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the victims is now charged in this case. plus, a terrifying sight off the coast of cape cod. several large sharks, including a great white. we've got the video and reaction. i'm richard lui. don lemon is off today. it is the unofficial last weekend of summer, and these next few days in washington could amount to the quiet before a major political storm. president obama plans a prime time address to congress next week on what's shaping up to be the biggest battle yet over the make or break issue of health care reform. kate bolduan says the president may be working on a new strategy. >> reporter: cnn has learned the white house is quietly talking about drafting its own health care bill, a sort of contingency legislation if talks fall you a part on capitol hill. the white house late friday did stress that no final language has yet been written. a spokesperson saying in a

statement, quote, the president has been reviewing all the various vege l various legislative proposals, but no decision has been made about whether formal legislation will be presented. the plan is still unclear but yet another sign that the president is getting more involved. >> certainly. with that development, kate, any idea what might be included in this right now although few details are available? >> few details are available, but we are hearing the key to this is that the white house is leaning against including the public option in their draft and leaning more towards something like a trigger option. this is an idea that moderate republican senator olympia snowe has long pushed for. it comes down to the public option would not be triggered unless insurance companies neglected to make necessary reforms. reforms like stopping the practice of using pre-existing conditions to deny coverage. and cnn has also learned the obama administration could send such a plan to the hill sometime

after the president's speech to congress next week. >> kate, as you know, and you have been covering so many plans out there, not only on the gop side but also democratic plans and now this coming from the white house, what does this say about how they're getting along with the democratic side and how the talks are going on with congress? >> well, it is quite interesting because we are told that the senate negotiations that were really key, that they are continuing. 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 he says he is committed to getting health care done soon and done right. and sources are now telling my colleague, dana bash, that chairman baucus could distribute a proposal among these five other negotiators as early as today. so they definitely are making a move and see this is moved into kind of an urgent season in terms of this debate. >> on our top story kate

bolduan, washington, d.c., quite a development. the white house doing to be releasing its own idea of health care reform in a plan. thanks so much, kate. >> thanks. they are angry related to the story kate is tells us about, and they want their voices to be heard. critics are a week into their tea party bus tour which began in california and wraps up in the nation's capital september 12th. cnn all platform journalist jim spellman caught up with the group in san antonio. >> are you ready for a tea party? >> i see the things that the obama administration, the democratic congress are doing, it's really threatening the future of this country. >> i believe he's trouncing the constitution. >> question everything our government is doing. >> there's something happening. we don't know quite what it is, but it's happening, and people who ordinarily wouldn't turn out into the streets to protest are turning out into the streets to protest. >> we're the sleeping giant that has been awakened.

>> coming to you on a silver platter. barack hussein obama. he ain't my president, people. >> how dare they give tens of trillions of dollars to banks. >> it feels very grassroots to me, and i love that quality. >> some are feeling that they're losing control of the government, that the government is taking over control, that we're headed to socialism and i don't want this to be a communist socialist nation. that's what our troops died for. so we would not be enslaved by the nazis or communists. >> i have the right for the government not to control my health care and my -- >> and i have the right to disagree with you, sir. >> i like the person they're going to say take a pill and go die. >> mr. president, mr. reid, miss pelosi, support our troops in the united states military! >> i sing it all night long, you ain't nothing but a hound dog, obama, telling us all these

lies. >> jim spellman joins me by phone from louisville, kentucky. some of those protesters fairly angry in your piece, words like nazi, afro, terrorism, those are just some of the things i pulled from what your piece had. who are these protesters? do they all sound like this? >> well, you know, people are out here, they're real passionate and venting a lot of anger with this administration over a range of issues, not just hk. t the bailouts. and the demonstrations have all been peaceful, you really do see a lot of swastika, nazi imagery on signs. most of the people are fairly normal people that are here, working people that are fed up with feeling like the government is running away without -- going out of control without them having any say in it, richard. >> let's get practical. any suggestions you have heard from this group? >> well, you know, the first

goal they're going to try to do is have a part of stopping this haek refo health care reform. beyond that issue the organizers want to take this relative anarchy of these tea party events and harness it into a more lasting political movement. they know they're going to have to have a politician of some sort, and i tell you there's only one name when you ask people who they want and it's sarah palin this. crowd is really going nuts for her. people will be chanting sarah, sarah. the organizers sent out an invitation to her if she wants to come to one of the events. no word from her if she's going to. you never know, i suppose, with sarah palin if she'll show up or not. that's what's happening right now on the tea party express. >> jim spellman, our all platform journalist on a bus with the tea party express as they make their way to washington, d.c. thanks for the latest. there's another nationwide

