kimberly, back to you. >>> thank you, cluck. the district is known f its spectacular fourth of july fireworks display. but some are concerned now about fireworks popping off where they shouldn't be. jackie benn h the story. >> reporter: on july 4th, residents of northeast washington saw the sky light up with what looked like real fireworks. like the kind used on the national mall. dozens and dozens of them launched from back yards and alleyways. >> it actually looked like we were on the mall for the fireworks display. the rockets shooting up in the air. and it was really dangerous. >> reporter: d.c. police evacuated homes near the intersection of 49th and meep streets northeast, after a u.s. postal service mail box exploded just before 10:00 p.m., sending dangerous shrapnel flying. >> it's scary. i thought my house was on fire. i was scared. >> investigatorstoater determined the blast was caused by a professional-grade fireworks shell. just prior to independence day, d.c. mayor adrian fenty, joined by the fire chief renewed a ca

. >> the environmental problem grew feathers and started clucking around the political arena, and instead choosing the path of least resistance, which it's much easier to create corporate bad guys and just paint them as the problem and focus on low-hanging fruit. institutionally, all movements go through a formative early phase with ideology and promoters who helped bring about the original concepts such as earth day. institutions are then formed or created over time, which settle into a goal of self-perpetuation. self-perpetuation becomes the goal, and the professional staff then start leading institutions down this path of least resistance. >> walter lippman did a wonderful book called "public opinion" in 1922 and lippman distinguished between news and truth. and his just about exact words were, the function of news is to signalize an event whereas the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts and set them in relation to each other, and to create a picture upon which people can act. i think we just all have to keep in mind the news we're reading, there's a lot of truth tha

can we achieve that without what cluck is talking about? nation building. do not personally think we can modernize afghanistan. there are historical political, cultural, economic forces that are massive in that country, and we can't turn them around. one of the great questions of american foreign policy is always sustainability. we get excited about a place, we are willing to put billions of dollars into it in the short-term, but you cannot solve afghanistan's problems in the short-term. all of the experts are telling us decades, so the question, chuck, is, are your colleagues and mine willing to put billions and billions and billions of dollars over not a year or two or three, but decades into afghanistan? >> to protect the core interests. >> do you feel like the white house has clear object it was here? richard holbrook was in a forum this week and somebody asked him what success is and when he said well we will know it when we see it? >> i don't think that is a particularly reassuring answer, but i think that is indicative, though, to this foggy, vaporou

we had to clucks klan folks and white supremacists, people in -- kuklu klux klan folks and white supremacists>> how many say these comments are justified? yes or no? who says they're not justified? a lot of obama people are saying it is not justified. tell me why, barbara. >> it is such drama. it is like watching a shakespearean drama. it is funny. >> why isn't it justified? >> a few people go and yell at these town hall meetings, that is not representative of the whole democratic party. sean: how many of you saw what i saw at these town halls, though? elderly, veterans are concerned. >> they are getting their information from fox news. misinformation. sean: they are getting the truth from fox news. >> they're listening to rush limbaugh. >> i got an e-mail the other day that had 30 different. about the health care plan and why you should not support. i looked up every single one. every single one was true. it was in the bill the way it was written. the stuff that is being put out there is right on the mark so far. sean: president obama said it will not cost us anything, but the cbo said it wi

obama, any cultural manipulation cluck? >> i do not think he has reinvented who he is to the extent that keri tried to and bush did, but this is a master of the media that we have now. mccain, one of the spreadsheet -- refreshing things about the game is that he was impervious to packaging. they tried to get him to do separate teams caught -- they tried to get in to do set routines. there are some people who cannot be slick. i simply add my europe. they are too old or stubborn. i think that is refreshing. >> have you ever met president obama or senator mccain? >> i have met them both. i met them both basically as a journalist. i was in a group of columnists that obama talk to just before he was inaugurated. and i talk to mccain when he did not get the endorsement during the democratic -- i talked to obama when he did not get the endorsement during the democratic campaign. i talk to the king during a republican convention in new york. -- i talked to mccain during a republican convention in new york. i think it was in 1994. h

retail sales are clucking out. this, despite the old clunkers program. my next guest says only huge bargains are going to get people's shopping. in retail expert joins us now. what is weird is we thought that would be a big boost to retail sales. what happened? >> you would think it would be a big retail goods, but it was not. right now, retailers are in a panic, and just like cash for clunkers, retailers are going to start severely discounting their merchandise. neil: if big clunker rebates and all did not do it -- and to be fair, that was the last week in july, so we might see something in august -- are americans actually precondition to a substantial sales or they do not come out of their homes? >> that is a really good point you make. i do think americans are precondition, especially since we have been seeing those sales in september of last year. you're going to see a lot of consumers watching those discounts on clothing, on home goods, things like milk, and retailers now, not only are they discounting items, but they are doing incentives for the co

