the fbi makes arrests as it investigates an alleged terror plot. so far none of them are charged with terrorist activities. who they are and what they're accused of. president obama hits the sunday morning talk show circuit. what he's saying about a bill that is reshaping the health care debate. and, yes, we have shown you a lot of interesting video. none grittier than this, you could say, you won't believe how many pounds of grits the winner of this eating contest managed to consume. good sunday to you. you're watching hln news and views. so glad you are. i'm susan hendricks. we are learning more about the three men involved in a

terrorist investigation. >> reporter: najibullah zazi is arrested in denver. all charged with lying to the fbi in the course of a terrorism investigation. according to court documents authorities found on zazi's computer nine page december tails how to build a bomb, handwritten documents. according to the charging documents zazi told the fbi he had not written them or put them there. fbi forensics and handwriting analysis indicated that he had. also in these documents, reread zazi has admitted to the authorities he attended an al qaeda training camp in 2008. he and his attorney denied he

had made an admission. the specifics of any alleged plot to set off explosives in the u.s. are not detailed in these documents. a department of justice official says that they still do not have any specific knowledge on the timing, the location, or the targeting of any such attack. but this investigation is continuing. these charges allow authorities to detain these men and question them while that investigation continues around the world. jeanne meserve, cnn, denver. police want to talk to a florida man about the deaths of his wife and five young children. an officer found their bodies while checking an apartment in north naples, florida. a relative of the dead woman contacted police because she could not reach her. police have not disclosed how the victims died. they are looking for this man.

33-year-old mesac damas. authorities say he's not considered a suspect at the time. they want to question him about the killings of his wife, four sons and daughters. he may be driving a black gnc yukon denali with license plate m360pr. a massive hunt is under way in washington state for a killer confined to a mental health facility. here he is. phillip paul escaped while he and other patients were visiting the spokane county fair. the hospital workers union expressed concerns before his escape about some of the patients who are being taken on outings. >> questions that are being raised are absolutely appropriate. and the governor and i this morning when we spoke, some of the most serious questions i have about this are the policies and the procedures that led to the outing, the choice of the outing. >> paul is schizophrenic. he was found not guilty by reason of insanity back in 1987

for the slaying of an elderly woman. he briefly escaped once before in 1991 during a day trip to a washington lake. the suspect in a multiple killing in virginia performed draft songs and violent killings that he posted on the internet. there he is in custody. the 20-year-old is charged with killing a virginia college professor and three other people. their bodies were discovered friday at a home in farmville outside of richmond. police arrested him at the richmond airport yesterday. they say he was preparing to fly home to california. he's scheduled to appear in court tomorrow on charges of first-degree murder, robbery and awe though theft. his myspace page identifies him as an aspiring rapper called psycho sam. tonight on hln news and views, a nancy grace prime time exclusive. a neighbor of the yale murder suspect speaks out. what will she say about the personality and daily activities of raymond clark who is behind

bars for allegedly strangling annie le and hiding her body behind a lab basement wall. don't miss it. nancy grace has the latest breaking developments, 8:00 and 10:00 eastern. president obama took to the air waves today to pitch his health care overhaul. he appeared on sunday morning talk shows on our sister network cnn, also cbs, nbc, abi and uni vision. this -- >> it's such a hypothetical question that i can't answer it. it provides health insurance to people who don't have it. at affordable prices. i'd like to make sure that we've got that affordability really buttened down. because i think that's one of the most important things, is that if we're offering people health insurance, and we're

saying that people have to get health insurance if it's affordable, we've got to make sures the affordable. we're helping people who have health insurance with knowing if they're paying their premiums, they're actually getting what they paid for. that's been a huge problem. people not able to get insurance because of pre-existing conditions, being surprised because some fine print says they've got to pay huge out of pocket expenses or hay hit a lifetime cap. all those reforms are in there. that's really important. republicans are keeping up their full court press on president obama's health care plan. on our sister network, cnn, this morning senate minority leader mitch mcconnell defended the gop cea 's opposition to the president's plan. >> i don't know anybody in my republican caucus in the senate in favor of doing nothing on health care. we have a cost problem and access problem. there's a very big difference about whether or not it's appropriate to have a major rewrite of about one-sixth of our economy in the process.

my members just don't think that's the right way to go. we want to fix the health care system, but we don't want to do a half a trillion dollar over ten year cut in medicare. not to make medicare more sustainable, but to start a new program for others. we don't think it's a good idea to raise taxes on small businesses and on individuals in the heart of a recession. there are some serious differences about what ought to be done. i'm meteorologist cara mcginnis. the deep south suffering with rainfall once again. this area of low pressure has been very slow to make its way off towards the northeast. it's really tapped that moisture, especially from the gulf. as it makes its way a little bit farther, some of that wet weather heads on into the tennessee river valley and into the ohio river basin. kind of a different story taking place across the west with two angles here. one across the northern rockies,

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turns out nasa launched a rocket in virginia around that time. it was designed to create a phenomenon. scientists hope it will help them learn more about the clouds which naturally form high in the atmosphere. ununbelievable story out of new jersey. the father of a 4-year-old boy is in jail because the boy shared cocaine with friends at a day care. his son shared the drugs with three other 4-year-olds at a day care. apparently because his father told him it was candy. a teacher called the police after seeing a girl with a baggy in her mouth. luckily none of the kids were injured. wright is in jail on $400,000 bail. he is facing child endangerment and drug charges. you're a big screen flat panel tv may be getting flatter and bigger before you know it.

how the next generation of big screens may literally run circles around today's models. >> reporter: the 2002 movie "minority report" depicts a futuristic shopping mall where every nook and cranny is cramped with video screens pitching their product. >> less than a quarter inch thick. very flexible. >> reporter: he's the ceo of an atlanta company focused on developing flexible indoor advertising screens. science fiction is closer to becoming advertising fact. >> we have everything there but the displays. indoor advertising is second next to internet. >> reporter: it started with this. >> flexible. green only. no video. no nothing. except the concept and the technology behind it with the ability to to flexible stuff. >> reporter: acquired from a university in canada, originally developed as a small flexible screen concept for personal

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the fbi makes arrests as it investigates an alleged terror plot. so far none of them are charged with terrorist activities. who they are and what they're accused of. president obama hits the sunday morning talk show circuit. what he's saying about a bill that is reshaping the health care debate. and, yes, we have shown you a lot of interesting video. none grittier than this, you could say. you won't believe how many pounds of grits the winner of this eating contest managed to consume. good sunday to you. you're watching hln news and views. so glad you are. i'm susan hendricks. we are learning more about the three men arrested in a wide ranging investigationover an alleged terrorist plot within

the u.s. national security correspondent jeanne meserve tells us what investigators have discovered about them. >> reporter: najibullah zazi and his father are arrested in denver. all charged with lying to the fbi in the course of a terrorism investigation. according to court documents authorities found on zazi's comput computer, nine pages details how to build a bomb. handwritten documents. according to the charging documents zazi told the fbi he had not written them or put them there. fbi forensics and handwriting analysis indicated that he had. also in these documents, reread zazi has admitted to the authorities he attended an al qaeda training camp in 2008. at which he received weapons and explosives training. he and his attorney denied yesterday he had made any such admission. as for the father and the man in new york, they allegedly lied to

the fbi about a series of telephone calls which tipped najibullah zazi off to the fact that the fbi was investigating him. the specifics of any alleged plot to set off explosives in the u.s. are not detailed in these documents. a department of justice official says that they still do not have any specific knowledge on the timing, the location, or the targeting of any such attack. but this investigation is continuing. these charges allow authorities to detain these men and question them while that investigation continues around the world. jeanne meserve, cnn, denver. police want to talk to a florida man about the deaths of his wife and five young children. an officer found their bodies while checking an apartment in north naples on florida's southwest coast. a relative of the dead woman contacted police because she could not reach her. police have not disclosed how the victims died. they are looking for this man. 33-year-old mesac damas.

ngt tors say he's not considered a suspect at this time. they want to question him about the killings of his wife, four sons and daughters. police say he may be driving a black gnc yukon delal wirks a florida license plate of m360pr. a massive hunt is under way in washington state for a killer confined to a mental health facility. here he is. phillip paul escaped while he and other patients were visiting the spokane county fair. the hospital workers union says it expressed concerns before his escape about some of the patients who are being taken on outings. >> questions that are being raised are absolutely appropriate. and the governor and i this morning when we spoke, some of the most serious questions i have about this are the policies and the procedures that led to the outing, the choice of the outing. >> paul is schizophrenic. he was found not guilty by reason of insanity back in 1987 for the slaying of an elderly woman. he briefly escaped once before

in 1991 during a day trip to a washington lake. the suspect in a multiple killing in virginia performed draft songs about violent killings that he posted on the internet. there he is in custody. the 20-year-old is charged with killing a virginia college professor and three other people. their bodies were discovered friday at a home in farmville outside of richmond. police arrested him at the richmond airport yesterday. they say he was preparing to fly home to california. he's scheduled to appear in court tomorrow on charges of first-degree murder, robbery and auto theft. his myspace page identifies him as an aspiring rapper called psycho sam. tonight on hln news and views, a nancy grace prime time exclusive. a neighbor of the yale murder suspect speaks out. what will she say about the personality and daily activities of raymond clark who is behind bars for allegedly strangling annie le and hiding her body

behind a lab basement wall. don't miss it. don't miss it. nancy grace has the latest breaking developments, 8:00 and 10:00 eastern. president obama took to the air waves today to pitch his health care overhaul. he appeared on sunday morning talk shows on our sister network cnn, n also cbs, nbc, abc, and uni vision. take a listen. >> it's such a hypothetical since it won't get there as is. i'm not going to answer that question. can i say that it does meet some broad goals that all the bills that have been introduced meet. it provides health insurance to people who don't have it. at affordable prices. i'd like to make sure that we've got that affordability really buttoned down. because i think that's one of the most important things, is if we're offering people health insurance, and we're saying that people have to get health insurance if it's

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a u.s. service member has died in a black hawk helicopter crash in iraq. the military says the crash happened last night at the balad air base 50 miles north of baghdad. 12 other u.s. service members were injured in the crash. so far no word on what caused the helicopter to go down. balad air base is home to about 20,000 members of the u.s. military. the military says three more u.s. troops have died in afghanistan, including one who died in combat. nato says the two others died in noncombat related incidents.

