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security. let's get to david piper who is in baghdad. actually, it sounds like we just lost our connection. gregg: the first hurricane of the atlantic season proven to be very dangerous. hurricane bill picking up waters as it moves across the atlantic ocean. we have a new update on the expected truck. for more on that, we go to janice dean. >> this storm is textbook right now. take a look at that eye. all four quadrants are filling out. there is really nothing in the storm's wake, so we could see a category 5 storm. as you mentioned, we have brand new information from the national hurricane center.

it is moving a bit quicker to the west northwest. the track does not change much in the next few days. remember, the cone of uncertainty is still a long me kate, area. new england, you should be paying attention to this. most people are predicting that this will move out into the ocean, but we still need to keep an eye on this. the cone of uncertainty is always several hundred miles wide. category 3 storm by sunday. that is still a major hurricane.

of interaction until they get closer to the northeast coast line, and then maybe bermuda needs to be looking out. we are talking about temperatures anywhere from 85 degrees and greater. depth of the water is also deep, so that will lead to more into syndication. there are the computer models. they are agreeing that this will come close to bermuda but we also have to pay close attention to the new england coast, especially our friends in canada. here's a quick look at your water temperatures, especially along the coast. you can see dead deeper shade of red as the storm gets closer to bermuda. we are well within the realm of possibility that we could be talking -- talking about a

category five. back to you. jane: now we want to get to the white house where they are firing bass at reports that democrats are preparing to go at it alone to get health care reform done. in a briefing that just wrapped up, the white house says they will work with anyone to get things done. mike emanuel and is at the white house. what is the message? >> the president has not given up on getting health care reform done. he is in touch with leaders on the senate finance committee and is not giving up hope in terms of saying that we have to go it alone, in terms of the democrats. war begins pushing back, saying that the president is prepared to work with anyone, anywhere, to get it done, and also suggesting if you look at the comments at these town hall meetings, they may not be on

board with health care reform, but they believe that some are still working on a plan. jane: others will be speaking to religious leaders about health care. >> you are right. he wants to broaden the base of support. if he can get religious leaders on board, maybe it will help their effort. they are reading the polls and see that it is down. if he can get some religious leaders on board, it could be a worthwhile effort. jane: he is supposed to go on vacation. any plans to cut that chore because of the debate? >> no, they will have their surrogates doing their work and certain members must pay back to stay connected. at this point there are no plans to cut the vacation short. do not anticipate it to disrupt

the work in the meantime. gregg: now for a quick check on wall street. the dow jones on the downside, down 12 points. in the meantime, we have got some news that will impact all of your drivers. with me now is called mcshane. >> -- connell mcshane. >> oil inventories went down more than expected, which means that there is more than expected on the market. right now we are a bit off of the high yesterday of $71, but we locate -- keep a look on that we keep an eye on that. you are right that the chinese markets were spooked. a lot of people were looking for

china to pull us out of this economic hardship, so people look at that closely. all told, we thought we would be done more at the open. gregg: volume looks little low. it is kind of the dog days of summer, and that only drives a larger swings? >> that is right. volume has been pretty light. it continues to be. gregg: thank you. jane: back to baghdad where we are learning 86 people have been killed in a wave of bombings. it is being called the deadliest attack since our troops largely mature from the iraqi cities. let's get back to david piper. our bureau was damaged, but thankfully no one was hurt.

these were coordinated attacks? >> clearly, they were coordinated. they happen within a few minutes of each other. first, the finance ministry was in in the north of the city. when they hit the foreign ministry a couple minutes later, that is only 500 meters from where i am now. that was a huge blast that ripped the windows from some of the buildings nearby. cars were thrown about, scores of people were killed. it could have been much worse, we understand. there was a truck bomb that was a secondary attack. think the way, iraqi security forces have managed to diffuse that bomb, too. jane: what should we be looking for? how significant is this? >> it is significant because the

government has been saying that they had control of security in baghdad, but this destroys that. they were talking about bringing down the blast walls. this was really an attack at the heart of the government, hitting the finance and foreign ministry. it put into question now the whole capabilities of security forces because we understand one of these bonds got through the security barrier, right next to the security ministry before exploding. jane: thank you for the update. gregg: new developments to tell you about in the shooting death of a border agents. robert rosas was shot a total of eight times, including four times in the head. he was tracking illegal immigrants along the border.

mexican authorities detained five people including one directly linked to the attack by a fellow smuggling suspect. the fbi, no has yet to announce any arrests. jane: the search is on for a killer in los angeles. a swimsuit model was found dead in stock in a suitcase. police would like to speak to a reality television show contestant.

