a lot of people weighing in about this story. we haven't talk about it yet. the story of the woman in cambridge that made the 911 call. people are twittering on what she said on what she said today. mom says, she was being a good american citizen when she called 911 for possible break-in. what if it was a robbery? professor gates, you should be thankful. mike in san diego, thanking luci whalen, you are a model citizen.

>> here is what she said, two larger men, one looked kind of hispanic. that was the quote. words from that woman in a 911 call about an incident at a cambridge home on july 16th. you know the rest. the police, the arrest of professor gates, president obama's involvement and the renewed racial conversation in this country. >> a couple of hours ago, lucia whalen described the tidal wave of strut acrutiny the she has b reported. >> it never occurred to me that the way i reported what i saw would be analyzed by an entire nation. but so many people have responded with words of support, i hope now that the truth of the

tapes will help heal the cambridge community as much as it has helped to restore my reputation and integrity. >> imagine that. she was just thinking she was doing a good thing. a lot of break-ins in the area. she was going to call the cops and let them know about it. if you remember a police radio reporter, a dispatcher told officers the 911 caller said both suspects were african-american. whalen said she never said that. >> the only words i exchanged were i was the 911 caller. he pointed to me and said, stay right there. >> nothing more? >> nothing more than that. >> so, tomorrow, professor gates, president obama and that police officer are all going to share a beer. our question is, why isn't this woman being invited to that beer

fest? come on, let's go. elaine at the white house has reached out. we are waiting for an answer. why this woman, who did nothing wrong, isn't invited to have a beer at the white house with the other three to discuss this? when asked if she would place that 911 call again, this is interesting, given what she knew at the time, lucia whalen says, yes, she would. we do own guns in our home as our constitutional right allows us. and i don't think there is a crime in that. >> that is the wife of an accused terrorist suspect. she is defending her husband and sons. who are the boys? why did the government accuse them of plotting for jihad. take a look at this deadly clash in iraq home to iranian militant exiles. u.s. forces no longer protect that camp. some wonder what action the iraqi government would take. we will have a live report from

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jackson, about the cambridge incident. let's go right to the twitter board. this is from katy. maybe we should give diprivan to the cambridge police. here is another one. whalen isn't invited because these two men aren't in the habit of admitting they made a mistake. the president didn't offend her. we are getting a couple more. over on the facebook, i don't think she is a racist. she didn't mention two black males but crowley said she did. i don't know if we are getting caught up in too much minutia on this. that's on myspace. back to the twitter. >> it angers me that professor gates has portrayed himself as the only person who was hurt by this unfortunate incident. keep writing in. we are waiting for elaine if she

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so much of this story doesn't make sense so far. those seven terror suspects in north carolina will appear in federal court tomorrow. so we may hear more about what the government has on them then. the alleged ringleader, daniel boyd, is a drywall worker, the son of a u.s. marine, and a convert to islam. among those held are two of his own sons, also muslim. i want you to watch this. cnn has talked to the wife of daniel boyd and heard a different version of what the family was up to, different than what the feds are saying. here is jeanne meserve. >> reporter: prosecutors say that daniel boyd, a u.s. citizen, the son of a marine, conspired to wage jihad

overseas. they explained he recruited among other things two of his own sons. the mother of those boys, daniel boyd's wife, sabrina, is offering explanations for the accusations being made by the government. daniel boyd fought in afghanistan in the early 1990s but settled in north carolina. he and his two sons were among seven people arrested monday on terrorism charges. his wife tells cnn, they are innocent. >> i know that my husband and my sons are free of guilt and i am hopeful that the truth will come to light. >> reporter: in court documents shall the government says the group stockpiled a cash of high-powered weapons. she says they were responding to news reports that guns and ammunition were becoming scarce. >> we will say we do own guns in our home as our constitutional right allows us. i don't think there is a crime in that. >> reporter: the government says

