i'd like to express my gratitude to president obama for the confidence he's shown in me with this nomination and for his unwavering support for a strong and independent federal reserve. it has been a particular privilege for me to serve with extraordinary colleagues throughout the federal reserve system. they've demonstrated remarkable resourcefulness, stamina under trying conditions. through the long nights and weekends and the time away from their families, they have never lost sight of the critical importance of the work of the fed for the economic well being of all americans. i am deeply grateful for their efforts. i especially want to thank my own family, my wife ana, and our children joel and alyssa, without their support and sacrifice, i could not undertake this task. the federal reserve like other economic policy makers has been challenged by the unprecedented events of the past few years.

we have been bold or deliberate as circumstances demanded, but our objective remains constant, to restore a more stable, financial, and economic environment in which opportunity can again flourish and americans' hard work and creativity can receive their proper rewards. mr. president, i commit today to you and to the american people that if confirmed by the senate, i will work to the utmost of my abilities with my colleagues at the federal reserve and alongside the congress and the administration to help provide a solid foundation for growth and prosperity in an environment of price stability. thank you, sir. >> thank you. great job. >> thank you. >> all right, so there you have from martha's vineyard this morning. the president taking a break from his vacation to announce that he will renominate fed chairman ben bernanke for a second term, that's another four-year term, in fact. good morning to you, everybody, i'm heidi collins, thanks for

being with us in the "cnn newsroom." a lot to talk about this morning. certainly this nomination to begin with. let's go ahead and take a moment now to bring in our money team's christine romans to talk more about this. christine, not a surprise, certainly that this nomination has occurred today. but i would imagine one of the reasons that the president decided to do this is a matter of consistency. when we're talking about the major economic crisis that the country is going through, probably wants to stick with the same guy. >> that's absolutely right. consistency and a president who is mentioning bold persistent experimentation. you heard that in his remarks. it's interesting, bold experimentation is what fdr promised in 1932 when he told the nation he was going to try something and if it failed he'd abandon it and try something else. so the president using fdr's language there, indeed interesting because this is -- would be the second term for ben bernanke, and actually, heidi, in the beginning of this whole process back in 2007, i want you to listen to this sound bite we found for you. back in 2007, he was asked many

times about the subprime crisis and the housing crisis and if it was going to be a problem for the overall economy. listen to what he says. >> we do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market for the rest of the economy or to the financial system. >> now flash forward to today, he is being credited with his, you know, his actions and his deliberate, as he said and bold strategies helping to prevent something far, far worse. the second great depression. so a lot has changed in the past couple of years and this is the man who at first, many say was maybe a little late to understand the depths and magnitude of this problem but then got creative and bold and really sought even new tools, things we'd never seen before to try to right the financial system. now many, many are telling me and for several weeks have been telling me it would be really unusual for this president to pick someone else, to pick a new course midstream as they say,

that horrible cliche, when this fed chief has a lot of work to do. >> and i remember all of us talking about what uncharted territory we were in when this was happening with subprime mortgage crisis and bleeding into other areas of the economy. of course, but you would still expect the guy at the top, the fed chairman to be able to know. a lot of people still saying he was also appointed by the bush administration. so what does all of that mean? what exactly is ahead for bernanke? >> it's not unusual to have different political parties for the fed chief than the president. that's not unusual at all. and presidents tend to keep their fed chiefs around, tend to be isolated, it's an independent organization, it's not a political, not supposed to be a political organization. senator chris dodd, the senate banking committee chairman, he has said, essentially what that sound bite would suggest that chairman bernanke was too slow to act during the early stages of the crisis but ultimately demonstrated effective leadership and the reappointment

sends the right signals to the markets. he could have some of these questions raised in the senate confirm ma confirmation part of this process. he has to unwind all of these emergency measures that are now today in effect in the marketplace. he's got to unwind this, if he waits too long, you risk inflation, trouble in the economy that way. new bubbles, all of this money slashing around creating new problems. do it too soon and you hurt the economic recovery and you face another dip of quote unquote double dip recession. >> still right in the middle of the uncharted territory, that's for sure. in fact, you have a really interesting romans' numeral today. what's this about? >> 1937 is the numeral, 1937, it's a year, heidi, on the lips and minds of all of these policy makers, ben bernanke a depression expert, the chairman of the economic department of princeton, he knows the depression. that was the year of that second

horrible dip of the great depression. you had an economy that came out of a bad recession, was starting to recover, and then because of blunders made by the nation's leadership, by blunders made as the economy was starting to strengthen, it went right back down again and was very terrible and painful for a lot of people. the depression was two big terrible events and now a lot of folks are watching what we do next to make sure we don't have the same mistakes made right now in this episode. >> absolutely. from our money team, christine romans in new york, thanks for that. also ben bernanke as the chairman of the federal reserve, his decisions affect your wallet and your financial well being. a few moments ago, president obama formally called for him to remain in his position to steer the country out of its worst recession in decades. dan lothian is traveling with the president, joining us now from the vacation spot of martha's vineyard, massachusetts. dan, good morning to you. i thought the president wanted a

news-free vacation here. i guess he couldn't skip this one, huh? >> that's true. and you know, he pointed out as he started his remarks here that he was apologizing because indeed the president had encouraged the press to go out and take a nice walk on the beach and to give the family some privacy. i did talk to the administration official who said they felt this was the right time to make the announcement because they felt renominating bernanke would really cause some stability in the market, was good for the marketplace, and wanted to come out and make the announcement now. but as you've been pointing out, there's still a little bit of perhaps bumpy road ahead while there's the conventional wisdom he will be approved by the senate during the process. there is some concern that there'll be tough questions about what he did or what he didn't do early on to perhaps prevent such a freefall and perhaps the mortgage crisis. yes, he's been credited with

helping to keep the economy and this nation from falling into another great depression, but there's still a lot of questions about whether he reacted soon enough, could've done much more to prevent the deepening of the crisis we saw in the housing market. those are no doubt some of the questions coming up in the process. >> very good point. he still does need to be confirmed by the senate. sure do appreciate that live from martha's vineyard this morning. here's a look at fast facts on ben bernanke. then president george w. bush first appointed him. he was sworn in on february 1st, 2006. he took over the post from alan greenspan who served in that role for 18 years. bernanke earned his bachelors degree from har vard university and his. stocks peaked early yesterday and sputtered out towards the close. those gains pushed nasdaq, the

dow, and s&p 500 to new highs for the year. the reason for the rise continued optimism about the economic recovery and the accompanying increase in oil prices too. in fact, the s&p 500 is up more than 51% from its low on march 9th. the dow up 45% during that same period. at the bottom of the hour, we will go live to wall street for today's opening bell. keeping our eye on those numbers for you. a few more hours to get cash for clunkers, but don't get too excited, it's only for the dealers. the government is extending the paperwork deadline until noon today. we talked about this, the rush of applications shut down the government computer system before last night's original deadline, the transportation department says they have received 625,000 vouchers so far. that covers $2.5 billion of the $3 billion allocated for the program. new numbers on the possible toll from the h1n1 swine flu. a government panel says 30,000

