big bill, major hurricane scrapes at northeast for the nirs in years and the first family heads into the path of the storm. mad as hell, imagine a guy who blew up your loved ones from an airplane and is released to a heroes welcome. war zone at home, gangs and thugs run rampant. families who lose children refuse to be victims. can we save chicago's deadly streets. tropical storm warnings are posted in new england and huge battering waves are crashing onto east coast beaches as we speak. hurricane bill heads north. a punch earlier today with flooding an power outages.

there are no reports of casualties. this late summer weekend could be a deadly one for beach goers who venture into the storm's dangerous rip currents. jacqui jeras is checking it out for us in the cnn severe weather center. >> hey, don, we've seen some big changes with bill over the last 12 hours. the storm has weakened a lot but there's still some great concerns with bill and that is primarily all the people that love to go to the beach on the weekends and are dealing with some very high waves and also very dangerous rip currents. here's the latest on bill and its location, it's about 3 hundred miles away from the new england coastline and it's going to be getting closer as we head through the evening hours. its earliest approach, the closest it's going to get to the cape and nantucket, martha's vineyard is overnight tonight. so hopefully you'll be sleeping during that time. maximum sustained winds 85 miles an hour, but still much greater gusts. here's that forecast track. so looks like a good swing and a

miss for the united states, however, nova scotia will likely be seeing landfall or a close glance with bill early tomorrow morning. let's talk a little bit more about some of these waves now because we've been getting reports as much as 8 to 10 foot waves. take a look at these pictures from our i-reporter coming offer the coast of new jersey. this is from mike black off the wall township, he said there were easily ten footers out there, usually two to three foot waves, so they were out there having a good time, but always stay safe even with that rip current threat. even olympic swimmers can't get out. swim parallel to the coastline, better yet, don't go into the water. this is taking place up and done the eastern sayboard, we also have a lot of showers and thunderstorms, some of those are going to be severe as a cold front moves through the area and that's cold front is pushing bill away from the u.s. >> that's good advice. the waves look fun but they are

very dangerous. that's good advice. thank you very much, jacqui jeras. cnn's susan candiotti is in massachusetts where a tropical storm warning is effect. i saw in the water earlier. just wading. you weren't out in the waves. what is going on there now, susan? >> we're at lighthouse beach in chatham, massachusetts. the waves have calmed down quite a bit, beyond the barrier i would islands, they are much higher, when the storm kicks in later tonight, they are expecting waves anywhere from 11 to 20 feet, way off shore here, but i wanted to also give you a look at this lovely beach here and cliffs that are just over my shoulder here. the coast guard station up there as well, you can see how all the locals and a lot of the visitors as well have pulled alongside here, it's a wonderful scenic overview just to check out the ocean, see what things look like. right now, they're looking

pretty calm, but the swimming has been offlimits since early this morning. boaters also asked to come back into safe harbor tonight. they were out earlier in the day according to the harbor master, but won't be tonight. joining us now briefly, the gordon family, just have time for a quick question for you. you came here for a holiday. no swimming today. what do you think things might clear up? >> we're thinking by monday from what we hear, we'll be in great shape and there should be calm spots. one or two days out of a week, doesn't make a big difference. >> how did things look now? >> things are great, we're not at work and we're relaxing. >> all depends on how you look at it. >> that's the situation from here. we'll be monitoring this throughout the evening. we'll let you know how things turn out. >> have a great time, susan. be careful to you and all the family. the storm will mostly have passed massachusetts by the time

president obama and his family arrive at martha's vineyard. the family left washington for camp david yesterday and they'll be there until tomorrow morning. meantime, mr. obama is using his weekly address to the nation it talk about health care and talk back to his critics. he says he's glad the nation is paying attention to this debate but he says his opponents aren't playing fair. >> we've had a vigorous debate about health insurance reform and rightly so. this is an issue of vital concern to every american and i'm glad that so many are engaged, but also should be an honest debate, not one dominated by willful misrepresentations and outright distortions spread by the very folks who would benefit the most by keeping things exactly as they are. >> cnn's eelaine quijano is tracking the health care debate in washington tonight. elaine, is the president's health care plan in trouble? what she doing to get become on message? i imagine what he did right there is one thing? >> exactly. whether health care reform

