i d't think this is amall business iss, if you're making $1 milon a year at your sma business myuessu could afford to do somethi. don't forget resident bush cut taxes mostly oneople making a million dollars a year and i think we put thoseates to ere they were isn't bad thing. tavis: youuggested earlier ho you thought it should be paid for but conded that's not how it's going to paid for. whats a i about this trillio dollar fige that's going to have to come fro somewhere t pay for thi >> it's not a trillion dollar figure but $0 billion which is less than what we're spending in iraq. and i think the senate finance one ha been scored most recently at $80illion a year so the numbers are aot less an people thought. thas an influence of the bulldogs and even e republans pushed back on the cost and ihink is a good things well. 2/3 comes from savin and real savings. they already made deals with the variouhealth care providers that money is gog to be saved fm various programs. i think that's aery positive thing. so we' really talking now aboufunding $20 bilon a year in t hou bill or a little

his books have sold 400 milon copies in 38 lanages.re a w works out including a work of non fiction, including "a big little life." i know you don't do this mh. you are always coherent. let me ask youthis questn, i am t a dog owner. i may get tis better. wahtis it about -- what i it about dogs that make for such good subject matter. everyeek, you look and there are 16 books listed, 3 or 4 about dogs. >> when you hink about this, is there any other specs that would risk i life to save a human being. dogs do is and frequently do this. there is something special about the bond. there islso thehing, ihate to admit this buthat i lost my dog it was harde an losing my parents or a sibli or a frnd. no matter howmuch we love them, it is a huma relationship. it is imperfect. but with a dog, i is perfect they never say anything mean to you that is the ide relationship and is a glorious, wonderful thing. tavi this ispolitically incorrectut let meay this. in th michaelick saga, nody cluding him condones wha he did. but there was a conversation abou

you sum those two together, 3 million we should have added, plus the 6 million we lost, we're 8.8 milon jobs in the hole. and we are still diggi. >> reporr: by the end of the year, shierholz figures th economy will bshort ten milliojobs. and the united states wot see robust jobrowth until the end ofext year. >> and that's when pple in the real economy will start to fl like, okay, we've enred recovery. >> reporter: so whenill we recover thjobs we've lost? just do the ma. the private adp forecast sws thu.s. economy lost 371,000 jobs last month. to keep upith population growth, economistsigure the u.s. nee to create 130,000 jobs a month. in a recovy, the u.s. should create somhing like 300,000 to 400,00a month, enough to begin reducing unemployment significantly. that means t country won't recor the jobs lost to this ressiotier the year 24 at the earliest. economist an baker says it won't be easy to replace t jobsost because the recession has slammed housing and auto manufacturing, t sectors that usually ive the recovery in hiring. >> in the case of residentia constructionwe have enormous

one in now needs of food aid $200 milon will only last six months. kenya is suering a prolonged drought. climate change is blam, but also government mismanagent. will ross reports that many schoolstayed open so chilen would getneeal, at least, a da >>another stunning sunrise, but these cloudss skies only bring sappointment. months thout rain he taken a toll. cattle are reduced to skin and bone. herds are head up the mouain slope in search of illic pastor. across the country, more than 100,000 have die on the plai below, crops have faed. there are witheredeaves to harves hoping to keep te family' only cow alive is now a daily struggo feed her four date is now a daily struggle to feed her four children. -- it is now a daily struggle feed her four children. ts has been e family fa for generation this year, they have watched t crops shrivel up in front of their eyes. the food store i just in the sacks. all of you crops have failed? noood from the farm? >> tre is nothing. this is nothing. >> it is the middle of the school holidays at the momen but because

the country's ttery jackpot fotonight's drawing has grown to nearly $200 milon. prize officials say it's europe's highe jackpot ever! $6illion of that was raised today as the buying enzy continued. no one has picked the wiing combination numbers since the end of january. and that trend contied today. no one picked today's wiing numbers so tt jackpot remains unclaimed. th's in part because the odds of winning are abo one in 62 million. th said, there is one big winner in all of this:he italian governnt. ckpot hopefuls have spent nearly $3 billioon tickets and ha of the money goes to the italian treasury. >> it's always the governmt that's the biginner. powerball lottery in the u.s. 25 million to. >> and kee growing. >> jeff: that'"nightly businesseport" for monday, august 17. i'm je yastine. goodnit everyone. and od night to you paul. >> paul: goodnight jeff. i'm paul kangas wiing all of you thbest of good buys. "nightly business port" is madeossible by: this programas made possible by contributions to your p station fromiewers like you. thank you. captioning spon

