the beauty and why the kennedy family and why teddy in particular was so drawn. this really was like, you know, franklin roosevelt going back to hyde park, that's what revived him. and hyannis port became what revived teddy kennedy on so many occasions, because you look out over the water. it's very serene today. you know, it's quite sparkling. and you can just see that it's a peaceful place. >> yeah. >> for him. and i think in some ways, you know, the perfect place for him to die. because he was with family, and he was in the place that he loved. >> david, i'm going to ask you to stand by, and doug brinkley, you as well, because you'll be joining kyra phillips in just a moment. so, let's do this. let's do the handoff. let's push forward now with the next hour of "cnn newsroom" with kyra phillips. >> thanks, tony. well, farewell to hyannis port. you're looking at the live picture right here. any moment now ted kennedy is going to leave his beloved family compound for the last time, and we're going to be

following his procession all the way to boston, mass. then back in washington, a life work is frozen in time, soon to be cataloged, archived and studied. we'll tell you about ted kennedy's office. and even if no one can fill kennedy's shoes, someone will have to fill his seat, but how and how soon may be subject to change? hello, everyone, i'm kyra phillips, live here at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. and you're live in the "cnn and you're live in the "cnn newsroom." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com and like the man himself, ted kennedy's final journey from cape cod to boston is intensely personal and very public. the late senator's motorcade is just about to pull out of the family compound, after a private mass en route to his brother's presidential library, some 70 miles away. the procession that you're going to see here live on cnn will

wind past other significant places, including the rose kennedy greenway, named for the family matriarch, and also nathaniel hall, where boston's mayor is actually going to ring the bell 47 times. that's one for each year that ted kennedy served in the u.s. senate. now, for the next two hours, we're going to travel this journey and chart the ones to come with cnn's deborah feyerick and cnn's senior political analyst, david gergen. he's in hyannis port. mary snow is at the jfk library and, of course, presidential historian, douglas brinkley is live with us, too, out of boston. we want to begin where the kennedys have prayed and celebrated and mourned for several generations. it's where ted kennedy died just about 38 hours ago, and it's where deb feyerick can actually walk us through the events of this hour. where should we begin, deb? >> reporter: well, you know, they just put up the picture of the front of the house, and that means that the service is likely

over. we were told that once the service was over, that, in fact, they would allow cameras to get close. cnn right now serving as the pool camera for all the various networks. you can see some folks there in the house. a lot of familiar faces that we saw coming in earlier today. we saw caroline kennedy. we saw joe kennedy and bobby kennedy. we saw william kennedy smith. this i'm not quite sure. i think that might be sargent shriver that you're seeing there. unclear. i apologize for that. but, again, they were there for a service. there have been many masses celebrated in that kennedy house. outside it's also pretty amazing. i mean, we're in the middle of the summer. people have come out in their shorts, in their bathing suits. they're lining the parade route. you saw people, a couple of kids barefoot, climbing a tree to get a good view. people standing on their balconies with flags to say good-bye. it was really poignant, kyra, when the hearse came in as a matter of fact, because that really sort of put it in

perspective. the finality of it all. we've been talking about ted kennedy, but seeing the hearse, seeing the limousines, seeing everybody come for this final mass, and his casket, we're told, was in the front room, in the sunroom, a room filled with light, and also having a great view of the water that he loved so much. so, right now, you're seeing a picture of the front of the house, i think. and everybody waiting for the casket to be carried out by that military honor guard. nine members of the army, navy, air force, and marines. kyra? >> you know, deb, it's interesting, a lot of folks that are not familiar with the kennedy compound, because i've been getting a number of e-mails and just discussion among even with folks that are not in our business, when you hear "compound", you know, people have this vision of, you know, high, barbed-wire fences and security guards and a very sort of, you know, you know, it's the way they pictured it as

something like a military compound, but as you can see, and david gergen was pointing this out, too, it's such a place of comfort. it's family. it's dogs on the beach. it's a very sort of a romantic comforting place to be, and he was pointing out what a perfect place for ted kennedy to die. >> reporter: absolutely. no question about it. and you can see, it's such a perfect day, kyra. the sky is blue. there are clouds. it's cool today. and, you're right, when i first saw it -- and i thought "compound," i thought it was going to be enclosed. but that's the main house. the main house is the house that belonged to joe kennedy and his family where the boys, you know, all played, those very famous football games. but the other houses that comprise the, quote-unquote, compound, in fact, are just ordinary houses that line the street, going to this main house.

so, it really is interesting. and it's just being here at this moment in history, this real sort of moment of american history, very powerful. we saw william kennedy smith earlier, and it's his mom who is the only remaining of the kennedy siblings. so, very interesting right now. obviously the mass that they celebrated over prayer and worship has really characterized what the family has done over the course of the last -- over the last couple of days. kyra? >> and we're seeing a live shot now, maria shriver is there on the patio, also patrick kennedy. and you did point out, we did see sargent shriver there walking outside and away from the mass, deb. we also saw joe kennedy, bobby's oldest, and so they're continuing to gather and hug and get ready for what's going to be no doubt an emotional and beautiful procession. deb, stay with me. we want to stay with these live

pictu pictures, but i also want to talk about the first leg of the late senator's final journey at the presidential library that he actually helped build for his brother, the 35th president of the united states, jfk. and our mary snow is actually there at the library. so, you're going to be at a key spot as well, mary, a fantastic place for folks to come through and not only visit and reminisce about the kennedy family, but also a perfect place for ted kennedy to come to today. >> reporter: yeah, kyra, this is a library that senator kennedy helped build, dedicated to his brother. and this is a much more public tribute to senator kennedy. at 6:00 eastern, there will be a public viewing, and senator kennedy's casket will be inside the library. there will be an honor guard, military honor guard, civilian, family members, friends and staff members will also be there

by the closed casket. and there's a room in the library that holds about 600 people. they will be paying their last respects. and, kyra, early today, there has been a steady stream of people coming in to the library, just to sign messages of condolences. i can't tell you how many people we have talked to who are just choked with emotion, who are so sad, and felt that they had to come by and pay their last respects to senator kennedy. so many feel a very personal connection with him, saying they can't imagine massachusetts without senator kennedy. and many of them said that they expected large crowds here once the public viewing begins, so they decided to come here now before it starts at 6:00 tonight so that they can leave some remembrances here. but obviously another piece of history, and senator kennedy, too, as the motorcade makes its way to boston, it will make stops along the way, very significant to his life, and

that includes a park that he dedicated to his late mother, rose kennedy. he'll stop by the church where she was baptized. and, of course, nathaniel hall, the mayor will have a salute to senator kennedy. and a bell will be rung there 47 times, symbolizing the 47 years that he has served in the united states senate. a remarkable career when you think nearly a half a decade where he served in washington. so, very personal tributes here at a very public setting. >> and, mary, stay with us. you're there at the jfk library, where senator kennedy will lie in repose there at the library and museum. we also have deb feyerick with us there, that's right here, live, in hyannis port, massachusetts, where we are waiting for that procession to begin. the family there on the compound, just leaving the mass that was held for the senator. and we're going to take just a quick break for a moment.

