that is what we are facing, not just in self dakota, but nationwide. americans do not want to lose their high-quality health care and they do not want to pay trillions of dollars for a government takeover of health care that could lead to the same denial, delayed, and rationing of treatment we have seen in other countries that of gone down this path. republicans think there is a better way. we put forth proposals that will cut costs and improve care. we can accomplish healthcare reform while keeping patients at and their doctors in charge, not bureaucrats and politicians. real reform should allow small businesses to pull together to buy affordable health insurance for their employees. real reform should protect doctors and hospitals from frivolous lawsuits so they can stop practicing defensive medicine and instead focus on practicing patient focused medicine. real reform should encourage wellness and prevention programs that have been proven to cut costs. real reform should give people who buy their own insurance the same tax breaks as those to get ins

you talked about south dakota. you keep going back to south dakota. something must have tuck in your mind. >> yeah. that's actually how much water there is and how good of yield potential they have up there. the other thing, the real surprise for me, is the fact that the nebraska crop, the dry land corn crop just knocked the ball out of the park for the second year in a row. it's just -- it's unbelievable that they have done that. it is not unusual to go through southeast nebraska, look at some dry land corn, come out of there with a 50, 60-bushel yield. >> on dry land corn. >> dry land corn. i look at that and say "you know what, this year that's not too bad, that's a good yield on that." this year the best dry land field that i had in nebraska was in the miami aha river valley and it was 200.9 bushels per air, 200-bushel try land corn in nebraska. it was just absolutely astounding. i don't think i got down to -- i got down to 100-bushel but there's years when dry land corn, that's the best yield that you will find in nebraska on dry land corn. the -

senators roland burris of illinois, kent conrad of north dakota and chris dodd of connecticut and new jersey's robert menendez. house members being investigated include john murtha of pennsylvania, linda and loretta safn chez of california and charles rangel of new york. the politico reports that rangel has now spent more than $1 million in his defense. the u.s. commission on civil rights is demanding an explanation from the justice department about its dismissal of a civil complaint against three members of the new black panther party accused of intimidating voters last november in philadelphia. commission chairman scwerld reynolds tells the washington times, quote, if you swap out the new black panther party in this case for neonazi groups or the chu klu klux klan you likely would have a different outcome. the only charge that stood was a weapons complaint against the leader. the justice department says the evidence did not support the case. the times reported last month

the north dakota governor joins me on the phone. working through this. there is a novel concept -- cutting taxes. why? >> good to be with you. it is about building the best business model that we can, and that is more important now than ever with the international recession we are going through, so we have not only income taxes, but also property tax. again, we are very aggressive. neil: does that aggression apply to cutting state spending? because that was a concern. some thought that maybe something would have to do. what have you done? >> we have grown our economy. we continue to fund parties like education, health care, but at the same time, we took action. that is what economics is about. it is about growing the pie and making sure you return some two taxpayers [inaudible] neil: you know what the president and leading democrats have been saying, that north dakota is not a washington. that north dakota is not a big, highly populous state, so what is working for you there is not going to work nationally. certainly, in bigger more

in one example, an elderly south dakota couple wrote to arnold as chief judge, concerning their sons imprisonment. they did not have a lawyer and did not know how to raise their sons claims before a federal court. arnold brought back patiently explaining the process and i would like to read a short excerpt from that letter. i have reddick considered your letter. as understand your claim is that your son was convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison term as a result of the illegal acts of south dakota police and prosecutors. further, he claimed the south dakota supreme court has the early misrepresented the law and addressing your son's challenge to his conviction and sentence. i have no authority to investigate state officials or to review the merits of the south dakota supreme court's decisions. the proper remedy, when searson has exhausted his avenues of appeal in state court system, is to file habeas petition in federal court. i hope this information will be of assistance to you. few judges would go to such lengths to inform a member of the public of the complicated processes of h