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ayatollah tells state-run radio president obama is continuing to whip up fear that iranians are trying to build nuclear weapons. he insists his country is not pursuing a weapons program. the comments are the highest level response to the u.s. scrapping an anti-missile system planned for eastern europe. former president bush claimed the system would protect against attacks by iran. on tuesday president obama will host talks between israel's prime minister and the palestinian authority president. the white house says he will talk to both leaders separately before all three meet together. palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas has rejected resuming talks with israel. he wants israel to stop building settlements in the west bank and predominantly arab east jerusalem. israel's government has ignored similar demands made by the obama administration. former gop presidential candidate mitt romney is taking aim at president barack obama. he addressed the annual values

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the fbi makes arrests as it investigates an alleged terror plot. none of charged with terrorist activity. who they are and what they're accused of. president obama hits the sunday morning talk show circuit. what he's saying about a bill that's reshaping the health care debate. we have shown you a lot of interesting video but none grittier than this you could say. you won't believe how many pounds of grits the winner of this eating contest managed to consume. good sunday to you. you're watching hln news and views. so glad you are. i'm susan hendricks. we're learning more about the three men arrested in a wide ranging investigation of an alleged terrorist plot within

the u.s. national security correspondent jeanne meserve tells us what investigators have discovered about them. >> reporter: najibullah zazi and his father arrested here in denver. all charged with lying to the fbi in the course of a terrorism investigation. according to the court documents, authorities found najibullah zazi's computer nine pages of documents detailing how to build a bomb handwritten documents according to the charging documents zazi during question by the fbi said he had not written them or put them there but fbi forensics and handwriting analysis indicated that he had. also in documents reread that zazi admitted to authorities that he attended an al qaeda training camp in pakistan in 2008 at which he received weapons and explosives training. this although zazi and his attorney denied yesterday that he had made any such admission. as for the father and afzali,

they lied to the fbi about a series of telephone calls which tipped zazi off to the fact that the fbi was investigating him. the specifics of any alleged plot to set off explosives in the u.s. are not detailed in these documents. a department of justice official says that they still do not have any specific knowledge on the timing, the location or the targeting of any such attacks but this investigation is continuing. these charges allow authorities to detain these men and question them while that investigation continues around the world. jeanne meserve, cnn, denver. police want to talk to a florida man about the deaths of his wife and five young children. an officer found their bodies while checking an apartment in north maples. a relative of the dead woman contacted police because she could not reach her. police have not disclosed how the victims died but they are looking for this 33-year-old

man. he's not considered a suspect at this time. they want to question him about the killings of his wife, four sons and daughter. police say damas may drive a black gmc yukon denali. a massive hunt under way in washington state for a killer confined to a mental health facility. phillip paul escaped while he and other patients were visiting a fair. the concerns were expressed before his escape about patients being taken on outings. >> questions that are being raised are absolutely appropriate and the governor and i just this morning when we spoke some of the most serious questions i have about this are the policies and procedures that led to the outing, the choice of the outing. >> paul is zischrizophrenic.

he was found not guilty in 1987 for the slaying of an elderly woman. the suspect in a multiple killing in virginia performed rap songs about violent killings that he posted on the internet. there he is in custody. 20-year-old is charged with killing a virginia college professor and three other people. their bodies were discovered friday at a home in farmville outside richmond. police arrested him at the airport yesterday saying he was preparing to fly home to california and is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow on charges of first-degree murder, robbery and auto theft. his myspace page identifies him as an aspiring rapper called psycho sam. >>. >> tonight a nancy grace exclusive. a neighbor of yale murder suspect speaks out. what will she say about the daily activities of raymond

clark behind bars for allegedly strangling annie le and hiding her body behind a lab basement wall. nancy grace has the latest 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern. president obama took to the airwaves today to pitch his health care overall. he appeared on our sister network, cnn, abc, cbs, nbc and he was asked if he would sign the health care bill senator baucus has proposed. take a listen. >> that's such a hypothetical sense. it won't go there as is. i won't answer that question. can i say that it does meet some broad goals. all of the bills introduced provides health insurance to people who don't have it at affordable prices. i would like to make sure that we have that affordability buttoned down because that's one of the most important things is that if we're offering people health insurance, and we're saying that people have to get

health insurance if it's affordable, we have to make sure it's affordable. we're helping people who have health insurance with knowing if they pay premiums they are getting what they paid for and that's been a huge problem. the people not able to get insurance because of pre-existing conditions, being surprised because some fine print says that they have to pay huge out-of-pocket expenses or they hit a lifetime cap. those reforms are in there. that's important. >> republicans are keeping up their full-court press on president obama's health care plan. on our sister network cnn this morning, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell defended the president's plan. >> i don't know anyone in my republican conference not in favor of doing something with health care. we have a cost problem and access problem but there's a big difference whether it is appropriate to have majgjor

rewrite. our members don't think that's the right way to go. we want to fix the health care system but we don't want to do half a trillion dollar over ten-year cut in medicare. not to make medicare more sustainable but to start a new program for others. we don't think it's a good idea to raise taxes on small businesses and on individuals in the heart of a recession. there are serious differences about what ought to be done. >> i'm karen maginnis. the deep south suffering with rainfall once again. this area of low pressure has been very slow to make its way off to the northeast and it really is tapping the moisture especially from the gulf. as it makes its way a little bit further, that wet weather heads on into the tennessee river valley and into the ohio river basin. a different story taking place across the west with two angles here. one across the northern rockies.

much cooler than it was just 24 hours ago where temperatures were in the 90s. i'll show you that example. look at these readings across montana, billings, bozeman temperatures in the 90s. sunday afternoon readings will be in the 50s and 60s. cooler in the deep south than this time of year. nice day in new york city with 74. around the san francisco bay area, temperatures are going to be hot. it's going to be dry. it's going to be windy. we up that fire danger risk. for hln, i'm karen maginnis. an earthquake in mexico was strong enough to shake parts of southern california and arizona yesterday. people in san diego reported feeling it and they were 120 miles away from the epicenter. the initial quake had a magnitude of 5.1. several aftershocks followed. the largest was magnitude 4.2. you can get a great deal on

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the space shuttle "discovery" is catching a piggyback right back home. it is on the way back to kennedy space in florida. the "discovery" landed at edwards earlier this month after waved off from a florida landing due to bad weather. moving the shuttle back will cost more than $1.5 million. the "discovery" just finished a two-week supply mission to the international space station. the phones were lighting up for authorities across the northeast last night after people saw some strange lights in the sky. some people described the lights as spooky. and worried about visitors. it turns out nasa launched a

rocket in virginia around that time. the rocket was designed to create a phenomenon known as clouds with exhaust. scientists hopes it helps them learn more about clouds that appear to glow with a blue light. an unbelievable story out of new jersey. the father of a 4-year-old boy is in jail because the boy shared cocaine with friends at a day care. police say wright put baggies in his son's jacket after police nearly caught him with it. his son shared the drugs because his father told him it was candy. a teacher called the police after seeing a girl with a baggy in her mouth. luckily none of the kids were injured. wright is in jail on $400,000 bail. facing child endangerment and drug charges. generations of americans have struggled with issues of race. a new generation is entering school this year with a whole lot of questions unanswered.

researchers are just starting to learn what children know about race and when they know it. when they're discovering raises questions about how they and their parents perceive racial differences in the 21st century. david scott of austin, texas, has more. >> babies as young as 6 months notice color differences staring longer at photos of people who are different. a study of 5 year olds ask them to sort children's photos into two stacks. 16% did it by gender. 68% by race. the studies on children and race are contradictory. darned if you do and darned if you don't. putting kids in a diverse mix can others can be positive but also emphasizes difference between them. it used to be thought that children only noticed race when society pointed it out. now scientist are not so sure.

what's a parent to do? dawn johnson has a 2 year old. >> i think it is a quandary. if you start pointing it out to children from a very early age even if you have the best interests, you're still pointing out differences. >> another dilemma for parents, they can't always control the influences on their child. >> if we didn't put emphasis on race, then maybe it wouldn't be such a big deal. >> if children are developing racial attitudes at an early age, why do you think that is? >> it can be because of outside influences. family, friends. >> reporter: studies show children naturally gravitate to children like themselves. only 8% of white high schoolers have a best friend of another race. blacks are more comfortable talking about it. 75% of black parents bring up race with their kindergarteners. only 25% of whites do the same.

kids remember those talks. >> there are different colors in the world. you should treat people the same no matter what. >> you have close contacts with grandparents, they'll talk about stories and stuff like that so you would develop some kind of separation but in a way that hurts us. >> reporter: the lessons of a child. david scott, austin news. a man won almost $4,000 for stuffing his face in back-to-back eating contests. there they go. in louisiana bob ate 19 pounds of grits in ten minutes yesterday. looks appetizing, doesn't is it? he won $2,200. on friday he won $1,500 for eating 33.5 burritos in another competition in new mexico. next week it's a hamburger eating contest and the win there gets $20,000.

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a u.s. service-member died in blackhawk helicopter crash in iraq. the u.s. military says it happened 50 miles north of baghdad. 12 other service members were injured in that crash. there's no word on what caused the helicopter to go down. the air base is only to about 20,000 members of the u.s. military.

the military says three more troops have died in afghanistan. nato says the two others died in noncombat related incidents. this year the deadliest for u.s. forces in afghanistan since the war began eight years ago. last month was the deadliest month of the war for u.s. forces when 51 troops died. president obama has no plans to call off an investigation into cia interrogation practices. seven former cia directors have asked him to call off the probe of techniques employed by the agency when questioning terror suspects. the justice department is trying to determine if the cia broke the law by going beyond what the bush administration called enhanced interrogation techniques. four of the former directors served under republican presidents dating back to richard nixon. three served under president clinton. the ex-directors claim the investigation could discourage agents working on anti-terrorism

operations. u.s. officials are wrong about iran's nuclear program and they know it. according to the supreme leader of the islamic republic that is. state run radio says president obama is continuing to whip up fear that iranians are trying to build nuclear weapons. he insists his country is not pursuing a weapons program. the comments are highest level response to the u.s. scrapping an anti-missile system planned for eastern europe. former president bush claimed the system would protect against attacks by iran. on tuesday president obama will host talks between israel's prime minister and the palestinian authority president. the white house says he'll talk to both leaders separately before all three meet together. palestinian authority president rejected resuming talks with israel. he wants israel to stop building settlement in the west bank and arab east jerusalem. israel's government ignored similar demands made by the

obama administration. former gop presidential candidate mitt romney is taking aim at president barack obama. he addressed the annual values voter summit yesterday. he said the president's policies will cripple the country and they are fueling a political rebellion by conservatives. >> only about a year ago there were quite a few people in this city who were ready to write-off this conservative movement. they were enthralled by barack obama's promise of near biblical transformations. their legs were tingling. he spoke majestically framed by greek columns. he can spin a speech but he can't spin his record. and i'll bet you never dreamed you would look back at jimmy carter as the good old days. >> romney may have warmed the crowd but his former conservative rival mike huckabee has their votes showing he's the favorite among religious conservatives to be president in

