waste no time. he's got this health care bill passed. they still want to get the reconciliation. the fix it bill, as it's called, passed. as we heard our own ed henry say, he's going to go out on the road and continue selling which he does well. i suspect he's very happy he did not go to indonesia and australia today as he was supposed to go. guys, thanks very much for coming in. we're going to continue our coverage. i'll be back here in the "situation room" tomorrow. there will be more, of course, on "larry king live" throughout the week. thanks very much for joining us. don lemon picks up our coverage right now. it's a victory for the american people. and it's a victory for common sense. >> it is a cinderella story for president obama and the democrats. votes came through. health care reform has passed. >> just because some politicians got attacked they shouldn't be whines and crying about it. >> the vote might be over, but the debate over the name calling and heckling continues to heat up. plus, it's tiger woods'

interview since news of his affairs service in november. how he strayed from the straight and narrow. good evening, everyone, i'm don lemon at cnn world headquarters in atlanta. health care reform is now history. >> on this vote the ayes are 219, nays 212. the molt to concur the senate amendment is adopted. without objection the motion reconsiders laid on the table. >> there you heard it. more than a year of high drama came to a clay maktic end just a short time ago. for the man whose presidency was riding on this it was a win he badly needed. >> what this day represents is another stone firmly laid in the foundation of the american dream. tonight we answer the call of history as so many generations of americans have before us. when faced with crisis we did not shrink from our challenge. we overcame it. we did not avoid our

responsibility. we embraced it. we did not fear our future. we shaped it. >> now that health care reform has passed here's some of what you'll see right away that will go into effect. small businesses can get up to 50 pk of their health insurance premiums as tax credits. those who feel they are unfairly denied coveraged by their insurance and will be able to appeal to an independent panel. seniors not currently covered by the medicare part-d drug benefit will receive $250 per year to help pay for prescriptions. insurance companies will not be allowed to set coverage caps for serious illnesses including cancer. adult children up to the age of 26 can be covered by their parent's health insurance. a $5 billion fund will provide temporary coverage for uninsured people with pre-existing conditions including children. two of our seniors, senior white house correspondent and senior congressional correspondent dana bash and ed henry join us right

now. you guys look surprisingly fresh for late into the evening. you've been working all day. i'll start with you, ed, because the president was the last to speak here, and he -- well, nancy -- the speaker of the house spoke. let's start with the president. boy, bounce in his step. joe biden as well. he needed this. >> reporter: no doubt about it. the people you did not see, let me take you -- peel the curtain a little bit -- inside the eastroom where i was. we were the only network going live from there, i should add. bottom line, rahm emanuel, robert gibbs, david axelrod, top i'd were on the other side of the room. in jeans, casually dressed. almost midnight when the president came out. rarely they'd be here working that late. smile, almost smirk, on rahm emanuel's face looking over at me and print reporters were there as if to say you guys didn't think we'd do this. if you think there was a bounce in the president's step after stories about internal strife and the like, his staff was

beaming. >> seeker of the house came out. her work is going to get tougher and the president as well. not just with this but the lawmakers who are concerned, dan that, about what happened back home. i want you to listen to this. this is congressman ellie ingle. i talked to him in new york talking about what cost. >> it's always a fear. you always look at the political aspect of a vote. i think, you know, we're here to vote our conscience and vote our hearts and vote our districts and vote what's best. i think at least for me paramount is i need to do what i think is right. i think political considerations are important, but they're secondary. we have to do what's right by the american people. >> the work to keep a respectable number of democrats in office is probably going to get harder in some instances and it may get easier in others. who knows, dana. >> reporter: that's true. i've spoken to several of the democrats who -- the democrats that eliot was talking about. he's in a relatively safe district. there are a lot of democrats who

voted for this health care bill tonight knowing full well that their jobs could suffer from it. they could lose their jobs from it. and it was a very tough vote for a lot of these democrats, but you know, on the other hand, many of them campaigned on this issue. campaigned on the issue of coming to washington and after, you know, almost 50 years of in ernest of fighting for broad health care reform, like what passed tonight, they felt that they -- the message that the p was giving them in private and public, democratic leaders were giving them and they were hearing back home that they -- that this needed to be done. that weighed more heavily than the political cost many of them may face. >> dana, you've been working all day. this is as much action as i've been seeing behind you today. are people scrambling to leave or doing live shots? >> reporter: these are our colleagues and competitors scrambling to leave because the democratic leadership just