mount rushmore is one of the main attractions of being in south dakota and it is really something.ch of the heads is 60 feet tall and you can go up to the artists studio and see the tools he worked with. >> that must be interesting. >> if you think that is interesting wait until you go to the crazy horse memorial. the la quota sioux indians decided they wanted their own memorial chief crazy horse. they are working on what will be the world's largest sculpture. it will dwarf mt. rushmore. it is twice the size of the faces on mount rushmore and then doing the entire horse. >> now that will be something to see. >> it is being carved by the family of one of the assistants that carved mt. rushmore. an assist tan and ten of children have been working on this for 20 years. >> it is getting, it is attracting me. >> and moonscape full of bones and prehistoric animals and they have wooly mammoth carcasses and what not. >>> what about maine, if you don't want to go west and you want to go east. >> maine the beautiful coast and coastal cities and beautiful islands. we have a picture of puffens

consider north dakota one big chunk of prozac. you get out there so i like all. it just happened i was lucky. my sister was asthmatic when i was a child. we live in chicago. the doctors told my. you're going to lose her. so the old man had retired, you know, civil servant. pau gasol up verizon to save his daughter. so i got there and found the place i belong, the desert. never heard of it. i thought everyplace was trees in illinois. so i scored. this must be proof of intelligent design. >> you say the second book -- >> the second one is coming out in the fall 2008. i spent seven years on it. it's got 114 photographs by the mexican photographer, that is called exodus and it is about the migration. it's about the migration in mexico. is about crossing the line illegally and it's about the dire of the mexican people in the united states. >> so it is people pictures. >> yeah, the third lawyer i am just starting. this is one of my jazz lounges where i rest from the cruelty of the world. and that one will be about power, and then i will retire, sit on a rock and know e

numbers and found several states lowering taxes this career, arizona, arkansas, idaho, maine, north dakota, texas and they all have a lower jobless rate than the national average of 9.4%. rich, is it time to follow their lead? >> absolutely. the beg problem in this recession is high unemployment and the unemployment unfortunately might get worse. traditionally it is small businesses that come in and create the majority of new jobs after a recession. small businesses on the sidelines this time. people forget most people who run small businesses do not have corporations. they are taxed at the rate of personal income. so the more you lower income tax rates the more small businesses feel empowered and confident to go out and expand and create new jobs. david: neevepl, it is small businesses of the nation are the spine of the economy. they do most of the hiring. don't they deserve a tax cut? >> unfortunately the free marketers may not like it but at this point we can't afford that. there are two sectors creating jobs, government and healthcare. both rely on taxes. in addition, what we are talki

a little more than 8% of south dakota's unemployment. more than 90% on the reservation.want you to listen as we meet a man and a people who say they don't need much, but often feel forgotten. the august sun is scorching. herbert hale is busy pulling weeds, carefully. >> have to be careful. sometimes there's snakes, rattlesnakes. nothing to mess around with. have a pulling pile, let them dry, put them in a box, crumble them up. start a fire. >> reporter: start a fire in here -- it's one-room cabin on the western south dakota hillsid hillside. >> that place is rotting right. there i have to put a new one in there. it leaks. >> reporter: no running water no electricity. a steel cot and a rusting wood-burning stove, all the comforts herbert hale says he needs. >> all i need is logs, glue, dirt and water, put it together, then cement, chicken string. as long as the windows don't break, it will be nice and warm. >> reporter: herbert is 54 years old, an army vietnam combat veteran and part of two stunning statistics on the cheyenne river reservation. unemployment runs above 80%

. >> south dakota's badlands national park is a gold mine of history. in this case the gold is a vast array of fossils. >> a fossil is a trace of the past. a fossil is not necessarily a bone. fossilization is a process by which bone turns into rock. some fossils do still have an original element of bone in them. but most fossils that are older have already turned to rock. >> ellen is heading up a team of paleontologists at what's called the "pig dig." this is the fossil of an archaeocerium, a giant pig that lived 33 million years ago. what is a paleontologist? >> a paleontologist is someone who studies life of the past, not people, but animals and traces of them. so, if you'd like to take a walk over to our pit, i'll show you what we do. >> sure. >> as you can see danny here is working on the spine of an archaeocerium. archaeocerium is the same animal that we had up there when we were looking that the mount skeleton. this is the big pig. you can see what she's working with. she has very delicate tools. she's got a scribe. she's got brushes. the fossils

