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at noon. i'm j.c. hayward. well, president obama is facing growing resistance to his health care reform package. a new poll shows that the public does not like the anticipated costs. joel brown has more now from the white house. president obama plans to hammer health care reform until lawmakers get it done. >> the need for reform is urgent and it is i indisputable. >> in a push back against a grove grohing wave of opposition and sliding public support the president is going for maximum eck pose sure. >> if not now, when? >> reporter: he is making his case on the networks. later today he sits down with katie couric and wednesday he will talk to the american people in primetime. >> when i lost my job, i lost my health insurance, too. >> reporter: the democratic party is helping with the air wave battle. >> it is time for health care reform. >> and republicans are fighting back. >> a risky people with our

health care. >> reporter: the president's challenge isn't just the gop. he summoned members who opposed the legislation and its more than trillion dollar price tag. >> develop a bill that can result in the kind of savings that will cause health care to stop growing. >> reporter: the president said -- set an august 7th deadline for them to pass measures. republicans say it is too much too fast. >> the problem i have with it is the rush underway here. >> president obama says the uninsured need coverage now and is facing down politicians who say losing on this issue will break his presidency. >> this isn't about me. this isn't about politics. this is about a health care system that is breaking america's families. >> reporter: president obama insists he will keep up the pressure. the alternative, he says is inaction and inertia, joel brown, cbs news, the white house. >> it appears the president still has some selling to do in our neck of the woods.

democratic senator ben darden took his message of reform to his constituents in largo, maryland last night and of particular concern to one attendee is the proposal to find people who do not buy health insurance. >> are you going to tell me, an individual that i have to buy health care or else you are going to fine me $2,500 every year that i don't do that. >> what happens if you get sick? what happens if you are in a car accident or what happens if you happen to slip and you have a broken bone and you end up in the emergency room. you don't pay. you are part of the population that shift its costs over to a person who does pay [ applause ] and they are paying for you. >> because there are many competing versions of the legislation, it remains unclear what an eventual compromise might look like.

right now a nanny working for a family is behind bars charged with showing pornography to children in a car. they say that she also had sexually explicit conversations with a 5-year-old boy and two girls ages 10 and 12. she was accused of ordering the boys to stand nude in front of a web camera. she is held on $350,000 bond. well, president obama says he is hoping for a positive end to the u.s. soldier being held captive in afghanistan. a video of private first class bowe bergdahl was released this weekend. he was taken last month by the taliban in eastern afghanistan and it is still unclear how he was captured. joint chiefs chairman, admiral mike mullin says forces are at work to find him. >> they are extensive, vast, they are on a 24/7 and we are

doing absolutely everything we can to get him back. >> reporter: the pentagon condemned the release of the video with private bowe bergdahl and calls the video exploitative and disgusting. right now on wusa9.com, you can hear from the parents of scott o'grady. he was shot down over bosnia in ' 95. you can find out their advice for the family of private bowe bergdahl and that story is on our virginia news page. the dc city council is working very closely to try to close that budget gap. it is considering a range of fees and taxes to close the deficit that could reach $1 billion by 2011. among the proposals, according to the washington examiner, a new 8.9% tax bracket for people earning more than $500,000 a year. a 3 cents gas tax increase to bring dc's tax in line with

maryland's and also a tax on snack foods. councilman believes that freezing or cutting wages for city employees is better than raising taxes. well, the watergate hotel is going on the auction block today. pd capital, the company that holds the mortgage to the hotel just placed the bids for $25 million. u.s. and foreign developers expressed interest in the property. of course the complex was made world famous by that 1972 break in of the democratic national committee. families of drunk driving victims are very worried after at least four cases have been tossed out following the supreme court ruling. a 19-year-old morgan cook died in the crash two years ago. the driver of the car she was in was drunk. he served three years in

prison. the cook family worries that the new ruling will let drunk drivers go free. >> the more the court system all the way from the local courts to the supreme court does to gain the process i can assure you that numbers that are going down now for driving while impaired incidents are going to go back up. >> reporter: the ruling is based on the sixth amendment, the right to confront your accuser. the court ruled that also includes breath test technicians. because there are so few, prosecutors say it is too great of a burden. uncle sam is going to write a big check for northern virginia, $260 million worth of stimulus funds will go to our region, all of it for transportation costs. governor tim kaine made the announcement yesterday. some of that money will be used to complete the fairfax county parkway at ft. belvoir and build an interchange at the fair lakes

