thank you so much running as peter cook with performance trust. the very good. still to come the impact the president's healthcare reform plan could have on businesses and why they're not exactly keen on the idea. but first....more and more people shutting off the power...what's behind the drop off in utilitiy customers. çÑçÑçÑçÑçÑçÑçÑ there's virtually no industry that has escaped this bad economy - now utility companies are feeling the heat..... as customers close their accounts... and cut back on usage. utility companies across the nation are reporting the largest drops in customer accounts in decades... com-ed which serves northern illinois - saw a decline of17- thousand accounts over the past 6 months.... that's just a fraction of 1% of total customers - but it is the largest drop on record since 1953. experts say the utility companies that are seeing the biggest drops are in areas that saw housing prices collapse the most. it could be foreclsoures.. people renting moved in wtih family.. or moved out of state utility companies are also seeing drops in elect

. >> i'm peter cook. i'm on the board of the state of connecticut. hi, josh. saw you you were testifying on the microstamp bill. >> dual functions. >> god, i don't know where to start here, guys. a little critique of my own. this is connecticut, okay? we are responsible for the constitution because we were the vote that put it over the top and we did not vote for the constitution till there was a bill of rights. we looked at the constitution and the bill of rights as a contract between the governed and the government. unfortunately, i don't think it looks like that. it's a living document to be changed by the whim of the politician without following the process to do so. i found it remarkable that nobody mentioned the 14th amendment or the true terrorist movement formed by bedford forest after the civil war. and the growth of the klu klux klan. now, the 14th amendment said even blacks had the right to keep firearms. like the rest of us. now, that never went away. like here in connecticut, there's something in our laws which say you have to be a suitable person

peter cammarano cook office three weeks ago after a runoff election. he was snared last week in a federal corruption investigation. dozens of other people, including public officials and rabbis, were also arrested. he is an election law attorney. he's accused of accepting $25,000 in bribes in exchange for his help on a high-rise building project. >>> well, a lot going on today, and we're just getting s.t.a.r.t.ed in the "cnn newsroom." stay with us. are enjoying the new palm pre from sprint. its revolutionary web os allows multiple applications to run at the same time. - ( thunder and rain ) - millions are using the simply everything plan. - each is saving $1200 over an at&t iphone plan. - ( cash register dings ) together that's billions of dollars. enough to open a dunkin' donuts in space. from america's most dependable 3g network. bringing you the first and only wireless 4g network. get the palm pre. only from sprint. only on the now network. deaf, hard of hearing and people with speech disabilities access www.sprintrelay.com. ♪ once you've dealt wit

tim cook and peter oppenheimer talking about cracking the fortune 500 companies out there better than something like 20% of fortune 500 companies have bought 10,000 or more iphones. so apple says they are extremely gratified with the way the iphone is penetrating the enterprise thus far and it is a trend that this company expects to continue saying that this is only the tip of the iceberg as far as iphone's penetration of the enterprise is concerned and again, they do see this trend continuing in a very big way. guys? >> i'm hearing some rumors about the i touch adding a camera and microphone to basically bring this to a point where people don't need a home phone. they're taking it to the next step. there's talk about that. people are looking for the next exciting thing in apple. what do you think? >> i think there's a very real possibility. wired magazine had that report earlier that the ipod touch would be featuring that camera and this speaks to the whole issue of the fact that at&t and apple are at some lagger head as far as allowing videoconferencing on the iphone. so apple may h

cook minnesota, forced to down size their police department. sometimes merging them with nearby law enforcement agencies or simply shutting them down all together. >> when you sell flowers in a town of 600 like peteroes, you get to know your customers. >> we are a small enough community where everybody knows everybody else. << plus, people pass through cook on their way up to northern minnesota. mostly they are tourists. some are shoppers once there was a burglar. >> they came in just for the money. they came right to our cash register they broke in our back door. >> a series of burglaries in recent years have put folks in cook minnesota a bit on edge. not as much as the recent final to get rid of its two person police department because cook could not afford it? >> you have to have a squad car and computers and updated stuff so it can be an extensive endeavor for a very small town like the size of 600 people. >> on average in america, it costs $93,000 to keep every cop on the street. so, when cook got rid of its two-man force, the job shifted to the county sheriff. >> as those small town police departments go away, more and more calls for service are shifted upon us. more and more responsibility,

cooked off a taurus. >> i think we can have another question from peter here.if you can just pull the microphone from behind you and hand that to him. thank you very much. >> two things. the navy did a study of exactly this problem of taking basically the gizmo the size of this table on the back of a pickup truck and they didn't experiment just a radiation blast that was nonnuclear. it fries everything in about 5 miles so this hardening would take care of that too. 'cause you can -- if you do two of the things, the natural and the nonnuclear, you also protect against the nuclear. the third thing -- the second thing i want to point out is in europe we often look to europe if they're doing it must be serious. not the governments but the private sector in europe have hardened 350 of the most critical nodes in europe precisely because of this problem. they've done it with private sector money and without any direction from the government or the eu which is kind of surprising. in this country our industry, if you ask them have you done anything they're asking them i

>> before, peter was the guy who brought home the bacon. now he's cooking it too.ll. >> ultimately, the kids are the ones that benefit from all of this. they get 100% of my attention, 100% of their stepmom's attention, and 100% of their mother's. it's a win, win, win. >> sure sounds like it. joining us is jill brooke. what do you think contributes to dads becoming better parents after they split up? >> we're in a culture where divorce is more the norm, and we've learned important lessons. it means more fathers got involved and they had early bonding. when the divorce happened, they said, i'm really attached to this child, and i want more time with them than, let's say, a generation ago. as a result, you see the rise of joint custody, which by the way now is the majority in all divorce cases. >> i can see resentful ex-wives for a number of reasons. number one, a woman might say, why didn't he cook and clean and do chores when he was with me? and the other thing is why isn't he following my rules when i send the kid over to his house? >> the hardest thing for many mo