blum.hey design a successor to the struck-down part of the law that will do the things you want and also provide the protections? >> well, i was on another panel earlier today with congressman bobby scott of virginia and he was quite clear about this. -the-thinks there is mow men numb congress across the aisle to do a do-over if you will. congress can systematically look at voting conditions for minorities from coast to coast, from maine to california, florida to washington. and do thorough analysis of what is happening today. they can identify repeat offenders who are intentionally disenfranchising or deluding the votes of minorities then those jurisdictions can be targeted by congress and section 5 will have an opportunity to prevent phlegm doing that in the future. >> suarez: now that it's moved across the street the supreme court to capitol hill, what do you think the chance chances are? >> we feel confident. the voting rights act has been reauthorized several times and always with a bi

blum? is it doctor blum? mr. blum? i always want to call you doctor. >> mr. blum. i think the -- believes and insurance commissioners that it's part and parcel to what a plan should be doing. it's not part of the benefit cost but the cost of a well-managed program. cms does permit collection to count toward the log if you find the right balance between the plan procedures that are part and parcel to running a plan, but we do allow plans to accomplish collection. >> miss lavell, a pretty good to-do list. not just the legislative branch but a bunch of us, including folks that are not in congress and are not cms. all right. doctor? >> mr. blum, let me just kind of get you on the record a little firmer here. cms supports the modification of part d program to establish a lock-in? >> i'd like to say to you, senator, we have no official position but i believe that it is time for congress to consider this change. >> cms doesn't have a position on that? >> i'm speaking for cms and i believe it's a time for congress to consider it. it's not part of the president's 2014 budge

. >> patrolman jeremy blum is hit in the arm. sheriff kelly scrambles into the line of fire and pulls the patrolman back to safety. >> i grabbed them and pulled him back behind the camper to cover and deputies continued to return fire. >> hold your fire. hold your fire. >> officers are ordered to cease-fire while patrolman blum receives medical attention and is airlifted to the hospital. as the team regroups, sheriff kelly tries one more time to convince ferryman to give himself up. >> come on out. throw your weapons down and your hands up. michael, it's time to stop. >> but there's no answer. a s.w.a.t. team and an armored vehicle move in, expecting another shoot-out. instead, they find the gunman already dead in his trailer from the exchange of fire. just outside is the lifeless body of deputy suzanne hopper. she's been shot in the head. >> it's just -- a crash of emotions. disbelief, anger to some extent hatred. >> patrolman blum pulls through, but the loss of hopper, one of the squad's most beloved deputies is a crushing blow

were rejected, we want your story, and we want to try to help you. >> according to reuters, edward blumhas launched at least a dozen lawsuits against race- based protections in the united states, including the challenge to the voting rights act, which the supreme court could decide on today. damon hewitt, your response about his significance? >> we will not disparage any individual try to have access to the courts, but what we see here and what his organization has done, they are trying to tell america that race does not matter. what they are really saying is that the facts do not matter, the fact that abigail fisher would not have been admitted regardless of her race, based on undisputed evidence in the record. in the voting rights act case, which one of my colleagues argued before the supreme court, that shelby county has one of the worst records of discrimination of any jurisdiction in the country. those facts do not matter to him, and that is troubling to us. that is why we believe the court will move in a cautious way. i wanted to read a quotation from you -- for you from ruth bade

in oakland, jonathan blum, abc 7 news. >>> coming up next on abc 7 news >>> well, you talk about bakedte of alaska is experiencing something it hasn't seen since 1969. an actual heat wave. records are being broken. it was 81 degrees yesterday in anchorage. >> amazing that a couple weeks ago we had snow coming down and now it's gorgeous and in the 80s. >> and about an hour north it reached 96 degrees. it is a little cooler now. but this is the hottest heat wave in 44 years. pretty wild for alaska. spencer christian was just telling me, usually a high of 70 this time of year. >> maybe low 70s. the normal high for this time of the year up there. but much higher than that right now. let's look at live doppler 7 hd. almost no clouds. career skies, breezy conditions. today's high in the bay area. we'll do a comparison to alaska's highs today. 80 in antioch. 81 in santa cruz. those were the highest temperatures we recorded here in the bay area today. however, in the garden state of alaska, the sunshine state, highs today 86 at nome. 86 at fairbanks. almost unheard of in those locations and mi