to 90,000 people could die from the flu strain this fall. the 90,000 is a worst-case scenario. a worst-case look at what the flu could do. this new h1n1 strain is expected to take its biggest toll on children and young adults. the first doses of the new vaccine are expected by mid-october. we've been talking about that quite a bit too. that government panel also suggests as many as 40% of people could suffer from swine flu symptoms. cnn's senior medical correspondent joining me now to put this in perspective for everybody. so how do these numbers match up once again against that regular seasonal flu? i think i remember having it ingrained in my head 36,000. >> right, 36,000 deaths from seasonal flu. sometimes it's easy to see the numbers one on top of another. let's take a look at it at a graphic we have. the projection by this group is there will be 30,000 to 90,000 deaths from swine flu alone in the upcoming flu season. again as heidi said, there are 36,000 deaths annually from

regular seasonal flu. an important distinction here, swine flu deaths would be on top of regular flu deaths. it would not be instead of. so this would be sort of an extra. so basically what they're saying is we're likely to see more deaths from swine flu this year than from regular flu. now, as far as illness goes, this report projects that between 30% and 50% of americans will become ill with swine flu and that regular flu every year is between 5% and 20%. you can see, again, that according to these projections, more people will get sick from swine flu than from regular flu. this is not shocking in that this is a virus that most of us have no resistance to. our bodies have never seen anything like this before. and again, these are projections. nobody knows for sure. we can't really tell, it's just sort of people working off of models. >> the first question people usually have is what about the

vaccine? we're going to be hoping it would be ready by october, a lot of people saying that was a lofty goal. >> well, i think there will be some by mid-october, they're hoping for that, but certainly not enough for everyone who needs it. they're hoping to have about 50 million doses by mid-october and then another 200 million doses by the time the calendar year ends. hopefully this will be enough to get them the shots to the people who need it. pregnant women, young adults, you and i talked about that many times. certainly if there's a mad rush for vaccine in mid-october, there are going to be problems because there won't be enough. >> it's not just one shot. >> it's two. >> yeah definitely. also reminder, we can never say it too much, to prevent swine flu. your best chance -- >> right, exactly what you can do yourself. the first thing you can do is wash your hands frequently, soap and water, hand sanitizer, don't go out if you're sick, don't get other people sick, stay home from work, keep your kids home

from school. cough or sneeze into your sleeve. someone described it as the dracula cough. it works it's a good description. those aren't going to guarantee you're healthy. but it's basically all you can do. >> very good. thanks for the update. appreciate that. meanwhile, a chilling time line laid out of drug after drug with michael jackson reportedly wanting more. we have the preliminary findings from his autopsy. i'm rob marciano, the shuttle launch last night scrubbed due to weather. they'll go at it again tonight. plus hurricane bill's gone, but another area of disturbed weather. powerful medicines for fast relief of your diarrhea symptoms, so you can get back out there. imodium. get back out there.

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michael jackson has been dead two months today. no official word yet on what killed him. but preliminary findings suggest it was an overdose of a powerful sedative, one of several drugs in his system. here now cnn's thelma gutierrez. >> reporter: this 32-page document reveals there was lethal levels of the powerful drug propofol in michael

jackson's blood at the time of his death according to findings of the los angeles coroner. the police affidavit says dr. conrad murray, the personal physician told detectives he had been treating the star for insomnia for six weeks, giving him an iv drip with propofol diluted every night. he worried jackson was becoming addicted in an attempt to wean him off, he put a combination of other drugs that succeeded to putting him to sleep two nights prior to his death. on june 25th, when those drugs failed, murray told detectives what he did hour by hour. he said around 1:30 in the morning, he gave jackson 10 milligrams of valium, at 2:00 a.m., injected him with ativan, an hour later, the sedative versed, at 5:00 a.m., more ativan, at 7:30, more versed. murray says he monitored jackson's vital signs the entire

time. according to documents, at 10:40 a.m., after repeated requests and demands from jackson, murray administered 25 milligrams of propofol and jackson finally went to sleep. after ten minutes, murray says he went to the bathroom and was gone for two minutes. when he returned, he says jackson was no longer breathing. murray says he administered cpr until paramedics arrived, but those efforts proved futile. his attorneys released a statement saying much of what was in the search warrant affidavit is factual. however, much is police theory. most egregiously, the time line reported by law enforcement was not obtained through interviews with dr. murray as was implied by the affidavit. cnn, los angeles. milwaukee has its mayor back, he's still on the mends, recovering from a brutal attack. now he's talking about getting back to business.

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ago, president obama renominated fed chairman ben bernanke for a second term. bernanke played a key role in the government's response to the recession and the banking crisis. bernanke's first term ends on january 31st. of course, the senate would still have to confirm him for that second term. a new report warns of the widespread and deadly implications of a swine flu outbreak this fall. a presidential advisory panel says up to 90,000 deaths are projected as part of a plausible scenario involving a variety of factors. those factors include large outbreaks of schools and the virus peaking before vaccinations actually have time to work. the shuttle discovery's mission to the international space station will have to wait at least another day. this morning's launch was scrubbed due to bad weather. the crew will try again early tomorrow morning and discovery will deliver thousands of pounds of supplies, including nasa's new treadmill named after comedian stephen colbert.

interesting. we want to know what you think about something else. the cia interrogation tactics that we were talking about this yesterday, of course, and earlier in this show. i want to know if you think the government should launch an investigation into the cia. that is the topic of my blog today. we'd love to hear from you. go ahead and post your comments on cnn.com/heidi.

quickly want to get you over to rob marciano who is in the severe weather center now. apparently there's quite a few storm clouds off the cape, yeah? >> yeah, the cape down across the south, that's where you're talking about they had to scrub the shuttle launch. this is fairly typical for this

time of year, at least we have showers and thunderstorms around florida in the afternoon. this thing is just kind of adding fuel to the fire. so we've got issues down there. last night they scrubbed the launch due to weather around the area. actually got a little bit of rainfall on the pad itself. so with that sort of action, they canned it for another night. we're looking at the same sort of scenario today, all kind of surrounding them. typically the afternoon rolls around, these things will come onshore and develop a little more with the sea breeze. here's the forecast, though, as we go on through today and tonight, scheduled launch for 1:10 tonight, 1:10 a.m., 30% chance that the weather will give a no-go for a launch. that's not necessarily the best news for the folks out there in -- at the cape, so hopefully they'll get that tonight. it'll be 85 degrees in chicago, 86 degrees in new york, 88 degrees in atlanta and heat definitely building across parts of texas. some of those areas saw triple digit numbers yesterday. all right, take a look at this.

just when we thought it was safe to go back in the water, bill being gone, everything this is north of puerto rico. strong tropical wave, now in the national hurricane center put a high probability out on this thing for it to develop into something more substantial in this area as winds become a little bit more favorable. so we'll watch this, could become our next tropical depression, could become our next tropical storm, and if that's the case, its name would be, i think, danny. live shot from miami, afternoon thunderstorms in the forecast, kind of quiet right now and soupy. dew points in the upper 70s. wearing that stuff in south florida this time of the year and watching what could be our next tropical storm. >> they're used to the soup down there. i haven't heard you use that term before. i like it. rob, we'll check back later, thank you. >> okay. milwaukee's mayor is back at work nine days after being brutally beaten. the mayor was trying to help a woman being attacked when he was then attacked himself.