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you are urged to contact police. jane: with a reality tv show contestant is now wanted for questioning after a former swimsuit model he was dating has turned up dead. she was 28 years old and her body was found in a trash bin in orange county, california. police believe she was strangled. she was last seen with this reality television star. on the telephone with us now is a reporter for the "l.a. times." there are a lot of stories that the two had been married in vegas. what have you found out about? >> this is one of the things that police are looking at. i asked the mother about that yesterday and she said she was not sure if it was legitimate but they had been together since march. she said there did not seem to

be anything unusual about the relationship and that she was stunned that her daughter turned up dead. jane: it sounds like she reported her missing after they had left to go into a poker tournament. what do we know about the last time she was seen? >> apparently they were all at the apartment together. they laughed together and were going to drive down to san diego. she gets a phone call on monday saying essentially they identify her daughter. one of the things police have to do now is pieced together who might have saw them together, whether they even made it to san diego, and clearly, the main person they want to talk to his

missing himself. jane, where do they believe he is? he is a canadian national? >> yes, his family is in the real-estate business up there. phone calls that we made to various people said that they have not seen him. he had been in the los angeles area for many months. so there is a local investigation as well as detectives dispatched to try to figure something else out. jane: does he have a criminal past? >> nothing that we have been able to turn up. the police, obviously one of the things they will be looking at it is if there was anything going on in the los angeles area. something police talked about yesterday that seemed unusual was, obviously, her car is missing but a license plate from his car may have been placed on her car and they believe that he

could be driving her car somewhere. although he is a person of interest, a tort is, either through a lawyer or by himself, has not been contacted. jane: let us know if you hear anything else. gregg: breaking news in the michael jackson case. harris faulkner has the details. >> the doctor at the center of the investigation, dr. conrad murray, and our sister network in los angeles is breaking this news. they have a good source that says dr. conrad murray is expected to be charged in the next week or two -- the wanted to do it sooner, but investigators have one more place to gather information. he is based in houston.

they have already gone there. they have searched jackson's property, and they went to las vegas looking for evidence there as well because he had a clinic there and had done some work. what is interesting is he will not be the only doctor that will be charged in los angeles ticket the attorney -- district attorney courts. they could be looking at arnold klein. that is a fairly new name. those charges could be related to medical malpractice. conrad murray has really been at the center of this. there was in video posted that his legal team set up intended for his family and friends, but everyone saw it, of course. he said, thank you for the messages but i cannot really return them.

can listen to any of that now? >> god bless you, and thank you. >> there he is thinking his supporters. gregg, are an attorney. prosecutors wanted to go for more than what they're charging him for. gregg: murder would have included planning and premeditation but manslaughter fits the pattern. if you engage in reckless conduct or illegal conduct and someone dies as a result of it, under california law, that is manslaughter. you hear dr. conrad murray saying the truth will prevail, but the truth maybe he was giving drugs away recklessly. >> in fact, foxnews.com said

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gregg: the battle over health care reform may force democrats to go it alone. they are facing strong resistance not just from republicans, moderates and their own party deeply worried about the cost and size of government involvement, but the white house hopes to reach a deal that both sides can agree on. there is word that democrats may

try to push through a bill on their own when they get back from summer recess. joining me now is a former adviser to joe biden. also with me is monica crowley. good to see you both. take a look at this. pretty astonishing numbers. almost 60% of american to not think congress should pass a health care plan supported only by democrats. would it be a mistake to do so? >> i do not think the white house, congress, or leadership can pass a bill, only the white house. the reason why is because you need moderate members of both parties to do something of this magnitude. if this were easy and could have been shoved through a republican majorities in the 1980's, 1990's, it would have been done. the fact is it is complex and it is a very emotional issue as well.

it will require people from both sides of the aisle to get it done. gregg: in his radio and web address, the president was abundantly clear -- then over the weekend, the president said it is not really essential. kathleen sebelius said the same thing. then yesterday all of a sudden the warehouse says it is essential. i am getting whiplash. is this a president like and clarity, conviction, or both? >> the american people and even members of the democratic party are getting whiplashed. this is chaos. this was not supposed to be hard for democrats. they have controlled the white house since january and they have huge majorities in

congress. now it has come to the point where the american people have seen the details, as far as what we know in the house bill, and there are rejecting it. you have all of this fighting within the democrats, with the blue dogs, and now you have the liberals angry over whether or not there will be a public option. gregg: as we look at the capitol, robert, you are down in washington, d.c. i am sure you have heard the story saying that there are mystified that liberal democrats decided to make the public option their waterloo. why is that surprising? it was the president who first insisted on a public option. >> this is not chaos but democracy.

this is how we make public policy in this country. 1969 was the summer of love and 2009 is the summer of disinformation. what happened in august was inactive campaign to take us away from the core issues that mattered to people. gregg: the president said he needed a public option. now he is saying he does not need to have it. >> we need an option that pushes costs down for everyone. whether it is a public auction, a co-op, for public option, that is what the administration is for. so are republicans going to be a part of the conversation or are they going to often, which is a political strategy, or are they just going to be the party of no and roll with the dice?

