continues with shannon bream live from the washington and it gets started right now only on fox. have a great day. >> eric: take care. >> shannon: he's being asked to apologize again for his outburst during president obama's speech to congress this week. but congressman joe wilson tells fox news he's not going to do it. he's already apologized to the president, but is enough enough? should he heed house speaker nancy pelosi's request to form formally apologize on the house floor and what will be his punishment if he doesn't? >> i'm shannon bream live from washington. angry outbursts like the one from representative joe wilson that tens of thousands of tea party protesters who descended on washington, those are the visible signs

this weekend about how angry americans are about healthcare reform. he's insisting he has no interest in signing a healthcare bill that won't work. how far away are we from any bill at all? they took it to the talk shows today. what do you have? >> president obama turns to congress to write the bill and the democrats are defending them in the angry town hall in the summer break. now the president is ready to lead the battle himself. in full campaign mode at rally in minnesota yesterday and is planning more events this week. the president says he should be held responsibility. but the top white house aides are taking a middle ground on central question of government run insurance option. >> i'm not willing to accept it won't be in the final

package. what we all said is this is not the whole of health insurance reform and we shouldn't let the debate evol tov one question. >> a key senate health negotiator says the president should be specific and drop his support of the government option. >> the president should take the public option off the table because it's universally opposed by all the republicans in the senate. therefore, there is no way to pass a plan that includes the public option. recognizing that, because it's a roadblock to build the consensus that we need to move forward. >> 12 senators appeared to talk about the healthcare. democrats echoing the white house line expressing support for the so-called public option but indicating it's not a deal breaker. the republicans standing officially against a government run option and raising the question about the overall cost and expressing skepticism, cutting waste in medicare

that can generate hundreds in savings. >> acorn says it's had enough of bad press from fox news and is ready to do something about it. in a press release, the organizer says the group is fox's willie horton for 2009 and it claims that fox spent millions of dollars trying to destroy acorn and the group will be taking legal action. the acorn threat comes after two employees caught on tape allegedly offering tax evasion advice to a pair posing as a pimp and prostitute. conservative activist james o'keeffe shot and edited the tape and gave it to fox before it was posted online. >> this week, u.s. census severed all ties. and eric shawn spoke to those in the film and we'll play that for you later in the show. we want to know what you think about this at home. should the justice department

investigate acorn? head to foxnews.com to weigh in. 140,000 of you weighed in on the unscientific poll. 88% of you are -- 99% of you are voting acorn should be investigated. two short words. "you lie" started a fire storm that engulfed joe wilson. he apologized to the president for his outburst but the controversy is far from over. chris wallace had an exclusive interview with congressman wilson. caroline shively has the rest of the story. >> joe wilson says he's done saying i'm sorry. listen on "fox news sunday." >> i'm not going to apologize again. i apologized to the president on wednesday night. i was told thank you, let's move on to bipartisan issues.

i apologized and it was accepted. i'm not apollizing again. >> talk about the outburst in the president's address to congress wednesday night. mr. obama said illegal immigrants wouldn't get federal money for health insurance and wilson yelled out "you lie." wilson told fox his son called the outburst a town hall moment. he maintains it wasn't his intention but because of the attention he brought to the issue the senate finance committee and president said they'll make sure the legislation includes verification provisions to make sure illegal aliens don't get government money for healthcare insurance. hackers are meanwhile attacking wilson's website to crash it. a source close to wilson tells fox the site was down for five hours friday night. it could hurt his campaign financially, because people wanting to click on this and donate can't while the site is down. overall, he's not hurting. wilson raised $1 million since the outburst on wednesday. so has his democratic opponent rob miller.

the democrats are trying to formally rebuke him in the chamber if he doesn't apologize to his colleagues for outburst. wilson released a statement on that a few minutes ago saying that is a split came game. back to you. >> shannon: interesting week. thank you. stay with fox after this show. you can watch chris wallace's interview with congressman joe wilson on "fox news sunday" at 22: 2:00 eastern tim. obama administration is preparing to give detainees in afghanistan new rights. they're setting up a program to give u.s. held prisoners at bagram air base due process. they will give detainee a u.s. military official to serve as personal representative. detainees can call witnesses and present evidence and have it consider canned before a detainee review board. 60 prisoners are held at the base. dozens of taliban

insurgents are dead after a firefight in western afghanistan that erupted after three u.s. troops were killed in an ambush. afghan army official says coalition forces launched airstrikes in the farah province killing 50 taliban fighters. the strikes came in response to insurgent attack on convey that killed three u.s. troops and seven afghan soldiers. afghani police spokesman says one airstrike hit a home killing a woman and teenager. democrat carl levin says sending more troops to afghanistan should not be the only option for fighting al-qaeda. i believe the best way to succeed in afghanistan is take major steps to strengthen and support the afghan army and police so they can take principal responsibility for the national security and progress. >> are all democrats on board

with the president plan in afghanistan? democratic congressman adam smith from washington is a member of the house armed services and select intelligence committees and joins us live from sa from seat. thank you for your time. >> i appreciate it. >> you have recently been in afghanistan. tell us what it's like on the ground there now. >> yes, i just got back from a trip over the labor day weekend. it's difficult situation. taliban mounted their own surge and have begun to be much more involved in the south and east. but your report mentioned other part of the country. we're in a difficult fight to stop taliban from regaining control of significant portions of afghanistan. a difficult struggle right now but at the same time, we have an excellent plan in place. general chris trystal is the ri person to implement the change. and we're beginning to

correct what got us in the position so far. >> general mcchrytal have not asking for additional troops but some think he will. senator levin doesn't think it's the right attack now. what is your opinion? >> don't prejudge the situation. i appreciate the fact you point out that the request has not yet come in. i think we need to support him as much as possible. the president went through a detailed review of policy in afghanistan after he was elected and into office. he released the plan at the end of march and picked the general to implement the plan and we should give him a chance to do that before we say he can't do this or that or the other thing. see what the plan is and give him a chance to implement it based on some of what the president found out. when he did the top to bottom review of what was going on in afghanistan. i don't think we should prejudge the situation. >> shannon: what is your sense of the mood in afghanistan given that the

presidential election is still unresolvunresolved. some put hamid karzai over 50% to avoid a runoff but there are questions about fraud. any sense of the mood from the people about what they'd like to see raz far as resolution to the election? >> it's difficult. right after we invaded we had an opportunity to build a government of the people of afghanistan could believe in. we failed in that regard. even before this election. the average afghan feels that the karzai government has become the hopelessly corrupt and incompetent in terms of providing for them. now we have an election that's major erequests to its legitimacy and it's created significant problems. however the election comes out. karzai government or whoever's government is going to have to work hard to show the afghan people they can at least reduce the corruption and begin to provide for the people. that is where they need our

