented herself or didn't tell the full truth, yeah, but perjury. all right, chris, come on. >> she played the game just like everybody else, chris. she did what she was supposed to do. >> and it's an awful game. >> we're going to talk about shattering that glass ceiling. it can be tough to do, especially for professional black women. we're trying to change that. soledad o'brien joins us live. the special "black in america two" report. there's soledad. she's going to join me straight ahead. or sit on her bed and talk about her day. but she's ready. thanks to walmart's unbeatable prices, i was able to get her everything she needed. as well as what she wanted. letting go?@imom! (mom) that's the hard part. set them up for success, for less.

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at 26 she owns a home, a car, and earned $77,000 a year as an engineer. >> i knew that an engineering degree was going to be financially stable when i got out of college. chemical engineering is the most versatile out of all of the engineering disciplines. >> reporter: she's a project manager at a chemical manufacturing company with over half a million dollars in revenue. >> working at zep i have had a lot of great opportunities. >> reporter: but she's also experienced road blocks and frustration. >> i couldn't see what my next step was and i had no one to help me see it. i didn't want to get pickgeonhod as that engineer. >> reporter: in taking charge of her own career, she's about to walk away from everything she has for an 18-month program created by this man, john rice. >> we have under representation of minorities in corporate america in the nonprofit world. yes, we do.

we need to solve that. >> reporter: rice was an executive with the nba, but left to serve others in his innovative organization, management leadership for tomorrow. mlt teaches a series of prescribed steps. step one, know your story. >> introduce yourself, talk to us. who are you? convince this group that you have the juice. >> reporter: step two, articulate your goals and passion. >> i'm most passionate about empowering others. >> reporter: and step three, build important relationships. >> we want to get to know you. >> reporter: that's what mia jackson has been doing for the past 18 months in the prep program. >> i didn't know monthly assignments were going to be grueling and repetitive. it's definitely another full-time job. >> reporter: one final challenge before mia's mlt journey ends.

four rigorous days in the rain of round the clock training, crash courses in consuling, entrepreneurship, where mia must quickly digest information she's never studied. >> price times volume. >> reporter: can mia prove she's got the right stuff for corporate leadership? and the basic idea is to test mia now and put her through the paces now so that she can succeed when she actually does get to business school. the big picture is not just mia's success, it's really that if mia is able to be successful, then the community where she comes from is going to be a community she can give back to that will make the community successful as well. the community benefits, she benefits, it's a connection that can raise the bar for everybody. >> you said it right there in your lead-in. the numbers don't lie. if you don't think there's a

problem, all you have to do is look at the numbers. is that susan rice's brother? >> yes, he would say susan rice is his sister possibly because what his program has done is innovated and they bring in 200 young people every single semester, season they do this. he has a lot of yurng people who look to him as a true leader and innovator. >> soledad and i have talked about it, "black in america" the first one, we did this one, and this one is about solutions. we wish you well, soledad. we will all be watching. thanks for joining us tonight. we have a programming note for you. wednesday night at 7:00 eastern catch the moment of truth with steve harvey and tom joiner. then at 8:00 the premiere of "black in america two."

with his help she became the youngest african-american female to fly solo across the country. i will introduce you to them. it's part of our series "up from a past."

most 15-year-olds are busy preparing for school dances and

s.a.t.s. kimberly was learning how to fly a plane. kimberly is the youngest african-american female to fly solo across the country. her mentor, levi thornhill, a man with plenty of experience. he's one of the original tuskegee airmen. i talked with both of them tonight. >> she's one of those young ladies that you notice right off the bad because of her bearing and her manners and everything. it was very pleasing, and you knew that she had had the kind of upbringing and schooling and what have you that she was going to go far. and she has. >> and so you got in touch with her or she got in touch with you? was there a program that you guys met through? >> well, we met through a program. occasionally some of the tuskegee airmen go and are great mentors to the students who are available at the center. >> how old are you now, kimberly? you're 15?