help you get through the summer scorcher today on the air and onliefnl just go to myfoxdc.com and cluck on the weather tab. we put some tips on there as well. >>> another big story we are watching, a wave of overnight violence in iraq and the death toll is continuing to go up. coming up next, latest on a string of bombings. >> tempers flare at a meeting on health care. >> how dare you claim that i'm part of a conspiracy? >> find out why things got so ugly at this town hall meeting. you are watch is fox 5 morning news. when you take a bigger, thicker slice of the best potatoes, people notice. introducing alexia crunchy snks. a giant ap for snack kind. for just nine dollars, danskin now and starteter. ♪ lect eyeglass frames are - and they have a 12-month guarantee. ♪ juniors tops fr op are $9 too. and you n get them the schoolupplies they need to start the year for just $9 total. nine dollars. considering what you get... that's a really greapre. back to school costs less at walmart. save money. live better. walrt. the ft plas love could be me to thousands ofacteria. but, lysol disinfectan

are talking about this subject because i wanted to play jeb hencer okay ling, talk about cash for cluckhough i like the line and mara, what should we make of the program, gives rebates to people to sell their cars for fuel efficient new ones and it is a very -- remarkably effective stimulus, 250,000 cars sold in the first week or maky of it the government so gross l underestimated how long the billion dollars would last. >> this second is true and they had to add another billion dollars because it is popular. >> chris: 2 billion. >> 2 billion, because it was so popular and look, i think jeb henserling said, a keenzian point and it was dig holes and fill 'em up again and anything to get the stimulus going and i don't think it is doing much for the fuel economy standards of the xhern car fleet. >> chris: it is getting people into dealerships. >> it is and spending money and that in itself is fine and it is a tiny, tiny drop in the bucket of the stimulus program i don't think the harm it does is very great. now, would it be better to give people more rebates and payroll tax rebates or exte

. >> the pittsburgh area health cluck shootings were buried this weekend. there is a link between this shooting and the one at virginia tech. here's eric horne >> reporter: in this newly released videotape, the runner is used to seeing gunning. it's not the first time the retailer has been looked it a northern illinois university. >> there is a certain immediacy to it. it's a process that we would expect to appeal to loaners who want to minimize interaction with other human beings and the gun purchasing process. >> it's hard to know how many guns are brought online. though tg this.^some's owner said the company being shold at virginia tech. >> he's getting a reputation that this might be cool weapon in the internet. but access right like these, similar to the ones bought online to the pittsburgh shooter, are died directly on line to the bower. >> new argument in an old debate that is now sur sho grow broader. ashz you, f. >> here's a look at your monday forecast: hale, hower fl winds, flash looding and loan, from philly to d.c. >> it will foal like triple d

do i want health care reform clucks of course i do. -- do i want health care reform? of course i do. let's go over to the senate. senator kennedy's health education labor and pension committee. they have the bill i love. i love it. but it is very expensive. let's talk about the finance committee. those six senators must just love each other, because the meat and meat and they do not tell us what they're doing. that is why i cannot endorse a bill, and that is what the congressman cannot endorse a bill because we do not know what the bill is going to look like. remember, the house bill that is voted on the floor and the senate bill, then it goes to conference. i remember in 2003 when we had the medicare modernization act where we had pardet d, that came out of conference and i did not recognize the bill. a totally changed. that is why we're holding off. in my organization, for the last 25 years we have been protecting medicare and fighting against medicare cuts. we're certainly not want to stop now. -- not ogingoing to stop now. i promise you if we do not do health care

or e-mail us at cnn.com/hln and cluck under "your views." >>> take a look at these pictures as thousandsf people lined the streets of jacksonville, florida, today to pay tribute to the first casualty of the 1991 gulf war. we're talking of course about navy pilot michael scott speicher. he was buried finally this morning 18 years after he was shot down over iraq. his remains were found last month buried in central iraq. today's funeral procession included a stop at a war veteran's moment and the jacksonville sheriff's office fired a 21-gun salute. >>> friends and family are remembering eunice kennedy shriver. her daughter and son-in-law arnold schwarzenegger were two of the family members who obviously there are carrying the casket into the church. vips oprah winfrey, john bon vo vo and vice president joe biden all among the invited guests. ted kennedy wasn't there. he's still fighting brain cancer. she died tuesday at 88. >>> want to take you to california where fire officials say two structures have been damaged by this large wildfire burning in the santa cruz mountains but they don't k

clucks the president put in place a strategy by which we would disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaedalaid out as a policy earlier this year to put more troops on the ground, put in new strategy in place, as you know, general mcchrystal has only been there a short time and he has made an assessment of the progress that we have made and what else we need to do to continue to make progress. i think we are going to hold off and not prejudged and predetermine on the reports coming out of the region. >> on the investigation of abuse of interrogations', you have referred us to the justice department. are you suggesting that the president will accept whatever recommendation the attorney general comes up with? , not just suggesting that. i did the president believes that is in his hands. >> is the white house now communicating with each -- with the justice department on that? has the president himself had any communications? >> wende president appointed attorney general holder to the job he wanted him to be independent and the department of justice to be independent europe has great faith in a