dakota, stretching on into montana.ry threat from these thunderstorms going to be large hail, damaging winds, tornados a much smaller threat. but showers and thunderstorms getting way toward sturgisan bay to lake michigan. and very strong winds and quite a bit of lightning associated with these showers and thunderstorms. meanwhile, strong thornls back across parts of north dakota. so if you live over near the devils lake area, guess what, a lot of lightning and possibly very large hail coming out of this cell right now that we're looking at right there. we're continuing to watch showers and thunderstorms or showers back across the pacific northeast, the seattle area. and most of these back up into the mountains. i think from seattle from today into the weekend looks relatively dry. robin? >> good. thank you. >>> you know, you're going to need to check your kids' toy collection, because a toy recaller is recalling a million toys. >>> and a journalist finally landed an interview with president obama. and his questions wer

i said, i grew up in south dakota.f pheasant season everybody shoots at anything that's moving. >> reporter: the inference is that you shot at somebody here. >> which is totally untrue. >> reporter: did you say that because you were drinking? >> i don't know, i don't remember the interview. >> reporter: were you bragging? >> probably. >> you do what you had to do. if you had to shoot somebody, you had to shoot somebody. >> reporter: we happened to run into nathan roper in an algiers point barn. >> i don't think i shot anyone. >> reporter: i don't think they said you shot anyone. you said if you had to, you'd do it. >> if i had to. they were green, yellow, black, white, if they were on my property causing harm to my property. food, i gave plenty of food away to people that walked -- >> reporter: you would have shot someone who came on your property? >> if they were coming to harm me, absolutely. >> reporter: that didn't happen? >> no, that didn't happen. >> reporter: vinnie perrell who wasn't in the danish documentary,

it covered much of north dakota and neighboring states. the group says the spring bheeld wheat yield average this year is about 46.2 bushels an acre up 8 1/2 bushels from last year. the big concern is getting a late maturing crop to finish line. national biodiesel board is trying to make it easeiier for the nation's over the road truckers to fill up with renewable fuel often made with soybeans. this week, they got a 50 cent a gallon discount at the truck stop near romeo, illinois. that location is the latest location to join a network of truck stops on the biotrucker program. >> it's a web site that the national biodiesel board has created to outreach and educate truckers about biodiesel. the main component is the map where truckers can click on the state, find biodiesel, plan their route around buying biodiesel. >> bellsays the biotrucker fuel card allows truckers and fleets to pay cash price on all fuel with no transaction fee at participating truck stops. >>> according to the national biodiesel board, that would be a savings as much as

a lot of people travel thousands of miles to get to sturgis, south dakota. this in any way. it's god's country. it's so beautiful here. in every possible way i'm honored to be here. toby keith is playing later tonight. it's a great party. peter: have you been to the badlands? it's the closest thing to being in outer space? >> it's just gorgeous. it's so much more beautiful than i thought. i think everyone should come visit south dakota at some point. it's such a gorgeous state. i flew in from manhattan. my god, it's gorgeous. gretchen: before you know it, the department of tourism in south dakota is going to be calling you. in fact, i hear your cell phone ringing right now, to be their next spokesperson. you have a book upcoming. you right for the daily beast. i can only imagine how hot this book will be. meghan mccain, have so much fun out there. >> thank you so much. gretchen: and hopefully you'll show the riding video. steve: what is that great big buffalo chip sign? what is that talking about behind you? >> buffalo chip is basically the campground where

one of the things we have done in north dakota is developed a policy in north dakota. that enables companies to move forward and make the investments and hundreds of millions of dollars investments in new plans and new technologies am we need that approach at the federal level so instead of freezing the investments on the sideline, companies can get out and deploy the technologies and make these investments in producing more energy domestically. one other thing stuck out. there were lots of things like that that sparked curiosity. when we talked about employment, you have the second biggest kauchls for microsoft in fargo. >> we do. >> we keep seeing in the market the surge in tech stocks on the ground. does that hold out? >> microsoft and fargo is a large operation and about 1700 people have been ex-panning and added a third building to their campus and added to their employment. that slowed things down and helped them to build that good business climate and workforce training and things that go into helping them expand and grow. they have to compete nationally and int

