our burners are being asked to come into centers of various cities for aetna. -- right now. whehowever, as soon as things gt better, they are escorted out. but we might begin to break that cycle. it is just wonderful to walk out on the street and see the world walking by. >> are you giving the twitter deal? >> yes, we are. we just founded a new nonprofit. black rock arts foundation, which is dedicated to spreading interactive, a collaborative art throughout the world. now we have founded but we call the burning and project. -- what we call the burning man project. it eventually leads to the event itself. this is a wonderful opportunity. the thing about burning man, when you look at the variety of people that go there, when you look at this environment, where all the normal boundaries are down in every department of human knowledge and endeavor. if you ask what possible application that we have created that may be useful loud in the desert, -- what would it have an application to? education, urban planning, disaster relief. needless to say, we are ambitious than we think we c

aetna, dean foods and el paso corporation.though, the second best performing stock of 2011 is cabbot oil and gas. stock has risen 59% helped by higher energy prices and the top performing stock of the year so far is national semiconductor, texas instruments offered $6.5 billion in cash for the company earlier this year, causing the stock to jump 79% since january. >>> and we're coming up on the top of the hour on this "cnn saturday morning." good morning on july 2nd. i'm t.j. holmes. the florida murder trial of casey anthony is close to being in the hands of the jury. she, of course, accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter, both sides have wrapped up testimony. we are covering this case for you this morning. shawn lavin has been watching the proceedings for us in orlando and joined by holly hughes, an attorney in atlanta with me in just a moment. shawn, let me start with you and talk about the schedule essential essential essentially. they wrapped up when yesterday and their enot in court today, even though we've seen them

aetna imposing rate hikes by 15%. a few may face 92% increase, kaiser is raising rates up to 12%.nd sharp plan are increasing they're premiums. a measure will be debated further regulating rate hike autos temperatures getting hotter in washington. so are the temperatures. there is rhetoric over the debt ceiling has gotten nasty. and no one seems willing to budth. -- budge. >> for the first time since 1974, the senate will be working through the july 4th holiday. >> we couldn't afford to take this time off. >> the president and senate leader as agreed quickly approaching deadline required an extra week in washington. today the senate was in session less than one minute before adjourning. mr. obama left for the presidential retreat. before the break, the trash talking exploded. and republicans slammed the president for not taking a more active role. >> maybe if he took a valium, it might be helpful. >> democrats threw it back. >> this seems lix leader mcconnell is willing to tank the economy for the sake of protecting tax breaks for oil companies, corporate jets. >> the white house

people that live in the area are warned aetna has calmed down a bit. another active phase around a corner. i've never witnessed one up close and personal. >> people worried about earthquakes, that worries me, fire shooting up in the air. >> it's pretty. >> very pretty on tv. >> good point. 5:40, a possible end in sight. lawmakers appear close to a deal when it comes to the nation's debt limit. a live report next. >>> plus an update this morning on the condition of injured giants fan bryan stow recovering after another surgery. we'll tell you how it went. >>> the search is on for a family of hikers in yosemite that sl fel hay sundr fell hedus of feet down a well-known waterfall. s >>> welcome back. it's 5:43. >>> a possible light at the end of the tunnel in the national debt showdown. some democrats and republicans say they have come up with a compromise. tracie potts live with whether they will agree. >> the so-called gang of six, three conservative republicans and democrats. trying to work for a compromise. what they are pitching is $4 trillion in spe

>> guest: the justice department in the office of legal counsel and solicitor general under the aetnaarter initially and then under president reagan. >> host: what courses are you teaching right now? >> guest: constitutional law, federal jurisdiction, and administrative law, and a first-year course on legal theory designed to introduce the students to the basic operation of our system. >> host: is this your first book? >> guest: my first book. >> host: published by oxford university press press, professor strauss teaches at the university of chicago. >> let me mention one book infidel. a somalian born woman who was brought up and the war-torn area and the middle eastern countries finally escaped to have political asylum and became a member of parliament to prepare she was involved based on a movie that they then produced the harshness of islam and the way it is swept under the rug in western countries and this resulted in being assassinated in heart of -- holland. to be put under protective custody for several weeks but the basic premise of the book is number one, the country's with t

