st. petersburg has a heavy soul.u can feel it in the architecture and there is a heavyness there, in the middle of the winter. >> rose: heavy meaning gravitas or something else. >> the light is different t is very green light. there is only four hours of daylight during the winter. >> rose: in st. petersburg. >> in the winter. >> rose: four hours of daytime. >> it's higher up than you would imagine. it closer to the arctic circle than would you think. so it's winter --. >> rose: i would be depressed. >> there you go. that is why everybody is depressed it is very melancholy. >> you feel the melancholee, that is the reason why all the poets were living in st. petersburg. >> rose: because they had nothing to do but write poetry. >> exactly. >> reduced to writing poetry. >> rose: they have a good museum there too. >> a very strange museum. >> rose: so did you have any reservations about doing a movie and with your name as the lead character. >> i didn't really. no, i'm glad i showed up to just say that. no, i didn't real

st. petersburg, which it -- it's out there. you know? it's far out, st. petersburg.rcle. >> jimmy: really? >> so, yeah, man, there's only about four hours of daylight. so it's depressing. >> jimmy: and ice cold. >> ice, ice, ice cold. >> jimmy: so depressing and cold. sounds good. come to russia, everybody. >> yeah. i think that we could have shot in cleveland. you know, cold and depressing. we could have done detroit, man, you know? but we went to st. petersburg. yeah, and we worked with a lot of russian actors. and, yeah, we worked with a guy named sergei kalashnikov. he's about 7 feet tall. and he's the martha stewart of russia. >> jimmy: 7-foot tall. >> 7-foot tall he's -- [ in russian accent ] big, like, kind of russian guy. >> jimmy: that sounds like martha. [ laughter ] >> yeah, exactly. exactly. and i think this guy is out there, like, catching salmon with his bare hands and biting their heads off and then basting them with butter. you know, and, like -- but i think he's out killing bears and elk and skinning them with his teeth. [ with russian accent ] >> ji

st. petersburg, it gav you a whe lot. and it was all, we had ssian actors and from st. ersburg so it mtered. >> rose: does russia have a so. >> yeah, i was going t say. st. persburg has aheavy so. you can feelt in the architture and there is a avyness there, th middle of the winter. >> rose: heavy meaning gravitas or something ee. >> the lights different is verygreen light. there is oy four hours of daight during the winter. rose: in st.etersburg. >> in the winter. >> rose: four hours daytime. >> it's higher up than you woulimagine. it closer to the arctic rcle than would you think. so it's winter --. >> re: i would be depressed. >> tre you go. that is why everybody is depressed it is very lancholy. >>ou feel the melancholee, that is th reason why a the pos were living i st. petersburg. >> rose: becausehey had nothing to do but write poetry. >> exactly. >> reduc to wring poetry. >> rose: they have a good museum there too >> a very strange museum. >> rose: so d you have any reservatio about doing a moviand wityour name as the lead character. >> i didn't really. no, i'm gl

st. petersburg times." also with us, jennifer smetters, criminal defense attorney. and we welcome back psychologist wendy walsh. michael, let's start with you. we heard the fear in her voice. do investigators believe she was abused because she makes that claim as well concerning her family, right? >> yes. she has made those allegations of abuse that have nothing to do with whether her parents want to kill her, or will kill her. she has said she was physically abused and mentally abused, too. and that's something that obviously this case is no different than any other dependency case when it comes to that. that's something that the appropriate authorities have to look into. and in the meantime protect her from that potential threat. >> okay. do investigators believe she's in danger if she goes back to columbus? or we're sorting that out still, i guess? >> i think that remains to be seen. the judge on friday in orlando decided to put florida department of law enforcement in charge of that investigation. so they have the next two weeks or until the next hearing on sept