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the fbi makes arrests as it investigates an alleged terror plot but so far none of them are charged with terrorist activity. who they are and what they're accused of. president obama hits the sunday morning talk show circuit. what he's saying about a bill that is reshaping the health care debate. and we've shown you a lot of interesting video but none grittier than this. you won't believe how many pounds this man managed to consume. i'm susan hendricks. we're learning more about the three men arrested in a wide ranging investigation of an alleged terrorist plot within the u.s.

national security correspondent jeanne meserve tells us what investigators have discovered about them. >> reporter: najibullah zazi and his father mohammad are arrested here in denver. afzali arrested in new york charged with lying to the fbi in the course of a terrorism investigation. according to the court documents, authorities found najibullah zazi nine pages of documents detailing how to build a bomb. zazi during questioning by the fbi said he had not written them. he had not put them there. fbi forensics and handwriting analysis indicated that he had. now, also in these documents reread that zazi has admitted to the authorities that he attended an al qaeda training camp in pakistan in 2008 at which he received weapons and explosives training this although zazi and his attorney denied yesterday that he had made any such admission. as for the father, and the man in new york, they allegedly lied

to the fbi about a series of telephone calls which tipped najibullah zazi off to the fact that the fbi was investigating him. the specifics of any alleged plot to set off explosives in the u.s. are not detailed in these documents. a department of justice official says that they still do not have any specific knowledge on the timing, the location or the targeting of any such attacks but this investigation is continuing. these charges allow authorities to detain these men and question them while that investigation continues around the world. jeanne meserve, cnn, denver. police want to talk to a florida man about the deaths of his wife and five young children. an officer found their bodies while checking an apartment in north maples. a relative of the dead woman contacted police because she could not reach her. police have not disclosed how the victims died but they are looking for this man.

33-year-old damas. he's not considered a suspect at this time. they want to question him about the killings of his wife, four sons and daughter. police say damas may drive a black gmc uconn denali. a massive hunt is under way right now in washington state for a killer who was confined to a mental health facility. here is he. phillip paul escaped while he and other patients were visiting the spokane county fair. the hospital workers union says it expressed concerns before his escape about some of the patients being taken on outings. >> questions that are being raised are absolutely appropriate and the governor and i this morning when we spoke some of the most serious questions i have about this are the policies and procedures that led to the outing, the choice of the outing. >> paul is schrizophrenic and found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1987 for the slaying

of an elderly woman. he briefly escaped once before in 1991 during a day trip to a washington lake. the suspect in a multiple killing in virginia performed rap songs about violent killings that he posted on the internet. there he is in custody. the 20 year old is charged with killing a virginia college professor and three other people. their bodies were discovered friday at a home in farmville outside of richmond. police arrested him at the richmond airport yesterday. they say he was preparing to fly home to california. he's scheduled to appear in court tomorrow on charges of first-degree murder, robbery and auto theft. his myspace page identifies him as an aspiring rapper called psycho sam. president obama took to the airwaves to today to pitch his health care overhaul. this morning on cnn john king

asked president obama if he would sign the health care bill senate finance committee chairman max baucus has proposed. take a listen. >> that's such a hypothetical sense. it won't get there as is that i won't answer that question. can i say that it does meet some broad goals that all of the bills that have been introduced provide health insurance to people who don't have it at affordable prices. i would like to make sure we have that buttoned down because i think that's one of the most important things is that if we're offering people health insurance, and we're saying that people have to get health insurance if it's affordable, we have to make sure it's affordable. we're helping people who have health insurance with knowing if they pay premiums, they're getting what they paid for and that's been a huge problem. people not able to get insurance because of pre-existing conditions and being surprised because some fine print says that they have to pay huge

out-of-pocket expenses or they hit a lifetime cap. those reforms are in there that's important. republicans are keeping up their full-court press on president obama's health care plan. on our sister network cnn this morning, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell defended the gop's opposition to the president's plan. >> i don't know anybody in my republican conference in the senate who is in favor of doing nothing on health care. we obviously have a cost problem. we have an access problem. but there's a very big difference about whether or not it's appropriate to have a major rewrite of about 1/6th of our economy in the process. my members just don't think that's the right way to go. we want to fix the health care system but we don't want to do half a trillion dollar ov over ten-year cut in medicare and not to make medicare more sustainable but to start a new program for others. we don't think it's a good idea to raise taxes on small

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the space shuttle "discovery" is catching a piggyback ride back home. the shuttle left edwards air force base this morning on its way back to kennedy space center in florida. nasa expects the "discovery" to arrive home tomorrow. the "discovery" landed at edwards earlier this month after it was waved off from a florida landing due to bad weather. moving the shuttle back to kennedy space center will cost more than $1.5 million. the "discovery" had just finished a two-week supply mission to the international space station. the phones were lighting up for authorities across the northeast last night after people saw some strange lights in the sky. some people described the lights as spooky. nasa launched a rocket in virginia around that time. the rocket was designed to create a phenomenon. scientists hope it will help learn more about clouds that appear to glow with a blue

light. an unbelievable story out of new jersey. the father of a 4-year-old boy is in jail because the boy shared cocaine with friends at a day care. police say the man put several baggies in his son's jacket after police nearly caught him with it. his son shared the drugs with three our 4 year olds at a day care apparently because his father told him it was candy. a teacher called police after seeing a girl with a baggy in her mouth. none of the kids were injured. wright is in jail on $300,000 bail. he's facing child endangerment charges. your big screen flat tv may get bigger and flatter before you know it. we see how the next generation of big screens may run circles around today's models. >> reporter: "minority report" depicts a futuristic shopping mall where there are videos screens pitching their products

everywhere. >> less than a quarter inch thick. very flexible. >> reporter: richard is the ceo of an atlanta company focused on developing flexible high definition indoor advertising screens. he says that science fiction has moved closer to becoming advertising fact. >> we have everything but the displays. indoor advertising is growing second only to internet. >> reporter: it all started with this. >> flexible, green only, no video. no nothing except concept and technology behind it with the ability to do flexible stuff. >> reporter: acquired from a university in canada, originally developed as a small flexible screen concept for personal electronics like cell phones and ipods. >> we thought it would be better for very large ten-foot and larger indoor displays that were thin, light and flexible and significantly more environmental. >> reporter: nine months later and four generations later -- >> we built this five times the

size. can bend it around itself. quarter of an inch thick. runs on batteries. the whole thing is portable. >> reporter: they used existing technology but configured a new way to achieve the flexibility. >> our display mechanism is stiff things in an overall flexible matrix. and people have a lot of trouble visualizing that so one of the analogies i use is the dress on angelina jolie. the dress doesn't bend but shapes nicely around whatever it is put on. >> reporter: the technology can be adapted to any space and fix any contour. >> show up in a cardboard box and stick it to the wall if you want with velcro. >> reporter: other applications like portable trade show displays and even military applications are in its future. jacqui jeras, cnn, atlanta.

a man won almost $4,000 for stuffing his face with burritos and grits in back-to-back eating contests. there they go. in louisiana bob eight 19 pounds of grits yesterday. he won $2,200. on friday he won $1,500 for eating 33.5 burritos in ten minutes in new mexico. next weekend he heads to tennessee for hamburger eating contest. winner there gets $20,000. former cia chiefs want president obama to shut down an investigation of the agency. the president has his own ideas about it. we'll let you know what they are on hln news and views. ring ring ring ring.

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anti-terrorism operations. u.s. officials are wrong about iran's nuclear program and they know it. according to the supreme leader. islamic republic that is. he tells state run radio president obama is continuing to whip up fear that iranians are trying to build nuclear weapons. he insists his country is not pursuing a weapons program. the comments are highest level response to the u.s. scrapping an anti-missile system planned for eastern europe. on tuesday president obama will host talks between israel's prime minister and the palestinian authority president. the white house says he'll talk to both leaders separately before all three meet together. palestinian authority leader rejected resuming talks with israel. he wants israel to stop building settlement in the west bank and arab east jerusalem. israel's government has ignored similar demands made by the

obama administration. former gop presidential candidate mitt romney is taking aim at president barack obama addressing the annual values voter summit yesterday. >> only about a year ago there were quite a few people in this city who were ready to write-off this conservative movement. they were enthralled by barack obama's promise of near biblical transformations. their legs were tingling. he spoke majestically framed by cre greek columns. can he spin a speech but he can't spin his record. i bet you never dreamed you would look back at jimmy carter as the good old days. >> romney may have warmed the crowd but the former conservative rival mike huckabee has their vote. the poll was conducted at the

summit. huckabee tops with 28%. four people tied with second with 12% including romney and former alaska governor sarah palin. if you are an if you're an first time home buyer looking for a deal, clark howard predict the best time to buy. >> i've got bad news that also on the other side is good news, the flip of the coin side. the number of people who fall behind on mortgages keeps going up. that's a brutal thing for so many individuals and families in the united states. but the reverse of that is for people looking to be a first time home buyer or if you are an investor looking for real estate to buy and own and hold for a number of years because the flipping thing, uh-uh, but buying something and keeping it for a good, long time, the opportunities are going to continue. the housing market is not falling through the floor like

it was before. but the time to be able to buy is going to stretch, i'm guessing, for at least another year to 18 months. i also predict that some of the best deals for investors buying real estate or first time home buyers is going to be from about mid-november to mid-january. i'm clark howard. for more ways for you to fatten that wallet, go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> he really has some great advise. don't miss clark's show at 4:00 right here on hln. tonight is television's big night. actor neil patrick harris is hosting the 61st annual prime time emmy awards from hollywood. it could turn out to be a huge night for the amc drama "mad men." that show won the best drama emmy last year and captured 16 nominations this year. meanwhile, the animated series "family guy" could become the first cartoon to capture the best comedy award. it's going up against last

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the fbi makes arrests as it investigates an alleged terror plot. so far none of them are charged with terrorist activities. who they are and what they're accused of. president obama hits the sunday morning talk show circuit. what he's saying about a bill that is reshaping the health care debate. and, yes, we have shown you a lot of interesting video. none grittier than this, you could say. you won't believe w many pounds of grits the winner of this eating contest managed to consume. good sunday to you. you're watching hln news and views. so glad you are. i'm susan hendricks. we are learning more about the three men arrested in a wide ranging investigation of an alleged terrorist plot within the u.s.

