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from the cnn news center, you are in the "newsroom" on saturday, july 25th. >> appreciate you being here with us. the battle over health care reform is at the center of the president and the weekly addresses. the gop saying the president's plan will cost american job. meanwhile democrats divided over the plan which is now stuck in all kinds of committees. kate bolduan at the white house trying to keep up with all of this stuff. the president is -- took him a while to get back on message. talking about other thing. wants to get back to health care reform. where's is he? >> reporter: absolutely, t.j. well, the president similar as the white house tried to stay focus this week using his weekly address to continue pitching, making his pitch for health care reform for americans across the country. listen here to a little bit of president obama. >> this debate is not a political gain. we cannot afford to keep waiting

for reform. we will finally get it done. >> reporter: now today's address by president obama comes just after a setback for the president. the senate majority leader harry reid announcing thursday the senate will not meet the president's deadline of getting a vote on health care before the august recess. now, congress is really struggling here with what to do and where to find common ground when it comes to health care reform. this is not just a debate between democrats and republicans. this is also a debate between democrats themselves. specifically talking about liberals in the party and more conservative, fiscally conservative democrats. the big point, disagreements on lew to bring down the skyrocketing health care. disagreements over the government-run public option that is being proposed right now and also when talking about all of this, a big disagreement about how to pay for it all at the end of the day.

things that everyone is struggling with right now. >> talk about the folks that are struggling and disagreeing nowthe president's poll numbers coming down to earth we've been seeing. also, democrats, squabbling. do rubbens see an opportunity? how are they going to tackle this issue? >> no question that republicans are seeing an opportunity here and republicans are also using the weekly republican response, weekly address, to take on health care as well. the president in his weekly address talked specifically trying to make the pitch to small businesses. saying small businesses will only be able to benefit from health care reform, while in the republican address, congresswoman kathy mcmorris, rogers of washington state argues that the democratic plan misses the mark and will do much more to hurt small businesses and the public than to help. listen here. >> the democrats health care plan crafted largely behind closed doors isn't the right thing opinion it's a prescription for disaster. one that will put washington

bureaucrats in chashg of your family's personal medical decisions. medical decisions that are some of the most personal decisions you'll ever make. >> now, as you of course know, t.j., this is, not at beginning, we are in the middle of this deect and it will continue and the president this week continuing an aggressive campaign of trying to get, win over more support behind his plan for health care reform and he's traveling to north carolina and virginia to talk directly to the american public about health care. take a listen. >> kate bolduan, thanks a lot. the taliban launched multiple suicide attacks on government buildings in afghanistan today. here's what the attackers hit. a bank, an army hospital and a police building. the fighters were wearing suicide vests and they were armed with rocket propelled grenades.

in dozens of cities around the world are hitting the streets in support of iranians fighting for democracy. take a look here. happening in seoul, south korea. pictures there. supporters of iran's movement hit the streets just as iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad is sworn into office. in london, protesters there wearing green in honor of what's being called a green movement. they are calling for the release of hundreds of iranians arrested during last month's demonstration against the country's elections. and -- happening in california, just across the border. a 30-year-old officer shot multiple time. officials believe the smuggling believing it was drug, possibly people into the u.s., smuggling back into mexico after being confronted by the boarder

patrol. >> they were tracking a group and a the group broke up. so the agents broke up to follow them. they lost contact with them and unfortunately by the time they found him he had siffered from some, multiple gunshot wounds and i believe found dead on the scene. >> the fbi offering a $100,000 reward for information in this case. word now that president bush considered using u.s. troops in a terror raid on american soil in 2002. six men were arrested in buffalo, new york, for allegedly plotting with al qaeda. they become gnome at the lackawanna six and dick cheney and others pushed for troops being used in that arrest but president bush wasn't so heavy on the idea said let the fbi take the lead. president obama taking the lead and trying to step down the controversy surrounding the july 16th arrest of harvard professor

gates. the president saying he may have added to the fire saying the police act the stupidedly. yesterday the president clarified his position. >> i wanted to make clear that in my choice of words i think i unfortunately gave an impression that i was maligning the cambridge police department and sergeant crowley specifically, and i could have calibrated those words differently. >> here now for reaction to president obama's about-face in an e-mail sent to don lemon that said, i was very pleased that the kred call immediate today and pleased that he proposed i meet with sergeant crowley at the white house, science i had offered to meet with him since last monday. says i am eager for this to be used as a teaching moment to improve racial relations in america.

