and benjamin would not talk to him. he was so hurt and so wounded on the fact that his own son had sided with england. by the way his son had been arrested by the patriots in new jersey and spent some extensive time in jail because of it. and franklin didn't help get him out either, he was so angry at him. so these are very human things because families all the time have disagreements over politics and different things that lead to, you know, big, big arguments. how much time do we have before questions? 15 more minutes for questions? okay, good. then i can tell you about a couple more, one or two more. i love talking about these guys. since we are in pennsylvania, john morton. how many of you have heard of john morton? some of you have heard of john morton. that's great. because i was probably guessing in the country probably very few people have heard of john morton. remember i said it was important that the colonies be unanimous? if it looked like one colony was against the war, if one colony was against the war, it

regina benjamin. >> through flood, fires, severe want, regina benjamin has refused to give up. >> reporter: for two decades she's been the family doctor in alabama, a royal shrimping village. hurricane georges and katrina ravaged the town and her clinic. together, they rebuilt. a fire last year destroyed the clinic again. and again she rebuilt. all the while bringing what the macarthur foundation called compassionate and effective medical care when it awarded benjamin a genius grant in 2008. >> i want to ensure that no one, no one falls through the cracks as we improve our healthcare system. >> reporter: a healthcare system that forgot their 2500 residents, people benjamin says can't afford to get sick. 40% of the residents do not have health insurance. many cannot pay. >> i think regina is not only tough. i think she's influential. and i think she's going to influence people to change policies. and that's the surgeon general's position at its best. >> reporter: described as tenacious, benjamin made house calls in a pickup truck. her love for medicine ignited when she went to college in ne

benjamin has been exceptional since she decided to become a doctor.e's showed extraordinary commitment and achievement ever >> 14 years ago abc news recognized those achievements when she was named person of the week. >> now from our strault, our profile from june 27bd, 1995. >> reporter: finally this evening our person of the week. we are attracted to this person because she so clearly represents the notion that for some people serving one fellow citizens is such a gratifying calling that neither fame nor wealth is a satisfactory substitute. we find such a person in the deep south. >> it's the best thing in the world. patients come up, hug you, bring you cakes and shrimp and make you fat. >> reporter: dr. regina benjamin on the wonderful moment in the life of a country doctor. she practices med sen where it is needed badly, a sleepy fishing village on alabama's gulf coast that is coming alive again as the shrimping season begins again. >> the people are real, genuine, hard working. they're proud people. they make a living the best they can on shrimp

regina benjamin. the list of qualifications that make dr. benjamin an outstanding candidate to be america's leading spokesperson on issues of public health are long indeed. she was in the second class at moorehouse school of medicine and went on to earn an md from the university of alabama at birmingham and an mba from tulane. she served as associate dean for rural health at the university of south alabama college of medicine, and in 1995 she became the first physician under 40 and the first african-american woman to be named to the american medical association's board of trustees. in 2002 she became president of alabama's state medical association, and she's received numerous awards and recognitions, including the mcarthur genius award. that's very impressive. but of all these achievements and experience, none has been more pertinent to today's challenges or closer to regina's heart than the rural health clinic that she has built and rebuilt in bayou la batchtree, did i say that right? bayou la batchtree, that's in alabama, people. it's a r

regina benjamin was officially introduced in the rose garden. her life story is truly one that doesn't happen to all of us. dr. benjamin talked about how she lost her dad to diabetes, her brother to an hiv related illness and her mom to lung cancer. >> my family is not here with me today, at least not in person, because of preventable diseases. while i can't -- or i cannot change my family's past i can be a voice in the movement to improve our nation's health care, and the nation's health, for the future. >> doctor benjamin made headlines with a fierce determination to rebuild her nonprofit medical clinic in the wake of hurricane katrina. >>> looking for a great deal on a new car? >> you might be surprised to know that the worst-selling cars in america are being given away but there's a catch. >>> the schools in the hereford zone are delayed this morning because it's 57 degrees out there. it is cold, 63 for the rest of us. >> probably not that chilly that you need to bundle up for the trains. here's mark jones to let you know how they are moving