national security correspondent jeanne meserve tells us what investigators have discovered about them. >> reporter: najibullah zazi and his father mohammed, are arrested here in denver. ahmad afzali arrested in new york. all charged with lying to the fbi in the course of a terrorism investigation. according to court documents authorities found on zazi's computer nine pages of documents detailing how to build a bomb. handwritten documents. according to the charging documents zazi told the fbi he had not written them or put them there. fbi forensics and handwriting analysis indicated that he had. also in these documents, reread that zazi has admitted to the authorities that he attended an al qaeda training camp in pakistan in 2008, at which he received weapons and explosives training. he and his attorney denied yesterday he had made any such admission. as for the father and afzali, the man in new york, they

allegedly lied to the fbi about a series of telephone calls that tipped najibullah zazi off to the fact that the fbi was investigating him. the specifics of any alleged plot to set off explosives in the u.s. are not detailed in these documents. a department of justice official says that they still do not have any specific knowledge on the timing, the location, or the targeting of any such attack. but this investigation is continuing. these charges allow authorities to detain these men and question them while that investigation continues around the world. jeanne meserve, cnn, denver. police want to talk to a florida man about the deaths of his wife and five young children. an officer found their bodies while checking an apartment in north naples on florida's southwest coast. a relative of the dead woman contacted police because she could not reach her. police have not disclosed how the victims died. they are looking for this man. 33-year-old mesac damas.

investigators say he is not considered a suspect at this time. they want to question him about the killings of his wife, four sons and daughter. police say he may be driving a black gmc yoouk yukon denali with the florida license plate m-360-pr. a massive hunt is under way in washington state for a killer confined to a mental health facility. here he is. phillip paul escaped while he and other patients were visiting the spokane county fair. the hospital workers union says it expressed concerns before his escape about some of the patients who are being taken on outings. >> questions that are being raised are absolutely appropriate. and the governor and i this morning when we spoke, some of the most serious questions i have about this are the policies and the procedures that led to the outing, the choice of the outing. >> paul is schizophrenic. he was found not guilty by reason of insanity back in 1987 for the slaying of an elderly

woman. he briefly escaped once before in 1991 during a day trip to a washington lake. the suspect in a multiple killing in virginia performed draft songs about violent killings that he posted on the internet. there he is in custody. 0-year-old richard alden samuel mcclosky iii is accused of killing a professor and three other people. their bodies were discovered friday at a home in farmville outside of richmond. police arrested him at the richmond airport yesterday. they say he was preparing to fly home to california. he's scheduled to appear in court tomorrow on charges of first-degree murder, robbery and auto theft. his myspace page identifies him as an aspiring rapper called psycho sam. tonight on hln news and views, a nancy grace prime time exclusive. a neighbor of the yale murder suspect speaks out. what will she say about the personality and daily activities of raymond clark who is behind bars for allegedly strangling

annie le and hiding her body behind a lab basement wall. don't miss it. nancy grace has the latest breaking developments, 8:00 and 10:00 eastern. president obama took to the air waves today to pitch his health care overhaul. he appeared on sunday morning talk shows on our sister network cnn, also cbs, nbc, abc and univision. this morning john king asked president obama if he would sign the healthcare bill that max baucus had proposed. take a listen. >> that's such a hypoathletical since it won't get there as is. i'm not going to answer that question. can i say that it does meet some broad goals that all the bills that have been introduced meet. >> is it better than the others? >> it provides health insurance to people who don't have it at affordable prices. i'd like to make sure that we've got that affordability really buttoned down. because i think that's one of the most important things, is if we're offering people health insurance, and we're saying that people have to get health

insurance if it's affordable, we've got to make sure it's affordable. we're helping people who have health insurance with knowing if they're paying their premiums, they're actually getting what they paid for. that's been a huge problem. people not able to get insurance because of pre-existing conditions, being surprised because some fine print says they've got to pay huge out of pocket expenses or they hit a lifetime cap. all those reforms are in there. that's really important. republicans are keeping up their full court press on president obama's health care plan. on our sister network, cnn, this morning senate minority leader mitch mcconnell defended the gop's opposition to the president's plan. >> i don't know anybody in my republican conference in the senate who is in favor of doing nothing on healthcare. we obviously have a cost problem and we have an access problem. but there's a very big difference about whether or not it's appropriate to have a major rewrite of about one-sixth of our economy in the process.

my members just don't think that's the right way to go. we want to fix the health care system, but we don't want to do a half a trillion dollar over ten year cut in medicare. not to make medicare more sustainable, but to start a new program for others. we don't think it's a good idea to raise taxes on small businesses and on individuals in the heart of a recession. there are some serious differences about what ought to be done. an earthquake in mexico was for hln i'm meteorologist karen maginnis. this area of low pressure has been very slow to make its way off towards the northeast. and it's really tapped out moisture, especially from the gulf. but as it makes its way a little bit further, some of that wet weather heads on into the tennessee valley and the ohio river basin. a kind of a different story taking place across the west with two angles here, one across

the northern rockies. much cooler than it was just 24 hours ago where temperatures were in the 90s. i'll show you that example. look at this reading across mont mon, billings and bozeman. temperatures in the 90s. coming up for sunday afternoon the readings will probably be in the 50s and 60s. in the deep south, temperatures cooler than it should be for this time of year. a nice day in new york city with 74. billings, 65. but right around san francisco bay area, temperatures are going to be hot. it's going to be windy. we up that fire danger risk. for hln, i'm karen maginnis. an earthquake in mexico was strong enough to shake parts of southern california and arizona yesterday. people in san diego reported feeling it, and they were 120 miles away from the epicenter. the initial quake had a magnitude of 5.1. several aftershocks followed. the largest was a magnitude 4.2. you can get a great deal on coast to coast air fare if you

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it turns out nasa launched a rocket in virginia around that time. the rocket was designed to create a phenomenon known as lucent clouds with the exhaust. they hope to learn more about the clouds. they often appear as a glow with a blue light. an unbelievable story out of new jersey. the father of a young boy is in jail because the boy shared cocaine with kids at the day care. his son shared the drugs with three other 4-year-olds at a day care. apparently because his father told him it was candy. a teacher called the police after seeing a girl with a baggy in her mouth. luckily none of the kids were injured. wright is in jail on $400,000 bail. he's facing child endangerment and drug charges. a man won almost $4,000 for stuffing his face with burritos and grits in back-to-back eating contests.

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it's the first stomach of a cow that breaks down grass. as the grass ferments, methane is produced. and 80% of this pungent gas is actually released as a belch and not at the other end. one of the challenges that biotech could face is that garlic can actually permeate the milk. if they find they can't avoid it, they'll have to stick to treating beef cattle instead. it was the farms that approached biotech to carry out the garlic tests on the dairy cows. >> it was constantly being pointed at cows, which i don't think is really fair to blame a companion species that's been with us 5,000 years and dragged our carts, clothed our foet and given us meat and milk. i wanted to be involved in trying to stick up for my cows. >> they need $800,000 in funding

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>> only about a year ago there were quite a few people in this city who were ready to write off this conservative movement. they were enthralled by barack obama's promise of near biblical transformation. their legs were tingling. he spoke majestically framed by greek columns. well, he can spin a speech. but he can't spin his record. and i'll bet you never dreamed that you'd look back at jimmy carter as the good old days. >> romney may have warmed the crowd. but his former conservative rival mike huckabee who has their vote. a poll shows huckabee is the favorite to be president in 2012. the poll was conducted at the summit. four people tied for second with 12%, including romney and former alaska governor sarah palin. everybody wants to save more and spend less, right? we have just the guy to help you out on this.

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for so many of us this year has seemed endless but some good has come out of all of it. valuable lessons we all learned about spending, saving, what we need to work on when it comes to personal finances. here to help us, ryan mack is the president of optimum capital management, and lynnette cox is the author of "zero debt." welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> thank you for having me. >> i want to start with you. what are the lessons we've learned here, do you think? >> i think one thing that is we can't take risks that we shouldn't be taking, obviously, whether it's overextending yourself with credit and debt, leverage as they say on wall street. clearly for consumers i think one of the big lessons that i'm glad to see we've learned is that we've got to save, we've got to get back to basics. and we're seeing that reflected in numbers. people are, in fact, saving more. after so many years where the savings rate was flat to negative. that's a good thing. >> that's definitely a good thing. ryan, what would you say? >> definitely savings is one of the key issues. when individuals say emergency fund and making sure it's that much more important.

9.7% unemployment, people losing jobs, six to nine months of living expenses is imperative. when you look at it, if it costs you $2,000 to support yourself in a given month, you need to save $12,000. that seems like a whole lot of money. make mole hills from mountains. save $1,000 12 times and divide it up and make sure to get that emergency savings fund. >> take small steps to eventually get to your goal. >> exactly. >> i think, though, there are still lessons we probably haven't learned and we're still struggling with that. one of them has to be about credit cards and credit scoring. and this is still such a tough topic for so many people. lynnette, what would you say about credit scoring? this is a mystery to so many people. >> right. i think that consumers haven't yet gotten used to the fact that we're in an entirely new credit landscape. i think this is going to be a changed environment for years if not decades to come. so one of the things i think people need to do is to recognize that, yes, we're in this short-term period where banks are raising interest rates, tacking on additional fees, slashing credit lines.