wrapped up their final event of the night. so i think what you're seeing is our colleagues running to file. >> ed, the president is going to be on the campaign trail even after this. what gives? >> reporter: you know, it's funny, after 14 months of covering him, in many cities across this country, we thought, okay, maybe finally the road show is over. no, not by any stretch of the imagination. this evening i was talking to some of the president's seen wror advisers. one of them got interrupted by the conversation. the president was calling him, tweaking his remarks tonight. he had to go. he was telling me the president later this week, in fact, is going to be hitting the road again. barnstorming around the country. part of this gets to what dana was talking about. promises made to various democratic lawmakers about giving them political cover and frankly this president has promised lawmakers he's going to go out and sell this now. between now and november we're going to see the president, especially in the next few weeks, go out there and say, look, it's going to cover 32 million more people. get into the fact that no longer

can an insurance company kick you out if you get sick when you've already been covered. end pre-existing conditions for the children, in the short term, in the long term for adults as well. they have a list of things that will kick in in the first six months, not years down the road and want to sell them. >> they want the person out in front selling it for them. okay, guys, take the toothpicks out of your eyes. you can stop living on coffee. you can -- >> dana's being modest. those people behind her, there was a competitor trying to scramble to keep up with her because she's been dominating the story. >> reporter: right back at you, ed. >> lawmakers congratulating each other. good to see you guys. get sleep. we go from a first in health care to a first for tiger woods. at least since his life went spiraling out of control. tiger speaks, this time answering questions about his wife, his life and infidelities. tiger in his own words moments away. plus, watch your mouth. >> baby killer. >> mr. speaker --

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they weren't just rallying today for health care in washington. immigration reform was also a big issue outside the capitol. >> this is a defining moment in our nation. >> tens of thousands of people filled the national mall to support an overhaul of immigration laws. organizers say 150 people attended the event. bipartisan senate bill is being drafted, that its authors say will create a tough but fair path to legalization, tighter borders and temporary worker program. moscow's fire chief died last night while trying to save people from a massive building. russian media say the chief died when the business center's roof collapsed. none of the people he was trying to safe was injured. the alarm didn't work or never existed. by the time crews got there the building was engulfed. police in aruba want to know if this, look closely, is a picture of natalee holloway's remains. it was taken by an american couple last fall while on vacation.

aruban police are preparing to send divers into the water to search for the alabama teenager. she was last seen leaving a bar with a man on the final night. graduation trip back in 2005. a sigh of relief in fargo, north dakota, tonight, because it appears the major flooding threat there has passed. city leaders say the red river crested and is now falling without causing any major damage. river topped out at 19 feet above flood stage. happened this afternoon. so rapid snow melt caused by warm weather is blamed for the rapidly rising water levels there. the threat is gone. we turn to cnn's jackqui jeras o tell us about the weather situation. good news, right? >> yeah. even though the river has crested, it's something we're going to want to watch other the next couple days. we're still in major flood. that's expected to continue all the way into next weekend. we're looking at at least another week that we need these sandbags and these dikes that have been built to continue to hold. temperatures in the daytime

above freezing, by the way. below freezing at nighttime. that's the kind of slow thaw that we do like to see. elsewhere in the country today, we've been watching this upper level low pressure system that brought all that heavy snow into oklahoma across parts of the weekend. look at snowfall totals throughout the area. fayetteville, arkansas, a foot, westville, oklahoma, 11 inches. no more heavy accumulations expected with this. we'll continue to watch this as it's a rainmaker with occasional snow mixing in across parts of arkansas. thunderstorms have been pushing in across parts of georgia into the carolinas. nothing severe will be anticipated. now, this storm system is going to be on the move. as we head into the workweek, now, we'll watch this move up toward the mid-atlantic then into the northeastern quarter and the concern here is that we've already seen plenty of heavy rain and flooding creeks and streams. this could aggravate the flooding situation with another 1 to 2 inches on top of what we already have. in addition to that we kick off