if you are in north dakota or south dakota, those are relatively small states, and the market is relatively constricted. if you can be locked into a market, and if you are in north dakota, and you could buy your insurance from a wizard in maryland. you do not have to buy insurance from somebody within your borders -- from a lizard in maryland. greta: it will harm elderly people, some provocative and scary things. in what way does this health- care reform as we know it, does it have a direct impact on the elderly, or not? >> i think it will. it will have an impact on everybody. we will see a system that poses an invasion and the ability to create new techniques and drugs that extend life and provide a greater quality of life. we will see it be less attractive for investment in health care, whether a hospital or an extended-care facility. look. the government will set prices. it does it in medicare. in medicare, a doctor get 81% of what the private insurer would pay for that same operation under medicare. hospitals get an average of 71 cents for each activity they take, compared to what they

. >>> rocker steven tyler hoitaliz after performing during a concert in south dakota when he fell offtage. tyler was advised by medical personnel backstage to go to the hospital. no word on his condition this morning. >>> she served more than 40 years behind bars. the charles man son follower convicted of trying to assassinate gerald ford set to be released this month. secret service agents grabbed lynnette fromme before she could get off a shot. >>> the fbi has released surveillance video that led to the conviction of a former u.s. congress. it shows william jefferson taking $90,000 from an fbi informant that. cash later discovered in his freezer. he has been convicted on 11 counts. the crimes stem from business dealings in africa. the 6 #-year-old democrat now faces more than 20 years in prison. >>> coming up next, it was a day their families weren't sure they would ever see. >>> two men journalists sentenced to time in a north korean labor camp now enjoying their first full day back at home. more from their emotional return to u.s. soil. gecko: uh, you wanted to see me sir? boss: c

higher than in north dakota than south dakota. that's nuts. a national market would insure more competition, lower prices, better product. bill: then there are the insurance companies that hose people. i have been hosed myself because i buy my own insurance. ok? i think the government has to regulate those kinds of things. do you disagree with that? >> i don't. but we have got to be careful about it, how much regulation we have. i'm particularly concerned. i don't have a good answer for, this but the idea of preexisting conditions. of requiring companies to accept preexisting conditions. i worry about this a little bit from both perspectives. bill: here is what i would do. i wouldn't liar private companies to insure anybody u because that's not capitalism. i would set up a government health insurance agency that would do that. see, you can set it up whereby if you want, if you have a preexisting condition, the government should help you out a little bit, ok? that's where the government can go. so, anyway. >> go ahead. they there are ways to ge

this was at the sturgis motorcycle rally in south dakota. he was airlifted to the hospital with minor head, neck, and shoulder injuries. it's not clear how serious they are. a security adviser though says the 61-year-old was dancing, fell backward off the stage and fell on to a couple of fans, apparently. >>> john edwards' former mistress is testifying before a grand jury today in north carolina. federal investigators are looking into the campaign finances of the former senator and two-time presidential candidate. edwards had admitted having an of pe affair with her. his political action committee paid her for photography work. she arrived today, carrying a young child. edwards has denied that he is the father of that child. >>> if it's freedom of speech or a violation of church and state ? how one name in a city council invocation resulted in some heated words. . >>> the city council of california has an unexpected item on its agenda. >> go to your church. talk to your pastor. ask for forgiveness for your blasphemy. >> the council is being