but you need to be vigilant about every aspect of your credit. every single transaction, is what i'm telling people, every single transaction counts. pay that library bill on time. pay those student loans and mortgages and credit cards, et cetera. don't forget about the small things, too, like the cell phone or utility bill. you don't want something seemingly small to ding your credit rating and hurt you down the road. >> they're all pulling in their credit lines, the credit card issuers right now, raising interest rates. this is hurting a lot of people, people who want to start their own business and maybe finance it by credit cards. i want to talk about 401(k)s. to do that, i want to show people some numbers. folks out there some numbers about what's going on with 401(k)s. we've had a rebound this year. on average, 401(k)s up about 12% this year. it's cold comfort for people who had such major losses last year. what do you say to people trying desperately to save for retirement right now? >> in your 401 plan it's crucial

to understand -- i mean, you've been talking about it all the time. dollar cost averaging is very crucial. those individuals who bailed out in january, february, even all the way up until march, thinking that they would try to time market, they've missed almost 54% return on the s&p 500 on the way back down. so those individuals who bailed out, they now know the difference between real and paper losses. they actually locked in some of those losses. so have a long-term strategy. make sure you're allocating your assets appropriately. if you're 25 and maybe you might have a 90% stock, 10% bond allocation. if you're 55, that shouldn't be necessarily the allocation that's appropriate for you. so looking at your 401(k) at least once a year to make sure you have the appropriate asset allocation moving forward is the best thing to do. >> you know, and windfall opportunity for a lot of first-time home buyers out there to buy. but my guess is people will still make mistakes overbuying. >> if you can sneak in there and take advantage of that $8,000 tax yet before december 1st, by all means do so. close on those mortgages, if

you're close to doing that. realize that it's not just about principal, interest, taxes and insurance. so many homeowners think, i can afford the mortgage because the bank said so and these are the costs that i have to pay. think long-term about maintenance, repairs, upkeep, decorations, furnishings. >> insurance. >> all of those things contribute to the overall cost of owning a home. don't just be taken in by the fact that i'm going to have to pay x amount of principal and interest for the loan. >> cautionary words about that tax credit. what would you say? >> we have to make sure that the driving decision in all of our decisions is not because we're getting a tax credit, not because we're getting a tax deduction on the interest we're paying on our homes. but we actually want to buy homes. have we researched and figured out how much home we can afford? have we done the due diligence to make sure our fico scores are trying to get to 750 or higher? a lot of times individuals are hitting that timeline because they say let me get this new home because i can get $8,000.

you might not be ready to purchase a home right now and it might not be the time for you. renting can be good if you're renting with a purpose and saving your money diligently and preparing to buy a home responsibly. >> a bigger deal than you think and it costs a lot of dough. thanks so much for your help today. and we want to remind people, the recession may be close to over but you've got to be careful with your money. all this healthcare news can be confusing. there's this plan, there's that plan. and that's why we're here. we're going to separate fact from fiction when it comes to your bottom line. readying your home for the winter months ahead. really, it's not too soon to save big money.pi dallas. detroit. different rates. well with us, it's the same flat rate. same flat rate. boston. boise? same flat rate. alabama. alaska? with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. dude's good. dude's real good. dudes. priority mail flat rate boxes only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship.

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politico in washington. great to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> so i think people are really struggling to get their arms around this bill. and it's hideously complicated. over 200 pages. let's talk first just about how it's different from what president obama talked about in primetime just the other night. >> well, the key difference is sort of one that everybody expected to see. president obama has said he favors the so-called public option in health care. that's a government-run program that would exist side by side with private insurance companies. obama thinks that's the way to go. senator max baucus on the hill, however, ditched that idea. and instead comes up with something else altogether called public cooperatives which would be nonprofit healthcare companies that would be an alternative to the private industry. that's a big difference in tone. largely done because most people think that the public option just simply can't get through the senate. there's not enough votes to do what the president wants to do. >> i want to talk about co-ops. first let's talk about the price tag. and the president has said that

any plan would have to not impact that federal deficit. we're not going to raise taxes to pay for this. can that possibly be true? we already have critics out saying, no way. >> well, we are going to raise taxes to pay for this under the bill. the taxes would go -- taxes and fees would go to different industry groups within the healthcare industry. pharmaceutical companies. insurance companies. hospitals. all would pay new taxes and fees to finance this thing. the $856 billion number is the amount of government outlays that would be incorporated into this plan. but what both baucus and obama are saying is it would be deficit-neutral. that is, net-net, it costs the taxpayers nothing to do this because of those fees. and also because of savings they say they can find in the current system. there's a lot of waste, fraud and abuse, for example. there's a lot of economies of scale they can get. they say they're going to save money and it's going to cost you nothing to do this. >> the devil will be in the details. we'll see if that can actually work. but i do want to drill down on

co-ops a little bit. this is probably what a lot of americans are going to end up using at the end of the day. these nonprofit exchanges really where you can go and choose some kind of healthcare if you don't have one from an employer right now. what does that look like? >> what the bill lays out is a system of exchanges where you can go online and look and see -- compare price and level of coverage and all the different details of healthcare which are so complicated. to have that all in one place to compare and do some shopping, it could be kind of helpful for americans. and one of the options they would consider would be these nonprofit pools of insurance whereby people could get insurance not from a private for-profit company, which is charging extra money to make that additional profit margin, but from a nonprofit that would insure a large group of people. that's designed to put pressure on the for-profit companies to low are their costs of healthcare and provide some competition, some cheap competition, so that more

americans can afford their healthcare insurance. >> fascinating stuff. can't wait to see what's going to happen. i'm sure we'll have you back to talk about that. one note to viewers about these co-ops. all these changes. open enrollment is coming up soon, you're going to be choosing your new healthcare plan. you're not going to have to worry about these issues this fall, because this is a long way off. eamon, thank you very much. now that you know the latest from washington when it comes to the make or break issue of health care, time now to check in with politifact and their truth-o-meter. angie hollan is the health care writer for politifact. thanks for joining us, great to have you here. >> thanks for having me. >> let's get right down to this. you have great stuff we want to get to. the first statement comes from the president, president obama, who says preventive care saves money. okay, can we save money by having everybody take a lot of the different tests? >> we rated this statement false. and it sounds counterintuitive. it does sound counterintuitive.

because common sense says if you catch something early you save money. but when you're talking about healthcare reform and talking about testing everybody in the country, many studies have shown that it's not a cost saver. you have to account for the money you're going to spend to test everybody. so we rated this false. >> all right. the second statement also from the president who says, if you already have health insurance or your job or medicare or medicaid or the v.a., nothing in this plan will require you or your employer to change the coverage or the doctor you have. true or false? >> we rated this true. and the reason for this is that the plan goes out of its way to leave a lot of the current healthcare system in place. so employer-provided insurance stays in place. medicare stays in place. there will be new consumer protection regulations. people who get insurance through work, those plans are going to have five years to come into compliance.

but there is nothing in the bill that will force immediate change. >> all right, next statement from rush limbaugh who says, the government is going to have the right to get into your bank account with the healthcare bill and make transfers without you knowing it. that sounds scary, is it true? >> we rated this barely true. there is a clause in the bill that talks about creating standards for electronic transfers and having to do with billing and payments. everybody we talked to said the intention here is to bring the healthcare system into the 21st century when it comes to e-commerce, similar to the way you might pay your utility bill online. from are no new rights for the government to take people's money. barely true. >> okay. so next statement comes from america's health insurance plans. and this is really written by the companies themselves. this is the insurers talking. they say, every survey shows strong satisfaction with private

coverage. in other words, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. >> we rated this half true. and the reason for this is that the insurers do have point. surveys show that people who have insurance are either very satisfied or somewhat satisfied. and we docked them for that somewhat satisfied. and also because these surveys include people who have medicare. so we rated it half true. >> all right, angie. we're going to have to work on the sound effects. thank you so much for helping us. >> it's a lot of fun, thank you. up next, do it yourself projects. you can start right now to get e your home ready for the winter take our obligations extraordinarily seriously. we have many traditional savings products for our customers as well as products that you will not see anywhere else., we encourage our customers to use the website because there are so many great features. by doing add it up, you get discounts on your purchase. you know, the greatest program we have right now, is the keep the change. keep the change gives customers the opportunity, to save in a different kind of way when they use their debit card - at no cost.,

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budget, replacing your windows, it's a terrific time now because of the federal tax credit. >> there's free money to be had? >> there's all kinds of that. it's up to $1,500. you need to stick with major manufacturers, because not all of them qualify. there's certain criteria that the windows have to have in order to meet it. you can't just go out there and -- it's a u factor -- >> u factor? is that what i'm looking for? >> a 0.30 u factor, which is the solar heat loss. the heat loss that a window has. >> they're advertise advertising that? >> they are. solar heat gain is another number, 0.30. you've got to watch all this and work with manufacturers. if windows are not in your budget, okay, you want to do something to cut those drafts, what i've done is prepped this particular window. this is a brand new window. you would never do this with this one. but for the sake of argument, i put double-sided tape around this window and i'm putting on a window film. this is basically creating -- >> you're putting plastic wrap on your window? >> plastic wrap around the

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i get so many calls, different stat gees of work. in fact, if you give me this half hour, i promise you, you will learn to handle your money the clark howard way. >> ever since i can remember, i've been fascinated by money. making it, saving, and by the time i was 31, i earned enough to retire. so i embarked on a new

mission -- helping you take care of your money. so you can save more, spend less, and avoid getting ripped off. >> now from his radio studio action your money expert, clark howard. >> i am so excited for you. why? because i'm going to help fatten your wallet. the cell phone industry has spent this year of the recession in an all-out, knock-out, market share war with prices going down, down, down. now, there are what are known as tier two players and then the traditional bigs. the tier twos are companies you may not have heard a lot about but they're all offering unlimited calling plans that are generally in the range of $40 to $50 a month. but the traditional big companies are losing customers to these players and they're coming up with better and better deals. usually with asterisks. at&t has a new plan where for $59 a month you get a big slew of minutes. you can call anybody on at&t's network all you want. and you can select five most commonly called numbers and talk to any of those people

and send me the official announcement that this recession is over because the reality is, whatever is going on in washington or america is not as important in your own wallet as what you are doing in your own household. >> so let's see how you can keep your wallet straight. what's your question for me? >> andrea is with me. how are you? >> great. i hope you're having a wonderful day. >> i am. i bought a condo about three years ago condo and three years ago is not a good mix. >> no, it's not. i got a job 2,000 miles away so i ended up renting my condo. >> and what kind of rent per month?