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yesterday was a pretty slow day on wall street because there wasn't really any economic news. but today, it's a different story. we have new readings on the housing market and consumer confidence, and of course, there is that reappointment of fed chief ben bernanke pending senate confirmation.

stephanie elam now with a look at how investors are expected. >> we are expecting a higher open, we'll see if it comes true. yesterday regional bank took a hit because of concerns about the commercial real estate market. but today we are expecting consumer confidence to rise, and, of course, confidence is really important is key to economic recovery. that report is due out at the top of the hour, of course, we'll be keeping our eyeballs on it. in the meantime, the case shiller report says home prices rose 3% in the second quarter compared to the first quarter, that's the first quarterly increase in three years. it's a sign of stabilization, but we do have a long way to go because home prices are at 2003 levels. now in corporate news, something to tell you about, burger king, their quarterly profits jumped 16%, that did beat estimates, sales fell and the fast food chain opened more than 100 stores in the three-month period, but burger king came out on top because it managed the costs well. bk shares on the up side by 2% in the pre-market and right now up 5.5%.

taking a look at the early going, we are in the green. the dow on the up side by 30 points, up 1/3 of a percent, s&p 500 also up right now. one thing i've got to mention, we're not expecting much market reaction as to the reappointment of ben bernanke. if he didn't reappoint him, that could've sparked a reaction. we're off to a positive start. we'll take it. >> as always, we'll check back later on. thanks. >> thanks. a special prosecutor will now look into cia prisoner abuse cases after eric holder decided to open an investigation. our elaine quijano joining us live in washington with more on this. elaine, why would holder want to look into these cases now? >> reporter: well, as you noted, the attorney general has now asked the federal prosecutor, heidi to review whether interrogations under the bush administration broke the law. and he says his decision was

influenced by the newly released cia inspector general report. interrogators threatened to kill the children of accused 9/11 master mind, the 2004 cia inspector general's report though still partially lly red, said if anything else happens in the united states, we're going to kill your children. the report also reveals a technique not previously disclosed, that an interrogator "reportedly used a pressure point technique with both his hands on the detainee's neck, manipulated his fingers to restrict the detainee's carotid artery." and new information about a gun and a power drill used to scare nashiri. "the debriefer entered the cell

where he sat shackled and racked the handgun close to his head." and later the briefer entered the detainee's cell. the debriefer did not touch him with the power drill. the report's release comes after a lawsuit by the american civil liberties union, which called the details outrageous. >> threatening a prisoner with an electric drill isn't torture, i'm not sure what is. >> reporter: the report also suggests waterboarding got mohammed to talk, saying he "provided only a few intelligence reports prior to the use of the waterboard." late monday the government released other classified documents dick cheney requested arguing they would show the interrogation program saved lives. the cia analysis says information from detainee interrogations helped thwart a number of al qaeda plots and arrests disrupted attack plans in progress.

what's not clear from the documents is whether that information was obtained through controversial techniques like waterboarding. now in a sign of the political pressure surrounding this issue, the aclu said it is disappointed with the attorney general's decision not to launch into a full investigation calling a preliminary review without a commitment to prosecution "simply anemic." heidi? >> on the i.d. report, i have to wonder what the cia is saying about these accusations. >> leon panetta says they make no excuses on things that went beyond the guidelines. he also said in that memo that obviously he is interested in the future not necessarily looking backwards, heidi. >> very good, elaine quijano, thank you. meanwhile eric holder's decision could draw the administration into a long battle at a time when the white

house doesn't need any distractions. the panel on anderson cooper 360 last night questioned the strategy. >> i'm not a career prosecutor, but these guys actually take seriously into question and career prosecutor's mind is not was it this or that? is it against the law? they are taught from the get go, the mind of a prosecutor is i'm here to enforce the law, was this legal or illegal? if we think it's illegal, then we're duty bound by our oath to pursue this. i tend to agree with jeffrey smith, the general council of the cia during the clinton years this is a place not to. >> i am a former career prosecutor and i agree, that if people actually broke the law and committed crimes, they ought to be prosecuted for them. i don't have a problem with that. i don't think we see an indication of that here. and by the way, career prosecutors have already looked at this and made a judgment that a prosecution is not appropriate. >> once again, that panel on "ac 360." a suspected enemy combatant released from guantanimo bay is

now back home in afghanistan. accused of killing two u.s. service members in afghanistan in 2002. a federal judge ordered his release saying the u.s. had been illegally holding him for seven years. the judge said he may have only been 14 years old at the time was coerced into confessing. >> i'm very happy, i can't even fit into miss clothes. i spent a long time in jail. thanks to god i'm very happy to be back with my family. >> jawa's attorney tells the associated press, he met with karzai shortly after his arrival. we shall always be proud of their courage and sacrifice. after four u.s. troops were killed today in southern afghanistan. military officials say it was a roadside bomb. so far this month, 41 u.s. service members have been killed there. last month, 44 u.s. troops died. partial results are just in

from last week's afghan presidential election and they show a slim margin between the incumbent and his leading challenger. workers are continuing to certify results in their kabul office with 10% of the vote in, president hamid karzai has a small lead over his challenger. that candidate is charging the president with fraud and warning of possible fallout. cnn's atia abawi reports. >> reporter: intimidation, violence, and ballot stuffing. afghanistan's elections were marred from the start, and now allegations of fraud are flying. presidential candidate alleges that karzai's campaign is blatantly stealing the election in front of the world's eyes and the repercussions will be severe. >> i think the survival of afghanistan is at stake. and i don't see a future for this country. the level of disappointment of

the people that reached a stage you cannot reverse it. >> reporter: already hundreds of complaints have poured into the electoral complaint commissions as several hundred as high priorities. it says they will delay results announcements until they have investigated each complaint. dr. abdullah warns it's not just democracy that will fail if fraud is not addressed. but the international mission in afghanistan itself will be at stake. here at a pre-election rally, the energy and excitement was overwhelming as thousands showed up in support of dr. abdullah. the fear now among officials that this positive energy will turn into something more violent if the results are seen as illegitimate. for his part, karzai's campaign says it has its own concerns but not airing them publicly. >> this is disrespectful to the

process, this is disrespectful to the mechanism, which is in place, which is the institution and this is disrespectful to the votes of the people. >> reporter: here at a store in the capital, afghans are worried. if fraud was involved in the election, he says, i don't think the situation in afghanistan will improve. it'll probably get worse than it is now because everyone is looking out for their own needs, not the country. dr. abdullah says he will do what the people ask him to do. >> what will you do? >> i'll try to prevent that. i'll try to prevent that, but all i can promise is i'll be with the people. >> reporter: potentially ominous words if the people choose to take to the streets. afghan and international diplomats want to prevent such a scenario and are hoping to make a deal. but abdullah says deals with the karzai government is what has prevented people from moving forward. cnn, kabul.

president obama makes it official, he wants ben bernanke to remain as the chairman of the federal reserve. less than an hour ago, the president announced bernanke's nomination for a second four-year term. bernanke is credited with a largely successful response to the nation's financial crisis and the worst recession since the 1930s. google revealed her identity to the world. now blogger rosemary port plans to sue for $15 million over it. port on the right says google did not do enough to protect her identity. she was talking trash about the other woman you see there, model cohen on her anonymous blog "skanks of new york." cohen sued google. dire predictions on the scope of the swine flu. a new government report says as many as 90,000 people could die from the h1n1 flu this fall.

