bob fagan is a city manager in state of iowa. he is somebody ho has had health insurance for many years but his health coverage has treated him in a way where it was just paying for reimbursement. not looking at the whole person, doctor by doctor, problem by problem. bob fagan went to his doctor to get a health risk assessment. the city he was working for in northwest iowa was requiring it as part of their premium package. he goes and he has a test done and his doc says your blood level is a little off. so we're going to do some more tests. well, his kidneys were functioning at 1/3 of their capacity. he is on medication for type 2 diabetes. he is on medication for heart problems. he is on medication for cholesterol. his kidneys, what killed his father, were functioning at 1/3 of their capacity. the very next day, he went home and he started walking. around the same time, we were instituting a project in the state of iowa called the healthiest state initiative. we were -- we started looking at the problem, well, how do we make iow

bob fagan went to his doctor to get a health risk assessment. the city he was working for in northwest iowa was requiring it as part of their premium package. he goes and he has a test done and his doc says your blood level is a little off. so we're going to do some more tests. well, his kidneys were functioning at 1/3 of their capacity. he is on medication for type 2 diabetes. he is on medication for heart problems. he is on medication for cholesterol. his kid niss, what killed his -- kidneys, what killed his father, were functioning at 1/3 of their capacity. the very next day, he went home and he started walking. around the same time, we were instituting the healthiest state initiative. we were -- we started looking at the problem, well, how do we make iowa healthier? we said you know what? government is not the answer. i worked for the governor, terry branstad. a long serving governor who never ever is going to go for a ban on big gulps. not happening. iowa is the purplest of states but that is not going to happen. how do we engage iowans in

fagan. let's get a quick check of highway the markets are closing. stocks cutting losses toward the end triggered by worries over how long the government shutdown could last. bob, the marketses shrugged this off yesterday. what happened today? >> down three of the last four sessions. put up the dow jones industrial average. it started a lot worse. we had a poor private sector report, private sector jobs report from the adp. then talk overnight this shutdown could last two weeks into the debt ceiling negotiations. that's not priced into the market. you see the dow down earlier on. we started turning around when the president announced later on he was going to meet with congressional representatives and also a letter from senator reid to speaker boehner offering to have discussions on budget cuts if they reopened the government. now, at least can you have a negotiation on budget cuts. be tough other just getting rid of obama care. that's why the market lifted in the middle of the day. the major indices, all to the downside, fractionally what's going on, and you see what's weighing on stocks today. back to you. >> thank you very much. >> president obama telling j