the compromise to move ahead. when will lawmakers put it to a vote? and in iran, a new task of the government crackdown, protestors mourn a woman who became the face of that violence. will her her brutal debt rekindle -- can cold beer make for cooler heads? today the president gets together with the harvard professor and the police officer who arrested him. racial healing the idea, but now an ugly e-mail could cost a boston police officer his job. good morning, everybody, i'm heidi collins today, you are in the "cnn newsroom." the health care debate in washington, after years of talk and weeks of arguments, democrats say there now appears to be progress on reform. house leaders say there's a tentative deal on the table based on concessions made to the so-called blue dog democrats. well, here's what one over those fiscal conservatives now. the compromise plan shaves $100

million off the cost of the plan and businesses with payrolls of less than $500,000 will not be forced to provide coverage. congressional democrats now want it pushed through two critically important committees before leaving on summer recess in the coming days. even if that happens, neither the house nor the senate are likely to vote on the plans until after that august recess. but, key republican lawmakers are warning not so fast. let's get the very latest now from capitol hill and cnn congressional correspondent brianna keilar. good morning to you. what's the situation in the senate? if there's no vote, there is at least a chance of an agreement that could give health care reform some momentum or is that all a wash? >> reporter: well, that is certainly the hope, heidi, of congressional democrats. though, i've got to tell you, those are hoping that key negotiators, the three republicans and three democrats that they could reach agreement among themselves before the senate leaves before its august break, which it does after next week. i have to tell you that last night, off camera, a couple of

the republican negotiators in that gang of six, chuck grassley of iowa and mike enzie of wyoming, saying they thought it wouldn't happen, there would be an agreement before the senate leaves for its break. that said, senator grassley told cnn this morning on american morning that a deal this week is certainly impossible, but he left open the possibility of maybe coming to some sort of agreement next week. here's what he said. >> well, there's no way we can get all of the compromising that needs to be done by an artificial deadline of friday of this week. so we're going to continue to work together this week and next week, but we're getting close. >> so grassley says there's still a lot of sticking points here, of course, how to pay for health care reform, and also, what exactly the senate finance committee, the committee that he is on, what their proposal for health care reform is going to look like, although, heidi, we

do know it is going to have a non-profit cooperative. we've heard this from democratic and republican members. sort of like what you'd see with the farm co-op, only it would be done with health care instead. >> well, under the house, if we could, there was an important agreement yesterday, right? between democratic leaders and key conservative democrats, will this actually help move the debate forward? or is it filling the square? >> it's, i think this is one of those cases we've been talking about now where it's taking a step forward and then taking a step back. because what you heard yesterday was this important agreement, yes, between these conservative blue dog democrats or at least some of them and democratic leaders were pushing this health care reform plan, but at the same time, one of the things that these blue dogs were able to secure was the delay on a vote before the house floor pushing that all the way after the august break. and so, obviously, that's not a lot of momentum. they got some changes, they were also able to push this delay. and then there's also another

issue now, heidi. as these democratic leaders have appeased these democrats, some of them, on the right, who are more conservative, but now they have to deal with some of the liberal democrats who have some serious concerns about the changes that were made as a concession to these conservative democrats. >> right. right. it's very interesting. >> it is. >> brianna keilar, live from capitol hill this morning. >> one of the biggest issues is making sure all of the uninsured are actually covered. but is that doable? one of the many questions for our insider. chief medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon, dr. sanjay gupta. i feel like i'm going to give you an award. this question right out of the gate from vanessa in el paso. listen for that moment. >> caller: hi, dr. gupta, i'm from el paso, texas. i am a mother -- working mother of two, happily married, i hate to admit, but i haven't had health insurance for about five years. my employer does offer their

insurance, but the premiums are very high and my family cannot afford. i'm hoping that the new house reform bill passes soon, so what my question is, if the president does sign this bill in october, how long would i have to wait before i can sign up for the new public plan? thank you. >> all right, vanessa, first of all, thanks for calling in. this actually gets, i think, a myth overall regarding how quick this might take place. talking about it a lot now and people think it's going to be instantaneous. this is going to take a while. quite a while, i think, surprising. we try to create a time line for people to get an idea. again to caveat being we don't know how this is going to play out. but 2011 really before you start to see the tax increases take effect that could potentially pay for this. that's two years away from now. 2013, a couple of things. that's when everyone's going to be required to have health insurance. that's 2013, and that preexisting conditions covered is a big part of getting that. not to discriminate based on

preexisting illnesses, but also the exchange, the idea of public-private partnership. >> the co-op idea. >> yeah. well, the co-op idea is going to be nuanced than that. this is more of a federal thing and the co-op may be at the community level. by 2014, they may start to expand with businesses. but there's -- and after that, there may be a vote saying can we expand this even more? more people eligible for this potential public option? again, look at the time frame there, 2014 and 2009, at least five years away probably before you're starting to see people in these categories qualify. >> yeah, so bring it back to vanessa, our caller from texas who works for this company with more than 20 employees she then according to that will not have the option to join the exchange for like another seven to ten years. >> it could be several years, at least based on what we're hearing now, i know that's not good news for people who need help now, but based on the calllations we have. and a couple more caveats. i don't know her personal

financial situation. >> right, how long she's going to work, the size of her company, or how much, you know, her premiums would be with respect to her income. not everyone's going to qualify for this. your premiums have to be greater than 11% of your income, according to some of the initial drafts. and if you have access through somewhere else, you may not qualify either. there are lots of nuances here, and that's just the initial draft of all of this. >> read the bill. right? lots of fine print. >> i spent most of my job in cnn over the past several days is reading the bill. it is still complicated. >> no question. all right, our insider this morning. dr. sanjay gupta, thank you, sanjay. so health care reform. what do people beyond the beltway think about it? at the bottom of the hour, we're going to talk to political veteran and national radio host bill bennett. stick around for that. turning to your money now and the foreclosure crisis, millions of americans have lost their homes or are now at risk as you know.