passes is very much an open question right now but president obama is doing what he can as you saw there to push back against critics. in his weekly address, he went on to tackle what some of the administration says are myths, illegal immigrants would not be covered under a reform bill. he said said taxpayer dollars would not go to fund abortions and he once again insisted his administration is not planning a government takeover of the health care system. don, as you know, there's a one perception that's really fueling the anger at some of the more confrontational town hall meetings. >> early on, he said he wanted to make this a bipartisan effort. so that hasn't really happened here. how are republicans reacting to his efforts? >> republicans in their weekly address said the president wasn't being straight forward about his proposal. gop congressman tom rice of georgia accused of playing fast and loose with the facts. he said the reality is under the president's proposal whether people get to keep their plan or their doctor is very much in question. >> i imagine that's the debate that continues the longer it

goes on, that's more fuel for the fire for the health care reform critic, elaine. >> we're expecting numbers to come out next week. obama administration is set to release its budget forecast for the deficit. get this, officials projecting over the next ten years it will reach $9 trillion. that's a huge jump from the $7 trillion deficit that officials had projected at the start of this year. the administration says of the blame is due to the country's economic crisis, there there isn't as much tax revenue coming into the government. but this is likely to make that health care debate heat up even more, republicans arguing that america cannot afford an expensive overhaul of the system. >> elaine quijano in washington. thank you very much, elaine. the health care bill not deterring the family taking a vacation on martha's vineyard tomorrow while bill is churning a couple hundred miles offshore. cnn's dan lothian is on martha's vineyard, which is an alittle

known history regarding african-americans. >>. >> reporter: it's easy to see why martha's vineyard is such a big draw, the beach, the boats, the vintage carousel. but before you attach the label enclave of the rich and fame ou, long-time summer residents and harvard professor charles ogletree says take a look around. >> it really is one of these rare place where is you see people who unemployed and ceos. you see people who are wealthy and poor and there's no pretension here. people are very comfortable. >> reporter: even if sitting presidents keep dropping in. first it was ulysses s. grant, then the clintons, now president obama and his family are preparing to stretch out on this 28 1/2 blue heron farm. >> it's very flattering and impressive that president obama and his family are coming. >> reporter: island historians say mr. obama's presence carries more weight because of the african-american heritage on martha's vineyard. >> there have been

african-americans on the island since at least the 18th century. i think in terms of this first family coming to the i'sland, it's important. this shot, i think,really quite telling. >> reporter: the pictures are in black and white at the local museum. some were slave whose when freed made a home here. later other blacks came in search of good jobs. >> you could get on a shape, whaling ship, and in the 19th century, you have these multi ethnic and multi racial whaling vessels. >> reporter: african-americans starteded to settle in oak bluch. >> a colored only, white only signs were up throughout much of the 20th century, so this was a place that didn't have the signs, didn't have the barriers to integration. >> reporter: it's a history largely hidden behind the island's pristine beauty and high-profile presidential visit, but historians kerry tank card is trying to change that. she co-founded the african-american heritage trail that marks 22 sites honoring

people of color on the island. >> the uncovered head stones and things, you know, you can put your hands on it, you can see it. it's just a feeling you can't describe. we just want them to know that we're here. >> reporter: while the president may be hoping to simply spend some quiet time relaxing with familynd and friends, his visit is also seen as another chapter in this island's a deep history. dan lothian, cnn, martha's vineyard. >> looks great there. you know there's a mad rush to car deal erships across the country all thanks to cash for clunkers. car lots are reporting brisk business since congress gave the rebate program an injection of $2 billion. now everyone is rushing to trade in their old clunker for a new more fuel efficient vehicle. but some are scrapping the program before it's officially set to end on monday night. they say the government hasn't paid them. a hero's welcome for a convicted terrorist ticks off the fbi chief as well as tony