st. petersburg, florida. he had fought to keep his daughter alive, but her husband won the battle to have her feeding tube removed. she died back in 2005. >>> wild fire in the mountains of north los angeles is creeping towards the homes. residents in 150 homes have been told to leave as a precaution. the fire is left a thick layer of smoke hovering over northern los angeles county. that is hampering efforts to send an aircraft to drop water on the flames. > it's a very serious situation we are in right now. current situation is the fire is approximately 5500 acres. it did grow last night, primarily under the national forest. however, we do not have a good estimate right now of where it actually ended up during that last night's burning period. >> we are told more than 600 firefighters are battling that blaze. officials say it could take a week to contain the fire. >>> we are going to go back to arlington live when we come back. more showers on the way. >> as the sun goes down, some storms are popping up, bruc

st. petersburg florida.e had thought -- fought to keep his daughter alive but her husband won the battle to have her feeding tube removed. she died back in to 5. >>> in sunday's wopping examiner the national park service is eyeing the use of sharp shooters and other lethal action to slow the growing white tailed deer bop lation in white creek park. hundreds of deer roam the 2900- acre park. read the complete -- story in tomorrow's washington examiner. >>> will we catch a break from the showers? timid will have your forecast when we come back. during times like these it seems like the world will never be the same. fa but there is a light beginning to shine again. the spark began where it always begins. at a restaurant downtown. in a shop on main street. a factory around the corner. entrepreneurs like these are the most powerful force in the economy. they drive change and they'll relentless push their businesses to innovate and connect. as we look to the future, they'll be there ahead of us, lights on, showing

st. petersburg, florida has been caught.ds were crab fishing when the rope ended up around the gator's mother. a mail carrier saw the kids trying to pull it out of the water and called 911. a cop cut the rope. the gator got away until yesterday. >> the alligator is probably 275, maybe 300 pounds. you have a kid that's 100 pounds. you get in a tug of war and the alligator is not going to lose. there was a lot of potential there. we're kind of lucky this is where it stopped. >> apparently the agent was able to spot the gator because it still had the kids' rope wrapped around its mouth. >>> amputee elephants walking again and teaching lessons about land mine dangers in asia. mosha was just 7 months old when her front right leg was destroyed by a land mine. she's been in a thai elephant hospital ever since healing and learning to walk with a prosthetic. this week mosha got a fancy new leg that will adjust as she grows. a 48-year-old elephant also lost her leg hauling wood at a logging camp near the mine-littered thai border with

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st. petersburg sleeping, enjoying time in new york.e have a new tropical depression forming? >> i did not know this morning. >> you got to go back to -- >> rain and weather. >> no, it will head to the northeast. busy time in the tropics. we have all sorts of action going on, ana, we've got bill, there's a disturbance behind that. t.d. number 4, which f it is named it will be named claudette which is what the hurricane center is going to do with it, moving in possibly 450 45 miles an hour. around fort wellton and destine get ready for a soaking. a small, compact storm, with it 5 to 8 inches of rain especially if it slows down as it makes its way toward the coastline. back here to the states a wet start up in chaska, minnesota, the final round of the pga but the weather should move through ando?ao?ao?ao?ao?ao?ao?ao?aoe >>> there is the 90 showing up in boston, and 91 in new york. we have 72 in casper, and 68 degrees out there in boise for you, and 100 in the big d in dallas, and 91 in st. peters day today. 70 out there in billings, mo

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st. petersburgs times, nonpartisan. can't stress that enough. i want to focus on a question from a viewer right now that talks about one of the bill, angie that says that an employer who does not offer health insurance will be find. what's to stop my employer from figuring out it's cheaper to not offer us health insurance and just pay the fine. what do you think? >> that's an interesting point. the fine for employers is in the bills, it's not clear if that's going to be passed or not, that's a point of contention in this debate. as for the viewers's question, employers have the freedom to drop coverage and pay the fine. employers right now can drop their coverage is f they so desire. so i don't know that it's going to change a whole lot as far as employer employers are not going to lose their free democrat to offer or not offer coverage but with legislation we may have a new fine. >> i want to highlight one question we talked about off the top of the program earlier, i don't think we talked about it recently and somebody may be just tuning in ri