bus tour out there supporting the obama administration's health care reform plans on the other side of what jim spellman was telling us about. this group is backed by an arm of the democratic national committee. it has attracted supporters such as dr. tenecia richmond, a pod tryst who says she cannot afford health insurance. >> i couldn't afford to pay for my medications, my doctor's visits and also pay the premium for the health insurance. >> the pro health care reform tour began last week in phoenix and just wrapped up its first leg in raleigh, north carolina. we continue to follow that story. cnn will carry the president's health care reform address to congress live wednesday night at 8:00 eastern. okay. now let's take to you london where the economy of bonuses for bankers are the big issues at a meeting of g-20 finance ministers. the officials, including u.s. treasury secretary tim geithner, represent the world's 20 largest and fastest growing economies. our own richard quest is there

as well. richard, what are you hearing and what have you learned so far after speaking with tim geithner? >> the communique was released and we now know that the g-20 ministers, what they are essentially doing is preparing the ground for the leaders summit which will be the pittsburgh summit taking place later in the year -- later in this month i should say, september, hosted by president obama. on this particular occasion they really first of all had to decide what is the strength of the global economy? is it time to start taking back some of that stimulus that is just washing the world with billions, if not trillions, of dollars? tim geithner, the u.s. treasury secretary said there is a recovery, but it's certainly not time to think about taking anything off the table. >> we have brought the world economy back from the edge of the abyss and you are starting to see the necessary conditions for a recovery, but we don't have recovery yet. we have growth under way, but we

don't yet have the conditions for a self-sustaining recovery led by private demand, which is what we're all committed to achieve. >> if there is one issue that is bedevilling them at the moment, it is the question of bankers bonuses. what compensation should bankers get so they keep being innovative and keep pushing forward but they don't take unnecessary risks? the french had wanted caps on salaries. the americans and the british didn't want that. in the end the g-20 has agreed that bonuses should be related to future earnings and income and the success of a company but substantially if companies failed then there could be clawbacks. this was a big development in terms of dealing with the bonus issue. >> there is no risk that we will -- can afford and will allow conditions to go back to

what they were in the peak of the boom. >> but the speed at which they've gone back to their sorts -- >> haven't gone back yet -- >> on the way. >> haven't gone back yet. i think it's important it not happen again. you are going to see very significant reforms in compensation practice across the major financial centers and one thing we did today, which is very important, reach agreement on a common framework and commit ourselves to make sure we're going to apply those standards on an even basis across our countries. >> so as you look at it now, richard, the scene is getting set for pittsburgh. over the last 12 months the leaders, whether in washington, brazil, in london, they have pushed the world through the crisis. now they have to decide what's next? do they risk inflation or do they risk double dip recession? >> and as they make that calculation here, richard, one of the big indicators is unemployment. not only in the united states with recent reports out the end of this last week, at 9.7%, but

also for instance in europe. take a look at spain. 1 in 5 are unemployed. what was the sort of sense of confidence behind unemployment that you got from your discussions? >> there's a perversion in the unemployment numbers in that every economist knows it's a lagging indicator. it's the tail of the recession. so even when we start growing again, unemployment will continue to rise. it's the last number that turns around. i asked tim geithner, i really tried to push the treasury secretary when will it turn around? and he was quite blunt, he said he would not give a forecast. he never gives a forecast. i was just basically trying my luck more than anything else, but substantially we will see unemployment rise in the major economies until the end of this year. it will be the it probabprobabl beginning -- in the united states the economy grows at 2.5% to 3%.

to get unemployment down, the economy will have to be growing in excess of 3% and 4%. >> to catch up. richard quest, live in london with the latest speaking with tim geithner, the treasury secretary as they had a g-20 meeting leading up to pittsburgh. thank you very much, richard. now we take you to south georgia. the latest on the shocking story we've been telling you for one week now funerals today for the victims of a mass killing last weekend. a ninth victim, a 3-year-old girl, is on life support right now. police have not revealed how the victims were killed. only saying that it was an especially brutal crime. well, last night police charged 22-year-old guy heinze, jr. with killing six family mex and two family friends. heinze had been released from jail on drug charges and was out only 90 minutes before police rearrested him on first-degree murder charges. you can see the tracking device on his ankle there. in western pennsylvania a tragic end in the frantic hunt for a missing 4-year-old boy.