but now new numbers suggest the crisis may be easing a bit. christine romans is joining us with the latest now. christine, these new numbers suggest, really, that the crisis may be easing or is this something we have red flags and cautionary warnings? >> there are red flags, cautionary warnings. it's easing a bit for certain places, certain places on the leading edge, frankly, of the foreclosure crisis. cleveland, for example, year-over-year its foreclosures dropped a little bit. couple of other places, as well, simply because it started into this mess much earlier than a lot of other places. when you look at some of the big cities, there are places where foreclosures appear to be cooling off. here are those cities, st. louis, baltimore, new york, houston, boston, i want to be very clear here, though, these are just the very beginning little signs of foreclosures cooling off and some folks say it might just be a temporary respite. least you've seen a little bit

of improvement. these are realty track numbers for the first six months of this year comparing the first six months to the last six months of last year and also to a year ago. that's kind of what we're watching there. >> again, you're right, the red flags, we've been in a really devastating situation with foreclosure. of course any one of these signs we're watching. >> definitely, and those foreclosures, the cities you showed on the map is pretty rare. they're still going up in most areas, right? >> yeah, and part of the reason here is that people have now gotten farther along in the foreclosure prices where they've staved it off long enough to simply given up. everything from the default notice to actually getting a padlock on the front door. these numbers also show the top cities continue to be las vegas. it's incredible, i think 7% of homes in las vegas right now, heidi, have a foreclosure notice, some sort of foreclosure filing. look at the ft. myers area. the sun belt just getting hammered here. in fact, most of the big cities

for foreclosures are in california, florida, arizona, and nevada. those same four states account for the bulk of all of the foreclosures we have been seeing. and that trend has been very sticky. it hasn't really improved very much. and when you look at this report, they point out that unemployment-related foreclosures may be spreading. so i showed you those, the california, florida, arizona, nevada, showed you that, that was a lot of speculation, a market that just went wild. but now, you're seeing a spreading of foreclosure activity, related to people losing their jobs, not necessarily because of speculation and because of a bad loan or something like that. >> got it, very interesting. and then the government's effort on this haven't really had much success. >> no, they've been really disappointing. and the community development people who work on these sorts of things say that they are so frustrated. and here, heidi, we hear every day from frustrated homeowners who say i want to modify or refinance and i can't do it through the government program,

the lenders aren't helping me. i think 25 or 26 lenders were summoned to washington this week for a little bit of a talking to by the treasury department to say, look, five months into the president obama's efforts to try to get this making home affordable plan to help people facing foreclosure it hasn't done what we wanted. five months into it they're trying to figure out how to make it work. >> christine romans, appreciate it. remembering a young symbol of protest, mourners mark 40 days since neda was shot dead in iran. the government has banned a memorial. but that hasn't stopped thousands of people from showing up anyway. cnn severe weather center, we've had some rough weather move through the dallas area, meanwhile, more record-breaking heat for the pacific northwest. weather is coming up when the "cnn newsroom" comes right back. and an environment in balance. between consuming less and conserving more.

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she became the symbol of a protest movement in iran. neda was shot dead 40 days ago as she stood on the sidelines of an election protest. her killing was caught on grainy cell phone video. and broadcast around the world.

today, thousands of people have gathered to remember her as riot police keep watch. our reza sayah is following this development and joins us live with more. so yeah, 40 days ago. >> yeah, heidi, this is shaping up to another dramatic day in tehran. more clashes between security forces and opposition supporters. this time at tehran's main cemetery, where about 3,000 people showed up this morning to mourn neda and others killed on june 20th during protests. now, why today? in iran, and in islam, it's tradition on the 40th day after someone dies to mourn their death and who can forget neda? the images of her last moments captured on videotape shortly after june 20th. she was not by police. she became rallying cry for opposition supporters, sort of an icon, but about a couple of hours ago, 3:30 p.m. local time in iran, sources telling cnn

that about 3,000 mourners showed up to her grave site, and we've been speaking to our sources, eyewitnesss on the ground for the past couple of hours and they do report a number of clashes. both witnesses and state-funded television say opposition leaders near mousavi showed up. one saying that mousavi was not able to get out of his car, but his wife was able to get out of the car. and security forces with batons, sources telling us there were at least ten clashes, one mourner had that bloody head. some mourners left, others were defiant, but the typical chants of death to the dictator, one witness telling cnn the chance of death to russia, russian flag being burned, of course, russia along with china two of the countries that supported the iran elections and the aftermath. so they're still there, clashes are still taking place. another dramatic day in tehran. >> difficult for us to verify

other than the sources i know you've been working hard on because of no foreign media. my question would be, what does this say about the opposition now? and the crackdown, because, if, in fact, there are 3,000 people who have gathered to remember neda, is that saying that it's still strong? >> this says that after seven weeks it's been seven weeks now since those elections, despite a ferocious crackdown by iran's leadership, they still haven't been able to shut down the opposition. the opposition is still coming out, they're picking out dates on the calendars, this, the 40th day of neda's death and they're coming out and now they're coming out with their leaders. this is rare for opposition leaders to come out. and they'd actually asked iran's government for permission to mourn neda and those killed on june 20th. they asked permission from the interior ministry said, look, we're going to keep quiet, we want to pray quietly at a tehran mosque and the government said

no. any kind of gathering linked to the elections is banned. nevertheless you had the opposition supporters and their leaders defy that ban, both those opposition leaders showing up today. so they have some momentum and then you throw in the fact that iran's leadership, the hard-liners are infighting, looks like the opposition at this point has more momentum and is more organized than the leadership right now. significant day today in tehran. >> very significant, especially now hearing these reports. we know you guys are staying on top of it. >> all day. >> thanks so much. >> you're welcome. another bloody day in northeast nigeria. government forces reportedly kill more than 100 islamic militants. and going door to door to search for others. the group wants to impose a strict form of islamic law and rebels have been on the attack since sunday. tensions rise on the divided korean peninsula, a north korean

patrol boat seized a fishing boat earlier today after it strayed into north korean waters. south korean defense ministry official said the satellite navigational system apparently malfunctioned. south korea is calling for the boat's immediate return. all right. rob marciano, back with us today. nice to see you, rob. hey, it has been like boiling, boiling hot in the northwest. are they getting a break today? >> a little bit today, actually. we'll start you off with that, actually, there are -- >> sorry, did i throw you off? >> you did. you want to kind of ease into their pain, so to speak as they get up this early in the morning. oregon, an all-time record -- or at least tied it at 108 yesterday. vancouver, all time record at 108, the old record for yesterday's date was 97 degrees, portland, oregon, set a record at 106. their all-time record was 107,

they missed they be a degree. seattle, washington, 103, their all time-record was 100. never been hotter as long as we've been keeping records in seattle and vancouver, washington. so a bit toasty there as you can imagine. >> see, aren't you glad you started there now? >> yeah, i am. and now i'm totally working backwards. san francisco with hour and five minute delays, far from hot, temperatures in the upper 50s. the fog is holding on strong there. dallas seeing some delays, we'll get to that in a second. atlanta also seeing some delays and as long as we're on that, let's talk atl, there you go, shots of midtown, a little bit of cloudiness today, rain this morning, a little bit more thunderstorms probably popping up around and because of that, we've got delays because of low visibility. all right, back to dallas, seeing some thunderstorms, rolling through the dfw area. rough this morning, getting a little bit more tranquil this afternoon as things move off towards the east and south. trying to get this rainfall in

the drought-stricken areas of austin and san antonio and south of there, south of i-10, but doesn't look like it's going to get that far south. thunderstorms, mostly central and eastern texas today. on the wider front looking at the showers moving into wisconsin, maybe into chicago, they shouldn't be all that bad and also showers and thunderstorms, which were rough yesterday across the new york city area, they will see less in the way of that today and temperatures will be rebounding there and still a lot of red on the maps to remind you, heidi. we finish where we started. >> yes. >> seattle and portland, see temperatures -- they'll probably break records, but slightly cooler air for those folks there. but you've got to remember, folks in this area, depend on the ocean breeze from the pacific to cool them off and not everybody, especially in the older homes don't have air-conditioning. so it's -- they're planning different ways to cool off for sure. >> for now on i will keep my thoughts to myself. but i did think it was outstandingly hot there, so i'm

glad we started there. thank you, rob. you handle your own next time. >> see you later. happening right now, new developments involving the custody of michael jackson's children. we now know what debbie rowe, michael jackson's ex-wife is planning next.

