. >> allan, thanks for the latest on this breaking news.k to "cnn presents". >>> we came to broward county a year ago to do an investigation on pill mills. now we're back a year later and they're still rows and rows of pain clinics. we're seeing more babies being born addicted to drugs. >> more people died last year from prescription drug overdoses than car accidents. >> our children are dying. and it's all young people. it's all the young people. >> what age were you when you started using coke? >> i was 18. that's me and my dad and my brother. and that's me and my mom before drugs. i used to be so prissy and preppy in all my pictures. i caredbility my hair and may make up. i don't give a [ bleep ] anymore. >> the addiction to oxycodone is killing her. there's five of the oxycodons and a bar and a half of xanax. >> she allowed us to film this because she wants us to show with what a rut these pills have made of her life. >> i love my family, but this is the only thing that i care about. it doesn't feel like i'm -- my vain isn't pumping up.

the question is where do they feel like their money is safe, john. >> and allan, it's remarkable, you could see if you or i would be trying to get a loan, we'd be arguing with the bank back and forth. the highest level in the obama administration and the people in the rating agencies, and having an economic argument with the ratings agency and it's remarkable to think about that and the stakes of the lobbying argument. >> s&p would be going out on a limb. we need to keep it in perspective, s&p and the other major credit rating agencies, pretty much missed the financial crisis, they were all over on the mortgage-backed securities and they turned out not to be worth the paper they were printed on. now s&p wants to be extremely vigilant, do they get supertough with the united states of america? it appears perhaps they will. and that really is highly controversial, books will probably be written about it. will it destroy the u..s. economy? 12, i know poppy gave some strong language, but perhaps not. i mean, there have been other major countries who have seen their debt downgraded and they

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i think that, you can also look at allan keyes, and where is he?verybody, jump in, the more the merrier. >> pete dominic? >> well, allan keyes was a tough candidate, and also pot robertson or any of the people like michele bachmann who think that god is responsible for the natural disasters of things happening in america. i want to announce today, kyra, i have decided not to run for president in 2012 and a lot of people are going to be happy about that. >> too bad, pete. >> well, the three of us ladies here, we are very disappointed. >> absolutely. >> i will be getting the e-mails from all of you, i know. sorry. >> see you guys. >> there is still time. >> maybe next time. >> there you go. never know up to the last minute. all right. >> never been a -- >>> in new york city hospitals that evacuated the parents because of irene, well, they are slowly getting back into place. we will have a live report and update just after the break. what do we have? all four of us, together? 24. he's low fat, too, and has 5 grams of sugars. i'll believe it when i---

allan chernoff is here with me in new york. he's been looking at that. the good news is that it's been cheap, it's been cheaper in the last few months to get a mortgage. the place where the mortgages are financed, at least today, didn't become more expensive. >> ali, this is one fear that's not being realized in the marketplace today. the downgrading of fannie may and freddie mac led to worries that mortgage rates could shoot up. but what we're seeing today in the marketplace is actually the opposite is happening. now, fannie may and freddie mac are extremely important. the government sponsored entities buy mortgages from banks and thereby allow the banks to receive more cash to make more mortgages. they're essential. you would think that mortgage rates would shoot up. but a more important factor is happening right now. that rush into treasury bonds, into treasury securities. keep in mind, the mortgage rate, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate is tied to the ten-year rate. we've got a graphic here. have a look at this. i'm calling the treasury bonds essentia

president obama has nominated labor economist allan krueger to lead the -- alan krueger to replace austan goolsbee. crewer is is a princeton university -- crewer is a princeton university -- krueger is a princeton university graduate. >>> coming up at 5:00, a new threat to sea otters along the bay area coastline. the program that rescues the sea lions has been deemed a complete failure. we're trying to find out if there's any other plan to help the sea lions in the future. that story and more coming up at 5:00. thanks for watching. have a great day.