help and why i applaud the aspect of president obama's plan to focus on the development side. this is not just a military issue. this is governance and rule of law. the ability to have some sort of rule of law in the different communities. we have focus developing the agricultural economy and other aspects of it. trying to get to a bare level basic governance in place so the afghan people can believe in their government. the afghan people do not support the taliban. they remember what it was like to have the taliban in charge. the problem is if they don't have some kind of alternatives, that gives taliban chance to fill the void. that's what we have to stop. >> shannon: thank you for sharing your experiences after recently traveled. thank you for the look ahead as well. thank you. >> thank you. >> shannon: the d.c. sniper could be put to death next month. state of virginia is seeking november 9 execution date for john allen mohammed. mohammed's attorney says he

will take the appeal to u.s. supreme court. mohammed was sentenced to death for murder of one of the ten people killed in his 2002 shooting rampage. there are new developments in the case of a missing yale graduate student days before her wedding. annie le disappeared without a trace. now we hear that investigators found potential clues. senior correspondent rick eleventhal joins us with -- leventhal joins us with the latest. >> new haven police confirmed this morning they did, in fact, find bloody clothes inside the lab building behind me where annie le was last seen tuesday morning. the clothes found sometimes late friday or saturday morning by investigators and are now investigated themselves, the clothes are, to determine whether or not blood evidence is linked to annie. that's not happened yet. the tests continue and we could hear tonight or tomorrow if there is a direct

link between the clothes and the missing graduate student. the police are on scene and still combing through, looking for additional evidence. there are photos, photographic evidence of annie entering the building tuesday morning thanks to the 75 surveillance cameras outside and invide the building and the adjacent parking garage. they don't have evidence of her leaving the building. yesterday we heard from some of the investigators who are working this case to talk about how it's going. >> we are not in a position today to conclude whether this is a missing person's case or whether criminality is involved. i need to stress that. we conducted numerous interviews an i assure you no lead is going uncovered. >> one of the interviews was with a professor who was supposed to have a class that annie le wednesday supposed to attend on the day she

disappeared. the class was canceled but the school says a fum of people, dozens of people were questioned on the campus and that so far there are no suspects. in the meantime, the wedding that was supposed to take place, annie le was supposed to get married today. that wedding has been canceled and her family is anxiously awaiting word on her whereabouts. shannon? >> shannon: rick leventhal with the latest. thank you for keeping us updated. check out this video. lightning storm triggered several power outages and started brush fires outside san francisco yesterday there. have been 250 lightning strikes in the bay area since midnight. meteorologist rick reichmuth is at the fox weather center with today's forecast. how does it look beyond that out there today, rick? >> well, tell you what. we had a lot of dry thunderstorms yesterday and extreme heat. it will pop up in a second. temperatures were records across much of the northwest part of the country yesterday. the day before. these are some temperatures we did see yesterday. along with the thundersto thund

moving through today. temps drop and we have cloud cover and chance for showers, not the dry thunderstorms we saw yesterday. but nothing is going to be too significant. really our bigger story for the day today is a major system bringing very heavy rain across much of texas, into oklahoma and louisiana and arkansas. southern texas has some of the worst drought we've seen on record. so we need rain there. we had it over the last couple of days. north texas not dealing with the drought in the same way. that's where the rain is now. because of this kind of upper level system here, continuing to see a lot of moisture pulled up from the gulf. we will see this for the next three days because the storm is a slow-mover. if you are up across the great lakes looking for the first day of football, tell you what, any game played around the great lakes in mid-atlantic and northeast, look at that. spectacular day. certainly for september. >> always a good day a for football season. >> thank you, rick. >> tens of thousands of tea party protesters descended on washington to speak out

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>> shannon: topping the news, looks like government run option may be dying. this morning, white house press secretary robert gibbs said a government run public option is one way to provide coverage for uninsured americans but not the only way to reach that goal. lindsay graham tells us it's off the table. the plan to overall healthcare and expansion of government spending, tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in washington yesterday. their message quit spending our money. this was the largest group ever to march on washington. and george mitch is in the region to meet with israeli and palestinian leaders including the israeli president perez today. hoping to pave the way for three-way summit.

it's set for september 26 in new york. president obama says the responsibility for any health bill that get gets passed is hi. that's aired on "60 minutes" on the and he vows to overhaul healthcare "the right way." >> i have no interest in having a bill get passed that fails and doesn't work. it intend to be president for a while. once this bill passes i own it. if people look and say you know what? this hasn't reduced my costs. my premiums are going up 25%. the insurance companies are jerking me around, i'm the one held responsibresponsible. i have every incentive to get this right. >> republicans have a new bounce in their step. their position on healthcare reform seems to have been reinforced by the tens of thousands of tea party

protesters that showed up in washington yesterday. congressman tom price from georgia was among the p protester. a doctor himself and he joins us live. thank you for your time, doctor. >> great to be with you. >> tell us about the protests yesterday. you were there live in person. what was your reception like? i can guess. >> hundreds of thousands of folks who were regular americans across the land who came to washington. what i heard mostly was why isn't our government listening to us? whether it's sm spending or deficit or energy policy that doesn't allow us to use resources responsibility or healthcare. they just can't understand why a representative government is not representing them. >> the president's speech wednesday night was a marker in the debate. your colleagues there. when the president talked about the fact maybe the

g.o.p. hasn't brought alternatives to the table, there weren't other things offered. you held up a copy of a bill you'd like to put on the table. tell us about that. >> the republicans have had three dozen bills on health reform we believe are much more appropriate than what the president has supported and certainly what the speaker and senator reid supported. so i felt that it was important to give truth to what the president says over and over and that is that there are no alternatives being offered from our side of the aisle. when he mentioned something like that, i held up the bill 3400 which we believe provides people to get insurance in appropriate way, insurance they select not that the government selects for them, solves the challenge of portability and preexisting with the insurance policy that people select. not that the government picks for then. and makes certain that people patients and families along with their doctors can make healthcare decisions something that i believe and we believe is remarkably threatened on the democrat