gregg: i have to be fair because rahm emanuel is making the following point. he has accused republicans of being strident and stonewalling on issues because he claims republicans care more about opposing the president then helping americans who are bereft of health care. does he have a point? >> what a shocker. a couple of weeks ago he floated a trial balloon that the democrats would go ahead on their own with this plan. it is chaos because the democrats are only dominant emotion tim, dc. they can do what ever they want. republicans put forward some meaningful free market based solutions to the health care situation. they have alternatives. they do not have the votes, so the question is, what is the right path for americans? republicans will not sign onto a host of a government takeover of health care which will

destroy quality of care, access to your doctor, create rationing, and create all kinds of difficult situation that americans are not used to endow rejecting. >> this is what they have been pushing all summer. the bipartisan opportunity in the senate finance committee -- >> [unintelligible] gregg: we have to leave it there. thank you very much. in jane: imagine being told to stay in your house or else. curfew is not just for kids. 11 mayor is putting taxpaying grown up in his city on lockdown. gregg: and something new for this groom. he interrupted his own winning snowshoe to take on the mighty mississippi. jane, we're also reporting that

michael jackson's personal doctor will be charged with manslaughter potentially in the next week. we just got off the phone with the jackson family.

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of "60 minutes" the longest running prime-time bird -- broadcast in history. he began his career in 1948 for cbs news and spent his professional lifetime between various presidential debates among other news. he became an executive producer of the cbs evening news. he began the eighth time emmy award winning show "60 minutes" back in 1968. a familiar face in the infamous tobacco industry scandal. he was portrayed in the movie, "the insider" by the actor phil hall. he stepped down as executive producer in 2004. as we mentioned, he won an emmy

award eight times. he is the author of the books as well. he chronicled his life as a newsman. he is also the owner -- author of the book "minute by minute" looking at the history of "16 minutes. he was honored last year with edwin r. murrow's award. he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in march of 2009. today he has passed away in his home in new york where he used to spend many a summer. connie chung is with us on the telephone. tell us more about this settlement in news. talk to us about don hewitt, his impact on television. >> i must tell you, i am so

shocked. i just saw him at walter cronkite's funeral, and he looked frail, but was still able to have the brightness in his eyes, that created brightness that he had. he was the most creative executive producer in television news, i think. oddly, you would think if you become an executive producer, you would have to be creative. that is really not the case in television news. many producers are organized, but they do not have any vision, per say. he had the most incredible vision about news and creating a very watchable program.

of course, that is what he did with "60 minutes." history goes way back. of course, he was a director early on. so it was a combination of directing and producing that made him the best of all time. i really believe that. he directed the debate between kennedy and nixon. in that classic debate where nixon was perspiring and kennedy looked good. i remember done saying, he kept saying, mr. nixon, i really think you should wear some makeup. nixon would say, no, i am not going to. it really profoundly affected his appearance. gregg: let me ask you about "60

minutes." he will always be associated with the. it was not just the visuals. i think he created that close-up shot of people's faces in interviews in which you could not even see their hair because it was so close. that must a wonderful invention and everyone tried to copy but he was a masterful storyteller. >> that is really a good way to put it. he told stories. but he also created the black hat, white hat concept of the news. in other words, you create a good guy in the bad guy basically by the way you tell the story. the good guys were really the ones certain for truth and the

bad guys were the ones that were creating havoc with the ordinary man. i think everyone favored -- of course, you have to be on the right side of right, and you would not allow the bad guys to get away. he created that concept and he also understood the billions of a photogenic character in a story. that was not very journalistic, some would say, but the reality is, in doing so, he created a telling story. if you had someone who was in interviewee who was utterly boring and was not interesting to look at, and then he would try to find a different character, if you will. it was like casting a movie instead of a story.

other stories, you could look around and find someone who can tell that particular story about health care that is better than someone else. you know, a more compelling speaker. another thing he used to always say is it is not necessarily what the story was. he said it is what some of the most established reporters were doing, what they went out to find. in other words, he created the modern system. gregg: and what a wonderful ensemble of the best in the journalism business. thank you for your thoughts on this sad day. jane: part of that on some of is

of course mike wallace, a correspondent. he is with us from our washington, d.c. bureau. i assume you have known don hewitt since you were a young man? >> that is a nice way to put it, since i was a kid. i grew up with all of those giants of journalism. so much of this stuff that we see on tv, and don hewitt created. i am thinking how to explain this, but back in the days of film, he created something called vroe. that was the idea that you could have two separate tracks, one with pictures and the other with sound. it allowed all different types of information to be shared.

he was one of the people to develop that. i was listening to connie chung, and she is right. his autobiography came from the idea of what a perfect episode of this "60 minutes" was. instead of going from tacked to fact, tell me a story. you do not always begin with the most important part, perhaps with an interesting anecdote. she was also right when she said he did not feel the stories were the stars. he believed the correspondence whirred. it was almost like when you tune into "kodak" to see what he was up to this week. you turned in to watch my father and dan rather and ed bradley, and they -- and what

they were up to that week. of course, he was the executive producer and creator of the show, and it became the most popular television show. it stayed there for years and years. he created all of that. for more than indicated was in the top 10. at one point, it was battling cheers for the top -- "cheers" for the top show. he had gone with my father to attend the people's choice awards. they were on their way back to new york and my father was reaching down to get something and he suddenly passed out and fell on the floor. don hewitt's immediate reaction was, now we will never catch "cheers." [laughter]

jane: chris wallace, thank you. you talk about the success of " 60 minutes" and even this weekend there were some reports about how well the show did. incredible. the legendary creator of "60 minutes" don hewitt dead this morning. wwww has progress taken us to a better place? i'd say it's taken us for a ride. honestly, what thanks do we owe progress?