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less than a week left in this make or break month for health care reform, and you still have a chance to speak your mind for or against this issue. there are town hall meetings today in reston, in fairfax, virginia, oklahoma city, and germantown, maryland. we are taking a look outside the

united states to see what works and what doesn't for other countries. our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is in dublin, ireland, where it's an even split between private and universal coverage. >> reporter: hey, heidi, i am at the global cancer summit here in dublin, ireland. it's been an interesting few days, but i couldn't help but think about health care reform back home. you know about five years ago, ireland found itself in the same position in some ways that the united states is in now, trying to reform their health care system. i took advantage of a unique opportunity to sit down with the health minister, what went right, what went wrong. in ireland, everyone has access to health care, via a taxed public plan, but half choose to spend additional money on a private plan. >> why does that happen? so if you have access to the public system, is it not good enough for 50% of the people like you say? >> they do it for choice facility or choice of doctor or

choice of accommodation, single rooms in private hospitals, for example. and speedier access in many cases, more routine and procedures can be done much more quickly and if you have access to private health insurance. >> in the public sector, one can wait up to three years for a hip replacement or a corneal lens transplant. >> many waiting lists have been cut from years to months. tough choices have to be made. >> if you look at sort of the silos of how they predicated health reform, talked about decreasing costs and increasing access? can you do both? can you really decrease costs across the board, as well? >> it's possible only if you reduce the number of procedures or the cost of those procedures. >> some will say that's rationing. >> no matter how much money you put into health, no matter how good your system is, you'll always have more patients than you have capacity at any one time and it's a question of how quickly can you prioritize and the treatment for all patients

whether they're urgent or not so urgent. >> no matter what country you're from, ireland or the united states, it seems to always come down to cost. >> some say the medicare system in the united states is going broke, saying it'll be broke by the year 2017, it's very expensive and hard to maintain budgets, same problem here in ireland? >> yes. and we have -- we spent this year we would spend over 40% of the money we will raise in taxation in the country on public health care. >> 40%? >> it's an incredible amount of money and therefore if we're going to do that within existing budgets, then we have to get smarter and in the way we provide treatment. >> reporter: and heidi, it's worth pointing out that all physicians in ireland are mandated to accept all kinds of insurance, including the public insurance. overall the minister thinks things have gotten better here in ireland, waiting times are shorter and everyone is now insured. as you see there, it's come with a tremendous cost. heidi, back to you. >> all right, sanjay, thanks for that. protests against a popular

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winds calm down and firefighters gain ground on the wildfires burning around athens, greece. thecontrol. they managed to get one massive fire near the capital under control there guarding against flair ups. 1,000 acres have burned since the weekend. a very early estimate has 150 homes destroyed. rob marciano standing by with possible storms in the u.s. >> couple things to talk about. a front heading towards the great lakes and that is starting to spawn some showers and thunderstorms and also across the deep south, this is an area that has been really troublesome, especially for the folks at nasa. thunderstorms around an area of low pressure and a front that stalled out down there. this time of year, the area is in the soup and the thunderstorms that pop in the afternoon and right now we're clear, but later on this

afternoon and tonight, there may be some thunderstorms popping up again. they scrubbed the shuttle launch last night because of weather and a 30% chance of no go tonight and we'll see if we can get in that. a whole bunch of criteria they go after. 1:10 is the potential launch for tonight. deal with wind and temperature, should be fine but the storms and clouds and visibility around the area they have to deal with. record-breaking temperatures and up in over 100 in some spots and 98 in dallas and 88 degrees in memphis, atlanta, kansas city, tampa. 8s are wild. 85 expected in chicago. and, again, here is that front, the two fronts right there. high pressure, just gorgeous little strip of beautiful weather from the northeast all the way down to texas, although, a tad warmer in texas. all right this is the one thing i want to show you. national hurricane center is watching this area. tropical wave headed this direction. getting better organized and

better than 50% chance of developing into our next tropical cyclone so it would be a depression first and then possibly a tropical storm and, obviously, we're looking at florida that is real close to that. that always makes peep allittle bit nervous. watch that, heidi, just as we said good-bye to bill and getting more into a primetime hurricane season, once september gets here. first couple weeks of september are nerve wracking. a lot going on in "newsroom" this morning. we begin with elizabeth cohen. >> could 90,000 people die from swine flu this coming season? i'll try to put that into perspective for you at the top of the hour. are the best days of this country behind it? the united states government is engaged in a far reaching and very expensive set of programs to make sure that doesn't happen. that story at the top of the

hour. >> and i'm poppy harlow in new york. the cash for clunkers party ends in two hours when the dealers have to submit their final paperwork. what happens to the u.s. auto industry after that? how sharp of a sales decline is the industry bracing for? more on that, heidi, at the top of the hour. we also take a snapshot of health care on the border states. you'll hear about the challenges facing doctors and nurses about the patients they esee and what they say they need.

op-ed push back. the ceo of whole foods is prompting a protest from some of his store's customers. cnn's deborah faric has the story. >> reporter: many who shop at whole foods say they can justify to spend money to feel you are staying healthy and living longer. so why are so many people so upset? >> boycott whole foods! >> reporter: price isn't the problem. an editorial on the "wall street journal" opinion page.

he argues universal health care is no more a right than food or shelter. >> this is about ceo using one of the most progressive brands in this country to murder any discussion of health care reform and health insurance reform. >> reporter: among maggie's suggestions, deregulation, metd care reform and allowing higher deductibles, positions advocated by john mccain, newt gingrich and conservative groups. mark rosenthal is a former whole foods loyalist using facebook, twitter and other social media he said he has recruited more than 27,000 people to boycott whole foods saying the ceo has betrayed the idea which helped build the health food chain. >> it is about a brand that is built up by progressive dollars being used as a trojan horse for some of the most discredited lies we that we have poisoning this debate on health care right now.

lies on deregulation and lies about people who are sick not taking personal responsibility. >> reporter: whole foods provided a quote whole foods market has no official companywide position on the health care reform. so, how badly will the boycott hurt sales, if at all? >> my money says i should give it to someone else who is actually in support of health care and he's not. >> it wouldn't stop me from buying. >> reporter: rosenthal is not organized in a protest, per se. he is encouraging people who want to make a difference to hand out copies of the editorials at whole food stores around the country. deborah feyerick, cnn, new york. here now are some of the other stories we're watching right now. four u.s. service members in afghanistan are dead. victims of a roadside bomb in southern afghanistan. a nato spokesman says they were

patrolling one of the most dangerous parts of the country. 42 u.s. troops have died in afghanistan this month. former new york city mayor rudy giuliani may be planning a run for governor. republican representative peter king tells "the new york daily news" giuliani is a 50/50 bet to run next year. he failed in his presidential bid last year. home prices on the rise. a key new home price index shows prices were up 3% over the first quarter of this year. it's a small spike, but the first rise in three years. prices are still down around 15% over this time last year. one drug after another administered within hours of each other. preliminary findings suggest michael jackson died of an overdose two months ago today.