david walker, allan chernoff. ali, for those just joining us and following us and maybe don't know the details of what s&p is all about, just explain why this is important, why this is so bad and what impact this is going to have on folks at home. >> okay, anderson. this was a threat made some time go, both s&p and moody's had warned if the united states doesn't get a handle on its long-term debt situation they could face a downgrade. after the debt deal got made last weekend the credit agencies took a few days and they were in the conversations with the uls treasury to determine what to do. moody's subsequently came out and said the ints will maintain the aaa crediting rating that moody's given it since 1917. the markets are waiting for the other shoe to drop. meanwhile, s&p was looking at the books and it seems like they made a calculation error in how much the u.s.'s deficit will be over the long term. that was pointed out to them by the white house and treasury. despite being found to have made an error s&p is

>> allan chernoff, thank you. >>> meanwhile, it's a pretty dismal week for the u.s. economy.treet this week. get this, the dow has lost nearly 11%, just felicia taylor here with a look at the numbers and what they could mean. >> this past week, there was a tremendous amount of anxiety and uncertainty in the marketplace, and the problem is, we don't know where the growth is going to come from. that's the major question facing investors and tradering around the world. we heard from china that they're now concerned that their own growth rate, which is not hurting at all, but they'll have to hamper it back because the growth rate in the u.s. and in europe is beginning to slow town. and then we heard problems with european banks, whether or not they'll be able to satisfy their debt obligations in the united states, and certainly, we're still concerned about european sovereign debt, and whether countries like greece will be able to satisfy their obligations. all of those concerns are still out there. as far as the u.s., we got some pretty dismal figures on the jobless front, which

. >>> and congressman allan west's brother speaks out, and it tops the stories here on "newsnation."on "newsnation" yesterday we found out for the first time that congressman allan west sent his unemployed brother to a jobs fair sponsored by the same black leaders that the congressman criticized earlier in the week. the congresswoman maxine waters explained to me how she met west's brother at the jobs fair. >> mr. west's brother is here. he found himself out of a job. and he asked his brother to help him, and his brother told him to come to me, to come to us, and that we are here in atlanta where his brother lives, and he came up and introduced himself and i want his brother to get a job. >> and msnbc then caught up with congressman west's brother, arlan, at the jobs fair, and here is his reaction to it all. >> the responsibility of our elected officials is to serve the constituents. in any capacity that they can. and this was a prime example of them doing that. congresswoman maxine waters and others in the congressional black waters saw that need and sponsored this event. >>> well,

the fight back is also in the heart. 81-year-old widower allan biber thought he had lost everything when thieves broke into his barbershop. >> they took my coffee, sugar, i can't believe it. >> reporter: nor could he believe the $40,000 an internet campaign raised to get the world war ii vet back in business. this malaysian student had every reason to hate britain, mugged, had his job broken and then robbed by the very people who appeared to help him. britain's total strangers raised about 30,000 as a gift to him. >> the courtesy, the concern for your neighbors, that had gone from british life and had caused these riots and paradoxically may have come back in their aftermath. >> reporter: there are now centers for donations and walls for compassion. >> we are proud of our city and we want the world to know that. >> reporter: a nation taking control and believing in itself once again. jim maceda, nbc news, london. >>> up next a little girl's legacy, beyond her wildest dreams in life. >>> charles murray died today. he was the recipient of the medal of honor from world war 2. it was just be

nobody on our side of the allans wants to increase the debt ceiling it's all in our dna. though we do believe that we ultimately the state current onn the bill and you've got to quity spending money you don't have all those sums ares very small the president signs it into law it will be the first time in my lifetime the first time in my lifetime that for two years in a row we've actually cut discretionary spending in washington, d.c. and made a very slight direction of change in the slight right direction and e directional change issue for the more importantly mr. speaker the seeds are planted in this billpe and that is the balanced budget amendment in the constitution co the american people aren. not looking for a balanced approach looking for a balancedet budget it needs to be enshrined in the constitution to vote on n balanced budget those are the seeds of the solution to say this country for the next generation i urge adoption of this bill. >> the gentleman from wisconsin has two minutes remaining. >> i will yield myself the mysef remainder of my time. it's very clear