st. petersburg times in florida is a far left paper which has an admitted left wing zealot as a televisionis eric deggans. he distorts the truth today. he told readers i called president obama a racist. well, that is blatantly false, not even close and he knows it so we called his publisher, marty petty and asked what she was going to do about that. ms. petty told us the paper will run a front page retraction tomorrow, that is already posted online. i appreciate that. but the problem, mr. dagen is acute. all newspapers have an responsibility to hire honest people not idealogues. i don't want anybody to lose their jobs but this situation beyond the pail. paul krugman wants the u.s. healthcare system to become like canada's and he is pushing that a. all day long. recent conference krugman was embarrassed. >> how many canadians would canadians in the room please raise your hands. [clapping] >> we have about seven hands going up. not as many as i thought. those of you have on the panel how many of you think you have a terrible healthcare system? one. >> almost all of the same hands going up. >

st. petersburg, they just renewed another five-year contract with the irl. these cities are having these races because they are a success, and it brings income, it brings excitement, it brings just a lot of fun to the city. >> i will sign on today if you come out of retirement. would you do that? >> well, my son, adrian, will be here. >> very good. >> give us your web site. >> shameless plug. >> plug. >> baltimoreraceingdevelopment.com. we've got a founders program that we're starting for businesses to partner with, early sponsorship. please check us out. >> 2011. this is it. thank you, al. >>> let's look at weather with susan schrack. >>> thank you. good morning. a beautiful start to the day for us. we have lots of sunshine. very little cloud activity out there. anything we do have is very high and very thin. really doesn't matter a lot. temperature now 77 degrees, relative humidity 79%. winds out of the southwest at 5 miles an hour. across the state we're generally in the upper 70s. 78 reisterstown. manchester 78. fallston 77. perry hall 81. and we're seei

st. petersburg, respectively, i mean, and don't deserve our sympathy, any more than the malevolent trolls under the capitol dome in washington do. but, pity the poor american car when congress and the white house get through with it. i mean, a light weight vehicle with a small carbon footprint using alternative energy and renewable resources, to operate in the sustainable way, when i was a kid, we called it a should win. -- schwinn! [laughter]. >> it has been a great, 110 years, been a great run, 110 years since the daurier brothers built the first american automobile in springfield, massachusetts and if the motor wagon company, if it had been a success, springfield massachusetts might be today's motor city full of abandoned houses and drug dealing and violent crime an racial tensions which, it happens, springfield, massachusetts is full of anyway and we owe the american car, a lot more than the entertaining speck tack of detroit's verse fe -- spectacle of detroit's felon mayors and people of my age owe our existence to the car or the car's back seat, anyway, where if you check our parent

st. petersburg times." the other is julie rovner, health policy correspondent for national public radio. fact or fiction? the democratic plans will give health insurance coverage to illegal immigrants. julie, is there anything in these proposals that would allow someone who is working in the country, living in the country illegally, to get health care coverage? >> there's no coverage in any of these proposals for people who are in the country illegally. now, under current law, if you were in the country illegally, there are provisions for you to get care in an emergency room. that's considered a public health issue. you don't want people who are in the country running around with perhaps contagious diseases, and again, you have pregnant women in labor, no matter where they're from, there's certainly a humanitarian issue. people who have dire emergency needs ought to get treatment. >> reporter: so, just to recap: under current law, illegal immigrants can receive emergency treatment, but they would not be all

st. petersburg times." bill adair, to barbara joining us again. please come back.ost: we will take you to a hearing that began about 20 minutes ago. it is the senate banking housing and urban affairs committee. the issue is regulation for some of the banking and financial institutions among those testifying is the chair of the federal reserve insurance corp., fdic. also comptroller of the currency, member of the board of governors of the federer reserve system and acting director of the office of thrift supervision. it is being chaired by senator christopher dodd of connecticut. live coverage here on c-span. >> the capital structure of the company. that is good because bear is the market's instrument, as long as it is a debt instrument they want to be paid and they know that if a financial institutions gets in trouble, that debt will be converted into equity, a buffer against loss and they would be subject to loss. so i think that market discipline has a number of different and -- avenues we should pursue. and market discipline itself should be pursued along side o