thelma gutierrez has documents and what investigators believe happened. >> reporter: this 32-page document released in texases revealed there was lethal levels of the powerful drug propofol in michael jackson's blood at the time of his death according to preliminary findings of the coroner. dr. conrad murray, jackson's personal physician told detectives he had been treating the star for insomnia for six weeks, giving him an iv drip with 50 milligrams of propofol every night. murray worried jackson was becoming addicted to propofol. in an attempt to wean him off, murray put together other combinations of drugs which put jackson to sleep two nights before his death. murray told detechives what he did hour by hour. he said around 1:30 in the morning he gave jackson ten milligrams of valium. at 2:00 a.m. he injected jackson

with ativan and an hour later the sedative versed. at 5:00 a.m. more ativan and at 7:30 more versed. he monitored jackson's vital signs the entire time. according to documents at 10:40 a.m. after repeated demands from jackson, murray administered 25 milligrams of propofol and jackson finally went to sleep. after ten minutes murray went to the bathroom and was gone for two minute and when he returned jackson was no longer breathing. murray administered cpr until paramedics arrived but those efforts proved futile. dr. conrad murray's attorneys released a statement saying much of what was in the search warrant aft is factual, however, unfortunately, much is police theory. most egregiously the timeline reported by law enforcement was not obtained by interviews with dr. murray.

>> since jackson's death, investigators have searched the house where he died, as well as the offices and home of dr. murray. keep in mind, he has not been charged with anything yet and the coroner's finding does not necessarily mean a crime was committed. jeffrey toobin talks with anderson cooper about what might happen next. >> some version of manslaughter, an unintentional killing. but you can still go to prissen for several years. keep in mind that these sorts of medical situations, very rare that they give rise to criminal charges. malpractices suits, yes, but an actual criminal case resulting in a jail sentence, very unusual. >> in a statement, the jackson family expresses "full confidence in the legal process and commends the efforts of the l.a. county coroner, the district attorney and the police." new numbers to tell you about on the possible toll from the swine flu. a government panel has released a report saying between 30,000 and 90,000 people could die from

the h1n1 flu this fall and winter. 120 million could get sick. senior cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us with more on this perspective and the numbers are alarming when you hear them, elizabeth. the worse-case scenario is what we're talking about. >> the high end of the ranges, heidi. those are the worse-case scenarios. let's look at what this report found. this was found by the president's council of scientific advisors and threats let's put it in perspective. it predicts there could be 30,000 to 90,000 deaths from swine flu this upcoming flu season. to put that in perspective, every year 36,000 people die of regular seasonal flu. secondly, the report found that 30% of americans could become sick with swine flu and regular flu 5 to 20% of americans become

ill. so what you're seeing here, bottom line, this will likely be a much worse flu season than other flu seasons because this year you have regular flu, bus you have swine flu on top of that. what they can't say is exactly how many people will die. you see those ranges are huge, because, heidi, nobody has a crystal ball, everyone is just estimating at this point. >> and trying to prepare. a lot of people are asking, in fact, where do we stand on a vaccine now? when will they really be ready? we're looking at fall. >> they would like to start vaccinating for flu in september, that's when the shots are often available, but for swine flu they don't expect the shots to be available until the middle of october and even then there is not enough available for everyone who needs to get it to get it all at once. however, there will be more doses available as the season progresses and not everyone necessarily needs to get a swine flu shot. top on the list are pregnant women and, actually, younger people. usually we talk about older people getting shots for flu,

for swine flu it is younger people who are more vulnerable. >> remind us of what we should be doing to prevent swine flu. a lot of hand washing and coughing in our elbow or arm. >> you just named two of them. three basic things you should think about doing. first of all, think about washing your hands frequently with hand sanitizer. don't go out if you're sick. don't send your kids to school. you'll make the problem worse for yourself and other people. also cough and sneeze into your sleeve and not into your hand. >> all right, very good. elizabeth cohen, sure do appreciate that. president obama taps one of his top money man. the president nominated ben bernanke to remain the chairman of the federal reserve. he has gotten mostly positive remarks. >> the federal reserve, like other economic policymakers has been challenged by the

unprecedented events of the past few years. we have a goal and deliberate circumstances demanded, but our objective remains constant. to restore a more stable, financial and economic environment in which opportunity can, again, flourish and in which americans' hard work and creativity can receive their proper rewards. >> the senate will need to confirm bernanke, of course, into a second four-year term and later stephanie elam will talk with us more about ben bernanke. that will come your way on the back half of this hour. hall monitors take heart, we have encouraging news to share. just last hour we learned the u.s. home prices have gained some ground from the first quarter of the year to the second. the first quarterly increase in three years, in fact. adds to the optimism that the housing crisis may be easing, but we still have to give you this reality check. last quarter's home prices are still down 15% from one year ago.

another money matter this morning, the national deficit. as an american how much debt are you and your grandchildren facing? just in now the congressional budget analysts say deficits over the next decade will total $7.1 trillion. christine romans is part of the cnn money team and she's joining us from new york this morning. we have those numbers right, christine? >> well, look, what we are expecting they had for some time the white house said $7.1 trillion is the ten-year deficit and we expect them to raise that to about $9 trillion. think of that ten years, over ten years a budget deficit of $9 trillion, what does that mean? well, this is how you measure i guess the books of the country. the money that's going out and the money that is coming in. >> do me a favor, christine. let's remind the difference deficit and debt. i'm not sure people totally get that and why it's important. >> the deficit right now is the difference between what our government is spending and what

we're taking in every month. what we know is that we're spending way, way more every single month than we are taking in. we are spending on a far-reaching expensive program to try to remake and rescue the american economy. the sky rocketing spending on unemployment benefits, health care, bailout programs and a lot of different bailout programs, frankly, a lot of different things. at the same time, revenue is plunging and the tax receipts coming into the government are plunging. we're spending more. think of it what your own books look like at home. money coming in is less because of the declining income and pay roll taxes and that is declining and all kinds of non-wage income and also the stimulus tax credit. people aren't spending as much on taxes because part of the stimulus was to give a big tax break there. so, the money that's coming in is far, far less than the money going out and over ten years that deficit could be like $9 trillion. what's the debt? the national debt, this is all the money that we already spent

that we haven't paid for and that is about 11, more than $11 trillion, almost $12 trillion. i mean, it goes up by the second, frankly. that's a growing, growing number. that's what we have already spent that we haven't paid for as soon as we borrow that. we borrow that from our selves and we borrow that from overseas lenders and government and treasury bonds and interest. the worry is you borrow so much money, heidi, and then in the future you pay so much on interest that it starts to limit the investment in your own economy. >> that's why we talk about china so much. this year's deficit will be less, it was predicted earlier. >> it's interesting, a little bit less, the reason why is because we expected we would spend a lot more money on the bailout to thnk bas than we had to. i can't even call it a silver lining, really, when you talk about this much red ink very little optimism about it, but we didn't spend as much as we could have on the banking rescue and

on some of the other bailouts and that's why the numbers, while still humongous and still record will not be quite as bad as we had thought before. >> all right, i understand what you're saying, i do. >> it's a lot of money and the calculation that they're making right now is that we have to spend a ton of money right now to get this economy fixed so that it could grow again in the future. that's what the gamble is here. >> all right, christine romans, watching all the numbers for us, we sure do appreciate that. we continue to watch the numbers as we check out the dow jones industrial averages and you see there, up about 87 points or so, resting at 9596. pretty early in the trading day about 40 minutes, i should say. we'll continue to watch those numbers throughout the day. a model goes to court to unmask the blogger who is attacking her, now that blogger claims she has been wronged and she is going to sue.

