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america. wayne writes "the bus company needs to thank the driver for protecting the passengers." daniel is also waying in. keep the comments coming. we'll have more. tweet me@deb feyerickcnn. sanjay gupta is right now. >>> americans are addicted to drugs, booze, or prescription medication more than ever before nur on history. it's an epidemic we can on no longer ignore. i'm not going to ignore it. if you are not the one in trouble, you can be sure it's a parent, a brother, sister, a friend, a co-worker. you may have seen the signs, and you are unsure what to do. well, today we're going to help you. this morning an in depth look at addiction. how to get help before it's too late. also, the very latest medicine that science has to offer us. we'll have all that in a second, but, first, news i want to share about the shortage of critically important cancer medicine. as a doctor, you never want to deny your patients any sort of treatment, but last year alone doctors here in the united states had to tell more than a half a million cancer patients that one of those medicine was used to

everybody is looking at this thing bus it's dangling off the side of the bank of america building. this started at 2:30 this afternoon. workers are installing window washing gear on the roof of the building, and this is just one load. they have been raising gear up there but workers told us this is the heaviest piece they brought up, weighing 11,000 pounds and it is danging in -- dangling in the air. >> two spools of wire, weights 11,000 pounds, and the winch snap. at it going to take three and a half hours to get it up and then it will be secure. >> and the danger right now? >> there's no danger. we have everything locked down. >> reporter: there's a two-man crew up there hand-winching this container up the last 50- 50-100 feet. traffic is a mess around the financial district and in chinatown. there are street clues surers ex-keen -- if you don't have any business in this area, police are asking you to please avoid us because traffic is snarled. the police are going to keep the streets closed until that container makes it safely on the roof, and that may be anywhere from three to

. >> one school bus rear-ends another, step topping our news across america. >> ohio, a fire chief westand says the collision happened as one bus was stopped in traffic. here are two kids on the buses. >> i heard a big boom and looked back and saw a bus behind us. and i hit my head on the seat in front of me. >> i heard the brakes slam and then we crashed into the back of the bus. >> shepard: the most serious injuries were a bloody nose and a chipped tooth. iowa. an overnight fire destroyed a barn northeast of des moines. the blaze reportedly killed dozens of calves inside and damaged two other buildings. investigators say they are working on the cause. california, a navy seal night-time jump onto sunset boulevard in los angeles. members of the leap frog, twirled through the air with sparklers on their gear. they all landed safely. the jumps were to promote a new movie. arizona, an air force staff sergeant returning from a 15-month deployment in turkey surprised his kids in phoenix. his daughter was getting a special award in a science program, turned out to be something she had given h

the start of what turned into america's best loved bus ride, for that was the day john herbert gleason was born in brooklyn, new york. after his father left the family behind, young jackie was raised by his mother and grew into a streetwise kid, adept at sharp-edged comedy. in nightclub appearances gleason graduated to bit movie parts. and then to television. where in the early 1950s he hit the big time with the jackie gleason show here on cbs. >> you've just seen the cbs eye. a little bloodshot but you've seen it. >> reporter: every saturday night gleason showed off his cast of self created character including the powell soul, reginald van gleason the third and of course ralph korandon. >> how did you know it was me? >> i could feel the floor sag. >> reporter: the brooklyn bus driver who led a life of noisy desperation with his wife alice played by aud remeadows. >> you're a real riot, alice. >> reporter: in sketches that became the honeymooners. in a "60 minutes" interview with morley safer in 1984, gleason explained ralph korandon's lasting appeal. >> he hasn't got a hell of a lot o

a hand getting out in the days of the milk bottle, the yellow school bus, the seven screens quickly would pick up the life of america in the morning. and then it went to the afternoon, and then new york it would see somebody eating from one of the carts a frankfurter, in chicago a fancy restaurant, then l.a., night evening. >> very creatively done. >> i'm trying to think of the husband and wife team who did that, they were great artists. eames, they created this. we had people from different walks of life and architecture and jack selected a lot of the designers and, jack macy, all came together beautifully. i started to say about the cars. the photographer in the plane flying over, showing the plant, but he didn't realize he got couple thousands cars in the picture and the russians were all pointing to the cars because they were beginning to real eyes that american had cars because there couldn't be that many bosses. >> speaking of bosses let's talk about july 23rd, the day that khrushchev and nixon come to the exhibition. you helped plan that day. >> yep. >> was a debate planned? >> oh, gosh, no. mcclellan and i,

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bus and a sport utility vehicle collide. it is our top story on a fox trip across america. >>> oklahoma. mergency official says crews took ten people on the bus and two from the suv to a hospital. authorities say witnesses claim that suv's driver may have run a red light. >>> california. a pet store in sacramento released this security video from valentine's day. store owners say a pair of robbers made off with a baby python. >> they are out in the open but they were focused on the snake and not the cameras. >> he says the animal was worth nearly 500 bucks. >>> georgia. no crying kids allowed inside this family restaurant in atlanta. that is the new policy according to a co-owner. he says noise wasn't the only problem. >> we had a child hit a customer in the head with a toy that it was not that customer's child. >> they are asking parents to take crying tots outside. >>> texas. a 100-year-old man still pumping iron at a gym in dallas. he says he works out at least twice a week but that is not all. >> i still go dancing on saturday night. i'm going a big dance. >> his wife of 68 years clai