>> probably about 1300. >> you're losing $1300 a month? >> yes. i don't have any he can quit eq home. and staying on your credit report, debit. >> okay. >> the saying is that here's the alternative. it would cause a lot less hurt. and that is to contact your lender and apply to do a short

sale. >> okay. >> now, the lender, depending on the lender, they have gone from moderately incompetent to totally incompetent at handling both sides of the short sale, both from the sill letter's perspective and take a chance. >> do you have a question for me? it's so easy for you to answer. go to cnn.com/clarkhoward and submit your question. you might be here like dan and heather who have a question for me. >> caller: my name a dan. >> my name is let letter. >> caller: my biggest goal is to retire by age 50 and we are also trying to pay for college for

our son and. >> i have an additional ira through my job, it's a small amount. >> our question is, how can we retire early? >> first things first, the two of you, you're fantastic saving money. i mean, you have virtually no debt. you're funding that roth account month by month and you may feel like you're on your way to an extra early retirement. sorry. i've got to tell you that you're not. because if your goal is to retire, oh, gosh, in less than 20 years, you're going to have

to save far, far, far more money. i would guess, based on what i've looked at with your numbers, about one-third of what you make would have to go into savings until you're age 50 in order for you to be able to do that early retirement. now, that may sound impossible but i've got a tip for you. if you're just starting out working, and you're used to making like no money at all, if you will live on every other paycheck, now, think about that, living on half of what you make from when you start working in your 20s, believe it or not, it would be possible for to you retire by the time you're in your 40s. >> next on clark howard. >> what percent are you paying on your credit card? >> 25%. >> 25%? >> yes. >> 25 prz? >> yes ( ball bouncing )

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prescription drugs, check out this story on cnn.com/moneymagazine. clark, back to you. nancy, you have a question for me that is what i want to ask you. >> caller: we have 25% credit card debt. and actually pretty much back to where they started and we make less than $40,000 a year. so we're pretty much at the point where we're paying everything out every month and using credit cards. >> how much in interest charges, like what percent are you paying on your credit card? >> 25%. >> 25%? >> yes. >> 25%? >> that's why i want to get rid of it. >> do you realize that's a couple hundred a month just in

interest. >> caller: yes. >> wow. the reason why i'm always reluctant for somebody to take savings and use it to get rid of credit card debt is that most often people then within 18 months have charged the credit card debt right back up to where it was. how can you be confident that you're not going to have that happen in your life? >> well, i plan on closing the credit card, for one thing. >> if you take the money from the roth and wipe out the credit card debt and then pledge to yourself that you're going to put that $400 of each month back into the roth account, then i think it wrote make sense in your case. >> okay. so there are no tax consequences? >> as long as you do not spend any earnings of your roth, you

only with draw the contributions that you made, that is a tax-flee event. out of all of the calls that i get from people asking me about spending retirement money on credit card debt. >> yours is about the only one i can ever remember over the years where i would say it makes sense for you in this case to use your cash from the roth to wipe out the credit cards. so, john, how can i be of service? >> well, clark, i wanted to kind of on my father's bucket list, if you will, he wants to go over to see the pyramids in egypt. >> really? >> yeah. yeah. and i would love to be able to send him over on a trip there but i'm really travel illiterate. i was hoping that you could steer me in the right direction. >> is your dad going to have to buy an airline ticket? does he have frequent flyer miles? how is he going to get there? >> well, we'd have to buy him a

ticket. >> the cheapest airfare is to cairo and it's almost always. >> new york city. so regardless of how you get to new york from wherever in the country, the airfare's from new york tend to be far more competitive elsewhere. and i would recommend and and and things have been going into ireland and they have been over to europe a few time sdpls but not really in the third world? >> no, they haven't been over there. >> you know, i might suggest that they at least consult a travel agent to consider booking if not the airfare, at least their sight seeing in egypt with an experienced vacationing agent who has sent people there

before. because it's not like just hopping on an airplane and going to london. it's a more travel itinerary and a more experienced travel agent will know which operators are the most dependable and it's unusual for people to do a trip go to amazon and how do you make a bank deposit? >> well, most of us have to get in the car, drive to a bank branch, wait in line, and make the deposit. but that's most of us. and not for long, actually. because more and more banks now allow to you make deposits right from your computer at home. you attach to it a very inexpensive scanner, usually it

costs you 20, 30 bucks for a scanner. you scan in the checks and then essentially deposit it into the banks. this has got so sophisticated that it allows people with i phones to take a picture and they instantly depositive sit the funds into your account. that's convenient. next on clark howard -- >> we've been talking to our financial advisor about a variable annuity. >> in retirement? are you serious?

i've got a variety of them there for you to see how to take control right now. you and your wife have reached the point that you get to retire? >> yeah. >> well, we're planning our retirement in three to six months, probably. and we have some money and we're

looking to invest it in something that would give us ap monthly income for life and some inflation protection. and and currently it's in money market or it's in mutual funds, rather, it was in money markets. and we've been talking to our financial advisor about a variable annuity. >> a variable annuity in retirement? are you serious? >> okay. >> it is also an annuity. but it's a different flavor. >> okay. it's called an immediate annuity is the term most often used or a life payout annuity. what that means is english is

that you can buy an annuity where you buy this thing and you put money into it and you guarantee an income nothing for the rest of your life. >> you can buy one where in the paymentses start like 30 days after you buy it. >> uh-huh. >> you can then buy one that is -- you get a little less benefit up front in return for an inflation rider where it will step up over time to deal with the ravishes of inflation. >> yes. >> i would really like for to you call a couple of companies and get quotes from them on immediate annuity. >> okay. >> one is, i would like for you to call vanguard and the other is i would like to you call a company called tia. and during and i'm so excited

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ever since i can remember, i've earned enough to retire. so i embarked on a new mission, helping you take care of your money so you can save more, spend less, and avoid getting ripped off. >> in recent years, and control your spending and then you can't

pay the bills. however, there's a big danger with the debit cards. do you know that most banks help with the debit cards even when you don't have money on the account? why? so they can generate overdraft charges. and listen to this eye popping number. according to the fdic, to with draw 500% interest rate for the fis that you're charged. so know this. your bank or credit union may approve a purchase for which you don't have the money but it's going to cost you a ton in overage fees. you've got to pay off the balance. if you're not going to do that and you might run overages, what should you do? go to plain, simple cash. when you're out of cash you will know it.

and now i'm ready for your question. tonya is with us. what's going on in your situation? >> caller: well, i'm looking at possibility either doing bankruptcy or debt consolidation. i'm not sure which way to go. my current job right now because of the economy, i'm getting my hours cut. what i bring home per month just barely makes it. i don't have -- my credit cards are not late. i get them every month. and 50% of your annual income, you cannot handle it --

>> okay. >> -- with the income you have. the first option you should do is just pick up the phone and call all of the yes card companies and tell them the same exact thing, my check has opinion cut back and i can resume paying you but can i not pay you right now, believe it or not the credit card companies are will make you an offer.

and they can do a debt bhgment plan and they mark to down to zero and if it comes to easier for you to honor your debt, either of them are preferable. hello, carl can. >> caller: hello. i'm a training developer and

everything was going great until i found out that at the didn't have a contract for us to work on. i like the government positions and it's federal government is not as fragile. it's going to be 15 to 20,000 less than what i am making in florida but i can quickly move up the system and i'm trying to weigh the benefits and get

guidance. >> you had 20 years in the army? >> yes. >> and you gained back in financial security and job security. >> yes. >> so you went from wearing a defense uniform to be in some way involved in military affairs. and when i listened to what you said, it sounded to me like taking the opportunity with the v.a. was the right thing for you, because it offers you that security, and you're somebody who likes to stay one place. you stayed 20 years with the army. you didn't have to. and so i think being involved with the military, as you would continue to be able to do, is your ticket. next on "clark howard" -- >> my financial goals are live a very stable life and to be able

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jean joins us. hello, gene. >> caller: how are you doing, clark? >> great, thank you. what's going on in your life today? >> caller: had a little experience today. had a big box store, had a

liquor store. wanted to bring my empty keg in, and the state we live in, you have to fill out paperwork. i take back the empty keg, he gives me the paperwork from the keg i filled out previously. i go get the new keg in the back, come up front, go to the cashier. there's a copy of my license on one of the papers. all the information front page, she proceeds to tear it off, crinkles it up and throws it in the trash can. >> where anybody could reach in and get it and steal your identity. >> caller: exactly. i talked to the manager and he said, oh, yeah, we shred those pieces of paper. and i said, i don't think mine is going to get shredded because she crinkled it up and put it in the trash basket. >> think about how many places that have our information and are so careless with it. if you want to do something about this, i would call the beverage control board or liquor board, whatever it's called in your state. and i would call and say, have

you considered requiring a procedure to destroy people's personal information later that is in store hands instead of their hands? because i can understand, based on what you gave me as an example, that the state wants to make sure that somebody is not running an illegal bar. >> caller: right. >> but there should be some requirement that the state imposing on the liquor stores that the information, in fact, be properly disposed of or stored so that you don't have the identity theft problem. so you're fired up about it. you're the one who can make a difference. the sloppiness out there, that continues in an era that everybody is aware of identity theft, never ceases to amaze me. it's time for "money coach." that's where it's time for you to ask me questions about your wallet. go to cnn.com/clarkhoward.

click on video submission. you submit that question, next thing, you might be like jenny here, asking me your question. let's watch her story. >> hi. i'm working my way through college and i need a money coach. well, i work full-time here at cabela's, and i support myself, and i basically live just day-to-day. i have a small savings account that i do want to keep up and don't want to lose. my biggest concern is retirement. i want to make sure that i'm able to retire at a decent age and enjoy my life when i get older. my personal goals are to graduate from college with my bachelor's degree of administration. and just to live a very nice, successful life. my mother, brothers and i will be receiving a little bit of money of about $10,000. i would like to invest my money and get the best return. what is your advice for this?

>> jenny, congratulations. with how you are with your money. here you are working at a store. what i would do with that money is wipe out your credit card debt. once you've done that, that's going to still leave you several thousand dollars that i would divide into two piles. one, a rainy day account. put the money in the best place like a bank. second, take the other half of the money that you have left, and open a roth account. that's a tax-free savings account where you put in after tax dollars. everything you earn is tax-free and you spend it tax free in retirement. you can put up to $5,000 each year in i roth and you are allowed at any time to withdraw the money that you contributed to it tax free and interest

free. you must leave your earnings in the plan. if you did need the money for a down payment for the house or something like that, you have it as a stash of cash. i would rather you leave it alone, but if you need it, you can pull the money out. >> next on "clark howard" -- >> i'm noticing when they report it to the agencies that there's a very low balance and my score shot up 15 points within 30 days. >> you are a genius. newshengng asough what to do.