wyatt's body was found stuffed in a neighbor's septic tank. one person is in custody right now but no charges have been filed in this as of yet. the search began last night when the little boy did not come home after playing outside with his two sisters. a news conference is set for this hour. we'll bring you any new developments right here on cnn. a totally different outcome in the case of a missing boy in southern illinois. police there in the small town of royalton searched the home of the boy's grandmother and found the 6-year-old boy and his mother living in a small secret room in the house. they apparently had been hiding there for nearly two years. shannon wilfong is in custody. she and her son disappeared in november of 2007 in the middle of a bitter custody dispute. the boy's father said he would not have wished the last two years on anyone. >> their efforts were diligent and i owe them a debt of gratitu

gratitude. the greatest trial will be the reintegration of my son. that's going to be the challenge. >> the name ricboy a peers to b healthy. a marine is killed in afghanistan and the associated press's decision to release his photo showing injuries is fueling a debate. also last week phillip garrido offered some startling advice to a woman printing flyers on how to keep kids safe. s and then there was the stuff he wanted... like a new microwave. and because of walmart's unbeatable prices, we were able to get it all. ...and then some. set them up for success-- for less.

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in afghanistan the nato team is now officially investigating an air strike that killed taliban militants and an unknown number of civilians. a u.s. fighter plane launched the strike yesterday. reports say up to 90 people were killed in this incident. nato says it was targeting taliban militants but local afghan officials say civilians were trying to get fuel from the trucks when the attack occurred. now, today general sally mcchrystal visited the attack site and a hospital where the wounded were taken. before the attack mcchrystal had issued order restricting the use of air power if civilian lives were at risk. two u.s. soldiers were killed in afghanistan today bringing the number killed this month to at least four. this comes on the heels of the deadliest month yet for u.s.

troops, 52 died in august. and now a new controversy involving a photograph of a u.s. marine killed in afghanistan last month. cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence has more on that. >> reporter: when the taliban m ambushed a marine bunker last we week. >> i can promise you if it was their son or daughter they wouldn't do it. >> on the phone i spoke with corporal bernard's father. >> i think they were given a privilege by being assigned to that specific unit and that they were privileged to be there when my son was called home. and i think they abused that trust. >> defense secretary robert gates himself, quote, begged the ap not to release it. and in a letter to the company's president called the decision appalling. the controversy comes just as president obama considers the possibility of deploying more american troops to afghanistan.

the photo was actually one of many captured by a photographer embedded in corporal bernard's unit, including later scenes of fellow marines honoring him. the ap says bernard's death shows his sacrifice for his country and releasing the photo was not an easy decision. quote, we feel it is our journalistic duty to show the reality of the war there. however unpleasant and brutal that sometimes is. cnn has chosen not to show the photo out of respect to the wishes of the family. some newspapers ran it. others refused to. one media critic says he would not have run the photo, but -- >> that's exactly why some younger people say they don't consume the mainstream media and they go online, they don't want gate keepers and filters and people telling them what they should see. >> reporter: the picture is just one part of a nearly 2,000-word story that the ap told. it includes an interview with the corporal's father, an ex-marine who complained about

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turning now to the abduction of jaycee dugard. her long time captor phillip garrido ran a small printing business from his home in antioch, california. one of the jobs he did was printing flyers on how to protect children from predators. now, the woman behind that effort, a long-time customer of garridos, said he had lots of practical tips. >> he was telling me that i had left something out, you know. next time you might want to put in children should never go to a bus stop by themselves. you tell people to send them to

send their kids in a group, have them all walk together. he said that doesn't even matter because if the pedophile, and i can't be sure that's the word he used, i just don't remember, wants a child, he'll walk up to the group and they'll scatter and they will just grab one. >> shocking and ironic certainly as you listen to this. this sensational case has heightened awareness to the presence of sex offenders living all over the country. one might be next door or down the street. josh levs is here to show us some websites that you can sign up and track sex offenders and they will alert you when one moves nearby. josh, what do you have for us? >> there are some you pay for and some that are free. here is what i'm going to do. i will show you some major websites right now that people use. you don't need to write anything down. at the end of this i'll show you one place where you can link to all of it. this is familysafetyreport.com. this is initially free then it becomes about 30 bucks a month. they will send you an alert if someone who is registered as a sex offender moves into your area or any area you said you're concerned about. it might be where a niece or