side. we held up the bill and i think the president took note. hopefully he will invite us to the white house so we can have a discussion. >> shannon: do you have any hopes it will happen? he talked about bipartisanship and keeping the door open for any legitimate idea. there was grumbling in the audience when he mentioned that on wednesday night. >> it's because the word hasn't met deeds. the president said over and over, if you have good ideas bring them to us. we asked the white house to meet with the president almost weekly since he got into office on whatever the issue was. the last three or four months it's been on healthcare. and we've been told thank you very much, but we haven't had an opportunity to meet with the president. so what we would like to do is sit down and talk about the positive solutions that fix the challenges that we have. especially in healthcare. but don't put the government in charge. they're a wond -- there are wonderful ways to solve the challenges we have to make it so patients and families own their health insurance and are the ones that are make the healthcare decisions for themselveses which are so remarkably personal decisions

that don't put the government in charge. hr-3400 is a bill i believe does that. >> all right. congressman tom price, keep us updated if you get the white house meeting. let us know. >> will do so, shannon. thank you so much. >> shannon: thank you. well, senator jon kyl says he never heard a more partisan speech from the president in the house chamber than the one president obama give on wednesday. the republican whip says we're a long way a health reform bill. keep it here. i'm going to sit down with senator kyl and ask him about the possibility of a filibuster. a wild outburst from one of the biggest stars in tennis in u.s. open costs her the win. we'll show you the shocking video up next.

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>> shannon: it's the bottom of the hour and caroline shively has the top of the news. >> in a press release, acorn chief organizer accuses fox of trying to destroy the group and says it will take legal action. it comes after two employees caught on tape allegedly offered tax invasion advice to a couple posing as pimp and prostitute. they shot and edited the tape and gave fox the video before posting it online. one of onli osama bin laden's brother died. the family announced it in a local newspaper. they didn't confirm the reason or his age. but they disavowed any link

with barack obama in 1994 after saudi arabia stripped him of citizenship. annie le was supposed to get marry today but she is still missing. new haven police confirm bloody clothes were found but they won't confirm what they were. yesterday, the f.b.i. agents were spotted questioning the man outside the lab and taking him away in a car. tiny fey's portrayal of sarah palin scored her laugh on "saturday night live" and now it scored her an emmy. she won award last night. it's her sixth career win. up for two awards at the main ceremony including best comedy actress. set for september 20. those are the top stories now. shannon, back to you. >> shannon: it's a pretty good impression. >> so good. >> shannon: thank you. >> you bet. >> shannon: well, there is a flurry of diplomatic activity and walk as the mideast gets ready for final touches on

summit between israeli and palestinian leaders next week. today, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said there is still a disagreement between israel and the u.s. over how to resume mideast talks. mike tobin has the latest from jerusalem. hi, mike. >> it was the start of the cab et in meeting when he said there were graps. he said it as the enjoy arrives here. the big gap is over the settlement construction in the best bank. obama administration demanded that israel stop building the houses in the settlement because it's land that palestinians want for future state. netanyahu continued with the construction of 2,500 partially completed units and gave his blessing to begin 455 new units. netanyahu, president obama and palestinian president mahmoud abbas had been set to hold talks on the sideline of the u.n. general assembly later this month. but since israel announced

plans for the new construction, president abbas refused to restart talks and demand israel comply with the u.s.-backed roadmap to peace calling par freeze in israeli settlement construction as first step toward palestinian statehood. now mitchell held a meeting with israeli president perez who by the way appeared fine after briefly collapsing yesterday. perez stressed a sense of urgency to restart talks at the end of the month. mitchell said he shared the sense of urgency and hoped to move forward with a more important phase of negotiation. mitchell and prime minister netanyahu are scheduled to meet face-to-face tomorrow. shannon? >> thank you, mike tobin with the latest from jerusalem. rod blagojevich says he might try to subpoena president obama as a witness in his upcoming trial. the former governor says statements he made on the secret f.b.i. wiretap tapes were taken out of context and the top witnesses can back up his version of the event. the court sun likely to

compel the president to testify. one of blagojevich's closest advisors may have committed suicide just week before he was to go to prison for fraud. officials say they're planning to do an autopsy today on christopher kelly discovered late friday night in a parking lot. as the debate over healthcare reform rages in washington, political observers are watching to see how it might affect next year's mid-term election. michael marone is encyclopedia of american politics and joins us live to discuss. thank you for coming in. >> nice to be with you. >> shannon: talk about the house. it's not like the republicans will close a significant gap they have there. look at the make-up now and what you think may be predictions going to 2010. we have numbers to put up for folks. 256 to 178. but your prediction is it could swing. >> i think, you know, i think the democrats will probably get that up to 257 when they have the run off in november on the california tenth direction where they are well

ahead. the political landscape changes. i tried to describe this district by district in the almanac of american politics of chi'm coauthor out for the 2010 edition. in five years we've seen significant changes. we were talking about the republican congress. that republican congress no longer exists. i think looking ahead to 2010be we really see a different political landscape today from six months ago. if you extrapolate from the political numbers six months ago you'd predict the democrats lose a handful of seats in the house, pick up a couple and lose a dozen. extrapolating from the current attitude would be a 20 to 30-seat gain for republicans. we don't have guarantee that the political attitudes will

be in place when the voters make their decisions in october and november 2010. we have seen the opinions shift. it could shift back to the other direction. >> talk about the senate side. we have top democrats you think may be in danger of losing their seat, the senate majority leader harry reid and chris dodd. tell us what you see in the races. >> what is fascinating there is senator chris dodd has been a member of congress for 36 years. first elected in 1974. he's basically spent almost his whole adult life in congress. he is in trouble. he got a favoritism mortgage, friends of angelo mortgage from countrywide, a company that's now folded into another bank. he's chairman of the senate banking committee. it was on his watch 2007 that we really saw the financial industry collapse. so, he's got significant problems. there is a question whether he fully reported the value of a house in ireland he has.

and i think those new revelations about christopher dodd, who has been a familiar figure in connecticut politics for 30 years but not known in depth have hurt him. so you have a state where the president, obama got more than 60% of the vote in 2008. yet chris dodd is running well behind. senator reid in nevada has had problems before. one problem you have if you are a public official in nevada it has had such rapid population increase when you ran for the senate six years before, there is a lot of new people coming in that haven't heard of you. the democrats use that population increase very well in 2008. they registered a lot of new voters and they got the democratic voters out. they got increase and hispanic voter participation in nevada in 2008 and really went to down. harry reid is going behind. previous performance is a useful indicator. almanac gives you the presidential vote in each

state and congressional district so you can see how it performed in the past. but it doesn't always project what is going to happen. so overall on the senate race, what we have seen is that, you know, prognosticators in december of 2008, january 2009 were saying based on the presidential november 2008 numbers the democrats are in pretty good shape. the republicans don't have much opportunity for gain. now we're seeing that with the senators like dodd and reid in trouble in states that have been thought to be safe democratic, the chances for republicans making gains are greater. >> we thank you for your insight. almanac 2010 is out now. wish you the best with that. see if it shifts again. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> shannon: well, republican senator jon kyl says the democrats are way off when it comes to healthcare reform. will there be a bipartisan effort? will he lead a fill buster? we'll ask him. he's here live at 1:00.

