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york with more. talk about news breaking out. >> it was. the news the financial world was waiting for, brian. while not every american knows his name they have certainly felt ben bernanke's work. what is it that you really like to do? wall street was watching today >> eat. as president obama visiting martha's vineyard pressed pause on his vacation. >> i apologize for interrupting what do i look to do? >> i know. i know. i know. the relaxing that i told all of you to do. and we are so good at it. >> reporter: to appoint ben look at you. now, how good you are. bernanke to a four-year term as fed chair crediting the former the great meryl streep and a princeton professor with helping scene from "julie and julia" to prevent calamity. >> as an expert on the causes of about julia child. the movie has done an incredible the great depression, i am sure ben never imagined he would be thing for the book business. part of a team responsible for when the new "the new york preventing another. but because of his background, times" best-seller list comes out in five days, julia child's his temperament, his courage and book "mastering the art of creativity, that's exactly what he has helped to achieve. french cooking" will be number one for the first time ever. on the broadcast tonight, keep in mind the book was meltdown. >> reporter: nearly one year ago, last september, banks were written almost 48 years ago. failing, the dow was in free cost $40. fall as credit dried up. runs 752 pages. the entire financial system it requires, by the way, one

threatened with collapse. some say bernanke's aggressive dumptruck full of butter. moves at the fed, slashing but seeing the movie got a whole interest rates to zero, and lot of people thinking and cook pumping $1 trillion into frozen just as the french chef tried to credit markets helped turn teach us to. things around. there is a new public but his critics say he was slow service announcement, a to see the crisis coming. television ad, we are going to show you some of it tonight. >> the problems in the subprime produced by the government in market seems likely to be wales in the uk. contained. >> reporter: and that big banks, it is airing on television not consumers have benefited there. it has quickly gone viral on the from the fed's intervention. internet. it is making news here because now, as the economy recovers, it is so real, so graphic, not the next challenge. everybody realizes it's just a re-enactment. scaling back on low interest rates and massive fed spending without triggering inflation or >> fancied you. worse. >> the fed has to be very >> please, don't. >> pass. careful that it doesn't pull the >> it's not even funny now. >> get his number. funding out too quickly and stop the recovery. >> reporter: the bernanke announcement coincided with bad >> it gets worse from there and budget news from the white the message here, indelibly is house. the administration's latest this. it is about texting while estimate puts the deficit $2 driving. the fact that it's as dangerous trillion higher than originally as drunk driving is. predicted. the risk of a traffic accident more than $9 trillion over the next ten years. making the president's health jumps 23 times while texting.

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with their own voter identity cards. the election's dispute is the latest of a growing number of problems. violence is on the rise. the taliban has strong holds in a but half the country. and even analysts here are starting to say the u.s. is finally tonight there is that old expression about people getting deeper in what could be who live in glass houses. an unwinnable war. but nobody ever said anything and that war erupted in kandahar about glass hotels. there is this new glass hotel in this evening where at least five new york. car bombs went off at once and that's fine except that it killing at least 41 people and straddles a new and quirky wounding over 60 in a neighborhood that houses many public park called the highline. international aid workers and it's called that because it is built on an old railroad contractors. just hours earlier four u.s. trestle. the trouble here is when people troops were killed by a roadside walking down the highline look bomb making 2009 the deadliest up at the people doing what they year yet for american forces do in a hotel, well, among the here. onlookers today was our own mike as afghanistan is now at a new taibbi. low, with a deadly mix of political uncertainty and >> reporter: where freight cars once rumble add long an elevated increasingly aggressive enemy. richard engel, nbc news, kabul. rail spur now flora, fauna and back in this country, we now nobody in a hurry, a pedestrian stroll, called the highline know the obama administration running through the ultramodern will be investigating the standard hotel in lower interrogation techniques used by manhattan. an instant family favorite as

