you shoulda seen it. we thought we had to build an ark." ark." part of the ceiling...t the downtown hilton... collapsed.../ during the storm..../ no... one was injured. a rainy start won't stop opening day at artscape...the largest free arts festival in the country. country.janice park is streaming live in mount vernon, to tell us how the weather is impacting this year's event. karen,last year it was hot, sunny skies...today a much different story.event coordinators had to deal with some flooding this morning...and overturned signs. this is a three day event and they're expecting to attract about 350 thousand people. there's everything you'd expect at a festival, crafts, food, live music...taking the stage tonight will be artists like brian mcknight.rollcue: earlier today artscape is america's largest free arts festival, attracting 350,000+ attendees pver three days. artscape features 150+ fine artists, fashion designers and craftspeople; visual art exhibits on and off-site, including exhibitions, outdoor sculpture, art cars, photography and the janet & walter sondheim

you shoulda seen it. we thought we had to build an ark." ark." part of the ceiling...own hilton... collapsed.../ during the storm..../ no... one was injured. peoole who headed to americas largest free arts festival had to deal with a dousing of rain . today.crowds were noticabily smaller this year. last year about 350 thousand attended this festival celebrating the arts. the rain didn't stop thousands from listening to local bands and the best in theater. "it's been a big difference...with the rain there hasn't been as many peopl" people" "oh i am, despite the clouds it's a very good night" night"artscape runs until 7 pm sunday 3 3 3 3 3 politicians working together to ban inside trading.... the loopholes ttat were missed after congress lready passed the law. george huguely is asking a judge to delay a lawsuit... why he says letting it happen... will violate his constitutional rights... 3 a developing story out of new england tonight has a link to b. baltimore.johns hopkins hospital says a lab technican accused of causing a hepatitis-c outbreak in new hampshire once wo

>> well, you know, the -- there are lots of coulda, shoulda, wouldas.e'll have building codes, no-shake roofs, making sure trees are 75 feet away from homes. all that stuff. we've seen the courage of the firefighters and what an incredible job they've done. and people -- i mean, the victims of this fire, the can von volunteer fire department, when the high park fire first burst into a little -- became a big fire a month ago, they were defending their one-room prairie schoolhouse. the volunteer firefighters protected the schoolhouse. up the canyon, the homes were going to burn, they kept saving this community treasure. those kinds of act of heroism in a way become so inspiring that it pulls a community together. we say, all right, mother nature's, you know, knocked us around all this time, we've been here before. we're going to come back, and -- this is going to make us stronger than ever as a community. that's what the mayor of colorado springs was articulate when the president of here, talking about how colorado springs -- they're going to come back. >

martha: would today, shoulda sure. they will make it up to the folks in san diego. no word how they plan to do that. perhaps they have, i don't know, christmas fireworks or something like that, right, rick? rick: moving overseas, a top general in the regime of syria's president has defected from syria just as secretary of state hillary clinton meeting with the french president there in paris today, alongwith other world diplomats, issuing their strongest threats yet against the assad regime. leland vittert is live in jerusalem. leland, how is this friends of syria meeting different from other meetings that have taken place? >> reporter: what is most significant here is that not only is secretary of state hillary clinton attacking president assad in syria but she is starting to go directly after assad's allies, that being china, russia and iran and that is pretty unusual in diplomatic circles especially the secretary's very harsh language. china and russia have been protecting syria at the united nations. something the united states and allies wants to end as they pu

shoulda has included it biggest its request. >> philanthropists have talked to kids of low income areas to say we will find your college. first graders know that is a possibility. my parents said we will figure out. that is not in the mind of many students. it is worth exploring. talking about financial literacy, i pushed to make that course part of required high school education. when i got out of graduate school and came to washington d.c. i was turned down for credit cards i had nowhere to experience. now my dog and children get to applications. payday loans, entitle loans loans, school scholarships and it basically you are on the hook. do we need to have more financial literacy it preparation to go into college and into life to manage finances effectively? >> when we started these programs it was remedial you would expect the students to be at a higher level of knowledge. if they came better prepared we would be delighted. >> it is worth continuing the conversation talk about the free courses public radio had a conversation last week reversed city's work together with free online co

this evening talking about jobs and about the american jobs act and one of the great woulda, coupa, shouldas of our times. there are a few things that really need to be discussed from the last half hour. first of all, most of the discussion was about med kay cade. that's a program, a national program, in which the federal government pays about 50%, if varies state to state, but roughly 50% of the cost of providing medical services to the poor, women, children, in the states. now, the debate was most interesting in that the argument was that there would be a lack of access and simultaneously an argument that the costs -- there were no costs control. yet if you were listening to our esteemed -- esteemed colleagues, walk have heard them say that doctors are not paid enough. i think if they're not paid enough and the doctors want to get paid more, in order to provide services, then the costs are going to go up. and so the cost control argument here doesn't make a whole lot of sense. if you want to keep the cost down, you need to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the system. and certain

this is one of the great woulda, coulda, shouldas of our time. we could have people back to work today and in doing so reduce the deficit. there's so many different pieces of this. so, mr. speaker, the american jobs act are where the jobs are. you talked about a piece of it. i'm going to just pick up one more and then i'm going to turn to my colleague from oregon, mr. blumenauer. this is one that speaks to the american homes. what's going on in the house where we live? many of those homes are run down. they have problems with insulation or they don't have any insulation at all. they leak energy. well, the president proposed, as a piece of the american jobs act, that we could provide construction jobs, really low-skilled construction jobs in rehabilitating the american homes. this is not a new concept. this has been going on for some time. and it's been used repeatedly to upgrade homes in the united states and simultaneously save energy and save dollars for the american public. one piece of it, construction jobs could have been put in place. so th