we've got david gergen that's going to be joining us, and also presidential historian, doug brinkley. we're going to talk more about what you're about to see, a beautiful piece of history, actually, within the next couple of hours, live right here on cnn.

and we are continuing our live coverage now's a the motorcade is getting ready to begin carrying the body of senator edward kennedy, heading in to boston. and we'll be following actually this procession all the way there from cape cod to the jfk library, where he will lie in repose. and people like you and me and our friends and family will be able to actually pay our respects there at the museum. we'll be talking more about that obviously throughout the next couple of hours and be giving you that information. but right now, we're live in hyannis port, massachusetts, where our deb feyerick is there, on the compound. our mary snow at the jfk library. and just to give you a little bit of background of what you're about to see when this begins -- and we're told it could be between 5 to 10 minutes that this will start, but the schedule for senator ted

kennedy's final farewell will, of course, start with this motorcade. and the body will lie in repose at jfk library with time set aside for public visitation tonight and tomorrow. friday night at 7:00 there's actually going to be a memorial service at the library. and then saturday morning the family will attend a private funeral mass at our lady of perpetual help basilica also in boston. and, by the way, all four of our living former presidents will be at the service, both bushes, bill clinton and jimmy carter. and president obama, we're told, will deliver the eulogy and later that day, kennedy's final trip -- and that will be to his final resting place -- barbara starr has been telling us about this live from the pentagon for the past two days. he will make his way to arlington national cemetery in virginia. as soon as the procession begins, we will take it live. meanwhile, we'll move on to other news.

forecasters are now saying tropical storm danny could be hitting new england this weekend as mourners gather for senator ted kennedy's funeral services and by then it's expected to be a hurricane. and chad myers has been tracking danny for us at the cnn weather center for a couple days now. how's it looking, chad? >> we just got a new airplane to fly into it. the hurricane hunter aircrafts fly through the storms all the time, especially if they're going to try to take a run to the u.s. the storm has wobbled to the west, to the west, by probably 60 or 70 miles. you think, okay, let it go to the west. the problem is all of the computer models thought it was here when they ran this morning. so, if this storm actually went up here and then turned a little bit like that, before it makes its big turn, that makes it get significantly closer to what i would consider an east coast potential land fall. here's the u.s. here. and let's say it did wobble 60 miles to the west. here are all the computer models

that we've been watching, kyra. and probably the center of those models still about 100 miles from cape cod. let's divide that in two now, because the storm has wobbled to the west. and then we'll take the same thing. we'll do the same thing down here. here's cape hatteras right here. and as we make the middle of the models somewhere there. now, we draw that 60 miles farther to the west because of this wobble, all of a sudden we have potential two land falls, one in north carolina and one across parts of the northeast. i'm not going to say that's going to happen. but let me just tell you here. i'm going to open this up, this is the official track from the hurricane center and so far -- and this has been the case the entire time. the outer banks, still in the cone. and, of course, even the hamptons and all of cape cod and all of maine, right up to the bay of fundy, and into newfoundland, all in the cone. so just because we've been saying and the potential for the middle of this thing is offshore, that's still not a done deal. >> okay. we'll keep tracking it, chad,

thanks so much. >> you're welcome. other stories that we're covering for you, too. dissecting a double murder frame by frame. a florida couple known for adopting special-needs kids is gunned down, and now surveillance pictures tell a different side of the story. our ed lavandera saw them and he's going to share what he saw with us. also, we are continuing our live coverage of the motorcade carrying the body of senator ted kennedy, and just so you know, once this begins, we will carry it live and be telling you about all the events that will be taking place from this point on, until the motorcade finishes at jfk library, where his body will lie in repose. friday is actually going to be a memorial service expected to include remarks by senators john kerry and john mccain. as you know, both of them, very good friends with the late senator ted kennedy. and, again, saturday's private funeral will be at our lady

perpetual help basilica, the mission church, where kennedy prayed daily during his daughter's 2003 treatment for cancer. and then president obama is expected to speak at saturday's funeral as well. he called kennedy one of the nation's greatest senators. we're covering this for you, and more, as the motorcade gets ready to start right here live on cnn. we'll be right back.

and we continue to bring you live coverage of the motorcade that is about to begin carrying the body of senator edward kennedy to boston, and, you know, we've been talking a lot about his life and the differences that he made in the lives of others.

and looking at his political career and also his humanitarian career, you know, he cast more than 15,000 roll call votes as a senator, and he focused much of his attention on social issues. he led the fight for the voting rights act in 1965 and then the 1990 americans with disabilities act and on host of other civil rights, education, health care, voting rights laws. we're going to be talking a lot about his history as a senator, and also as a very unique individual, a part of a very famous family. and another top stories we're covering for you. this raises this month's death toll in afghanistan to 44. one less than july. it's the deadliest month for u.s. forces in the eight-year war. and starting with an

unbelievable story here. it's the best birthday gift that j.c. duger could have ever asked for, seeing her parents 18 years after being abducted. police in california confirm that duger was a child kidnap victim from 1991 turned up yesterday at a local police precinct. details are still very sketchy right now, but we'll bring you a follow-up. the fdic said its insurance fund fell 20% in the first quarter. that drop blamed on a surge of bank failures. the head of the fdic said there are no plans right now to tap into treasury funds to make up the shortfall. we've gotten signals lately that the economy is starting to show signs of life, but then again, some troubling signs as well. the fdic's insurance fund is shrinking rapidly, and there's another drop in the country's gross domestic product. cnn's richard quest is spending the week in new york, trying to

get a handle on all this. he's left his digs in london and joins us now live from manhattan. good to see you, richard. >> reporter: and good to see you. not only have i left my digs in london, i've now decided to become here, i've come to the west side of manhattan. you get two guesses, where am i in manhattan? where do you think i am? >> hmm, i'm trying to figure it -- oh, wait a minute this is that new park, right? all the millions and billions and theres of dollars went into this park, and you -- and it's -- right? i'm recognizing it. >> reporter: absolutely. absolutely. to the right of me, we have tenth avenue on that side. and, of course, the hudson. over on the other side, we have 14th street, and i'm actually on what's called highline park. it used -- the highline. this used to be where the railroad tracks for the freight trains came down manhattan, and earlier this year, of course, it opened up as a brand new park here in the city. the gdp numbers that you talked

of, gdp, in the second quarter fell by just one percentage point. that was less than people had expected. what does it mean, i hear you ask? what it means is, that the u.s. economy is bumping along the bottom. nowhere near the fall that was seen in the first quarter. does that help those people still about to lose their jobs? no, of course, not. because that is still in the tale of this recession. kyra, what we can take from the news this morning is the end is in sight. and if you like to take this analogy of the highline, there is light at the end of the tunnel! and it's not a train. >> there is some good history, though, you're right. what a creative way to take an area that really wasn't being utilized and, you know, pumping money into something that i know a lot of new yorkers are taking advantage of. >> reporter: i lived in the city from 1989 to 2001, and, frankly, this was just weeds and

overgrowth. what's interesting about it is the way in which they've kept -- this is not the neatly manicured gardens of england or even of different parks. this is the wild growth of the west side of manhattan! and in that sort of -- do you remember those ties i was talking about? what do you think about this one? this is one of the four that i've bought at the new york stock exchange. i thought -- >> is that another one of your $9 specials? >> reporter: $9! there's a recession on, woman! this was $4. $9! i'm not one of those highly paid, not like you, love. four bucks, mate. four bucks! >> you know how to negotiate, i see, because they start at $9, my friend. actually, they start at $20, so you got an absolutely good deal. thank you. >> reporter: this is just -- do me a favor, just make sure you don't smoke anywhere near this tie, because, it whoosh! i could go up like a roman candle. >> oh, richard quest, life's a roman candle. all right, great to see you.

