the mortgage bankers have put out a proposal, the realtors have put out a proposal. there are proposals coming from left and right on the hill. but at this point, they believe, the administration believes, that housing right now is really too tenuous to come out with anything specific. he's talking about there needs to be some kind of guarantees, but as he said, it's all very vague right now. looking at a lot of proposals, and over the next several months, they'll start hashing it out. but until we get housing on a solid footing, you can't pull the rug out from under fannie and freddie. >> all right, diana olick, thank you very much, washington, d.c. let's get a quick reaction from our guests. gentlemen, i want a 30 second tease. steve meister, partner at meister, sooeling and fine. and howard glaser, farmer counselor to the hud secretary, president clinton. you're going to come back in the next segment. i just want a quick tease. is the bottom in housing about to crack lower? howard, you first. >> critical and dangerous spring for the housing market. we've got the w

i mean, it sounds like he gets detailed spending hours talking to realtors. >> it is smart.ens, when you are living inside the demographic you got to find the special nuances no one discovers. maybe something happens at 11:00 at night. >> expanding what i call the difficulty for people to compete against him. now they have to be open until midnight. now they got to -- by the way, how come i don't get a foot massage when i come on the show? it's like he's making it tougher in every way he can. so how do they compete? now he's going to chip away at their market. i love this guy. >>> spring cleaning isn't just something you need to do at home. small businesses need to declutter and organize their space too. so, in this installment of diy professional organizer julie morganstern shares tips how to organize your business with a company-wide cleanup. >> when new york city fashion designer locked an important pattern she realized the time had come to get organized. >> we feel right now that there is a lot of clutter in the space and i think having the clutter prevents us from findi

the national association of realtors said home resales dropped .6% last month. that is less than what is expected. it's still assigned that the housing market in this country remains fragile. >>> in new jersey, two men are charged with killing five teenage boys more than 30 years ago in newark. the prosecutors say the suspects locked the victims in a house and burned it to the ground. investigators got a tip 18 months ago that led to the arrests. >>> and in washington, with a stroke of a pen, actually a bunch of pens, president obama signed the landmark health care reform bill in to law today. among other things, the measure extends coverage to 32 million uninsured americans and bans insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing medical problems. >>> when it comes to health care, we've been tossing around words like sweeping overhaul and historic reform. but for a moment, we want to think smaller, actually, substantially smaller. what does health care reform mean for someone just like you. elizabeth cohen is standing by. our senior medica

transactions was 26% last year, up from 18% a year ago according to the national association of realtors. the data shows more people are buying houses for investment purposes. >>> and the launch of the new i pad is less than a few weeks away. the latest numbers show 190,000 were preordered last week. what we are like three see is people will have test demos when it first comes out april 3rd and the next couple of weeks we'll see a rush to market. >> we're still hoping kristen got on that it preorder list. >> we're hoping >> thank you, jessica. >> sure. >>> collecting that iou from a friend just got easier for iphone users. pay pal released a new app that allows iphone users to transfer money through a simple program, something that can be handy when splitting a restaurant tab. >>> the flying walendas, a mother and son team. we'll check out their stunt in a few minutes. first weather and traffic starting with devon. >>> not seeing much in the way of rain showers. we have to go way out west and live doppler 9,000 shows we have showers going on. i-66 out of town hooking up with 81 in the sh

it's n its latest update, the realtors land institute says values climbed nearly 6% during the period ending march 1. all nine the reporting districts showed an increase with those in central iowa showing the biggest interest. it credits a number of factors for the improvement including favorable interest rates, lower crop input costs and strong cash rents. pasture and timberland values improved up more than 4%. >>> ag department economists are getting more bullish on the dairy market thanks to an improving supply-demand outlook. in the latest update, the usda says herd consideration will continue through the --contraction will continue through the end of the year and demand is xed to climb as our exports. it is averaged more than $16 up from $13 in 2009. >>> california leads the nation in milk production, so the milk down in 2009 was particularly painful for the golden state. in all of san diego county, there are only four dairies still in business despite an improving outlook, dairymen remain in a fight for survival. >> financially, it's been miserable. emotionally, it's been misera