st. petersburg, a democratic city in florida. by all accounts, he did a fantastic job and was reelected by a very wide margin. he knew how to work with all sides. he says he does not even know on his staff who are democrats and who are republicans. all these people in total, what they want to see is a party that gets back to basics. there is not a big fresh agenda that the republicans have. what they are saying implicitly is that president bush led the party sort of off into a ditch, and they could take it out by getting back to the principles. >> i think of people like morocco rubio in florida who is taking on a very popular republican governor for mel martinez's senate seat and this is somebody who you think, how would you take on this governor? he is one of the reason that is john mccain won the nomination because he endorsed him. that's how popular he is. on the other hand, he is not popular among conservatives. and he has become a poster boy of the new conservative hufement. and if he doesn't end up winning will probably lau

st. petersburg and richmond, sherman also reached occupied demolished and left atlanta with that destroying the army of johnston and hood. that task he finally abandoned to thomas who executed it in a memorable and decisive victory of nashville. with respect to the atlanta campaign, robes candidly added, sherman laws that the very outset the best and only chance the head during the whole summer of inflicting a decisive defeat upon his antagonist. had he followed thomas' guys, hattie marched immediately with the great army through snake creek gap and seized the railroad in johnston's grier at krissoff got instead of sending through the gap with a comparatively small force he might have been that the campaign with a sudden and brilliant victory but he missed his opportunity and is wary and skillful opponent presented him with no other. sherman and his adversaries' positions and forced him to fall back without ever being able to bring him today in a situation where the superior numbers of the union army would still. sometimes it is endeavoring to find the weak places in the enemies position. s

st. petersburg and while he was there, he went to an officers training school and what he did, he went in the back door, not the front door. he found mold, unsanitary conditions. the place was a mess. so what happened? within a week, the admiral in charge was both kicked out and retired. people began to say, well, gee whiz, maybe this guy, you have to take him seriously. his task was to bring the russian military into the modern age. and this is nothing that is actually critical to understand what the russians are doing and they won't admit in a sense that they're copying the west, but in a sense they are. first, moving from a structure based on -- forward based troops in 1941. that was the message they took after world war ii. we're not going to have that again. if nato is coming and attacking us, we're going to have troops deployed and have three different groups, the ones who stop the offensive. what they said, they decided though, after georgia, was we screwed it up, we want a much smaller, highly maneuverable, flexible and lethal military force. this is the idea that that using milit

st. petersburg. what's going on there today? anticipate anything like that to be happening where you are? >> they're not having the protests today, betty. what they are doing, try to reorganize and figure out how they can do this town hall meeting, once again. part of the problem, an overflow crowd and the room only held 250 people and more than 1,500 people showed up for the event. those who were opposed said that it was an organized effort to keep them out of the event. the democrats, meantime, say it's an organized effort to disrupt anything relating to the obama administration. so, they're looking for a larger room right now. we talked to congresswoman cathy caster to set up an interview later on today. we'll talk to her this afternoon. exactly about how they will do this, but she got no where at all last night and had to be sort of shuttled out of the room and didn't talk to anybody else and she got out of there and what was supposed to be a good moment for her to talk about the obama health care plan that turn under to a d

st. petersburg, florida newspaper some time ago which are read on the internet, there was a thing about getting people which were paying $1 million. why don't they use some stimulus money and give the people from, that are on social security, why don't they give them a lump-sum? it would give them time to build up. i'm not sure what a good amount would be. $250,000 is what you are supposed to put away. instead of monthly payments, give them starting at 60 or 65 $500,000? for people going on to social security? they will get money anyway. it is not like they are getting a gift. they have earned it and work hard for it. host: your final thoughts on the future of social security? guest: if for once we get together in washington and in the rest of the country and act like grown-ups and look at the numbers and stop complaining and operating our grievances, both the upper class who claim they are being ripped off and the lower class who say that rich have all the money -- if we get together and act social we will have a chance to be socially secure. so that my children in their 30's know that we will