to do without defender alec with me he's injured there's also a diet over the fitness of midfielder allan. and the pressure is awful on aston boss austin banga is depleted side trying to eat in a.z. after a narrow one nil win at the emirates in the first leg again is over that midfielder some imaginary after. going to sell him to manage the city for forty one million dollars that's on the back of the race and the parts recessed gas to barcelona one bit of good news though is that bengal will be able to sit in the dugout tonight after all after breaching a touchline ban last week the way to have suspended a further ban. of an appeal is. days for the club at bangor says arsenal are strong enough to make the group stage for a fourth season in a rock. i never force to. quit have been injured which today of calm she. had asked me about question was also. the same question do you feel under pressure to qualify you of course we want to qualify and could not depend on no one can depend on how we repay our food. a big game. but. one playing the team. well in contrast to denies they have only reach

allan what it was revealed the start what does erode j.p. morgan's got by some estimates over a trillion dollars in liabilities off the balance sheet once that's put back on the balance then the stock of insolvent the start of the zero which is something people should be rooting for if they want to maintain sovereignty in america if they want to be debt slaves of course then just give j.p. morgan free reign to write laws or commit securities fraud all day long and you can be a death slave too so going forward actually next i think this is more about the cover the g.o.p. morgan has executed in the last year and i think the american mean street investor let's see if that doesn't mean you just haven't ever much to restore her mean street investors to go back and invest in equities the best and most treat companies they have to bring some criminal charges and this this is an easy slam dunk keep state cannot see how these things are not charged criminally well they know of in instances in other countries whistleblowers been assassinated when they

recognize libya's rebels the first to become tree and now the first in talks with rebel leaders for mr allan she paces victory gives him great satisfaction opposition m.p. jack lang everyone to be thankful that france inspired action at the united nations corporations in states that voted for u.n. intervention are rubbing their hands one of the first. members of a french team. to. march as a representative of the different or company. is not. french all join the toll has been named as this was big enough rubble all for a go to look brazil russia and china for quote political issues there are three states who refuse strong sanctions against gadhafi those nations had voles contracts with the former regime of russian official says quote we've lost libya completely it is well known that it is a wall for all that these so-called position government has promised to give the old two from france officially claims its war mission is over but analysts tippit to secretly stay you'll be in libya to make sure it profits france early maintaining forces. presence in libya even the. resolution. yes but keep

with that defender having these men who's injured is also the doubt over the fitness of midfielder allan cus i had. the pressures also on the arsenal boss asked him vanga here his depleted side travel to naisi after a narrow one zero win at the emirates in the first leg the gunners do so without midfield this time as three he was sold to manage the city for forty one million dollars yesterday. subject to a medical that's on the back of the recent departure of c'est la vie gas to barcelona one bit of good news is that bangor will be able to sit in the dug out tonight after all after breaching a tax line banned last week the have suspended a third ban until the ag come of an appeal so a turbulent few days for the club believes arsenal can qualify for the group stage for a fourteenth season in a row despite the loss of a player. i never forced. been injured which to live comes year when doctors have asked me about questions there's no sort. of the same question do you feel under pressure to qualify of course we want to qualify and do that to not depend on no one they depend on how we replay

do it for that defender is mean he's injured there's also the doubt over the fitness of midfielder allan cus i have. precious little from the arsenal boss asked him vanga hear his depleted side travel to eden a.z. after a narrow one zero win at the emirates on the first leg began as do so with that midfield this time in as three he was sold to manage the city of forty one million dollars yesterday. subject to a medical that's on the back of the recent the party assessed for a gas to barcelona one bit of good news is that bangor will be able to sit in the dugout tonight after all after breaching a tax line banned last week the have suspended a further ban into the outcome of an appeal so a turbulent few days for the club but bangor believes arsenal can qualify for the group stage for a fourteenth season in a row the spite of loss at a place. i never forced. to live comes you would have asked me about questions you know sort. of the same question do you feel under pressure to qualify you force we want to qualify and go back to not depend on no one can depend on how we repay your football o