the benjamin banneker letter is well documented, it is just that it is not widely shared.some of a like professor lewis knows about so many of these letters because he spends a lot of his time in archivist. historians know about it, it is just not well integrated into the telling of american history, so the authentication was not an issue for me because i use many of the authoritative text to have contextualize the letter that exists, but i have heard this question before particularly regarding the letters of slaves. many people say had and they read those letters -- they could not read those letters, and it is true that for some of the letters they were translated be high as they did not have the ability and they found somebody on the plantation who would help them whether it was a kind of mistress or one of the children or another slave who had somehow acquired the ability to write about when you read the letters the question of authenticity, i think it just flies out the window. when you read and mother writing her son, well, just thinking about it tearing up. mankiw. >

regina benjamin, she's president obama's pick for surgeon general.he's facing criticism for being overweight. i don't know if dr. benjamin's weight should be an issue, but her food pyramid does call for three to five daily servings of mcribs. [ laughter ] that's bad. that's not good. i like the mcrib. [ laughter ] i don't know how much -- yeah. i don't know how much is rib but it tastes like it. fantastic. over 125,000 people are expected to attend comicon, which begins tomorrow in san diego. it's the biggest virgin -- i'm sorry, comic book convention in the world. [ laughter and applause ] i love comicon. i'm going. i love comicon. or, as hospitals in san diego are calling it, asthma-fest '09. [ laughter ] "it's an emergency!" fun fact. the first comicon was held in 1970 and only 300 people attended. okay, 600 if count their parents picking them up. [ laughter ] but still -- some interesting news. the world's first chocolate made from camel's milk is about to go on sale in the u.s. in response, chocolate lovers said, "yay?" [ laughter ] disgusting.

regina benjamin.has to be confirmed by the senate, but benjamin runs a health clinic in rural alabama that she fought hard to rebuild after it was wrecked by hurricane katrina. in accepting this nomination, benjamin noted many of her immediate family have died from preventable diseases and illnesses and she wants to help others avoid that fate. >> my family's not here with me today, at least not in person, because of preventable diseases. while i can't or i cannot change my family's past, i can be a voice in the movement to improve our nation's health care and our nation's health for the future. >> benjamin is the first african-american woman to head a state medical society and last year received the mcarthur foundation genius grant. >>> you know, we may know more about a counterterrorism program now that the cia never told congress about. democrats are blasting former vice president dick cheney who reportedly ordered the agency to keep the initiative secret from congress. some argue that he actually

benjamin lebaron's brother-in-law came over to help. they took them out and put them in the truck and their lifeless bodies for found shortly after. >> i cried. i felt a feeling in me that i can't even explain to you. >> reporter: benjamin lebaron and luis widmar were laid to rest and mexican police are all over town. police have video of a getaway vehicle going through a toll booth but no arrests have been made. eric says his brother praised him. >> i'm going to follow his example. >> reporter: the family didn't want to talk about whether they practice polygamy. >> it annoys me people talk abl polygamy and yet we have politicians in the states who cheat on their wives and have relationships with other women all the time. >> reporter: the family is open to talking about their heartache. this must be a painful question but do you now wish he didn't speak out against the drug cartels? >> that is a tough question but i am going to tell you my belief. we are not born for certain things in our life and if we are not born to stand up for righ

in the next scene if i missed something here benjamin franklin and silence dnr extolling his merits, giving him high rank, telling him how great he is. there seems to be disconnect between -- >> it's not so much as silence demon and benjamin franklin didn't think highly of him the first time. he did visit twice. first in june and later august 1777. the first time he arrived of course he was expecting accolades and immediate rank and commission and when the dean, of course both of their hands were tied they couldn't give commission, this was forced upon them by congress, but dean was enthusiastic because he engineered his arrival more than franklin even though franklin gets more of the credit. they simply told steuben they could not give him a commission. they could not guarantee that he could find a commission once he got to the united states and they couldn't even pay his way and at that point, steuben, who had a fairly high notion of his talent and had testimonials from the french foreign minister and minister of war and famous playwright, all these people without for him and steub