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cecelia is with us. hi, cecelia. >> caller: hey, clark. >> how are you? >> caller: i'm doing well. my question for you is, i am a member of a credit union and i got a letter in the mail and they want to switch deposit insurers from the federal government to a private company, and i don't know. >> they want to leave ncua coverage? >> caller: they do, yes.

my credit union that i'm a member of. >> i am not comfortable with that at all. are they making it up for a membership vote or are they just telling you? >> caller: no. it will be -- they are persuading us, but they did say it's definitely going to be up for a vote. >> vote no. >> caller: vote no? >> this is really odd timing. >> caller: yes. >> for a credit union to choose with people's insecurities, credit unions, almost none have failed anywhere. and to not have the safety net of the ncua, which is the credit union equivalent of fdic -- >> caller: that's right. >> i don't understand at all. what justification do they give for leaving the federal nest? >> caller: well, it's funny you say that, because, you know, in the letter they say they're going to be assessed a premium up to like $675,000. it says it's like .15% of all their insured shares. >> no. they should just pay the premium. >> caller: thank you. >> you know, the banking system is short on money because of all the failures of financial institutions and so there are these assessments hitting financial institutions, and that's what this is part of. and that is not a good reason to go from a federally insured

credit union to going to not having the full faith of its members. i would tell you that they are making a big mistake and encourage you to vote no. in fact, if the vote passes, i would take my money out of the credit union and not hang with them, and i would hope that other members would realize the risk that they would be taking, and also vote no. david is with us. what are you thinking about doing with your credit card? >> caller: hey, clark, you make me look so smart to the person that matters most to me, my

wife. i keep getting brownie points. i found out that over the last month my credit score went up 15 points and i noticed how i did it, by raising it, by looking at the balances and i follow my balances every day and pay it off every month and i don't carry balances but i use the cards heavily. and so what i do is i pay the balance before the credit card company can report it to the credit agency. because i thought that, you know, if i paid my credit cards off, the day they were due or when they asked for it, that anybody looking at my credit card report would see that i'm paying off my balances. >> no. they see the high balances that it was when the statement closes. >> caller: right. so then i said, wait a minute. i don't want them reporting any balances to the credit card agencies. why don't i just pay these things off way before they're due? so, there's a lead time. i pay them off 10 to 15 days

ahead of time and when they report it to the agencies, there's a very low balance and my score shot up 15 points in 30 days. >> you are a genius. as you probably have heard me say, it is 30% of your credit score. what you are manipulating by y paying the bill before it's due. for anyone in a position to pay balances in full, it is a great habit to get into especially six months before you might buy a home. you want to do everything you can to boost your credit score all of the way up to the point of close on the new home. the mortgage on the new home. doing exactly as you instruct, david, is going over time to make potentially a few dozen points difference in somebody's score which can make a big difference in what mortgage rate someone has for 15 or 30 years so you are -- tell your wife you're a gentleman and a scholar. you're both. if you don't have health

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an investigation of an alleged terror plot. so far no one is charged with terrorist activity. who they are and what they're accused of. president obama hits the sunday morning talk show circuit. what he's saying about a bill that's reshaping the health care debate. we have shown you a lot of interesting video but none grittier than this you could say. you won't believe how many pounds of grits the winner of this eating contest managed to consume. good sunday to you. you're watching "hln news and views." i'm susan hendricks. we're learning more about the three men arrested in a wide ranging investigation of an alleged terrorist plot within the u.s.

national security correspondent jeanne meserve tells us what investigators have discovered about them. >> reporter: najibullah zazi and his father arrested in denver. ahmad wais afzali arrested in new york. according to the court document, authorities found najibullah zazi's computer nine pages of documents detailing how to build a bomb handwritten documents. according to the charging document, zazi during questioning by the fbi said he had not written them. he had not put them there. but fbi forensics and handwriting analysis indicated that he had. now, also in these documents reread that zazi has admitted to the authorities that he attended an al qaeda training camp in pakistan in 2008 at which he received weapons and explosives training. this although zazi and his attorney denied yesterday that he had made any such admission. as for the father and the man in new york, they allegedly lied to

the fbi about a series of telephone calls which tipped najibullah zazi off to the fact that the fbi was investigating him. the specifics of any alleged plot to set off explosives in the u.s. are not detailed in these documents and a department of justice official says that they still do not have any specific knowledge on timing, location, or the targeting of any such attacks but this investigation is continuing. these charges allow authorities to detain these men and question them. that investigation continues around the world. jeanne meserve, cnn, denver. police want to talk to a florida man about the deaths of his wife and five young children. an officer found their bodies while checking an apartment in north maples on florida's southwest coast. a relative of the dead woman contacted police because she could not reach her. police have not disclosed how the victims died but they are looking for this man.

33-year-old mesac damas. they want to question him about the killings of his wife, four sons and daughter. police say damas may be driving a black gmc yukon denali. a massive hunt under way for a killer in washington state. phillip paul escaped while he and other patients were visiting a fair. the union expressed concerns about the patients who were being taken on outings. >> questions that are being raised are absolutely appropriate and the governor and i just this morning when i spoke some of the most serious questions i have about this are the policies and procedures that led to the outing, the choice of the outing. >> paul is schrizophrenic. he was found not guilty by reason of insanity back in 1987

for the slaying of an elderly woman. he escaped once before in 1991 during a day trip to a washington lake. the suspect in a multiple killing in virginia performed rap songs about violent killings that he posted on the internet. there is he in custody. the 20 year old is charged with killing a virginia college professor and three other people. their bodies were discovered friday at a home in farmville outside of richmond. they arrested the man yesterday at the airport. they say he was preparing to fly home to california. he's scheduled to appear in court tomorrow on charges of first-degree murder, robbery and auto theft. his myspace page identifies him as an aspiring rapper called psycho sam. the body of yale student annie le is back in her home state of california. a funeral home confirms it has received her body but says the family has asked to keep details

of the funeral service private. memorial service is planned later this month. le's body as found a week ago today behind a wall in the basement of a lab building where she worked. lab technician raymond clark is charged with murdering her. he's pleaded not guilty. tonight a nancy grace prime time exclusive. a neighbor of the yale murder suspect speaks out. what will she say about the personality and daily activities of raymond clark behind bars for allegedly strangling annie le and hiding her body behind a lab basement wall. don't miss it. nancy grace has the latest breaking developments at 8:00 and 10:00 eastern. president obama took to the airwaves today to pitch his health care overhaul. he appeared on talk shows on cnn, cbs, nbc, abc and univision.

>> that's such a hypothetical sense. it won't get there as is so i won't answer that question. can i say that it does meet some broad goals. all of bills that have been introduced provides health insurance to people who don't have it. and affordable prices. i would like to make sure that we've got that affordability buttoned down because i think that's one of the most important things. if we offer people health insurance and we say people have to get health insurance if it's affordable, we have to make sure it's affordable. we're helping people who have health insurance with knowing if they pay premiums they get what they pay for. that's a huge problem. people not able to get insurance because of pre-existing conditions and being surprised because some fine print says that they have to pay huge out-of-pocket expenses or they hit a lifetime cap. those reforms are in there that's really important. >> republicans are keeping up their full-court press on

president obama's health care plan. on our sister network cnn this morning, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell defended the opposition to the president's plan. >> i don't know anybody in my republican coveranference in th senate that is not in favor of doing something. we have a cost problem and an access problem. but there's a big difference on whether or not it's important to have a major rewrite of one-sixth of our economy in the process. my members don't think that's the right way to go. we want to fix the health care system but we don't want to do half a trillion dollar over ten-year cut in medicare not to make medicare more sustainable but to start a new program for others. we don't think it's a good idea to raise taxes on small businesses and on individuals in the heart of a recession. there are serious differences about what ought to be done.

>> for hln i'm karen maginnis. the deep south suffering with the rainfall once again. this area of low pressure slow to make its way toward the northeast and it is really tapped that moisture especially from the gulf but as it makes its way a little bit farther, some of that wet weather heads into it the tennessee river valley and into the ohio river basin. kind of a different story taking place across the west with two angles here. one across the northern rockies. much cooler than it was just 24 hours ago. temperatures were in the 90s. i'll show you that example. look at these readings across much of montana. billings, temperatures in the 90s. well, coming up for sunday afternoon, those readings will probably be in the 50s and 60s. in the deep south, temperatures cooler than it should be for this time of year. a nice day in new york city with 74. billings, 65. but right around the san francisco bay area, temperatures are going to be hot.

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edwards earlier this month after it was waved off from a florida landing due to bad weather. moving the shuttle back to kennedy space center will cost more than $1.5 million. the "discovery" had just finished a two-week supply mission to the international space station. an unbelievable story out of new jersey. the father of a 4-year-old boy is in jail because the boy shared cocaine with friends at a day care. police say the man put several baggies in his son's jacket after police nearly caught him with it. his son shared the drugs with three other 4 year olds at a day care. apparently because his father told him it was candy. a teacher called the police after seeing a girl with a baggy in her mouth. luckily none of the kids were injured. wright is in jail on $400,000 bail. he's facing child endangerment and drug charges. generations of americans have struggled with issues of race. a new generation is entering school this year with a whole lot of questions unanswered. researchers are just starting to learn what children know about

race and when they know it. what they're discovering raises profound questions about how they and their parents perceive racial differences in the 21st century. dave scott of austin, texas, has more. >> reporter: babies as young as six months notice our color differences staring longer of photos of people who are longer. a study of 5 year olds asked them to sort children's photos into two stacks. 16% did it by gender. 68% by race. the studies on children and race are contradictory. putting kids in a diverse mix with others can be positive but it also points out difference between them. parents talking to their young children about race can be a positive but it can also plant racial concepts in a child's mind where none existed. it used to be thought children only noticed race whether society pointed it out. now scientists aren't sure. what's a parent to do?

dawn johnson has a 2 year old. >> i think it is a quandary because if you start pointing it out to children from the very early age even if you have the best interests, you're still pointing out differences. >> reporter: parents can't always control the influenced on their child. if we didn't put emphasis on race maybe it wouldn't be a big deal. >> if children develop racial attitudes at an early age, why do you think it is? >> it can be because of outside influences. family, friends. >> reporter: studies show children naturally gravitate toward people like themselves. only 8% of white high schoolers have a best friend of another race. blacks are more comfortable talking about it. 75% of black parents bring up race with their kindergarteners. only 25% of whites do the same. and kids remember those talks. >> it's all different colors in the world but either way it goes you should treat people the same

no matter what. >> you have close contact with your grandparents, your grandparents will talk about the stories and stuff like that. you would develop some kind of separation but in a way that hurts us. >> reporter: the lessons of a child. david scott, austin. a man won almost $4,000 for stuffing his face with burritos and grits in back-to-back eating contests. there they go. in louisiana bob ate 19 pounds of grits in ten minutes yesterday. looks appetizing. he won $2,200. on friday he won $1,500 for eating 33.5 burritos in ten minutes. at another competition in new mexico. next weekend he heads to tennessee for a hamburger eating contest. the winner there gets $20,000. former cia chiefs want president obama to shut down an investigation of the agency. the president has his own ideas about it we'll let you know what they are on hln news and views.