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jane: we want to get to this story from washington state where an anti-workgroup is saying they will sue the u.s. army after discovering what they call a spy in their midst. they claim he is a criminal intelligence analyst from st. louis. and springer, what exactly is this group accusing the army up? >> essentially violate their first amendment rights. the group says that the army

sent a mole inside their group and stayed there for two years and reported back to the military and local law enforcement on their actions. pmr is a local group of protesters and they have been in the side of -- a thorn in the side of st. louis. they have put on various demonstrations speaking out against the war. in response to that, the military wanted to get inside this group and report back to them. that would be a violation of their first amendment rights. jane, is it ever illegal for the army to do something like this? >> we do not know if this

example fit into the exception, but we know that there are executive order exceptions carved out if this group when dealing with nuclear weapons, for example. or if the army has evidence that someone in the group was working with a foreign enemy or terrorist group. then the army can legitimately investigated and even go so far as to embedding someone with the group. we do not know if those measures were met. officials say that this is a civilian employee working at the base, but they are looking into the matter. jane: thank you. gregg: there is one town in america that has been rocked by homicides in shootings, and now the mayor of the town and other city leaders want to do something about it. how about an adult curfew?

gregg: curfews, not just for kids anymore, and that could soon be the case in a city in minter -- new jersey. this would be the city's -- the nation's first non-emergency curfew to include adults. this comes in the wake of several deadly shootings. joining me on the telephone is the mayor of paterson, new jersey. there is that document called the first to tap -- amendment. how are you going to get around that? >> first and foremost, in these to be clear and understood that what we are asking the governing body to do is an act whatever a

curfew that would include adults. when we talk about the constitutionality, whose rights are we protecting? we have seen in five months seven shootings just in this past month. it all happened in new early hours of the morning. gregg: clearly, this is not an emergency such as the riots, this is not martial law in military times when curfews have been sustained by the supreme court. aren't you also infringing on the rights of law-abiding citizens? >> the question is, at the individual chooses to be in an open space. we are not talking about someone

sitting on their porch at 2:00 in the morning. we are talking about individuals congregating in the public space. right now our intelligence has identified and these shootings have been related between rival gang groups. if you look at -- gregg: did you see what they did in los angeles? they did a study of los angeles juvenile curfew laws which were sustained and employed and they found that it increased crime. >> i will just say, we put the question to the residents, to the voters in the city of paterson. we are talking about criminal activity, and gang violence in public spaces -- gregg: i got them, but --

>> overwhelmingly, 82% of voters in the community said that we should consider this curfew. gregg: if 80 per 2% of people in noted to get rid of the constitution, would you do that? the ban that the issue on hand is we have people being shot by innocent bystanders -- we have innocent bystanders being shot. we have a gang problem. gregg: beef up police, beef up intelligence. maybe that is the right route. >> we are doing that also. gregg: keep us posted. jane: you have seen the aftermath of tornadoes but not very often do we see one forming. we will see the one responsible for this destruction.

gregg: and updates on a missing mother in georgia. find out if officers are closer to closing in on a suspect.

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party frank a lot welcome last night at a meeting on health care reform. >> this is not a government issue. this is a people issue. jane: frank is the chairman of the financial-services committee and was not afraid to get into intense conversations with them. tell us about the fireworks, molly. >> the crowd got pretty fired up, but the congressman fired right back. barney frank has never been the shy type, but he seemed to enjoy in gauging the audience. here's more from the town hall last night. >> you are going to get my generation and we are going to pay more taxes because of you. [applause] >> first of all, the biggest single waste of money in one fell swoop in history is the war in iraq. [laughter]

>> it was a terrible idea. i guess the more you do not like it, the more you yell? >> there were a number of supporters attending as well. jane: but other question did the crown race? >> -- crowd raise? >> there are a couple of themes that are continuing, the anger and outrage. he noted several times the cost of the correct word. i have not heard that from other democratic lawmakers. people talked about their nervousness about the public plan. he also took some question on the banking crisis. jane: thank you. gregg: door de police asking the public for any information in the search for a missing mother.