i'm twenty years time you will have discovered life on other planets are we actually talking about allan's or merely some bacteria we're talking lifeforms of course one particular form such life settlement where there is life and civilization are a possibility but discoveries of life as a primary importance in what form. of the sun what i'm going to tell you is what our form will definitely be well known to us in my opinion and i believe experts are generally agree on this life and intelligence should they exist elsewhere at all should be higher than human like you see essentially the origins of life follow the same pattern just as it is with atoms molecules or macromolecules there are fundamental laws of physics if we could apply invariably. these laws have been thoroughly researched wasn't explained and all you need is the right environment that would enable a process like that to start for example an atom of hydrogen that originates in a galaxy located millions of the past six away from us that is hundreds of millions of likely where he's absolutely identical hydrogen atom that he revea

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our allan chernoff. >> reporter: that quote applies to thousands every year.an we met who receives some untimely news from the social security administration. margery is a healthy 94-year-old. the social security administration thought she died four years ago. >> you look very much alive to me. >> i feel alive now, but at one time i didn't. >> reporter: was that because of what the social security administration told you? >> yes, exactly. in fact, one clerk looked me in the face and told me i was dead. i said i'm standing here. >> reporter: she went to the bank to get cash, but her atm card would not work. a bank officer cut the card up in front of her and said an according to our records, you're dead. >> i said i did not feel dead, but she insisted i was. >> reporter: to your face? >> yes. >> reporter: someone inside the social security administration had accidentally typed an incorrect digit while recording the number of a person who had recently died. leading the computers to believe margery was the decedant. when someone is deceased, the social security nu

said that the washington monument was tipping i think that was definitely the hot news along with allan for a while that maybe the washington monument just had a little a little tilt so that we could have had our own leaning tower of washington you know they see earthquakes i lived in l.a. for a little bit there's nowhere where you see the come trails today and it was always been a lot in. the city to shots and i was very. well actually. i don't know i mean that was my i obviously that's how it happened but that was my first ok all right maybe not right that one we just met that was my first thought that i was actually really really i mean it took four shots to get to putting out albums so you never know who the funny thing is i realized how different it is to be exhibit life else earthquakes are for i just immediate was like oh it's an earthquake whereas other people being here from d.c. they're like we thought it was a blog but then we realized that there wasn't a sound well i also thought that equipment was. good security you know. you know weird stuff goes on here at r.g.s. studios

call they need but they are now limits and losses investors have also been reacting to all this thing allan consumer sentiment which turned out to be slightly higher but still shows a lack of faith in the economy. and the european stocks are recovering some of their losses as the fed chairman said the central. and has tools if necessary to bolster the economy. and the cycle of what's happening if you're ever on. both the arts yes and the my sex clothes the trade in session poses of territory there we go we can see actually we're having a bit of an issue with our graphics but that actually posed a threat in session of course it's a. let's take a look at some individual moves on the my sex fertilizer acro on game day after it almost tripled forest half net profits we all still make or m.k. was down the company post the person million dollar that profit in the second quarter of the year well below expectations and the other still major civil still is in the red after posting a sixteen percent rise in second quarter profits and also below forecast. brochures export duty on oil will increase six

of a little bit on this is uncertain this is our thank you so much for joining us and i thank you allan. remember how excited you were. it was november two thousand and eight and hopes were high change was in the air but since then they've turned out to be a bit of a disappointment maybe it's that he hasn't closed one column obey media studies escalated a bunch of wars they did because he defended going to ask don't tell maybe because he's great health care reform exemptions to over thirty corporations maybe it's the two hundred fifty million dollars for blackwater maybe it's the crackdown on whistleblowers navys the bailouts to wall street in the base tears or maybe it's a twenty two and a half percent real unemployment perhaps after all that you can use them obama this is a point months to cheer you up but apparently that was not the case for one very disappointed state representative from tennessee but democrat joe armstrong a little sure wasn't what he was looking for no he wanted didn't feel the mint's were to university of tennessee bookstore after byatt's in for to ninety nine he