this is certainly not about me. elaine quijano, hello. >> reporter: t.j., president obama's comments were really well received here in cambridge. as you might expect, this is front page news here in the boston area. today no exception. the headline in the "boston globe" reading obama moves to quell gates furor." blocking comments. and one sergeant leon lashley, one of those who responded along with sergeant crowley to the call of the break-in at professor gate' house. yesterday he told our don lemon that he supports sergeant crowley's actions 100%. >> what i had saw, i was there. this situation right here was not a racial motivated -- >> you know people, obviously are going to pay close attention

because you're an african-american man, reporting with a white officer, that this was put out there, racially profiling, they're going to -- >> i hope they do. >> he was doing his job. >> reporter: we should tell you sergeants lashley says after the president spoke there were cheers, high fives. he says it was like the air had been let out of the bubble, and we should tell you of course, officers leer in massachusetts really just want to move on. after that phone call that president obama made to sergeants crowley, a coalition of police unions released a written statement saying that sergeant crowley is profoundly grateful the president took the time to try to resolve the situation. the statement goes on ton say it is clear to us from this conversation that the president respects police officers. t.j.? >> elaine quijano, thank you so much. also this morning we saw

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couple other elected officials including five rabbis nabbed in this drag net. >> sounds like a bad joke or bad movie. >> bad movie. very real. >> the most disturbing part of this case, the alleged brokering of human organs. mary snow reports for us. >> reporter: among the dozens arrested in a wide-ranging corruption probe, prosecutors called this man the kidney salesman. levi ishak rosenbaum, he offered to obtain a kidney for an undercover fbi agent and informant explaining i am what you call a match maker. >> give up a kidney for $10,000 which he in turn would turn around and sell for $150,000. >> reporter: about his business, the complaint quotes rosenbaum as saying, i'm doing this a long time. let me explain to you one thing. it's illegal to buy or sell

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hi. hey, reynolds, i know we were talking earlier. actually on a xaers note, a tornado in florida, and pictures we got in from, what, someone's cell phone? >> amazing stuff. cell phone pictures. also video from the ground. we'll start with the video on the ground. known as the lightning capital of the united states. yesterday it was a tornado that cause damage. you see some of it right here in the foreground. some off in the distance. wide spread power outages. people getting up today, doing what they can to clean up their neighborhoods. 163 homes damaged. seven completely destroyed. all the damage thankfully only one injury caused by flying glass. you want to see something, look at this. you see this tornado that actually moved from the land

moving out towards the east over open water where it became a waterspout. didn't last long. these shots sent in. actually sent in by rebecca owen on vacation, supposed to be a relaxing time and had a big stressor watching this storm roll off deep into the ocean. now, the latest we're seeing there in parts of florida, scattered showers. not out of the woods just yet. is there a chance they'll be deal wig the same activity and potential tornadoes. probably not. a better chance occurs in parts of the ohio valley and in the eastern great lakes. since we go into the northern plains, a chance of seeing not necessarily some tornadoes, possibly some severe storms that could bring large hail and damaging winds. and out to the west coast, relatively dry. drying and very warm in texas where high temperatures in dallas will warm up to 101 degrees. 96 degrees for you in houston. 92 in memphis. back towards washington, d.c. 92. new york, you've had one of the coolest summers so far on

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>> black people have always thought small business as away to build wealth. historically they sought their own businesses because they couldn't get jobs in the corporation. >> reporter: for kumi building wealth means taking big risks. >> after business school we didn't choose a high paying investment banking job. we chose to bootstrap a start-up. >> reporter: every day they'd pull on those bootstraps, stay afloat, sean and kumi was reinforce vision to investors. >> these are tough time. people are very, very concerned. and we are just scratching the surface to what mr. can really be. >> starting to thrive, not survive stuff. >> great. >> take care. >> i mean, i made the decision for ourselves, for individuals as the corporation, then decided not to participate with the