>> yes, 15. >> you have been flying since you were 12. >> 12 years old, three years ago. >> why are you interested in flying. >> i think i was always kind of interested in flying. ever since i was young with my brother, sister, and i, he would go on top of the roof and watch the big 747s and the jetliners go by and we were like that was so cool. we would wave to them to see if they could see us, i doubt they ever could, but when we found like a program that could actually put our ideas to man fesstation, we just jumped to it. >> so listen, you have flown across country. you're one the youngest. do you even have a driver's license yet? you're only 15. >> no. of course, i'm think being my driver's license, but like i like flying way more than i think i like driving because you can go way farther in a plane than in a car. >> kimberly, mr. turnhill said

you were an exceptional student. what's next for you? what would you like to do next? >> well, i plan on getting my present pilot's license when i turn 17 and i also want to become a cardiovascular surgeon. >> okay. i think you should aim higher but -- i'm kidding. that's cass sasarcasm. mr. turnhill, don't you think she can probably do just about anything she wants? >> truly, truly, i sincerely believe that. >> levi turnhill, kimberly, thank you and congratulations. next week, i'll introduce to you sofia dannonberg. she's the first african-american to reach the summit of mt. everest. it takes a great golf story to get tiger woods out of the headlines, and we have one. tom watson quest for histories

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the oldest winner of the british open is not tom watson. for a while today it looked like the 59-year-old might make history becoming the oldest golfer to win a major turn am and he had to do -- all he had to do was sink an eight-foot putt to win. he missed. that tied him with stewart cink, but watson's performance went downhill in the four-hole playoff. cink walked away with the title by six strokes. cnn's justin armsden spoke with watson immediately after that. >> in the end a heartbreaking end to the open championship, tom watson. i wonder if you can sum up the entire week for us. >> it's disappointing. hard to take a lot of positives away from it. but the positives were at the beginning of the week i really field like i had a chance to win the tournament. i started off great and knew i

was playing well enough to win the tournament and it almost happened. >> i still think he did win. congratulations because that's quite an achievement, don't you think jacqui jeras? >> a big winner in my book. >> a great day for golf. >> the large majority of the country had fantastic weather all weekend long. hopefully you had a chance to get out and enjoy it. as you head back to work tomorrow, we're going to start to see more showers and thundershowers develop, especially across the plains states. a slight risk of those storms becoming severe here from nebraska extending down towards parts of texas. you had a great weekend across the least. low pressure developing on the stalled out front, that front that brought in the nice cool air. that's going to start to pick up showers and thunderstorms. we will likely see some airport delays in philadelphia and d.c. dallas, houston, and tampa tomorrow because of thunderstorms and also into san francisco due to low clouds and fog, and what about those temperatures? yeah, we're still seeing pretty nice across the northern tier,

but the heat starting to bubble up a little more in the deep south and sticking around across the southwest. >> jacqui, thank you very much. some sad news to tell you about. author and teacher frank mccourt has died of cancer. mccourt was best known for the best-selling novel "angela's ashes" a memory war about his improve risi impoverished child. frank mccourt was 78 years old.

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a lot of you writing in and weighing if on president barack obama's health care plan. here is what sammy says. when an employee contributes for insurance for ten years, never gets sick and gets laid off, he must be reimbursed. ecurra 19 says the fact is we need the health care plan. i need it because i have one of those labels, pre-existing

conditions. randy pdx says it will end up being too expensive and there is a chance some government hack may make a decision about who will get treatment. slackadjusterr says i can't get health insurance because of pre-existing condition. if i get sick, will go into bankruptcy, lose ho houuse and everything. i keep hearing what plan will do for individuals. i work in a large hospital. how will the plan affect hospital reimbursement? we'll find out. we always like getting your comments on the air. we appreciate it. we like your feedback around here. you can bet president barack obama is going to talk about health care during his news conference. it's going to be wednesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn, and, of course, cnn will bring it to you live. i want to tell you this, another programming note on wednesday night at 7:00 eastern, cnn, catch the