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bu it is, then i accept the moniker with pride. i'm still conservative and a pragmatist and populist, but i'm an optimist, but i believe that you can get things done in america, and you can get things done in the senate, and if you have to moderate the position some. i mean, tom and i used to do that. there were times when we were actually saying to each other in effect, look we got the votes, and we are going to whip you, but is there something to do to modulate this to easier go down with you and your team or me and my time and we did it for each other. one time john mccain was blocking a bill that involved tom in south dakota. and i had to track him down and i finally got him in phoenix airport and i said, john, this is tom daschle's bill. this is really important to tom, and you can't do that to the democratic leader, and he said, okay. we got it done. tom was my friend from then on. [ laughter ] >>@hat is where it all started. >> we have a question right here at that microphone if you could identify yourself. >> alex fultonith the "hill" newspaper. i wanted to get your thoughts on president obrecent recess appointments of richard cordray and the others

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to dismantle health care reform to score cheap political points and throw america's mothers, daughters and sisters under the bus in the process. this amendment is not about religious freedom. the president rightly addressed that concern with a recent compromise he announced for religious institutions. no, it's about allowing morality-based medicine to deny coverage for neonatal care for unwed women. to deny access to life-saving vaccines for children. to refuse to cover medications for hiv-aids and other sexually transmitted diseases or even deny coverage for diabetes or hypertension because of an ethical objection to an unhealthy lifestyle. the scope s unlimited. if it were truly about religious freedom or about contraceptives, then why have so many nationally respected organizations that have nothing to do with birth control, reproductive issues or religion such as the easter seals, the march of dimes, the spina bifida association, come out in such strong opposition? the answer is simple. because the amendment isn't about birth control and it isn't about religious freedom. the amendment is about fundamentally

i'm a democrat but i'd vote for million in a minute bus he wants to legalize and tax things like we did with booze. if you don't understand, americathis is a replay of alcohol prohibition, you're a stupid hypocrite. >> host: got your point. let me ask you this. is this a less expensive prisoner -- is there degrees of expense when it comes to the crime that they're in for and the age of the prisoner and the gender of the prisoner? >> guest: you know, once you're in prison, -- again, if you have high levels of, let's say, drug use and enemy health issues, the expense will be higher because it costs money to deal with those problems. once people are in prison, those institutions are responsible for all your needes, and the sicker you are, for instance, the more you'll cost. but everyone is more expensive. everyone is expensive when they get into prison. some are more expensive than others. i think your caller's point, though -- there were a number of them but one of them is that it is true that the number of drug users in prison -- drug possessors or low-level dealers -- have increased dramatically, probably by 4 or 5 up thousand peo

america, i'm told, mr. president, that school busses stop when it gets to the bridge, have the kids walk across the bridge, bus comes across without the kids because they are afraid the bridge would collapse. our public transportation system can't keep up with the pace of growing ridership. nine out of ten americans say rebuilding the crumbling roads and bridges is important, 90%. we agree. democrats agree. modernizing the transit system, rebuilding the roads, american families and businesses depend on will help fuel our economy. this legislation's now before the senate is too important to be bogged down with underrated ideological amendments. senate republicans should not have this bill diverted by my republican friends to try to take away women's access to health care such as contraception that we've been dealing with in the last week, mammograms, and other cancer screenings, and then, mr. president, late last night we're told that one of the republican senators wants the issue -- offer an amendment dealing with something totally unrelated to this, dealing with the country of egypt. now, a debate on egypt ma

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note in "america alone" that the birth -- one of the most popular boys names in europe in several areas of europe is mohammed. >> yeah. that one where people say, it doesn't -- that's just bus it has a perk significance in the muslim world. and they go, you can only get by eding mow mad me with an o and a u and a mm and one m. but in point of fact it is a significant marker. cultural demographic transformation is always the most interesting because who human capital is the best indicator of where that society is headed, and generally speaking, while we tell ourselves certain fluffy and reassuring stories about demographic transformation, it doesn't always work out well. sometimes it works out to messily in relatively benign way. if you take northern ireland, which is a place i know well. that's the -- the fact that the fractiousness between what catholics regard as a native population and an imposed protestant population linger hundred office years after. you look at fiji where the british brought in indians, an indian population to be the civil service and mercantile class. fiji has decayed in a bicultural ruin. so demographic transformation is the most fascinating element

america, enough pedestrians are killed to fill a jumbo jet. many of these deaths could have been prevented by proper sidewalks and crosswalks. bustrain ridership grows every year while public transportation dollars shrink every year, and one of every five miles of american roads, not up to safety standards. so, mr. president, we have 70,000 bridges that are structurally deficient, and we have 20% of our roads not up to safety standards. the crumbling infrastructure is a terrible drag on our economy, but this crisis is also an opportunity. by rebuilding our transportation system, we can put two million americans back to work and boost our economy right away. the surface transportation bill that's on the floor now this week is one of the most important pieces of legislation we'll consider the entire year. we'll help modernize our transit system, help rebuild america's roads and bridges and create or save millions of american middle-class jobs and will do it in a fiscally responsible way. democrats and republicans agree that making america's transportation system great again will bolster our economy, and that's certainly what this

america. rotor, mcdonald and smith. it was that lawsuit that they won, they made headway, they didn't make the lasting headlines, but they made the difference in the montgomery bus boycott. and of course we always talk about dr. king and we should because he paid the ultimate price, he made the ultimate sacrifice. but we should not forget that before dr. king marched from selma to montgomery there were others who set out to march from selma to montgomery. and they did not make it across -- well, they made it across the bridge, but that was where they met strong resistance from officers who had clubs and they resisted the marchers, they didn't resist them, they actually took them on and they beat them all the way back to the church where they started. i enjoy hearing john lewis tell the story, not because of the suffering but because he tells it in such a way as to cause me to have some degree of appreciation for what they went through on bloody sunday. and how they paid a price. there were many people there on bloody sunday. the honorable john lewis was among them. they made headway, they med headlines. but their names have not been mentioned and these are the p