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blasting the scottish executive who released the lockerbie bo bomber this week. abdelbaset ali mohmed al megrahi was welcomed as a hero in his native libya when he was freed on, quote, compassionate grounds. he has terminal cancer, but director mueller isn't working up much compassion calling it a mockery of the rule of law. he wrote in a letter to the justice secretary -- meanwhile former british tony blair denies claims a deal was cut with libya for al megrahi's release. >> let me just make one thing absolutely clear. the libyans were raising the case with megrahi all along, not just me, but everybody. it was a major national concern

for them. as i used to say to them, i don't have the power to release this meg gr megrahi and indeed it was a release that was taken place on the compassionate grounds which didn't exist a few years back. so of course the libyans were always raising this issue, but we made it clear the only way this could be dealt with was through the proper are procedures. >> moammar gado callfy's son said megrahi's release was on the negotiating table in a contract for oil and gas. that has created outrage here in the united states. six deadly attacks this week. hundreds were wound when truck bombs crashed into government build malnutrition baghdad. iraq's foreign ministery said surveillance shows a suicide bomber drive dlug checkpoints until he reached his target.

meantime the iraqi military arrested members after cell believed responsible for wednesday's attack. the taliban made good on its threat of afghanistan election day violence by cutting off the ink stained index fingers of at least two vote the voters in the kandahar province. as the vote tally continue, two presidential candidates are already claiming victory. >> reporter: it has only been two days since afghans headed to the poll for its second ever presidential elections but already two candidates are claim ing they are in the lead, that's dr. abdullah and abdullah and hamid karzai's campaign stating they have gotten the majority of the votes so far. let's listen to what dr. abdullah had to say. >> i shouldn't confuse your viewers, i'm not claiming victory but i'm saying that all the preliminary results we have received so far, it's in my favor, it puts me in the lead but we need it to have a full

picture also the final results will be announced by the iec. >> hamid karzai's campaign are also stating they have the majority of the votes but they will respect what the independent election commission results will be. >> regardless of who the winner is, once again, we believe it was a huge success the election and we will respect the results of the election, whatever candidate is the winner. but our own assumption based on all what we have heard and received and what we have seen so far, we are well ahead in the elections. >> reporter: respect the iec results is exactly what everyone has been asking for from the international community to the afghan community, many afraid of post election violence when the result results are expected to be finalized on september 17th. all campaigns here have garnered a lot of support, thousands to tens of thousands of people showing up at different rallies. at the moment, everyone asking these candidates to make sure they speak to their supporters,

that if they do demonstrate that the demonstration are done peacefully. attia abawi, cnn, kabul. a grandfather from washington state has become the oldest u.s. soldier to die in afghanistan. 59-year-old was killed in afghanistan by a road side bomb on tuesday. he was known to his friends as joe sinbad was well aware of the risks of combat. in 24 years in the military, he served in vietnam and kuwait before betiring in 1993. after 9/11, he decided to re-enlist in the u.s. army. >> when 9/11 came up, he was interested in going back serving his country in which he loved to do. that was his passion, his life. you know, there's friends, families, who say why did you let him do it? i simply say, it's what he wants and we support him. >> jose crisotosomo was killed

by a roadside bomb in afghanistan, he is survived by his wife, four children and ten grandchildren. prescription reform, could it work? we're digging deep, we'll have this for you as well -- >> one place i never worried about was them being at church to get a phone call that said your son got shot coming out of church, it was just unbelievable. >> shot and killed, on chicago's deadly streets. sadly terrell bosley's case wasn't an exception, far from it. we'll take you to chicago's deadly streets. say it again! what? say it like, "mmmm, these healthy choice fresh mixers taste freshh!!" they taste fresh... wait. what are you doing? got it. you're secretly taping me? you were good too! but you know, it wasn't a secret to us, we knew... yes, but it was a secret to me. of course, otherwise i would be sitting like this and completely block his shot. so that's why i was like... didn't you notice this was weird? no.