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i posted it everywhere. facebook.com and twitter.com/joshlevscnn. we're showing people these sites and asking them which of these work for you. you let us know. we're curious to hear your reactions. based on that we will be back and people say this one is working or not working so well. >> one of the parts of the story is the outrage. we see a possibility and capabilities like those websites you show us, is there concern or heard anything discussed on vig vig vigilantes? >> you hear them judicially. there are some people out there who argue once a person has served their time, they should no longer be branded n. in some cases websites have been brought to court. we are seeing this continuously post. there's even a law that kicked in recently that there was a

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president obama plans to give a speech tuesday at a high school in virginia. it's billed as a back to school inspiration, utterly nonpartisan, a call to work hard, set goals, be all that you can be. now, the white house is calling on schools to show this speech live in classrooms but some conservatives and parents are livid over this idea. john roberts reports for us. >> my rights as a parent are being circumvent. >> reporter: there's a lot of anger over the president's upcoming speech. the department of education says the goal is to challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility for their learning. but along with that came some suggestions for teachers. lesson plans asking opportunities to, quote, write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president. that's where the trouble started. and the head of florida's republican party didn't hold back. >> the parents across this

country and the uproar that occurred, the department of education withdrew all of that language last night. >> reporter: and greer didn't stop there. in a letter he charges the president was going to use the speech to sell his policies saying, quote, president obama has turned to america's children to spread his liberal lies, indoctrinating america's youngest children before they have a chance to decide for themselves. the response from the left? it's not about the lesson plans or the speech, but politics. >> was there a little bit of a problem there with the additional materials that were provided to go alightning with the president's speech? >> no, it's not a problem. what you have is you have some insane parents who want to bring their ideology into the table. why is it -- i didn't see people sitting here saying when president george w. bush went to read to students, i want to see what book he's reading. i want to pull my kids out because i'm a democrat and he's a republican. this is nonsense. >> reporter: the department of education has changed the lesson

plans now. instead, suggesting students write letters to themselves about how they can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals. some school districts in texas, illinois, minnesota, missouri, virginia, and wisconsin have decided not to show the speech. and other schools will let parents keep their kids out of the classroom during the speech if they want. many parents are even considering keeping their kids home from school altogether on tuesday. >> i may have voted for mccain and bush in the past. i wouldn't want them speaking to my student or your student or anybody else's student for that matter, their child. politic sincerely totally up to the family. >> will i send my child? i don't know. right now i'd say no. i'll keep him home. >> john roberts, cnn, new york. >> owe president george w. bushd to children and talked to no children left behind in 2006. his father also gave a speech to schools in 1991 that was similar to what president obama is

planning now. it, too, drew criticism with democrats comparing it to a campaign commercial. and then president reagan in '88, he talked policy with junior high students at the white house including some tax cuts. let's talk more about this right now. joining us with their take on the president's speech to school kids, we have alexander hefner, the editor in chief of scoop 4 and lenny mccalster with loop 22.com and author. and alexander, we'll start with you, what do you make over the debate regarding the president's speech? >> i think the president wanted to revitalize service in america and encourage civic work, and that was his plan all along. the lesson and curriculum, they don't have any kind of political bent or leaning. yes, the president might have encouraged students to write the president. he could have said write your congressman or senator. it could have been a little bit sketched out differently, but

the motivation behind this was a back to school motivational booster for students. >> okay. a booster that is being seen possibly as indoctrinization of the children. let's go to lenny. that's been the criticism so far. >> and i can see conservatives' point of view in regards to the timing of this. granted it's at the beginning of the school year, but it's also at a point in time when the president's approval ratings are going down. he's losing grip with the youth and with ind pen debts. so it can be deseen as politica it's also an issue of conservatives being conservative when they want to be. we as conservatives constantly say the family is the number one factor over children. if that is the case, this is a great opportunity for america's school children to engage their president, get some civic pride, and then have them come home and have the real discussions about politics because let's be frank, if it's not happening at home, that's where we lose either way. there should be no person, whether it's the president, a celebrity, or an athlete, that has more inflens over the

