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of the day, sign up for your e-mail from me. from new york, good night america. topping the news this hour, diging throughout the ruble in jakarta. explosions that killed eight people and wounded dozens. we'll have much more on the investigation and who police think is responsible for the attack. and we continue to remember an icon in american journalism. he was considered the most trusted man in america, none other than walter cronkite. we'll continue to look at his legacy that he leaves behind. >> julie: one moment in history delivered by walter cronkite. first mission to the moon by the united states. we'll take a look back at the launch of apollo 11. we begin with a fox news
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alert. a multimurder out of tennessee. discovering five bodies in lincoln county and another one in huntsville, alabama. one person has been taken into custody. after sheriff's investigators arrived on the scene. that person is being questioned as a suspect. the man in custody has confessed to the murders. we'll keep you updated on the details of breaking story as more information comes in. >> in asia where they are getting closer to identify the homicide bombers that were behind the terror attacks in jakarta. those blasts killed eight people and wounded many others. they are sifting through the evidence inside the hotel room. reena ninan has the latest. what do they know behind the attack, someone who was carrying
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a suitcase is seeing on videotape taking it through the lobby just before the blast. >> reporter: hi eric, police are trying to piece together who would was behind this attack. the early indications are a malaysian man. he is believed to be affiliated with a breakaway group. they were involved in three previous bophz here in indonesia. police haven't officially confirmed he was behind the attack. fox news has learned among the suicide bombers was likely a female involved in the attack. we are learning more about what police have found out about the crime scene at the may be yot hotel where most of the people were killed and largest number of people injured including six americans. in room 1808 they found a cell phone. they also found a bomb encased laptop they were able to diffuse. they said they found handwritten
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notes. police are hoping this might provide new details as to why this attack was conducted and taken place. it's been years since indonesians have found themselves in the terror attacks. last week they had elections and people thought this wave of terror attacks was behind them. now, they are questioning whether this is the start of something new. today earlier this afternoon we interviewed the head of marriott's international security, the man in charge of hotel security. he said this was one of the highest security hotels, both marriott and ritz carleton. there were 40 security measures in places, cars that were checked, xr x-ray detectors and bomb sniffing devices. that has not stopped the attacks. he said that even in the u.s. congress, people will be asking questions, how did can they
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prevent attacks like this and also taking place in the u.s. to afghanistan now, the military is confirming that an. if 15 fighter jet crashed over the central part of their country. the crash killed two of the crew members. it happened earlier today. government officials is not releasing the spechblgs location of the crash. the site west of the capital of kabul. they reported there was no enemy fire and they suspect mechanical problems for this crash. it's the first american plane to go down in afghanistan in several years. >> julie: president obama putting the heat on democrats to get a health care bill on his desk now without delay and within budget. listen. >> if we don't get health care reform done now, then nowz health insurance is going to be
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secure. >> julie: molly henneberg is live, the cost is a big sticking point. what did president obama say about that today. >> molly: the congressional budget office says so far the house version of the health care reform is one trillion dollar work in progress that will add $239 billion to the deficit over ten years. president obama seems to suggest today that that won't work. >> i want to be very clear, i will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade. by helping improve quality and efficiency, the reforms that we make will help bring our deficit under control in the long term. >> molly: he was responding to the cost concerns over all, not specifically to those congressional budget office numbers. republicans say that the democrats' plan would lead to, quote, mountain of new debt and higher taxes.
