one person stay alive, then i will be very, very fulfilled today. >> reporter: now neither the port authority another the contractor who hired the security guards would release the names of the two men in the photos so we were unable to reach them directly. the agency did confirm that sleeping on the job was the reason for termination. derr deborah feyerick, cnn, new york. from the cnn center in atlanta, you are in the cnn newsroom. it is saturday, september 5th. good morning to you. i'm brook bald ie baldwin, sett for betty. >> it is 11:00 a.m. where we're sitting, 8:00 a.m. out west. we want to show you new evidence connected to the mass killings in georgia. in evidence to the man there

walking in the middle of the screen there, connects him to a massacre. this is the brutal killing of eight people that were found in a mobile home. not only is the man you're seeing, 22-year-old guy heinze related to the victims, he's also the one who called 91 1 to report the crime. take a listen. remember this 911 call? >> okay. tell me what's going on, sir. >> i just got home -- i was out last night and i got home just now and everybody's dead. my dad's december. >> how many people are there? >> i'm sorry, six. my whole family's dead. >> you hear that 911 call. bring in our sean callebs, who's live with us now. chilling stuff to listen to. it was chilling when we first heard it after the story broke. now to think the one who was calling is the one police say is responsible. why do police now think he's responsible? >> it certainly takes on a whole new meaning hearing that passionate and emotional 911 call. all we can tell you is the police chief here in dmren county held a news conference

saying he found two new pieces evidence late friday and that led to the arrest of guy heinze jr. the authorities had been extremely tight lipped in this. they offered no news conferences after monday last week until this arrest. and he wouldn't comment about a possible motive. he wouldn't say what that new piece of evidence was. boy, this is certainly something that got the attention of everybody along georgia's coast. the fact that guy heinze jr., not only allegedly killed his father but five other family members, who family friends as well. he was arrested shortly after making that 911 call by authorities and charged with possession of drugs. he some marijuana as well as darvocet. he was charged with tampering of evidence. authorities say he took a shotgun out of the mobile home and hid it in his car. also charged with obstruction of justice for basically lying to authorities about what he was doing leading up to the crime. now, he actually made bail yesterday about 4:15 in the afternoon and was arrested about an hour and a half later and charged with the eight brutal murders. listen to what the police chief

had to say about the viciousness of this crime. >> we told you from the very outset we would do everything we can to get the right person, and that time has arrived. it is here now. i can only assure the community we have the best team there is, and i can assure you that this person is responsible. >> okay. i want to take you to a funeral home about 45 minutes from here in brunswick. there you see seven caskets inside this funeral home. family members actually found out that guy heinze jr. had been accused of these vicious killings while they were at a visitation last night. now, the seven of the victims are going to be laid to rest in just a matter of hours, not terribly far from where we are now. we talked with some family members after the news conference last night, t.j. they said they were simply floored, that was the word they used to hear that guy heinze jr. was the man authorities say is behind this crime. should point out heinze's attorney said he categorically

denies he had anything to do with the killings. we don't know about arraignment. we will continue to watch the story here along georgia's coast. >> we see the video. you told us earlier that the family actually wanted the families in there to see these caskets. it is something else to see all of the caskets and all of the family members in there. it will be a rough day. the funerals start up here in a matter of hours. sean callebs. we appreciate you this morning. we will be checking in with you again. anything is possible with this guy. that is exactly what police in nevada are saying as they look into unsolved kidnappings and whether or not there might be a connection to philip garrido. you know the name by now. garrido is the man accused of abducting a girl from a school bus stop in california and holding her for 18 years in his backyard. meantime, police towed away a van from garrido's backyard just yesterday. there it is on the truck headed out, garrido and his wife are accused of holding jaycee dugard in tents and shed behind a home for all of that time. police say garrido fathered who

children with her. the couple is being held without bail. well, california governor arnold schwarzenegger is now offering a $100,000 reward for information that can lead to the arrest of the person who authorities believe intentionally set the fire that is still raging in southern california. here some of the pictures we have been watching these for over a week now. this is the firedestroyed about 150,000 acres, more than 70 homes and other buildings. two firefighters died in this fire last week. prosecutors could now seek the death penalty for whoever started this fire. and reynolds wolf has been out there much of last week really doing the yeoman's work in terms of covering this thing. i cannot even imagine for firefighters trying to battle that kind of blaze. >> we go out in the field. we work long hours and get covered with dirt and that kind of stuff. you're up for long hours. but nothing in comparison what what these guys do and plus