. >> $12 milon to play football. what else is he going to do to make $12 for a few months of work? >> ride a tractor. redskins got back to two a days. mike williams did not practice because of a sprained ankle. santana moss prep paring to play saturday against the steelers. he has a different thought process from clinton portis he is excited to get his hand on the ball. meanwhile, defense. veteran linemen have a new way to entertain themselves after a tough practice. second day in a row. tying the rookies to the goal post. and there on the left, getting sprayed with gatorade while his buddy was tied to the other side. he says, man that didn't really feel so go. >> they take my helmet. tape, trying to get the tape off my helmet. not coming off. kind of holding all the tape on my body. >> did you think maybe draft status would have something to keep you out of the hazing? >> yeah, i thought the guys would leave me alone. playing like a vet. trying to be humble. and stay focused as possible. guess that doesn't matter. i should have came in here talking trash from the get-go would have

. >> if he comes u with a bill that cuts down substantially o the 46 milon who are uninsured, he has achieved quite a victory. >> have more queions about health care d the debate. >> my obligatio to the american people says we will g this one one way or the other. >> peggy noonan writes i "the wall street joual" this week that every big idea tha works is marked by clarity. ere is the clarity in this debate, nina? >> that is the probm. there artoo many movin parts. i's like the hum back. most people have back pblems, and mrobama has ba problems beuse there is the question of controingosts, who do you cover, the devery of services. th is the pblem. of course, these are all real problems. but it is just too ha to explain. there isot a single thing. what i don't unrstand is th nazi analogies,people showg up with hitlerustache is pnted on presideobama. peop showing up with loaded weapons. at presidential four run how do they t away with that? >> that a provocative act and act of intimidationnd has no place in pitics. maybe ey are trying tsay that the second amendmt is a viable a that they

sometime overthe next 60 to 90 daysthe government wiltry to vaccinate 160 milon americans there's a very defite pecking order here. pele under 24. people who take carof babies under six months becausehey can't get a vcine. pregnant women. health care and emergency workers. and one group who have chonic illness. about 160 millionamericans. that's the biggest immnization fort since polio. and they'e got to do it fairly quickly. anit's trick country baugs the vaccine -- it's tricky becausthe vaccine won't be ailable when the flu season starts a one big test to g orgazed for and second, wh too when it cmes toschool? the mos vunerable people, st flus,people oer 50, nior citizens, this reay disproportionely impacts young people people who don't kno very much about hygie and aren't very od at it. and ere they hang out, especily in the fall, in t school, and last year, ithe springhen this hit, the school diricts shut down fo a week, 10 days. governme has said in the last week we don want you to close but we want si people to stay home. if they art coming to school we want you to parate them out

at's left dealers on the hoo pohanka is owemore than $3 milon. >> cash flow is importt to us, and we were very concerned wh the gornment about being promptly paid. we were sured by the government we uld be paid. inact, it's in the law we must be paid withinen days of submitng the claim, and we have claims th are now a month old and haven't en touched or loed at yet. >> reporter: while the ch for clunrs program officially ends at 8:00 p.m.n monday, that's the deadli for dealers to have all of their papwork in to get pa. as a result,any dealers have already stopd the program or e only doing select deals. consum groups are worried about dealers prsuring customers to come up witextra cash in case clunker dls are rejected. lena pons ofublic citizen says consumers needo know that's ilgal. >> if ultimately theransaction is rejectewith something hang to do with the paperwork submitted incorrectly, that ss isupposed to be sustained by the dealer. >> reporte while the program provided a boost for t industry, somenalysts worry it came at the exnse of sales downhe roa with inventoryow and pent u

there was a $5 milon bounto his ad. toght's "lead focus" we look at the death of itullah mehsud a what it means against the war against t taliban. it was reported that mehsud was at his father-in-law's hou at th time othe attack suffering from a kney ailment. although mehsud insisted h face not be swn he briefly -- >> caller: there waspretty good eviden in towards of t electronic intercepts and other kindof data that suggest that he was deadnd just today pakistan, one of mehsud deties called the associad press to say that he was indeed killed. but there's nobody. there's no devidence. so iraqi officials would li to go to the ea to confirm that he was killed. >> as head of the talibann pastan, mehsud is taughto have been behind some of the group'most gh-profile attacks in recent years. th pakistani goverent named him as the prime suect in the december 2007 ssaof former prim minister bena zhirbhutto. he was also thought to be the mastermind. in march of thisear in the pakisti city in lahor. that attack left several liceme