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>> julie: i guess the question is, what are republicans offering then. >> molly: they say the way to reform health care is stop medicare and medicaid fraud, stop frivolous lawsuits and enable small businesses to get together and buy health insurance as large corporations do. listen to this. >> these changes do not require government takeover of the health care system, or massive new spending or rationing of care. >> molly: they say the democrat's plan is some big plot for socialized medicine or government controlled health care. >> julie: and how is this going to get done before august? >> president obama wants to build on any moment have now and after the august recess and into the fall season, members of congress started thinking about the 2010 elections and less likely to vote for some big time
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reform. republicans, they want to put a vote after the august recess and constituents go weigh in during the august recess especially in conservative districts. >> julie: molly henneberg, thank you very much, we'll be discussion the pros and cons of a health care reform deadline. stay tuned to next hour. there are seigs of strain among democratic ranks. president says it won't add to that deficit and tight time line to get it done. could his plan be delayed or even dropped? bob, managing director of the hill newspaper is here, he came out strongly supporting it but is he losing support? >> a bit of a tough week for democrats and the president with the cost projections. president obama wants to get a bill through the house and
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senate before the august recess. the house is likely to act within the few weeks, senate finance committee has not released its bill. >> eric: look at the report. it's going to raise the costs. it's going to make it even worse. president says that that's not true. how does the commander in chief, the chief executive ignore a congressional budget office report that says the plan will make things worse? >> if you talk to democrats, they are saying on one hand the bill is totally paid for, but it doesn't include payments for doctors, increasing the medicare rates for them. that is what got the american medical association to back the bill. different things we're hearing. the bottom line is that democrats need to get this moving in the next couple of weeks. if they don't, going into the august recess a lot of moderate democrats are going to get nervous. as you mentioned, a lot of moderate democrats are nervous
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how to pay for it including taxes and small big, they clearly don't wanted that. >> eric: it could tag on 8% more on business costs for those, small businesses, for example, talking about the tax rates of people who make over $250,000. they are losing traction against some of the blue dog democrats, can they get them back? >> the thing to remember is that in the house they can ram it through. they can lose up to 40 democrats in the house. the budget rules allow in the senate to only get 51 volts. there are 60 democrats in the senate. the odds are still in the democrats' side but they need to stop bickering among themselves. >> eric: you know democrats, they got three weeks? >> i think what you are going to see, senate finance committee it could be a bipartisan bill with
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grassley, house democrats are not going like. so the bickering could continue. >> eric: with those senators, do you think they have the trust of some republicans that both sides can somehow potentially get together with a more moderate conservative proposal? >> i don't think they have the backing of their leaders necessarily. if they get together, baucugs and grassley are behind each other, leadership is not behind either one of them. nancy pelosi is not going to be behind what they want. some democrats say it's could go well into the fall. >> eric: that means after the recess, more delays and longer it goes, probably more objections they'll be. >> julie: california lawmakers say they may be days away from solving the state's billion dollar budget crisis. a bipartisan deal could come this weekend.
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democrats say they made huge progress with their governor, governor swarzenegger. they were deadlocked whether to slash more spending or raise taxes, plunge plunges go taxes is being blamed for causing the budget deficit. >> national governors association kicking off an annual meeting today in mississippi. last time it was held there is 1935, half the nation's governors are staying home. live from biloxi, why so many no shows? >> in some cases, scheduling conflicts. mark sabford opted to take his family on vacation. many other cases, it's budget problems back home. in fact, the chairman of the national governors association, ed rendell is back in
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pennsylvania grappling with budget issues. instead he addressed the opening of this conference. they face serious budget problems and many of them thought it better to work them out at home. >> julie: what are the major issues that these governors are discussing? >> the economy is going to be first and foremost. in particular, federal stimulus. many of the governors are operating under balanced budget legislation and using federal stimulus dollars to shore up deficits. they are trying to brainstorm and come up with new stluigsz make ends meet. >> julie: biloxi was supposed to host the do not know 2006. what happened? >> unfortunately that was a year from hurricane katrina in 2005. this area where i'm standing during hurricane katrina and the storm surge was under 20 feet of
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water. the new convention center is a testament to the recovery and governor haley barber of mississippi hopes this conference will showcase how far the state has come. >> julie: jonathan, thank you very much. >> eric: remembering an icon of the 20th century, we're remembering walter cronkite passed away last night. he was 92. to many he represented everything that is good about journal. and the profession, honesty and integrity, he was long considered the most trusted man in america. the tribute continues to pour in. laura ingle, we all felt like we really knew him and trusted him. >> absolutely. i just got off the phone with his son chip. he wanted me to relate that the family thanked all the tributes and condolences that have been
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coming in. while it's a difficult time, making it much easier on the family. he says thanks. then he did consider kron kite, uncle walter delivering the news to the nation. to family members and friends he was a wonderful father, grandfather and an amazing man who gave incredible insight year after year. world leaders are reflecting on his career and life. walter kron kite and ed morrow redefined what news was. >> walter was more than an anchor. he it was someone that we could guide through the most important issues of the day. >> we have a statement to share with you from cronkite's long time colleague dan rather, after a brave and distinguished career
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as a newspaper correspondent he was among those that pioneered journalism. he set the standard expanding the public's connection to the big stories of his time. for the rest of us, who grew up and saw him reporting from the front lines of world events likes vietnam and being the voice of authority on the first to report president kennedy's death in 1963. he reported on some of the darkest hours of our nation's history. he took along the magnificent rides. he will be remembered this week in a private snvs new york. according to his family it will be thursday and then they'll be a large service coming up from cbs news first part of august. >> eric: i speak for all of us, our sympathies go out to the kron kite family at this time.