st. petersburg. there was such massive resistance, and that reminds me of something that my late admiral sd to me when i asked him somethg in moscow about getting the budget, and he looked at me with a sort of smile and said, have you ever seen a picture of th high command? i says, yes, andike an idiot he says, how many blue suits do you see tre i said, one. that was the answer, one, you've got to be there to get something. the navy right there is getting 40 percent of the military budget. so few operational ships that they're going to have to cut most of them. 40, 50 years old. ground forces units being reserved 1 -- reduced 11 times. the old military district army division regiment, that has gone apart and they have a big free-for-all. the argument is that the brigade is much more operational. if you read american military stuff, it's exactly the se thing. we can deploy an independent brigade. if that's beaten up, put another one in. put a division in, it's beaten up, it's a mess. so, frankly, you

st. petersburg, florida. republican line. good morning, dale. >> caller: good morning.d just like to agree with tammy on that one as far as people aren't getting loans that can't afford cars. that's not happening. it just seems like i'd like to see american-made cars on the next round have a chance to -- over the imports. i think this should be an american-based car dealership program instead of including the imports. i think that would go a lot further, and it's also been a wonderful program. thank you. >> host: thank you for the car. >> guest: i would just comment again, how do you define an american car? toyota has ten or 11 manufacturing plants in the united states of america, and over 90 percent of the cars we sell from toyota are produced here in the united states. >> host: the white house yesterday indicating this would be a huge trade agreement, the u.s. cannot provide money for basic programs, for u.s. programs, u.s. companies and not foreign companies. can you explain that? are you familiar with that issue? >> guest: quite frankly, i'm a car salesman. i'm not

st. petersburg, but it seems without their baggage. our baggage still has not come from goldstat. some things never change. now, this has got a huge amount of buzz online even though it is fairly geeky. it's a big following. john quincy adams a big following on twitter, something i never thought i'd say. >> interesting. great. thanks very much, abbi, for that. >>> all right. we're getting a story that's just coming in to "the situation room." let's go back to don for some details. wlar we learning? >> reporter: interesting information about billy mays, the pitch man, his death. this is according to the associated press, woflg, just coming in. we're being told from the associated press that the autopsy for tv pitchman billy mays finds he had cocaine in his system that contributed to his sudden death. again, i'm just getting the wires here, wolf. they say the 50-year-old bearded tv personality died of a heart attack in his sleep. his wife found him unresponsive on june 28th in their condo. but again, according to the associated press, they're saying that an autopsy report says cocai

st. petersburg, it's positive. i was done with them all together. i like laura ling's reporting.ke they could be an active member of the world community. that would be great. david writes, i agree with you, jack, north korea's leader is a maniac, can't be trusted. this pardon shows a flicker of humanity. i think our government should formally offer a modest thank you to north korea to keep the ball rolling. it might lead to further talks with north korea, even influence that other despot in iran to release his american captives. you never know. doug in ohio says that evidence suggestion that il is ill. it may signify something new. we should insist on six-party talks and not give in to the emotions of the day. jeff rights, north korea is a country shut off from the rest of the world. releasing the girls and hanging out with bill clinton was their ten minutes in the spotlight. it changes nothing north korea needs to disarm and help feed their people. amen. if you didn't see your e-mail here, go to my blog and look for yours there among hundreds of others. >> happening now, breakin

st. petersburg times." >> if you like your health care plan, you keep your health care plan. >> reporter:he government won't inner fear but if health reform is passed. >> anybody who has coverage now knows that their employer can change coverage regardless of whether you like your insurance company, your employer can choose to change coverage. >> reporter: another claim to check, an ad from the chamber of commerce. >> big tax increases, even on health bed med sin. >> reporter: the truth-o-meter's verdict, half true. one of the house bills has a tax increase for couples earning $350,000 a year and one senate committee is considering a tax on the most expensive health plan, cadillac plans, they call them. so, why only half true? >> people who saw the ad might get the impression they were gonna have to pay higher taxes, when, in fact the vast majority of americans would not have to pay higher taxes as the plan stands now. >> reporter: another fact check. has aarp endorsed the health reform plan? >> aarp would not be endorsing a bill if it was undermining medicare. >> reporter: the truth-o-me