>> shannon: unsportsman like moment we'll show you. kim clijsters beat out serena williams in the u.s. open semi-final that ended when the defending champion was docked a point for yelling at an official who called a fault. after the call, williams launched into an expletive laced rant at the judge, pointing her finger and a racquet yelling as she walked off the sideline. williams had already been given a code violation warning when she broke hera quet after losing -- racket

after losing the first set. no word if she'll face a reprimand from the sport itsel itself. for years members of congress have come back from summer vacation ready to do their darndedest to shovel tax dollars in pet projects, programs and initiative in their home state no matter how unnecessary or propr proprossous they -- propostous they are. william la jeunesse is looking out for you. >> in the hit series "24" the war room is vital to home security. now every town, village and bureau in america wants one and they're getting it thanks to the local congressmen. >> it isn't just them saying they know the district. they say they know the entire country better than a bureaucrat in washington which is false. >> this year, congress raided the homeland security budget for 51 emergency top centers and now they want twice the money for 75 more. some in small towns like white fish, montana, and port

gibson, mississippi. town of seven cops and 2,000 people. new jersey wants a center as well though the neighboring newark, morris county, union county and hackensack have one. that's $3 million for five top centers in a 20-mile radius. >> it's way out of control. anytime you can put those two words "homeland security" in appropriation bill you automatically got less scrutiny. >> that is speci especially tru when it comes to disaster and terror preparedness. they built a training center in nores to train first responders and this year alone congress earmarked $160 million for 17 similar centers. including the national domestic preparedness consortium, center for domestic preparedness in alabama, national institute for hometown security in kentucky, rural domestic preparedness consortium, advanced training center in west virginia and national

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>> shannon: if you're just tuning in, here are the top stories we're following. authorities are looking at items taken from the building where annie le was last seen. she was supposed to be

getting married today but she vanished tuesday. new haven police confirm bloody clothes were found in the building. cornell university student died from complications related to the h1n1 flu. war ran shore was a 20-year-old junior. no word whether he had some underlying medical condition that complicated that situation. autopsy is planned today on body of christopher kelly, the former chief fundraiser for ousted illinois governor rod blagojevich. kelly died yesterday days before he was to begin serving a federal prison sentence. illinois authorities are investigating this death as a possible suicide. two days ago the nation paused to remember the terror attacks of 9/11 and to honor victims who died that day. today, the national september 11 memorial and museum is working to collect photo, video and materials as a global outreach effort. joe daniels is the head of the museum and memorial and joins us from new york with steve rosenbalm, a filmmaker contributing to the project. thank you for joining us

today. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> shannon: joe, could you start by telling us about the overall mission of the museum and memorial and what you hope to accomplish? >> well, primarily the mission of the memorial is to make sure that for generations tom co, when people from around the world come to visit ground zero and this museum they will know what happened on september 1120 11201 11, 2001, be helped to understand why it happened and what it means to lives in a post-9/11 world. >> shannon: the images are so incredibly powerful. you had already started putting things together. tell us about what you are going to donate to the effort there. >> camera archive is a collection my wife and i put together. 500 hours of material we gathered from the filmmakers but lots of amateur people with cameras in their hand. the thing that the museum is doing that is so important acknowledging everyone has a 9/11 story. the stories will be passed down from generation to generation.

while i'm proud of what we are donating, just the beginning. the collection is going to grow dramatically as people realize the stories are important, too. >> sounds like you are getting unique things contributed to the effort. things from around the world. can you tell us about what has been coming in? >> you know, what is so interesting is that 9/11 did happen to everyone. you didn't have to be at one of the attack site or be there when the buildings fell. you could have been in an airport in hawaii or town in indiana. the vigils that existed and sprung up in the days and weeks after, the people cheering on the side of the streets first responders left towns to come to ground zero. we are getting lots of images like that. it shows that 9/11 was a global event and as steve said, everybody has a piece of this history. by contributing it now your images your stories, photographs will become a part of the historical record of 9/11. >> shannon: steve, what would you say to encourage the average person who thinks what they have isn't that important but join you in

giving to the memorial? >> care about -- we don't know what people will look back on 20 years from now and say that's important. we know it's important we gather everything. so i would say to somebody if you have a picture of your family in front of the trade centers from years ago or a picture from windows on the world or image from that day or image from wherever you were in the world, donate it. it isn't our job to show what is important but to preserve it for history. >> shannon: thank you for the work you're doing and we wish you the best with your efforts. >> thank you. >> shannon: this is a fox news alert. getting more information on the death of former illinois governor rod blagojevich's chief fundraiser christopher kelly. suburban chicago mayor is now saying that christopher kelly admitted to an overdose to police before he died. as we said, his death is investigated as a suicide. he was found late friday night.

apparently unconscious but still alive and now we hear there was an admission he intentionally overdosed. we'll continue to follow it and bring you the latest as it comes in. brit hume sat down with me to talk about the political winners and losers and spot on representative joe wilson's outbursts in the president's speech. that is not all. senator jon kyl, will he be a thorn in the president's side? possible filibuster on healthcare? we ask all about this when he joins us live. how does jell-o sugar free pudding fit all that rich, chocolatey taste in 60 calories? ♪ ♪ oh, so delicious who cares? jell-o sugar free pudding. every diet needs a little wiggle room.

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representative joe wilson. sounds like he is not planning on apologizing again. >> he said on "fox news sunday" no mor more apologies. i think that amounts to a political saying that he has done his piece to atone for self-evidently rude and inappropriate outburst but enough of the people that sent him to office are for him on the subject of the question about two things. one is whether it could have been possible under the bill that was if the house or at least one of them for illegal immigrants to be covered because of a lack of enforcement measures. and secondly that his overall resistance to the bill is popular, too. and so in some sense, by having apologized he is not going to say anything more because he is benefiting from it. if they publish him in the well of the house he can wear that as a badge of honor in his district.