benjamin is going to help us get there. >> reporter: benjamin is the immediate past-president of alabamate medical association. and in 1995, was a "world news tonight" "person of the week." >> sometimes i can do everything that the textbooks taught me and the school taught me. and the patients can't buy their medicine. and it's all for nothing. >> reporter: in recent years, benjamin fought to rebuild her clinic after it was destroyed in 1998, 2005, and in a recent fire. >> our public health care system cannot continue on the path we're on. >> reporter: the democratic leaders with whom the president met, all left the white house pledging they would have health care reform bills passed. in anty pelosi says the democrats will introduce their bill on the floor tuesday morning. the senate plans are murkier. and the senate is where the real challenge for this president lies. jake tapper, abc news, the white house. >>> federal investigators are calling for new safeguards following last month's deadly metro crash in washington. the ntsb is urging transit officials in washington, d.c. and across

market strategy, we have two persons, max king, investment strategy investec asset management and benjamin pettily from lgt investment management coming to us live from hong kong. ben, do you think earnings will continue to support this rally we're seeing? >> i think so. in the near term, christine, we're looking for the equity markets to trade sideways to higher over the next month or so. you know, we had further positive news on the earnings front just an hour or so ago with credit suisse bidding the street. so i think on low volumes, equity markets in general can probably, as i said, trade a little higher. we're looking for the s&p 500 to peak out somewhere between about 1,000 or 1,100. but then i think you have to be a bit concerned about what the earnings outlook will be for

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benjamin, maybe something just did. house democrats set to roll out a health we form bill tomorrow hoping to get it passed before august recess. how do you pay for it? still a trillion dollars still a looming question on capitol hill. charlie rangel wants to tax the rich, estimating that would generate $550 billion to fund the bill. but republicans and some democrats are distancing themselves from that plan as leading democrats say they are trying to eke out funding while sparing the middle class. they also need to appease financially or i should say fiscally conservative members of their own party who are worried about the massive price tag. >> to the extent that we can squeeze more out of the system for savings, reduces the need for the pay for but it will be at the high end and not touch the middle class. shepard: not touch the middle class. we have heard that a few times. james rosen from washington. break it down for us. who would have to pay for this plan. by the way, what's the middle class again? >> yeah, well s

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regina benjamin. >> all right. we will follow those comments for you and a little bit later on "power lunch," welcome to "power lunch," by the way, we will be talking about the president's very ambitious agenda as we head into the latter part of the summer and find out what he can get accomplished before fall, if anything at all. welcome. stocks are surging right now in this volatile trading sessions, financials the best performers at the moment, s & p financials up 4% today, all of this as we face the most important earnings season in quite some time and kick nothing high gear this week, michelle. >> i'm michelle caruso-cabrera. bill is off this week with. auction traders positioning themselves ahead of this parade of results, goldman, intel, j & j, the list goes on and on. >> i'll brian schactman, forget about wall street bonuses for a second, a megadeal for an "american idol," making ryan seacrest the new king of reality tv show hosts. the numbers, pretty amazing, the impact straight ahead on "power lunch." but

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regina benjamin. the list of qualifications that may dr. benjamin an outstanding candidate to be the leading spokesperson on issues of public health are long, indeed. she was in the second class at morehouse university, went on to earn an m.b.a. from to land. she's served at the university of south alabama college of medicine. she became the first position -- the first person under f40 to be named to the american medical association board of trustees. she has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the macarthur genius award. that is very impressive. but of all these achievements and experiences, none had been more pertinent to today's challenges are closer to her heart than their rural health clinic that she has built and rebuilt in bayou la batre. tammy has said that. -- tell me had to say that. that is in alabama, people. bayou la batre is a rural town in alabama, ushering in town, where people scrape by and cannot afford health insurance. and dr. benjamin, while we were talking, described the demographics. it's very interes