parkway and it will also go to paving work in prince william and loudoun counties. work could start very soon. it is unclear if any of the stimulus money might be used to reopen rest stops along virginia interstate. sky 9 was over 95 this morning. the rest stops in both directions at dale city are closed to drivers. it was the same on i-95 in ladysmith. our digital correspondent, armando trull is along i-66 in manassas. the rest stops were also closed there. >> and this is a site that is greeting thousands of virginia motorists. barrels and barricades telling them they are no longer welcome at 18 rest stops in the commonwealth. every day for the last four years bob dougen has opened the doors of manassas rest stop on i-66. today he closed them for good. >> the money is not there apparently from the state to keep the facilities open. >> reporter: the virginia

department of transportation closed 18 highway rest stops. >> he didn't give me a time limit, but he said i'm going to have to leave shortly. >> reporter: many motorists are angry. >> all in all it is a great inconvenience. and i don't think that it's necessary. >> reporter: how inconvenient? the average distance between stops will now be 120 miles. >> people have to go to the bathroom. people pull up here when they are too tired and traveling. the next rest stop is maryland. who's going to wait that long to get out there. >> there is not a single truck stop on i-66. people will get killed trying to get out of their car trying to find a place to go to the bathroom. you have disabled people that came in here because of the handicapped area and what are they going to do. >> virginia transportation department is facing a $2.6 billion deficit over the next few years and closing the stops will save $9 million a year. >> to think they could sparingly give us money from congress or something.

i mean raptor jet is $350 million. they are getting ready to build 100 more of them. come on and they don't even use them, you know. a lot of funding ideas are being floated to pay for the rest stops they include having private organizations adopt a stop, they are also considering having private businesses open up shops and kiosks at the stops and going as far to suggest that inmates could do maintenance work at the stops. none of these ideas have been implemented or approved. so for the time being the site that is greeting many folks in virginia barrels and barricades saying this is the southern hospitality you can expect on virginia's highways in manassas, armando trull for 9 news now and wusa9.com. 18 rest stops in virginia have closed and we have the list on our website. go to the virginia news page at wusa9.com. they want to crack down on

drivers who read on the driver metro says. this bus driver caught reading in a photograph will receive a written warning. the picture was published in the examiner. metro's current policy calls for the driver to be fired following the fourth offense. but it is looking at more serious punishments. metro train drivers who text behind the wheel will now be fired immediately. still to come on 9 news now, see how a couple of new jersey clam diggers turned a huge profit from a free meal. also, see how witnesses became heros after a van full with children crashed and caught on fire. we'll be right back.

every second counted when a so suv flipped over and caught on fire this milwaukee. the frantic rescue was caught on tape. >> reporter: this suv hit a tree and burst in to flames with he mother and two children trapped inside. people race toad the burning vehicle to try too save the family as a bistander caught the rescue on tape. neighbors use sticks and pipes to break the front window and pull the mother and her 2-year- old daughter out of the inferno. >> still shaken up.

probably haunt me for a long time. thank god we were there and off duty firefighters were there. >> reporter: with a 4-year-old buoy boy still trapped two off duty firefighters reached the scene after getting a call from their wives. >> the child was screaming and then went silent. i didn't hear anything. and for that split second i thought that's it, a we're too late. >> they needed a knife to cut the seat belt off of the 4-year- old. it had helped with the flames from an off duty police officer who had two fire extinguish irers in his truck. >> you do what you have to do and think of it later. >> reporter: they freed the boy and doused him with a neighbor's garden hose. >> i told him he's the toughest little boy that i -- it was emotional. >> reporter: both firefighters and the officers suffered second and third degree burns and the 4-year-old suffered burns over 30% of his body and is in critical condition. >> to me we saved a life. >> reporter: the city's mayor says the bravery of milwaukee citizens saved the family.