one of our corporate associates who invests in life start is national association of realtors. i'm very thankful for that relationship because they get it. at the end. day they ultimately want to raise qualified buyers and have sellers. so they are investing in our organization to create a bridge between the young people we're working with so they will have a future and so that would equate to qualified buyers and sellers for the national association of realtors which helps the economy overall. >> we got to take a break. we'll continue our talk right after this. stay with us. >>> good morning, i'm aaron gilchrist. in the "news4 today", reverend jesse jackson will be among tens of immigrants right activists in town today to ask president obama to move faster on immigration reform. protesters will march on national mall in what's being called the people's rally. they are demanding full rights for all illegal immigrants and their children. democrats think they have the votes to pass healthcare reform. they are still trying to work out a key sticking point. >>> officers are looking

percent of home sales, also dropped last month, megyn, according to the national association of realtors by half a percentage point. since the great recession began in december 2007 we have seen new home sales decline that began in 2006. the 625,000 new home sales we were charting 15 months ago has been cut by half and the rebound in '09 has certainly evaporated. megyn: thank you for that uplifting report. all the best, james rosen. >> i do what i can. megyn: if you think the home sales are bad, wait until you hear what we have with homeowners staying in the homes they've got. here's a hint. not working so well. brian sul van has that story ten minutes away. >>> plus it could be a major blow to the top terror network, and a life-saving arrest for the united states. a roundup of the terror arrests in saudi arabia. >>> what do you think of tax dollars buying viagra for sex offenders? republicans today are hoping to stop that. we'll show you why the democrats may have to stand in their way. we didn't think dog food... could make that big of a difference, but it really has. we thought, oh, g

and that's why the national association of realtors sent a letter to speaker pelosi and german level on march 17th and i'm quoting from that letter that said sadly this tax burden on real-estate owners william perry and delay further recovery and so as ill-advised from potentially destructive. we have a lot of senior citizens who rely heavily on interest and dividends and retirement securities co combined with the cuts that we talked about for quite a long time they are being asked to shoulder a heavy burden of this proposal. >> i will come to you mr. anderson is the second i just want to follow on something mr. camp said and isn't it true that many hard-working americans, they worked hard, they saved their money, they've been very diligent, they've put money into annuity's for their retirement because they knew they couldn't live on social security, but they wanted to be able to live a decent lifestyle and they used these mechanisms for savings put money in savings and money in annuities and now you're going to be hit with a brand new tax which is going to reduce their standard of l

teresa tyner, teresa, come in here for a second, teresa tyner is with white diamond realty, she is a realtor that's been in this area for quite some time. your homes that you're leasing, they also were hit, but the good news here is police have started a brand new kind of way of tracking these people down. tell me about it. >> the sheriff's department is really helping us out a lot. they have a gps that they're putting in appliances and actually we just received some of our appliances back because there was a gps in this. we want to let the thieves know, if you're feeling lucky, go ahead and steal the appliances because the chances are the sheriff's department is going to get them back. >> beautiful. teresa, thank you very much. there are roughly 80 or so homes in fernando county that were hit by these thieves and as you heard teresa tyner say now, they have a gps they're putting inside the appliances, putting them back inside the foreclosed homes, so thieves, if you're feeling lucky, go ahead and see if you can avoid the cops who put the cpss inside the appliances. jon: orly, thank you. jan

with inventories rising, the realtors are saying we better see that second sales surge soon, or elsee're going to see additional downward presser on home prices. distressed sales, 35% of the market. first time buyers, 42%. all cash, 27%. erin? >> cash? >> cash. >> all cash? 27%. all right, we're also playing close attention to the hearing on the screen. timothy geithner testifying before the house financial services committee obviously chaired by barney frank. we're going to be hearing more about the administration's plans on mortgages and home finance. i wish we still had diana because i am curious if 27% is a normal number of people to buy their homes in all cash. >> no, it is not. >> you usually only hear that in emerging markets where they don't have a mortgage market. is that unusual? 27% all cash? >> 27 t% all cash is definitely unusual. what we're seeing is the investors getting into the market. you're also seeing people who cannot get loans using all cash, but, again, that is your investor share, which is really making up a huge percent of this housing market and up from last