oil giant exxonmobil is now investin$97 milon i ploration and libya's national oil cmpany has partnership deals with eveone from ssia's gazprom to th italian git en to japanese from nippon oil. anysts callibya the most exciting investment opportunity in the wor with $50 billion of vernment contractson offer over the next three years. yet is notorisly bureaucratic a controlled by one family, british businesses depend on thek governmento he them compete. >> this is whe they do require politica expertise. people wo o can help them navite some the decisionmaking processe open doors. arrae meetings. arrangevisas. all sorts of levels. so,yeah, learly, bitish governme and gornments from otr markets to -- fr other countries,can help business considerably. >> reporter: the relatnship tween uk plc and the government is lose. because in bya, it has to be. businesses wilcertainly be glad th al megrahi was released on compassnate grounds, but were th lobbying for it, too? >> that was john sparksor itn. >>> for a closer look at britain's relationip with liby we are joineby jeff rter the head of middle

. >> few words this morning -- >> his ideas and ideals are stamped on scoresf laws and flected in milons of lives. in seniors who know new dignity, in families that know new opportunity, in children who know education's promise, and in allho can pursue their dream in an america that is more equal and more just. including myself. >> reaction to the late night news from here spilled out from east to west across this country. it was visible today on flagpoles, lowered to half staff, the condolence book at the nearby kennedy library, and now the process of remembering begins. it's likely no two americans are goin to remember ted kennedy quite the same way. tonight we begin here by remembering a colossal american life. from the looks of things it was a wonderful life. he was the son of the american ambassador to great britain, the youngest of nine. he was the toast of the town in london at the age of 6. >> today the official opening performed by 6-year-old teddy kennedy. >> he was a lucky young man then his luck began to change. his cldhood hero was his dashg older brother joe killed in a pne

piece in "the new york times" about theeople at th biggest financi institions getting bonuses over $1 milon or something like that. >> they earned eve penny. >> it is eugh to make you -- but the is a very good chance that we woulde really in a deep, deep depressn if they had not done it. >> becse we are sitting - we are seeg from the shrinkage of the economy thainventories are down iusinesses, and so they will have to start aciring and pickup in manufacturing but chles is right that you will see a lag in impmented there ll be a structur change, like the auto industry. >> we psedreform and relation of the financial institutions. >> ongain, wall street is ahead of t curve. >> here we go. >> 9 at the nancial firms got $175 bilon in tarp fds, paying more than $1 million, a nina poied out, to the 5000, as theyre taking from the public treasur people who are suering and trying to get through. it is not unemploent - these are people we talking about means an millions of erican families that are really in pain, and it is find that the numbers a going up and the overall percentage and everythi else,

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in addition to tt, there is 40 million square feet parking. >> smith: 40 milon?square feet of parking. so t amount of development and the amount oparking is about equal, and that translatesnto close to 170,000 parkingpaces. and when wtalk about impervious surfaces, i mea that's jt unbelievable. >> when you put downn endless amountf concrete parking lots and roofps, rain hits it-- it washes really quicklinto the stres. it's gng to cut ay at those stream banks. it's going to pi up sediment. it's goi to be carrying all kinds of pollutants it. it's goingo go flying down into t potomac, and the potomac feeds to the chesapea bay, and everything star in these little streams. so every time you lose a lite stre, you lose one more healthy piecof the chesapeake baecosystem. >> smith: wh many see as the ecologal disaster of tyson's epitomizes the collision of development and clean water nationwide. more than ree quarters of amera's population lives on or near our waterways the plague of tyson's-ste sprawl has recentlthreatened neighboring looun county. but here in looun, env

people ruined the area lining up for a chance to win the mega-milons jackpot. >> time is running out. what are we doing here? payout is huge. $330 million. it is the second largest lotto prize ever. derrick ward joins us live from arlington. are they lining up there? >> reporter: they are not lining up right now but it has been a steady stream of people. i know you heard that saying if virginia is for lovers, well, virginia is also for people who play the lottery. virginia and maryland are two of the local states participating in tonight's mega-millions jackpot. now it was supposed to be a $325 million jackpot. a high volume of ticket sales has pushed that jackpot up to $333 million. that make it the second highest jackpot in mega-millions history. now there was a drawing on tuesday, 2.4 million tickets sold in the u.s. 24 came within one number of hitting the jackpot. two of those tickets were sold in virginia. players have novel ways of picking what they hope will be their lucky numbers. >> i choose birthdays, holidays, and mostly like my children. i have four. it is a combination o