quickly i want to let you know some of the information we're getting in. new developments here regarding the custody of michael jackson's children. we are just now learning a little bit more about debbie rowe and her possible intentions here. you remember her to be up there on the top screen. michael jackson's ex-wife. and she is telling us that she will not be fighting for custody. she will not fight michael jackson's mother katherine for the custody of the children. so that is some new information, the developing story on this that we are getting right now. and in the meantime, five weeks to the day that michael jackson died, we are learning more about one of the last people to see him alive. his personal physician. and cnn's randi kaye telling us the interest in the cardiologist is is intensifying.

>> an official telling us now dr. murray is the only one they're looking at. we know that other doctors' records have been subpoenaed, but clearly now with three search warrants served on dr. conrad murray's property, he has become the central focus. remember his lawyer told us they were searching those properties, looking for evidence in manslaughter. his lawyer's office told me they don't think an arrest is imminent because they haven't seen proof or a final autopsy report. also murray's loan from the bank for his country club home in las vegas was $1.65 million, it turns out he failed to make his payment of just over $15,000 last january and has been racking up debt ever since. i've called his attorney about this, a spokeswoman confirmed he is facing the threat of foreclosure and was to be paid $150,000 a month by michael jackson, he was not paid by aeg, that's the tour promoter or jackson for the two months he worked for them, he is low on money. meanwhile, if he fails to pay up

by mid august, he could lose his house. and we have insight to report about jackson's final mourning at his home. his personal chef is talking. dr. murray usually came down to get michael jackson his breakfast around 10:00 a.m. to get him something to eat or drink, but on june 25th, the doctor did not come downstairs until noon. now the chef says at that point, dr. murray came running half way down the stairs, that actually lead to the kitchen screaming hurry, get prince, get security. she said the house became chaot chaotic, the housekeepers were screaming, and that michael jackson's daughter paris was screaming, daddy, daddy. the chef said everyone gathered in a circle and all prayed at that point. and finally we've learned that this jackson case is actually not the first time dr. murray had had a brush with the law. he was charged in a domestic abuse case in arizona back in 1994. deputies apparently responded to a domestic abuse call, we've confirmed dr. murray was

arrested for "domestic violence disorderly conduct." we're told by tucson police that his girlfriend accused him of having an affair and threw something at hill, then dr. murray allegedly pushed her down. he was acquitted about five months later. randi kaye, cnn, los angeles. in detroit, the economic misery sinks even deeper. unemployment in the motor city has now reached 17.1%. that's the highest rate among all major cities in the country. the battered car industry, the main reason. the national average for june is 9.5%. all right. listen to this, it's not just individual suffering from the economic crisis. states are also struggling to make ends meet. in arizona, in fact, lawmakers are considering a novel way to raise cash. they may sell the state capitol.

sell the buildings, lease them back for several years and buy them back when the state's flush with cash again. dozens of other state buildings could also be sold and then leased back. for decades, it was a favorite childhood read. we don't mean dr. seuss of clifford, the big red dog, we're talking about the sears toy catalog, the wish book. 14 years after that dog-eared book of dreams disappeared, i'm getting a little teary eyed, sears has decided again to start te selling toys. they'll begin selling them again. stocks on wall street have been struggling all week, but today we're expecting a little bit higher open and susan lisovicz is at the new york stock exchange. you remember the sears wish book as we listen to the opening bell this morning. >> you have perfect timing, heidi. some folks have been calling the two-week rally we've seen a sugar high, we're still hungering for it, though,

there's mcdonald's ringing the opening bell. investors trying to restart the two-week rally that stalled this week and solid earnings reports could help it out. it's time to stop ringing the bell. >> my goodness. the traders are shouting enough already. who do we have reporting today? consumer products company colgate, motorola reporting after several quarters of losses and even though dow component travelers posted more than 20%, the insurer raised the full-year earnings outlook. on the other side of the coin, exxon mobil, how about this? it says its quarterly profit tumbled to nearly 70%. in real dollars, exxon's earnings in three months dropped from nearly $12 billion a year ago to about $4 billion. so it still made a whole lot of money, the drop, of course, coming in the sharply lower oil prices and weaker demand. we have mixed news on the jobs

front, new jobless claims jumped as more people turned to the government for help. but the number of people relying on unemployment benefits for one week or more fell. an awfully big number, though, 6.2 million. and looking at the first minute of trading. yeah, seeing green arrows, heidi, the dow, nasdaq, s&p 500, each up about 1%. not a bad start, heidi. i'll be back to you shortly. >> okay, very good. are your ears still ringing from all of the bells? >> yes, they are. >> all right. >> i'm across the floor. >> susan lisovicz, thank you. we'll check back later on. a pint-sized driver taking the family car. he led police on a chase through town, but you'll never guess why he was running.

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quickly we want to get to the story we were telling you about earlier today. as you may recall, it has been 40 days since the death of neda

in iran, she was shot dead as she stood on the sidelines of an election protest there. now, today, thousands of people have apparently gathered to remember her even as riot police continued to watch and watch closely. reza sayah joining us now with brand new pictures coming in because we've been waiting to see what this looks like if at all possible, reza over at the iran desk today. >> yeah, heidi, the first piece of video from the protest into the iran desk a few minutes ago. let's go ahead and take a look at it. this is tehran's main cemetery and there you see some of what witnesses estimate to be 3,000 mourners showing up there. now they're chanting the name of the opposition leader. now witnesses on the ground telling us they say what appeared to be mir hossein mousavi and his wife arriving in an suv. this video appears to show the

suv they are telling us. sources say he wasn't able to get out. but there you see an suv with a camera man on top surrounded by dozens of people apparently heading to the grave site. very rare that opposition leader mousavi is making a public appearance. he along with the other opposition leader actually asked the government permission to mourn neda, the 26-year-old shot and killed on june 20th. the government said no, they denied that permission. these opposition leaders defied that ban, they showed up briefly, and we can tell you the facebook page is saying that at least two prominent film makers and an actress have been arrested during these protests this morning at the grave site. this is our first piece of video if the past few weeks are any indication, they're going to start rolling in the iran desk will be monitoring it throughout the day. >> clearly as we were talking

about before, reza, the opposition to all of this is not completely squashed here. so we're watching very, very closely. let us know if we need to come back to you. >> will do, heidi. the health care debate in washington after years of talk and weeks of arguments, democrats say there now appears to be progress on reform. house leaders say there's a tentative deal on the table based on concessions made to the so-called blue dog democrats. here's what one fiscal conservative. the compromise plan shaves $100 million off the ten-year cost off the plan. businesses with payrolls of less than $500,000 will not be forced to provide coverage. congressional democrats now want it pushed through to critically important committees before leaving on summer recess in the coming days. even if that happens, neither the house nor the senate are likely to vote on the plans until after that august recess. we want to take a moment now to talk a little bit more about this health care battle in washington.