always -- always -- >> reporter: good to see you, kyra. >> always turning a tough story into a positive. good to see you, richard. also another tough story was, of course, learning about the death of senator ted kennedy, but, boy, you couldn't pick a more beautiful day for his mass, with the family and the procession that's about to begin here, the motorcade leaving his compound in cape cod, making its way through boston, which a lot of people, i know, are extremely excited about. already lining up the streets to catch a glimpse of their favorite irish senator. and then the motorcade will make its way to jfk library, and that's where he will lie in repose. here's live pictures, actually, right now of the part of the route just outside the compound where folks are already lining up to see and get a glimpse of that motorcade that's going to make its way to jfk library. a library that ted kennedy worked very hard on building as

a tremendous honor to his brother, jfk, after his assassination. of course, one of our most memorable presidents of the united states. david gergen joining us. a political analyst for us. he's actually on the phone. he is there. that's his home turf, in many ways. and also presidential historian, douglas brinkley, joining us live out of boston. and since you're there, david, i mean, from a personal level to a presidential level, to your experience as an aide and a writer and adviser to so many presidents, what are you thinking about today? what's going through your mind as you're remembering ted kennedy and his life? are you with us, david? okay. how about doug brinkley. can you hear me, doug? >> i hear you fine, thank you,

kyra. >> okay, fabulous. well, i know that you actually were there at the compound, was it fourth of july this year or was it last year? >> no, it was a couple years ago i had written a book on hurricane katrina, and i'm very close to ethyl kennedy, robert kennedy's widow and a fabulous woman in her own right. one of the greatest people alive. and my wife and i, we have three kids, so we came up and spent the fourth of july weekend there at the house, and david gergen had said something very smart earlier, like he usually does. he said that it's really a neighborhood feel there. the term "compound" was really developed as a way after the assassination of robert kennedy to have some sense of privacy and also to, frankly, keep kooks away. but the kennedys' homes there are really like salons, and throughout the summer people just come from the world of arts or commerce, politics, and it's a free form about america and how to make it better. and one -- the central observation i had, because i was spending a lot of time with

kerry kennedy, and, you know, katharine towne send from maryland, and we would talk issues. but when everybody was waiting for ted kennedy to arrive. this is the kennedy family waiting for him to come, as if he was the tribal chieftain, and when he finally arrived there for the fourth of july weekend, everybody, all the kennedys gathered around him and visitors and friends in a circle. and he was statalking about wha going on in washington. he knew every bill, every -- where every bit of legislation, what was pending, what was likely to happen. and even within his own family, he was sort of the fulcrum to which information came. he was that much of a policy person. you know, the word "wonk" is now often applied to ted kennedy because he's so gregarious a personality, but this is a man who knew the details of things. he knew the loopholes on any piece of legislation, or the

minutia, in a way that isn't reported usually about him. and that's really the key to his success is that he did his homework, and when the family would take the information he had as if it was -- as if it was, you know, rare -- rare material, because it was. he really was in the mix on everything going on in washington and would empower the family, through the power of information. and public policy is what ted kennedy loved more than anything, with the possible exception, of course, his family and the sea. >> and, doug, we're going to talk more about who's going to pick up that torch, and try and push forward, all the things that ted kennedy strived so hard to work on and to accomplish. we're going to talk more with doug and also our senior political analyst, david gergen, will be joining us on the phone. he's actually there. we're waiting for the motorcade to begin. the ripple effect from senator kennedy's death after 47 years of legislating, you know, who

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once again, we're bringing you live coverage of the motorcade that will begin any minute now carrying the body of senator edward kennedy to boston. and just to give you an idea of the route that you're about to see live here on cnn, it's going to begin here, leaving the kennedy compound in hyannis port, and working its way into boston. it's actually going to wind past the rose kennedy greenway, named for the family matriarch, of course. and then it will head to nathaniel hall, where boston's mayor will ring the bell 47 times, one for each year that kennedy spent in the u.s. senate. and for those of you who know boston or have gone through boston and gone along the freedom trail, you know that faneuil hall is famous for all the various orators that stood

there on those cobblestones and gave various famous speeches. whether it was frederick douglass, fighting for civil rights, all the way to susan b. anthony, and even ted kennedy stood there faneuil and gave a number of speeches. and once the motorcade moves past there, it will go past the office near the massachusetts statehouse where kennedy once served as an assistant d.a., and the building named for president kennedy as well, his brother, he will pass by there. and, finally, it will make its way to the kennedy presidential library, and that is where our mary snow is. and, mary, a number of things to talk about. the fact that his body will lie in repose there, but you are going to be able to tell us when members of the public can come through there for a viewing. and, also, not only that, but what a remarkable museum and

library that is, just a chance to not only learn more about ted kennedy and his life, but his brother's and other members of the family as well. >> reporter: yeah, kyra, and it was one that he was very involved in creating, as a tribute to president john f. kennedy, and at 6:00 eastern time there will be a public viewing, where members of the public will be able to go in, and there is a room to the side called the smith center, the library seats about 600 people that can fit in the room, but we'll be seeing a closed casket. members of the family, we're told, staff members, friends will be in that room along with the military honor guard, the civilian honor guard and members of the public will be able to pay their last respects through 11:00 tonight. again, there will be another public viewing tomorrow, before a memorial service, a private memorial service, held here tomorrow night. and up until then, though, there has been a tribute to senator

kennedy, where members of the public have been coming in, the people of massachusetts paying their tribute to him, signing a condolence book. there are pictures of senator kennedy and his family, and there have been a steady stream of people going through, kyra, signing this book, and some of them told me they expect large crowds here later today as the casket makes its way here, so they want to be able to come here before the crowds get here. and it's very moving. and especially the emotions that people expressed when they are talking about senator kennedy here in massachusetts. and i have to tell you, so many people have gotten emotional as they talk about him. >> i can just imagine. i know, it's special not only for members of the public but journalists as well, mary, including you, who had the chance to -- a number of us, to meet ted kennedy, to interview ted kennedy, to watch him in action. definitely the lion of the senate. he never minced words, and he did a lot for those, and even