they're putting their lives on the line trying to keep the rest of us safe. we have two firefighters that lost their lives. they still have a fire that's only about 42% contained. it's still burning. the winds are supposed to take out possibly 20, 30 miles per hour. on top of the mountain canyons, you can expect temperatures to warm up into the 90s. possibly low 100s. it will be a rough time. right now the temperatures tend to be a bit deceiving along the coast. you've got 60s in places like north of santa clarita. high temperatures currently in the 70s but expected to rise as we get through the afternoon. certainly rough times. the winds will pick up along the west coast. as you make your way across the four corners, scattered showers. fortunately, no such luck for moisture to get its way back into southern california. across the midsection, look for a chance of showers and thundershowers. high temperatures minneapolis, twin cities sitting pretty with 79 degrees, 94 in billington, 82

in the mile high city of denver. tampa looks good around the i-4 corridor into orlando. high temperatures into the 80s, 89 houston, 83, new york. coming up -- a look at what you can expect as we round out the rest of the holiday weekend and for the most part, looks like a pretty good forecast. back to you guys. >> reynolds, we appreciate it, as always. talk to you again soon. >> we'll take it. as the president prepares to give a huge make-or-break speech, wednesday night the joint session of congress and really the nation next week, cnn has now learned that the white house is working to draft its own health care legislation. cnn's kate bolduan is at the white house this morning for more on this. kate, we've been talking all morning about this. now we're also hearing that the administration may be delivering this legislation to the hill some time after that speech. what are you hearing from your wife or contacts as far as strategy? why do this. >> yeah, that's a very good question. we see the president clearly sees at noipoint the administran

things they need to get more involved with the process and debate. cnn has learned the white house is quietly talking about drafting its own health care bill as you mentioned. it's a sort of contingency legislation if talks fall apart on capitol hill. this move a possible reversal in course for a white house that has long left this solely to congress to write this health care reform legislation. the white house late friday stressed no final language has yet been written. a white house spokesperson in a statement saying, quote, the president has been reviewing all of the various legislative proposals but no decision has been made about whether formal legislation will be presented. sources close to the process again say the plan is still unclear but it is a sign the president, in addition to wednesday's speech as we talked about, is ready to get more involved. brooke? >> big news here coming from the administration, so i imagine republicans must be reacting. they talked about health care in their weekly address. what are they saying this morning? >> they're basically saying as

congress is getting ready to return, they think it's time to press the reset button is. in the republican address this morning, minnesota congressman john kline said the goal of reform should be to fix what's broken in the health care system and preserve what works well. and he says he doesn't think that's what's happening in the democratic plans so far. listen here. >> our plan is designed to make health care foreaffordable, reduce the number of uninsured americans and increase quality at a price our country can afford. we'll make sure americans who like their health care coverage can keep it. a stark contrast with the democrats' plan, which the congressional budget office has said will shift millions of americans out of their current coverage. >> many republicans are strongly opposed to the government-run public option that is the core of the democratic proposals in the house. at the same time in the senate we're told the attempt at bipartisan negotiation continues. senator max baucus and the so-called bipartisan gang of six held a conference call yesterday

in preparation of returning to washington after the holiday. and in a statement, chairman baucus said the group is going to sit down tuesday, take stock of where they are and determine how to best pass real reform, brooke. he said, quote, i'm committed to getting health care reform done, done soon and done right. this is all, of course, push being forward to the big speech wednesday when we're expecting to hear in understandable clear terms what the white house and president want in this reform. >> right. a lot of people waiting and hoping for specifics mapping out that strategy. a lot of people waiting to hear the words public option. we'll have to wait and see. kate bolduan for us in washington. again, just a reminder here, the president will be resetting his strategy on health care reform next week. kate said it, he's addressing the joint session of congress wednesday night and, of course, you can watch all of that right here on cnn. also, analysis from the best political team on tv, 8:00 eastern time here on cnn. >> did you hear her? she said in understandable, clear terms we're going to hear this wednesday. >> that's the wording from the

vice president. and some are saying it could be a risk, depending on how specific he get. you have blue dog democrats, republicans not sure about what some of what he's said before. >> understandable and clear. >> we'll see. >> we will hold him to that. all right. meanwhile, the unemployment numbers staggering, of course. overall the economy, however smshgs would say is looking up. we will look at the big picture. welcome to the now network. right now five coworkers