the group trained for jihad in rural north carolina. sabrina boyd says her husband was just helping his boy scout sons with marks manship. >> one of the merit badges they use to become an eagle scout. it wouldn't be beyond the unusual for him to take them out and do target practice. it is not unusual. >> reporter: they alleged that him and one of the sons traveled to israel to wage holy war. she says she went to jerusalem to pray for another son who died in a car crash. since they were arrested, she was not able to talk to her husband and older son. >> i want to say i am very proud of my sons and very proud to be married to daniel proud and i am very proud of my children. >> reporter: sabrina boyd alleges that the fbi played a dirty trick. on monday, a family acquaintance showed up on the doorstep in a

bloody shirt and told her there was another bad car accident, this one involving her husband and boys. she said she, her daughter, daughter-in-law, rushed to the hospital where she was put in handcuffs and treated rudely. she says this was a ruse where authorities could search her house unimpeded. authorities would not comment. an eighth alleged coconspirator is still being sought in pakistan, being identified today by the associate press as jude tienen mohammed. a lot of people twittering about the story on lucia whilen. >> i think the 911 caller should be invited to the white house, even for a glass of wine. >> great segment with dr. gupta on the drug that was use the by michael jackson. >> she did the right thing but the police was still wrong to arrest a man in his own house.

>> they are going to have beers on it tomorrow. we want to know why lucia whilen isn't going as well. if you haven't seen this next piece of video, you need to and you may want to show it to yo your kids. texting may be more dangerous than a lot of other bad driving habits. we will show you just how dangerous.

texting while driving, i have to tell you, i am so guilty of this. i have resorted to actually taking that blackberry and the phone and putting it in the trunk. i am addicted. that's what i have to do to force myself not to text or

telephone while i'm driving. well, tom foreman is going to show you exactly why that may be a very good thing to do. take a look at this demonstration when he tried to do it in a controlled circumstance. up to six seconds before an accident is a critical time in which you might be able to avoid it. texting requires so much thought and action, it takes up almost all of that time. that's why this is a problem. researchers say people who are texting routinely take their eyes off of the road for nearly five second. that's not to complete it. that's just at a time. watch what happens. once again, here we go. 25 miles an hour right here. i start texting. i do it for 4.6 seconds. by the time i hit the brake, look where i wind up. i effectively drove this entire way blind, anderson. look at this. there is the mark from where i was talking on the cell phone trying to dial the cell phone.

back here is where i -- this is where we started and this is where i passed the one for loading the cd. you get a sense of how terribly far you can go with this traveling at 25 miles an hour. >> that's the interesting thing. you are only driving 25 miles an hour. on the highway, you would be going faster. >> at highway speeds, if you take your eyes off the road for five seconds, this is mind blowing, if you take your eyes off of the road at highway speeds because you are texting, and you keep going, in the five seconds you are not looking at the road, you could drive the entire length of a football field and both end zones. you are essentially driving blind the entire time. think of how much can happen in that space.

they believe cell phone use should be banned for all newly licensed teens. this was a simple test but it really made a believer out of me. i thought before i could get away with flicking my eyes up. they said, everyone believes that but the statistics prove that we all think we are better than we really are. >> you heard senator charles schumer talking about a bill he is introducing to make this a national ban on texting while driving forcing states to pass their own laws or face the loss of transportation funding. they have done that for a lot of things when they tried to reduce the driving speed. tweets coming in. first time for texting. bobby says $1,000 fine and 90 days suspension of license with three points on my license. second offense, one year suspension. >> how about this, suspend license for a month and increase

penalties for the time they do it again. >> some very strong reactions from two people who want people to stop this. it is a dangerous practice. now, when we come back, all hell breaks loose at an iranian camp.

i am going to shift gears to iraq. a scene of violence and death in baghdad. two explanations for what's

going on and what you are about to see. there is a secured camp for people exiled from iran. yesterday, iraqi police dissended on that camp with a pretty big show of force. this was that scene. let's take a look.

