a.p -- a.p.'s stress index is based on unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcy rates. imperial county in southern california tops the list with a stress index of almost 32. only one bay area county was his listed in the top, solano county. >>> a new fiscal year began on july 1st. california still doesn't have a budget in place. budget talks among party leaders continued today. although john perez says there were no major developments or agreements. democrats and republican lawmakers are far apart on how to save the $19 billion deficit. republicans symbolically presented perez with what they call a--baked recipe today. >>> cash is no longer -- no locker -- no >>> cash is no longer accepted for the toll for the $3 rate. you must use a lane staffed by a bridge employee so the number of people in your car can be verified and do not use an unstaffed fastrack only lane. if you do, you will be charged $5, not 3. >>> coming up an urgent message tonight from california public health officials. what they want you to know about a whooping cough epidemic. >>> also ahead -- >> repo

coochie vietnam federer for taint nineteen sixty six by a.p. they call it hell's half acre because of the american boy. that had been still there tonto to island via cong snipers have done most of the damage today was no exception. on the. twenty seventh and for a tree the framed wolfhounds moved out to attack the snipers open up from such perfectly camouflaged positions the most of the a copy i want the whole day what i see in one of the enemy a sergeant was hit in the shoulder and leg as he rolled over a third shot ripped to his by. a medic broke from call of and rushed to his side as he dropped to his knees to begin given a bullet smashed into the stomach. both the sergeant and the medic to. an artillery barrage was laid down to screen a squad gone after the wall and it especially was full of it won't it in the help cross the deadly fifty yards with all the fallen to us he was hit again and this was an old you were there yes it's hard it would bring back to minimum. no no. no no no no christmas certainly we're building up to go into iraq i t

on the morning of the nineteenth of april one thousand nine hundred ninety five the a.p.ar a federal building in oklahoma city in the midwest was destroyed in an explosion. of massive bomb killed one hundred sixty eight mostly government office workers and shocked america. this was born in the usa terrorism. on the orders of president clinton dave williams was again the scientist chief investigator. oklahoma city graham an effect on your absolutely. some of the things that i saw in the y.m.c.a. which is cross the street from the murrah building and it was blood spatter and there were little children's hand prints and it was a children's daycare center and there was blood everywhere chocolate milk and cookies and teddy bears were fingers in here. and that's terrorism when you come right down to it. within that first hour my swag my scientific wild ass guess was that four thousand pounds of anfo was used very simple combination of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel oil but one of the good breaks was that within minutes jim norman who was an f.b.i. bomb tech in okla

injecting drug users as it will be another topic this discussed throughout the week before today the a.p. . talks are going to be starting at seven o b introductory talks bring me the latest from them as they have been. our correspondent sara for thier now to discuss the alternative hiv aids conference i'm now joined from vienna by joan shannon founder of the immunity resource to the shed and thank you very much for being here with us on the program on r t finer stand correctly your foundation disputes to establish mainstream scientific understanding of. aids why is that and what prompted you to set this foundation up right well for twenty four years now we have been challenging this hypothesis that hiv causes aids with leading scientists around the world and i am a television producer an independent producer and i made eleven documentaries on the subject that were transmitted around the world but it didn't shift opinion and what is happening this week in vienna is extremely important because the conference here that we had for two days before the big world aids conference has shed light

injecting drug users as it will be another topic that is discussed throughout the week before today the a.p. . to going to be starting at seven o b introductory talks brainy the latest from them as they happen. and a bit later in the program the resident asks if the people of running new york's financial district can ever change their ways. do you think that one street bankers to be reformed no. because it's just the mentality that you need to have to work on wall street it's like it's almost in going to the personalities. are on trial to moscow curators have been found guilty of inciting religious hatred over a controversial exhibition and criticism of the verdict is a violation of freedom of expression. now a severe drought has forced a state of emergency in central russia dry spell is turning normally fertile farmland into desert the republic of just one of many areas which are suffering as a correspondent sean thomas reports. a natural disaster is taking place in central russia painstakingly slow in the making but impossible to stop unseasonably high temperatures and extended periods wi

in injecting drug users as it'll be another topic was discussed throughout the week before today the a.p. . talks to going to be starting at seven o b introductory talks old brainy the latest from them as they have to. surf earth reporting there and a bit later in the program here in r t the resident asks if the people running new york's financial district ever change their ways. do you think that wall street bankers can be reformed no. because it's just the mentality that you need to have to work on wall street it's like it's almost an ingrained into their personalities . and file to moscow curators have been found guilty of and siding religious hatred over a controversial exhibition and that criticism the verdict is a violation of freedom of expression. u.s. authorities have said and iranian scientists allegedly abducted by american agents was a spy who supplied them with information from a mayor he was working as a nuclear researcher i want to ron's universities claims to have been captured while on a pilgrimage to saudi arabia over a year ago on his return to iran on thursday he was