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a swine flu explosion could be on the horizon. that's according to the world health organization, but it says, healthy people who come down with mild or moderate cases don't need antiviral drugs like tamif tamiflu, those drugs should be saved for small children, the elderly and pregnant women. when swine flu peaks, most countries could see cases double every three to four days, but an official with the for disease control said it might not be any more than a severe flu season. president obama use his weekly address to make another pitch for health care reform,

insisting a failure to act means the crisis will continue to grow. georgia congressman and dr. tom price delivered the republican response calling the status quo respectable but said the americans don't like the democrats plan. >> i can tell you that washington is incapable of processing the personal and unique circumstances that patients and doctors face each and every day. that's why a positive solution will put power in the hands of patients, not insurance companies or the government. >> all right, joining us now to weigh in on the health care debate is dr. brad landry. hello, dr. landry. dr. landry wants to see equal care for everyone but does not believe in health care rationing. so what are your thoughts about the president's plan? you don't believe in health care rationing. is that what you believe about this proposal? >> i believe that care is currently rationed in the system that we have and unfortunately no matter how we do it, health care is a resource and

regardless of where we go, things will be racksed. i don't agree with not providing care for certain individuals. >> hang on one second. let's stick with the one point, rationing. what do you mean in a country as wealthy as the united states, why would we need to ration anything? >> with any reso, we ration. energy, we ration health care to a certain extent. everything, we can't spend unlimited resources on everyone. it just doesn't work that way. >> okay. what about the concerns, what are your concerns about what's being discussed at these meetings around the country? we've heard, i think most people have pretty much said that these so-called death panels are not true. so they're shying away from t t that, but do you think these concerns are valid and people still screaming in these town halls and yelling, do they have valid concerns? >> i that the concerns arise from people really being informed of what's included in the build an what things will

come down the pike. there's a lot of things the bill will offer including preserving employer based coverage, providing individual mandates to ensure that those get insurance that don't have it. providing proper regulation in the insurance industry through competitive pricing based on price, benefit and quality. they will provide health insurance exchange so that individuals can negotiate and compare all the plans that are out there. it also eliminates pre-existing conditions, eliminates discriminatory demographics that are used now and also makes changes to g mechlt e. >> discriminatory dem grarvgss, you're a physician, tell me what that means? >> insurance companies based coverage on age, race, that sort of thing. so that would be prevented up the current bill. >> that happens now, you're a physician, do we hear about

that, but do you witness that in your profession while you're practicing? >> as a physician, not directly, but the insurance companies are the ones who deal with that. i did want to say most importantly, the one thing that the current bill offers is changes to the reimbursement formula utilized by physician currently. it's kind of been a mess over the last ten years and needed changes made not only to ensure proper physician repayment but also the future direction of where health care needs to go, which is more focused on a model of primary care model which is what we've gotten away from in this country, something like the medical home which is shown through evidence can provide many cost savings in the long-term. you can look at programs such as those in north carolina, community care program that saved over half a billion dollars. utilizing health care reform with that plan and the massachusetts plan and geisinger

model. >> looking at the best of each plan to get all the elements in there that would work best. i'm going 0 let you go, but the whole idea of rationing, i just don't know in a country that is this wealthy if we have to resort to rationing. we shouldn't have to do that. >> well, unfortunately, we can't spend everything on everyone. to a certain degree, that will always happen. >> is it about priorities. if you have the priorities, we wouldn't have to ration? >> if we had the proper ka, the proper model of care, instead of relying on specialists and focusing on primary care, we wouldn't have to concern ourselves with rationing as much. >> all right, dr. landry, thank you, we appreciate it. hurricane bill targeting the east coast and cnn's jacqui jeras is in hurricane headquarters. she is tracking the storm. plus, we're going to take you to the deadly streets of chicago. this woman lost her son, the unbearable grief of families who

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keeping a close watch on hurricane bill this hour. it has been downgraded to a category 1 storm but that's nothing to play with because it's still large and till dangerous. winds and battering waves are are the big threat to the u.s. east coast. also just passed bermuda, there you see it going there. our jacqui jeras watching it all in the cnn weather center. how bad is ber mud d.a. i was going to go to ber mmuda on vacation next week. >> they had it worse than we did, but not so much damage that you'll have a problem when you go back. they didn't have a direct landfall, they had a glancing blow an that's what we are going to have here in the u.s., too. you can see the storm interacting with that front as it approach, that's part of the reason why we're getting some of these weakening, get egg closer to new england, about 3 hundred miles away from the coastline, that closest approach is going to happen tonight. we're expecting it be 150 miles away from nantucket and