dropping down around north dakota and nebraska.s whole entire area could see denver, idaho falls, and i'll tell you more about that in about a half hour from now. >>> the dow snapped a 40-year winning streak yesterday. a rebound today could show how investors feel about the labor market. felicia taylor is in watching the big board today. >> top of the morning today. 550,000 americans filed for first-time unemployment benefits last week. that sounds like a big number, but it's actually a drop of nearly 40,000 from the week before. however, the number of people continuing to draw benefits is where the problem is. that rose to 6.3 million. the number seems to indicate that the pace of layoffs is slowing down, but people are still having trouble actually finding work. and when people don't have jobs, they don't spend as much money, so there's no surprise today also that retailers are reporting weak sales figures. early numbers show mall-based stores like the gap and american eagle appear to be the hardest hit by the slowdown, facing bi

most of the trucks were from north dakota and others drive from minnesota, south dakota and even oklahomaigan, a parade for more classic appeal. the annual dream cruise rolled through the motor city. billed as the largest one day auto event in the world and features more than 40,000 vintage cars and that's a fox watch across america. a main ship building company getting hit with a double whammy. first a devastating fire and then the worst economic down turn america has seen in 70 years. last summer flames spreading throughout the washburn and dowdy ship yard. this as the u.s. and global economies headed into a ta tailspin. but through it all, the company managing to survive and get this, even thrive and becoming a source of inspiration to small business owners and their workers. what's the secret to success? a fox report now from molly line. >> reporter: when fire broke out at the washburn and downey ship yard in maine last july. flames quickly burned away three decades of work. >> those tanks started popping off, boom, boom, boom. >> reporter: the emotion clearly visible. workers sat and

so that birdwell could be true in south dakota. population is very small their. >> but your consumers will be kept whole. as a matter of fact, your consumers, i mean, it is a difference between your shareholders and your consumers. what your consumers, some of them will actually come away with $40 into the black a year. that is important also that the study showed that the low quintile. so i think there is some confusion, i think, between your discussion about your consumers versus your shareholders. i also wanted, you said something, i just want to make sure i heard you right, mr. fehrman. i think you said that even if you get enough allowances to meet your caps, you have to keep buying more allowances. i don't think that is accurate. >> no, what i said was there is a portion of cost which applies to meeting the compliance target. so if your actual emissions are above the cap in 2012, for instance, there is a cost to actually bring those emissions down to the cap. either through the purchase of allowances h. >> or offset. >> or in

joining me in washington, senator kent conrad of north dakota. he's a member of the senate finance committee and the senate budget committee. i am pleased to have him back on this program. tell us, senator, thank you for coming and give us a sense of where you think this is headed and what the final version is going to look like. >> well, i suspect that in our group, six members of the finance committee-- three democrats, three remembers-- we're headed in the direction of a plan that would cover 95% of the american people. that would be fully paid for and that would bend the cost curve in the right way. that is, it would prevent the explosion of health care costs that are continuing that threaten american families, our businesses and even the government itself. >> rose: will there be a public option? >> well, in our alternative, we have an agreement... nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to and everything has not yet been agreed to so things could change. but i'd say the greater likely shood that some sort of public interest cooperati

the lakota so he flew to south dakota and he had some kind of a connection there. of some folks who said they had a cabin for him. and he changed his name to martine rubio and he became a lakota for six months and this is how he then proceeded to live his life for the next like 2 1/2 years. bouncing from reservation to reservation, very often using the name martine. he had lots of fake ids that had those names on them. but he changed his name a lot and eventually he made his way down to the reservation down in tucson where he eventually was arrested where he changed his whole way of working. he stopped doing environmental work in this kind of way and he started working with indian youth taking them to environmental events like at mount graham where they have giant controversies over giant telescopes over there. . they were with his tribe and the youth of his tribe and this is the arc that he had traveled. he was arrested in 1994 but when he went to his trial he was only tried for one fire that he set which was at michigan state in lansing, michigan. and even then t

tavis: is that dakota? >> no, i think it is her youngest sister -- younger sister.s: and then there is your cousin. >> yes, and robert is a rock star. my son is a director and producer in anototr movie, and then there were orchestra conductors, a famous opera conductors, and there are morbid there are relatives the people do not even know of -- how orchestra conductors, famous opera conductors. -- there were orchestra conductors. i think it came from the previous generation. we had some very talented people. both of my grandfathers were really extraordinary. one was a musician, a composer, and that was the one side of the family, and as i said, there were some very famous, world- famous musicians on that side of the family that people do not even know that are related to us. but then, on the other side, in more of the area of the mechanical in geniuses, my grandfather built the first machine that made a sound for movies, so there was this tradition of that, and i think when there was talent popping up, more or less, it got supported. i know in our generation, we are