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a new and critical juncture for cooperation in the global economy. there is no cause for this, and this is not the time for economic complacency or for overconfidence. >> why the leaders of the g-20 nations plan to meet in pittsburgh at the end of this month. one condition facing all of them, we know this, continuing loss of jobs. here in the united states, unemployment is really at the highest level here in about 26 years. but that they say is not the whole picture. here now, cnn's allan chernoff. >> ladies and gentlemen -- >> reporter: joel johnson is working part time renting bicycles when he would rather have a full-time job. but he hasn't been able to find one. >> i need a full-time job. right now, if i can find a full-time job, i will be the happiest man in the world but i can't find it. >> reporter: 9 million americans share johnson's problems, they're underemployed. but since they have some work, they're not included in the unemployment rate of 9.7%. >> nobody want to hire.

very very tough right now. >> reporter: the fact that the unemployment picture remains awful is increasingly frustrating for job hunters because there are signs the economy is emerging from recession. home sales are up, manufacturing sales and shipments are improving and consumer confidence is rising. as the economy improves, more americans should re-enter the job market. but there's typically a lag before employers have enough confidence to begin hiring again. >> as demand begins to surprise them to the upside, they make everybody who's working for them currently work more and then only when the demand outstrips what they could possibly produce do they begin to actually hire people. >> reporter: a ray of hope in the unemployment picture is job losses are diminishing. the august loss was the smallest in a year. >> that isn't something that i want to stand up and scream for joy but i do want to say that

there is some moderation occurring here. >> reporter: the stock market is jumping for joy. have a look at that increase all the way since march. what's going on here? the stock market always looks forward, while the employment picture, well, that's a lagging indicator. economists say come next year, the employment picture will pick up, it will improve, and the economy will actually be creating jobs instead of losing them. allan chernoff, cnn, new york. >> even as jobless worries linger, economists think the u.s. may finally be inching its way out of the recession. but does the public agree with that? cnn's deputy political director and friend of our show on cnn saturday and sunday morning, paul stein howser has a closer look at what americans see with the economy. how are we right now? glass half empty or half full? >> i think they agree with allan chernoff there. you heard it in his piece, people are frustrated about a lack of jobs. t.j., we had a new cnn poll out this week, nearly nine out of ten said we were in a recession.

look at this number here too. we asked how are things going in the country today? you can see there on the bottom, seven out of ten americans say things are going badly. i guess they're not optimistic. but is there a silver lining is this this -- lining? you can see it's a lot lower than last november. maybe people are becoming slightly a little more optimistic, t.j. >> i will tell you about somebody who is optimistic, the vice president. he was talking about the recovery plan. let's take a listen. >> the recovery act has played a significant role in changing the trajectory of our economy and changing the conversation about the economy in this country. instead of talking about the beginning of a depression, we're talking about the end of a recession eight months after taking office. >> all righty. sounded pretty optimistic. sounded like he was certainly trying to get the administration take credit for what's happening with the economy. do americans want to give the obama administration credit?

>> our poll suggests maybe not. check out this other number from the same survey, nag survey, we asked are the president's plan on the economy, his policies, have they approved the economy? four in ten say yes. a third said it made things worse and about a quarter say, no effect whatsoever as of right now. the other thing, t.j., our poll suggested a slight majority still approve of what the president is doing, his plans on the economy. but that number as well is going down, t.j. >> all right. paul steinhauser breaking down the numbers for us as always. we appreciate it. good to see you. >> thank you. a georgia man who called 911 to report his entire family was killed in their mobile home, he is now charged with their murders. his name, guy heinze jr., who was arrested yesterday on eight counts of first degree murder. one of the victims was his own father. police have not released a motive. a massive california wildfire burning north of l.a. finding new fuel to burn now. it is creeping deeper they say into dry forest to the east.