landfall. land fap s&p fall will be tomorrow observe nova scotia if we get landfall there. outer bands make their way into the coastal area, so watch for wind gusts increasing throughout tonight. it is a story that should lead every newscast, nearly 3 hundred people have died by the gun in chicago just this year alone. many of them were teenagers, some were innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire. they were are somebody's son, daughter, loved ones, dreams never realized. >> i sat down with parents are whose pain never seems to subside. >> is he right, it takes you back, always just pain. >> every time we talk about what happened that day it breaks me down all the time. >> i'm just as numb as that night, that afternoon annette called me and she told me he had been shot. you talk about the worst feeling in the world, instant trauma to

the emotions. when i think back to what kind of child i had, it hurts me so bad. it hurts so bad. >> most of you are carrying some sort of memento or something. what are you guys carrying? >> my son was killed three and a half years ago and as you can see, i still have his cell phone on. i just can't bear to turn it off because i keep having that stupid little thought in the back of my head, when he walks back through the door, if he doesn't have a phone, he's just going to die. >> does it ever ring? >> i leave it on for his friend, for them to text me, they text him a lot. >> what are some of the text messages say? >> just poems. >> do you have any on. >> there i miss you, things like that. >> you can read one. >> i don't want to lose anybody else, this hurts a lot. i love you. >> you brought something of your -- >> program.

obituary and also the newspaper article. you can see he was in the paper. >> this is how he was in the paper. >> yes. >> college student is city's 500th homicide of the year. this isn't how you expect ed yor son to be in the paper. >> huh-uh. >> tell me your story next. >> terrell was a bass player, gospel bass play, he was at a church, helping his friend. somebody came shooting and shot terrell. >> i drove him to high school for four years, i drove him every day so he wouldn't have to take public transportation and one place i never worried about was church. i never worried about him being at church. and to get a phone call that your son got shot coming out of church, it was just unbelievable. >> i get a call from a complete

stran stranger, they're coming from her and her friend were coming from a church function and i get a call on my cell phone, it has her name. so i'm, you know, calling to get an update, how's your afternoon going, it's 5:00 in the afternoon, complete stranger. my daughter is laying in the alley bleeding. >> we almost lost christina. i feel very lucky that we still have her. >> if i could say anything to that parent whose child caused my child to lose his life, i hope you never feel like i feel. >> it's just a small part of what we're going to cover tonight for you. many, many more stories to tell you about, the streets of chicago and all week long, we have been hearing from you, our i-reporters about the deadly violence in chicago.

25-year-old zach isaacs is a graduate student at loyola and has lived in chicago's south side all his life. take a look. >> it's hard to find out when riding down the streets of chicago's south side, especially in the grand crossing neighborhood when ch has a high unemployment rate, but folks like mark sims wants to change that. he is the host of a public access show he distributes via youtube. i caught up with him to find out what what caused some to become so violence. >> violence in the american way. >> he added that the quality of the upbringing relates to the age of a child's parents. >> please, i tell young men, you shouldn't have children until you're at least 30. and young ladies, until at least 25. >> life on chicago's south side, if you're from chicago or any other community and have a story about how violence has affected you, send it to i-report.com and we will get it on the air for you. tonight, we are taking an n

in-depth look at chicago's deadly streets. we take you to the neighborhood where is the shootingses are hatching, we'll also question the police and look at what one local group is doing to stop this unbelievable violence and go one on one with chicago's former school superintendent arne duncan, now president obama's second of education. >> there are many people though in this country to whom this story does not resonate. they're in great communities, they don't see this sort of violence, they're not on the west side of chicago in a black or brown community. what do you say to them? >> unfortunately, this is not simply an inner city issue, this is a virginia tech issue, a northern illinois issue, we have young people from white, black, brown, from many different communities being definite tated because of it. so i think if we care about our society, if we care about our children's young -- if we care about our children's future, all

of us have to come together to create climates in which justice can be saved. >> our special report are airs tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern. tune in, you'll be surprised at some of what you see. we're also looking for solutions. you can see more on my reporting from chicago as well as my producer annika's blog about her personal connection to this story on our website. go to cnn.com/newsroom or c cnn.com/don as well. she is is a registered nurse who didn't have health insurance when she was diagnosed with cancer, now she's saving the lives of others who are uninsured. ♪ you're the one

