claudette calling. packing heavy rains, the storm makes landfall in the florida panhandle. reform wrangling. compromise could be in the works on a key public option provision of the obama healthcare plan. and tiger's pain. y.e. yang pulled off an amazing upset at the pga championship. captioning funded by cbs good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm michelle guillen. claudette made landfall in the florida panhandle early this morning, the first named storm to hit the u.s. main land this year. claudette moved onto the shore at ft. walton beach as a tropical storm with maximum winds of 50 miles per hour.

the storm dumped heavy rains in some area but is expected to weaken over land and is not expected to cause significant damage. forecasters have been watching two other storms over the weekend. ana, headed toward the gulf of mexico, is dying out. bill is farther away but potentially the most dangerous of the three. hari sreenivasan has more. >> reporter: claudette came ashore less than a day after forming over the gulf coast. ana is already weakening, but bill has forecasters watching and worrying. >> it does look like, first of all, bill is going to be the first hurricane of the season, probably the first major hurricane of the season. >> reporter: forecasters recently scaled back their predictions for this year, saying they expect only 10 named storms instead of 11, and just 4 hurricanes instead of 5. >> generally in june and july, it's inactive, but right now in august, we see things really ramp up. >> reporter: 40 years ago,

hurricane camille landed on the coast as a rare category 5 hurricane with winds up to 193 miles an hour. in august of 2004, hurricane charley leveled homes and buildings in punta gorda, florida. residents celebrated their town's renewal this weekend. that same weekend, hurricane ivan landed in gulf shores, alabama, forcing zoos to evacuate animals one by one. as hurricane claudette approaches, they're almost finished building a storm shelter that can house animals and humans. >> it's going to be a weight taken off all of our shoulders every june 5th when hurricane season begins. we'll never have to worry about it again. >> reporter: but worry is just beginning in hurricane country as it looks like the season is finally kicking into gear. hari sreenivasan, cbs news, new york. there are still half a dozen wildfires burning in california this morning, though firefighters have made major progress against it. an evacuation order has been lifted for a santa cruz mountain

town, and the forest service there says there was a sinister cause for the so-called la brea fire in northern santa barbara county. 2,000 residents of the town of bonny doon with retn to their homes. no homes were lost, but one destroyed building supplies for one woman's dream home. >> it was going to be part of the house we were going to build. >> reporter: the forest service says the la brea fire was caused by a cooking fire and an inlegal marijuana growing operation. president obama is expected to make another push for healthcare this morning, and there are new indications the administration is willing to cut a compromise deal on a key provision. susan roberts is in washington with details. susan, good morning. >> reporter: michelle, good morning to you. it appears the administration is now bending just a bit and is ready to leave open the possibility of eliminating the option, the plic option, that is, as long as there is a competitor to private insure. the obama administration is easing up on its push for a

government-run insurance program. >> what's important is choice and competition. i'm convinced, at the end of the day, the plan will have both of those. that is not the essential element. >> reporter: faced with tough town hall audiences and mounting opposition, officials say they're willing to consider nonprofit health insurance co-opes as a way to compete with private insurance companies. president obama may have more to say when he addresses a crowd of vets in phoenix today. but his health secretary indicates the president still favors a government-run program. >> the president believes that can best be done through a public option. >> reporter: some lawmakers see the public option as a deal breaker. they feel it will have unfair advantages that could drive some private insurers out of business. >> there are not the votes in the senate for the public option. >> reporter: north dakota senator ken conrad has come up with his own proposal, a nonprofit co-op system funded by

the government but independently run. >> it's not a plan at all in the sense the government runs it. government has nothing to do with it. once it's established, it's run by the members. >> reporter: it's the type of idea the gop is open to. >> i don't know if it will do everything people want, but we ought to look at it. >> reporter: president obama wrote in a new york times article over the weekend that he believes congress believes with 80% of his ideas for healthcare reform. dropping the public option could be the key to winning him even more support. many of those to the far left believe that without a public option the bill would fail to reform the healthcare system and that the nonprofits, or the co-opes, are just an unproven model at this point. michelle? >> susan roberts in washington. susan, thank you. >> a suspect has been arrested in that pipe attack that sent milwaukee mayor tom barrett to the hospital. barrett was hit in the head and torso with a metal pipe when he went to help a grandmother during an apparent domestic dispute near the wisconsin state