the bush administration soon as it opened in june, even including torture. brian this past sunday called it a federal prosecutor has been already one of the great places named and a fight is now under for people watching. only brian wasn't talking about way over it all. these people captured by "new our own andrea mitchell has the very latest from our washington york post" photographers the very next day cavorting without newsroom. andrea, good evening. curtains in front of the huge >> good evening, brian. did the controversial cia floor to ceiling windows. >> two gentlemen in the buff tactics actually prevent attacks on the homeland? that is the core of an explosive waving hello. >> reporter: some parents have been surprised and not debate tonight between former pleasantly. >> i just wouldn't want my kids vice president dick cheney and the obama white house. seeing that. >> reporter: some older folks have come mraend to local vendors. >> they have been some what, escalating the feud from a family vacation in alaska, dick disgusted by the actions of the cheney challenged president young people. >> reporter: admit it you can obama's ability to protect the hear your own captain reynold homeland. cheney said the decision to voice saying i'm shocked, prosecute interrogators was shocked to find out there is sex political. going on in greenwich village, and shows "why so many americans have doubts about this new york. administration's ability to be which window? responsible for our nation's in fact the hotel highlighted its breathtaking and daring security." fighting words. aspects. and on a now removed facebook >> his statements in these days are kind of pathetic. page once invited guests to i think he should know that the exercise their inner exhibitionist and share their obama administration is doing explicit photos whatever the everything to keep america impetus the very public displays secure. >> reporter: who is right? of affection and then some are surely inappropriate says

the new documents reveal 30 of the detainees a third of those held in the cia secret prisons etiquette writer. were subjected to the yet if she saw a performance questionable practices. under way. >> would you look away? cheney says the tactics saved >> i would take out my opera lives and prevented terrorist attacks. his proof -- in part, this memo, glasses. >> reporter: for most it is no big deal. not to judy silverstein from the describing how 9/11 mastermind, neighborhood. >> when i saw that on the news, khalid mohammed was that's too bad. let's get the health care thing passed. >> reporter: still the hotel has waterboarded, admitted to a responded to the fuss over all series of plots. this exposed skin, saying late in 2001 to crash a hijacked beneath its odd upside down logo airliner into the tallest building on the u.s. west coast. that it will now remind guests another in early 2002 to send of the transparency of the guest room windows. some newsmen seemed less than the al qaeda, padilla, operative impressed. >> the glass is transparent. to set off bombs in an i forgot about that. unspecified major u.s. city. >> reporter: forget about the show ending anytime soon. and never before disclosed plan in 2003 to employ a network of mike taibbi, nbc news, new york. pakistanis to target gas that is our broadcast for stations, railroad tracks and the brooklyn bridge in new york. this tuesday night.t. but administration officials say there is no way to know whether the same information could have been obtained from him without waterboarding or whether he would have given it up sooner had he been handled differently. in fact, khalid mohammed told

the international red cross in 2006 he lied to fool his questioners. >> he made stuff up and took pleasure in the fact that the united states had probably wasted money responding. >> reporter: an argument experts say may never be resolved. but tonight, john mccain who opposed the bush/cheney interrogation policies criticized the attorney general's decision to investigate cia interrogators creating more political headaches for the white house. brian. andrea mitchell in washington tonight. thanks. federal health officials are wrapping up two days of meetings at the centers for disease control in atlanta. it is all about planning for a potential surge in swine flu cases this fall. the message from the government "get vaccinated. when it is available as soon as you can." but there are still a lot of question out there. last night here we asked you for yours. a lot of you posted questions on our website overnight. we'll begin with this one.