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well, here we are now half past the hour. this is what's happening right now. cnn affiliate television in boston reporting a plane left logan airport this morning heading for puerto rico had safely returned after smoke was reported onboard. we're told it was in the laboratory also possibly in the cargo department. more on this story as we get it. also more demonstrations happening today. really admonishing iran's government. this is happening around the globe, marches today. this one you see in london. one of several organized today. demonstrators demanding an end to human rights abuses following iran's crackdown on critics of the controversial re-election of president mahmoud ahmadinejad. we are also now getting live pictures. look at a plane there on the ground.

this is over oklahoma. oklahoma city. this is all thanks to our affiliate koco. that is happening, as you can see, right by an expressway. this is happening in northwest oklahoma city. again, according to c ochokoco, couple people injured when the plane crashed sometime this morning. according to unconfirmed reports from emergency officials on scene, this is a single engine plane that crashed in front of a bank. can you imagine? a bank of oklahoma. that's been northwest expressway in kendalwood drive, a number of people were taken to the hospital. but no fatalities have been reported yet. you can see some people may be checking out what is still left inside the airplane. firefighter on scene still scratching their heads over how this could have happened. we'll keep an eye on this from koco and bring you the latest when we get that. moving on, a local incident has become a national debate. talking about the arrest nine days ago of a prominent harvard

professor. president obama has commented ton twice now. twice. cnn white house correspondent dan lothian on how the president has tried to smooth things over. >> reporter: it wasn't quite an apology, but president obama tried to put out a wildfire that was burning out of control. placing a five-minute phone call to sergeant james crowley. >> i obviously helped to contribute ratcheting it up. i want to make clear that in my choice of words i think i unfortunate unfortunately gave an impression that i was maligning the cambridge police department and sergeant crowley specifically, and i could have calibrated those words differently. >> reporter: words the president uttered at his wednesday primetime press conference. >> the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. >> reporter: in his first sitdown television interview,

crowley said he never wanted to take such drastic action i. was continuously telling him to calm down during this exchange. i really didn't want this either. nonetheless, that's how far professor gates pushed it, and provoked and just wouldn't stop. >> reporter: the president now concedes that his good friend henry louis gates' jr. also play add role in how all of this turned out. >> there was an overreaction in pulling professor gates out of his home to the station. i also continue to believe based wloon i heard that professor gates probably overreacted as well. >> reporter: this came just hours after a group of police officers in massachusetts made it clear what they wanted to hear from president obama. i. think when the time is right they should make an apology to us. i think that the president should make an apology to all law enforcement personnel throughout the entire country. that took offense to this. >> reporter: the president admitted this controversy was

taking attention away from his top domestic priority. health care reform. beyond smoothing this over with the arresting officer, mr. obama said he hoped this becomes a teachable moment. >> where all of us instead of pumping up the volume spend a little more time listening to each other. and try to focus on how we can generally improve relations between police officers and minority communities. >> reporter: the white house says that president obama called professor gates, had a positive discussion and invited him here to meet with sergeant crowell any the near future. the president and crowley had earlier talk about all three them getting together here at the white house for a beer. dan lothian, cnn, the white house. well, professor gates and his attorney are up noor beer. we'll see what happens. the president yesterday was trying to calm everybody down. it sounded like gates' side wanted to calm everybody down as well. that's what it sounded like when i talked to charles ogletree,

the attorney for professor gates. >> did professor gates do anything wrong? not in a legal sense and break some law, but did he do anything wrong as a private citizen, as an upstanding citizen, as responsible citizen and not give due reverence to the police officer? >> no. of course he's angry. he has given two forms of identification of his house. he said i am who i am, and he said, you know, all he asked, he said, i want to file a complaint against you, because you're not listening to me, and i want to file a complaint against you and i want your badge and your number. >> to your knowledge, maybe they come across as upset, animated, belligerent. that would have been interpreted by the officer as that. >> i'm not sure how the officer interpreted, but if you ask any homeowner how do you feel in your own house when you provide your identification and the officer knows that it's you, how do you feel? i can't imagine many people