but firefighters have also been making progress. the latest number we have as far as containment, 42%, the station fire, 42% contained. more than 76 homes have been destroyed. president obama said he wants to make it easier for americans to save for retirement. during his weekly address, the president said the federal government is taking steps to allow people to have their federal tax refunds sent as savings bonds. and other initiatives that automatically enrolls employees into employer-run savings plan unless the individual decides to opt out. we get another check of the top stories in about 20 minutes. investigators in afghanistan are on the scene right now, and they want to know what really happened in a nato air strike there that's believed to have killed civilians. welcome to the now network. right now five coworkers

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when it comes to the mission in afghanistan, should we or should we not send in more troops? the top service member of the armeded services committee said president obama might have trouble getting troops in afghanistan. carl levin said the u.s. should focus more on building up afghanistan's own security first. levin just returnford a two-day trip to that region, and they're currently about 60,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan right now. new information on a nato air strike in northern afghanistan. associated press reporting that the top u.s. commander there has now confirmed civilians were wounded. that air strike was supposed to target taliban fighters. we are live from the afghan capital. give us the very latest. we are trying to figure out who exactly was injured and killed

in this nato strike? >> that seems to be what everyone's trying to figure out right now. investigates sr. under way in this nato air strike that targeted the two fuel tankers who were hijacked by the taliban. afghan government officials telling us 90 people were killed, dozens of civilians and dozens of taliban as well. investigations as i said are under way when it comes to the international security force, isf. let's listen to what they had to say. >> there were two bottoms dropped on that area. we need to discover what really happened, what people were there, what local villagers might have been affected by this. we're trying to learn and understand. we're listening. >> president karzai also sending up an envoy to northern afghanistan to investigate on the afghan government's behalf.

we have seen civilian casualties from air strikes. we have seen both sides performing separate investigations. the interesting thing will be when the investigations come in and what the numbers will be, how many civilians were killed, how many were injured, how many were taliban? we usually see differing numbers when it comes to the afghan investigation and the coalition investigation. let's also remember the commander of ifas forces, billy mccrystal, two months ago sent out a new directive not to target militants if they are in the vicinity of civilians. right now their most poimportan goal at the moment is win over afghan support. >> ti waxt, we appreciate you as always. a firestorm over a speech that hasn't even happened yet. why are parents so much in arms about their children hearing what the president has to say about education? you like your health coverage, but worry what happens...

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but the question is, will parents still led their kids listen? here's our own tom foreman. >> reporter: call it a fast lesson in public pushback. the president's plan to speak to school kids on tuesday has some conservative parents saying he's trying to brainwash his kids into buying his politics. >> thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that, it just really upsets. >> mick politics is up to the family. >> i don't know. right now i would say no, i'll keep them home. >> across the country many school districts are enl couraging children to watch. in new orleans t. will be required but that's an exception. in some states schools decided to either not show the speech, review it first or make viewing optional. some cite schedule conflicts and technical difficulties but this

is not what the white house expected. the president's speech will focus on keeping kids in school, a subject he's promoted before. >> unfortunately nearly 30% of u.s. high school students aren't making it to graduation. >> reporter: but the core complaint seems to be with supplementary teaching materials from the department of education. originally they called for students to write, quote, what they can do to help the president. the white house has since changed that, suggesting the children now write about their own educational goals. furthermore, the text of the president's speech will now be put online monday, so any teacher, parent or politician can preview what's going to be said. plenty seem fine with that, including the national president of the pta. >> we have an opportunity here in the united states for parents, teachers and students to take part in a tremendous civics lesson. >> reporter: still, just like the crowds at all of those town hall meetings, others are far

from satisfied. >> my rights as a parent are being circumvented so this doesn't speak to my children. >> reporter: and they clearly resent the notion that they are unfairly questioning the president's motives. >> education matters, and what you do today and what you don't do can change your future. >> reporter: after all, they point out, when the first president bush spoke to school kids on tv in 1991, top democrats called that just political advertising on the taxpayer's dime. tom foreman, cnn, washington. >> and if you would like to, you can watch the president's full address to the nation's school children on tuesday. it starts at noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific and, of course, watch it all right here on cnn. >> well, kind of curious now, even if you weren't even into it or thinking about it.