injecting drug users as it will be another topic is discussed throughout the week before today the a.p. . again to be starting at seven though the introductory talks wouldn't bring me the latest from them as they have to. argue sarah for say are now doubts over the conventional treatment of h. of aids or driving people to challenge established ideas about the disease that's according to dr christian theology who questions the motives of some pharmaceutical companies. i'm going back to the facts and the facts tell the people who test positive for various reasons even the producer of the terrorists are not aware of a standard to verify presence or absence of hiv antibodies in human blood and quote that's what you find in the product information even people who test positive not necessarily come down with aids even after twenty or twenty five years however those people who have been treated with vials in the early ninety's they have been killed by their treatment which was a city one point five gram per day which is even acknowledged by doctors now that it is lisa lisa so i am not believi

according to an a.p. poll, 64% of americans aren't confident the law will prevent a future meltdown. katie? >> katie: sheryl attkisson on capitol hill. sheryl, thanks very much. in other news tonight, b.p. could be just days away from completing that first relief well. but drilling was stopped today because of this: a big storm way off in the caribbean. forecasters say there's a 50% chance it will become a tropical storm within 48 hours and it could reach the gulf by the weekend. kelly cobiella has more. >> reporter: with a storm brewing hundreds of miles away, the work to finally plug b.p.'s blown out well has come to a halt. b.p. stoped drilling its relief well until the threat passes. >> if we are forced to move off the site because of weather, the entire operation could be delayed ten to 14 days. >> reporter: that's a worst-case scenario since no oil has flowed into the gulf for nearly a week, b.p. is confident they can leave the well closed and unwatched if they have to. in louisiana, some people are

activities you can do to really sort of hone in on the curriculum these kids can learn you know i taught an a.p. class this year and none of the kids who took the test got a one it proves that no matter the ideas that people have about this area the kids are able to learn they come in with several deficiencies that you have to obviously plan for. so that can be done through curriculum building through scaffolding activities and all kinds of other teacher jargon the problem that i've come across is that it's so much of a personality based profession you know a lot of these kids especially in the areas that you're talking about they don't have much in the way of adult role models in fact a lot of their and i want to be too generally but a lot of their experiences with adults have been negative whether it's being abandoned or i mean even abused so the teacher becomes sort of the adult in their life and the only way to really get them to buy in and trust you is if you are there all the time and you're dedicated and you know you really give one hundred ten percent of yourself now that again gets to

according to the latest a.p.economy survey, economists are now predicting weaker growth and higher unemployment than just three months ago. one big reason, they believe the recovery recovery is weakening, is that companies are simply hesitant to hire. that, in turn, has led consumers to cut back on their spending. economists have turned more pessimistic since europe's debt crisis, with wall street on-edge back in may. >>> and the federal reserve's latest regional survey seems to reinforce those findings. it reveals an uneven recovery with economic activity rising modestly since june. and even slowing in some parts of the country. the survey does not seem to point to a so-called double-dip recession. >>> the economy is weighing on asian stocks a bit this morning. tokyo's nikkei average fell 0.6% today. hong kong's hang seng is slightly lower. in london, the ftse opened higher. on wall street, the dow fell almost 40 points yesterday. the nasdaq slid about 23 points. >>> teenagers looking for summer jobs pushed the

the a.p. report reported that on july 15, quote, dozens of blogs by some of china's most outspoken users have been bankruptly shut down while popular twitter services appear to be the newest target in the government efforts to control social networking. better a -- a disnant, an original signatory of a historic pro-democracy man tess toe -- manifesto, was arrested by chee these authorities on suspicion of inciting subversion of state power. it also marks the deadly uighur community. they continue to face fear and oppression in the aftermath of the violence. according to multiple independent news sources, reporters report -- authorities reportedly installed 40,000 security cameras in the city in preparation for the one-year anniversary. in "the washington post," an author wrote an article titled, can anyone hear us, end quote, which documents firing on protesters that led to hundreds of deaths as well as mass beatings. the arbitrary detention of thousands and a 10-month communication shutdown t

an a.p. story out of kabul in afghanistan, general david petraeus, the new commander, he called for unity in the civilian and military effort to turn back the taliban saying quote in this important endeavor cooperation is not optional. these were his first public comments since he arrived friday night to assume the command. official ceremony happens tomorrow. in case you're wondering about general mcchrystal, "the new york times" points out his mentor says he is crushed by the change in his circumstances. the white house sent a powerful signal by sending general mcchrystal to retire with all four stars but the general's most important mentor admiral mike mcmillan described him as crushed of commanding nearly 14507b9 troops to living in exile in or on the potomac. here's a quote by the general jack keen, in time he will put this in perspective because of his contribution he has made to the country. i think he will at some point make peace with himself. he's the retired vice chief of staff in t