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>> julie: sweltering heat in the southeast causing problems for arizona firefighters. in 115-degree heat, we have stations set up with cold water. one firefighter was taken to the hospital due to the extreme heat. is there any relief on the way. domenica davis has a look at the nation's weather. >> it's in the 80s here but out in the west, couple days now. tomorrow the heat sticks around and it's going to go down just a little bit. it will get down to the hundred degree marks where we're close to 110 in many spots. death valley, they could get to 120. so this is some very extreme heat. we do have heat warnings and we'll see them pop up again on sunday.
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here is what we're looking at for current temperatures. in and around this area, these thunderstorms are trying to pop up. we do have a little bit of rain over to the west and down to the south. that is where all the warm moist air is. out to the west, it's very dry. the problem is, dry thunderstorms are going to be possible. dry thunderstorms means lightning but no rain and that would only be a problem to the fires that are now population up in parts of desert southwest. we'll keep talking bit and we do have the lightning tracker and i don't see much happening over the last few hours. they'll be a risk half dry thunderstorm through the remainder of the afternoon and into the evening. >> julie: i'm not complaining about the 80s. >> you are too. >> julie: i'm not at all, it doesn't do great for the hair but i'm not complaining about the humidity.
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>> eric: tributes keep coming in from walter cronkite. we heard from laura ingle, but the family is thanking everyone. >> a news man to the core, one of the producers who was at his side, she will up join us next. taking its rightful place
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♪ i hope you dance . . . ♪ i hope you dance. ♪ i hope you dance. ♪ hope you dance. ♪ hope you dance. ♪ hope you dance. >> eric: let's take a look at some of the stories making news. two members of space shuttle crew, they are attaching a platform outside. is there an outside in space? i guess there is. for a science experiment and they are expected to be out there for six hours and four
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spacewalks before those guys and gals return to earth. >> u.s. military confirming that two american crewmen were killed after a jet crashed in south afghanistan. mechanical failure is expected the cause. >> pope benedict broke his wrist, he fell. a spokesman says the most trying challenge for the pope is having to give up writing by hand. >> julie: he was quite simply the best of the best. type of news man all journalists aspire to be. we remember walter kron kite. he passed away last night. for decades he brought us news. world's triumphs and tragedies. some of us who was fortunate to work with him, executive producer of 48 hours. she brings us very interesting piece of history. we'll get to that in a moment. susan thank you so much for
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talking to us. i have to honest i heard you on another network and i asked you to bring you on. your story was my favorite i heard all day. you have the greatest teacher in the world. your first memory when meeting with walter cronkite, people stood? >> i consider myself one of disciples of walter cronkite. we search for a core value and in the proliferation of news, to have a single voice. that was walter was all about. as a kid, i was a kid. i was in college and working at cbs and going back to the dorms at night. he set the standard. he was about finding the core truth. he was about the story. the story was never about the journalist. in watergate when i was hired, this was a time when journalism
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was very powerful. we were holding people accountable. when you work for walter, if he called you, i saw grown men get scared in the newsroom. he represented the core value of what still is the standard today, but in a time that was easier to have a voice and he did. >> julie: we've been asking our viewers what their fondest memories were of walter cronkite. obviously the night he announced 'president kennedy was killed and richard nixon resignation. but your experience personally that night but let's roll a clip and bring some memories for you. go ahead and roll it. >> the vice president, mr. ford will become president at noon as we have said. he has already hard at work in putting his new government together. >> you were there that night when he delivered that script which he wrote himself.
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he got off the air, he threw it in the trash can and what did you do? >> i was the production secretary, soon to be researcher and working for kron kite in washington. don't you want this pieces of history. he said it's not necessary. so i took it out of the trash so i can hold it up so you can see it. it's a walter's script. he definitive writer, it was written by charlie russ, but the 37th president of united states died today. this is what cronkite embodied. we have a special tomorrow night that's the way it was, remembering walter cronkite. what he was and what we tried to do, it wasn't just a great journalist.
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but he took the country through its history. it was very comforting fact. if i can, i would like to read the last couple of lines of this. >> julie: please, do. >> he said, i'm eve of the bicentennial, the united states has passed through a day of historic drama, a day that many citizens had been waiting for dread, that would shred the fabric of the society. in his acceptance speech, long national nightmare is over. our constitution worked and great recipe is a government of laws, not of men. here, the people rule. this is walter cronkite, good night. >> julie: i get chills, i just got chills when you read that. >> you know, when lyndon johnson had left office, this is another remarkable story.