the workweek here on your monday. expecting to see some airport delays as a result of that low. potential delays of over an hour for boston, new york city metros, washington, d.c., as well as philadelphia and delays due to low clouds and winds for atlanta, charlotte, and miami. don? back to you. >> thank you very much. it was an uphill battle. sometimes nasty battle. democrats are celebrating a major victory tonight. >> to every unsung american who took the time to sit down and write a letter or type out an e-mail hoping your voice would be heard, it has been heard tonight. >> this next story might be higher than the newscast. if it were not for health care vote tonight. in his first one-on-one interviews tiger woods offers his most personal comments yet about the scandal that shattered his public image and public life. hnology. it adds a fourth color, yellow, to the standard rgb color system, creating a vast array of colors

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the passage of health care reform bill brought an instant response from the white house. i want you to list b as president obama lays claim to tonight's achievement as a sign of the change he promised when he ran for president. >> today's vote answers the dreams of so many who have fought for this reform. to every unsung american who took the time to sit down and write a letter or type out an e-mail hoping your voice would be heard, it has been heard tonight. to the untold numbers who knocked on doors and made phone calls, who organized and mobilized out of a firm conviction that change in this country comes not from the top down, but from the bottom up, let me reaffirm that conviction. this moment is possible because of you.

most importantly, today's vote answers the prayers of every american who has hoped deeply for something to be done about a health care system that works for insurance companies but not for ordinary people. for most americans this debate has never been about abstractions. the fight between right and left, republican and democrat. it's always been about something far more personal. it's about every american who knows the shock of opening and envelope to see their premiums just shot up again when times are already tough enough. it's about every parent who knows desperation of trying to cover a child with a chronic illness only to be told no again and again and again. it's about every small business owner forced to choose between insuring employees and staying open for business. they are why we committed ourselves to this cause. tonight's vote is not a victory for any one party.

it's a victory for them. it's a victory for the american people. and it's a victory for common sense. it probably goes without saying tonight's vote will give rise to a frenzy of instant analysis, will be tallies of washington winners and losers, predictions about what it means for democrats and republicans, for my poll numbers, for my administration. long after the debate fades away and the prognostication fades away and the dust settles, what will remain standing is not the government-run system some feared or the status quo that serves the interest of the insurance industry, but a health care system that incorporates ideas from both parties. a system that works better for the american people. if you have health insurance this reform just gave you more control by reigning in the worst

excesses and abuses the insurance industry with some of the toughest consumer protections this country has ever known. so that you are actually getting what you pay for. if you don't have insurance, this reform gives you a chance to be a part of a big purchasing pool that will give you choice and competition and cheaper prices for insurance. and it includes the largest health care tax cut for working families and small businesses in history, so that if you lose your job and you change job, start that new business, you'll be able to purchase quality, affordable care and the security and peace of mind that comes with it. this reform is the right thing to do for our seniors. it makes medicare stronger and more solvent. extending its life by almost a decade. and it's the right thing to do for our future. it will reduce our deficit by more than $100 billion over the next decade, and more than $1 trillion in the decade after

that. so this isn't radical reform, but it is major reform. this legislation will not fix everything that ails our health care system, but it moves us decisively in the right direction. this is what change looks like. >> president speaking out right after that bill. the vote on that bill. republicans, though, predict democrats will pay at the polls in november for tonight's historic vote. are they right? what about voters in the middle. trio of independents, we invite them to come on here a lot on cnn. they're weighing in on whether the health care debate singles a new shift in the halls of power. joe from connecticut. nicole in washington, d.c., as is omar. thank you, guys. does this make you more optimistic or pessimistic as an independent about what you saw happen tonight? joe? >> i'm actually -- to a certain extent i'm more optimistic.