congress has been working on it as you know for months, but what do people outside the beltway think? and are they really paying attention? putting that question to bill bennett the host of the national radio talk show, morning in america, also a political veteran. having served in both the reagan white house and the bush administration. i'm sure you've been gauging this debate as well as your listeners. i'm really interested to know what are they telling you when they call in and ask questions or have comments regarding health care reform? >> tons of comments, heidi. you've listened to my show once in a while. i appreciate that. tons of comments. the interesting thing now is the testing period which is represented by this august recess. we talked to congressman paul ryan, republican in wisconsin yesterday, he's going to have 15 town meetings over the next five weeks. many of the congressmen are going to have the same meetings, and they're going to hear a lot of questions about this health care plan. here's one of the big differences, heidi. the republicans have now read

this plan and they're going to be talking about specific provisions in it. there's already a majority opposed to the health care plan. i think right now advantage of the republicans, advantage blue dog democrats. the blue dog democrats who have signed on, only four of them, there are 48 more who haven't signed on yet. >> okay, so 4 of 48, i guess i'm still curious to know that your listeners, are they feeling like they're getting a clearer idea of what's in this potential bill or is going to cover them, as, again, people outside the beltway, the average citizen. do they get it? >> yeah, you know, what's most interesting about this debate is that it's really been a debate. yes, there's been politics in it, but what's happened the last few weeks has been a focus on the substance of the health care provision of what president obama wants to do. and people don't like what they're hearing. they don't like the idea of rationing you saw the tough time the president had the other day with the old folks, the elderly,

i guess i'm one of them. >> i would never say that. >> and -- i know you wouldn't. and are focusing on that and the rationing. and whether public programs will drive out private programs and whether regulation will make people feel like they have to give up what they like. and remember, 80% of americans like their health care plans. so the interesting thing on this is this has not been a discussion without substantive detail. and the more people look at the detail, the more distressed they are getting. also, after the failure of the stimulus bill, at least to date, people are very wary about deficits. if you note the poll, cnn polls included, you'll see people are much more worried about spending and deficit than they are about reforming this health care. >> but i think there's a group out there, as well, though, that would say something needs to be done, more people need to be covered. do your listeners come to you with some solutions? because everybody likes to

armchair a quarterback and they say here's what i would do. are you hearing any sort of valid ideas coming in? >> yes, we're hearing a lot of valid ideas, a lot of interesting suggestions, and the premise of a lot of calls to the show, heidi, and this has been the issue that dominated. by the way, we have gotten a petition on network that's going to have 1 million signatures opposing the president's plan, that's a very big number, that's unusual. but the premise of people's calls is yes, we do need to make some changes, we do need to make adjustments, but these don't seem to be the right ones. we've had congressman ryan on, dr. coburn on, republican alternatives. but what's interesting is there is no final plan out there yet. you've still got these different plans operating around in committees. >> right. >> and that's been a political failure of the first order. >> okay. >> you think with 60 senators, 70 advantage in the house, they ought to be able to do that.

>> in ten seconds or less, we going to see a deal or not? >> we're going to see a deal, not before august, later, but it's not going to have the features that barack obama wanted. >> is it going to pass? >> something is going to pass, but it's not going to be what he wanted. he has insisted he'll force it through because the majorities, but it won't be the plan he wanted. >> well, we appreciate you taking the time. bill bennett, talk show host and political commentator here at cnn. bill bennett, thank you. and an amazing outcome to tell you about to a troubling story. a baby cut from her mother's body is found alive. and an arrest is made. we've got details coming up here in the newsroom. an... you can't... this isn't a stove, alright? i mean... what if i just walked into the kitchen and started making a salad? - that'd be weird. - right? i mean, look, there's a technique. - okay... - ( strikes match )

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stressed out, feel like screaming at someone, turn on your radio instead. the benefits as you reach those milestones of 30, 40, 50. >> reporter: whether it's country or classical, b-bop or hip-hop, music can be good for us. >> i like the way it sounds and makes me feel. >> feel very uplifted. >> we usually listen to feel good, don't we? >> reporter: we do, and now studies have shown not only can music calm the savage beast, but can help us stay healthier as we age. >> turns out that music may be one of the best destressors by playing an instrument or listening to music. >> reporter: no matter if we're 30, 40, or 50, relief from stress is important, but particularly helpful for young people constantly on the go. pop some earphones on and music can help our cardiovascular systems and calm us down. in a recent report by researchers at the university of maryland medical center, 30 somethings who listen to their favorite tunes found their blood vessels actually opened wider

when doctors took images of their circulation system. >> the inner lining of the blood vessel relaxed, opened up, and produced chemicals to do this that are protective to the heart. >> reporter: which keeps our blood pressure in check and our heart healthy. >> it gives us an overall feeling of good well being, a sense of euphoria in some cases. >> reporter: as we get into middle age hardening of the arteries known as arterial sclerosis becomes a problem. because music widens the vessels, it can prevent the condition, which could keep us feeling younger. >> music helps to reduce the complexities of changes within our arteries. thereby we would like to believe that it may slow down the aging process. >> reporter: feeling down? music is a pick me up. we listen, the emotional high caused by music releases endorphins into our system. those brain chemicals have been shown to fight depression as well as help the body heal if

we're ill. doctors recommend when enjoying music vary the selection. if we listen to the same song over and over again, we'll lose the effect of the melody. and watch the volume, studies have shown that listening to music, especially with headphones on can lead to a loss of hearing, long before you're in your golden years. for today's 30, 40, 50, i'm melissa long.

police say a baby girl cut from her mother's womb has been found alive. and seems to be in pretty good health at a hospital this morning. police arrested a 35-year-old woman in new hampshire after getting tips from acquaintances who became suspicious when she turned up with a newborn baby.

the suspect has been charged as a fugitive from justice and is due in court today. now the baby's mother seen here was eight months pregnant when she was found dead in her massachusetts apartment. beer with the president. today is the day. harvard professor henry louis gates and cambridge police sergeant james crowley are headed to the white house, they'll throw back a couple of cold beers with president obama tonight. the president extended the invitation hoping to smooth over the controversy that ignited. after crowley arrested gates at his home. the incident has become a flash point for race relations. meanwhile, a boston police officer's job is at risk for calling professor gates a "banana eating jungle monkey." justin barrett also in the national guard made the comment in a mass e-mail sent to fellow guard members and to the boston globe. he was venting about a column on gates. barrett now says he's sorry for