wouldn't be disappointed. >> is it possible that, some would argue as well, but i want your opinion, did professor gates, is he guilty of some sort of profiling as well. he sees an officer, a white officer, and he sees it as this officer is out to get me because i'm a black man rather than this is just an officer doing his job? >> well i mean -- you've never heard me use the word, this officer engaged in racial profiles. i said exercised bad judgment and i think he did. >> you believe this has nothing to do with race? >> i don't know. we'll find out. i think there's a lot that hasn't been determined yet and a lot to be determinedthe only time this was not calm is when professor gates said i'm going to file a complaint. maybe he should have thought that, not said it's once he said i'm going to file a complaint i'd like to your name and badge number, the dynamics changed, because that's what he said. and that's repeated over and over again. he says, why are you doing this? is it because i'm a black man and you're a white police officer? >> saying it as calmly as you're

saying it to me? >> the recordings will show. you can imagine that he's feeling this sense of indignity that people feel every day. >> and one note, professor ogletree says they have no intention of filing any kind of lawsuit against the cambridge police department. new information here on this plane that has crashed in northwestern oklahoma city. a single engine plane just off the northwest expressway. the faa has just released a couple bullet points. according to the preliminary investigation here, this is a beach craft bonanza. the plane took off from wily post in oklahoma city headed to enid, oklahoma and had some kind of engineering problems. still not pinpointing exactly what happened onboard the plane to make it go down. tried to circle back. crashed about a mile from a field, grassy patch there. just off the expressway. near the bank of oklahoma. hit a tree at the end of the parking lot.

faa is saying that passengers onboard did suffer multiple injuries. no fatalities. reportedly those passengers got out of the plane and are now en route if not at the hospital by now. a number of emergency crew, firefighters, ems on the scene working with saying is front seat passengers had in fact to be cut out of the airplane. as soon as we get more information, we'll get it to you. tomorrow, called the ex-governor of alaska. sarah palin, as you know, stepping down. it becomes official tomorrow. the moving van pulls up to the governor's mansion in juno. you see it there. her annual picnic wa sela, her hometown to say good by to friends and supporters. >> from the bottom of my heart and especially just this being my last time to speak to the valley community as your governor, i do want to tell you sincerely that i love you. i appreciate you and your support. the support you've shown my family. god bless you and god bless america.

>> that sweatshirt caused a bit of a stir up in alaska. also a local reporter, talked to them earlier, took note she's wearing a new england patriots sweatshirt. paul? did you make anything of the sweatshirt? >> voting in new england. >> thinking ahead. >> our friend of ours earlier on cnn saturday and sunday morning and our deputy police director joins now. so besides maybe something in the northeast for some votes, what is she going to do next? >> that is the big question everybody wants to know. you know what? yesterday she didn't take reporters questions at that picnic in wa sill l. didn't give answers there but said she's shocked everybody a couple weeksation saying she was going to resign, he wants to continue to fight for the causes important to her and also want to campaign for a candidate who she agrees with on the issues and whose ideas she likes, sparking speculation maybe,

maybe she wants to run for the republican presidential nomination in 2012. remember, she was on the campaign running mate in 2009. >> she wants to do that. a little ways out, but at this point what do we know about what americans think about this soon to be former governor? >> you know, she's a polarizing figure. that's safe to say. a lot of people either really like her or do not really like her. two polls came out this week both showing a majority of americans have an unfavorable view of her. take a look. abc news and "the washington post" came out yesterday, 53% of all americans have an unfavorable view according to the pom four in ten favorable. look at the breakdown by parties. interesting here. among republicans, seven in ten say they have a favorable fitting fer hoar. two in ten democrat sas there is a favorable view of sarah palin. >> well, at the next picnic, if she shows up with a iowa