i did see some -- what happened tonight aside from some of the tone of some of the debate, i did see some coalition building. i mean, it started off the day with the democrats being divided and republicans being united. it's nice to see there's some kind of deal making made. the whole idea that you try to create coalitions, it isn't just one stance or you exclude somebody. i was a little on mystic by that aspect. >> i must respectfully disagree you, joe. i found it really depressi inin an independent. this was just -- it was pushed through. obviously the democrats are pretty divided on it as well. i think going forward i'm worried about what's going to be pushed through next now that democrats have the majority. >> omar, break the tie here. >> i think i have to side with a yes and no in the sense i'm optimistic 81% of americans are now saying that yes the political system is broken, but that it can be fixed.

in some ways obama now can turn his attention to issues that are of importance to independents and so in that respect i agree with nicole that there wasn't sufficient reaching out to independents. there's an opportunity here, though, to reach out and do something big as the next step in this presidency. >> it's going to have to be the last word. see you again soon. coming up, fielding questions for the first time. tiger woods opens up. how much is he willing to share? what he had to say about the mistakes he's made and pain he's caused. plus this -- >> more than anything else i was saddened. i don't have any ill feeling of malice toward the people who used the "n" word, the individuals that spat on my colleague. >> the health care debate turns into an angry war of words. a congressman and civil rights icon is targeted with racial slurs.

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for to look at stories making headlines in the week ahead from politics to the economy to entertainment. we start tonight at the defense department. >> i'm barbara starr at the pentagon. this week defense secretary robert gates travels to mexico with other u.s. officials to talk about ways to curb the drug violence there. then he returns to washington to capitol hill to talk about the runaway costs of some weapons programs. i'm jill dougherty in washington. the media's peace process and

drug violence in mexico. both issues at the top of the agenda for secretary of state hillary clinton this coming week. monday she speaks to the apec conference here in washington. the american israel public affairs committee, also speaking at that conference, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. both speeches coming at a time of tension in the relationship between u.s. and israel. wednesday, trip to mexico. i'm poppy harlow in new york. here's some of the big stories we'll bring your way on cnn money. closely following the all important health care vote and focus on economic recovery with reports on new and existing home sales expected. we'll get the latest reading on consumer sentiment. for coffee lovers out there, starbucks holds its annual meeting on wednesday. we sat down before that one-on-one with a strategy talk with the ceo. "showbiz tonight's" a.j. hammer. we're expecting big news

breaking regarding sandra bullock's marriage. her husband jesse james cheated on her with a tattoo model. whose mistress is the most outrageous? jesse james, john edwards or tiger woods' many mistresses? look for dennis hopper to get his star on the hollywood walk of fame. he wish him the best as he battles prostate cancer. also happening this week, wednesday, national urban league releases report on issues affecting black america. topics include education, health care and home ownership. saturday, tea party express launches next nationwide bus tour with a rally in senator harry reid's hometown. internationally this week, abortion rights advocates watch kenya where a draft of the new country''s constitution defines life as beginning a conception. google could announce as early as monday on whether it will pull out from china. china is known for sensoricenso

content there. he has fought to maintain his name after a sex scandal that broke after a november 22nd auto accident. today tiger woods opened up and gave interviews to golf channel and espn. interviewers could ask whatever they wanted to. did tiger answer? >> i've done bad things in my life. it all came to a head. now after treatment, going for in-patient treatment for 45 days and more outpatient treatment, i'm getting back to my old roots. >> for a lot of people the spark of those bad things is november 27th, early that day. what happened? >> well, it's all in the police report. you know, beyond that everything's between elin and myself. that's private. >> why did you lose control of the car? >> as i said, that's between elin and myself. >> if it's a private matter, why issue a public apology? >> i owe a lot of people an apology. i hurt a lot of people. not just my wife.

my friends, my colleagues, the public. kids who looked up to me. there were a lot of people that thought i was a different person, and my actions were not according to that and that's why i had to apologize. i was so sorry for what i've done. >> you said you've made transgressions. how would you, in your own words, describe the depth of your infidelity? >> well, just one is enough. and obviously that wasn't the case. i made my mistakes. and as i've said, i've hurt so many people, and so many people i have to make an amends to. that's living a life of amends. >> you said you were in treatment. the simple question is, for what? >> that's a private matter as well. i can tell you what, it was tough. it was really tough. to look at yourself in a light that you never want to look at yourself, that's pretty brutal. >> what did you see? >> i saw a person that i never thought i would ever become.

