and so, ryan owens went to cleburne to find out why. >> reporter: cleburne is a sleepy texas town.der the blazing july sun, it's usually dead asleep. not this summer. >> i think we just had another earthquake out here. >> i know this is going to sound crazy. >> we just had an earthquake here. >> am i paranoid or did we just have another birth quake. >> i believe we did. >> reporter: she's not paranoid. this town has been shaking for more than a month. >> i realized i had experienced a moment of history. >> reporter: the earthquakes have all been small, magnitude 2.8 or less. >> wasn't enough to get me up off the couch. >> reporter: bit it did get seismologists moving. researchers have set up five seismic sensors around the town. they sense the slightest shift. >> going to do the east-west. >> reporter: so far, they've caught plenty of shaking, but no answers. >> reporter: do you have a gut instinct on what this is? >> nope. i have no idea. we're going to find out. >> reporter: people who live in this town aren't waiting for the experts. they're pretty sure they know what causes thi

. >> reporter: cleburn ye is a sleepy texas town. the blazing sun it's usually dead asleep. >> allyburn 91 . >> not this summer. >> it seemed like an earthquake here. >> it may seem crazy but was there an earthquake here? >> i believe so. >> reporter: this community south of dallas has been shaking for more than a month >> the bed just moved right and left and then all of a sudden the calf jumped and got out of bed immediately. i realized i had experienced a moment of history. >> reporter: the earthquakes have been small, magnitude 2.8 or less. >> wasn't enough to get me up off the couch. >> reporter: but did get seismologists moving. researchers set up five seismic sensors around the town. they accepts the slightest shift. >> we're going to do the east/west. >> reporter: so far they've caught plenty of shaking with -- but no answers. do you have a gut instinct on what this is? >> i have no idea. we're going to find out. srks people who live in this town aren't exactly awaiting the experts. they are pretty sure they know the answer t

joining me now is congressman jim cleburne, he's the majority whip in the house. congressman, i'm on this one tonight. if the president were to say i think the congress should stay in session until we get health care and forget this recess or vacation, august, whatever you want to call it, would you go along with the president on that? >> absolutely. we've already said that, ed. nancy pelosi made it very clear that we will be here until we get this done. in fact, as you know, the senate is already scheduled to be here a week later than the house. in anticipation of the fact that we'll do something in the house first, send it over to them, they'll have another week to work on it. as you know, whatever we do, house and senate, we still will have to come to conference together to try to work out the differences. at that point, i'm sure that the white house will get involved in this process as well. so that -- the president's made this clear -- so that by the time that we get finished with this, september 30th, we will have a bill in place. >> so nobody's going home u

. >> that story is out of cleburne, texas, not far from dallas. there and i'm afraid too back. >> are the nairs worried about? >> i don't know.w. i got to call mom and dad. i'll let you know. >> i'm jeremy hubbard. >> i'm vinita nair. president obama took to the airwaves to convince americans health care reform is the cure for what is ailinghe u.s. >> his goal he said was to dispel the charges andnd criticisms and to tell people directly what's in it for them. viviana hurtado has the details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the president takes his pitch for health care reform to ohio later today but last night the president used the spotlight to make his case to the public. speaking to americans in primetime, president obama argued that the economic well being of the country depends on health care reform. >> but i think that's a good thing. because ultimately we can't afford this. we just can't afford what we're doing right now. >> reporter: the president laid out some of his plan's details. for those with insurance, he promised more stab

house majority whip james cleburne will be joining me to talk about that and a number of other thingsonight. >>> president obama has been in office six months now. we're hearing a lot of folks say, what kind of job is he doing? well, we'll get the report card out tonight. let's see, we've got the stimulus. we got the budget. we got a 59% approval rating for the president. everything as going good. we'll get reaction from katrina vanden half tonight. >>> i hope the blue dog democrats heard that approval rating of 59%. some of them are considering standing with republicans on health care nerve standing with the president. i'm a little confused about that. i'm putting one of those moderate democrats on the hot seat tonight in my "playbook." plus "psycho talk." a great upon nel coming up. get your cell phones out. we're going to be asking you for your opinion on whether the congress should be taking a vacation in the midst of all of this? >>> first, tonight's "op ed." you know, you go to the beach in august. it's absolutely fantastic. it's just great time of the year. but you know what? t