here is your monday forecast: showers and thunderstorms from the dakotas and montana. isolated showers and thunderstorms from new york to new england. scattered showers from d.c. to north carolina. >> a seasonable 78 in boston, 86 in new york and 84 in baltimore. 80s across most of the midwest. 103 in phoenix and 84 in albuquerque. seattle gets up to 76 and portland is 82. >> it may be tough to find a needle in a haystack but a woman in germany found an offer she could not refuse. >> her boyfriend used 150 bales of hay to propose. it was a six-hour labor of love to spell out those words and of course it was in german. each bale of hay ways more than 600 pounds and each letter was nearly 12 feet high. >> the groom to be got down on his knee and proposed the old fashioned way first. when she said yes, he threw open the shutters to reveal his creation. i was reading them and said that doesn't say. >> it took me a second. that is not english i don't think. >> now we know. >> we'll be right back. ♪ love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage ♪

isolated showers from north dakota to minnesota and higher humidity could give firefighters a break outcalifornia. >> it will be 92 in albuquerque, 80 in salt lake city, a hot 90 in portland. 79 in omaha and 86 in detroit. boston hits 90 and new york is 93. it's 89 in new orleans and 99 in dallas. >> let this be the 563rd time that i have brought up your wedding on "world news now." because you could take a clue from this one perhaps. the bride in this wedding wore white and the guests wore collars. >> you want me to take a note from this? >> my dog was in my wedding. you can have yours. >> a dog loving couple in italy tied the knot with dozens of their four-legged friends looking on. this isn't so bad. i tack my comments back. most of the dogs were appropriately dolled up for occasion. as you can see, frills and flowers. >> human and canine guests were invited to an outdoor reception that included a special doggy buffet. my late dalmatian, maggie, was my ring bearer. >> you had a ring tied around the neck? >> yes. >> it's a common thing. >> i'm going to pass but thanks. we'll be right

temperatures are in the 70's. 77 across the dakotas. a push of warm air tomorrow.y of sunshine and above average temperatures. that is moving off toward the east. a few scattered clouds for the overnight hours and patchy fog tomorrow morning. otherwise, another day of hot temperatures. cooler temperatures for the beaches. 80 degrees for ocean city tomorrow. scattered clouds tonight. temperatures in the 60's and lower-70's. tomorrow morning, patchy fog will give way to sunshine. we move into the 80's. 94 daytime high with lots of sunshine and the wind out of the south. here is the extended outlook. sunshine forecast on monday. 91 degrees. cold front late tuesday with a high around 90. we will see cooler air. a degree or two cooler on wednesday. not quite as humid. the big story for the next several days will be the development of these tropical storms. bill could be exciting. >> really? keep us posted. we willpdate that at 11:00. thank you. >>> turning to sports. the redskins were practicing, despite the heat. >> they turned up the heat. michael vick is back on the

this it from the university ofv south dakota department of dak psychology, their website.ir w this is a test based on antifih scientific theory called change blindness. a theory that i think might in help explain what is happening in our country right now.nd i was doing some research this weekend and i brought it down t to about ten different people , at my house, i'm usually on psychology websites. invisual perception, change blindness is a phenomena that s occurs when a person is viewine a visual scene and fails to detect large changes in the scene because there is a lot of things going on in the scene. do you see it? do you know what it is yet?do show the other picture, please. now, could you just do me a plea favor and highlight the change, what's missing.s underneath that wing show me the first picture again. underneath that wing was ating giant jet engine. it was flashing before your eyes and only about two out ofo the ten people at my house got it it and once you know what it is it is so unbelievably obvious.y can you put on the screen theee two going back and forth again. try