cbs news. coming up next, kim has the forecast. j.c., i see some building clouds. the question is any of them dumping any rain on us? you will find out with my forecast next at noon. you are watching 9 news now. grab your lunch and don't change that dial. fa

well, talk about a rare find. a new jersey man and his friend dug clams for dinner last week and when they opened one of the clams, look at what they found, a pearl but it wasn't just any pearl. it was a purple pearl. >> oh. >> a pearl like this can really bring about $25,000. >> no kidding. >> that's not bad. you own one of those pearls, j.c. >> i haven't seen a purple pearl. no offense it doesn't look gray. it must be the lighting. >> $25,000. >> that's nice. >> 12 days until the wedding day. >> i know. >> you have to go to my blog, everybody and vote on my wedding hair style. >> you know my vote. down. i like it down. >> well, i have pictures of

everything. >> thank you. >> it is great to see you at 12:18. it is tuesday. we will get through the week together with a little weather surprise. look outside. our time lapse tower cam from the netherlands carillon, something on sce enwe didn't see a lot l wil akee n l ilkeep an eye 0 er. tot nynoo mafo today. i think ifyoat golf game this a good ape.she this afternoon in h rial. ghl tyt l stbuilwear the spf. gun get a burn on a cloudy day. east to northeast winds are blowing at 7 miles an hour. the weather today 83 for the high. we will keep an eye to the sky for a stray rain drop. not many falling. the bulk of the rain across new york city and new england. now, tomorrow and thursday, we will hava shcouple of chances of scattered thunderstorms and warming temperatures in to the upper 80s. a batch of rain across western maryland pulling up to erie. and down in calvert county,

maryland a loan rain shower that seemed to rain itself out all morning. that is now done and temperatures with some steam in the atmosphere up to 79 degrees and again we will be working to the lower 80s. 81 frederick. 78 quantico and 75 annapolis. this stalled front will be lurking just off shore. it is providing just enough instable in the atmosphere and a southwesterly flow off the gulf of mexico where it is not going to be too hard to get showers to develop this week. in fact, right in to the weekend. so, i can't say any one day will be a washout, but it will be maybe kind of like a florida day where every day there is a chance of a couple of showers and thunderstorms. i want to give you a heads up about that. if you are flying to arkansas, louisiana, maybe new orleans later this afternoon, be prepared for some thunderstorms that might slow you down, might delay your flight. as for numbers around the rest of the country, how we compare in the lower 80s which is cool for our usual high this time of

the year. minneapolis 75. 109 phoenix. today in boston, only 68. how about that seven-day forecast. let's talk about it. we will be in the lower to middle 80s today. tomorrow starting to warm up. notice tomorrow and thursday, scattered thunderstorms. as we head in to friday and saturday they wb isolated but the temperature will go up a few degrees. we will be flirting with 90 come the week and over the week and if you have if you have to choose your days to get outside, slightly less chance of rain on saturday and sunday. and next week around 889 degrees. that's a check of the next seven days. don't change that dial. we will be right back this e wac onng. yoare tching 9 news now.

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now, stay out of the way means you don't stay in great hotels. you don't have to stay in great hotels you are not in europe to sleep but to see things. there is a place called owner direct.com where you can find apartment rentals that run 80 to 90% less than hotels and that's a big key. the biggest part of traveling anywhere is laying your head down at night and that is wasted time. you are not getting your money's worth from that and i haven't done this but our correspondent did, something called couch surfing.com. where they find people who will let you sleep on their couch for free. >> wow. >> and it has checked out. our research department said it is okay so i guess they are fine people and some have couch and some have guest rooms but that is a great way to go. the lesson is you find unusual places to say, not on the main streets.

>> you talked about london and say you can go to milan and paris. >> yes. milan the way to go is hostels. but they aren't like when we were in school when the beds are on top of each other. some have private rooms. a place called pop house milano $50 a night and that's a private room. >> not bad. >> in paris a lot of small hotels. we found one for $79 a night and this is a small fraction of what you would pay for a chain hotel or large hotel and you get more of a flavor of being in the city. >> what about flying. what should we do? >> getting there is -- this 999 does not include your airfare to europe. >> oh, it dunn. >> but the fact there are bargains everywhere in europe. things are tough everywhere a ann they are anxious to get us over there way to go is airfare

watch dog.com. it will send you alerts to the places you want to go. there are fares under 300, $400. >> round trip. >> round trip to europe. >> he says it is in aarp, the magazine. >> september issue. >> thank you, bill. >> thanks for joining us come back and visit us at 5:00. have a great day. bye-bye.