blum lost in congress, he decided to go to the courts. when roberts became chief justice, he knew that he had an ally in the court. >> let's go to the exchange with chief justice roberts. >> do you know which state has the worst ratio of white voter turnout to african-american turnout? massachusetts. do you know who has the best, were african-american turnout exceeds white turnout? mississippi. >> yes, but congress recognizes expressly in the findings would reauthorize the act in 2006, that the first generation problems had been largely dealt with, -- >> which state has the greatest disparity in registration between white and african- american? massachusetts. third is mississippi, where the african-american registration rate is higher than the white registration rate. the chief justice is wrong in his use of statistics. the second thing is, it is misleading to look and registration. you look a mississippi versus massachusetts. massachusetts has an african- american governor. mississippi has never elected an african-american candidate to a

blum's it's and they give us hope that we will have changes in the future. i also appreciate the work that the fraud prevention partnership has been doing. we have people in the room who have been instrumental in bringing the privates and the public and the agencies together. i have great hope that we will have a very successful partnership going forward. we have work to do. secondly, i want to reiterate and point out that the paradigm is changing for wellpoint. we no longer want to pay and chase. in doing so, we get 20-30 cents back on the dollar. the paradigm for us is prevention and to stop the dollar's from ever going out the door. with that, i want to point out that with the medical loss ratio, we are only allowed credit for collections which is counter intuitive to our new paradigm of savings. it actually encourages recoveries because that is the only credit we get. with our new paradigm, we hope that there may be some changing activities in mlr that will give us credit for the work we do. >> thank you for that. >> in closing, i want to make three poin

. >>> let's bring in legal analyst and defense attorney, deborah blum. deborah, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> thank you. we heard jonathan good say he saw trayvon martin on top of george zimmerman. is that a blow to the prosecution's argument here? >> i don't think it is. three other witnesses testified they saw zimmerman on the bottom. there are varying versions of events here. at the end of the day, it's going to come down to which witness you find credible. >> we have one week of testimony down. what is the biggest remaining challenge for the prosecution? >> i think for the prosecution, their biggest challenge is going to be proving second-degree murder. >> and can they do that? i mean, what's the bar for that? >> they have to show that there was indifference for human life. and that there was evil or malicious intent. and here, i think that they can do that. also, the defense is going to have to show that zimmerman's use of lethal force was justified. and i don't believe, based on the testimony so far, that they can show that. it's going t

lot of legal analysis going on about this case about people that have written about it like edward blumas on miss fisher's legal's team. they believe they are going to have a difficult time to pass justice kennedy's test. there will be move away, unless there is wave of litigation. >> paul: that is not a universal view, they think justice kennedy he is the swing vote on these cases. he missed one of his last opportunities to make a firm, clear declaration on racial preferences. >> are racial preferences constitutional? justice thomas pointed this out. problem here with the baby steps the harm that racial preferences are doing to the intended beneficiary. we have a lot of research showing that it is hurting black graduation rates. instead of going to school, it hurts the number of black scientists and doctors we get because kids are going into fields where it's easier to graduate because of the school system. there is actual harm being done. it's not just about equal protection. the intended beneficiaries of these policies are being damaged by these policies. >> paul: what do you think?

. >> what is blum's very? >> it is an area of london. so forth it is an area in the middle of london close to the museum. and it has 100 years or more of the literary atmosphere to make. i wouldn't say that it has much anymore, but nevertheless, just down the street from me as charles dickens saw' house so the london spirit. >> several of the authors that we have spoken with in london have mentioned charles dickens or have written the biographies of charles dickens. >> this was 20 years ago there hadn't been a good run for ages. >> was a good subject for me in particular because of my interest in the visionary side they are my previous interest. because of my life as a novelist all of the forces came together. they introduced the tone for the echo of the voice into the narrative. when they begin to the biography they might feel by sympathetic magic parts of the period i was describing. there's always been the game in many of the biographers in the section to introduce the passed to the present and past and present embrace. >> has the 20t

there is a lot of legal analysis going on about this case by people that have written about it, edward blumho was on -- fisher's legal team. they think that a lot of these universities are really going to have a difficult time passing justice kennedy's test, there will be a move away, less they face a way of litigation of this course not universal view, though. a lot of people think, well, justice kennedy, 76 years old, swing vote on these cases. she missed -- hit one of the last opportunities to really make a firm clear deck la ration on racial preference. >> racial preferences constitutional. that's the question we immediate decided. justice thomas gets this. pointed this out. the problem here -- with the baby steps is the harm that racial preferences are doing to the intended beneficiaries. we have -- lot of new remember search showing that -- it is hurting black graduation rates and kids sent to school with -- less likely to graduate instead of going school so they can succeed. it hurts the number of black scientists and doctors that we get because kids are going at the field where it i