upbringing and molding of young minds coming through the school age than patientrents. it's the situation conservatives need to trust themselves more. >> great segue, parents, and they're speaking out. let's listen to a couple that are talking about this speech. >> i'm not happy about it. they are totally disregarding what the parents have the right to do and what their children should be seeing, and it's totally cutting the parent out of the picture. >> this is crossing a line, and i'm going to use an ugly word right now, but i believe a fascist line that the president has no right whatsoever to go into these pre-k to sixth grade children and try to somehow sell his agenda. >> let's go over now to lenny mccal stkacaccallister. >> let's be honest, he's the president of the united states. he's the first african-american president of the united states. he's the first minority

president of the united states. he should be inspirational, and if we can use the office of the presidency to start inspiring some civic pride from our youth because that's what we're going to need if we're going to rebuild this country, they're the ones that are paying the taxes for what we're spending. they have to at least believe in america. there's nothing wrong with encouraging that, but from there again, the parents should be able to be involved, talk about their political philosophies, whether they agree or disagree with the president, so that this is nothing more than a historical day in a plethora of days that these kids will remember throughout their childhood ages. >> let me cut in for a second. i think lenny is right. the president has a very compelling voice as the commander in chief of this country and parents have a role, too, but you see here illuminated through your point, richard, the fact that this far right fringe has once again been galvanized an propped up to a degree by the gop through the town hall meetings, now through

those protesters. and in all honesty, this is the president of the united states, and this is more a function of far right lunacy politics at work than anything more. most conservatives have gone on the record saying they don't support this kind of protest, and if ronald reagan had wanted to enter high school and college classrooms for that matter and preach supply side economics or simply communicate with students as they were beginning the school year, that would have been perfectly fine. >> so is it being overblown? >> some of it is, but let's not underestimate what's been going on in washington since the supermajority and president obama swept into town. there have been outrageous spending. there's a lot of people that have been upset over the direction of government going back as far as george w. bush as our president, and now with president obama being our president. so you're getting a lot of pent-up frustration from both sides of the aisle from independent americans about what

we're doing in this country. this is another instance where president obama has been a polarizing factor. so although some of it has been overblown, let's not underestimate either the polarizing figure that president obama has been to many since he's assumed the presidency in january. >> and this draws an important point, too, about nonpartisan civic education. how do you define it? how do you enter the classroom in a nonport san nonpolarizing manner? that's always the challenge and the give and take. unfortunately in public school classrooms across the country today, there is a vast absence of civic education. so this was the president's effort to try to reengage america's youth. >> i would love to go longer on the subject. no doubt we will over the next two or three days as that speech is given. i want to thank lenny from loop 21 as well as alexander hefner he h editor in chief of scoop 44. it was a good discussion. you don't have to be in school to catch the president's speech to the kids, by the way. just tune in right here to cnn. we plan to carry it live at noon

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it's a smoky start to labor day weekend in los angeles. firefighters say the raging station fire is now about 50% contained up from 5% earlier in

the week. still some flames are moving unchecked into the wilderness areas. two firefighters have died and 76 homes have been destroyed in the intentionally set blaze. and now $100,000 is is on the tr information leading to an arson arrest in that. let's go over now to jacqui jeras in the weather center, as we take a look at what's happening across the country and of course the concern is the weather in southern california, is it helping them fight that fire as well as what's happening throughout the rest of the country? >> it's not helping them a lot. this is a fact that the winds aren't too strong but it's not hurting them all that much today either. the temperatures are down a little bit so that's some good news. we're talking about low to mid-90s for highs as opposed to the triple digits. cooler weather will be on the way over the next two days, especially as we head into your labor day holiday. we're going to get what we call onshore winds and that marine layer is going to start to set up, that's going to bring in the higher humidity and also bring in those cooler temperatures. it is a holiday weekend and if

you're think being heading to the beach and hitting the water you may want to think twice if you're in chatham, massachusetts. there have been shark sightings, five of them and one of them confirmed a great white. they haven't closed the beach but perhaps you might not want to actually go in the water. i wouldn't. i don't know about you, richard. hey, if you're think being it, though, let's check out the beach forecast into the northeast. water temperatures are cold anyway, guys. 65 degrees. 74 degrees down there into the cape may area. another big, hot beach spot, unfortunately, south florida is getting washed away in the wet weather here today, a very heavy showers and thunderstorms all along the gulf coast so keep that in mind as you continue your holiday plans. richard? >> really great holiday weather for all of us. we like it like that, breaking out the beach balls on the graphics, that's good news for us. >> adding a little fun. >> it has been quiet in the tropics. you've been looking into that. >> yeah, in fact it's been kind of a slow start to the hurricane season overall. we had a couple of storms.