benjamin and her staff never missed a day of work. dr.enjamin will no doubt bring that same ethic to the fight for health care reform. many of the folks in regina benjamin's bayou town are so poor, that sometimes she's paid with a pint of oysters or a couple of fish. she buys medicine for her patients out of her own pocket, and she makes house calls. now meet h. edward hanway, the chairman and ceo of cigna, the country's fourth largest insurance company. at the beginning of the year, cigna blamed hard economic times when it announced the layoff of 1,100 employees. but it reported first quarter profits of $208 million on revenues of $4 billion. mr. hanway has announced his retirement at the end of the year, and the living will be easy, financially at least. he made $11.4 million dollars in 2008, according to the associated press, and some years more than that. that's a lot of oysters, although he lags behind ron williams, the c.e.o. of aetna insurance, who made more than $17 million dollars last year, or john hammergren, the head of mckess

con su cuÑado asesinar metros mÁs adelante. >> h@h@tnpqjvppfkph@h@tnpqjvvdk@ "abre la puerta" >> benjamÍncate. >> decidimos tomar una posiciÓn de no pagar, como pueblo. y creemos que pusimos el presente ante los demÁs. >> a su hermano eric lo liberaron y dÍas despuÉs el ejÉrcito capturÓ a 25 implicados en el plagio. al menos desde los integrantes de esta comunidad vÍctimas. otro de los hermanos llevaron decir con esos crÍmenes no se van a intimidar. >> miedo yo no tengo. quisiera que a mÍ me habían matado el mes de matar a mi hermano. >> isabel miranda, madre de un hijo secuestrado dice que las personas que denuncien pÚblicamente un delito estÁn en grave riesgo. >> el mensaje que nos estÁn enviando es que nos callemos o nos van a matar. >> los asesinos del lÍder de los mormones, dejaron un recado que decÍa: esto es por los 25 jÓvenes levantados.h@h@tnpqjvte. >> hablando de mÉxico, interpol emitiÓ una orden de captura internacional contra nueve presuntos responsables del incendio del cinco de junio que mato a cuenta y ocho niÑos en una guarderÍa de hermosillo sonora. entre los buscados hay

regina benjamin. the list of qualifications that make dr. benjamin an outstanding candidate to be america's leading spokesperson on issues of public health are long indeed. she was in the second class at morehouse school of medicine and went on to earn an m.d. from the university of alabama at birmingham, and an m.b.a. from tulane. she served as associate dean for rural health at the university of south alabama college of medicine, and in 1995 she became the first physician under 40 and the first african-american woman to be named to the american medical association's board of trustees. in 2002 she became president of alabama's state medical association and she has received numerous awards and recognition, including the macarthur genius award. that is very impressive. but of all of these achievements and experiences, none has been more pertinent to today's challenges were closer to regina's hard then the clinic she has built and rebuilt in bayou la batre. tell me how to say it. bayou la batre. that is an alabama. bayou la batre is a rural to

benjamin lebaron's brother-in-law came over to help.he commandos took both men, put them on a truck and their lifeless bodies were found shortly after. >> i cried. i felt a feeling in me that i can't even explain to you. >> reporter: benjamin lebaron and his brother-in-law, luis widmar were laid to rest and mexican police are all over town. police have video of a getaway vehicle going to a toll booth. no arrests have been made. eric says his brother praised him for his courage after released from the kidnappers. now everic says this about his brother. >> i'm going to follow his example. >> reporter: the family didn't want to talk about whether they practice polygamy. another one of the brothers says it's a very sensitive topic. >> it just annoys me that people talk so much about polygamy and talk so much about our town as if we're these disgusting people. yet we have politicians in the state that cheat on their wives and have other relationship with other women all the time. >> reporter: the family is open to talking about their heartac

benjamin franklin's political partner. they called altogether the party they called the quaker party and dominated pennsylvania politics during the 20 years or so before the revolution. galloway was really the head of pennsylvania's delegation to the first continental congress. but the war broke out before the second continental congress and galloway the he was elected to that congress refused to serve and he wrote a pamphlet on 1774 cultic and examination at the has a long and after that. and another pamphlet that can help in the spring of 1775 and he makes that argument in both of those pamphlets that we would be better off remaining tied to great britain than we would if we -- if we become independent. the book and elated to earlier in the introduction that cannot in 2003 a leap in the dark that phrase wasn't galloway's for days but the phrase of some one from pennsylvania taken from an article or essay in a philadelphia newspaper that was published about six weeks before independence was declared and he didn't make the