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this affects all of us. your wallet, too. >> josh levs is with us. >> hey, guys. the health care debate is heating up and obviously right now we've got flames flying back and forth, left and right. metaphor literally and we need to reality check them. to to do we bring bill from politifacts.com. >> thanks for having me. >> i want to start with something interesting. the late of the you have on politifact.com, giving president obama a full flop on health care. what's that about v. it has to do with something that he said back during the campaign. back in the early part of the campaign for the democratic

nomination. hillary clinton and john edwards mandated that people get health insurance coverage as part of their health coverage plan. what led to the universal. obama did not. in fact made a point of saying he would not mandate it. he was afraid people couldn't afford it. fast forward to today. obama is now supporting a mandate. >> actually one of most memorable clinton verse obama moments of the entire presidential campaign last year. waving those fliers saying barack obama, shame on you, and he had toys ad about about her. happen he was getting at? a mandate for everyone to have health insurance. >> exactly. and he criticized her for having that mandate and that led to the big "shame on you" response. so you know, in our view, that makes this really a full flop. so that's how we rated this on our flipometer. obama acknowledged that. a full flop for this. >> got to love politic. the other side, republican,

interesting. this began as, as i understand it, an editorial, but picked up by a lawmaker and you're giving this one your hands-on buyer rating. what's this about? >> the claim is that on page 16, very precise, of the health care bill, is a provision that would outlaw private individual health insurance. and that was in investor's business daily, an editorial and has been picked up by congresswoman michelle bachman and many bloggers to say, look, this health care bill that's pending is, could be disastrous, and it would outlaw your coverage, they say. well, it's not true. if you go to page 16 as we did, it has no, says no such thing. so ridiculous. we gave it our lowest rating "pants on fire." >> thanks. >> thanks. back to you. we're going it talk about one teenager now. for this one, health care reform became personal when he suffered a horrible accident. >> his name is jordan thomas. he lost both of his legs and since then, the results of it, a

new chance at life. here is his story. >> reporter: jordan thomas plays a serious golf game. it's par for the course for this talented athlete who spent his childhood excelling at sports. even on family vacations he'd show off fishing skill. in the florida keys the family's annual boating trip went terribly wrong. hours after this foet ewas taken jordan jumped in the ocean to test the waters. >> the wake pushed the bottom of the boat. i remember just hearing, being underneath the boat hearing the motor go. i knew immediately what happened. i looked down, all i saw was just red everywhere. >> reporter: the boat's propellers slashing jordan's leg. his parents, both doctors had to act fast. they were five miles from shore. >> he had a lot of bleeding, of

course. we had to work quickly to control that. and -- >> reporter: perhaps if you didn't have that experience as doctors, knowing how to stop the bleeding or lessen the bleeding, perhaps you would have lost him? >> yeah. >> sure. >> i think so. >> in an instant i was a bilateral amputee. >> reporter: he spend two weeks in the hospital undergoing multiple surgeries. while recovering he visited a wing for children who lost limbs were being treated and their families couldn't afford expensive prosthetics oonchts found out a $5,000 cap on legs and mine were $22,000. $17 other grand what do you do? >> reporter: he started the jordan thomas foundation helping disadvantaged kids get the prosthetics he need i. wanted to make something positive out of this negative, horrible, horrible event. >> reporter: the foundation since raised $350,000 which pays

for prosthetics for three children. one of them, 6-year-old noah. doctors had to amputate noah's right leg when he was just three weeks old because of a condition stemming from a heartbeat. his parents funded his first prosthetic leg but it had no leg. >> doesn't do anything. >> reporter: so it doesn't bend. >> don't do nothing. >> reporter: that became difficult as noah learned to walk. sis noah was growing boy he needed more frequent upgrades that insurance just didn't cover. >> if the time limit isn't enough between when he made one foot to another one they don't want to pay for it. >> reporter: so jordan's foundation did. >> you like the knee? >> yes. >> reporter: how's it work? >> just like that. >> yeah, and you can -- do this. watch. >> wow. >> reporter: this issue garnered national attention's in may congressman robert andrews introduced the prostheticed and