hundreds of volunteers and officers now searching for christie cornwell -- kristi cornwell. she disappeared while walking in her neighborhood on august 11. her boyfriend telling police that he was talking to cornwell on the telephone when she said a car was following her. then he heard a struggle and she said, don't take me, before the call went dead. we are live in georgia. what is the latest? >> state investigators have scaled back the ground search and are turning their focus to the investigation itself, trying to establish a criminal profile. the fbi is also providing resources. they will be bringing in a profiler and speaking to people in the neighborhood, using him to steer them in the right direction. we heard from her brother

earlier, and he said the family is never going to stop searching. >> we are going to continue to treat this case as a case to bring her back safely and the lives. -- alive. even if law enforcement scale back their efforts, it doesn't mean that the family will scale back our efforts. >> the cornwall family is trying to establish a reward fund for kriiti because they want to find out what happened to her. gregg: do they have any leads on this? closer to the zeroing in on a possible suspect, suspects? >> i want to show you some brand new home video that the family brought to us. they want to make sure that everyone out there takes a look at this, and that they are

thinking about this during the day. this is the first book that we have had -- look that we have had of her and video. right now investigators say that they do not have any solid suspects. of course, she was a probation officer. they are looking into that because some of the things that she had to do was to administer drug tests and sometimes send those people down to jail, so she was involved in a somewhat dangerous jobs intermission. her family is hoping some of the training that she got in law enforcement will help her in her return. jane: take a look at the formation of a funnel cloud. it is caught on videotape and listen as the tornado takes shape. >one man, this video on his cell

phone. he was working when he saw the violent storm rolling through. take a look at what that storm did. shopping carts strewn about the parking lot, a roof collapsed. only minor injuries reported. gregg: this is a fox news alert. the death toll standing at least 86 in a series of deadly explosions rocking baghdad today. more than 300 people said to be hurt. cameras were rolling during a meeting of tribal leaders when one of the bombs went off. listen. [explosion] that is a videotape from a hotel very close to the country's finance ministry. iraqi police still digging through the rubble, expecting the death toll to climb even higher. it is the worst string of

attacks since the american military withdrew from iraqi cities. jane: now to afghanistan where we see some violence on the eve of the president elections. we are learning about a military attack on a bank in kabul. at least six election workers have been killed. in the meantime, president obama said the military cannot win alone in afghanistan, adding diplomacy, good governance, as part of the plan and the state department is responding with 300 new diplomats. is this the civilian surge that the president was talking about? jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. >> it does not sound like a civilian surge if you are talking about 300 state department workers' who are supposed to solve all of afghanistan's problems. listen to the president when he announced the strategy. >> this must be joined by a dramatic increase in our

civilian effort. we need agricultural specialists, and educators, engineers, and lawyers. that is why i am ordering a substantial increase in our civilians on the ground. >> so far that has not materialized, and it turned out there is no budget request for that civilians to urge that the president talked about. jane:, the state department people have been said, and how many have been sent in the past? >> it is interesting. in the few months since he announced his strategy in march, there have been 92 state department workers said, a total of 313 to be there by the end of the year. the state department says they are on track for that. if you look at last year, that is an increase, up 15 times, in terms of civilians helping with governance, drug policy, coming

up with an agricultural policy. if you look at last year's figures, there were just 18 department workers', 19 usaid workers, and 12 department of agriculture workers. really, this has been under- resources for some time, but these 300 chile into or supposed to be there by the end of the year, they say that it is really not supposed to be -- really not enough. jane: thank you, jennifer griffin. gregg: tragedy in the magic kingdom. three walt disney employees have died on the job in the last month alone. now federal investigators are taking a closer look at what is going on. jane: have you heard about the hero from milwaukee? the mayor saved a woman from a vicious attack. she was trying to protect her

granddaughter. he was beat up in the process. he will talk about what happened.

>> we want to bring you up to speed on a store we told you last hour. there are update on the search for a woman named rachel hilsman. officials believe a fellow officer from a nearby district may have kidnapped her. now they are looking for a dodge pickup truck with a texas license plate, -- they say they think they have narrowed. down. -- narrowed the area down. she was apparently taken in

front of her kids by her boyfriend. we will let you know what the latest is. gregg: tragedy. it was supposed to be the happiest place on her, but at the indiana jones stunt spectacular, one worker hit his head while doing and acrobatic maneuver and died. he is the third employee to die in one month, and now in investigation into the accident is under way. phil keating has the latest. explain how three employees died. >> right now osha investigators are at the disney world complex, trying to see if these three had any similarities, or if they were just random acts. the first incident took place at the indiana jones stunt

spectacular. he was counted in gymnastics and tumbling and clearly had a lot of strength, but the way he died, basically was a routine stunned where you run over and dived over another person, talk and roll, and land. he did land on a map, but the doctor ruled that he died of a broken neck. the previous deaths, one involved an actor who slipped on a wet spot and hit a wall and died by complications. before that, a monorail driver dies in a crash. the big question now is the short time period of these fail accidents, whether it was more of a safety violation. gregg: when you have millions of guests and your part, something is going to happen occasionally. what is their record?