and intriguingly, benjamin franklin who son of william franklin was a loyalist said absolutely not.franklin would not go along with it. you can look in that into way this. did franklin his son that much or did franklin think that his son had a better chance of getting restitution if it came from england and then from congress? in any rate it didn't go into the peace settlement and so there was political pressure in england to provide restitution and the british established a wilmont commission after the war in every committee who was a loyalist and to provide evidence of what they had possessed before the war, how much property they own, what they're in, and then, when they became loyalists, what they had done to help britain during the revolution -- to provide a great deal of information and all of that was written out, they had to make five copies of what they rode out. they submitted that and from all that evidence historians have been able to go in and come up with a printing and idea of how many tories there actually were. they concluded that among those who ran active during t

benjamin, we have got to run. satellite time, you pass the audition, you do this season three, you are back on. see you later, bye-bye. >> sounds good. >> you stay tuned and we are taking a break and coming right back with more of the eyewitness news morning back with more of the eyewitness news morning edition. well, are you going to pick it or not? it's not ready yet. (announcer) tim and richard smucker grew up learning that you have to pick fruit at the peak of perfection if you want jam to taste extra delicious. it's getting close. (announcer) for five generations, with a name like smucker's, it has to be good. >>> 6:54. updates from sharon and bernadette with first warning weather. >> let's get to the forecast. a beautiful day start. through the afternoon, 85 degrees. a cold front comes through and a slight chance for a late-day shower. that front gets out of here tomorrow. 84. 82 on thursday with more clouds. as we head toward the weekend we are warming it up and maybe a thunderstorm on sunday. send it over

regina benjamin to be the next surgeon general. dr. benjamin made headlines in the wake of hurricane katrina with her determination to rebuild her rural health clinic in alabama. >>> six lawsuits related to last month's deadly metro rail crash have been filed against dc metro rail system. nine people were killed, 80 others injured. one of six car metro trains rear ended a stopped train near the red line's fort tauton station. one is seeking $25 million. legal analysts say total financial damages could stretch in the hundreds of millions of dollars. >>> the jacks trial started today in montgomery county. she's accused of killing her four daughters and living with their decomposing bodies for nearly seven months. the bodies were discovered in january of 2008 when marshalls arrived at jack's southeast washington home to carry out an eviction. authorities say the girls had been dead since the summer of 2007 when jacks was living in montgomery county. jacks will be tried before a judge, not ajury, after requesting a bench trial. >>> montgom

. >> at the time when the country was founded, a benjamin franklin, john adams, ambassadors to londonnd paris. appointments were different in those days from what is happening today, as noted by the president of the american academy for diplomacy. quote, the practice of rewarding donors is a remnant of lse oisp system we abolished in the civil service. it is a dismal testimony to the importance of money in our elect rail electoral system. >> to be able to buy an ambassador ship, in other words, k for play. eleanor clift. >> i don't know i would call it corruption, but it's the way the game is played by republican administrations and democratic administrations. john, did we have this discussion when president bush was in office? i don't think so. but look, when the founding fathers were around, those ambassador posts to france and england were really critical posts. today they are mostly entertainment venues. so i don't think any harm is really being done. >> no serious work is being done, is that what we are hearing? >> in fact, yes. >> the ambassador iraq has gone to hill. i would lo

he chose regina benjamin, a 51- year-old doctor from alabama, to be the next surgeon general. benjamin has devoted her practice to caring for the poor, including many immigrants from southeast asia. she's been a leader in the fight to make sure everyone has access to good health care. in other news tonight, former vice president dick cheney finds himself in a familiar situation: in the middle of controversy. it involves a secret c.i.a. operation to wipe out al qaeda's brain trust following 9/11. the problem is, congressional leaders were never told about it and tonight nancy cordes reports some of them say it's time the full story came out. >> reporter: the c.i.a. never briefed congress on a sensitive counterterrorism plan because former vice president dick cheney told the c.i.a. not to. that's what democrats say c.i.a. director leon panetta told them when he met with intelligence committee members last month right after he learned about the program and killed it. >> can't have a vice president, a president, or senate say "don't follow the law." >> reporter: cheney's direct in