investigative health reporter in author of born with a junk food deficiency and in new york we cross to josh blum he's director of chemical and pharmaceutical sciences at the american council on science and health all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want david if i go to you first is the western world over pharmac aided if i can use that term. yes it is we're using more and more drugs for conditions that we don't need to read treatments for what we need are our drugs to work well for conditions we do need treatment for and the pharmaceutical industry is less and less able to produce the kind of treatments that we need at the moment for the country though if you and if you hold shares in any of the probably two companies you're doing quite well because they've been making massive profits out of selling treatments that aren't particularly needed to us recently josh how do you respond to that it sounds like it's for the pharmaceutical industry and not for health. mostly disagree. produce. both but keep in mind that i don't represent the pharmaceutical company

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we have a bill in the assemble rightk5ñ fov introduced by assey member blum. rate in california is higher than car accident fatalities. we have nothing in place. >> bill: i agree that prevention, just sávzv no, what nancy reagan did is necessary, but i think you have to punish the poison dealer. >> no. >> bill: she isn't blaming the pusher. >> denise, i'm sorry about your loss, but if you think about it, maybe our children will still be alive today if that drug dealer didn't giveç the drug to our children. yes, it was my son's ian's choice to use drugs, but i wanted to get him off the streets, because i didn't want to see this happen to another family. we can't be a nation of enablers. it perpetuates the disease of addiction. >> bill: it's interesting there's such a sharp disagreement among good people. i have to tell you, ms. cullen, i know people killed by drugs, i know drug dealers, and the drug dealers are evil, in my opinion. >> mr. o'reilly, that's not where we should focus our attention. we should focus onç savings our kids now on better quality educa

it starts back in 1992 when blum, a stock broker living in houston decided to run for congress, a majorityinority district. he won the republican primary and went to run on against the african-american democratic incumbent. he was wall uped and lost by 36 points. he decided to sue the district. >> is there any bitterness on your part for having lost the electi election? >> no, because of course texas is not the only state in which something like this is taking place. >> that case known as bush vvera went all the way to supreme court. he won. the supreme court struck down the two texas districts, one majority black and one majority hispanic and ordered texas redraw their boundaries. and then taking a sledge hammer to predeuce racial equality by considering the race of the people at issue. he was said to feel vindicated. he turned his attention to smaller battles in 1997, and he led a bond effort to kill a houston program pushing for more workplace diversity. >> today houston could become the first city to kill affirmative action, voters will decide. bond under writer says that's wrong. >> w

attorney debra blum says she does, but akirby should says she has no case at all. we called the fayette county school strict and they told us they will not comment on pending litigation to you first. you say she hasn't got a case. throw it out. >> what this woman fails to realize is once you post something on facebook, facebook then has a right to transfer that i.t. content and it's no longer yours. so that's facebook 101, and till clients all the time, be careful what you post because it can be taken by facebook or anyone. >> den bra? >> agree you have to be very careful about what you post. but here i don't think it's about who owned the photo. it's about what the school did with the testimony they made a presentation about what not to do on social media web sites, and they themselves did a, what not to too, which was using their very own student and they insinuated she was promiscuous and drunk. she absolutely has a case against the school. >> she is suing the school. not suing facebook. suing the school, saying, you should -- you don't have the right to lift th

deborah blum, we appreciate your analysis on a saturday morning. >>> now, to california where same-sex couples are not wasting any time getting married. they began exchanging vows almost instantly yesterday after the state's near five-year ban on same-sex marriage was lifted, beginning with the couple at the center of the court fight. abc's ryan owens has the story. >> with this ring, i thee wed. >> reporter: that didn't take long. >> i now declare you spouses for life. >> reporter: just two days after the supreme court cleared the way, california started marrying same-sex couples. the first, who else but the two women who brought the case all the way to the high court. >> it's a great day in san francisco. it's a great day in california. it's a great day in the united states of america. >> reporter: their ceremony at san francisco city hall was officiated by none other than california's attorney general. >> this is a profound day for our country. and it's just the right thing. and justice is finally being served. >> reporter: hours later in los angeles, the other plaintiffs in the sup