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time now for a police chase with a pint-size suspect. here's the end of it, which is the best part. yes, a 7-year-old boy behind the wheel running away there. he got up to 40 miles per hour before ditching the car and taking off on foot. the boy led police through the streets of plain city, utah, on sunday morning. the boy's father says he was trying to avoid going to church. since he's so young, he was not charged. want to know where he learned how to drive. we watch this little video. he does a pretty well job. certainly not something we are advocating, 7 year olds out there. we do have an awful lot going on in the next hour of the "newsroom." all of our correspondents are in place to bring it to you. lets begin with brianna keilar on capitol hill. >> hi, there. the house and senate will not vote on health care reform before they leave town for their august break, but could some

dealmaking give president obama's top priority some momentum it really needs? i'll have that story at the top of the hour. >> i'm reza sayah at the iran desk. more protests and more clashes between opposition supporters and security forces. the first video into the iran desk. we'll show you the pictures at the top of the hour. i'm elizabeth cohen in atlanta. we all love to get something for nothing, but why you might just want to say no to free drug samples from your doctor. i'll all have of that at the top of the hour. much appreciated. plus, tragedy in one texas town. a man is dragged to his death. two suspects arrested and then released. did race play a role?

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human alive. and we definitely want to include your stories in all of this. tell us about your experience as a veteran. we'd really like to hear or tell us about the experience of a veteran you know very well, maybe even a family member. in order to do this, we'll head on over here to the heidi mac, if you will. just go to our blog, which is cnn.com/heidi and right here you can see we have a little posting on there right now the cost and benefit for veterans. brand-new historic g.i. bill going into effect this weekend, we'll talk a lot about that. we want to hear your comments. let us know what it is like to be a veteran or an interesting story of a veteran's family. showing up homeless in new york city can get you a free ticket back home and taxpayers picking up the tab. alina cho in is new york with

the details. alina? >> homelessness is a huge problem in america. 3.5 million americans are without a home. people want to find solutions, so some cities, including new york, are actually using city dollars to ship the homeless out of town. three plane tickets to places like paris, puerto rico, cosblanka and the recipients, the homeless and taxpayers are footing the bill. >> we used to call it in a negative way greyhound therapy, but if it is done right, it is a very good program. >> reporter: the national coalition for the homeless say cities across the country are using taxpayer money to get rid of homeless people. sending them to places where they can find a temporary home. mostly with relatives. >> give on the cost of providing shelter for family, this saves the taxpayers of new york an enormous amount of money. >> reporter: new york city department of homeless services says on average it costs $218

per person for a one-way ticket. the cost of housing a family of three in a shelter, $36,000 a year. just alone they owed back rent so with their 5-month-old daughter they came to new york last week for a fresh start, with no money, they went to a shelter and then they got the help they needed from family members, so three days later, the city paid to send them back, on a greyhound bus. >> they paid for our tickets and they gave us food on the bus because we had no money. they even called to make sure we made it here and everything. so, i'm grateful. >> we felt pressured. we felt pressure that they wanted us to get out of the system, get out of the state and right from jump. >> reporter: linda and her husband moved to new york a year ago after their florida home went into foreclosure. she says as soon as the couple applied for shelter n stead of offering a bed, the city wanted

to pay for tickets back to florida. she now works as an advocate for homeless rights says it took three months to convince social workers that returning was not an option. >> if they can go back to another city and they have housing, by all means, but, really in the long run, why are they here in the beginning? if they can't live where they were before, they came here for a reason, to get housing. >> reporter: critics of the program call it cosmetic by shipping the homeless out you're only shifting the problem from one city to another. moving the homeless from a shelter bed to a living room couch. $218 per ticket versus $36,000 a year to house a family in a shelter, and heidi, you're looking at thousands of dollars in savings. heidi? >> all right, alina, thank you. the view from orlando, one of the top tourist destinations in the country and now dealing with a lot of homeless people who are being shipped south. the health care debates in washington after weeks of

arguments and years of talk, democrats say there now appears to be progress on reform. house leaders say there is a tentative deal on the table, based on concessions made to the so-called blue dog democrats. cnn senior congressional correspondent dana bash has the details. >> reporter: conservative democrats unhappy with their party leader's health care plan didn't get everything they wanted, but enough. >> we got significant concessions and two weeks of very long talks that lasted day and night. >> reporter: concessions like delaying a full house vote until the fall. >> we believe every member of congress should have the opportunity to not only read the bill, but spend the month of august visiting with their constituents around it. >> reporter: not all blue dog democrats are onboard but four did reach a deal with democratic leaders and the white house chief of staff that lifts the brakes they put on committee action. some specifics on the deal, first, there's overall cost. >> it cut the costs of the bill

significantly by over $100 billion. >> reporter: conservative democrats say they have trimmed the price tag it just under $1 trillion, much of that savings comes from shaving health care subsidies for low-in. >> americans. another issue? many conservative democrats say their parties plan mandating businesses provide or help pay for health coverage would hurt small businesses, so democratic leaders agreed to exempt small businesses with payrolls of $500,000 or less. and there's this, many conservative democrats say a government-run health care plan in their party's proposal would have an unfair advantage over private insurers because it ties payments to medicare rates, which tend to be lower. democratic leaders agreed to change that and allow the secretary of health and human services to negotiate rates for a government-run plan. and conservative democrats say party leaders agree to allow state-run, non-profit cooperatives to offer health coverage in addition to a

government-run plan. but this deal doesn't even come close to ending the ugliness and division among house democrats. some conservative democrats say it doesn't go far enough to control health care costs and some liberal democrats say it cuts too much. and everyone is watching to see what happens in the senate where bipartisan negotiations are reporting progress. the one of three republican negotiations under gop pressure to bail from talks bristol reports that a deal is imminent. republican senator emphatically insists there are still a lot of outstanding issues. dana bash, cnn, washington. the health care debate is, in fact, often, like one step forward and one step back. you can please one group and anger another. the very latest from capitol hill now and brianna keeler. despite this agreement in the house, still a lot of democrats who are not on board with the health care reform plan. like four blue dogs out of 48, right? >> well, we're looking at the committee specifically because that was the next step for

health care. needed to move beyond the energy and commerce commity and seven blue dogs, heidi, that were holding it up in this committee and only four of these seven sign eed on and you can see a f blue dogs on this committee and many more in this group of 52 who are having issues with it, but not only are there some of the blue dogs really from the right side of the democratic party who are taking issue with this, heidi, but as you heard dana mention there, some liberal democrats taking issue and they look at those concessions got in these negotiations and they have serious worries, for instance, barbara lee, the chair woman of the congressional black caucus, she looks at that $100 billion that was pulled out of there by blue dogs and she worries, as of course do many liberal democrats that that's going to mean not enough americans are covered or really covered to the extent that members like lee want. >> all right, so, if we turn our attention to the senate then, as