st. petersburg said -- scott in georgia says -- tell us what you think.here's a lot of different ways to look at this. you can send them into cnn.com/robin. click contact us. a lot of passionate responses. a quick one. serious recall to warn you about. 200,000 black and decker grass trimmers. there have been more than 700 incidents with this. 100 people have been hurt. these are trimmers with a black spool on them. you can get all of the information at cnn.com/robin. back to you. >> thanks. is it a weed whacker type of thing? you wouldn't know. >> isn't that the same? >> there are all different kinds of trimmers. go to our website so you are sure you have the right piece of equipment there. >>> some of the stories we're watching in your "morning express" planner. president obama will hold a town hall meeting at 11:55 a.m. eastern talking about the economy. at noon senators will debate judge sonia sotomayor's confirmation to the supreme court and at noon vice president joe biden will be in detroit. he's expected to announce that 11 manufacturers will get g

st. petersburg, fla., on the republican line. caller: good morning. it is a bad thing when politicians die. i still go back to the time when he jumped out of the car after he ran off the road. he was probably drunk, he really was. kennedys have always done with the well-to-do to destroy this country. he is so far left -- once he did that with the woman, ran around on his wife, his just like bill clinton. now they are all bidding on this government down in south carolina about this woman -- they are old beating on him. but they do not know anything about john edwards, or even his brother. he probably was in the bed with marilyn monroe. host: this is senate majority leader harry reid, that as we mourn the loss we dedicate ourselves for the causes for which he so beautifully dedicated his life. he stands as one of the most patriotic men ever to serve. macon, ga., on the democrats climb. -- on the line for democrats. caller: no, this is washington, d.c. i just wanted to say first of all that he who is among those without sin, let us cast the first system.

st. petersburg -- i will still watch "fox & friends" as i cry. gretchen: this is a fox news alert. died after six explosions in central baghdad earlier this morning. local police say as many as 300 people have been wounded. car bombs went off near the iraqi parliament building, not far from the green zone. mortar attacks after that, adding to the destruction. this is a fox news alert. we are going to talk about hurricane bill. it is not a category four storm. it is making its way toward the united states it probably will not get the united states. steve: it is a huge storm. has intensified to 135 m.p.h. maximum sustained wind. they are suggesting, according to the computer projections, that it will take a hard right turn to the coastal u.s. could be affected by some rough surf, but it should be closer to bermuda than the coast of the united states. gretchen: this is a fox news alert. afghanistan bracing for tomorrow's presidential elections as gunfire and explosions rocked kabul. the country has faced days of pre-election violence. yesterday, a nato convoy was bombed, killing eight

st. petersburg, florida newspaper some time ago which are read on the internet, there was a thing about getting jobs for people which were paying $1 million. why don't they use some stimulus money and give the people from, that are on social security, why don't they give them a lump-sum? it would give them time to build up. i'm not sure what a good amount would be. $250,000 is what you are supposed to put away. instead of monthly payments, give them starting at 60 or 65 $500,000? for people going on to social security? they will get money anyway. it is not like they are getting a gift. they have earned it and work hard for it. host: your final thoughts on the future of social security? guest: if for once we get together in washington and in the rest of the country and act like grown-ups and look at the numbers and stop complaining and operating our grievances, both the upper class who claim they are being ripped off and the lower class who say that rich have all the money -- if we get together and act social we will have a chance to be socially secure. so that my children in their 30's know tha

st. petersburg, where the speakers who represented not only the navy but interestingly the industry, talkedabout the iortance of aircraft carriers. .. were going down the tubes their rhetoric about aircrt carriers escalated. in may, 2007a meeting of top navy brass and leaders of the shipbuilding industry needless to say considered the issue of aircraft carriers and obviously agreed they just couldn't d without aircraft carriers because they are buiing a ship of this class would incree the status of russia as a maritime power. what exactly -- you notice there is no mission there. it is a status, it is about status although the only justification for the mission they could come up with with carriers we are going to stop americans from attacking russian heartland with cruise missiles. i know, you know, i wou not comment on that particula explanation because it makes so little sense, simply because it's not just carriers. you need to have huge battle groups. if you're really serious about that you need to have -- you ow, the only carriers the discussed would be small carriers, carrying 30 rogue