. >> so stalin atall ta knew there was a bomb. >> stalin, of course he knew. >> all along. truman didn't even discuss it with him. >> of course the soviets knew there was a bomb and of course they were working on their own. >> let's go back to -- >> that really is a footnote. >> i found it interesting. what did you do after the conference to get ready to write the book? >> one of the thing, i was asked to write it by the publisher of the yale university press, jonathan brent, a soviet expert himself and they publish a lot of books on soviet intelligence in america, not all of which i agree with, but this was to be a book, not rehashing the facts of the case, but a book about the media and scholarly fight over the case, the way it's been presented, the position it's occupied at different times and sort of why the -- why the case had such a long history. one of the -- one of the more natural things would have been it would have faded away after 10 or 15 years. a lot of other cold war cases did. >> did he know before you were asked to write this book what your views were? or d

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are in place and throughout the morning we have had the low clouds above the tower cam if not right atal camera level and showers coming through. don't forget the umbrella today you will use it a lot. 76 is the number. winds from the east at three and the humidity is high at 82%. the weather forecast for today, muggy and 84 degrees. a lot of shower and thunderstorms around especially in the afternoon. this isn't going to be isolated to the mountains like yesterday but across the viewing area kind of thing from ocean city west in to eastern panhandle of west virginia. tomorrow a little more sunshine, 86. we will get hot as we head to the weekend. reaching for those 90s. i will talk about the rest of the forecast in a few minutes. angie has been tracking the drive in. >> good morning, kim. hello, everybody. not the weekend yet but it is thursday and despite that rain we will make it a great day. but you know anytime we have precipitation in the forecast it is going to impact our drive. we are seeing slow goes out there. beginning with the beltway from 95 to georgia. we are looking at 25 pl

britain as we lked about in the setup pie abo the sudden spike in casualties, is anyf this connected atall to the military strategy? is this connected to prepedness in any way othe pat of the coalition foces? >> i don't think it' a function of preparedness, just think there has been a push from the u.s. military androm the briti militaries to take more risks in afghaistan. the focus of u.s. an british counter insurgency strategies i to otect the local population. that ans getting moreut into villages. that meansncreasing ris to soldis. i think paly this is a function of a slightly dfferent strategy that's aim is to protect loc afghan villars, and that do mean exposing oneself to improved explosi devices and other threa at the villag level. >> ifill:s it fair to say this was expected as part of the strategy that there would be increased casualties? >> i think virtlly everyone who has been looking seriously atfghanistanhe last coup months has generally predicted the incrse in vience, this is the fighting season as clare suggested. th was expected. >> ifill:ow about the concern among brits th

. >> not a ba start atall.creasing into the 70s. 72 here in washington. 70 in baltimore. 70 at dulles. fredericksberg is at 70 degrees and patuxent naval air station coming in at 73 degrees at this hour. here is a look at the satellite radar for the regional area. we'll put it in motion. there are a couple of clouds to the north and a couple of rain showers in northern pennsylvania but we are rain- free and cloud-free this morning as well. but later on we get a couple of clouds moving in and maybe a shower of two because of this weak cold front. it will drop our temperatures. not today but tomorrow or the next day our temperatures will be lower than today. but the first thing it will do for us is bring a couple of clouds into the area this afternoon. and then bring a stray shower or thunderstorm into the late afternoon or evening. and so the forecast for today looks like this: mostly sunny this morning and becoming partly sunny. stray shower or thunderstorm possible. high of 87 degrees for your high for today.

and looking back atal al-jazeera which started in 19 # 6 -- 1996. from 1996 until 2001, al-jazeera was regarded as the foremost of freedom of expression and democracy, and we were celebrated actually by many circuits including the american administration at that time. in 2001 things have changed dramatically and immediately because al-jazeera had the only bureau in afghanistan when the events of september took place, and al-jazeera continued to report, the same professional standards that existed before 2001 actually were post-september, but we were faced at that moment in time by great criticism in many western sectors and many governments including mr. rumsfeld who in many of his press conferences mentioned al-jazeera. you know, we tried to correct, we tried to write to him and to send messages that al-jazeera never, never shown any, any frame of big gotting. he continued to talk about al-jazeera. al-jazeera has never, ever broadcast anything -- [inaudible] and always used to play major role in defending journalists, especially those who have been

we stillave cases - we still haveome atalities. we're rlly watching, though, is what is happening in the uthern hemisphere because they're in the midst of their flu season. helps us to be able to preparto know when the season comes back to the northern hemisphere to us wt we might be loong at. >> secretary sebelius wat do we ve on hand for vaccine? >> well, we're in the process of gettingready for a vaccination program. a coup of things are going on. weurchased the bulk ingredients for a vaine the flu virus ras are being own and tested right no clinical trials will begin this mont we'll know a lot b the end of augustnd we need to mke sure two things one that we have an eective vaccine, that it really does immunize fks against h1n1 but alsohat we have safe vne those two piees of the puzzle are vy important and we're moving aggressively toward having a vaccine ready by mid-october. >> let's go to katty kay with the bbc. >> can i switch topics slightly and ask you about health care reform? i was down in texas a i kn lot ofeoe in the w

and looking back atal al-jazeera which started in 19 # 6 -- 1996. from 1996 until 2001, al-jazeera was regarded as the foremost of freedom of expression and democracy, and we were celebrated actually by many circuits including the american administration at that time. in 2001 things have changed dramatically and immediately because al-jazeera had the only bureau in afghanistan when the events of september took place, and al-jazeera continued to report, the same professional standards that existed before 2001 actually were post-september, but we were faced at that moment in time by great criticism in many western sectors and many governments including mr. rumsfeld who in many of his press conferences mentioned al-jazeera. you know, we tried to correct, we tried to write to him and to send messages that al-jazeera never, never shown any, any frame of big gotting. he continued to talk about al-jazeera. al-jazeera has never, ever broadcast anything -- [inaudible] and always used to play major role in defending journalists, especially those who have been

and looking back atal al-jazeera which started in 19 # 6 -- 1996. from 1996 until 2001, al-jazeera was regarded as the foremost of freedom of expression and democracy, and we were celebrated actually by many circuits including the american administration at that time. in 2001 things have changed dramatically and immediately because al-jazeera had the only bureau in afghanistan when the events of september took place, and al-jazeera continued to report, the same professional standards that existed before 2001 actually were post-september, but we were faced at that moment in time by great criticism in many western sectors and many governments including mr. rumsfeld who in many of his press conferences mentioned al-jazeera. you know, we tried to correct, we tried to write to him and to send messages that al-jazeera never, never shown any, any frame of big gotting. he continued to talk about al-jazeera. al-jazeera has never, ever broadcast anything -- [inaudible] and always used to play major role in defending journalists, especially those who have been