>> the safety record has been spotty. between 2002 and 2005, just five investigations by osha. however, in the past two years, they have been called to investigate 17 times. eight of them came from employee complaints, the other seven coming from actual accidents. the result of those investigations involved violations in safety standards as well as instances where no violations -- standard were violated. a spokesperson said we have hundreds of employees on hand every day and it is twice the size of manhattan. with all the tourists, you have a population similar to reno, nev., and accidents will happen. keep in mind, and on of these performers are doing stunts and acrobatics that are certainly putting their safety at risk.

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and jane: here is a question for you on health care. will we see a different approach from the president as he continued to try to sell reform? "the wall street journal" is reporting that the president will say that not only we need coverage for everyone, but that it is a moral imperative. the administration has touched on this point before, now it could be front and center. karl rove is a fox news

contributor, and he is here. good to see you. i hate to sound like a naysayer, but at this point in the game, changing the message or emphasizing another part of the message, will it work? >> we have a long way to go before this drum up plays out. they are getting ready for the fall and have realized the summer was that. there was a little bit of the eggs to in the white house, a lot coming from their own -- angst in the white house, a lot coming from their own party. now they are scrambling to find a new message, and the most prominent reports say that they will be emphasizing this today. they will emphasize the moral part of this. let us step back. this is high-stakes, and two big

things have happened in the last couple of days. one is this message. we were worried about cost and access to those who did not have insurance. then they beat up on insurance companies, but in was always fact-based. now we are going to be subjected to an emotional appeal. it speaks to the failure of the earlier message. if you cannot argue the facts, you want to argue a motion, but sometimes that is not enough. jane: what they are running up against is what you highlighted, in different kind of a motion, particularly at these town halls. how do you combat that? >> this is being driven by the description that the president made. this is not being dominated by the opposition. they do not have the money. the president had dominated the discussion in the past few

months, particularly with town hall after town hall, prime-time appearances. has he has done so, his handling of health care and his approval ratings have both declined. he is now on record for having the biggest decline in initial ratings and hold the record for the largest increase in disapprovals, according to gallup poll. jane: major garrett called a trial balloon being floated, that maybe the democrats will go it alone. the white house had been pushing back at the idea that they would do that. where do you see them going? >> that is one of the game changers. it was a trial balloon by the name of rahm emanuel. this was not a leak of an unnamed official, it was a direct quotation.

lúslrzdespite their majority in congressional houses, republicans will make us do this by ourselves. they are not engaged in this. this is a bad course for the white house. the more they make this a democrat-only bill, the more they will be pulled to the left in the more difficult it will be for moderate democrats to vote for it. there was another poll by quinnipiac and they said 69% of people do not want the president to try this with democrats only because they know how big an intrusive this is. they want to make sure both parties agree to whatever is agreed to at the end. jane: tried to be non-partisan for his second. you are working on a major policy issue like this. at what point do compromise and try to change what your goal is?

>> at some point, they have to do that, but they are not at the point where they should do that, nor where they can do that. we are in august, which means the president is on vacation. his staff, which in many instances are coming straight out of the campaign, are on their first vacation in almost two years. they are spread all over the country. as a result, decision making becomes hard. then they are going to come back at the end of august when congress comes back and they will take a look at what is happening in making a big decision. they have been winning it so far without a clarity of plan. -- winging it so far without a clear day of plan. they will have to make some big decisions at the end of the month. jane: i am not talking about a white flag of surrender, but

you are referring to altering some of their expectations? >> yes, what is the problem they are trying to deal with? is that access and cost, the rules of insurance companies? are they for the public option or not? are they going to do this by themselves, or in a bipartisan way? these are just three of the big decisions they have. the biggest decision they have is, at the end of the day, are they going to try to do this as one big thing, or will they try to do in incremental steps. if they did so in incremental steps, i believe they would have a bigger chance of success. but it seems that they are going for whole thing. jane: thank you. gregg: the big enchilada, how about that for a metaphor?

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watching hurricane bill. the atlantic's first storm of the season. it is a dangerous category 4 storm. this one could get stronger. gregg: the death of a television news giant. don hewitt passing away today at the age of 86. he also produced the very first televised presidential debate between john f. kennedy and richard nixon. jane: investigators now say marijuana growers with possible ties to mexican drug cartels were the ones that caused and 80,000-acre fire in california. is this a sign of things to come? back-to-school shopping usually means the sweet sound of cash registers ringing, but not so much this year. families are holding a tight grip on their wallets. julie banderas is at a shopping

mall for us. what is the forecast? >> the forecast for grand jury is probably what it is for everyone else, -- gregg jarrett is probably what it is for everyone else, not very good. the national retail sales association projects a percent -- a% of families will be spending less than last year. the forecast does not a good buy all the retailers are trying to keep up with that. if you go to a mall to buy your daughter's backpack, you will find sales of up to 75%. that is pretty incredible. jane: i can hear him now. use the one from three years ago. so big discounts, this is what the stores are doing to get people in the stores? >> yes, huge discounts. what is interesting is, there

are a lot of products that parents do not buy their kids, like an sanitizer. believe it or not, retail stores are trying to come up with creative ways to sell sanitizers for all these kids returning to the school in the fall with the potential of h1n1 becoming more rampant. that is just one of the items that you normally never bought, but now is a must have. jane: thank you. >> i have been doing my part, by the way. i have bought a few things. giving back to the community. gregg: son said news to tell you about. in television legend has passed away. don hewitt has died. he was a tour de force in the news industry.