>> let's talk about the speech itself. mixed reaction from two different sides of the aisle. what is the overall sense on how it is being received? >> i don't think it moved the ball a lot and i don't think it was designed to address the concerns of people who are conservative or sensitive on the issue, particularly independents. the president would like to win back the support of independents who have been falling away from him. it looked to me with the tone the speech had and the abstains osubstance of it, he was really trying to hold thing things t r in the house of representatives. the president needs some of the people to vote for the bill, for the bill going through the house. a lot of members don't want to do that because they end up being blamed for supporting it even though it is not going anywhere. that happened to some member on cap and trade or cap and tax as

the critics called it. it is dying over there, as the public option may well die in the senate on this measure. they get blamed for being for it when i they weren't even for it in the first place. >> the other side is he has a lot of liberals in the house that say he won't vote for the bill unless it is in there. i think he had a tall order and i'm not sure given the challenge that he faced that he fully carried o tut. >> a loout. >> senator kent conrad sounds like on "fox news sunday" they are making progress. they are back at the table tomorrow. how much do you think is going to depend on them being able to move something forward where in the senate most say no public option is going to pass. >> two things. take the public option out and it reduces the cost of the measure considerably.

even so, it will be extremely expensive. we are at one of those moments where people worry about the budget deficit in america. we are looking at budget deficits beyond those we have seen before and in a bad economy and people are really sweating it. the senate measure has to deal with the public option controversy which i think it will by leaving it out but it has to think out a way plausibly to come forward and say we have a bill here that will pay for itself and will not add to the deficit. it may be a way to get it to say so on paper but the question is will anybody ever believe it which raises the issue as well which people say we have all the waste in medicare that if we get it out that will save money and help pay for this thing. for the level of the deficit now, why aren't they doing that now? the answer is that it is not easy to get at.

i'm not sure you can create a bill that will credibly do that. >> thanks for your inside thoughts. chris wallace interviewed congressman joe wilson today. catch that along with the debate with senators haskell, mcgram and conrad right here at 2:00 eastern time today. fox news has been all over the controversial community organizing group acorn, detailing alleged voter fraud in last year's election and new hidden video that was given to fox news shows two workers allegedly giving tax evasion advice. acorn is promising legal action against fox. the conservative activists who shot the video sat down with fox news and they have a very different story. >> i'm shannon bream live in washington. we begin with the battle over healthcare z.

president obama says he is not going to pass a healthcare reform bill that doesn't work and that he will own the bill once it is passed. how far away are ease from an actual bill? earlier this week the president laid out his healthcare plan to congress. joining us now live senate minority webb. you said the speech of the partisan and disengine with us. there were any good highlights there or any reaching across the aisle it. >> there was one reach across the aisle. everybody suggests malpractice reform must be a part of it. there is a separate version of the malpractice and frankly i find that is a fairly

disingenuous offer. >> he talked about bipartisanship. has that been your experience. do you think it is a possibility going forward? >> it is very difficult. there has been two primary committee newarkups of bills in which hundreds of amendments were offered by the republicans and rejected almost always on a peter line vote. when that happens you get the idea, okay, you don't want our eye yeas. they have the majority and they can pass it without us, that it's true. >> we have a series of bills we signed on to, the things that we have been talking about as targeted. we offer bipartisan action. in which i thought was

very in your face. there is a series of things that he said in the speech that were simply incorrect or they may have been legally correct from a lawyer point of view but highly misleading. let me give you one example. you heard the president for months say if you like your insurance you get to keep it. that's important to people but obviously someone finally told him mr. president that is not true under these bills. for a variety of reasons about 95 million people would not get to keep their insurance even though they like it. you need to change it. the way he said it wednesday night and he repeated it was nothing in here requires you to give up your plan rather the government will not require you to give up your plan. that's true, nobody ever said the government was going to require it. instead, what the government does is take away the ability of medicare advantage plans to offer insurance to seniors. as a result, 7 million senior

letts lose that care and they provide anen sentive for employers to dump employees from the business been a to the new government plan if there is one. the government didn't tell them they had to to it. it made it impossible for them to tip anden force. >> a lot of focus on the house side where all three of the senator lindsay grahame said that is a done deal and it is not going to happen. the focus is also on thing eastboundtive mitt chief. where. >> the national and its leaders continue to say it will not happen here. >> it doesn't have the support in the senate, that is true. one of the question questions, what happens with the house passing one version and the senate passing the other?

at that point you get together in what is called a conference committee. republicansrd astyled to that process and will have nothing to do with it. the democrats are to decide will will be a pub america option option or what is called a co-kopp. there are as proposed which would have the same effect as a sub pick ooms but even called may about biff rent ney. >> some suggested they may go it alone because they have the numbers? >> folks need to know that the old tile philly dust earth a 0%

aflee. in will be agreed to and it always is. in this case there is the possibility of the nuclear option, the one exception to the 60 vote rule. and there is talk that they will do this. if they do, it will blow the senate up. there are a lot of democrats that don't want to do it. just imagine with the american public now 52-42 against the president's healthcare plan, if they, ma'am is through on a bear majority i think the cuptry will be outrailed. >> nor karl very rich saying we shouldn't send more troops to afghan, we could better thin their forces just. >> everybody wants to train more afghan troops. the question is can you do it without nor american troops, number one. and semiconductorly, do we need

a energy in american props in. >> in afghanistan. >> my questions is he will if for for roof the. if i were the treasure i would to their advice. he will have a loot of republican support and the so i was its disappointed and some what sur pietz priced too see senator levy say there sud. biz funding for that. >> we talk to it a restrived by forcetive. you will hear from the redwood city himself. he grant the his first interview sim his atreasure to a joint gentlemen of congress. he says he wants to overhaul healthcare the rye way and has

no interest in passing a bill that doesn't work. joe wilson said enough of the apologies. he said he has apologized and won't apologize again. >> today, wilson said he apoll mizeed from the house on answer and says this not. >> mr. obama said illegal immigrants wouldn't get red roll money. the doingman maintain was it wasn't his tay tex punishment now if. >> they will make sure that the trice driver's low pressure system includes bellle it they aged and so do the senate o fryion adopt epiforcement for

this and high pressure the white house itself on friday will be red -- and then the itself will be ready. >> hackers are crashing the website. a source tells fox that the site was down for five hours friday night. imthat can really hurt wilson's campaign financially because people that want to click on there and donate can't while the site is down. wilson raised more than a untilled since his outburst on wednesday. house democrats are preparing a resolution of disamoval to normally reteam this week. acorn says fox news wants to tree stray their group.