and that's a good thng but when you lo at the total number of vehles on the road, 260 milon vehicles in the u.s. fleet, it's going to be a challenge to get that turned over very quick. having sai that, if you don't sta now, when are you going to start? and i think it's heading the country inhe right direction. >> woodruff: bruce belzowski what about from an environmental -átandpoint i saw from numbers today that made it snd like, as you just suggested, a drop inhe bucket. with all the carbon emissions that are eated inthis country in a yar, that tis really is just a minor blip. >>udy, ihink when i look at at's going on with ts proam from an administrion perspective, i really see it as being part of a larger strategy from the energy depament in terms of the obama energy plan. and where there going to go withhis now and in the future. we're trng to wean the u.s. off of fossil fue and ge better emissns from our ehicles and this is a kind of stepin that diction. one could even look at this the first step by the administration to put their toe in the water see how is is going to. how the

longest time, saw that americ is looking the her direction and tolerating the killi of -- at least five milon people, thetatistics -- >> lehrer: five mlion people -- at's an extraordinary number of pele. >> and this is a 10-ear-old stistic which has never been updated, actuay, so it's gnificant in r message and the u.s message toward congo that we do care about you, her investmenther announcement about $17 million for investment on women and childn, her investment -- her declaration that we need to vest in professializing the congolese army and in the government. it's significant f congo and t's the first tim that congo gets this level of attention from the u.s. -- it'slso significant to neighbori countries in tms of sending the msage tat this is portant and we -- and weave t attention that we have -- we wa to have a peace and civility in the region, so it's actually que significant for congo and its neighbs. >>ehrer: is there a simple explanation as towhat this fighting is reall all about? >> t fighting started becae of t genocide in rwanda. it's continuationof the gocide in rwanda. and in m

10% of americans wi the most epensive health insurance plans to provide the financing that allows 47 milon uninsuranced to get some coverage. it sell soos like th is the kind of trade-off we should be ae to make as a society. woodruff: what about that argument? >> well, certainly if our al is to cover the 47 million uninsure, the money has got to cme from someplace. so we're definite going to raise money by imposing some kind of tax. you know t a qution of irness. do you wnt to simply tax the cadillac ans or do you also want to start by including people tat are older, onverage, thatave igher health-care expense on avage as well. are you talking about people withdiabetes, health disease, various cancers, he people that use the most alth care. they a using the st healtcare and cost the most cause they are sick. >> woodruff: there is tt question, isn't there, jon gruber? >> yeah, i think what yo have toemember is can adjust this p for the age of theworkers. employers know their works' ages. and insurers know e age of the people enrolled in the plan. so theax that is iosed on insurersould vary

$16illion range as opposed to last year whene were about $14 milli and is year we'ren pace for ls than $10 milona year throu the first half. >> i take it the folks that u cover, you and yr newspaper coveregularly, the ato industry andts many tentles, iluding the dealers, ave been happabout all of this,ight? this is terrific fo them? >> sure,they've been happy about the facthat close to half aillion dollars have been sold, but clearly the dealers ve had some issues with the fact tha veryittleoney has actually be paid out of tat $1 billion in terms of reimbursi them for the voucher lehrer: that's where part o the chaos is, too, rght? is that a government burucracy prlem? >> it's a numberof things. it's aact at the transportation sretary said they hadan inadequate nuer of people initial to process these vuchers, there were only 230. bythe end of this week itill be over 1,100, ove a thousan more. hey've offered overti to people. clearly they were caught o guard by how fast this program ramped . >> lehrer: fnally, the $4,500 questin. what if thers still hundreds or thoands of people still iting who w

foundation beneath my felt offsethe sacrices i am askor his career progre nonmember 17 more than 1 milon song and other womdn married to military men tt i will follow you anywhere was not the abstract romtic notion it was now a way o life. onne januaay 2003 when mikeeceived his deployment orders he was calm alrdy had the what if looming over us. had expected him to be more otiona i don't know. the only lt his cool twice. thnight he got hisrders i shuffled around making choolate chip cookier. i p them in a plus -- plasticiplocag when he found them on the counr he came into the droom with tears in his eyes. -- later i found him sitti the side of t bed. i do not want to see any mor dead people hand iol me ce of the burndd andaned coses andhe first infantry division of the gulf war at the end the 100 hour gpnd for he was ming a final drive northeast when he went across the highway of death the iraqi had jammed by way as they try to get back to save the. mike and the soldiers aived just fr hours after the road attacked by coalitaon aircraft vehicles were still smoking and some still have oran