for instance my dad is a realtor in redding, pennsylvania. a guy leak that use that to try to find new clients. make money. >> first and foremost create content and he needs videos of this place . however, he is using twitter and search.twitter which is what this is is the most important sight. >> search twitter.com. if you do that location and your collin and zip code and where we are right now. search tweet in the area. a home or looking. everybody who used word home, right. >> in that zip code. >>> and you can jump in that conversation . >> you can find the person looking for a home and click on it . follow the person and can i help you in any way. this starts the conversation. people need to think about twitter and facebook as a cocktail party. everybody wants to talk and that's where you lose. you listen. i went and started things like chard anyway and all of these people we are about to see are talking about that. and that is it good . this is a different one you should try . try to be part of the conversation . >> and extending the sto

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representatives -- if they were buying a house and were going to be told that there will only be one realtor for every 17,000 people, there would pay for the house for four years before they would move in, and would have to take whatever house the government said without seen and-- would you be willing to answer that question yourself? would you agree to those terms? that is exactly what this health bill is. host: let's go to scott on the republicans lying in texas. caller: i would like to comment on the previous couple of callers. the lady who went on about her self-interested is forgetting about her children and grandchildren and a humongous debt and socialist system she is willing to put on future generations. i believe jefferson -- i don't remember, those willing to sacrifice single liberty for general security deserves neither. as far as the forgotten man, it is the taxpayer, the people who must pay for this garbage. the forgotten man, the people are the future generation that will be enslaved with this socialist system. it has never worked anywhere in history. why these morons believe

let's take, for example, realtors. 10 or 15 people would be a large realty store. if they could buy their insurance through that exchange, or through that association, i should say, pre-existing conditions go away. it's not an issue if you've got 100,000, 200,000 people. people talk about the plan that the federal government has, that's the same thick. you have nine million people in that plan you share those risks and you can then negotiate lower rates. another thing i think that we need to talk about tonight are health savings accounts. i want to talk about that a minute because most people don't understand it. you hear it's just for rich people and so on. that's the big argument you hear. let me explain what a health savings plan really is. you're given money, the way we've done since world war ii is we've gotten our insurance and pay a small co-pay for deductible, 80% up to a certain point, 100% after that. that means at the end of the year, if you've been totally well, the insurance company keeps all your money. that's your money you're paying in you get some

i have friends who are realtors in the real estate industry. they would love to form a national association of real estate agents and brokers and employees all over this country. that association would have tremendous buying power and economies of scale. but right now that's prohibited by law. that's a commonsense solution that republicans have offered, and i dare say would have bipartisan support in this body. and thirdly, we need to rein in out-of-control costs, and 3400 does that as well. it reforms the medical liability system. it establishes administrative health care try bunals, you can call them health ports, in each state and adds affirmative defense. that would be a defense if you're charged with some kind of malpractice as a provider. this would encourage, also, the speedy resolution of claims and would cap noneconomic damages. so mr. speaker, let me just conclude by saying that there are reforms that the republicans have offered that would be not a massive overhaul of 1/6 of our nation's economy and would incorporate free-market mech

if we were to count those who are self-employed -- for instance, if you're a realtor and you're not selling home, you may still be classified as employed, but you're effectively unemployed. if we counted all the self-employed people who aren't counted in the normal unemployment rates, these numbers would be higher. houses in neff -- housing in nevada is hurting severely. we are leading the nation in home foreclosures and there doesn't seem to be a solution to this problem coming out of congress. congress instead has gone out on a wayward path and trying to muscle through health care reform when the immediate focus of this institution should be on the hundreds, really millions of americans who have lost their jobs, risk losing their home, or even worse -- both. in fact, nearly 5 million americans have lost their job during the time that congress has shifted its focus away from the economy on to health care. i will point out, however, if you live in the washington, d.c. area, you're actually okay. 100,000 new jobs have actually been created in this city in the last year. government jobs, not