in the house, there will be no vote before congress takes the month of august off, which we've all been talking about for a while here. is there some chance that a deal can be struck? >> that's really been the hope, of course, of congressional democrats. that these key negotiators, and the gang of six, the three republicans, the three democrats from the senate finance committee who have been meeting for weeks that at least maybe they can come to some agreement. well, last night, we heard from two of the republicans in that gang of six, heidi. mike envy of wyoming and chuck grassley of iowa and basically throwing cold water on the idea that they reach a deal before the senate leaves next week. they didn't really think it was possible. that said, chuck grassley was on cnn "american morning" this morning and said there was some sort of agreement by tomorrow and did leave the door open towards working towards one next week. here's what he said. >> there's no way we can get all the compromising that needs to

be done by an artificial deadline of friday of this week. so, we're going to continue to work together this week and next week, but we're getting close. >> senator grassley laid out the sticking points as they remain. exactly how do you pay for it, heidi? it's going to require tax money, where does that come from? then the big issue of what is this going to look like? they said senator grassley said there's a lot of details to work out there. we do know, heidi, of course, this plan they'll put out from the senate finance committee will include the nonprofit cooperative and one of the rural credit unions and something like a co-op apartment in new york city based loosely on that model. we are expecting that instead of the government-run insurance plan that we're seeing on the house side. >> so everybody waiting to hear more about that potential opportunity, too. b brianna keilar on capitol hill, thanks, brianna. >> thank you. she became the symbol of a

protest movement in iran. she was shot dead 40 days ago. today, the situation is tense, once again. as thousands of people have gathered to remember her with riot police pushing back. reza say ah is following the democrats over at our iran desk and we're getting more video in and all these people, something like 3,000, i think, we have been hearing have gotten together to remember neda. >> an estimated 3,000 people showed up at her grave site, sources in tehran telling cnn that security forces are firing into the air and using tear gas in an effort to disperse the crowd. this during more clashes this morning in tehran between security forces and opposition supporters. new video coming into the iran desk over the past hour. this is tehran's main cemetery where opposition supporters had gathered to mourn neda, the

26-year-old who was killed on june 20th, along with several other people eight days after the disputed elections. the opposition had asked permission from the government to hold a mourning ceremony at a main mosque. they were denied permission. they showed up to her grave site anyway. sources telling us about 3,000 people, many wearing green wristbands and arm bands and they also say mousavi, the opposition leader showed up in an suv and right there you see what appears to be the suv with a couple of people on top with a camera person. sources telling cnn, mousavi was not able to get out of the car, but his wife was. also on the scene, the other opposition leader. what's very interesting is state-funded press tv, the english language television station in iran rarely broadcasts these images as they are happening. but today they did. they had a reporter on the scene. let's take a listen to the

report. >> crowd of 23,000 people showed up here and on the 40th day of passing and the crowd was making some regarding the post-election events and mousavi shows up here along with other clergies and, apparently, police showed up and dispersed the crowd. >> in the past, when these protests and these demonstrations have taken place, we have never seen a reporter from a state-funded, state-run television station in iran report from the scene. this is a very rare instance where this has happened. i'm not sure what this exactly means, but it's an interesting observation. also on mousavi's facebook page, he's reporting, the facebook page is reporting a couple prominent filmmakers and an

actor arrested during the protest. the crowds have been dispersed from grave site and now moving to the main mosque where they had hoped to have a mourning ceremony. >> absolutely. once again, let us know if we need to come back to you to get more pictures and information on. reza sayah. now take you to iraq. the iraqi government says six iranians are dead in clashes with iraqi security forces at a camp north of baghdad. camp home to 3,500 iranians. set up in 1996 for iranian fighters helping saddam hussein. 35 people at the camp have also been arrested during two days of clashes. more bloodshed in northeast nigeria where a fundamentalest sec. they killed more than 100 rebels today and searching for others.

the militants launched their attack on sunday. at least 400 people, civilians, rebels and soldiers have died so far. police say a baby girl cut from her mother's womb has been found alive and seems to be in pretty good health in a hospital this morning. police arrested a 35-year-old woman in new hampshire after getting tips from acquaintances who became suspicious when she turned up with a newborn girl. the suspect has been charged as a fugitive from justs and is due in court today. the baby's mother was 8 months pregnant when she was found dead in her massachusetts apartment on monday. some residents of the pocono mountains are sifting through what's left of their damaged homes and farms today. you can see it there. a powerful tornado ripped through that area late yesterday afternoon leaving hundreds of people without power. the winds estimated at more than 110 miles per hour.

rob marciano standing over at the weather center for us. pretty incredible, 110, right? >> that's not a shabby tornado, especially for this part of the world this time of year. poconos, you know, kind of a little romantic get agray the folks in new york city. remember the campaign back when i was a kid, so, if they were, you know, folks were out there doing their thing they got a rough wake-up call. 16 reports of tornadoes yesterday, heidi, and we'll see rough weather again today. we had tornado warnings out for dallas, ft. worth area this morning and that line of thunderstorms has since been allowed to chill out just a little bit, so, that's good news. here it is on the radar scoop. dallas down to houston. this is not going to get far enough south to where the drought is, which is pretty much austin and south towards san antonio. so, unfortunately, the rain continues to fall in places where they don't are don't really need the rain so much. seattle to portland, another day

of probably record-breaking heat although today will be cooler than yesterday. check out some of these numbers from yesterday's heat. 108 in medford, oregon. vancouverer, washington, 108. that's an all-time record. you have to think, eight, nine ten months from now they're hosting the winter olympics. that's kind of cool. portland and seattle have one of the snowiest winters on record and setting one of their all-time records today. 98 degrees in seattle. that will break a record and won't be an all-time record, but certainly will keep things rather toasty. cairo, there's the emerald city. that looks something like atlanta would look this time of year. doesn't it look hot, heidi? >> except for the water and the big thing in the middle. >> space needle. puget sound just west of there. cooling breeze for that marine push. kiro, thanks for that shot. speaking of shots, check this out. little special something for you.

d'backs/phillies game last night. little foul back. baby in the right hand -- >> baby got drink. >> baby's got the jumbo drink and daddy makes a nice snag with the left hand, bare handed. that is all over the highlight reel. one more time. >> okay. >> he was getting that ball for his son no matter what. that's what that is. how about the smack on the hand, you think it hurt? >> one of the euphoric -type of fans that will hurt more the next day. i can't say my dad made the highlight reel, but he's still my hero. >> the balls never came where we were sitting. >> hi, mr. marciano. rob, thank you, we'll check back later on. a boston police officer on leave for using a racial slur to describe harvard professor gates. now, his job is in jeopardy and he's apologizing.