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mortgage her house to pay for her care, but she says the experience is the best thing that ever happened to her. faith coleman joins us now from or plan did he. you were a nurse practitioner, you didn't have health insurance. how did that happen? >> because i was working as an independent contractor for two different doctors and i was not then eligible for the usual employee pack an or employee benefits and i at the time just could not afford to for any health insurance. >> okay. so you're working, you couldn't afford to pay for health insurance, you're working as a health practitioner, so you knew the importance of having it. >> absolutely. >> you just couldn't afford it. >> right. >> and then you come down with cancer. >> right. >> and the medical bills come. >> shocking, it was shocking. >> we should tell everyone that you're in remission now doing fine. >> yes, i am, i'm six years out. >> so when you find out, right, and then that's devastating enough, but you knew working in the field that, oh my gosh, the

costs are going to be outrageous. tell us about that. >> yes, i did, and i was absolutely terror stricken over the possibilities of paying for this, how long would i be in the hospital, how much time would i have to miss from work and fortunately i only had to miss three weeks of work. >> but you had to remortgage your home? >> yes, i did. >> in order to pay for it. >> absolutely. >> how much debt were you in from medical bills? >> about $35,000. >> for three weeks that you got for $35,000 or was it longer than that. >> right. >> so what do you think -- this is very important to you, the whole idea of health care reform. >> the whole idea is extremely important, not only to me, it's important to the over 6,000 people that i have seen at my free clinic over the last four and a half year, it's important to the patients i see in my private practice, who have insurance but some of them have a $5,000 to $7,000 dedeductible.

so unless they have something catastrophic, it's not going to cover the usual office visit, illnesses, imza, that kind of things. >> before i ask you about the clinic, people can go to our website to find out about that. >> right. >> what do you make of the debates going on, a lot of it noise, what do you say to the people on both sides who are fighting to get this done and the people who oppose it or what have you? what do you say about this issue? >> i say to them, they immediate to look at the surveys, i remember reading just the other day one poll says there are 45 million uninsured in america. another one says month, that's incorrect, there's only 8 million. well let me tell you, even if is 8 million and you're one of the them, that's going to be one too many without insurance. >> tell us quickly about your clinic.

>> the clinic is the flagler county free clinic started in 2005 by myself and dr. john kanakari is fr s, we're open the first and third saturday and sunday each month and welcome patient patients who don't have any insurance and nowhere else to turn. >> that's why you're a hero. >> well, i have a lot of heroes behind me, let me tell you, because i surely couldn't do this by myself. >> you're a grit lady. >> thank you. >> we hope that you stay healthy for a long, long time, we appreciate you coming on, especially someone who's lived it, you represent the importance of it. >> thank you, thank you so much for having us. >> faith coleman. you can find out more about faith or any of our heroes on cnn.com/heroes and make sure you keep an eye out, in just a few week, we'll be announcing the top ten cnn heroes of 2009. drum roll, please. "situation room" is straight ahead. wolf blitzer, what's on tap? >> thanks very much, coming up at the top of the hours, my

exclusive interview with the scottish justice secretary is, kenny mccaskill, i'll ask him why he decided to release a convicted terrorist to go back home to lib yachlt also, we'll get reaction to the interview from two family members of victims of pan am flight 103. that's coming up. also, we'll speak with the only u.s. senator to have actually been in afghanistan to monitor the presidential election votes this past week. all that and a lot more coming up right here in "the situation room." >> we'll be watching. a grisly new picture is coming out about what happened to a murdered former model stuffed in a suitcase with her teeth and fing fingertips mixing. her reality star ex-husband is nowhe nowhere be found, why the manhunt stretches from california to canada. >> reporter: early saturday morning in swain in a park, california, a man looking through a trash bin for recyclables, finds a small unzipd suitcase.