all of this hubbub about a speech makes you want to watch. >> makes you want to watch. >> we will be watching that next week. right noushgs let's taw, let's weather. not too controversial, hopefully? >> no, hopefully. >> let's show you what's happening in the nation's capital. we will get things started in washington, d.c. here's a live shot of the capital building. high temperature going up to 87 degrees but with the high humidity, it will feel much warmer. shot over to the white house shows the flags are moving a little bit, faint breeze also. upper 80s can be expected there. now, in terms of the national perspective, take a look at this. 87 as we mentioned in washington, d.c., 85 in atlanta, 87 in memphis. 94 in billings and 89 degrees in salt lake city, 100 for las vegas. but in spots like memphis, where it's 87 degrees, you might cool down rather quickly. one of the reasons why you may be cooling down rather quickly is simple -- we've got some rain that will be popping up across parts of the midwest and mid-mississippi valley.

scattered showers and storms here. not severe but these rain makers, rain-cooled air when it hits the surface can drop temperatures 10 to 15 degrees. a little bit of a cooldown to say the least. something else we will be seeing today. we will be seeing great conditions along the coast, especially in the southeast off cape hatteras. water temperatures into the 70s. plenty of sunshine along hilton head. when you get your way down to daytona and back into the south beach, scattered showers possible there. let's go further to the north, heading down to the beach say in providence, southampton or into cape may, mix of sunshine and clouds. water temperatures, as you can imagine, will be a little colder. that gulf stream as it travels north begins to fizzle out. you don't have the same influence of the warm water. 65 in parts of provincetown. shots we have in centennial park. i believe we have alabama fans there. just a few of them. is that espn's "gameday"? i think they're getting ready

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checking the top stories now, better training and resources for afghan troops before sending more americans to fight the taliban. that is exactly what senator carl levin, chairman of the arm services committee, says he will suggest to president obama after levin's visit to afghanistan this past week. and just one week after 22-year-old guy heinze jr. alerted police of the brutal slaughter in his own mobile home, police in brunswick, georgia, charged him with eight counts of first degree murder. seven of the victims are being buried today. we heard about the h1n1

virus for the first time just months ago. now a new white house report warnes up to 50% of the u.s. population could be infected by the virus by winter. president obama says he wants to be ready with answers before that ever happens. >> we're also making steady progress on developing a safe and effective h1n1 flu vaccine, and we expect a flu shot program will begin soon. this program will be completely voluntary, but it will be strongly recommended. >> well, dr. beth bell, an epidemiologist with the cdc joins me now. ma'am, thank you for being here. we just heard the president say there we are making steady progress on developing a safe and effective vaccine for this h1n1. how close are we to having a safety and effective vaccine right now? >> the clinical trials are going on right now, and we are anticipating that vaccine should be available by mid-october. we are working as fast as we

possibly can. we know people are eager to receive the vaccine. so we are focusing on getting this done as soon as possible to make sure that we do have a safe and effective vaccine. >> you feel pretty good that you're working on something you say trial. you think you'll have one by october or so. it sounds like you have something at least you believe will be effective? >> yes, these vaccines are being made in a way that's very well known to us, it's very similar to the way we make seasonal influenza vaccines. as you probably know, more than 100 million people receive seasonal influenza vaccines each year. so we have every expectation that we will have a safe and effective vaccine. >> dr. bell, tell us, there's a lot of talk out there about once a vaccine comes out, what it will look like. it wil will it be one vaccine or will people need two separate shots? which way are we leaning on that? >> that's one of the big questions we expect to answer with the clinical trials. we think probably at least some people, maybe children, will