though he comes from an extremely wealthy family, he did a lot for those who suffered, whether it was for disabilities and rights for those that had disabilities to the poor to even northern ireland, where he fought for peace and human rights. mary snow there live, where the senator's body will lie in repose. we are following this for you. when the motorcade does begin, when it leaves there, the kennedy compound in cape cod, we will take it live. we're watching it all the way. other news now. if you go to school at marquette in milwaukee, well, you can get a shot at winning prizes, if you get a flu shot. that school, and others nationwide, are trying to get out in front of the flu any way they can now. good idea given the fact that the h1n1 variety is the number one priority at the centers for disease control and prevention right now. and if you do end up getting the flu this year, how do you know which one that you actually got? let's talk to senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen,

not one, but two flu vaccines recommended this year. what do you think? does everybody need both of them, get one of them? is it a toss-up? >> throw up the shots and see which ones you win. >> what's the point? >> i am just kidding. i am just kidding. the centers for disease control has a list of people that should get the regular seasonal flu shot, the one they get every year, and then they have the list that should get the h1n1, the swine flu vaccine. since we don't have an hour to explain all this, i'll just go over the list of people who are supposed to get both shots. because it's actually a pretty long list. so, let's take a look. these folks are supposed to get vaccinated for both regular flu and for swine flu. pregnant women, anyone ages 6 months to 18 years old, babies, kids and teens. anyone ages 25 to 64 who has a chronic health condition like asthma and diabetes and caregivers of babies less than 6 months old, and the reason for that babies 6 months old or younger cannot get the shots themselves.

now, i definitely say "shots" in the plural, because, number one, there's the regular flu shot, number two, there's the swine flu shot, and number three, there's the swine flu booster shot. you can think of it that way. it's two shots. you get one and you come back for another one three weeks later. >> a lot of people wonder about the safety because the vaccine is so new. >> people have been e-mailing me, hey, should i get it, middle of october, it's on the market for the first time, how do we know it's safe? let's talk about the experimentation they've done with this shot. right now as we speak study subjects are getting swine flu shots in the middle of the trials. by the middle of october they hope to have tested it out in 3,100 adults and then in addition on on 240 pregnant women and also on 1,200 children. so, you know, no matter who you are, that someone who is sort of like you has had the shot before and the centers for disease control says they won't put the shot on the market if they see any bad side effects. kyra, they say right now they're not seeing any red flags.

>> so, when can you get the flu shot? >> you can get the regular shot, the one that marquette is apparently giving me prizes, makes me want to go to wisconsin, you can get that one in many cases right now. the swine flu won't be out until the middle of october, and when it comes out, there may not be enough for everyone that wants one, you may have to wait until later in the month or november or december. and as we are covering the live pictures of the motorcade that's about to begin for senator ted kennedy, you're actually doing something special our web column, right? >> that's right. with his passing yesterday, we decided to look at senator kennedy as an empowered patient. i don't think people knew that he had two children with cancer, and the way that he took care of them was incredible. he amble issed experts from across the country, when people gave him bad prognosises, he said he wouldn't accept it, i want to get them help. and his children are alive and cancer free because of his care. you say you're not a kennedy and you can't snap your fingers and get cancer experts in your

living room, but would you surprised what you can do even as a regular person. so, we will tell you how to get kennedy-style health care when you're not a kennedy in this week's "empowered patient" at cnn.com/health. >> you can be empowered even if you're not a kennedy. you can certainly fight for your rights. >> absolutely. >> elizabeth, thanks so much. as we're talking about ted kennedy live pictures once again from the kennedy compound there in cape cod. the motorcade is about to begin, and you will see it live, right here, on cnn, as we take a trip through time, stopping by all -- a number of key sites that highlight special moments for the senator, as he makes his way to the jfk library and museum, where his body will lie in repose. and you'll see it, live, right here, on cnn. your body needs sleep to feel healthy... to feel better. tylenol pm quiets the pain that keeps you awake. and helps you sleep, in a non-habit forming way.

and stay with us as we continue our live coverage of the motorcade that will carry the body of senator edward kennedy to the jfk library in boston. a little history here, as you probably already know, as we've been talking so much about the senator. he was the youngest of nine kennedy children, four boys and five girls. you're actually seeing a bus right here. you can see it with the green

top. that is actually going to take a number of the family members, you know, not the immediate family members, but other members of the friends and family there of the kennedys along the motorcade, as it makes its way through boston, and then to the jfk library and museum. as you remember, too, ted kennedy he was the last surviving brother in the kennedy family. the family expected the oldest brother, joseph, to run for office one day, but he was killed in world war ii. and then john, of course, became president, the 35th president of the united states, and then brother, robert kennedy, we know him as bobby kennedy, was u.s. attorney general and a u.s. senator. you remember that both of them were assassinated. the three brothers, very tight, very close friends. and it was the jfk library and museum that teddy kennedy worked so hard to get together to honor his brother not long after his

assassination. and that is where the motorcade will end up there at the jfk library and museum, where his body will lie in repose, and members of the public will be able to come and pay their last respects. other top stories now. it's the best birthday gift that j.c.dugar could have asked for. and i'll get to that in just a second. but you're actually seeing live pictures now of the casket leaving the kennedy compound. but we are being told, out of respect for the family, they have asked us, actually, as the casket moves its way out of where the private mass was held with the family, that we will actually go dark in just a second here once his body is actually put into the hearse. david gergen, this is a perfect time to bring you in. you are there, as this is all happening, and maybe you can explain to our viewers why the

private mass here, because there's going to be another one, as we know, at the basilica, and then also why the family doesn't want to show the rest of this, as the casket enters the hearse. >> well, kyra, we've been, you know, there's been a vigil here with the family, with the body, in that home that we're looking at now. they were with him for some 24 hours. there we see family members now coming out of the house, and i think it helps all of us as we see this, to remember that -- that the principles by which he was lived, by joe kennedy, rose kennedy, his parents, there were three principles, family, faith, and country. family came first. and what we're watching today is something that's a national event, a national tragedy, but it's also very much a family tragedy. and i think that all of this is now dictated by family and by

teddy kennedy. he clearly had a hand in planning all these ceremonies. and they're elaborately planned. they're very reminiscent planne very reminiscent of presidential funerals that we have had too many of in recent years. each piece of this will have been meticulously thought through by his family and aides. he had a cracker jack staff that worked for him. today, with this, with military guard, this is going to be the start of a military element of this, which will end saturday afternoon with the burial in arlington cemetery with his brothers, bobby and jack kennedy and jacqueline kennedy and one of their children there. so there is going to be a great deal of, if you would, pagentry, that is associated in our minds with dignitaries who have held a high office or place in our

hearts. teddy kennedy had both. >> i'll tell you what, david, stay with me for a moment. this is probably the most powerful picture we are going to see today. let's just take a second here to watch and listen.