its the h1/n1 any more dangerous than the regular seasonal flu? here is our own robert bazell. >> reporter: recent animal and other lab tests do show this virus is potentially more dangerous than most seasonal flu. in the rare individuals who have serious side effects, the virus goes deeper into the lungs, and clings more tightly to the lung tissue. >> working on emerging diseases. >> reporter: this doctor of the cdc says a big reason the virus is not causing even more deaths is that the virus strikes mostly younger people. >> they're the ones getting hospitalized and having serious disease. the overall numbers are going to be lower because they are able to tolerate those kinds of problems. >> reporter: what really are the risks to pregnant women? although the absolute numbers are small, pregnant women are at far higher risk from complications from swine flu than the rest of the population. until a vaccine becomes available doctors strongly advise that pregnant women seek medical attention immediately if they have a fever or signs of

the flu. what should parents of children with allergies to eggs do to protect against this virus? when a vaccine is available, like all flu vaccines it will be grown in eggs so people who have egg allergies will not be able to take it. those people will have to carry out the precautions like hand washing and covering coughs, that everyone should follow until there is a vaccine. >> for very young children who can't get vaccinated we recommend the people around those individuals get vaccinated not allergic. >> i have a newborn baby too young for the vaccine, what steps can i take to protect him? experts say as soon as a vaccine is available, people around children 6 months or younger who cannot get vaccinated, parents and caretakers should be among the first to get vaccinated themselves. if you have already had the first wave of swine flu, are you protected from the fall wave of the illness? since testing was relatively limited not everyone who thought they had swine flu in the spring may have actually had it. officials say that unless people are absolutely sure they had swine flu, they should get

vaccinated. >> reporter: many viewers had questions about the safety of a new vaccine. a vaccine against a different swine flu that appeared briefly in 1976 caused increased risk for a condition. officials here at the cdc say they have ever reason to think this year's vaccine will be safe, but still have an extensive monitoring system in place to look for any potential problems that may arise. brian. robert bazell at the cdc tonight. thanks. to our viewers if you didn't hear your question asked and answered on the air, bob has answered more of them about swine flu on our website, that's nightly.msnbc.com. when our broadcast continues here on a tuesday night -- does school do a better job when school never gets out for the summer? and later, talk about coming to new york to see a show. this one, right out in the open, may be x rated. 365-horsepower-, ecoboost™ engine in the all-new ford taurus sho

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we're back now. and we turn to our series this week on education and while this is known as the back-to-school season, some kids never left school. they're part of a movement in education reform that puts school on a year-round calendar because you know what happens to our brains over the summer after all. as part of our "making the grade" series here is nbc's rahema ellis. >> reporter: the first day of school can be harder for some than others. especially when it is still summer. such was the case in chicago, the third largest school district in the country. 90,000 elementary schoolkids went back to school early at no extra cost to the district. it's part of a growing shift here toward year-round education. there are about 2 million students in 46 states who attend year-round schools, that is about 5% of all students nationwide who are giving up the american tradition of a long

summer vacation. the push for year-round schools in chicago is a grassroots effort by parents, teachers and principals, concerned about low test scores. studies show long summer vacations are a major reason test scores of students from low income families lag behind others. >> i think this is a good program because children are going to learn a lot more and remember more of what they learned last year. >> reporter: but nationwide studies on the effectiveness of year-round schools show minimal results. last year in chicago, year-round students showed less than 2% improvement in reading, math and science. why? >> they're not actually adding more days to the calendar. they're just rearranging the days they already have. they have shorter breaks throughout the year. >> reporter: despite the short comings these schools continue to grow in popularity here. chicago has now tripled the number of year-round schools to 132. at smith elementary where almost

all the students are from low-income families, the principal jumped at the chance. >> giving our students an opportunity to start school earlier, allows them to retain more of the information that they had either in summer school or in june. >> reporter: parents say the program has benefits beyond academics. >> just to keep them busy and off the streets. give them something to do. >> reporter: year round schools gaining momentum here among some parents, eager to give their children any advantage they can. rehema ellis, nbc news, chicago. when "nightly news" continues in a moment, we will show you something designed to get your attention and the producers are hoping it works. you've wanted to quit smoking so many times, but those days came and went, and the cigarettes remained.

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