they said ox cop spiered with james o'keefe ached jim palmer flay gills. two acorn employees hold them how to atid evacuations from the i many r. >> acorn is alling it a year. a toe tate elementally amity visited speer, was that the rap you did it. >> we are just trying to hold the organizations accountable and we are trying to do investigative work, independent work and we are just asking these people questions. i don't see other news organizations asking these people questions so hannah and i took it one ourselves to get to the bottom of what is going on. >> they say the tapes were doctored. were the sames doctored. >> absolutely not.

they didn't have any to stand som. we have the audio off the video and we have the pulp tapes and in omaha bank cases given to the media to they with attack us on the ground but when the truth comes out in the end they will be apologizing to us. >> two employees eshop after the video and two others were fired light last week. >> the u.s. census water rose suffered its site to to i corn. prosecutors speaking in november, muhammad was sentenced to death for the murder of one of the ten people that were killed in his 2002 shooting rampage. his attorney says he will take his appeal all the way to the u.s. supreme court. authorities say they have seized evidence in the search for missing grad student annie lee who vanished just days

before her wetting will with have before today. we are hearing reports now that investigators were at a trash in suv stater. the trash from new haven goes to hart and mae wanted to key if thissing. >> we did find that new maven police did in fact find blood. >> clothing in the building behind me where the student meant missing friday moring they are skinle that segment to determine whether or notes if affected by this base. and the in the pack there is a

protective parking area. not clear what they are look for or whether they have seen anything of. >> we have seen a surveillance picture of the young 24-year-old brad student on territoriesing the building on tuesday morning but there is no video of her leaving the killing. they are continuing to closely examine the perhapses have. but in any base, police are are not saying that a wheel was midded. er this yont know what happened here jet wile are also trying to figure it out. >> aquation that appeared in the yale university medical magazine earlier this year back in february that was written by annie lee. she wrote about crime in new

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a beautiful sunny day here in washington and we like to say d.c., there is a protest because there is always one going on here. yesterday the tea party express with tens of thousands. today a group called americans united for healthcare and insurance reform. they are having a rally that they support healthcare reform and getth insurance for everyone in the u.s. they are near show support to make sure that everybody -- they are here to show their support. a beautiful fountain outside the u.s. capitol. we wanted to show you their protest today as well. the debate over healthcare reform has become a rallying

cry across the political spectrum. karen finney and phil musser join us to talk about it. what did you make of the president's speech this week? did he do what he needed to do on wednesday night? >> it was a side show in some regards. he was vociferous and direct and a lot of republicans felt he was drawing a line in the sand on a variety of issues and then there is the subsequent controversy over the joe wilson thing. the message was muddled and if anything the outcome has been that the partisan divide is greater as a result of this week's activity and i'm not sure we have done a whole lot to move the country together. unfortunately, for a variety of circumstances both planned and unforeseen i think that is where we seat as we go into tomorrow which is when we expect senator bachus and the goldman sachs of six to show the cards.

>> you mention the great divide developing here. we saw tens of thousands for the tea party protest. do you think that the mainstream media has has covered them fairly. fox was throughout and we were in the middle of it. do you think other media outlets covered it fairly and characterized it fairly? >> what was happening across the country, mainstream media covered it extensively and a lot of reporters tried to have of courses with people on both sides. what was unfortunate about that was that for the people who showed up in the middle who just genuinely had questions, unfortunately, i don't know that they got the questions answered. i think they got them answered earlier this week because the president helped to dispel a lot of the lies and misinformation out there across the summer so that people have a clearer sense of where he stands and where his lines in the sand are and what he is and is not going to do. there is a lot of misinformation about what is in the bill, what is not in the

bill, what is on the table, what is not on the table. and not just talking about the cards on the table. i think the responsibility at this point lies with both republicans and democrats in it congress to try to get it together and come forward with a solution. no one said they didn't want any kind of healthcare reform but they had questions about how they were going to do that. i think there is a responsibility to put politics aside and i say that for both sides. >> you lay down a good marker on that that the viewers should pay attention to. tomorrow, if the democrats move to censure joe wilson, at the end of the day they will elevate the debate. it is all about politics. and if they make a big stink about joe wilson and the ongoing controversy. i think he was the man the the station probably inadvertently what he heard over the summer, right, the people that are turning out are not just republicans.

dent -- dale earnhardts, these -- i can tell you this is a cross section of americans who think the government is too big and they are scared of that. >> and they didn't get the questions answered because people showed up not with the intention of asking questions but with the intention of being disruptive. >> see how the democrats play the politics of the wilson question this week. >> i think both sides frankly have overplayed their hands on the politics. the republicans have done it quite a few times. i don't disagree with you. joe wilson apologized. behavior we can all agree was horrendous and disrespectful. no matter who you are, democrat or republican you should have respect for the presidency and should leave it in that chamber. >> we is leave a at that. >> yes. >> thank you both for coming in. a. a cornel university student died from complications related to the h1n1 swine flu.

the 21-year-old man died friday. officials at the our are urging folk there's to be extra vigilant for any flu like symptoms. a memorial service will be held on campus next week. with the traditional flu season quickly approaching, health officials are expressing concern over the ability to cope with an h1n1 flu outbreak. while many hospitals are mapping out plans of attack the general public also has a role to play. jonathan thierry has the latest. >> the government is bracing for the h1n1 flu. >> if even a small percentage of folks run to the doctor or the e.r. on a given month the system will be severely challenged. >> reporter: with h1n1 striking at the same time as seasonal flu, public health officials are concerned it may stretch resources of the emergency

rooms beyond their limits. >> we don't have much surge capacity in the united states for intensive care unit beds and ventilators. >> hospitals have tried to fill every site. a full hospital is an economically efficient hospital. >> president obama urged hospitals to take action. >> we need hospitals and healthcare providers to continue preparing for an increased patient load and to take steps to protect healthcare workers. >> hospitals are taking proactive measures such as expanding patient treatment into wings normally used for administration and creating separate waiting rooms for people with flu but dr. keller says the public has to get vaccinated and slow the spread with h1n1. >> that means on any given tay or any given week doctors like me have less severely ill patients to take care of. >> kellerman says the vast

majority of those infected with h1n1 will not require a visit to the emergency room. convincing these people to recover at home will be key to freeing up e.r.s to those that need it the most. >> how to overhaul the healthcare system is the hot topic. will a plan actually make it to the presidents it desk this year? we will talk to a congressman from kentucky, up next.