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walter had gotten a call from his press secretary, former press secretary. when they came back from the commercial they were in the middle of the evening news he got the details that johnson had died. one minute, one minute, i'm getting information here, he continues the phone call for at least 13 seconds, he hangs up, turns to the audience, i have just been on the phone with lyndon johnson's press secretary he has died. he was about to get the story and getting the facts. those that walk the halls of cbs whether it's at fox or any other networks in the world we live in we emptying body what he was. -- we embody what he was. >> susan the day he was journal identified the one we're in.
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today we have computers, facebook and we have twitter, i just want to read one twitter message that touched me. i think it's so interesting because of technology, without all this technology. i want to read it. i'm quoting here, walter cronkite will be known as the patron saint of broadcast journalism. >> that is exactly right. the reality today, today's fortune is the technology. so many more people have so much more information. that is fantastic. but the hardest part is having a voice, a distinctive voice. sometimes i think walter didn't realize we impacted, maybe when we came back from vietnam and he did that series of pieces. his commentary, it was more commentary, he was very concerned how he ended these pieces. he questioned the war. it was really very important
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moment of the country. lyndon johnson turned to his cabinet, if i've lost walter cronkite, i've lost the war. >> that takes some nerve to be a commentator as well as as a journal identified and very fine line that all will learn from by lacking back. susan, much success to your future. what a great story you had. >> thank you. >> eric: they talk about integrity and em consequence, walter cronkite had it all. he had a pipe on his show and those little window and i would be like, there is walter kron kyle. just amazing. also we're remembering apollo 11.
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we're learning new details. coming up, we talk to the author of a new book that uncovers apollo's secret history. the doctor diagnosed arthritis in my right knee. but with aleve, i don't have to worry about my knees hurting. only two aleve can stop pain all day. that would take three times as many tylenol arthritis pain. aleve works for me.
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>> eric: fox alert, one suspect now has been nabbed in the two-state murder spree, both in alabama and tennessee. this comes after five bodies were found in fayetteville tennessee and over the border. one body was found there. authorities in tennessee say they have arrested jacob lee schaffer. no word on what possible motive in the murder spree that has left six people dead in two states on this saturday. we'll bring you the very latest as soon as we get more information on what caused this, who they are and what happened. 40 years after apollo 11 walked on the face of the moon.
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we're still learning more details about the historic mission. did you know that kneel armstrong had one minute of fuel left when he was looking for a spot to land on the moon? author craig nelson uses declassified files, "rocket man," which is out now. welcome. >> i'm honored to be with you. >> eric: it's amazing, you don't know how many shuttle missions, we don't know the names of most of the astronauts, yet apollo is burned into our memory. everyone remembers that moment when armstrong landed on the moon? >> i certainly do because i was an eagle scout in idaho. saying hello to us on the way to the moon. >> him and buzz and michael he is the only astronaut of three that spoke to you. why do you think that armstrong,
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had who is such an icon, talk about a hero, how come he doesn't speak out more? >> it's his personality. he is terribly shy, reserved man. he spends a lot of time living inside his head. his real career was as a military test pilot. that is the time he was happiest in his life. i think he literally dreamed of flying all the time when he is sitting on the ground. >> eric: you talk about the secrets, if he didn't get that down there, lunar module, something could have happened? >> there so much that went off. they were thrown four miles. he was using charts and maps from four miles. he had no idea what he was doing. the computer had malfunctioned funding and was getting overloaded. they were running out of gas.