>> so we are trying to figure out what's going on here. those are iraqi police officers with the high de-pressure water hose getting rough with residents of this camp. 500 are reported injured and seven dead. the police have one account. iranians have another. we are trying to make head or tails of this. we have to explain what these two sides are about. >> reporter: that's right, drew. it most certainly is very complex. it seems very disturbing as well. as you just mentioned, one of the many concerns as u.s. forces begin to draw down, we will be seeing even more chaos.

to explain ex athly what is going on and try to make sense of it, you have the iraqi police trying to enter the camp where these iranian exiles lived. as you were saying, the camp was under the control protected by the u.s. military. that is no longer the case. the iraqis are saying that they wanted to impose iraqi rule of law. they have peaceful intentions and wanted to go in and set up a police station. the residents of the camp are saying this was a raid and intended purely to destroy the organization. why would iraq be intent on destroying this organization? these are iranian exiles in iraq for decades. they are, in fact, a militant group that actually fought with saddam hussein against iran in the iran/iraq war of the 1980s. they have historically launched cross border attacks much the united states, even though they were protecting them, actually

considered them a terrorist organization. but the group has very strong allies in d.c. that say that it has been critical in passing on intelligence as to what is going on in iran. even though the u.s. labels them a terrorist organization, we saw u.s. soldiers protecting them. the iranian government wants the iraqi government that hand them over. the concern, this is why residents say they were so adamant in trying to keep the iraqi forces out. the concern is this is just a first step in forcing these exiles back to iran where at best their fate would be imprisonment, drew. >> so these people have no home. they haven't had a home for a couple of decades now but do you know, and i am asking you a question you haven't prepared for, why the iraqis needed to go in here and establish their law

in the first place? have there been incidents or something spilling out of this camp into the general iraqi population? >> actually, no. there hasn't been any sort of direct violence related to this camp at all except for accusations of occasional attacks on iran. this is where politics comes into play. as we know very well, the government in baghdad has very close ties to tehran. in fact, the prime minister, himself, was ex island in iran for quite some time until the u.s.-led invasion. the iranians have been putting pressure on the iraqis for quite sometime. the iraqis have been waiting for the opportunity to go in and figure out what is going on in this camp. this group is actually a very highly trained male and female fighting force. the americans are said to have disarmed them. they had a very empress sieve weapons arsenal. the americans are said to have

disarmed them back in 2003. obviously, the iraqis wanted to know what was going on there for themselves. when you talk to the residents of this camp, they are very fearful. they now feel as if they have no one to defend them because the u.s. troops are gone and they are at the mercy of these iraqi forces. >> boy, that is a wild story. thanks for doing this live hit for us, trying to explain this very complex issue as the american troops pull out. so many problems need to be worked out. it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government. >> did she just say that? put to death by their government? is that really a concern for some people listening to this health care debate? we are going to separate fact from fiction on hr 3200.

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a republican in congress is saying we are using health care to exploit the elderly. listen to virginia fox said. >> republicans have a better solution that won't put the government in charge of people's health care, that will make sure we bring down the cost of healthcare for all americans, and that assures affordable access for all americans and is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government. >> now, she, virginia foxx, is

frequently a target of the left-wing media and often gets attacked on their blogs. but when she says "put to death by their government," what does she actually mean? that's the charge being made by the party in power by an elected member of congress. she is a republican, and foxx represents the fifth district of north carolina. she was elected in 2004. and as you just heard, she took to the house floor to charge that seniors face the threat of death at the hands of the u.s. government under health care reform legislation. believe it or not, it's gaining credence in certain back alleys of the blogosphere. it's a calculated distortion on this section of 1233 of the house resolution. i have it right here in my hot little hand. and it talks all about end-of-life care and planning consultation, section 1233. it's five pages long. it proposes a new benefit for seniors' coverage, for medical counseling considering their end-of-life planning, writing a

living will, seeking the advice of a health care pro once every five years and that visit is covered if you want it and that's pretty much it. but we suggest you read it because, like senator conyers said, this thousand-page bill, it's hard to get through unless you have two lawyers to help. but you should really read this. we have it up on our blog. and it talks all about what will be covered in end-of-life coverage and what the government's involvement would be in making sure that your wishes are granted for end-of-life coverage. and various other specifics relating to the level of treatment. and that has a lot of people scared about the government's being involved in this kind of stuff. by the way, the bill has the backing of the aarp and the consumers' union, among others. >> say to people, i've got health care. this is not for me. here in north carolina, you know this isn't about politics.