wow, david gergen, there you have it. leaving his home for the final time and making his way where he will finally rest with his brothers, john and robert. the whole family there by his side and, david, i don't know if you noticed but i think it was one of the grandsons. i loved it. he was in his shorts and his flip-flops right there. he had his tie and his jacket. i loved it. it was just one of those moments where everybody is being so formal and there you go. >> reporter: that's exactly right. it brings back so many memories, kyra, if you go all the way back to the death of the first very public kennedy, john kennedy, and watching his young son squirming around and being such a darling child and to think that was john jr. who only a few years ago crashed in an airplane just a few miles from hyannis

port where we are trying to watch this. i think the outpouring of children represents the vitality of the kennedy family and shows that side of him, of teddy kennedy, when his brother, bobby, was killed, back in the late 60s. he became not only the keeper of the camelot legacy but the keeper of the camelot family. all those children look to him at uncle teddy. he always called them on their birthdays. he was very close to all those children. he would play games with them. so that gathering has very special poignants for all of that family. he had become the patriarch in effect, the glue that was holding everybody together. this is so much a family occasion as it is a national occasion. >> you bring up such a good point about the family dynamic. i mean, talk about, my gosh, if you look just back in history

all the way up till now, so many tragedies have happened within that family. it has continued. that family has stayed strong. they have stayed close, not only personally but so many of them live close together. i mean, that's just a tremendous thing to see in a time where, you know, families are breaking up and they are not staying together. there really is a sense of history there that has never dissolved. >> reporter: his body was coming out of the home that was actually his father's home, joe kennedy, the ultimate patriarch of all the kennedys, two generations ago. he and rose kennedy lived there and brought up their nine children. a cluster of homes here in hyannis port that the kennedys have where they love to gather in the summer and be with each other and they love to go out

with uncle teddy on his schooner, the mya and to be around his three portuguese water dogs, which he loved. we also saw there a picture of vicky, the woman who came into his life some 16 years ago, had been his partner ever since then, that seemed to bring him an inner peace. he had all these children by his first wife. it was vicky, that relationship, that seemed to settle him emotionally and just give him an anchor. they remained inaccept parable all these years. she has become beloved within the family because of what she brought to that relationship and partnership. >> he said all the things he admired about her, washington lawyer, a brilliant woman. she wasn't afraid to stand up to him either. even though he was known as the lion of the senate. >> reporter: she was not. >> no one in that family wanted to argue with teddy kennedy but

victoria reggie would stand up to him in a heart beat and put him in his place and he loved it. >> reporter: he did love it. she brought breath and structure to his life. he had had a route ta bout kind of life for a long time. he was clearly a restless soul. he pulled himself together over the years and grew and matured as a human being, not just as a senator. he had these deep roots in family. they meant so much to him and they increasingly meant so much to him. i think we are watching something very poignant. this is his farewell to hyannis port, the place he loved. a plays he always wanted to come back to. a place where his brother, john, used to arrive on a helicopter. he would get on the golf cart. all the kids would surround him and run up and play touch

football out on these lawns. the american people began to fall in love with them and respect the kennedy family. there was a lot of conflict, political conflict, associated with all the kennedys but there has been an enduring respect that goes back some 60 years back to hyannis port and this home we are seeing, his final departure from the home that he loved. >> it might be a good time to make the point, david, as we look at the compound here and the riches on so many levels that embody this family even though there is a lot of money and fortune and property. he was someone that stayed true to the mission, just like his brothers, jfk and bobby kennedy. that was looking out for the poor, the disadvantaged. looking out for the underserved.

>> reporter: he grew in his passion just like bobby did. bobby kennedy was a farrell conservative senator who was much more interested in war and peace. the last few years of his life, before he was cut down, he became passionate about the poor and places like the south bronx where he went. teddy picked up that banner from bobby and from jack. if anything, became even more liberal in his commitment during more conservative years, during the reagan years and what followed. he was often the tribute for unpopular causes. as you say, he was steadfast all the rest of his life. i can't emphasize enough as we are here in hyannis port how

much of a neighbor he was in this community as well, talking to people who lived nearby. they would often see him walk by or go by on a little golf course. usually, with khaki pants and a golf shirt. knew everybody by their first names. it is very much a neighborhood feel in hyannis port. it is not at all a compound as you might think of. the houses are large and, yes, they are mansions in some ways. they are very cape codish and very much in a neighborhood setting with lots of kids around on bikes who are around there watching this and dogs frol licking around. it is kite an intimate setting in its own way. >> stay with me, david. we are going to follow the procession to jfk museum where his body will lie in repose. it will be a trip through time.

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late senator, ted kennedy, gets ready to make its way through boston all the way to jfk's museum and library where his body will lay in repose. we just saw the senator's flag-draped casket carried out of the home where he died late tuesday night where his family gathered earlier today for a private mass. we saw all members of the family leaving the compound there just as that mass wrapped up. as we speak, you can see his motorcade is setting out from the family compound there in hyannis port. it is enroute to john k. kennedy's presidential library. it is about 70 miles away. a journey both personal and public. a tribute to a senator, statesman, patriarch and in president obama's own words, a defender of a dream. a long drive ahead made longer by a route that's rich in kennedy history. that's for sure. daniel hall, boston's mayor,

will ring the bell 47 times, one for each year he served in the senate. saint steven's church is where rose kennedy was baptized and the jf k-fed ral building is where senator kennedy maintained his boston office. near the massachusetts state house, a young ted kennedy briefly served as assistant da. it will be a trip through time as the grandkids, family members there waving to supporters lined up along the street in hyannis port. family there as he leaves his home headed to his final resting place, arlington national cemetery. the senator's grave will be right there next to his brothers, john and robert kennedy. senator kennedy was eligible for

the burial there because he served as a member of congress and served in active duty. we have douglas brinkly and david gergen. let's chat with you, doug. we were talking with david gergen about the lion of the senate, an emotional time for the family but the perfect place for the senator to die, was where he found peace, with are he was the most happy and where all members of the family were. now, as he moves from his home to his final resting place, a lot of people asking, okay, whose going to fill his shoes? is it possible? >> well, there is nobody that's ever going to fill ted kennedy's shoes. that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to. it is a new generation of

kennedys that are doing very active public service things. robert kennedy jr. has become our top environmentalist e is constantly fighting pollute teres. he is trying to save mountains in west virginia. he is fighting for parts in alaska. you have people like rory kennedy who is becoming a cutting edge filmmaker for hbo, currently doing a documentary about the border fence going up between the united states and mexico and has been involved with issues of aids, a global aids epidemic. we have people like kerry kennedy who wrote a book on being catholic which became a best seller. she organizes speak truth to power, these human rights conferences all over the world in getting a great membership to all her speeches and everything she does. i could go on and on. there are so many of them. in fact, the word is -- it's a clan, a clan, you think of, is an irish word.