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>> shannon: new developments in the search for missing yale graduate student. the bottom of the hour. caroline shively with the top of the news. >> hi, shannon. >> investigators have found a pile of bloody clothes in the building annie lee was last seen entering. she was supposed to be married today but hasn't been seen since tuesday. acorn, the controversial community organizing group is threatening legal action against fox news. the group calls itself fox's willie horton for 2009 and claims fox has spent millions trying to destroy the organization. conservative activity shot and edit ditteed the tape and gavex

news the video before airing it online. bin laden was one of 54 children. the rest of the family disavow any linked to osama in 1994. residents teamed together to mark the one year anniversary of hurricane ike. 75% of the homes and businesses were badged in the landfall. a sunrise service was held near the beach this morning. those are the top stories right now. shannon, back to you thank you, caroline. israel's prime minister says he holds the lebanese responsible for two rockets that struck israel on friday. he says israel will not stand idly by when it is attacked. mike tobin has the latest from jerusalem. hi, mike. >> reporter: despite showing retain after rockets fly from

lebanon into israel, prime minister nenanyahu said they will not hold back again. israel immediately responsibilitied with artillery but limited the counter strike to that. it is still not clear who fired the rockets on friday but prior to the attack all four of the rocket strikes which followed the cease fire that ended the struggle. that lopsided show of force killed 1200 lebanese and 160 israelis. israelis believe that hezbollah has resupplied its stockpile of rockets and other weapons since the war and they point to an explosion of an apparent arms depot in mid july as proof of that. a spokesman for the u.n. says that the investigation is now pointing to the possibility that extremist groups fired the

rockets at israel. shannon? >> shannon: thank you, mike tobin, live from jerusalem. president obama address to a joint session of congress brought up the issue of a government run public option but on the sunday talk shows several democrats including his press secretary gibbs down played the role of a public option. will lawmakers be able to pass healthcare reform, public option or not. congressman, thank you for your time today. >> mize pleasure -- my pleasur, shannon. >> shannon: we nerd you include iting it will not pass and we heard if you don't include it, it will not pass. >> i think it will be hard to get a bill passed in the house without a public option or at least something that accomplishes the same thing as a public option which is

basically to provide competition for the private insurance industry. it will be an interesting standoff if the senate refuses to go along. i think there are possible compromises that could work. i advanced one to the white house at the end of the week which i think might be able to get some support. we will see but again i don't think -- in the house the bottom line is i don't think the majority in the house is willing to say we will give all these new customers to the private insurance industry and not provide them with any new competition. >> shannon: what do you make of criticism that the speech didn't reach across the aisle to republicans or maybe wasn't the most solid reach across the aisle? do you think that is a legitimate criticism. >> he is a big muhammad ali fan but rope-a-dope doesn't work well, these days. this has become at least from

the republican perspective as you and i have talked before, pretty much a strict partisan consideration. they are out at all courts to stop reform -- at all costs to stop reform in the congress. he has incorporated some republican ideas in his fan. i heard tom pryce with you earlier and what is amazing about h.r. 3400 which is there bill is how similar many of the provisions are to the legislation now moving through congress. i think we have done an awful lot and the president has laid down the battle lines and drawn them and that was important for him to do because he has to show as much passion as the opponents have. >> the numbers are are clearly on your side as a democrat. is there going to be another push to get something done in a bipartisan fashion or if it has to be done with democrats pleading the vote, is that going to be the way it goes down?

>> i think that is the way it has to go down. we have to go ahead and do what we think is best for the american people. when medicare was passed it had only 12 republican votes in 1965 so we are prepared to do just the same thing. it would be wonderful if we had bipartisan support for healthcare reform. doesn't look like we will get it but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't proceed to do what we think is best and what the american people need and want. >> congressman, we just have a few questions left, i have to ask you a question or know question. >> if there is a move to arm elementally sanction in the house, yes, or no, what do you think about that? >> iowa think evertry minute we spend talking about wilson just detracts from time for the

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>> shannon: there are some lingering questions now about whether tennis star serena williams will face further discipline for her outburst at the u.s. open yesterday.

kim kleijsters won but serena didn't take it lightly. williams went on an expletive laced rant at a judge, pointing her finger and yaleing a yellie walked off the court. >> i didn't say i would kill you! are you serious? are you serious? i didn't say that! >> i got to admit, i would be a little scared of serena, too. she had already been given a warning when she broke her racket after losing the first set. no word on whether or not she will face suspension in play. some parents in kentucky are calling foul after a coach took some parents to a church revive -- took some players to a church revival and some players were baptized. >> the church was filled to capacity with people at times standing in the aisles.

they were here to see ronnie hill who gave a motivational sermon. they were singing and praising. the crowd included ball players from the breckenridge valley high school. the coach told them they were going to have a steak dinner at the church and hear a motivational speaker. >> how about them steaks? give them a hand. >> after listening to hill there was a call to the altar. 47 of the people were baptized including nine of the players. player baptist many is a matter of obedience. >> this is robert coffee. >> robert, have you trusted jesus christ to be your lord and save. yes, sir. >> it is migrate privilege to baptize you. >> the parents say they had no right to take the their children on a school bus.

>> people consider religion serious business. the pastor says it is as serious as the heat he is now getting from around the country. >> this is a place where people have a relationship with god. no one manipulated any one. we give invitation for boys and girls to make decisions on that night and we had 47 people who made a decision to be baptized. >> the coach isn't talking and the school superintendent who was also in attendance at the church says things seem to be settling down a little bit. but fox 41 has learned some of the parents are ready to sue. >> shannon: did the football coach go over the line? do the parents have a case in court? >> here to weigh in, jill davis and michael. >> michael, you think the coach went too far? >> you know, it gives a new meaning to the term team

spirit. i think he meant their everlasting soul. yeah, he definitely went too far. essentially you have a government employee who is in essence an arm of the government who is endorsing religion. it doesn't help when you have the superintendent also in attendance at this service who is also endorsing it. >> shannon: as we understand, it was voluntary and someone else paid for the gas to get them there even though it sounds like it was on a school bus. what do you make of that? >> here is what you have to go to the bottom line. what does the constitution guarantee? that the government shall not coerce any one to participate or support or endorse a religion. the question is was is voluntary and in this case it was. these kids were just like a baseball game, they were asked to go and if they didn't want to go, no one was forced to and no public funds were used and that is what people care about. were my taxpayer dollars used