he was at the napa hospital where allan has introduced a bill at the state legislature requiring involuntaryication of dangerous pay thes. they are trying to reach a hospital spokesperson for details about saturday's incident. the most infamous of these incidents involved a nurse who was murdered on the ground. just last week we have a person who was convicted of her murder. we will let you know what happens. reporting live ktvu channel 2 news. >>> we are expecting to get an official list after the helicopter crash in afternoon noon. stay with us on ktvu channel 2 news because in ten minutes we will go live for reaction to the 30 deaths on the crash investigation that is now underway. >>> we are awaiting the verdict, the trial of shane bauer and josh fat tall ended up with hopes dashed and courts are still investigating the case. they arrested the three two years ago near the iraqi border. the group claims they were just hiking and iran said they were spying. iran released saw due to her family health problems. >>> they will announce an a drift that is more than 20 years old. our 10:00 news

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the president is set to nominate allan krueger to chair the council of economic advisers, and he is a professor at princeton and served as assistant treasury secretary until next year. >>> and stewards of hurricane irene are expected to cleanout to day. it is not what many predicted, but irene did leave a severe scar. the storm took 24 lives and more than 4 million homes lost power, and $10 billion in estimates of cost. >> talking about hurricane irene, i want the make sure that the folks have the support they need as theys a s.e. s assess a the damages from the storm. that will continue in the days ahead. lit take time it will take time to recover from a storm of this magnitude and the effects are still being felt in the country in new england and states like vermont where there is an enormous amount of flooding. the response continues, but i will make sure that fema and the other agencies are doing everything in their power to help the people on the ground. now, even as we deal with this crises of the moment, our great ongoing challenge as a nation remains how to get this economy gr

. >> marie and arthur had a daughter, elizabeth, a year and a half after richard allan died. when baby elizabeth was 5 months old marie says she found her sick in the crib and brought her to the hospital. she was dead on arrival. an autopsy determined the cause of death to be bronchopneumonia. jacqueline, the noes third child, was born april 23rd, 1952. little is known about her. she survived for only three weeks. and according to stephen fried, most of her medical records are missing. by 1952, the noes had lost three infant children. but neither doctors nor the medical examiner's office spoke publicly about any suspicions about marie noe. stephen fried says after the death of her third child marie worried about getting pregnant again. >> she was afraid, in her words, of another ungodly catastrophe. her description to me, a very powerful one, was that she had decided after the baby died, that she should have her tubes tied. fried said noe spoke to her doctor about a hysterectomy. but she spoke to her priest, too. >> she went to see her local priest and told her of her intenti

cnn's allan chernoff found out that such government goofups can very easily happen to you too. >> reportsat quote attributed to mark twain certainly applies to thousands of social security recipients every year, including one elderly woman who we met who received some very untimely news from the social security administration. marjorie louer is a healthy and vibrant 94-year-old, yet the social security administration thought she died five years ago. you look very much alive to me. >> i feel alive now. but at one time i didn't. >> was that because of what the social security administration told you? >> yes, exactly. yes. in fact, one young clerk looked me in the face and told me i was dead and i said, but i'm standing right here. >> reporter: marjorie went to her local bank to get some cash. but her atm card wouldn't work. when she went inside, a bank officer cut the card up right in front of her and said according to our records, you're dead. >> and i explained to her, well, i didn't feel dead but she insisted i was. >> reporter: to your face? >> to my face. >> reporter: someone inside th

as allan greenspan said the other day our problem is we've got nonfinancial firms sitting on half a trillion dollars because they have no certainty. because we have no leadership in this country. yes, andrea, people are passionate about what's happening in america. i think that it's a great thing that governor perry and others in the republican feel are voicing this concern. i think it's time to we take our country back. >> we certainly have a lively republican primary field coming out of ames. we saw a lot when we were out there over the weekend. we've got michele bachmann, ron paul, and clearly now rick perry jumping into the race and mitt romney out there now seeming to embrace the tea party as well. is the tea party going to determine who is nominee is? if that's the case, is the field moving too far to the right to appeal to a general election audience, what you really need to take back the white house? >> i'm not so sewer what the fixation here is. i think that people across america, moderates, conservatives, independents people who are disengaged for a while and now engaging in the po