-- benjamin netanyahu some of the biggest film studios in hollywood are suing a swedish file sharinge because they say they still allowing internet users to illegally download their films. earlier this year, a swedish court put two executives in prison for breaking copyright law. there are some big gains for the far-right party in last month's parliamentary elections. in hungary, the conservative party was elected for the first time. it took a hard line on that gypsy peoples. -- on gypsy people. >> read done garringer guard. they said they just want to -- meet the hon gary in guard. they said it is want to bring order to the people. others say there are extremists. >> this is not true. we are not against any ethnic minority. we want order in general. the hon. guard is much more than this. -- the hungarian guard is much more than this. the far right is making more progress in parliament. in june, three members of the parliament closely associated with the guard were elected. the international media are assessed with the party being anti roma, but still alleged from a crime is a big pa

benjamin is going to help us get there as next surgeon general. >> reporter: founder of a royal health clinic in shrimping down in alabama. she's the past president of alabama state medical association and 195 was "world news" person of the week. >> sometimes i could do everything text books taught me and school taught me and patients can't buy their medicine and it's all for nothing. >> reporter: in recent years she fought to rebuild her clinic afterle destroyed by hurricane george, hurricane katrina and recent fire. today she joined a political fray. >> our health care system cannot continue on the bath we're on. >> reporter: the democratic leaders whom the president met with today all left the white house pledginging them elthey' have their house reform bills passed before the we kres but the senate plans are much murkier. it's where the real challenge for the president lies. >> jake tapper at the white house. >>> the economy is next. tress tri reported the federal deficit reach aid milestone. passed 1 trillion. flood of red ink due to efforts to combat recession and wars in iraq an

benjamin is 50 pounds overweight. she is obese. neil: 50 pounds? she does not look 50 pounds overweight. >> she is, neil. i have a lot of experience in this. she is obese. neil: if she is 50 pounds overweight, then i am a separate planets, but go ahead, go and. >-- i am a separate planet. >> you have lost some weight, neil. neil: regardless of her weight, she would still make a darn good surgeon general. it might be good for the obesity epidemic. >> ok, let's then turn the tables, neil. when you won a guide that is head of the federal reserve to be a guy who lives in a cardboard box underneath the highway here because he understands the plight of the poor people? would you one michael jackson's doctor to be in charge of drug control at the dna? the bottom line is it is a symbolic position, and obesity is the number-one issue in our country in terms of health and wellness, and she is shown not that she was born this way, not that she woke up this way, she had shown that by being lazy and making a poor food choices -- neil: no, no, no. you do not kno

regina benjamin was introduced earlier today. she talked about how she lost her dad to diabetes, her brother to an hiv-related illness, and her mom to lung cancer. >> my family is not here with me today, at least not in person, because of preventible diseases. while i can't -- i cannot change my family's past, i can be a voice in the movement to improve our nation's health care in nation's health for the future. >> dr. benjamin made headlines with a fierce determination to rebuild her nonprofit medical clinic in the wake of hurricane katrina. >>> stories that could save you money. first up, how you can dial in on a cheaper cell phone bill. >>> the new wave of power. how do you feel about paying more for your bge bill if you're promised to save in the long run? >>> and as the investigation into the death of the king of pop continues, more jackson's friends are giving details on the star's health. (announcer) if you think all batteries are the same, consider this: when a tornado tore through holly, colorado, air life denver took to

my book on benjamin frankly is, the first american. benjamin frankly was born a british subject and died an american citizen. how did that happen? andrew jackson, this is the story of emergence of american democracy. theodore roosevelt deals with industrial era and progressive era and first world war. franklin roosevelt is the next of this era. he tells the story of great american crises in the 20th century. if you want to understand why modern america is the way it is you need to understand franklin roosevelt. this gets more precisely more why the another biography of franklin roosevelt and what does brands bring that is new? i tell some of my graduate students, some who i see here, people that write history are expected to deliver something new and the new stuff can either be new information or new interpretation. i can tell you that, franklin roosevelt has been written about enough and has been studied enough i don't claim to have a bunch much new information. there are odds and ends here and there but, but i think my contribution i