remember, the kennedys are -- while they are both outsiders and insiders, they had to fight as irish catholics to be part of a protestant new england. when you are there at hyannis port, you can feel the tug of ireland, particularly when you go sailing. it is just across the pond as they like too say. this irishness is there and connects to the roman catholicism as i mentioned earlier. i didn't know this until i read it in "the new york times." ted kennedy, after rose died in 1995, for one year, went to mass every day for an entire year. i'm catholic. if i go to mass once a month, i'm feeling spiritual. to go every day -- >> you have to rid all the guilt, have confession. it is the good, irish, catholic thing to do, doug, you know that. >> it is. i think that ted kennedy's sense

of faith in the family, when you have the amount of tragedies that they have had, i think they have turned to priests, have turned constantly to catholicism as a source of refuge. one out of every four americans is catholic. yet, up until john kennedy's election in 1970, their had been anti-catholic bigotry. when al smith ran for president in the 1920s, people thought the vatican was going to run america. the kennedys broke the stigma against catholicism and they did it in protestant new england and by keeping the family unit together and at all costs, as david gergen said, putting family first. that's what this profession is really about. they are going to the kennedy library, which has become the sort of family meeting place. it is the public policy center

along with the kennedy school at harvard where the kennedy family has stayed very engaged over the past decades. >> as did david gergen as well. we look forward to your next book. i bet you are working on something kennedy oriented. we are going to talk with david gergen coming up as well as we continue to follow the live coverage of the motorcade. just to give you the schedule for senator ted kennedy's final farewell. the motorcade taking the long way to the jfk library as you heard doug just say. the body will lie in repose with time set aside for public visitation tonight and tomorrow. friday night at 7:00, a memorial service at the library. saturday morning, the family will attend a private funeral mass at our lady of perpetual hope basilica. all four of the living

presidents, both bushes, bill clinton and jimmy carter and president obama will deliver a eulogy. later that day, kennedy's final trip to his final resting place, that will be arlington national cemetery in virginia. we are going to push forward on the tough economy, straight to where you live and your kids go to school. cash-strapped districts are cutting back on buses. that's leaving a lot of parents wondering, how am i going to get the kids to school? take a look at this. just outside boston where we are following the motorcade, ten buses are off the road next month on top of 20. georgia, a $58 million deficit means eliminating more than 8,000 bus stops. in california, the nevada school district is eliminating all bus service except for special needs kids. in houston, no bus service for kids living within two miles of school plus no late bus service for after school activities. i had a chance to speak with

robyn leads of the national school transportation association. representing private contractors, manufacturers and suppliers and i asked her what this means for the 25 million kids who ride the school bus right now. >> it's going to mean that a significant number of kids aren't going to get to school. they don't have another option, because, as you say, maybe there is a single parent who has to work, can't get time off to go take the children to and from school or maybe there is no car in the family and it is too far for the kids to walk. they can't ride bikes. they can't rollerskate. there is no way for them to get there. they are just not going to get to school. so there is going to be an increase in absenteeism. of course, when the kids don't get to school, they can't learn. they are not accessing their education. >> that is just heartbreaking. how can we -- we just can't do that to our kids when that is

the most important thing that they need in order to become working and successful adults. so what can we do? what can you, what can i do, what can parents do right now? >> well, the interesting thing is, the irony of this is, when school officials look at how they are going to balance their budgets and in all fairness to school administrators and boards of education, they are in a really tough place right now, because their revenues aren't coming in. the states have reduced their reimbursements for transportation and other educational services. taxpayers are not passing bond issues. the property tax roles are down. so schools don't have the income that they used to have. they are forced to make budget cuts just like families are forced to make budget cuts. unfortunately, when they look at the ways that they can cut, they are thinking, well, we have to

keep the cuts out of the classroom. we don't want to cut teachers. we don't want to cut books. we want to make sure that the classroom stays intact. so we will cut transportation. the irony of that is, when the kids can't get to school, it doesn't malt ttter how good the classroom education is because they can't access it. >> what about security. what if the parents say, son, daughter, looks like you will have to walk home or to school and that's a few miles away, with predators out there, you just -- >> safety is a really big concern. let me just, dry statistics, i have to tell you this. there are 50 million kids that go to school every day. a little more than half of them go on a school bus and a little less than half of them go some other way. they walk, they ride bikes. they go in cars. among the kids who go to school by school bus, we have an

average of 20 fatalities a year. too many but 20 fatalities. among the kids that go to school some other way, we have 800 fatalities every year. the more kids that are not going to have a school bus to ride, the higher those figures are going to go. >> so, robyn, how do we push this forward? do we need to reach out to our congressmen and women, our senators, the department of education? what do we do? >> it starts on the local level. parents have to be really concerned about it. parents are concerned about it. they have to make those concerns known. i had a call on monday from a grandparent in indiana. she was concerned because the school district has cut out the bus that used to bring her child home, her grandchild home. now, they drop her grandchild at

a church parking lot, which is three-quarters of a mile from the house. three-quarters of a mile isn't too far to walk except that the only route is a four-lane highway with a 55-mile-an-hour speed limit and no shoulders, because there is road construction going on. and this child is eight years old. >> well, bottom line, we have to do something. we are talking about it now. we will be proactive and follow up on this and tell our viewers ways they can be proactive and try to save the school buses. >> i grew up getting to school on the school buses. i am sure you did too. we need them, robin. >> start at the local level. convince your school board that's a priority. >> we are on it. thanks, robin. a big economic story that we are following, one that affects your money. the fdic says the number of troubled banks is at its high efl level in 15 years. personal finance editor, gerri

willis, joins us now. how concerned should all of us be about this right now? >> this shouldn't be your number one priority. i will tell you why. there are some steps you can take to ensure the safety of your savings. a, number one, the most important thing, your bank has to be an fdic insured bank. if you are not sure, look for the fdic seal. they will have it on their advertisements. you goek to the fdic website and find it there. know how much is insured. that's critical as well. let's take a look at limits of insurance for savings and cds. the insurance goes up to $250,000. for iras, retirement accounts, the same amount, a quarter of a million. mutual funds, stocks and bonds, they are not insured. no insurance there at all. in five years, these insurance levels will revert to the only insurance levels, which are only $100,000. if you have more than these amounts, spread out the wealth, keep in mind that just because

there are banks on this watch list, it doesn't necessarily mean they are going to go out of business. 13% of banks have been seized and shut by regulators. it is unusual for that to happen. >> kyra, is there any way to rank the safety of financial institutions. is that even possible? >> if you want to do a checkup, find out how safe my bank is, the fdic isn't releasing their banks in trouble. go to bankrate.com. they have a safety and soundness rating system. if you want more detailed info, go to am best.com. at the end of the day, look for the fdic label, it says, hey, your deposits are insured up to the limits. tropical storm danny could mess up a lot of weekend plans along the east coast. chad myers is going to show us