we had danny. we had bill and we had here still the remnants of what was erika but a lot of the storms are getting broke an part by what we call wind shear and we're blaming this on el nino. you've heard that name before and we're going to hear a lot more about el nino in the upcoming months. katrina, rita, ike, monster storms that have made dealing with major hurricanes a regular occurrence for residents on the gulf coast. but this year seems oddly quiet. our weather patterns are changing and it could mean good news for the storm-weary. el nino. it's the warming of waters in the equatorial pacific. when this happens, it changes the regular flow of the jet stream, bringing those strong winds through the southern u.s. and atlantic. jet stream winds can blow off the top of tropical systems and prevent them from developing, or from getting stronger. here's what el nino has done to tropical seasons in the past. 1982 to '83, a strong el nino

episode brought the quietest hurricane season in 50 years, but one of those storms was alicia, a brutal hurricane that killed 21 in texas. 1997 to '98, only seven-named storms for the entire season, well below the average of 11, but it's note all good news. that season the jet stream helped support the deadliest tornado outbreak in florida's history, one of them ripping roofs off of hundreds of homes, and killing 25 people in osceola county. that '97 to '98 season was also devastating for the southwestern united states. the jet stream brought storm after storm into california. torrential rains, mudslides, washed out roads and destructive waves all pounded the state. it was one of the costliest winters on record for california, estimating $550 million in damages for february of '98 alone. el nino is typically bad news

for the eastern pacific hurricane season, too, generating more frequent and stronger storms. in 2006, an el nino year there were 18-named storms in the eastern pacific, including hurricane john that killed five people in baja, california, mexico. there's no telling what el nino will do to the u.s. this time around, but cli mottologists are predicting it to strengthen and last through the winter of 2010. and right now we're in what meteorologists called a moderate el nino condition. two more months of the warm waters will put us in a full-blown el nino episode which could bring a similar impact. as for the quiet start of the hurricane season, just now we're starting to enter the peak of the season and it doesn't matter how many storms we get. what matters is which one hits the u.s. and how strong it is, whether or not you're prepared for it. >> i was listening to your piece there, jacqui and based on what you were teaching us, therefore california and el nino, it should be experiencing more water, but it's fairly dry so

far, isn't it? >> yeah t is and the fires continue to burn. california usually starts to feel those impacts in late fall and into the winter months and this is a huge concern actually for el nino because of the big burn area. we're talking over 250 square miles of barren mountains. there's nothing on there to help soak up those rains so everything's going to run off and unfortunately, we'll be worried about mudslides in n those burn areas come this winter. >> all right, we'll be watching that. jacqui jeras with the latest, thank you so much, el nino, as well as the weather across the country. we'll have more right after this break. this is one way of getting vitamins and minerals.

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so who would you go to for advice on eating healthy in these tough economic times? our dr. sanjay gupta may surprise you here with his choice in this edition of "fit nation." >> reporter: with the economy in a slump, families are struggling to make ends meet, but you don't have to sacrifice good nutrition. where better to look for tips on healthy living on the cheap than a five-star french chef? >> a little bit of interest in the food, it's easier to find ways for a budget, which is not too expensive, good food. >> reporter: world renowned chef eric ripert says it's all about what works for you.

>> a chicken, which is very inexpensive, instead of buying the chicken already set or cooked, you buy it whole and therefore you save a lot of money. if you want something healthy and something inexpensive, you have to think seasonally. if you want to eat tomatoes in january, very expensive. if in january you eat a root vegetable, if you make a sweet squash, it's going to be very inexpensive. >> reporter: how does this french chef extraordinaire stay healthy himself surrounded by top notch cuisine all day long? >> just before i leave the house i have a little bit of dark chocolate of very good quality. i leave my house around 10:00, and i walk through the streets of new york, it takes about 40, 45 minutes. i think it keeps me in a certain good health and in shape. >> reporter: the bottom line, says ripert? >> i'm a strong believer that you can do a lot of things i