president obama has selected regina benjamin to be the next surgeon general. me is known along alabama's gulf coast as a country doctor who doesn't turn away patients. even those who can't pay. are. >> it should not be this hard for doctors and other health care providers to care for their patients. it shouldn't be this expensive. for americans to get health care in this country. >> dr. benjamin is also the first black woman and the youngest doctor elected to the american medical association's board. her nomination requires senate confirmation. >>> a d.c. judge today turned down a defense request for a delay in the trial of a southeast washington woman charged with killing her four young daughters. her nape is bonita jacques and u.s. marshals found her daughters' decom posing daughters inside the home while serving an eviction notice. bruce leshan has the story. >> reporter: bonita jackson lived with -- bonita jacques lived with her children's mummifying bodies and the smell of death for nearly seven months. today the defense asked for time for dna analysis on

benjamin is a family physician. she founded her own clinic two decades ago and fought to rebuild it each time after it was devastated by two hurricanes and a fire. benjamin has received numerous awards throughout her career. her nomination now goes to the senate for confirmation. >>> a water main break in fairfax county caused all sorts of problems today. the 12-inch main snapped this morning at van dorn and alexandria causing a major traffic mess in the area. van dorn street was closed between eisenhower avenue an bond street. the main was also shut down so workers could make repairs. traffic is getting back to normal at least one lane of van dorn is open in each direction right now. >>> good evening. bob ryan storm center 4. that's the most water we've seen in quite some time. again today a dry day after one rare day of 90 degrees yesterday. 85 degrees outside in washington. beautiful day with nice low humidity. a lot of 80s. average now is 88. 89 degrees. look at these dew points. hagerstown, 46 degrees. another

earlier this week benjamin lebaron was dragged from his home and killed.h the recent drug violence crippling the country, they suffer along with them. >> gary, it seems obvious that this killing was some sort of message to this community that has been fighting back. what's the reaction in the community? are they backing down? >> reporter: well, you're right, it was a message. there was a note found near the bodies that said, we are very angry that 25 of our people were arrested following these killings arrested for drug violations. they said don't do it again. it was a warning clearly, but the members of this town said they will not back down. they admit they're scared and don't have arms. mexican weapons laws are strict, so they don't have guns to protect themselves. that worries them. they say they will continue to fight and make an issue about this. at the least they want more protection from the state government of chihuahua and the national government out of mexico city. >> thanks. tell us what you think about this story. you can join the live chat at

benjamin's nomination requires senate confirmation. back to the supreme court for a minute, it has halted the execution of a virginia man on death row for the murder of 16- year-old stacy reed. paul warner powell was scheduled to die by electrocution tomorrow. but now the court wants to re- examine whether he was tried twice in violation of the country's double jeopardy law. powell was convicted in 2000 of the murder of reed and then rape and attempted murder of reed's 14-year-old sister. >>> disturbing new details about a quadruple murder in the district. benita jacks is scheduled to go on trial. she's accused of killing her four daughters and living with their bodies for months. beth parker was in court as the judge scared new, disturbing evidence. beth? >> reporter: well, brian, benita jacks asked if she could leave the courtroom while they played a videotape of detectives asking her questions. a judge granted her request. those who stayed to watch the tape saw her in a stark interview room. this interview happened on january 9, 200

benjamin was introduced this morning in a rose garden ceremony. she called the job a physician's dream as the president's surgeon general mom knee. she must be confirmed by the senate. dr. benjamin is for healthcare overall but no one has come up with a widely accepted plan to pay for it. correspondent james rosen reports on the latest idea and the reaction to it. >> in naming his new surgeon general, president obama seemed to recognize that during his travels overseas, the white house push for healthcare reform had developed complications. >> i want to put everybody on notice, because there was a lot of chatter during the week that i was gone. we are going to get this done. inaction is not an option. >> yet house democrats who were expected to ol out their healthcare package today did not. speaker nancy pelosi suggested that the delay was nothing to worry about. >> welcome to the legislative process. in case you haven't noticed, this is how it works. >> to pay for the democrats' trillion dollar healthcare plan, charl rangel, chairman of the house