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just left cape cod. it is going to be making its way all the way to jfk museum and library today. this procession is definitely in so many ways a trip through time. the most interesting part of this probably will be in boston where the motorcade is going to wind past the rose kennedy greenway. that's actually named for the family matriarch. he did a lot to remember her and

honor her through a number of projects. then the motorcade will work its way by faneuil hall, and the boston mayor will ring it 47 times for each year he spent in the u.s. senate. if you have made your way to faneuil hall, you will know that a number of famous orators have stood there and made speeches, frederick douglass, susan b. anthony and also ted kennedy. it will go past there. the major will ring the bell 47 times, for all the years kennedy was in the senate. it will go past the office near the massachusetts state house where kennedy served as

assistant d.a. and then it will make its way to the presidential kennedy library where mary stow is. we will bring you live coverage once he reaches the museum where his body will lie in repose and members of. public will be able to come and pay their last respects. gloria borger, you, on a number of levels, have had a fascinating relationship with the kennedy family. not only have you covered what ted kennedy was involved with with regard to health care, you have gotten to know the family very well. you have spent time there at the xoun. as you've been watching all this, tell me what you are thinking about. >> well, i'm thinking about how senator kennedy probably planned this route. as you said earlier, it is kind of a tour through his life and his career. i think what he is doing on this route is paying respect to not

only his family but the people of the state that he served for the last 47 years going to his first office, going to faneuil hall where he officially declared his presidential candidacy, going on the rose kennedy parkway or whatever it is. he was very, very close to his mom. as you know. caroline kennedy once told me that actually people think ted kennedy learned politics from his brother and his father. caroline said, people underestimate the fact that he learned an awful lot about politics from his mother, the daughter of honey fitzgerald, the former mayor of boston. caroline kennedy said, he learned the joy of politics, the fun of politics. he learned about how politics could be a vehicle for helping

people. for rose kennedy, it was a vehicle for her great faith. he learned his faith from his mother, which, when he eulogized her he said that was the greatest gift she had given her children. >> you bring up the motorcade going to be stopping by all these special places, whether it is where he worked or where he spoke, and go past the rose kennedy greenway, an extremely close to his heart project. >> and wind up at another project which he has been so, so involved with for hess entire life. that is the jfk library. that project is something he spoke about all the time. the library is full of his family. it was a place where he loved to go and reminisce himself about his family and so it is just

sort of -- just thinking about this i 2think, that the senator probably gave this a great deal of thought and probably didn't want this to be anything like jfk's funeral. he is not lying in repose in the capitol, which some people thought he might do. this was his own way of saying good-bye to this state and this family that he served and loved so much. i think it is a very kind of personal tour starting out, of course, in hyannis, which he loved most of all. >> gloria borger, i know you are going to be joining us throughout the next couple of hours as we follow this live, the motorcade of the late senator, ted kennedy. we are seeing the bus carrying other family members in the middle of that motorcade.

all the people lined up there along the highway as he makes his final trip from his home there in cape cod to the jfk library like we were just talking about, where his body will lie in repose and that final resting place at arlington national cemetery. he will be buried right there next to his brothers, john and robert. we will be following it live all afternoon. we are following other stories for you. the message in los angeles is stay indoors if you can. a smokey haze from two big wildfires is covering much of the los angeles area right now. the fires are burning in the angeles national forrest. one is a real monster, already scorched nearly 1,900 acres and 45% contained. the other blaze has burned 30 acres. a fire also is in monterrey county that's spread across three square miles. chad myers tracking those flames

for us on tropical storm danny. >> danny, what it is doing now and how it is defying what the models think or thought was going on. here is the center of danny, nowhere near where the congestion, where a convection and thunderstorms are. the computers thought that donny was going to be here. all of the sudden, you follow this yellow line. that's what danny has done today. it has actually turned left. it continues to go left. so what would be a computer model that says that now is already about 40 miles off because that's not where the storm is at this point in time. so is that going to matter. yes, sure, it could. because the forecast is to make this big right-hand turn. if the forecast was 60 or 80 or 100 miles offshore, now, we are going to divide that by two and we take you back up here into

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a child kidnap victim from 19 1991 turned up yesterday in a local precinct. they say a man and a woman have been arrested but the details are sketchy. a lot of us want to know where she has been for 18 years and also what does she look like, how is she feeling and how did this all happen. >> reporter: a really crazy story, kyra. a lot of different things in flux. let me tell you where i am. i am in the city of antioch, california. this is what's known as the east bay of the san francisco bay area. i am looking in front of me at about 20 or so fbi agents and local law enforcement serving a

search warrant on a house. this is the house where apparently the two suspects lived, two people, who had this girl in custody for so long, 18 years. we are hearing. the san francisco chronicle is reporting that the two people arrested, philip garet and his wife, nancy, 55, both arrested being held on a billion dollars bail, charged with kidnapping, rape by force, lewd and lascivious acts with the minor. cnn just did a search on this guy, philip craig gareto. he is in the national sex offender registry data base, kyra. so this is obviously a very disturbing story. we haven't really heard anything like this for several years since the elizabeth smart case. everybody remembers that case. she was kidnapped when she was a

little girl and emerged several years later. so, obviously, still waiting to get some more details. we would, of course, love to hear from the young woman's parents. we can't really call her a girl anymore. she is 29 years old. certainly, an amazing story. >> a heart wrenching story as well when you hear that she has been stuck with a child predator all these years. dan, do we know, did she escape the house. do we have any idea how she got to authorities? >> reporter: that's such an excellent question. we really done. all we know is that sometime yesterday, she showed up, unexpectedly as the concord police department. that's also another town in the san francisco bay area. she showed up, told the authorities there who she was. the concord police apparently reached out to the fbi.

the fbi then put the young woman in touch with her mother. during that time, it was confirmed that, yes, this is, in fact, the young woman. from what we understand, the mother is headed. she lives in southern california. she is headed up to this area for the reunion. >> can you imagine being that mom and getting that phone call. oh, my gosh. do we have any idea what she said, how she reacted? any tidbit about the mom? >> reporter: well, we know, obviously, she was very, very surprised to say the least. cnn did speak to the woman's stepfather, dugard's stepfather who relayed some details. the family was in disbelief, that there was a brief conversation between the mother

and her daughter. the mother hung up the phone and was convinced it was her after talking to her. she was suspicion that this was a crank call. she was convinced it was her. >> i would love to know what it was she said that made it click. >> reporter: exactly. >> will they have to do any dna tests or anything like that just to make absolutely sure, dan, or are they 100% convinced that this is, indeed, jaycee? >> reporter: it will be interesting to hear what authorities say, how they walked away convinced. there is no doubt that this in fact, jaycee dugard. you have two people in custody. the man in this case, the male suspect on the sex offender data base. so, clearly, a lot more details to come ouchlt already, very

disturbing. >> dan, stay with me just to let our viewers know. this breaking news story that we have been covering. jacee dugard, you just saw pictures of her right there, is finally going to see her parents after 18 years after being abducted. this is what she looked like when she was 11 years old back in 1991. as you heard our dan simon say, she just turned up at a local police precinct apparently in good condition, said who she was. as you heard dan, there is a man and woman in custody now. that man with a record. he is in the sex offender data base. dan, did you say that the woman was also in the data base or just man? >> reporter: right now, all we have confirmed is that the man is in the data base. a laundry list of charges here according to the san francisco chronicle, still trying to independently confirm this.