first it was the model taking on the blogger. now, it's the outed blogger versus google. cnn's jason carroll has the latest round of a website. >> reporter: it's the kind of photo spread no model would want. a feature on the blog called skapgs in new york city. former vogue cover girl ended up on the blog telling cnn's campbell brown she was determined to find out swho was putting her there. >> i didn't want it to be there

for the rest of my life. >> reporter: she's not the only one calling a lawyer, so is the woman behind the blog, rosemary port, a 29-year-old fashion student and casual acquaintance of cohen. port's attorney saying she's the real victim. >> i not only feel my client was wronged but i feel it sets precedent that anyone with money and power couldn't get the identity of anyone that decides to be an anonymous blogger. >> reporter: port's name released after a judge sided with cohen who sued google to reveal information about the anonymous blogger. the blog had occurred on google's website. blogs like hers serve as a modern-day forum for conveying personal opinion and shouldn't be regarded as fact. >> the court said, look, there was specific evidence that this one person may have libelled another person. in that circumstance, we're going to disclose that name. >> reporter: google says it complies with court orders saying we have a legal team

whose job it is to scrutinize these requests and make sure they meet not only the letter, but the spirit of the law. she says google should have kept her name private and plans to sue googal for $15 million. >> her being a victim here? i have trouble understanding that. in its entirety. >> reporter: web watchers like "wired" magazine's nicholas thompson says this is a lesson for all anonymous bloggers. >> some effect will be good. wait a second, the law does apply to the blogosphere. >> jason carroll joining us now from new york with more on this. jason, since the judge already ruled in the model's favor, what sort of legal ground does this blogger's attorney think she has to go ahead with a suit against google and a $15 million one at that. >> that's pretty big, isn't it?

a lot of folks who are looking at this. first of all, her attorneys feel that she does have a legal leg to stand on here. that at the very least, she should have been allowed to appeal this decision before information about her was released, but, you know, many of the legal experts we speak to say she really doesn't have a lot of legal footing here. the judge has already ruled, what she did was defamatory. heidi? >> do we know what the motive for all of this was? why did the blogger begin attacking her to begin with? >> let me give it a basic sort of rundown of what we have been able to hear here. this may have started because of the model in question here may have made some sort of remark, discouraging remark about this young woman to a boyfriend and, so, basically, long story short, all over a guy. this may have started because of something someone said to an ex-boyfriend. >> always back to the guy. you know.

all right, jason carroll, sure do appreciate it. thank you. >> all right. speaking of guys, rob m marciano joining us now with the weather situation across the country, as well as tropical trouble spots. >> we'll start with that. this thing looks more and more impressive every hour we take a glance at it, heidi. just to give you some perspeckive. miami back through here and puerto rico, leeward island. we were watching bills for several days before it even got to the caribbean and this thing is already there. that gives us some alarm. also, what gives us some alarm is this area has become better organized and this area over here that is it is moving in to is a little bit more conducive to strengthening. just a wave right now and next stop is tropical depression in the national hurricane center has upped the ante, they think it is a better than 50% chance

of beit becoming a tropical depression. so, that's what we're looking at as far as there. a couple models that have gotten cranked up on this thing which could be the next tropical depression and these kind of take you at least at this point, here's the east coast and very bill-like manner. so, that's very early. we'd like to really get things nailed down a little bit more, once we get a plane in there and start to run the models more accurately. a little sneak peek into how things are doing. little bit farther to the south, we have this issue. area of low pressure, kind of a front down across florida. showers and thunderstorms this time of year. they scrubbed the shuttle launch and they'll go for it again tonight at 1:10 a.m. and still about a 30% chance of it not happening. we'll keep you, certainly, up to date on that. jacksonville, take a look. here's a shot. you also have a 50% chance of seeing showers and thunderstorms develop in the afternoon and some of them right now are

inland, but, this, obviously, a shot of the beach. temperatures will get easily into the mid-80s today. all in all, not a bad day to be hanging out at the beach. mid to upper 80s from chicago to atlanta and new york and places like texas as we try to wrap up the summer. >> rob, thank you. it may not be the best time politically for the white house, but attorney general eric holder is going ahead with an investigation into cia prisoner abuse cases. holder appointed a special prosecutor yesterday. this comes after a lawsuit forced the cia to release a 2004 report by the agency's own inspector general. described tactics like threatening one prisoner with a drill and telling another his children would be killed. we want to know more about what you think on this topic. what, in fact, do you believe should happen here? should the government actually launch an investigation into the

cia and its tactics for interrogation or not? that is the topic of our blog today. head over to the heidi mac and, of course, remember to post your comments at cnn.com/heidi. we'll try to get to some of them later on in the show. president obama makes it official, she wants ben bernanke to remain as the chairman of the federal reserve. earlier this morning the president announced bernanke's nomination for a second four-year term. bernanke is credited with a largely successful response of the nation's financial crisis in the worst recession since the 1930s. 120 million of you may get swine flu this fall. that is the message on the new h1n1 virus. as many as half that number may end up at the doctor, putting a strain on the health care system. in this worse-case scenario, as many as 90,000 people could die from the new flu. the space shuttle

"discovery" still on the launch pad, this morning's launch scrubbed because of bad weather. nasa does plan to try again after midnight. there is a 70% chance that the weather will cooperate. she was spending like there was no tomorrow because for catherine howard there almost wasn't. her credit cards weren't for flat screen tvs or fancy dinners, but, instead, to save her life.

she beat cancer, but not the credit card companies. catherine howard used plastic to cover her mounting medical bills and now she has the rest of her life ahead of her, but she'll spend it in some deep, deep debt. jeff king lets catherine tell it in her own words. >> i have a great job, but i live like a pauper because i basically spend all of my money servicing the debt that i acc e accrued while i was sick. in 2004, i was working as a documentary film producer. i wasn't making a lot of money, but i knew that keeping up my health insurance was a priority. i was afraid that i would break my arm snowboarding or take a fall at work. i picked up the phone and i said, i would like to buy some health insurance, please. and this is the outcome. i ended up almost $100,000 in debt after being diagnosed with breast cancer, having surgery,

chemotherapy, radiation and some of these things i just put them on my credit card because i thought, if i don't die, i'll deal with this later. i pay something around $1,800 a month towards all my debt related to my illness, both the tens of thousands of dollars that i paid because my insurance didn't cover me. and then the, you know, not being able to work. i have this great plan through my work now, but if i went back on the open market and tried to buy myself some health insurance, they wouldn't cover me. i have a pre-existing condition. you know, once you've had cancer, i could never just go out and buy the same crummy coverage that i had before. i would be denied. i am a really determined person and overcoming cancer i felt has just been my mission for the last couple of years and getting out of debt, i guess, is another

one. and just bankruptcy seemed like a cop out and i don't cop out on stuff. i hope i'm alive to see the day i'm out of debt, you know. i'm 36 years old. >> if you want to know more about the health care debate and how the reforms could affect you and your family, check out the special health care in america website on cnn.com. you can get the latest from town hall debates, fact checks, i-reports and other health care news, too. just go to cnn.com/healthcare. it's one of the hot button topics in the health care debate and one we have been talking about here. we heard from the politicians and the people and now we talk to the folks working on the front lines and treating undocumented immigrants. how many are there and how much does their care cost you? imodium multi-symptom relief