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joe blum the bridge builder photographer if i exhibit takes you through the history of the bridge from989 to now. an opening reception is today at 5:30 inside san francisco city hall. the exhibit opens to the public june 24. >>> let's get a look at traffic and weather. we have another warmup. >> we do. just a quick hitter i think with the heat wave. i think for most folks it will be in the valleys. along the coast not as warm. temperatures now in the 50s. clouds out there and even some drizzle into san francisco out toward the coastline. so a little mild as you start out the day today. those temperatures as high as 56 degrees in san jose. 55 in livermore. and 57 degrees in redwood city. i think as we look toward the afternoon we'll find sunshine and warmer day 86 degrees in morgan hill. 79 in cupertino. and about 77 in san jose. 83 in concord today and as high as 86 in pleasanton and livermore. so these temperatures heating up but staying mild as you approach the coastline. 66 degrees in san francisco. and 71 in hayward. should be a lot hotter by tomorrow. we'll talk more about that co

>> if imitation is the best form of flattery than 49er alex blum should be honored.s on line no.rhino. tody the linemen will take part in the naming celebration of a four year-old black rhino at the san francisco zoo. bull is bid under because of his creation of an education program to bring it at risk used to brazil. >> coming up on kron 4 morning news. san francisco submit yard crash. here is the scene and people have been injured. we're also following the latest from the mass of qualifiers that are born in colorado. they are the worst in the state's history. and there have been two deaths associated with this fire. >> back here in the bay area one of our counties may be the healthiest in the country for children. will tell you what, it is when we return in just two minutes. i will also have the latest on your weekend forecast. i will also have the latest on your weekend forecast. so she sees her allergist who has a receptionist susan, who sees that she's due for a mammogram. mary has one that day. that's when she finds out she has a tumor. she has a successful sur

the tracking firm general sentiments says the 23eu8 m is produced by jason blum making par normal activitybox office. now if only universal turns this into ticket sales. heats back. there's a new tv job after getting ousted from hsnbc and current tv for being obnoxious. time warner announced he'll be the studio host for the baseball post season. this move gives hope to obnoxious tv people everywhere, which is why i'm smiling. cheryl: are you saying you're an obnoxious tv personality? den -- dennis: yes. cheryl: buy online from a.m.son or invest because of it? looking to carve says, that's the twitter handle, they tried the delivery service, it's around, but you don't hear about it. dennis: keith says he already uses amazon for coffee and cereal. cheryl: remember web band? den deny that was the cover story on "forbes," and grocery stores are a lethal business. cheryl: there's competition. well, we are -- yeah, i need to use that, just an hour away from the president's announcement of susan rice, national security adviser. i can't wait to hear what lou dobbs says about that. dennis: maybe th

blum? -- ithink cms believes think it is consistent with state insurance commissioners -- that fraud and abuse is part and parcel of what a plan should be doing. it is a cost to run a well- managed program. cms does permit collections to count towards the mlr. we require plans to set up procedures that are part and parcel -- we do allow plans to allow collections towards the benefit side of the mlr. , you have a to-do list for us. there is work to be done on both sides. not just the federal government, not just legislation, not just cms, but a bunch of us. dr. coburn? get you on the record a little firmer. cms supports the modification of part d program to establish a lock in? >> what i can say is that we but no official position, i believe it is time for congress to consider this change. >> semesters not have a position? it is time for the congress to consider it. it is not part of the president's 2014 budget mission, but advocate is time for congress to make the change. >> with your recom

jack blum said that this was not going to be his priority at the present time or not his top priority. some my view of this is twofold, one of which is to my view this as a priority. our industry does because it has debt have certainty. both on the single-family residential side and the multifamily side. and i also am concerned that in the debate, policymakers to have less expertise in mortgage finance broadly will be trapped in writing rules. and so the way we're approaching this today, let's be proactive. let's provide -- let's provide benchmark and rules that they can actually adopted radically that are written by industry experts that can then help design back to the white board scenarios to help avoid sort of a lack of knowledge and basis that we ultimately have to defend against in the legislative proposals. so, i mean, to that end, we are laying out a series of steps. we have laid them out. it will package them together over the next couple of weeks into one overall document law but there are steps that are very common for most of our proposals command will take, for example, h