, johnson, a red state south dakota, pryor, landrieu and lincoln, a red state, arkansas. if you get all of these red state democrats to start seeing red because there are ads in their state and senior citizens are going crazy -- let me say this about the democratic party. they will pass this no matter what the polls say. but if they feel that the elderly, their core constituency, is turning on them, that they're almost repealing f.d.r.'s collision and that they are becoming an anti-obama group, they will not mess with that. sean: a lot of these democrats are scared to death and they're can selling town hall meetings and opting for telephone town hall meetings, because they don't want to be confronted. what a bunch of gutless weasels. it's ridiculous. but the democrats, the blue dogs, when they get called into the white house and they've had their august recess, and when early september comes and they go back to work and obama, pelosi and reid are twisting their arm, which way are they going to go, dick? >> if they are not terrorized during august by the public outpouring

. >>> at a concert wednesday night in south dakota, aerosmith singer steven tyler was injured when he fell backward off the stage. when a sound system broke in one of the songs, they entertained the crowd while dancing. he misstepped, fell into the crowd, breaking his shoulder. he also needed stitches for cuts on his head and neck. >>> a house exploded in texas as an elderly couple was sleeping inside. this 83-year-old woman said she woke up to the ceiling collapsing on her. firefighters did manage to pull both the woman and her husband from the rubble with only minor injuries. a natural gas leak may have caused that explosion. >>> a minnesota town is improving race relations one sign at a time. they started posting signs in english and a language spoken on three native american reservations nearby. they hope the signs educate people about local culture and make native americans feel more welcome. >>> and the world's largest matza ball was unveiled in new york. a jewish soup dumpling weighed in at over 200 pounds. that's a lot of matza. the chef used 1,000 eggs, 800 pounds of marjarin

meanwhile back to the west and midwest could see reports in parts of south dakota and into portions of southern minnesota benefactor day is out. when you get to the west coast things are pretty quiet. plenty of heat. mainly in seattle where high temperatures well above normal going to 80 degrees. we're going to have a heat advisory for parts of oregon and washington for 9:00 this evening. pretty much what you'd expect in las vegas. phoenix high in triple digits, 98 in houston, 95 dallas. expect raindrops possible in portions of texas back into dallas as far north as little rock even memphis before the day is done. that is a look at your forecast. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. >>> the vigil family and friends kept in the hospital room and outside the hospital may have actually given her a second chance. >> they saved my life. if they didn't pray i probably would have died, i think. i came back to life. >> an amazing story here, how a community came together and helped her survive a life threatening accident. this is hln. >>> a test was held on who could scream. after all that shreaking and

and later, i've got some tough love in north dakota.hey've got a lot of nerve carrying on in what they are talking about a town hall meeting when they're sitting at the trough taking so much government money. that's next. [ female announc] introducing the latest body wh from olay. tone enriching ribbons. two separate ribbons. the white cleanses. the gold moisturizes and has a touch of mineral shimmer to enhance skin's tone. olay tone enriching body wash. for skin that shimmers. the sparkly flakes. the honey-baked bunches! the magic's in the mix. my favorite part? eating it. honey bunches of oats. taste the joy we put in every spoonful. >>> welcome back to "the ed show." last year, the department of homeland security warned that, quoting white supremacists and militias are more violent and thus more likely to conduct mass casualty attacks on the scale of the 1995 oklahoma city bombing. there's a new report out that backs up this prediction. joining me now is the man who wrote that report, mark potuk of the southern poverty law center. ma

we've got a of strong storms stretching from the dakotas back into minnesota.ts of wisconsin, and the northwest corner of illinois. clouds in the pacific northwest. sunshine up and down the east coast. some rain in >> mostly sunny skies, high temperature range of 80 to 85 degrees. lower than normal humidity. for tomorrow, come back of the humidity. humidity. and that's your latest weather. natalie? >> al, thank you. now on to "today's health." and ways to keep everyone safe and sound on your vacation. before you pack your bags there are a couple of phone calls to make and some items to buy. medical editor of health magazine is here to tell us about those things along with a checklist when you check in. good morning, dr. raj, good to see you. >> you, too. >> we've got a lot to get to. when you're staying in a hotel don't leave the bed cover on the bed. >> no. you know they change the sheets every day but the bet cover they actually don't. >> ew. >> we don't know when they wash it. it's a great place for dust mites to hang out in. >> or rors. >> you should really