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it was just unbelievable, hair-raising story. he did it. that is the sign of a genius pilot, that he got the first moon landing. >> eric: he was doing it manually? >> yes, sir. >> and they looked out the window, how did he know what to look for? >> they sort of tilted forward you could look out the window and tilt and land like a helicopter. they are landing on the tail of a rocket. >> eric: famous words, one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. didn't he miss something in that? >> he said that he said it and tape did not pick it up. we his forians put the "a" in preferential line. when he settled his ship down,
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the shock absorbers and legs did not deploy and bottom of the ladder is three and a half feet from the surface. >> eric: so he had to make a little jump. >> not quite a small step. >> it's a testament to our country and the bravery of nasa and the astronauts. just a terrific book, rocket man some of the secret history. a lot of new information about apollo 11. craig, thank you for joining us. >> julie: america is bleeding jobs, new data showing the unemployment rate hit double digits in 15 states. michigan, with the hardest hit. unemployment there is above 15%. last time the state saw numbers that high, ronald reagan was president. is there any end in sight? let's bring in ed, managing
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partner of capital investment. thank you so much for talking to us. these numbers are very alarming. white house had feared that we would see a 10% unemployment number when about a week ago we were 8.5%. that was predicted for the summer. 15% in michigan, did the white house see that coming? >> i'm not sure what they saw coming. something to remember, this is a very simple problem to understand. it's not a simple problem to fix. for everyone watching, it's important to note that the economy is leading indicator basically of where it's going to go. if the economy is slow, unemployment is going to be very high. usually three and nine months is really the range. when the economy is bad, three months later, you're going to start to see unemployment rise. when it starts to pick up, six to nine months before hiring starts to pick up. we're in a bad state, but i
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think we're pretty close to the high in unemployment. >> julie: unemployment is one of the biggest dangers to an economic recovery. what is it going to change in and what is going to take for businesses to feel confident to start hiring again? >> first thing is going to be time. let's remember this. things have proved to be not as bad as people thought they were going to be. there is a little bit of that. people are starting to feel a little lighter on their feet. you can see that in the sentiment numbers and retail sales but it's all about the economy. when the economy picks up, we'll start seeing jobs being offered and people taking those jobs and see the economy to ramp up quite a bit. it will take time. for anyone right now that is looking for a job and had looked for one three months ago, get back out there again. >> julie: interestingly, medical costs alone are very expensive.
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medical costs are responsible for the jobless numbers because business owners don't want to hire if they don't need to. health care costs are so expensive. the white house says health care reform cannot waited. how would mandatory healthcare reform affect the numbers? >> that is going to take quite a while. i have a small business. it is a deterrent to me for hiring people. so i'm not sure how long it will take to really be implemented. we have to do something about the health care costs because it will be keeping people from hiring people. i close to 30% of what i have to pay somebody. we don't pay that much, but 30% of what we pay and it infections us quite a bit. >> julie: i do want to report the positive, north dakota, lowest unemployment and followed by nebraska and south dakota at
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5.1%. those high numbers are very alarming. ed, thank you so much. >> eric: a tour buses burst into flames on a california freeway. passengers are still on board, the prior to actually spread to nearby homes. what happened as firefighters battle the flames. >> julie: economic downturn is big business for dollar stores. are you really getting a good deal out there? dollar store frips customer reports next. this woman was limited by
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her lack of mobility. a month ago this man wasn't even able to get around his house. these are people who chose mobility. and they chose the scooter store. if you're living with limited mobility, call the scooter store today. i guarantee, no other company will work harder to make you mobile. if we pre-qualify you for a new scooter or power chair and medicare denies your claim, the scooter store allows you to keep your scooter or power chair at no cost. that's the scooter store guarantee. i expected they'd help me file some paperwork with medicare and my insurance. i never expected them to be so nice ...or work so hard to get me a power chair at no cost to me. you don't qualify for medicare? no problem. we'll work with your insurance company, even help with financing. if there's a way, we'll find it. call the scooter store for free information today.
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both cost the same. but only the new pringles super stack can makes everything pop. the choice is yours. one hundred these, or one hundred pringles. same cost, but a lot more fun. everything pops with the new pringles super stack can. >> julie: tour bus catches fire in southern california, look at the flames and black smoke there. it quickly spreads to nearby brush and raced up a hillside. nine passengers and a driver were on board. all of them are okay. fire crews managed to keep
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flames from the homes. >> eric: humidity help, you probably heard of world vision international. th it took in millions of dollars for its mission but all of the cash went into the pockets of some of its workers. casey has the latest. what are we talking about here. >> reporter: it's not a small number. $1.4 million worth of relief supplies, supplies that were purchased with u.s. taxpayer dollars, it was intended to go to liberia, a nation in africa that experienced civil war for two decades, a war-torn region, but world vision got a tip there was fraud going on. that something wasn't right. an investigation was launched. those auditors found that only 9% of the food and supplies made it's a way to the people who need it the most.