>> who was that? >> i had gotten away from my core values, my buddhism. i quit meditating, quit doing the things my mom and dad taught me. i felt entitled. that's not how i was raised. >> the interviews lasted five minutes each. they asked but he didn't always answer. when asked about his wife, elin's reaction to his infidelities tiger said she was very hurt. shocked and angry and she had every right to be. tensions are boiling and tempers flaring and it's not just in congress. coming up, two lawmakers respond to the increasingly ugly protests and what they have to say may surprise you. under pressure. ♪ and pressure can cause anyone's deodorant to fail. ♪ introducing gillette odor shield antiperspirant. unlike regular deodorants, it targets and neutralizes odor at the source. help eliminate odor, don't just cover it up.

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to two historic votes that aim to transform health care in america. first the house took up the senate's version of haelt care reform. passed 219-212. it goes to president obama for signature. many democrats objected to certain provisions of the senate bill. a reconciliation bill of changes was also voted on and it passed 220-211. the senate takes up the reconciliation bill in the coming days. supports and protesters on the health care debate rallied outside of the capitol today. >> kill the bill, kill the bill! >> about 300 tea party activist, some carrying signs and waving

american flags, chanted slogans and sang the national anthem. one protester made it into the house gallery and shouted "kill the bill," while several republicans cheered him on. others protesters said the legislation goes against what most americans really want. >> the american people don't want this. they know the american people don't want this. they want the health care fixed, but they don't want it fixed like this. you don't throw the baby out with the bath water. >> i sense unity. i sense patriotism, and i sense that people just love their country. i know, i love my country. >> on saturday the crowds of protesters were much larger in the thousands and some of the protests took an ugly turn. several democratic lawmakers including civil rights leader john lewis were the target of racial slurs. one representative, emanuel, said he was spat on by an angry protester. and congressman barney frank, who's openly gay, says protesters yelled anti-gay

comments at him. congressman lewis likened the slurs to what happened 45 years ago when he was marching in civil rights demonstrations. i spoke to him about what's fueling the anger and the name calling. what is it about this process that pushes -- it seemed in the last year to push people to do things like this? can you explain it? do you have any idea? >> well, i think there's a great deal of frustration and just outright anger. people being mean to each other. and i think there's something loose in the land that is creating the climate, this environment, which we need to just pause for a moment and return to the way we did -- tried to do in another period. >> you seemed to brush it off yesterday. did it hurt you when you heard those words?

>> more than anything else i was saddened. >> a number of republicans including house minority leader john boehner condemned the name calling saying it is representable. another lawmaker is finding himself having to clarify remarks on c-span earlier today. devon nunez of california was asked if the slurs and spitting go too far. listen to his answer. >> i think that when you use totalitarian tactics people, you know, begin to act crazy. i think there's people that have every right to say what they want. if they want to smear someone they can do it. it's not appropriate. i think i would stop short of characterizing the 20,000 people who were protesting that all of them were doing that. i mean, i was -- >> those are some of the stories, some of the -- >> of course. >> -- comments. >> i think the left loves to play up a couple incidents here or there. anything to draw attention away from what they're really doing. >> tonight i spoke with

congressman nunes and asked him to clarify exactly what he meant by that. >> what i said is they should expect this when they behave the way that they do. the democrats have been using really abusing power here. they've allowed no amendments, no debate. >> what does one have to do with the other? what does calling someone the n word or f word have to do with a process happening in washington? the two don't match up. >> i don't know anything about those stories, and what i said was is that people have a right to say whatever they want to say in this country and we in washington should defend that. just because some politicians got attacked they shouldn't be whining and crying about it. we're politicians. we get attacked on a daily basis. so if the left wants to play this game of race baiting they can go ahead and do it. to say that i didn't say that the people that were doing that were crazy, that's exactly what i said. i said they were crazy and shouldn't be doing it. >> can you call it race baiting