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the fbi makes arrest as it investigates a terror plot. so far no one is charged with terrorist activity. who they are and what they're accused of. president obama hits the sunday morning talk show circuit. what he's saying about a bill that's reshaping the health care debate. we have shown you a lot of interesting video but none grittier than this you could say. you won't believe how many pounds of grits the winner of this eating contest managed to consume. good sunday to you. you're watching "hln news and views." so glad you are. i'm susan hendricks. we're learning more about the three men arrested in a wide ranging investigation of an alleged terrorist plot within the u.s. national security correspondent jeanne meserve tells us what

investigators have discovered about them. >> reporter: najibullah zazi and his father arrested in denver. ahmad wais afzali arrested in new york. all charged with lying to the fbi in the course of a terrorism investigation. according to the court document, authorities found najibullah zazi's computer nine pages of documents detailing how to build a bomb handwritten documents. according to the charging document, zazi during questioning by the fbi said he had not written them. he had not put them there. but fbi forensics and handwriting analysis indicated that he had. now, also in these documents we read that zazi has admitted to the authorities that he attended an al qaeda training camp in pakistan in 2008 at which he received weapons and explosives training. although zazi and his

attorney denied yesterday that he had made any such admission. as for the father and the man in new york, they allegedly lied to the fbi about a series of telephone calls which tipped najibullah zazi off to the fact that the fbi was investigating him. the specifics of any alleged plot to set off explosives in the u.s. are not detailed in these documents and a department of justice official says that they still do not have any specific knowledge on timing, location, or the targeting of any such attacks but this investigation is continuing. these charges allow authorities to detain these men and question them. that investigation continues around the world. jeanne meserve, cnn, denver. ed body of yale grad student annie le is back in her home state of california. a funeral home confirms it received her body but says the family has asked to keep details of the memorial service private. le's body was found behind the

wall in a lab building where she worked. lab technician raymond clark has been charged with murdering her. he's pleaded not guilty. police want to talk to a florida man about the deaths of his wife and five young children. an officer found their bodies while checking an apartment in north maples on florida's southwest coast. a relative of the dead woman contacted police because she could not reach her. police have not disclosed how the victims died but they are looking for this man. 33-year-old mesac damas. investigators say he's not considered a suspect at this time. they want to question him about the killings of his wife, four sons and daughter. police say damas may be driving a black gmc yukon denali. a florida license plate of m360pr. a massive hunt under way for a killer in washington state. the killer is confined in a mental health facility. phillip paul escaped while he and other patients were visiting

a fair. the hospital union expressed concerns about the patients who were being taken out on outings. >> questions that are being raised are absolutely appropriate and the governor and i just this morning when i spoke some of the most serious questions i have about this are the policies and procedures that led to the outing, the choice of the outing. >> paul is schizophrenic. he was found not guilty by reason of insanity back in 1987 for the slaying of an elderly woman. he briefly escaped once before in 1991 during a day trip to a washington lake. the suspect in a multiple killing in virginia performed rap songs about violent killings that he posted on the internet. there is he in custody. the 20 year old is charged with killing a virginia college professor and three other people. their bodies were discovered friday at a home in farmville outside of richmond.

police arrested the man yesterday at the airport. they say he was preparing to fly home to california. he's scheduled to appear in court tomorrow on charges of first-degree murder, robbery and auto theft. his myspace page identifies him as an aspiring rapper called psycho sam. tonight on hln news and views, a nancy grace prime time exclusive. a neighbor of the yale murder suspect speaks out. what will he say about the personality and daily activities of raymond clark behind bars for allegedly strangling annie le and hiding her body behind a lab basement wall. don't miss it. nancy grace has the latest breaking developments 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern. president obama took to the airwaves today to pitch his health care overhaul. he appeared on cnn and also cbs, nbc, abc and univision. this morning john king asked president obama if he would sign the health care bill senate finance committee chairman max baucus has proposed. take a listen.

>> that's such a hypothetical because it won't get there as is that i won't answer it but it reaches broad goals that all contain that have been produce ed to me. i would like to make sure we have that affordability buttoned down because that's one of the most important things is if we're offering people health insurance and we're saying that people have to get health insurance if it's affordable, we have to make sure it's affordable. we're helping people who have health insurance with knowing if they pay their premiums they're getting what they paid for. that's a huge problem. people not able to get insurance because of pre-existing conditions and being surprised because some fine print says that they have to pay huge out-of-pocket expenses or they hit a lifetime cap. all of those reforms are in there. that's really important. >> republicans are keeping up their full-court press on

president obama's health care plan. on our sister network this morning, mitchell mcconnell defended the gop's opposition to the president's plan. >> i don't know of anyone in favor of doing nothing. we have a cost problem and an access problem. there's a very big difference about whether or not it's appropriate to have a major rewrite of about one-sixth of our economy in the process. my members just don't think that's the right way to go. we want to fix the health care system but we don't want to do a half a trillion dollar over ten-year cut in medicare not to make medicare more sustainable but to start a new program for others. we don't think it's a good idea to raise taxes on small businesses and on individuals in the heart of a recession. there's some serious differences about what ought to be done.

>> i'm meteorologist karen maginnis. the deep south suffering with the rainfall once again. this area of low pressure has been very slow to make its way off to the northeast and it's really tapped that moisture especially from the gulf. as it makes its way a little bit further some of that wet weather heads into the tennessee river valley and into the ohio river basin. a different story taking place across the west with two angles here. one across the northern rockies. much cooler than it was just 24 hours ago where temperatures were in the 90s. i'll show that you example. look at these readings across much of montana. billings and bozeman. temperatures in the 90s. well, coming up for sunday afternoon, those readings will probably be in the 50s and 60s. in the deep south, temperatures a little bit cooler than it should be for this time of year. a nice day in new york city with 74. billings, 65. right around the san francisco bay area, temperatures are going to be hot.

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moving the shuttle back to kennedy space center will cost more than $1.5 million. the "discovery" had just finished a two-week supply mission to the international space station. the phones were lighting up for authorities across the northeast last night after people saw some strange lights in the sky. some people described the lights as spooky. it turns out that nasa launched a rocket in virginia around that time. the rocket was designed to create a phenomenon. scientists hope it will help them learn more about clouds which naturally form high in the atmosphere and often appear to glow with a blue light. an unbelievable story out of new jersey. the father of a 4-year-old boy is in jail because the boy shared cocaine with friends at a day care. police say the man put several baggies in his son's jacket after police nearly caught him with it.

his son shared the drugs with three other 4 year olds at a day care. apparently because his father told him it was candy. a teacher called the police after seeing a girl with a baggy in her mouth. luckily none of the kids were injured. wright is in jail on $400,000 bail. he's facing child endangerment and drug charges. your big screen flat panel tv may get flatter and bigger before you know it. jacqui jeras shows us how the next generation of big screens may run circles around today's model. >> reporter: the 2002 movie "minority report" depicts a futuristic shopping mall where every area is crammed with video screens pitching their products. >> less than a quarter inch thick. very flexible. >> reporter: richard is the ceo of an atlanta company focused on developing flexible high definition indoor advertising screens. he says that science fiction has moved closer to becoming

advertising fact. >> we have everything there but the displays. indoor advertising is growing second only to internet. >> reporter: it all started with this. >> flexible green only no video, no nothing except the concept and technology behind it with the ability to do flexible stuff. >> reporter: acquired from a university in canada, originally developed as a small flexible screen concept for personal electronics like cell phones and ipods. >> we thought it would be better for very large ten-foot and larger indoor displays that were thin, light and flexible and significantly more environmental. >> reporter: nine months later and four generations later -- >> we built this five times the size, can bend it around itself a quarter inch thick. runs on batteries. the whole thing is portable. >> reporter: they use existing technology but configured a new way to achieve the flexibility. >> our display mechanism is

stiff things in a flexible matrix. people have a lot of trouble visualizing that. one thing i use is a sequin dress on angelina jolie. the sequins don't bend but the dress forms nicely around whatever it is put on. >> reporter: initially developed for indoor advertising at places like subway stations, airports and malls, the technology can be adapted to any shape and fit any contour. >> show up in a cardboard box, stick it to the wall with velcro. >> reporter: other applications like trade show displays and military applications are in its future. jacqui jeras, cnn, atlanta. a man won almost $4,000 for stuffing his face with are burritos and grits in back-to-back eating contests. there they go. in louisiana, bob ate 19 pounds of grits in 10 minutes yesterday.

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a u.s. service member has died in a blackhawk crash in iraq. the military says the crash happened last night at the balad air base 50 miles north of baghdad. 12 other u.s. service members were injured in that crash. so far there's no word on what caused the helicopter to go down. balad air base is home to 22,000 members of the u.s. military. the military says three more u.s. troops have died in afghanistan including one that died in combat. nato says the two others died in noncombat related incidents. this year has been the deadliest for u.s. forces in afghanistan since the war began eight years ago. last month was the deadliest

month of the war for u.s. forces when 51 troops died. president obama has no plans to call off an investigation into cia interrogation practices. seven former cia directors have asked him to call off the probe of techniques employed by the agency when questioning terror suspects. the justice department is trying to determine if the cia broke the law by going beyond what the bush administration called enhanced interrogation techniques. four of the former directors served under republican presidents dating back to richard nixon. three served under president clinton. the ex-directors claim the investigation could discourage agents working on anti-terrorism operations. u.s. officials are wrong about iran's nuclear program and they know it. according to the supreme leader of the islamic republic that is. he tells state run radio

president obama is continuing to whip up fear that iranians are trying to build nuclear weapons. he insists his country is not pursuing a weapons program. the comments are the highest level response to the u.s. scrapping an anti-missile system planned for eastern europe. former president bush claimed the system would protect against the wos says he will talk to all three leaders together before they meet together. president mahmoud abbas wants settlement building to stop before he'll resume talks with israel. israel's government has ignored similar demands made by the obama administration. former gop presidential candidate mitt romney is taking aim at president barack obama. he addressed the annual values voter summit yesterday. he said the president's policies will cripple the country, and

they are fueling a political rebellion by conservatives. >> only about a year ago, there were quite a few people in this city who were ready to write off this conservative movement. they were enthralled by barack obama's promise of near biblical transformations. their legs were tingling. he spoke majestically framed by greek columns. well, he can spin a speech, but he can't spin his record. and i'll bet you never dreamed that you'd look back at jimmy carter as the good old days. >> well, romney may have not would the crowd, but it's his former conservative rival mike huckabee that has their votes. a straw poll shows huckabee is the favorite among religious conservatives to be president in 2012. the poll was conducted at the summit. huckabee topped at 28%. four people tied at second for 12%, including romney and former alaska governor sarah palin. you may know dave matthews

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