the chronicle reporting that they are charged on suspicion of kidnapping, rape by force, lewd and sa sievus acts with a minor and sexual penetration. >> just heartbreaking. we look forward to getting more information to fill in all the gaps here. i guess at the end of the day, this is terrific news for jaycee's biological mom. it will be interesting to watch that moment when they unite for the first time. we look forward to you bringing us the updated reports, dan. >> reporter: let me tell you one more thing. the el dore door county sheriff's department, this is the area where she was abducted all those years ago. they are holding a news conference at 3:00 p.m. local time, just in about three hours from now. >> 3:00 west coast time. 6:00 p.m. eastern time. i am assuming we are going to

carry that live or at least bring you parts of that. dan simon, appreciate it. thanks so much. >> reporter: sure, thanks. a familiar story in this economy. a company closes putting people out of work. in today's "money & main street," john catches up with a man who was recently laid off in florida. doing what he can to help others. >> reporter: they will still be there on the shelves of convenience stores. cigars. they won't be coming from the city and the name. after a century of production, it is over, operations con sal dated, move to pure toe roca. 495 people out of work. ron russell was a machinist at the tampa factory for 3 1/2 years. >> i thought i was safe in a 100--year-old company. >> reporter: russell didn't cry

nor did he start pounding the pavement looking for another job. he did something different. >> we thank those of you that have come to offer hope in an hour of need. >> reporter: he started a website, contact information, skills of former hav-a-tampa employees who want to be listed. one-stop shopping for companies needing workers. >> if i need an engineer? >> highlight engineer and click search. we have mr. harvey morris. >> reporter: morris says, you won't nind better people than those on the site. >> reporter: what kind of person can i expect to find on that web site? >> simply put, quality. >> reporter: so far, the side, russell says, has led to 30 jobs. at one time, there were some 200 cigar factories in tampa. it is down to one now. only the j.v. newman company is left. hav-a-tampa officials say a new federal tax increased the price of the cigars and reduced

consumption. >> this is a company that has given people tremendous livelihoods and it is all gone. >> reporter: dave zepowitz is known as cigar dave on his talk show. >> it is an absolute total preventible tragedy. there is no other product taxed at 53%. it was levied to help fund a federal health insurance program for children from low income families. ronald russell says, his child now qualifies for the insurance. >> reporter: what about looking out for number one? >> number one will get his turn when it is time. >> reporter: now is the time to find work for the others. >> reporter: john zarrella, cnn, tampa. money & main street, stories of americans surviving in these tough times tonight at 8:00 eastern. at bank of america we are

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it was probably one of the most powerful moments today, at least within the past couple of hours as we have been talking about the late senator ted kennedy and his final journey. it was this picture right here where we actually saw his casket being loaded into the hurst as it was getting ready to head through boston all the way up to the jfk library where his body will be lying in repose. it was right here. the family had a private mass on

the kennedy compound and you saw every member of the kennedy clan there and then the moment when the color guard came out and sent the casket from his home leaving for the last time and finally will be headed to his final resting place, arlington national cemetery. that was about 45 minutes ago that we watched this happen, live pictures of his flag-draped casket carried out of the home where he died tuesday night. now, probably within the next 45 minutes or so, he will be arriving at the place that was very special to him, the jfk library and museum that he worked very hard on, to honor his brother, the 35th president of the united states, after he was assassinated. that's where our mary snow joins us live now. she is awaiting that arrival.

when his casket will be brought out and he will lie in repose right there inside the museum. did you get a chance to go inside and see how it will all be set up and how members of the public will be able to come through and pay their respects? >> i did, kyra. there is a room called the smith center. the museum says it can hold about 600 people. members of the public will be able to go through that room and pay their last respects. a line here is already forming for members of the public to be able to go in. one of the first people on the line, mary ann camp, who joins us right now. mary ann, you told me that you have been here since 9:30 this morning. the doors will open at 6:00 p.m. eastern. how important was it for you to be here today? >> so very important that i caught a train very early this morning to get here just to pay my respects to all the kennedys,

not only robert and ed but jfk as well. >> reporter: tell me about that. >> actually, i saw jfk the night before he was killed in houston and his whole speech with ask not what the country can do for you but what you can do for your country had such a powerful influence on me that i joined the peace corp at age 60 and stayed in it for eight years. it was very important to me. >> mary ann kemp, thank you for joining us. about 20 people or so who have been lining up, some from north carolina, new york, a couple of other people from massachusetts who have echoed mary ann's comments saying they felt it was just very important for them to be here today. also, a youth group, a nonprofit public service organization, members of that group have been gathering me too, because they are going to be acting as ushers at today's service, if you will.

the body, as you said, will lie in repose. it will be a closed cassette. a military and honor guard and family members, staff members and friends, will also alongside the body. also, throughout the day, there has been a room with pictures of senator kennedy. people have been coming in writing messages. there has been a steady line of people also waiting to do that as well. kyra? >> we will continue to follow the motorcade as it goes through boston and ends up where you are, mary snow. thank you so much. affordable health care was the most passionate cause of senator kennedy's life. some think his name and reform should be one and the same.

he called ted kennedy his best friend in the senate. now, sen. robert byrd wants his buddy's name immortalized in legislation. any health care reform adopted by congress should bear his name. he hopes that kennedy's death will lead to a more civilized debate in what has been a more heated battle. he championed health reform even

during his last days. >> congress is wrangling over health care. there are people in the trenches that are making their own health care reform. people like dr. cats returning to his traditional routes to help the sick and needy. we are introduced to dr. katz in today's health care and focus. >> i am dr. jeff katz. i do house calls. >> man, your pressure is way up. on the underserved medicaid population. going to neighborhoods in the inner city that are full of despair and loek w on the econo strat it. there are young men hanging out on the corner. not uncommon to have shootings hours before or afterwards on the streets. i am a doctor and i say sometimes this is the anti-concierge practice.

20% of medicare patients get readmitted after discharge from the hospital. billions of dollars are lost due to those readmissions. those could be saved by increasing services at home. >> when was that last filled, the oxycodone filled? >> about three years ago embarked on a beta test, members of the group for a team approach with field nurses, with the physician at the center, trying to cross the culture gap of nonclins and distrust the, build confidence in relationships with the patients and get them reengaged in their health care so that we could decrease unnecessary emergency room transports and hospital admissions and that's been quite successful. >> that was my mom's name. my dad was a combat medic in world war ii and later became a family practitioner in new jersey and did house calls with

his primary care practice. these are old tools that he used. it was a standard part of the medical practice. there was no 911. patients couldn't call 911 in the middle of the night because he did house calls and carried around one of those. this is ea unique partnership where the interest of the insurance industry and health care providers interface and coalesce into one mission. i think he would probably be interested, knowing him. he would probably have some things to tell me about how i could do it better. i think, in his heart, he would be pretty proud of me. >> thanks, for david michael's for that. if you want to know more about the health care debate, check out the special health care in america section on cnn.com. we have fact checks, i-reports and everything you need to know about health care. plus, the latest from the town hall meetings. go to cnn.com. that does it for us.