when something happened to them? i think they're just reporting it and calling someone the "f" word or spitting on someone, that's not race baiting. >> no, but i call it race baiting when the liberal blogs attack me for something i didn't do. meanwhile, have nancy pelosi carrying a gavel through the crowd this morning instituting the 1965 vi 5 civil rights act saying that has something to do with this health care bill. yes, in fact, they are race baiting, and i did -- i said exactly what i would always say is that i'm always going to protect people's rights to attack politicians. i'm not going to condone it. i'm not going to say it's the right thing and not going to say people should use those words. we're here to protect the people's rights. >> you said rights to protect politicians. what it you mean? >> freedom of speech. especially politicians. we get attacked every day, just like i've been attacked all day for something i didn't even say. i'm not mad about it. it's what we should come to expect. >> nunes there saying his words

have been taken out of context. a lot of fighting words have been coming from lawmakers in washington. >> we're about 24 hours from armagedd armageddon. >> there's more where that came from. straight ahead we ask our political editor, mark preston, how words have impacted the health care debate. and it's part festival, part charity event and it's all about connecting people globely for a greater good. it has a lot to do with twitter. coming up, i'll talk with the creator of twestival 2010 and how you can get involved. the most important is what comes from you. if you are shopping for a new car, we invite you to put ours to the test. put us up against anyone. and may the best car win.

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a lot of you have been giving me your feedback about this next story. throughout the health care

debates we have been hearing angry rhetoric. some of it pretty shocking. it came to a fevered pitch in the last few days. what's in a word? who's responsible when words become action? armageddon, blood on the floor, baby killer, just a bit of the language thrown around these days. >> we're about 24 hours from armageddon. >> kill the bill, kill the bill! >> protesters yelling the word "faggot" at openly gay congressman barney frank. >> john lewis, dana, correct me if i'm wrong, the "n" word? >> correct. >> barney frank, the "f" word which rhymes with maggot, right? >> i think the republicans made a great mistake in thinking they can benefit from thug tactics. >> we'll see if they pass this bill. i hope they don't. i pray they don't. it will be an economic disaster for the country if they do. >> it's going to be a lot of

blood on the floor at the end of the day and not republican blood. >> you used the word armageddon, what did you mean by that? >> on the republican side congressman stupak is finishing up his comments someone yelled baby killer at him. >> those shouting out are out of order. >> senior political editor mark preston is here. i want you to listen to the president's comments on rhetoric. >> a lot of reporting in washington, it's just like "sportscenter." you know, it's considered a sport. and who's up and who's down and everybody's keeping score and you have the teams going at it. rock them, sock them robots. >> you were there a couple weeks ago when i interviewed the six retiring congressmen. said people don't understand once they're off the floor, they're friends, talk, don't yell at each other. they worry for some americans this may be all too real for them. >> that's true. politics is very much like a

sport. they're so intertwined, don. who knows that better than president obama? oftentimes, don, we'll see president obama say in a speech, look, this isn't about winners and losers in the political game. this isn't about my poll numbers. this isn't about if republicans or democrats win. the fact of the matter is it's all about that. the dirty little secret, who's going to win at the end of the day? >> this language, mark, by the leaders, is it part of what's fueling anger from opposition and protesters? >> sure. protesters and opposition leaders are always looking for a cue to try to really find out what, you know, where to move, what direction to go in. i think we have to be careful, though, that these people who go a step too far, who maybe go toward violence, who show effigies of president obama like we saw during the whole health care protest back in august. look, they're out on a limb. these gop leaders are not very happy when they see those things because they don't want to be

associated with it. >> let's talk about lessons learned. might this spark an examination of how we've treated each other or what we've said to each other over the last year? >> no. very polly anna out of you, don. this isn't going to happen. if you go back 150-plus years we actually had a congressman from south carolina beat down a senator from massachusetts over a dispute over the motion divisive issue in our country's history, slavery. so, look, it goes back 150 years. it's going to go on for 150 more. >> mark, take us forward to the next week if you will. we understand that the president, this bill can't be signed up, at least reconciliation until the president signs off on the bill now. there's a lot more work to go ahead here. >> there's a lot more work for him to do. i'll tell you, our own ed henry talked about how president obama flow now in the coming week after he signs this legislation into law, the senate will have to do some corrections on their own