orthotics bill. >> they ought to cove the same percentage of the cost for a knee operation or a heart operation. if you've got a deductible at $500 an they pay the rest, that's what they should do for a prosthetic device. >> reporter: as for jordan, the only type you'll hear him mention the word handicap is on the golf course. through his foundation, these days he is driving home the message that anything is possible. >> helping kids and seeing that, it just motivates you. you just want to get more money from people and help more people and have that insatiable desire to keep helping people. >> it's a great thing. want to tell you about two awards i know. amazing. jordan won the international youth philanthropy award this spring and next month the national courage award. he was up against michael j. fox and muhammad ali. >> wow. >> and he won. >> that kid, what a story. he could have given up. been upset, done all of that

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will help quiet everything down. is it a matter of throwing back a beer and everyone singing kumbaya and move on, or is it the beginning of a dialogue that the nation is going to be engaged in? >> all these years we're going to solve the race issues. >> i don't think it will happen. but starting point, ending point, which is it? let's talk about health care, because we know we've been hearing members of congress all week long and the president talk about it. what about massachusetts and its universal health care, is it a model? we're going to be joined by someone who will say, okay, there's a couple problems with it, but maybe this is incentive for the public health care system. let's see if it happens. >> solves the problems. hundreds of millions of problems. >> in the form of big money, but we'll see. well, we will see you shortly. >> noon and on. >> noon and beyond. >> how lovely, fredricka. still to come here, more than a mansion, and the one michael jackson had tis eye on. we will take a look inside the home he never got a chance to buy. ng. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways.

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all right. it's the home michael jackson never got to buy. a permanent residence in las vegas where his realtor says jackson wanted to build a new life. >> cnn's grew griffin from our special investigations unit got an exclusive look inside the home. >> reporter: it's the home michael jackson wanted, but at the time even he couldn't afford. according to his las vegas

realtors, this ten-acre, walled estate was to be michael jackson's vegas wonderland. >> this is the only house i showed michael out of probably ten or a dozen where he came outside, and he came outside with no umbrella, no mask on, just came out here with the kids to see the grounds of the property. through this here, we have an apartment. it's about 1,000 square feet and the kids wanted to make it into the play room, and michael liked that idea. >> reporter: instead he placed jackson and his family into a lease home. it was not up to par, but jackson was building a life in las vegas and also trying to build back his wealth. entertaining casino owners who were offering jackson deal after deal to make him stay. >> i know that michael really liked the idea of being able to perform in one location night after night. he loved the fact that the kids could actually have a place to call home and not move around with him since they are always going everywhere with him. that was an idea that very much appealed to him. there's a couple secret tunnels in here. >> reporter: the estate is filled with quirky appeal.

secret tunnels leading to a gun range. jackson wanted to turn into a music studio. a barber chair in the master bath. a full gym, theater room, and a 20-car garage where he and his family could load into and out of cars out of view. what was he most interested in when he'd come into a house like this? >> michael's biggest concern in my opinion was always the safety of his children. >> reporter: at the time just back from his self-exile in bahrain and ireland, jackson simply couldn't afford the $22 million to $25 million price tag. but he says he believes the concert tour would have been michael jackson's pathway back to this house, a permanent show in las vegas, and a new retreat he would have called wa eed won. drew griffin, cnn, las vegas. >> it sounds amazing. >> a secret cave in a rock fountain, how cool if you are a kid? >> that's where so many stars go and they can make a lot of money

in vegas. >> he needed to make some money. >> eparentally he needed on to. he never got a chance. that's it for brooke and i. thanks for being here. be back tomorrow morning. >> bright and early. "cnn newsroom" continues next -- >> you sound so enthusiastic, brooke. >> i love being here, t.j., thank you. >> all right, have a great day. >> thanks. >> sneak in a nap, maybe, so you can wake up bright and early again. thanks so much. justice for the blood that has been spilled. freedom for activists in jail. that's what protesters are demanding. a small group turned out in seoul, south korea, they carried pictures of the brutal crackdown on the protests that followed iran's june 12th presidential election. a much larger group showed up outside the irani embassy in london. they wore green wrist bands. the color is for the opposition movent