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with less than a week left into what may be a break or break month for health care reform, an issue that always seems to fire up emotions every time it comes up. handling health care for undocumented immigrants. in our snapshot across america health professionals have you covered in flea states with large immigrant populations. dr. juan is an expert in emergency medicine in san diego, california. dr. rhoden is president and ceo of jackson's health systems in miami, florida. and dr. jonathan lee is a pediatrician in douglas, arizona. thank you with promises for an interesting discussion because it comes up every time we talk about health care reform. dr. savara, we want to begin

withia. you are an e.r. doctor right there on the mexico border with california, you can't refuse care, obviously, if someone comes to you and you're in trouble. you are required by law to treat them, but what sort of issues does this present for you? >> well, i would contest that the legal immigrant population is actually a very small percentage of our population. most of the people that we see in our hospital and two campuses, one a little bit further up north in san diego city and one in chula vista in the south called the south campus and the south bay of san diego, which is about five to ten minutes from the border. we see similar populations, which would be a -- about 50% white americans and in the 40s latino american, but it is a very mixed population. it is, it does have border

flavor and of the influence at the border, but we're not being overrun by a large illegal immigrant population taxiing our system. what we are seeing is an increase amount of people i see in the emergency department as a way out or as a safety net. >> so, if the undocumented immigrants are not an issue there, then you're dealing with a similar problem for many different geographical locations across the country that are not border states, if you will. what is your solution? have you heard anything in the health care reform policies that have been offered at this point that you like or that you see as solutions? >> well, i believe that the discussion's trending towards a universal health care policy is actually a good one. i think the system is taxed at this point. we have a large amount of our gdp, close to 60% that we use for our health care and our

returns on that health care are not great. we, ourselves, are taxed by multiple vizts asits and people coming in for visits that could have gone to see a primary care doctor and we sort of estimate about 40% of people we are seeing these days could have gone to see a primary care doctor and be treated there. instead, they're coming to the emergency department because they have no other way. >> understood. we appreciate that. dr. rhoden, you describe your hospital as sort of a safety net where you are. south florida, obviously, near miami. sort of a go-to facility. what do you mean by that? >> well, basically, our hospital is the hospital that sees a lot of chronic and catastrophic diseases. it is a public hospital and it is one of the largest health systems down in south florida and, obviously, its location is very close to the caribbean, as

well as central and south america. so, we do see quite a number of undocumented illegal immigrants. in fact, in the year 2008, fiscal year, we saw approximately 77,000 visits of which approximately 10% were of age 65 and over and that was a cost to our hospital of approximately $38 million. >> so what happens then? again, we should remind everyone that you're mentioning people coming in from nicaragua, costa rica, bahamas. when you talk about those numbers and that amount of money, how does it affect your facility? >> absolutely. we do have overcrowding and we also have to face the fact that a lot of these undocumented immigrants, they don't go for preventive medicine, they don't go for preventive care. therefore, when they come to our hospital, they have very chronic life-threatening diseases and,

obviously, that's very costly at that point. we have a high incident of cancer in this population and as we all know, chemotherapeutic agents and the treatment of cancer disease is very costly to our health system in general. >> very quickly, i want to ask you the same question as i asked him, what sort of health care reform would help you? >> well, one of the things i would like to see especially in section 1011 which was the funding that was available from the years 20 s 2005 to 2008, wed like to see more funding. this was a federal budget that was allocated to the treatment of undocumented immigrants. it was approximately $250 million on a yearly basis and we would like to see more funding go to that specific marked so that it would be able to allow us to provide health care to those in need. >> i wonder if that will be in the one that we're looking at,

the final bill once we get a chance to look at that. also want to have a chance to talk with jonathan lee for sticking around with us. you're a pediatrician and you're working on the border of arizona and mexico. if we would come to your facility, it would resemble like a military zone because of all the border patrol there. tell us what you face every day. i mean, obviously, your skern children. >> i work for a federally, we're supported by the children's health fund. our clinic is located about four blocks from the border. in fact, border patrol is part of our community, as is homeland security. and, so, we, our waiting room might consist of a father who is a border patrol agent and a teenage mother and a grandmother who is fostering a child. children in our community really unify all these different iss s

issues, despite all the controversy that goes around the border. i actually agree with dr. tovar, the first speaker, about 95% of our children, we just ran these numbers yesterday, heidi. about 95% of our children have insurance. that implies that all those children are u.s. citizens or legal immigrants. about 5% of those are illegal immigrants or don't have insurance. so, of those 5%, that would include the working poor and also people who don't have paperwork. >> well then i would ask you the same questions as i asked the other physicians, what sort of health care reform do you need in your area? >> in our area, our main issues are positiverty, distance to ou referral sources and really lack of primary care providers. >> so, if you had it in your way

you would get primary care providers to come down and handle the issues you face. we appreciate the discussion very much. thank you very much. >> thank you. banking on bernanke is big ben the right man to steer the economy back to better times? the president thinks so. we'll see what wall street we'll see what wall street thinks and added a little fiber? in a moment. eet! sweet! (together) sweet! (announcer) now for the first time, a gram of healthy fiber in every packet. sweet! (announcer) splenda® with fiber.

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dire predicks on the scope of the swine flu. a new government report says as many as 90,000 people could die from the h1n1 flu this fall. that's the worse-case scenario. the vaccine is on track for mid-october but only 50 million

initial doses available. attorney general eric holder going ahead with an investigation into cia prisoner abuse cases. holder appointed a special prosecutor yesterday. this comes after a lawsuit from the aclu forced the cia to release the 2004 report by the agency's own inspector general that described tactics like threatening one prisoner with a drill and telling another his children would be killed. we have been asking you what you think about the cia interrogation program or the tactics that were used here, according to this report. you sent in quite a few comments. we want to take you over to the heidi mac and take a look at some of them. unless laws in this country are applied differently to different people, yes, they absolutely should. if the cia interrogators broke the law, they should be charges as such. the question here asking whether or not the cia should be investigated. the next one says, no, they need to be prosecuted for releasing

still dangerous information that could cause us to lose more troops and start a trend of traitors to pass on top secret information to our enemy's the president is being reckless with our national security. absolutely if crimes were committed, they must be investigated and prosecuted. we still live in a democracy. thanks for your comments, everybody, once again on the cia interrogation report. workers across the country had job reviews to determine if they're doing good work and it seems the chairman of the federal reserve has passed his tests. now, earlier this morning president obama nominated ben bernanke for a second term. stephanie elam is at the new york stock exchange with more details on that. is it having an effect on the market? >> president obama has ended the speculation about ben bernanke's

and that could jeopardize what has happened to make things better. bernanke has used some unprecedented moves this off the recession from turning into a depression and he's pushed interest rates to near zero. he's bailed out big companies like aig, gm and chrysler. unleashed new programs to allow companies to borrow money directly from the government and keeping bernanke in his position shows the president isn't changing his economic plan. it shows a bit of stability by keeping the people in place who are there through all the turmoil, heidi. >> but those actions haven't come without some criticism. earlier we showed the sound when the subprime mortgage crisis is going on. he didn't see that it would bleed into other parts of the economy. but i bet be can expect more of this type of questioning or issues to come up during the senate confirmation hearing. >> yeah. he will still go through this even though he's in the position now, he will have to go through the confirmation hearings and it could get tense.