need two doses of the vaccine but we really won't know for sure until we look at all of the study data when the clinical trials are completed. >> dr. bell, how problematic will that be if people need one shot and have to go back to get a second and i guess they're not fully covered or protected against this until later in the year. we could be going for another month or two or maybe beyond with everyone running around in this country still not -- not necessarily immune but with no resistance to the swine flu. >> well, you know, even now with the seasonal influenza vaccine, children 9 years and younger do need two doses. so it's not surprising that some people might need two doses of the new vaccine as well. you flow, this 2009 h1n1 really has not gone away at all since it first appeared in the spring. we continue to see activity throughout the camps. now that school is starting, i think we can expect to see disease increasing and actually even now in the southeastern

part of the country, where schools opened a few weeks ago, we are starting to see increases in disease activity in many parts of the southeast. >> so do you think that is directly the cause of some -- i was going to ask you where we're seeing it, but some of the locations we're seeing it, do we attribute that to the fact people are starting to do back to school? >> one thing about influenza is it's fairly unpredictable. we've always seen variation across the country in terms of what areas have a lot of disease at any particular time. it's hard to be sure of exactly why disease appears to be increasing right now in the southeast. but certainly possible that one factor might be the school is open just a few weeks ago. >> one thing here, and i want you to break this down as simply as possible. this is on the minds of a lot of people. just a simple way to break it down. i don't get the flu vaccine every year. i know i should. i should get a flu shot. i fought the flu last year. i fought it off, drank my fluids and got rest and i was fine. if i don't get a swine flu

vaccine, h1n1 vaccine, and i happen god forbid to get h1n1, will my body be able to fight it off just the same way as the seasonal flu, or do i have more to worry about? >> you know, anybody can get very ill from seasonal flu, although most people do fine. and it seems that things are fairly similar in terms of the 2009 h1n1. >> okay. a lot of people, we're trying to educate folks because a lot of people seem to be certainly are and should be concerned but we don't want everybody to be necessarily just alarmed at the same time. we appreciate you coming on and continue to educate us about this. thank you so much, dr. bell. >> thank you so much for having me. high-end fashion, pretty big business, right? but it's hit a snap during the recession. i will take you inside a new york design house that is trying to make due with a whole lot less. costs over $10. but blue bunny ice cream and toppings from walmart cost less. make ice cream treats at home just three times a month instead,

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you may know associate the bright lights, big city nature of new york with being a bastion for manufacturing jobs but it is if you step into manhattan's garment district. but as i recently discovered, thanks to this whole downturn with the economy, the apparel industry's manufacturing sector is really starting to unravel. in new york's world of high-end faction, big-brand designers mean billions of dollars in business. but before the catwalks and cash come the clothes, cut and sewn by hand by thousands in manhattan's garment district. timmy rosales has made a career here for the last 15 years. his pay, almost $12.50 an hour. but with slumping sales in a down economy, the city's apparel industry has hit a snag. in the last year and a half, rosales' factory has slashed its staff by 60%.

>> this busy time? >> it should be, but we are not. >> reporter: i see machine oefrz there that are dark? >> yeah, because we have to move people and put it closer and try to save electricity because there's no work. >> reporter: manhattan's garment district is home to about a third of new york's 29,000 apparel manufacturing jobs. nationwide, the number of jobs in that sector has fallen by more than 60%. >> now that the business is shrinking -- >> reporter: factory owner tony singh fears his business may go the same way. he says the recession, rising rent and cheap overseas labor are destroying jobs in the garment district. only 3% of clothing sold in the state is made in the usa. >> it is tough because they're sending most of the work overseas like china, indonesia, india, and those places. that's why the business is, you know, they're going more for cheaper labor. that's why there's not enough work in the united states. >> reporter: manhattan's apparel

manufacturers see their future in high end, small batch production, that designers don't want to send overseas. it's work that would preserve the now 9,000 manufacturing jobs in the garment district. >> those workers are the one that's really this industry, and without the workers, we really won't have an industry. >> reporter: workers like timmy rosales. >> this what is i learned. this is what i love. i love to do this job. >> reporter: who hopes his job will survive both this economic unraveling and a global shift. and keep manhattan at the heart of this billion dollar fashion industry. you know, fashion week, you're kind of hip on this, right? >> am i? yes. >> it would be fun to go. >> it would, yes. >> you know what, this is the time of year when typically the sewors, pattern makers, machine operators, are so busy because they're making the spring collection to debut and they are not busy at all.