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started a national dialogue on race relations. want to check in with our white house correspondent ed henry on this now. ed, good morning to you. >> good morning, heidi. quite interesting, as you note. it is a rare occasion for sort of what they're calling the beer summit here at the white house. 6:00 p.m. eastern time. just in the last couple moments robert gibbs was briefing reporters off camera and lower expectations for this summit saying that the president is not going to announce anything and not going to have any big initiative or plan moving forward and the president is not going to get involved in this conversation about ascertaining what happened on that night a couple weeks back. that this is not in robert gibbs' words, an after-action report. he also said really what the president's goal tonight is is to foster a dialogue. to take a step back, try to lower the tension. you mentioned some of that tension heating up, once again, now with this boston police officer and turning himself into this whole story after the president had sort of tried to

calm things down late last week by acknowledging his own involvement, what he had said by calling the cambridge police saying they had acted stupidly and not calibrated his words properly and now we see it flairing it up again. what the white house is saying the president wants to do tonight is bring everyone together and calm the situation down and we even learned from white house aides that both sergeant crowley and professor gates will bring their families here to the white house and they're going to do it out on the picnic table on the south lawn right next to the swingset the president bought for his daughters. try to get the temperature down on this whole situation, heidi. >> is there talk about what the president hopes to accomplish here? >> well, i think the clear goal is to try to get everyone to take a step back and stop the he said/he said and the 911 call. that popping up yesterday, as well. just pull back from all of that

and make sure these racial tensions are defused. this is the first african-american president and he has a unique opportunity, perhaps, to try to bring not just the two parties here together, but bring the nation together on what has been a very difficult and sensitive subject for so many decades in this country and, so, they're trying to tamp down any expectations, some announcement by the president on racial profiling, some anti-racial profiling initiative or something like that. instead, they're saying he wants to start a dialogue in this country, heidi. >> it was never determined, was it, that there was racial profiling going on here, right? >> well, look, as the president himself said, when he first jumped in he didn't know all the facts at the time and to this day we still don't know all the facts about all wl it was racial profiling or not, that's why, again, very clear when you talk to senior white house aides the president doesn't want to get into the facts of what happened that night and as the president said in the white house briefing room last week, turn this into a

teachable moment and maybe something for kids to learn moving forward and also adults about how to interact because it's not just about the alleged potential racial profiling, but also how police officer os are treated in a situation like this. that's something the president, perhaps, was not as sensitive to at the beginning of all this, but certainly in the last week has made clear. >> very quickly because they are yelling at me. ed, are cameras going to be allowed and the media going to be there for this? >> we're getting guidance that the president may not even speak and we may hear from the police officer or the professor either. essentially a classic photo-op and the president will have a bud light and blue moon for sergeant crowley and potentially red stripe for the professor, but, interesting now that even some people are complaining that these are not american beers -- >> come on! >> congressman from massachusetts why not sam adams? it's the biggest american-owned company. get them at the table. you can see you can get

controversy just about everything. >> i say have wine and call it a day. ed henry at the white house for us. we appreciate it. thank you. >> thanks, heidi. a boston police officer's job is at risk for calling professor gates a banana eating, he made the comment in a mass e-mail sent to fellow guard members and to the "boston globe" he was venting about a column on gates. barrett now says he's sorry for the e-mail and is not a racist. >> i am sorry that i wrote that. i'm sorry that my family has to deal with this selfish motivation and feelings that i had. i regret that i used such words. i have so many friends of every type of culture and race you can name and i'm not a racist. >> justin barrett didn't call henry gates a jungle monkey to

malign him racially. he stated his behavior was like that of and it was a characterization of the actions of that man. >> barrett is now on administrative leave pending a termination hearing. the professor's arrest has spurred a debate in the media over race relations in the media. have you been a victim of racial profiling or if you work in law enforcement, what are the challenges you face while policing diverse communities? share your personal stories on video and you can be featured on cnn. are doctors prescribing too much medicine for children? we'll tell you about a new warning. to stay on top of my game after 50,

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is your child overmedicated? more than 4.5 million children are overmedicated each year. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here with some questions you should be asking. i love this, a lot of people they listen to their doctors and they want to do the right thing for their kids, but there are definite ways to go about the questioning to make sure it's

right. >> what i heard from parents is that sometimes doctors are too quick to say your kid has adhd and here is a prescription for some drugs and sometimes that is the right approach and drugs are the answer and other times it's not. i talked to some child psychiatrists on what parent should be asking when their child has adhd. first of all, they should ask, what can i expect from this drug you want to prescribe me? will my child get better grades and will my child have an easier time making friends? you want to be clear what will happen if your child takes these drugs. secondly, ask if there are alternatives to drugs. some kids do better if they concentrate better and ask scwhat are the downsides of the drugs you are prescribing me. they can cause psychiatric issues and cause kids to be less like themselves and sometimes kids get aggressive and

sometimes kids lose their appetite. for more on the questions you need to ask if your child has adhd, you can go to cnnhealth.com and you can read my column, does my child need adhd drugs? >> obviously, we see free samples at the doctor's offices and even for drugs like these, some doctors are giving out the free samples for adhd drugs. should parents be taking those? >> you really want to think twice before accepting a free sample. consumer reports have an interesting article about this. when your doctor gives you a sample, chances are that's annex pensive drug and that's why the drug company is giving out free samples so then you'll have to buy that expensive drug. you get a free sample for a month and then you'll end up shelling out the money. you want to say to your doctor, maybe we should start on something less expensive. so you might want to say no thanks to those samples. the pharmaceutical industry

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it's a trend that is continuing but comes amid very recent signs of hope in the housing market so it gets kind of confusing. susan lisovicz is at the new york stock exchange to save us with an overview of that and dow jones industrial average up about 1 54 points right now, but, still, information about the housing market. >> that's right, heidi. it's a huge market. let's face it. you know, one of the oldest expression about the housing market, location, location, location. it's not always apples to apples when you talk about different metro areas and the bottom line, it's still troubled but a new report out today from realty track shows foreclosures are easing in some of the worst-hit areas and cities in just four states, california, florida, arizona and nevada accounted for 29 of the top 30 cities with the highest foreclosure rates in the first half of the year. foreclosure rates in some other metro areas may have peaked, for

instance, in new york. same period, down 23% in the first half of the year compared to a year ago. boston saw 40% and cleveland saw 0% and even detroit fell 16%. so, as they said, heidi, it's not an even recovery we're seeing some improvements, but it's still troublesome. no question about it. >> we're not out of the woods yet. some areas still in trouble we should mention, too. >> that's right. cities that were not considered foreclosure hot spots, heidi, are now seeing increases, realty track blames unemployment. areas where foreclosure rates doubled, for instance. provo, utah, boise, idaho, two cities in eugene, salem. and three waves with foreclosures, first with subprime mortgages and then with all the layoffs and now we have a big wave of adjustable rate mortgages about to reset. so, there's concern that that

will lead to more foreclosures over the next several months because we do have a rising unemployment rate, but that actually, the job's market is actually one of the reasons why we're seeing a big rally today. stocks boosted by a drop in continuing unemployment claims. check out that big board. the dow industrials up right now 166 points above 9,200, heidi collins, for the first time since november. nice rally. >> yeah, very nice. we'll take that. why not? all right, susan lisovicz, thank you. >> you're welcome. summer jobs, a common right of passage for teens and younger americans, but in this economy those jobs have been tough to find, that is, unless you know where to look. kate baldwin looks at thousands of jobs that you're paying for in the stimulus package. >> reporter: 20-year-old shawn branch searched eight months for a job with no success.