legislatively and then expect to see president obama barnstorming across the country, don. he owes a lot to democrats that took this vote for him and helped him pass health care reform. >> a win is a win and boy, did he and the democrats, really the administration, he needed it. people say, you know, his presidency was on the line and if he didn't win this they were going to fight him republicans at every single term. >> they still are. he's futumoving this off his pl. he first and foremost needs to deal with the economy, needs to deal with jobs. >> listen, this is, you know, i guess over. it's all over but the counting or -- but for the shouting, as they say. we hear the president was looking at his brackets and talking on the phone before. how are your brackets doing? doing okay? >> not very good. i tell you what, the university of massachusetts was in the final four. we haven't been there in a while. >> all right. mark preston, boy it's been a long day, hasn't it? >> it sure has. >> thank you for joining us,

sir. have a good one. >> thank you. another controversy brewing over whether the president should have a so-called black agenda. the question has caused quite a stir among african-american leaders. television host tabba smiley has been at the forefront of this discussion. i spoke with him and dr. cornell west about what message they think should be sent to the president from the black community. >> i'm not calling out president obama. i'm calling out black leaders who have said recently that the president doesn't need to focus on an african-american agenda. when black leaders start saying that then what role are they playing? if they're not fighting for the best interest of black people no matter what the president is. this is not about the president, it's about the presidency. how to you get the white house to take note of the suffering of your people and get them to address that? >> it's not a question of the president and the color of the president, but it is true that president obama has tended to tilt toward the investment bankers more than he's tilting toward brother and sister on the

block. that concerns me. >> all right. you know what the urban league will release its state of black america next week. i believe it is on wednesday. stay tuned to cnn for that and to see the entire interview of tabba smiley and cornell west, head to my blog at cnn.com/don. cnn.com/don. reading your comments now. i'm going to get them on the air in a little bit. let's get other news in here. dangerous combination of fire and ice. volcano comes to life for the first time in almost two centuries. ixel technology. it adds a fourth color, yellow, to the standard rgb color system, creating a vast array of colors you can't see with your tv's three color technology. but, you can see this. whoa! oh my. [ male announcer ] quattron from sharp. you have to see it, to see it. [ engineer laughs ]

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we have a sad story to report. cnn is saying good-bye to one of our treasured colleagues. photo journalist, margaret, lost her battle with colon cancer today. the story he she covered are the stuff of legends. for two decades she traveled the world for cnn covering conflicts and war zones. in 1992 she was shot in the face by a sniper in sarajevo. six months later she was back at work. born in new delazealand, she ne aspired to be a photo journalist. her path was driven by love of history and desire to see it unfold firsthand. watch her story on our website at cnn.com. documentary titled "fear less."

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dangerous. they weren't just rallying for health care today in washington. immigration reform was also a big issue outside of the capitol. >> this is a defining moment in our nation. >> tens of thousands of people filled the national mall in support of overhauling immigration laws. organizers -- it's really late -- say 150,000 people attending the event. bipartisan senate bill is being drafted. that its authors say will create a tough but fair path to legalization. tighter borders and temporary worker program. moscow's fire chief died last night evacuating people from this massive blaze. russian media say the chief died when the business center's roof collapsed. luckily none of the people he was evacuating was injured. a spokesman says the alarm didn't work or never existed and by the time the crew s got ther the building was engulfed. police in aruba want to know

if this picture is natalee holloway's remains. aruban police are preparing to send divers back into the water to search for the alabama teen. holloway was last seen leaving a bar with a man on the final night of graduation trip back in 2005. okay. we have a lot of time. how much time do we have? 40 seconds? i thought we were going at the top of the hour? i had tweets here. looks like the clock is off. if i can get to them i will read them live on the air. i asked you if you were insomni insomniacs. a lot said i'm insomniac and on the west coast. please do a story on tabbas and how they had no plan for accountability at their town hall. i want whoever said baby killer to own up to it, have some guts, man. so, anyway, thank you guys for watching. sorry we went on little late. it was important evening, historic. i'm don lemon at the cnn world

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