fair saturday. he suffered a fractured right hand when he punched the suspect. he's expected to remain hospitalized through today. in iraq at least eight people died when two bombs exploded in eastern baghdad. the blast yesterday hit a popular restaurant in a predominantly shiite neighborhood. it's the latest in a string of bombings since u.s. forces withdrew from iraqi cities in june. they've been mostly blamed on sunni militant groups. in afghanistan, u.s. marines fired mortars at targets in helmand province. they're trying to secure the province to make it safer for people to vote in thursday's election. president obama will try to shore up public support for the stepped up operation in afghanistan when he addresses the veterans in phoenix today. in a remote part of taiwan, indigenous tribesmen are trying to rescue about 1,000 people still stranded after last week's powerful typhoon. the tribesmen are bringing relief supplies on foot. the mountainous region where

bridges collapsed and roads were washed away. the death toll is expected to exceed more than 500 across taiwan. after recent conciliatory gestures towards the u.s. and south korea, it was back to threats on sunday. north korean television warned of merciless retaliation over sanctions imposed on the government over its nuclear program. the tough talk came as the u.s. and south korea today kicked off annual computer simulated war games. just ahead on the morning news, a check of the overseas markets in our money watch report. plus football star michael vick talks of tears and prison over dogfighting. first, katie couric has a preview of tonight's "cbs evening news." >> an exclusive investigation. the battle over the aarp. the president says the organization supports him on healthcare reform, but the group says not so fast. now thousands of members are leaving. so what's really going on? tonight only on the "cbs evening

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on the "cbs money watch," stock markets in asia tumbled this morning. claire leka, good morning. asian markets opened the week in the loss column. foreign investors are nervous after the u.s. consumer after confidence in august came in weaker than expected. japan's benchmark nikkei tumbled nearly 3% despite news the nation's largest economy is no longer in recession. shanghai stocks plunged more than 5%. on wall street, investors are hoping to restart the 5 five month old rally. the dow jones starts down 77 points. the tech heavy nasdaq begins off 24. retailers report earnings this week. the number two retail chain lowe's reports this morning. they're wielding the budget ax in chicago. except for emergency workers, all city services will stop today from garbage pickups to libraries. those city workers won't be paid

and will resume work tuesday. the citi's budget calls for three planned days off in 2009, saving chicago millions. the trains will continue to roll this morning in san francisco and oakland. bay area rapid transit has reached a tentative contract agreement with the local transit union. negotiations got testy after the bart instituted new rules that the union says amounts to a 7% wage cut. colonial bank group became the largest bank failure of 2009 last friday. its assets were taken over by regulators and subsequently sold to bb and t corp. the failure of the montgomery, alabama, based regional bank was the fifth biggest in u.s. history with $20 billion in assets. colonial operated 346 branches across georgia, nevada, alabama, texas, and florida. at the box office, the action and alien packed "district 9" took the number one spot with $36 million its

opening weekend. that's already more than the $30 million it cost to make. ""gi joe: the rise of cobra" got bumped to number two. "and the time traveler's wife" baseded on the best-selling novel, debuted in third with $13 million. and as he began the pro football comeback, michael vick told "60 minutes" he's disgusted with himself. in the first interview since his 18-month prison sentence for running a dogfighting ring. vick says he let down his family, his fans, and himself. >> not being on a football field, being in a prison bed, a prison bunk, writing letters home, that wasn't my life. that wasn't the way that things were supposed to be. and all because of the so-called coach that i thought was right. >> vick has signed with the philadelphia eagles. he may be allowed to play by mid-october. straight ahead, your monday

morning weather. and in sports, the world's fastest man u sane bolt, takes aim at the 100-meter record.

here's a look at the weather in some cities around the country. new york, sunny, 91. miami, 93. chicago, thunderstorms, 80. denver, partly cloudy, 78. los angeles, sunny and 76.