>> i go everywhere from big-time places to just mom and pop shops and nobody's hiring. >> reporter: 15-year-old said she needed to keep herself busy during the summer break. if you hadn't gotten this job, what do you think you would be doing this summer? >> getting into trouble. >> reporter: now, at least for the summer, both are hard at work for richmond, virginia, businesses. terry at a radio station, branch at a community outreach program. >> i'm hoping that this job can beat me into just the realm of being a businessman. >> reporter: all thanks to the economic stimulus package. $1.2 billion targeted to job training for disadvantaged youth. president obama has promised the money would create 125,000 summer jobs. >> provides another opportunity for us to help young people. >> reporter: robert bowling helped branch and terry find work. his organization, the william byrd community house received

$439,000 from the stimulus for its summer employment program. bowling says that money means he can put nearly 200 young people to work this summer compared to 137 last year. >> but it is very difficult for a young person with no job skills at all to compete in the marketplace where individuals are losing work all the time. >> reporter: but these are temporary jobs, which is why some, like virginia congressman eric canter, are questioning whether summer employment is the most effective use of stimulus money. >> i think the american people are just frustrated seeing their taxpayer dollars wasted and when you say that you want to see a stimulus bill work, they, the american people, expect that stimulus bill will be focused like a laser on creating jobs. >> reporter: are they wrong? >> to say that this summer program does not work, doesn't really hit the point. the point is, you're training young people towards the future. >> reporter: sean branch, at

least, already views this stimulus project as a success. >> somebody like me, i'd never think in a million years that i'd have the opportunity to just sit in a beautiful office, air conditioned and, you know, just file papers. i'd never think that. >> reporter: here in richmond they estimate each summer job costs $1 million to $2 million in stimulus dollars. programs like this across the country will need to look else where to maintain this level of funding. kate baldwin, cnn, richmond, virginia. a midwestern town ravaged by unemployment gets welcome news and maybe a lot of jobs. in connorsville, indiana, a company could hire more than 1,500 people to build high-tech police cars. carbon motors says it will spend $350 million to transform a vacant auto parts plant into its first factory.

last month the area had an unemployment rate of almost 16%. for some americans working in the auto industry is a family affair, but the story has taken a sour turn as thousands of auto workers have lost their jobs now. but for others, the tradition does continue. cnnmoney.com poppy harlow met with one family trying to ensure ford's future is as bright as its past. what did you learn, poppy? >> we talked to a family, the grandfather and the father and now the son is there at ford. this is one of the positive stories that we don't hear much about. let's introduce you to that family. take a look. lino worked as an engineer at ford from the 1960s to the 1990s. following his father's work at the automaker during the great depression. >> for me it has provided a great living and provided an

opportunity to send all my kids to college. >> reporter: it was lino's first and only job out of college. three decades later, his son, carl, followed in his footsteps. >> probably the first thing that interest me about it is ford, we have like a family days and i always remember as a kid what was there and then even then as a kid, the engineering or the intuition of all the interesting parts and stuff like that. >> reporter: carl has been an engineer at ford since 1991. in fact, all three of lino's sons have worked at ford, something you see a lot of here. >> i think it's the most defining element of this company. it's a family company. i can't tell you the number of places i can go in our company where people come up to me and say, i'm fourth generation also or my aunt and uncle knew your father and your grandfather. >> reporter: but times have changed and layoffs have mounted. when lino worked at ford in the

1960s, the automaker had more than 29% of u.s. market share, today that number has fallen to 15%. >> what has hapened to the industry, people have found a great desire to buy foreign cars , i guess. a country that assembles parts and a country that not only assembles but designs and innovates the parts, that's another story. you know, heidi, when you talk about that, heidi, we talk about that's another story, you look at the son and he is one of the chief engineers on the new ford taurus coming out next year and this is one of those examples where ford is banking on their cars to make them cooler, revamping their image, trying to bring buyers back to these american brands. so, it's really interesting and although we look at ford as sort of a winner in the u.s. that hasn't gone through bankruptcy like its competitors, general motors and chrysler, unemployment there still

shocking, heidi. let's show you the latest numbers out of michigan. they just came out this week. unemployment still on the rise in detroit. new numbers showing detroit metro area t 1200.

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an uphill battle in southern afghanistan. u.s. troops are gaining ground, but gaining the trust of the  challenge. ivan watson has been embedded with u.s. troops in the treacherous helmand province. >> reporter: in an old ft. at the southern edge of afghanistan, an experiment in nation building is under way. in makeshift offices where music

from a laptop provides the only distraction from the scorching heat. behind the crumbling walls nicknamed the castle, a coalition of americans and afghans are trying to build a@q fledgling local government in a dusty town long controlled by the taliban. >> every morning at 7:00 we conduct a meeting with the personnel that are here in the castle. >> reporter: the commander of the marines, captain jerry dempster welcomes the recently arrived afghan police chief and his scruffy group of officers. moments later, tempers flair. since i arrived here last night, your men won't allow me to bring police trucks into the castle, the police captain says. you don't trust me. >> use the vehicles and drive them down here, unload them and t you want. but the vehicles can not stay inside the castle. >> reporter: an uphill battle overcoming cultural barriers between allies, while fending

off deadly attacks from enemy insurgents. the morning after rebel mortars killed one american, marines and police head out on their first joint patrol. >> today is friday, it's supposed to be the busiest day of the week. and the bazaar is all but deserted. these shops are boarded up and around the corner even, the bakery, which sells the staple food for afghans is closed. we're hearing that somebody in the baker's family has been kidnapped. >> reporter: the new police chief tries to reach out to the locals, but they're scared and angry after last night's battle. >> the situation is bad now. >> reporter: people are afraid in fleeing the area, these men say, because of you americans. the marines are also tense. every passing motorcycle could carry a suicide bomber. this war is very frustrating. sometimes we have a lot of lives lost on our side. >> reporter: back in the castle,

captain korvin tries to teach mostly illiterate afghan soldiers the laws of war. >> you want to take every opportunity to make sure he's not an innocent civilian before you kill him. >> reporter: includes hiring boys to clean the bazaar and offering health care to a town with no hospital. >> dr. juma hann has come here with the u.s. military. he's treating this little boy who doesn't even know how old he is. for burns received yesterday when a pod of hot, scolding water landed on his leg. this is the only afghan doctor in this town. >> reporter: he limps away, one small victory, perhaps, in a war in afghanistan that has been going on for eight long years. ivan watson, cnn, afghanistan.