on this event? and they were not. a volunteer drove the school bus. another volunteer donated the money for the gas and it was after hours on an extra curricular activity as if it was a play or baseball game so in this case it doesn't violate the separation of church and state cause. >> it is not a private vehicle that took these boys. >> it really does. there is a couple of things that really make the difference in the case. number one, you have a coach who obviously has some influence over these boys, otherwise he is not going to be a good coach. he is exerting some influence on the young gentlemen to attend the service. additionally, a school bus which is being used which eceptionly comes out o of the public coverer. it as question of whether you do it at all. >> shannon: could we concede that as a 16-year-old on a

football team you will what tonight listen to what your coach has to say, even if he says is is voluntary, you will worry about playing time and maybe pleaseing that authority figure? >> what amazes me is when it behooves someone to use the expression in a beneficial way what a good christian man, that is okay. when it comes to the reality of living a christian life all of a sudden that becomes a bad thing? that is hypocritical. if it is mosstive and something that you would want to say in a promotional way that it is not critical, in fact, you know, a nice expression of how to characterize someone, bly is it so bad to say that this coach is a good christian man and he is live it? i mean you can't have it both ways. i mean that is how i see it on

this coach. >> shannon: we have to leave it there. thank you for the spirited debate. we will follow the case and see if it does wind up in court and whose predictions come true. radio hosts are fired up over illegal immigration. they gathered in washington this week to hold their "hold their feet to the fire" rally. we will talk to the event's founder here in washington, up next. need a lift? hey buddy, i appreciate the ride, you know. no problem. ♪ mind if i take a shortcut? yeah, sure. ♪ i knew the subaru legacy was the smart choice... what i didn't expect... was the fun. the all-new subaru legacy.

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>> shannon: congress is back in washington and hot on hair heels is a group of nearly 50 talk radio hosts converging on the capitol for the annual hold their feet to the fire conference to voice opinions on illegal immigration and other hot button issues in the u.s. heading up the group is radio

america network host. >> it is bringing the we the people concept back to washington. listeners paid their own way to come here and lobby the congressman. the interesting thing out of the joe wilson outburst is the change both in the senate bill, there will be enforcement, illegals will not get taxpayer subsidized health insurance and the white house saying we will use the safe version and have the eligibility requirement so we are making progress to highlight the grass roots feeling that illegals have broken into the country and they do not deserve taxpayer supported help. >> radio talk shows have blossomed and they are extremely powerful. you bring that here to washington. you bring several dozen hosts and they are in one place broadcasting where members of congress and different people can come to them. is this a friendly exchange, how does it work? >> friendly to those people who are friendly to the idea of the rule of law and legal immigration.

very unfriendly to people who are on the other side and who want open borders and subsidies for illegals. we don't and we are here to make that case and if we need to get in their face a little, we do it. >> shannon: do you have some on the other side of the issue come and sit down and talk to you? >> we hope to. we don't characterize the opponents or people on the other side or try to demonize them which i think the left does too much of. i think we should have an on dialogue. it is 20 some years now that we haven't solved this problem. >> shannon: any other topics that you want to capitalize on this week? >> not only the inmates great lakes and not only immigration as part of -- not only the immigration and part of the healthcare debate. how much is the government going to try to do, how much is it going to cost and how much are we burdening future generations with the cost of these things. >> tuesday and wednesday here from the nation's capitol and folks can listen and see if a local host is involved in the project. >> that's right.

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>> shannon: if you are just tuning in, here are the developing stories we are following today. new information in the disappearance of grad student annie lee. investigators have reportedly recovered bloody clothes from the day where lee was last seen. today was supposed to be her wedding day but there has been no sign of her since tuesday. congressman joe wilson who yelled you lie during president obama's speech says he apologized enough and he will not do it again on the house floor. you can see the full interview with chris wallace at the top of the hour. an h1n1 death, a 20-year-old cornel university student died from complications related to the h1n1 virus.

water ren shore - -- warren she was a junior. booking a plane ticket this fall you may find that you have fewer flights to choose from. most airlines plan to cut back because of falling demand. they may offer the lightest fall schedule since 2001. an amazing rescue here. the coast guard medivacked two men from a burning fishing vessel in corpus christi, texas, yesterday. the coast guard was in the air when it spotted smoke from a burning boat below. two people escaped to a life raft when a rescue crew arrived. the men are expected to survive. a special day in virginia city, nevada, where folks are commemorating the use of camels by the u.s. army. casey stegall is there covering

the action and joins us live. though not atop a camel. hi, casey. >> i timed it out, by the way. you can get on one of the later flights in d.c. and be here in time to go ahead and race a camel or ostrich. get out of the studio as quickly as you can when the show is over. can you believe that people actually race both of these animals, the camels and ostriches. they have grown men that get on top of them and ride them just like a horse. they put a saddle on top of the camel over the hump and they ride it and race it. can you believe they have been doing this here for 50 years here in virginia city? this attracts people from all over the country and the town swells with tourists for the event. and the championship race gets underway in just about two hours so it is going to be cool to see it all in action and we are, of course, going to bring it to you tonight on the fox report. pretty amazing when you look at

legs of the ostriches and you see how small they really are and people actually get on top of the birds and race them and look at this. we have one coming right here because, you know, we are breaking some of the rules with going on live television with the animals since they are unpredictable. it is a lot of fun no, doubt. it as big tourist event and it will really fill up out here later, shannon. having a great time. can't wait to see you. >> shannon: i will be there in time for fox report. >> we got your spot. >> shannon: okay. super bowl mvps might be looking at a new walt disney world in the future. mickey is getting a face lift. set to undergo its largest overhaul. the biggest plans include a lavish new ride based on the little mermaid and expanding the jumbo children's attraction. disney is hoping all the improvements can be finished by 2013. here at america's news

headquarters, there are many people working behind the scenes to get the show on the air, most notably among them, our director rob. wave there. hi, rob. today we send a special happy 60th birthday to rob's dad bob. happy birthday and we wish you all the best. well, that is it for us here in washington. "fox news sunday" is up next. it is a great one. chris wallace sits down with senator kent conrad, clare mccask iv and lindsay grahame and an exclusive interview with south carolina senator joe wilson. he is still under controversy after yelling out you lie during a presidential speech on wednesday. what he has to say about possible disciplinary action coming his way this week and the requests for apo