>> he was a television legend, revolutionizing television news. don hewitt off his bout with pancreatic cancer this morning at his home at the age of 86. he was a hard-charging news man that spent 56 years at cbs news, best known as the founder of 60 -- "60 minutes,"a landmark news series. he came up with the idea when he said he was bored silly asking, why can't television have a program like "live" magazine? he said he just wanted to tell a story. so in 1968, americans first heard the famous tick, tick, of the opening stopwatch.

another correspondent included mike wallace, marty schafer, and others. he joined cbs news in 1948 and worked his way up as a director of the network news programs. he worked with edward r. murrow on programs but was also behind a momentous a landmark in television history. that was the first televised presidential debate. that may have tipped the election to john f. kennedy. few may have suggested that had richard nixon warned makeup, he would have appeared more youthful. on the radio, listeners believe richard nixon won, but those watching television disagreed. he finally retired a few years ago and he was seen just a few

months ago at the funeral of walter cronkite. he is survived by his wife. he also has four children. but his most heralded legacy will keep ticking on, every sunday night. he will surely be missed. gregg: he really changed the way that we get our news. thank you, eric sean. jane: the first hurricane of the hurricane season is now forming, hurricane bill. janice dean, you know what we want to know. where is this thing going? >> we hope not near the u.s., but how we are not sure. computer models seem to agree that it must pay off the coast, even away from bermuda, which

would be excellent news, however, that cone of uncertainty gets wider. if you remember hurricane katrina, for a new computer models said that it would move into the panhandle of florida, but of course we knew what happened there. that is a good example of what can happen in this cone of uncertainty. right now it is looking pretty good, a well-defined eye. there is its track as of 11:00 a.m. we will get another one at 5:00. it has a lot of warm, deep water to travel over, so we could see a category 5. once it gets over 155, that is a category 5.

these are the computer models we have been watching since the storm was born in the atlantic. we will continue to watch them. some of them coming close to coastal massachusetts, a kickoff. so, yes, if you live in cape cod, or along the new england coast line, please pay attention. we will be updating you throughout the week. there is the sea surface temperature, water that is fueling the storm. especially as it crosses over this warm section in red. again, three days out, a lot can happen with its track. we will bring you the latest when we get it. of course, we have hurricane-

force winds. tropical storm force winds 170 miles away from the storm. we will feel the effects even if it does not get close to us by large swells, waves, or curls. jane: thank you. gregg: and we are just getting word that the space shuttle discovery will launch next tuesday at 1:36 p.m. eastern time. tonight the astronauts will fly down to the kennedy space center. in just wrapped up a two-day flight check, focusing on chunks of foam insulation and came off of the fuel tank. they decided that it is ok for the upcoming flight. the discovery and its crew will take the equipment and supplies to the international space

station. jane: one michigan town is taking a strict stance on juvenile justice. how do you feel about punishing the parents for their kids crimes? and take a look at live pictures from milwaukee. we're waiting for the man dubbed as the hero mayor. he was off-duty, and i guess you never really are when you are an official. the grandmother was trying to protect her granddaughter, and the mayor be of the suspect pretty badly. we will hear from tom barrett, in a moment.

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jane: we want to take you to milwaukee, wisconsin. you can see the microphones set up. the mayor tom barrett, you may have heard the story. he was at the wisconsin state fair with his family, no security detail, and he saw a woman protecting to -- struggling to protect her

granddaughter. he intervened and said that he would call 911, and the guy went off on the mayor. in terms of injuries, he had teeth knocked out, his hand was shattered, stitches in his head, plastic surgery to repair a cut that extended from his cheek to his nose. he was punched so hard, the mayor buckled over and was threatened with a gun. at one point, he said he thought he was here for his life. listen to how all this went down. [applause] >> good morning. i am joined by my wife, my daughter, and my niece. we want to thank you all for being here this morning. first, and want to thank my wife chris for being by my side

through this. obviously, my children. they have been wonderful as well. molly and betsy were there through this incident. if you listen to the nine month one call, that was molly. she did a great job. saturday night, chris was in california with her sisters and visiting their 80-year old aunt, and i'm looking for a way to avoid dinner. at 5:00 i got a phone call from another sister who was interested in going to the state fair to listen to a band that she liked. my daughter was working at the fair at the time and my son had just come home from the state fair. so i told my younger daughter, how about we go to the state