of aetna, the larblingest repository of health records in the united states, 10 million of them, said they'd adopt the blue button and make it available to their millions. the c.e.o. of walgreen's stood up and said wait a minute, we have personal health data, too and we'll blue button that information. in energy we had the smart grid challenge and said to the utilities, i can't get access to my utility energy consums data and i physically look at it, it's the box in my house, i can't get the data. we challenged the utilities, can you do this? three utilities announced they'd publicly make available in machine readable format information on customer energy data. it's not going to be perfect. it's not going to have every valuable, wealth of vocabulary coded but they've done it and issued an apps contest for people to reduce their energy consumption. it's happening now. two high school students spoke at that event and got their high school to adopt an energy management system and found out the air conditioning turned on at 2:00 a.m. in the gym and the school administrator said i'm not so

article in the paper which said america's largest insurance company and one of its best, at the --aetnawer health insurance rates 10% across-the-board. because of the 85% requirement. in other words it is going to work and still nobody knows it. so we spent too much time majoring in the mind. i want you to serve. i want you to answer the house question and lobby for the things you clap for like a dream act. but this economy is fragile. we cannot go another decade continuing to fall into young people with college degrees. we need to implement the student loan program and 100% of the people have to know about it. you have to know. here is what i want to say about the budget debate and the government would mess up its -- all taxes are bad. there is not a single example today of a really successful wealthy country that does not have both a vibrant economy and strong effective government. not one. not anywhere. this political and economic theory i saw one congress called it faith based, that the republicans have because i just believe this way and the evidence is irrelevant. it must be wrong

the aetna added that depend involved in criminal wrongdoing and nobody was fired. why is that? >> there were people in the company who were guilty, and we had to find them and deal with them appropriately. >> if i can clarify, the individuals involved or implicate in the allegations that were there have long since left the company. so much that were still there you mentioned one exit of the business and as soon as the evidence of wrongdoing was from and the protest was set out in cooperation with the police to aid them with any of those things they wanted to do but many of the individuals that were potentially implicated in the civil litigations and potentially in the criminal matters had already left the building and were not in the news of the world at this time and current news of the world executives and journalists were not to their in 2006 and 2007 so some have already left. >> mr. are not, why do you decide to list the jobs of 200 people before pointing the finger at the was responsible for running the company in the time? >> it is natural for people to lose their jobs.

the aetna added that depend involved in criminal wrongdoing and nobody was fired. why is that? >> there were people in the company who were guilty, and we had to find them and deal with them appropriately. >> if i can clarify, the individuals involved or implicate in the allegations that were there have long since left the company. so much that were still there you mentioned one exit of the business and as soon as the evidence of wrongdoing was from and the protest was set out in cooperation with the police to aid them with any of those things they wanted to do but many of the individuals that were potentially implicated in the civil litigations and potentially in the criminal matters had already left the building and were not in the news of the world at this time and current news of the world executives and journalists were not to their in 2006 and 2007 so some have already left. >> mr. are not, why do you decide to list the jobs of 200 people before pointing the finger at the was responsible for running the company in the time? >> it is natural for people to lose their jobs.

small article in the paper that said that america's largest insurance company and one of its best, aetna, had filed a petition in connecticut with the commissioner of insurance to lower health insurance rates 10% across the board because of the 85% requirement. in other words, it will work and still nobody knows this. so we spend too much time majoring in the minors. i want you to serve. i want you to enter the house questions. i want you to lobby for the things that you clap for, like the dream that. but this economy is fragile. we cannot go another decade with falling the number of young people in college degrees. and people have to know about it. you have to know. here's what i want to say about this whole budget debate and the government would mess up its two car parade and all taxes are bad. there's not a single example today of a really successful will the country that does not have both a vibrant economy and a strong effective government. not one. not anywhere. this political and economic theory -- i saw one economics college freight space. it says that the economy is irrelevant.

health care provider aetna reported its earnings for the second quarter were in line with wall street'sr the quarter. big surprise this morning is profits for dow chemical jumped 74% in the last quarter compared to the same time last year. still waiting on delta to report its earnings before the opening bell this morning. >>> a debt plan by speaker john boehner forced the nation's republicans to choose sides. one of those republicans, congressman jeff flake, who says no way he would be on board is going to be talking to us live in a couple of minutes. "american morning" is back after the break. where do you go to find a business backed by the superguarantee®? only superpages.com®. for local maps, deals and more, go to superpages.com®. and let the good guys save the day. >>> the house speaker's debt reduction plan rah run into some trouble. it happened after the congressional budget office ran the numbers and ended up falling short of a trillion dollars in spending cuts. so with time running out, he pulled the bill. he says he will revise it and republicans are now delaying a vote on the