i just talked with general allan this morning. we're making very good progress in terms of security particularly in the south and southwest. those are difficult areas. we now cap to improve the situation in the east but overall, the situation is doing much better. we weekend that taliban significantly. -- we have weakened the taliban significantly. the police and army are right on target as far as the numbers we needed to develop. we're working in the right direction. we are going through a transition and beginning to transition in areas. there'll be other things we have to do. we have to ensure the afghan government is prepared to not only govern but to help secure that country in the long run. i really do believe that if we stick with this mission in that we can achieve the goals that we are after which is to create a stable afghanistan that could make sure we never again a establish a safe haven for the taliban or al-qaeda. >> what is the conversation the two of you had about the reliability and stability of the karzai governme

the meantime president obama announced his nomination for the top economic post today, and he tapped allanas the top economic counselor. president obama also said he will announce a new jobs plan next week that he hopes will have a bipartisan feel. >> i will lay out a series of steps that congress can take immediately to put more money in the pockets of working families and make it easier for small businesses to hire people, and put construction crews to work to rebuild the nation's roads and railways and airports and all of the other measures to help grow this economy. >> the president has called to extend the payroll tax cut at the end of the year, and to continue unemployment benefits. >>> and in just a few hours, searchers are heading out once again the try to find a missing ohio woman as her father pleads for people to come forward with any information. 23-year-old caitlin markham vanished august 13th, weeks before her college graduation. investigators say they have no leads or suspects. this morning on the "today" show, her father said that caitlin would not have just up and left. >>

cnn wire entertainment correspondent allan duke is here with the story. lawyers yesterday filed a motion asking for jury sequestration, to put them up in a hotel, not let them see "nancy grace." they specifically called her out and her commentary during the casey anthony trial. >> that's a fancy jury. >> stay in the hotel, don't watch tv, don't read the internet. >> that's the trial. explain the michael jackson tribute and how it's conflicting with the cirque de soleil performance dedicated to him. >> it's been a big mess. jermaine jackson and randy jackson, they onned through twitter saying they don't like the timing of the october 8th show because it conflicts with the dr. murray trial. but, guess what, they not objected to the october 2nd timing of the launch of the cirque de soleil immortal tour, michael jackson show. >> it makes you wonder, like, can they get on one page with the michael jackson tributes? what in the world is going on here? >> something katherine jackson has to deal with. she came by and visited with me this week. i asked her that ve

senior correspondent allan chernoff reports the announcement came as no surprise. >> this is not shocking all. it is shocking from a public relations standpoint, but s&p actuallied thy ed thahad warnedk on july 14th when they said there was a better than 50% chance that they were going to do this and they pulled the trigger. it wasn't easy for them, but they've done it. what they're saying here is that the deal struck this week to avoid default, to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending simply isn't sufficient. it's not enough to stabilize the debt situation of the united states and they're also saying, they're making a judgment here on the politics that occurred in washington this past week. the disarray, the fighting, the fact that it took until the very last minute, almost, for them to come to a deal and they're saying we just don't believe that the congress and the administration will be able to leverage their agreement into a broader fiscal consolidation policy. so they're just giving a thumbs down to what's occurred over the past week in washington. it's certainly possible that som

>> all right, allan chernoff, with thanks so much. >>> well, the republican presidential hopefuls aredowngrade. from mitt romney, he says -- "america's creditworthiness just became the latest casualty in president obama's failed record of leadership on the economy. standard & poor's rating downgrade is a deeply troubling indicator of our country's decline under president obama." here's what minnesota's michele bachmann had to say -- "i call on the president to seek the immediate resignation of treasury secretary timothy geithner and to submit a plan with a list of cuts to balance the budget this year, turn our economy around, and put americans back to work." the s&p downgrade just the latest blow on the economic and political front this week. potential voters not happy. according to a cnn orc poll conducted after the debt deal was announced, americans say 77% of elected officials who dealt with the debt ceiling acted like spoiled children. as you might imagine, those polled don't think much of the job congress is doing. according to the cnn orc poll, 84% say they disapprove of the job