fair with aunt mary? in the interim, we called betsy and our brother john, so that boeing -- and four adults linked up to listen to music. that was the reason that my fantastic security personnel was not with me. it was a spurt of the moment decision by myself to have a family reunion with my siblings. everything was going great until we started walking back to the car. that is when i encountered something that i think virtually any other citizen in the city would have reacted to the same way. we were walking down the street and my two daughters, and molly, too, at that point said someone is telling call 911, and the woman was holding a baby. we thought something was wrong with the baby, so i quickly

pulled out my phone and called 91. within seconds, we realized the problem was not with the baby, but with that man. then he came up and was very agitated, and event took off from their very quickly. because of the criminal nature of this, i am not going to go into that any further. some of that has come out already. more of it will in the coming days, but we do not want to, in any way, jeopardize the criminal case. i think it is fair to say that things got very ugly, very quickly. from there, though, it was the incredible response -- first of mali. i have to point to her. -- molly. she kept her cool throughout this whole thing and just did a great job.

and then the police were fantastic. in meriden to transport people were fantastic. the staff was phenomenal and they got us in there quickly and got things stabilize quickly as well. as you can see, i got in the face. i have some cuts on the back of my face -- back of my head, on my face, and i will be back to the doctor on fighting for that. my hand was fractured. i was at the doctor this morning and will return on friday to see the prognosis for my hand. but over all, what i want to stress is -- i have been in situations in this community my whole life and i cannot think of a situation where people would not react the way that i did. when someone says, call 911,

that is what you do. it was only at that point when the response became so bizarre, that things took off in the right directory wrong direction. but i want to thank the incredible outpouring of support that i have had from people inside the community, outside the community. people have been incredibly kind. even my son was surprised i had friends. [laughter] even teenagers can be surprised. again, to the many people in our community who have reached out to me to -- to me and my family, i want to express my heartfelt thank you. everything is headed in the right direction and i just want to let you know that i am still standing. [applause] >> what is going through your mind while this guy is beating you up? >> this is really bad, this is really bad.

>> how are you feeling physically and emotionally? >> physically, i need more rest. this was supposed to be our vacation week. so much for that. we are having a staycation -- i think that is what they call it. physically, my mouth hurts a little bit. my hand, that is where i am most concerned. again, i was impressed with the medical personnel. >> how are your daughter is doing? >> i think they're doing very well. >> we have hundred and get well wishes from our viewers that we would like to give you. people are calling you a hero in the city. what do you want to say? >> molly is my hero.

>> how did all this affect you, as a mayor, the police, emergency responders? >> it gave me a chance to see their job from another side. i was blown away with their professionalism. i think it is accurate to say -- certainly, he did not know i was the mayor, and i was not going to tell him. i do not know if any of the emergency personnel knew. obviously, at some point, someone did. i think, and i hope, and i am confident, that the response that i got would be the same that any citizen in this community would get. >> any issues of violence along those lines? >> it highlights the seriousness of this issue, and won an explosive issue this is.

i have said this to my own security detail, and we have seen this locally and nationally, the domestic violence incidents can be the most dangerous of them all. >> the suspect's family has suggest that you are somehow responsible. what is your reaction to that? >> i would say that that is pretty bizarre. chris had a little different reaction. maybe it is important that a mother's love is blind. maybe a mother's love should be blind. again, this will come out in the criminal case, but we were literally walking down the street. we do not want to say anything more. jane: we are watching mayor tom barrett. he probably does not like the title of hero. i know him, i used to work in the market.

he said, he thought it was going to get really bad. they intervened in a domestic dispute when a woman was trying to shield her granddaughter with the child's father. he then went on to attack the mayor. he lost some teeth, he had surgery on his hand, but is not taking much of the credit. that is the way he operates. he received a phone call from the president congratulating him. that is the word from the mayor. we will be right back. .

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30 days prison. how bad is the problem there? >> i'd want to go on the record that this is not an epidemic in eastpointe. this is just one tool that our police department has found has worked in other communities. it is not that we have explosive crime. it is just one additional thing we can do to help parents understand the responsibilities of supervising their children. the punishment, we hope, will be counseling and parental classes. jane: you have a teenager. how do you feel about this? >> i do not think it will work. if you have a bad kid, you have a bad kid no matter who was

punished. jane: have you run into this experience? >> i have good kids. my kids do not get in trouble. there are a lot of parents where the parents do not know anything about the kids. it could be a problem. if the parent is the one the that is held liable, i do not think it will change any. jane: we're talking about jail time and $500. this has been done in other communities. outside of cleveland, the judge found it was illegal because it was so unevenly applied. >> that will be something for the lawyers and that type of thing. our attorneys have assured us this is something that helps. this is thought something that we would do over and over again.

this is something that would be done in a very rare case. suppose there is a child that steals a car and then the police caught to the parents and the parents said, you take them. this would be something to help those parents understand their responsibilities. we're talking about education and counseling more than the extreme sentences. jane: the city council voted unanimously. thank you to you both. >> thank you. gregg: we're learning more of the hijacking of the russian cargo ship. the russian news agency that the hijackers threatened to blow up the arctic sea if their demands were not met. jane: that will do it for us. "live desk" is