this is about people's lives. >> and speaking of health care, he is speaking about it everywhere he can, the president sounding more like he's in a stump speech than a town hall on health care reform. that's in north carolina. more on that in a moment. so what do you think?

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the president out campaigning today for the far-reaching reform of health care, now dominating action on capitol hill campaigning, this afternoon in north carolina. here to bring out the president's fighting side. here he is aiming his pitch at the folks out there who already have healthcare. >> nobody is talking about some government takeover of health care. i'm tired of hearing that. i have been as clear as i can be under the reform i've proposed. if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. if you like your health care plan, you keep your health care plan. these folks need to stop scaring everybody. nobody, nobody is talking about

you forcing to have to change your plan. many of you have been denied insurance or heard someone who was denied insurance because they got -- had a pre-existing condition. that will no longer be allowed. we won't allow that. with reform, insurance companies will have to abide by a yearly cap on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses. no one in america should go broke because of an illness. we will require insurance companies to cover routine checkups and preventive care,

like mammograms, cloe lon colono pis. eye and foot exams for diabetics so we can save lives and money. no longer will insurance companies will allowed to drop or water down coverage for someone who's become seriously ill. that's not right. it's not fair. we will stop insurance companies from placing arbitrary caps on the coverage you can receive in a given year or in a lifetime. so, my point is, whether or not you have health insurance right now, the reforms we seek will bring stability and security that you don't have today. >> now, by the way, we were hoping to get a republican view. we had congressman eric cantor miked up early this afternoon, but he had to run off for a

vote. one other quick note. health care reform got a big boost today with key lawmakers saying they've got the cost down by $100 billion over ten years. we know you have a lot of questions for lawmakers working on health care reform. in washington tomorrow, rick is back, of course, and he's going to help you ask those questions. tune in tomorrow right here at 3:00 eastern. rick is going to talk with three people -- a small business owner, a student, and a woman with a pre-existing medical condition. they will get face time with two u.s. senators during rick's national conversation. and don't forget, rick always gets your comments and questions from twitter, facebook, myspace and more. that's tomorrow at 3:00. by now you've heard that president obama will host harvard professor henry louis gates anding is crowley from the cambridge police at the white house tomorrow night. the incident involving those two men has sparked national conversation about racial profiling. cnn wants to hear from you. a little project going on. both sides. if you've been a victim of racial profiling, tell us about your experience. and if you've worked in law

enforcement, what challenges do you face policing your community? here's what some i-reporters are already saying. >> we had fit the description of four black males in a green vehicle when there were six of us in a red vehicle and we knew right away that it had nothing to do with that. it was just that we were being profiled. and once he saw we were high school kids and not thugs that stole a cadillac, he let us go. so, it was very upsetting to all of us. >> i actually was getting stopped because i drove a porsche. i was in my 20s. it wasn't because i was selling drugs or anything but because i was young and i had -- the wrong type of car. >> send them in. share your stories and see what others are saying at ireport.com. part of a continuing national conversation that goes on here 24/7, quite frankly. and speaking of, we asked the question -- what should the

punishment be if you are caught tegucigalpaing while driving? let's go to the twitter board. should it be the same as a drunk driver? both actions dangerous to the public. joboy. a $150 fine and the person should get a ticket, just like driving without a seat belt. drayburn. they should charge people who text while driving with reckless driving, as that is exactly what