one of the books he read and reread was a book of edgar allan poe's stories and edgar allan poe and his term was fascinated by codes. there was a time in the middle of the 19th century in the u.s. when he was -- he was probably the nation's most famous cryptographer. he would come up with the challenges for cyphering that were published in the newspapers again in retrospect we can understand why that is. there is this abstraction, this conversion of information from one language to another. shannon himself did become a professional cryptographer during the war because he had to. it was one of his assignments in particular a sort of he was assigned to the top secret ex system which was a telephone system, it was a hot line connecting president roosevelt and winston churchill, and shannon didn't invent the methodology the was used to code the system. on the one hand it was very clever and on the other hand incredibly clumsy system that involved phonograph records with random no is on them but identical phonograph records on opposite sides of the atlantic and so randomize to oversimplify w

allan chernoff, cnn, new york. >>> elvis fans gathering at graceland to remember the king.is morning off presley's grave to mark the 34th anniversary of his death. elvis died in his memphis, tennessee, mansion on this day back in 1977. >> i remember it well. >> me too. i remember -- >> sad day. >> who's elvis? that's what i said. >> right. >> little young. >> the young elvis or old -- >> i know you remember kiss. >> i do. the rock band joining the lineup for the michael jackson tribute concert in wales in october. that has many jackson fans upset. kiss frontman gene simmons made some negative comments about the late pop star back in 2009. some jackson supporters say they won't be going to the concert. >>> all right. say it ain't so, tlc canceled "kate plus 8" featuring kate gosselin and her broad of eight children. the show began as "john and kate plus 8" and then more of its current form after their divorce. the show's final episode will air september 12th. what will you do with that time? >> i can think of a few things. >>> it's 44 minutes past the hour. we'll check the d

yes, at vanderbilt, texas a&m, and is now the university of texas at austin where he is the dixon allan anderson centennial pratt -- professor of history. he writes american history and politics. several of his books have been bestsellers. two were finalists for the pulitzer prize. he lectures his -- lectures on history and current events and you can see him on tv, hear him on the radio and he is now working on a book about yet another president, ulysses s. grant. welcome. [applause] let's start with a brief assessment from each one of view on how the president is doing. is he the peace president, the osama bin laden president or something else? >> thank you. the only thing i can say to you is how we think he is doing is going to look a lot different in some years that it does now. it always does. if there's anything i've learned from my books is that things looked so different at the time than they do a few years down the road. i can give you an example from robert moses and lyndon johnson. robert moses was so popular in new york city, i went to horseman, and everyone at our class had

allan chernoff has been working the story for us. what are you finding out?> the fact is that these investigations have been underway well before s&p's recent downgrade of the united states. sources confirmed to cnn that the department of justice and the secures and exchange commission have been digging in to the inner workings of the nation's largest credit agency standard & poor's and moody's, focusing on their failure to fail to assess the risk of mortgage securities. s&p and moody's are targets of federal investigations into more ganlg securities that went shower during the financial crisis. according to sources familiar with the inquiry, attorneys from the department of justice and the securities and exchange commission have been digging into the rating agency's method onle gi, in particular, did executives veto credit analyst efforts to downgrade ratings so as not to lose business on the issuers of securities who are paying to berated. >> the credit rating agencies fail spectacularly in the years leading up to the financial crisis. >> reporter: the rati

here is our senior correspondent allan chernoff. >> a growing number of americans are starting their careers deeply in debt as a result of the money they had to bar row to pay for education. for many education loans have become a de facto mortgage that could take decades to pay off. rebecca belante has made it to new york city working in fashion for retail giant j. crew. >> accomplished, definitely, a very good word to describe how i feel. >> reporter: accomplishing her dream has been costly. to earn her masters in fashion design at drexler university she had to take on student loans from the federal government and private lenders, even with help from her parents, the three-year program left her with debt approaching six figures. >> i have some really dark moments about it for sure. it's overwhelming, extreme, a lot of money and i have to try to ultimately stay positive to know that i will get through it and i will make it work. >> reporter: the working world often requires ambitious, responsible americans like rebecca to assume mountains of debt to gain the education their careers d