benjamin's back story. now our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins me with me on that. she does have an interesting background. >> she's an md and mba, her md from morehouse, university and also her mba from tulane university and she started a rural health care clinic in the gulf coast of alabama. she also sat on the board of the american medical association and was the first person under the a.j. of 40 on the board so here you see the degrees and health clinic she started and won the nelson mandela award for health and human rights and is also a macarthur fellow and has an interesting background and we talked about how she had to rebuild her clinic after katrina. >> you brought up her interesting point about the two interesting degrees and our sanjay gupta was up for this position as you know and he was maybe concerned about not being able to practice medicine as much as he wanted to. it was going to be more of an administrative position. the surgeon general is very important, but it is very

regina benjamin from the alabama gulfoast. she's madheadlines as a country doctor who rebuilt non-profit clinicfter hurricane katrina. today benjamin pledged fight preventae diseases, the kind that killed her fathe brother and mother. >> my family is notere with me today at least notin person bcause of preventae diseas. while i can't or i cannot change my family's st, i c be a vce in the movementto imove our nation's health care d our natn's health for the future. lehrer: nominee benjamin w also the first black wom and the youngest doctor ev elected to the americamedical associaon's board. her nomination is subct to senate coirmation. nth korean leader kim jonil has pancreatic canc. that word camtoday in news reports from uth korea. they said kim was diagned with the cancer ound the same time he apparently had a roke last yer. in ftage last week, kim apared gaunt and he walked with a limp, fueling speculion about his ealth. he is 67 years ol iniraq, an investigation beg into a bombing that narrowly missed u.s. ambassor christo

regina benjamin as surgeon general. he will make the announcement official with the hour. >>> microsoft will issue a free web-based version of its popular office software with, available the second half of next year. >>> goldman sachs shares up 3.5% after analyst meredith whitney upgraded the stocks to a buy. that is cnbc.com news now. i'm courtney reagan. >>> good morning, welcome to the call, everyone on this monday, 90 minutes into the session. we are higher on the dow by 77 points, as one of the most important earnings seasons in memory gets under way. coming up in today's earnings central, we are going to discuss exactly what theurprises might be. ppy monday, larry. >> thank you, ish. i'm larry kudlo goldman sachs out wi its earnings tomorrow. the company apparently i on a roll, but will it satisfy investors? we will break out our earnings central team. >> i'm melissa francis. connecticut attorney general richard bloom is set to testify on capitol hill tomorrow on the consumer protection legislation but he will be

regina benjamin. of qualifications that led her b.v. -- the maker the leading expert on public health are very long. she was -- that make her the leading expert on public health are very long. she served as an associate dean for rural health in the university of south alabama college of medicine. in 1995, she was the first physician under 30 and the first african-american woman to be a member of the american medical association board of trustees. she became the leader of the medical association and she has numerous awards, including the macarthur award. this is very impressive. out of all of these achievements, none is more important than today's challenges -- none are more important for today's challenges than the rural health clinic in -- [unintelligible] bayou -- that's in alabama. this is a town of about 2500 people. this is where many people work for themselves, and they cannot usually afford health insurance. dr. benjamin spoke about the demographics, they are very interesting. you have whites a

benjamin wl no doubt bring that same hic to the fight for health care refo.any of e folks in regina njamin's bayou town are so or, that sometimes she's pai with a pint of oters or a couple of fish. she buys medicine for r patien out of her own pocket, and she makes house calls. now meet h. edward hanway, t chairman and ceo of gna, the country'fourth largest insurance company. at the beginning of the year cigna bled hard economic times en it announced the layoff o 1,10employees. but it reported rst quarter profits of $208 million on revenues of $4 billion. mr. hanway has aounced his retireme at the end of the year, and the livingill be easyfinancially at least. he made $11.4 milliodollars in 20, according to the associated press, and me years more than that. that a lot of oysters, although he lags bind ron williams, the c.e.o. of aetn insurance, who me more than $17 million dollars last yea or john hammergren, the he of mckesson, the biggt health care company in the rld. his coensation was nearly $30 million. here's the difference. to dr.regi benjamin, health