so it's so tough for them right now. just a group of people you don't often think about. >> this is supposed to be the time for them. this would be the biggest time of year. >> you got it. >> you hate to hear that. it's hitting everybody. you don't think about it but yeah, even the fashion world. >> i know. fredericka. >> it's sad. i have a tidbit to offer on that. a lot of high end stores that are used to selling a lot of the upper echelon kind of priced things, they even cut back on their stockpile because the recession has hit even though some will argue that 1% of america, the wealthy america, it hasn't hit them like it has the rest of the people but a lot of the stores are stocking less. because they don't want to -- 75% markdowns later. well, also, this season -- >> hello, by the way. >> i'm sorry. i kind of barged in on your conversation. >> no, no, no. >> we like it. >> coming up in the noon eastern hour, schools, colleges across the country, this is the time of year not only going back to school, but a lot of the

football athletes, the college level and high school athletes, are heading to the fields there. it's very hot which also underscores a case now in court this week. we're talking about a family pitted against a kentucky coach. the family, their 15-year-old died of possibly heat stroke. they're in court right now and so lots of reminders going out to school districts across the country about the dangers of working out in the heat. also in the noon eastern hour, a prelude to our big kahoona at the 4:00 eastern hour. we will focus on the h1n1 virus, all the things you need to know about how to protect yourself this fall and winter. we're already seeing a pretty high number of cases, more than 500 cases across the country already. we're all having to be cognizant of what to do, how to be safe, the vaccine that might be available come mid-october. >> or two? is that right? >> might have to take two. >> everything you wanted to know. we'll start talking about it in

the noon eastern hour as well. >> got a lot of questions. looking forward to it. good to see you. >> send your questions to my blog. >> we'll do that. he's always tweeting. >> can i just ask you? >> okay. >> thank you. see you here in just a minute. well, we here are still taking the pulse of how people feel about health care reform. ali velshi hit the road and he is finding out exactly what people are saying during his last stop on the cnn express. he ran off with his secretary! she's 23 years old!

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all across the u.s., you have been sharing your views about health care reform, whether you're for it, you're against it.

ali velshi has gotten an earful, i think. >> he stopped the cnn express at a health care town hall in madison, wisconsin. take a listen. >> reporter: on this trip around america, what we found is that the conversation tends to revolve around the economy or health care. those two topics came together in evansville, indiana, where whirlpool has announced it's shutting down a refrigerator plant and moving much of that manufacturing down to mexico. even though people there were very concerned about the economy and about trade, the conversation still gravitated back to health care reform. >> health care to me is a moral issue and it's a civil right. we need to move with the rest of the developed world and have a real health care program. >> reporter: let me get a sense of that from you. how many people think that the administration is on the right path with respect to health care reform? roughly on the right path? how many of you think the

administration is not on the right path with health care reform? okay. one of you want to tell me about that? >> i disagree that health care is a civil right. i think it's a civil right to be able to keep your own income and buy with it what you want, and i think the health care crisis is highly overexaggerated. it's not something that the government should be running. and i'm sorry that people are going to be out of health care, but everybody has been at one time or another and you go out and you build yourself back up again and you get it. but it's not everybody else's responsibility to give it to everybody else. >> we pay 17% of our gross national product for health care. canada pays 9% and covers everybody. we leave all these people uncovered. 20,000 people die every year because they don't have insurance. this is a real number. that's more than six times as many as died in 9/11 and it's happening every year. >> reporter: do you think health care is the biggest issue facing us right now?

put up your hands if you think that health care's the biggest problem facing us. one of. okay. i'll give you another option. how many of you think jobs, unemployment, how many of you think that's a bigger problem? okay. some of you voted twice. >> yeah, we did. >> i got to say, once we get past this socialist smokescreen that we hear so much about, anything that any government does is socialist, okay? let's at least on the health care, why don't we at least give catastrophic coverage to young families? you go to any store or gas station, you walk in, there's some poor young family got a little 4-year-old daughter dying of leukemia. insurance is not covering the care for her. what they have to have charity benefits, ask for donations. if on the 5:30 news, we can brag about million dollar weapons systems, why can't we help save our dying children? at least.