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other 91%, they were allegedly sold by three world vision employees in liberia for their own profit. what is more, construction materials also stolen as well, those materials were intended to rebuild war-torn villages. investigators say those employees used the materials and the labor to renovate their own lavish homes there. it's really sad especially when you consider all the problems the region had. >> i find that really shameful. what have they done to fix it? >> shameful and despicable. they launched new rules. they say they are going to do tougher background checks on 40,000 employees worldwide. they do humanitarian work in hundred different work and they have launched surprise inspections in all of those
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countries. auditors going in to make sure the supplies are purchased and they are delivered and that the help is getting in to the right hands. >> eric: casey, thanks. >> julie: looking to cut costs, dollar store has great deals. are you getting the best bang for your buck. we'll search for answers straight ahead. (mom) soon, we'll be doing homework,
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getting up early, packing lunches and running for the bus. and we're ready for it. because we took all our lists and we went to walmart. since walmart checks other store's prices... i didn't have to. that means we got home in time... for just a little more summer -- and for one last night of lightning bugs.
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[baby dinosaurs laugh] sid: [laughs] ha ha, no, stop, stop. back to school >> julie: check on headlines, on the heels of a deadly attack in indonesia, president obama is offering support in the investigation. secretary of state hillary clinton defending u.s. demands that countries do more to combat terrorism. she met with survivors of last year's mumbai attacks that left 156 dead. america is mourning the loss of
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most trusted man in america. walter cronkite passing away at his home last night. he was 92. >> eric: it seems like is looking for a good deal these days and business is booming. >> julie: but sit really a steal or a deal? from consumer reports, they sent people to find out. when i hear dollar store, i can pay one dollar, that is not the case. i didn't think so. what are the best items to buy? >> a lot of items are very good. we actually looked at several different items. what we found in case dollar store was among the cheapest. when you go in there and purchased non-food or non-drug items, wrapping paper we got it for two cents a square foot.
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in some places you could find it for 17 cents a square foot. reynolds wrap, 2 cents a square foot. so these kinds of items are great to buy at the dollar store. the only item we found out of items that we shopped for that was more expensive was tissue paper. it was ten times the price of other places. it's one of those oddball things. if you are not buying food or drugs or anything, dollar stores are a great deal. >> eric: what stuff should you not buy? >> we sent a safety expert and what he found was bad surprises. many items were, if they are drugs, they were expired. also in the past with samples of vitamins we tested did not have the nutrients listed on the labeling. also many children's toys, small items you might want to buy for
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party favors or choking hazards. some of them say they are choking hazards. >> julie: what is that right there? >> its musical instrument. this small enough to fit in a child's throat. don't give it to children under three but children closer to eight may have problems with that. also lighters is another bad thing. this lighter actually had a safety latch for children on it, but when you turned it on it didn't go on. also other electrical items we found had wrong safely labels on them so don't by lanlsz and those kinds of things. >> eric: my question, how do they do it, how do they get this stuff down to less an dollar? >> they are buying things that
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other stores aren't selling. sometimes they are brand names, sometimes they are off brands. sometimes they are from foreign countries. >> eric: is that the gray market? >> it could be gray market goods exactly. >> julie: and how much can i buy off of you, how much is that? >> this i think is penny per pad. at cbs we found it for 3.5 cents a pad. >> those are great. cotton swabs, you never removed your makeup with these, eric. the men around here use baby wipes. so are so manly around here. i'm only kidding.
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>>. >> eric: walter kron kite, just passed away and everyone is sending thoughts, tributes and his career. we will look back at that career, what he did, his accomplishments and the lives of all of us that he touched. wwww (music plays)
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president obama naming more than 30 czars to the job usually handled by congressionally confirmed cabinet chiefs. where is the oversight here? we take a closer look. >> health care commissioner. >> reporter: a day after health committee rolled out a proposal for health care reform, republicans complained it would add to the number of czars in the obama administration. criticism of the czars crosses party lines. democratic senator robert byrd warned in a letter to the president, the accumulation of power by white house staff and threaten the constitutional system of checks and balances. georgia republican congressman kingston promised legislation to address what he called a -- says diminishes the senate's advice and consent role. another senator doesn't see a constitutional issue, but is concerned the president may be breaking his promise of transparency. >> by creating all of these czars that are insulated from
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accountability whose work is not transparent, he's moving in exactly the opposite direction. >> since some of the positions don't require confirmation hearing, congress loses some of its oversight ability. a third of the czar positions do require senate confirmation and this man says few of the remaining czars would ignore a congressional invitation to testify. >> i don't see the slightest as a constitutional issue, but a continuation of the wonderful tensions built right into the constitution between the executive and legislation. >> reporter: he says what we're seeing are the political concerns of republicans worried that a powerful president with a congressional majority will further erode their minority status. but senator collins says there are issues of accountability. >> who is in charge of health care? is this a secretary of health and human services or is it the white house czar? who is in charge of environmental and energy issues?

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