>> it was partially opened, i lifted it up one time and saw skin, so i wasn't sure. i lifted it again, when i saw it, the birth mark or the marx on the body and everything i verified that it was a body. and i immediately called 911. >> the body was jasmine fiore. >> our preliminary results and findings from the orange county coroner were that she was straininged. >> reporter: police are now looking for this man, ryan jenkins, who was reportedly briefly married to fiore. they were last seen friday night at a poker game in san diego about 100 miles south of where her body was discovered saturday morning. on saturday night, jenkins filed a millsing persons a r's report for fiore, he hasn't been heard from since. >> our fear is he might possibly be en route to canada. he was the last person seen with her. >> reporter: jenkins most recently a can't testant on the vh-1 reality show, "megan wants a mill they're skwt described as

an investment banker from calgary. she driving eitherary a black suv like this one with an alberta license plate hly-275 or may be in jasmine fiore's white mercedes. neighbors describe her as outgoing. >> she was close, she had a good roommate, very friendly, friendly to everybody else. it's just a shocker. >> reporter: a former boss at the modeling agency where she worked in las vegas said fiore seemed to have her head on straight. >> she seemed have been responsible, very driven, like focusesed on like even wanting to get into the business, but not, it wasn't eunanimousered by it. >> reporter: henderson said the last time he saw her, she looked really happy and mentioned she had this great guy. the question whether that great guy may know something about how jasmine fiore died. erica hill, cnn, new york.

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we have been talking a lot about health care, but what about young people? because they aren't always at the forefront of the health care battle. so tonight, we want to hear what they have to say. and we want to -- he's the editor-in-chief of scoop44.com and harvard undergrad. >> thanks, tom. wayne mcallister is in charlotte, author of mad black tyc which is a crowd conservative. it's pyc. alexander is old at this, so alexander -- and lenny is new so we're going to let him speak

first. how are young people represented in these proposals if at all. what's your comment or concern about that? >> well, as far as the current health care bill, you do see some reflections of young america in it. for example, the movement to make sure that our health records are optimized through the use of electronics, through the use of the internet and electronic records, i think that's a very brilliant thing to do in terms of streamlining and getting some efficiency. i think the effort to go toward social equality with health care definitely reflects the younger movement within america, but i also think that's part of the contrast with what we're seeing. >> i have heard people criticize that thing, hey, you know, my medical records shouldn't be online and this is big brother. alexander have you heard that? >> i think there is an increased vulnerability if medical records on online but they will be streamlined and organized in a way that make them accessible and more efficient. >> i think that young people

maybe more open to that because of social networks. >> i think people do desire a public option because of all the surveys that are conducted. of all the people who are not documented as uninsured yet are are young americans. so there's some disillusionment or frustration with mr. obama and his ability to steadfastly back the public option. >> i heard two things in there that conservatives have sort of been making noise about undocumented immigrants, undocumented people and also the public option, do you agree with what alexander said? do younger people want a public option? >> it's very interesting that we start talking about undocumented people in america. because the health care issue may de facto decide illegal immigration and the undocumented american issue because if we're going to cover all americans,

now we have to look at who is going to be that citizen that is allowed to get that health care and if it's just going to cover everybody, we have in essence solved illegal immigration which is going to fire up the conservative base that much more. >> i shouldn't just say conservative base because i have heard liberals as well have concerns about illegal immigrants as well. i have heard people mention it. okay, lenny, we appreciate you. we want you to come back because we like hearing young folks' voices. that's why we have that guy talking to you all the time. appreciate it. don't let him talk too much when he's on the air, because he'll try to steal your air time. sizing up sports shoes that claim to do more than just help your game. kick your feet up. i'll explain that for you in a moment. aaaaaaaaaaaaa ( sighs )

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dr. sanjay gupta has tonight's fit nation. >> reporter: every mont new fitness products are hitting the market. fit shoes that claim to exercise your calves and glut muscles. do they work? probably not. >> it's the comfort of fit. >> reporter: the easy tone is just one example of these new rockers shoes. lab tests show increased activation due to the many balance balls underneath the shoe. >> the type of technology, people use that to rehabilitate ankles, not your fitness or your strength. but to think that that would then make you more fit with your regular activities, i have a hard time kind of buying that. >> reporter: then,