the president has picked a princeton professor to his council, and so let's talk about allan krueger. to do something big and bold and create jobs in the country now or the president has to sim ply un-do everything, erase the agenda, and so that the jobs can be created. don peck wrote about this, and he says he is in the camp that the president must do something, and here is what. >> more infrastructure spending and deeper extended payroll cut, and jobs credits to employers who make new hires. these are all things that we need to be doing. they are tools that we have available, that we are not using adequately and we switched to austerity to a large degree to the debt ceiling deal, and that is a mistake in this kind of economy. >> but you know, kyra, more of the same, and more spending and more infrastructure spending and unemployment benefits will not fly with conservatives like the "wall street journal's" moore. >> this is problems that i have in general, we tried these things and they don't work and then we try more of it. >> yes, they don't want more of it and many say that alan k

ambassador crocker and general allan have a great, almost laser-like focus on leading the internationalvernment of afghanistan and the government of pakistan discussing their security challenges. i would be disingenuous if i said there was not a serious security challenge, especially in? as much success as we have had in the south, we're still really challenged in the east of the country. a think you'll see a great deal of both diplomatic and military effort go into that situation over the next six months or so. >> thank you. >> i have seen a lot of training is because i used to interpret for isaf. one of the concerns that have always been there is the mutual trust between the security forces and isaf. there have been cases where someone in an afghan uniform turning against the isaf forces. i do not know if they have used a news step for mutual trust lessons and ideas. >> the is a really good question. the afghan army and police are amongst the people and so is the enemy. even in those places were the enemy can troll back, this is a counterinsurgency. so the enemy is still out there mos

dixon allan anderson professor of history. his books include "traitor to his class, and george jackson." some of his books have been best sellers. you can see him on television. you can hear him on the radio. he is now working on a book about a another president, ulysses s. grant. please, welcome h w brands. >> thank you perce >> let's start with an assessment for each one of you on how this president he is doing. is he the "i got osama bin laden president?" bob, i will let you start it off. >> thank you. how we think he is doing will look a lot different in some years than it does now. if there is anything i have learned from my books it is that things look so different at the time than they do a few years down the road. i can give you an example from robert moses. he was so popular in new york city. everybody in our class had to write for their junior paper, robert moses is a great example of a great night in literature -- knight in literature. that is in the 1950's. by the 1970's, a key was the great villain of new york. ev

texas, has taught and vanderbilt, texas a&m and at university of texas austin where he is the dixon allan anderson centennial prof. of history. bill writes on american history and politics and his books include "traitor to his class -- and jackson." several of his books have been best sellers. two finalists for pulitzer prize. he lectures frequently of history and current events. you can see him on tv, you can hear him on radio, and he is now working on a book about yet another president, ulysses s. grant. please welcome h.w. brands. gentlemen, welcome to all of you. let us start briefly with an assessment from each one of you about how this president is doing. is he your eat your peas president, or i got osama bin laden, or something else? >> thanks. [laughter] >> the only thing i can say to you is, how we think he is doing will look a lot different in some years than it does now. it always does. if there is anything i learned from my books is things look so different at the time than they do a few years down the road. in fact, i can give you an example from robert moses. robert moses wa

four within the last year alone, including the one headed by former gop senator allan simpson and exof staff erskine bowles. for awhile you'll remember politics, were lining up to praise that commission or compare it to their own plans. >> it's modelled after the bipartisan simpson bowles proposal. >> a proposal exactly along the lines of what the simpson bowles commission. >> along the lines that simpson bowles talked about. >> a lot of the components of bowles simpson. >> a lot of voices from bowles simpson. >> borrows from the framework of the bipartisan simpson bowles proposal. >> simpson boems. >> the bowles simpson commission. >> simpson bowles commission. >> the simpson bowles commission did that. why can't they? >> everyone was talking about the commission that heralded the arrival the recommendations of the commission. but unfortunately the simpson bowles commission couldn't actually agree on a final set of recommendations. however, to be fair, the new supercommittee may have a better chance. that's because if it can't agree, this new supercommittee, if they can't agree on t