bernanke acted too slowly in the early stages of the crisis and republican richard shelby said he's disappointed by some of the fed's actions. still, bernanke is expected to win a pretty easy confirmation. despite the criticism, president obama is focusing on the end result and the end result is a stabilizing economy. the most recent example, home prices rose in the second quarter. the first time we have seen a gain there in three years. consumer confidence also jumped this month. let's give you the numbers right now very quickly. the dow up 98 points and nasdaq up by 11 at 2029. so, obviously, he will have to go through the browbeating, but more than likely, he will be back in his position, which isn't up until january, i should add. >> all right, very good. stephanie elam, thank you. >> sure. just over an hour left to get cash for clunkers, but don't get too excited here. we're just talking about the dealers. the government is extending the paperwork deadline until noon

today. the rush of applications shut down the government's computer system before last night's original deadline. they received 625,000 that covers $2.5 billion of the $3 billion allocated for the program. bnchlths in fact, you may want to break out the aspirin because the cash for clunkers party is over and now these auto dealers is bracing for quite a hangover. how bad will it be? poppy harlow has our breakdown now from new york. >> great way to put it, heidi. the party cannot last forever, folks. the u.s. auto industry is gearing up for a big hit. a big dropoff in sales. one dealer in portland, oregon, said, i think you can shoot a canon through here and not hurt anybody talking bout how his dealership will be empty. what we're hearing from edmonds.com they think u.s. auto sales will fall 40% immediately now that the program is over

that and that will take us below where sales were, right down to where they were in may, which is below that 10 million car annualized sales basis, that's how they run the numbers. how many you'd sell over a year. thanks to cash for clunkers, a huge spike in july, we saw over 11 million cars sold when you look at it on an annualized basis. so, obviously, cash for clunkers doing a lot to help the dealers and bracing for that hangover o, as you say. >> aren't some dealers just totally wiped out of inventory? >> yeah, they are. especially here in the new york area. one dealer we talked to in bay ridge toyota in brooklyn he didn't have enough inventory to sell. we went over there during the final rush of cash for clunkers, the general manager drew, you see him right there, he said toyota can't tell him when he gets new cars in. i'm out of corollas, camries, he

doesn't have enough to sell. at dealerships that have cars left to sell, experts tell us, look, the price is probably going to be pretty high because there is a lack of inventory. the bottom line take away here, if you're in the market for a new car because new cars is what cash for clunkers applied to, it might pay to wait until the inventory comes back and the prices fall again, heidi. >> if you wait, what about more of these manufacturer or dealer incentives? any chance there will be more out there? >> we're not going to see anything specific from gm or ford. listen, we're not planning any new incentives right now because cash for clunkers has ended and it doesn't make sense with the inventory so low. analysts predict once we have the cars back on the lot and edmonds.com says the average incentive should be about $3,000. you can check out more of that story right there on cnnmoney.com. a lot of people rushing into the dealers over the weekend. the party has ended. >> poppy, thank you. outrage and anger from a mobile home community in texas

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when her arm was sucked into a drainage pipe. crews chip away the concrete and removed her arm with the pipe still attached. you can see it there. she was taken to had hospital where doctors carefully removed that pipe. meanwhile, a disturbing and heartbreaking discovery around a mobile home park in texas. the remains of two infants found in trash bags and from our affiliate ktxa tells us, it is not the first time infant remains have been found in this particular area of tarrant county. >> we need to find out who the heck is doing this to little itty-bitty babies. >> reporter: neighbors want to know why infant remains are being found. the landlord found the remains of two babies under this mobile home and another set of remains were found in a brush area nearby. >> we never heard anything else about that one. it was just, you know, they found it and that was it. that was end of story and now it's like, it's a big thing

because they found another or whatever. but we just like to know what is going on and who's doing it. >> reporter: a brother and sister recently moved out of this mobile home. the landlord's son found two plastic boxes under the mobile home while he was cleaning up. >> a person just moved out and see how much they left and how much they cleaned and dug a box out from under the porch and i don't think it's an animal. >> we don't know if there's been a crime committed. you know, we have no way of knowing whether we've got a murder, a late-term abortion a still born. >> reporter: the medical examiner couldn't figure out how the baby found last year died or who it belonged to. the former residents of this home are cooperating and are not considered suspects. they told investigators they never knew about the bodies and they're willing to do tests to prove the remains don't match their dna. >> you know, it's just wild

something like this happening. we don't know what's going on. we would like to know. >> the land owner rents mobile homes to several people on the five-acre property. authorities also plan to compare the infant's dna samples to the other baby whose remains were found one year ago. a triage area where there used to be a den. a new approach to health care for the people of new orleans four years after the levees broke. p) combines two powerful medicines for fast relief of your diarrhea symptoms, so you can get back out there. imodium. get back out there.

hurricane katrina slammed into new orleans. the storm destroyed the city's medical system among other things and after all this time it is far from 100%. dr. sanjay gupta tells us people

there have had to impros have. >> reporter: four years ago katrina unhinged new orleans. homes, people, buildings, bruised and battered. along with the medical system destroyed. an icon of that system, charity hospital today is still close. but out of the woodwork in unorthodox places, the community is responding. what does community-based therapy look like here in new orleans? you're looking at it. this used to be somebody's home and now an outpatient clinic. let's go take a look. so this is your house? >> yes. >> reporter: used to be your house? >> yes, now a clinic. i still own it, but it's the clinic now. the lower ninth ward health clinic. >> reporter: before the storm she was a nurse at the hospital. >> there was water to the

ceiling. >> reporter: just so hard to imagine. >> the first time i saw it it looked like a time bomb hit it. everything was destroyed. >> reporter: the triage area used to be a den and now a kid-themed exam room. mary hill built the clinic alongside a friend, another nurse at charity. >> the first patient that walked through the door was so ill that we had to send her to the emergency room, but what that did, that confirmed our belief that we needed to be here. >> reporter: the days are long. the two nurses alongside two part-time doctors and two medical assistants care for about 80 patients every week and the cost of the patient, even those without insurance funded in part by government insurance like medicaid and donations. >> thank you, ma'am. all right. >> reporter: across town, under a bridge, a free therapeutic drum circle. >> we had an increase in mental illness since the storm with a