and time now for a check on the national forecast. the latest satellite picture shows that claudette has made landfall with most of the storm's cloud mass centered over the florida panhandle. skies are gray over the central plains and lower midwest. and the mid-atlantic states and northeast are generally clear. later today, heavy rain will continue to fall over the eastern sections of the gulf coast. thunderstorms are likely from the lower mississippi valley to the central great lakes. the upper midwest will be windy and on the chilly side. it will be sunny and pleasantly warm throughout the west. in sports, a shocker at the pga, where tiger woods led going into the final round and lost. his playing partner, y.e. yang of south korea, took the lead with an eagle on the 14th hole. yang finished off woods with a birdie on the 18th. he's the first asian-born player ever to win a major title. usain bolt, faster than ever. the olympic 100-meter champion bolted down the track yesterday at the world track and field

championships. bolt ran the 100. get this, 9.58 seconds, breaking his own world record by more than .1 second. baseball begins with a very lucky 13th for the angels. torii hunter's rbi single broke an 8-8 tie in the 13th inning for baltimore. angels went on to score nine runs in that inning, beating the orioles 17-8. and san diego led st. louis until yadier molina drove in the tying run in the ninth inning. then the next batter, cody rasmus, finished off a three-game sweep of the padres. his two-run homer gave the cardinals a 7-5 win. when we return, another look at this morning's top stories. and helping patients recover through a simple program that saves millions of dollars. start your three-course meals with a shared appetizer. choose two entrees from over 15 chili's favorites, then share a decadent dessert.

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here's a look at today's weather. heavy rain will swamp the eastern shores of the gulf coast, causing flooding in low-lying areas. thunderstorms will rumble across the midwest. and it will be chilly throughout the northern plains. here's another look at this morning's top stories. claudette, the first named storm of the season, made landfall in the florida panhandle early today. she's expected to weaken over land and produce no major flooding or property damage. and on healthcare reform, the obama administration is pulling back on its push for a government-run insurance program and indicating it could agree to a nonprofit cooperative. president obama claims healthcare reform can be paid for by streamlining current medical and hospital practices. one hospital the president might want to look at is in new jersey, where improved healthcare and savings seem to be just what the doctor ordered. randall pinkston reports. >> it used to be like this,

whoa. >> reporter: heart failure patient charles puzo is battling his way back to health. he's been hospitalized four times since life-saving heart surgery ten years ago. an experience he does not want to repeat. >> i was out of breath. i couldn't walk. >> reporter: this time is different. he's following strict guidelines for diet, medication, and exercise, given to him at new jersey's st. joseph medical center. >> feel like you're born all over again. it's a different thing. >> reporter: puzzo's custom tailored program is called "get with the guidelines." it's helped hospitals with followup care for cardiac patients. >> we ensure the patients have higher compliance with their medications and lifestyle to help prevent rehospitalization. >> it's nice to see you, but we don't want you coming back. >> reporter: the primary player on the team is the highly skilled nurse practitioner, who follows up with each patient in the program. >> patients get the feeling that

somebody cares for them. it's that call, how are you feeling? >> she's the one that kaulds me up a lot and makes sure i do the right thing. >> reporter: the program reduces the number of repeat visitors or frequent flyers, a costly front burning issue for the nation's healthcare system. 27% of patients return to the hospital within 30 days at a cost of $12 billion. within a year, 2 out of 3 are back in the hospital or dead. >> the issue really is in the practice of medicine, there's a wide variation of care. >> reporter: get with the guidelines tries to eliminate the variation by providing a consistent standard of after care, and it's working. in one heart failure group, readmissions fell by 60%, and decreased hospitalizations improve the hospital's bottom line. >> it's a financial incentive to improve the care. >> reporter: since medicare plays a flat fee for hospital stay, sicker patients who stay longer and use more resources

are more costly. in 2004, st. joseph lost $5 million on heart failure patients. in 2008 with improved care measures, the hospitals made $1.7 million in profit, a $6 million turnaround. >> i love life. i don't want to die. >> reporter: and for puzzo, with better health, the turnaround is priceless. randall pinkston, cbs news, patterson, new jersey. and president obama winds up a four-state swing through the west today. yesterday the president visited the south rim of the grand canyon in arizona. he spent four hours there. the president joked it looked the same as he did last time he visited when he was 11 years old. they return to washington tonight. this morning on "the early show," the latest on claudette as the storm crosses the florida panhandle. i'm michelle guillen.

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