senator thune of south dakota, he gave that republican rebuttal to the president's weekly address dayd said the democrats plan was, for, quote, government run health care that would disrupt our current system and force millions of americans who currently enjoy their employer-based coverage into a new plan run by government bureaucrats. that's a bald-faced lie, senator and you're a bald-faced liar whose bald face happens to be covered by your own health care plan run by government bureaucrats. nobody would be forced into anything and the public insurance option is no more a disruption than is letting the government sell you water and not just sparkle it. but as corrupt hypocrites go senator at least you're well paid. what was that one statement worth to you in contributions from the health sector, senator thune? $5,000? $10,000? we know what you are, sir. we're arguing about the price. what about your other quote? we can accomplish health care reform while keeping patients and their doctors in charge, not bureaucrats and politicians. wow, senator. this illustrates how desperate you and

from south dakota cheyenne indian reservation, struck with poverty and despair. we begin with someone who has firsthand experience in the contentious term over the debate in health care reform. kathleen sebelius has heard the heckling and the boos and more importantly the questions americans are asking at town hall hosted by members of congress home from their august break. she joins us from michigan to answer the questions of critics and questions you might be asking. thank you for joining with us, madame secretary. i would like to begin with something that the president said at a town hall out in colorado yesterday. among the most contentious points of the debate is the so-called government or public option, to compete with private insurance companies. but if you listen to the president yesterday, he seemed to think, maybe it's not so important. >> the public option, whether we have it or we don't have, is not the entirety of health care reform. this is just one sliver of it. one aspect of it. and by the way, it's both the right and the left that have become so

we senator that steven tyler fell off the stage in south dakota. i'm getting word that the rocker wassens ding around he was singing love in an elevator and fell off the stage. security rosh rushed on. the crowd cheered and joe perry said the show is not going on. he is now in the hospital. we'll have more information on his condition coming up. >>> hope these horses have insurance. this is in a car gets in the way of horses. they dodged the car. watch the big one. up and over. and suffered cuts and everyone will be okay. this is up and over. and it is steep and slippery and force free. it was a couple looking for fun. before going down riders had to laughter up with dish soap or they had brush burn. fun does not have to cost a dime. love it. >>> why is it banned in ocean city in. experts have to say about making a drug illegal everywhere. let's look right now outside. 71 degrees. 6:25. thursday, finally! dinner with the girls tonight. mmm... mexican, or italian? i really want dessert tonight. i better skip breakfast. yep, this is all i need. ( sto

stick, only three states register positive for home price changes over the past year: north and south dakota and oklahoma. the latest new home sales figures are out wednesday. the cash for clunkers idea may not be over yet. while it's too late to trade in a gas guzzling car, this fall you may be able to put some stimulus cash toward a new refrigerator. the department of energy is putting the final touches on a policy that will use almost $300 million of stimulus money, to offer consumers rebates of $50 to $200 dollars if they buy energy efficient appliances like washers and dryers. states have until october 15th to apply for the federal dollars. consumers won't have to actually trade in an old appliance to quality for the rebates. but you'll have to look for the energy star logo on appliances to get the deal. so are big news on new home sales do a and stay in the meantime the home-building index has been gaining ground will take a closer look in chart talk next. home builders to really be moving on wednesday when a new home sales data out team x h p exchange traded fund attracts these pick h

wednesday night, he fell from the stage at a concert in south dakota. the 61-year-old, we're told remains in good spirits. >>> and they managed to keep a big smile, a big secret from police. while proving there's some cracks in the intake procedures out there, the man was arrested earlier this week by houston police officers. the man was taken to the city jail and spent a day before being transferred to another jail. after going through intake procedures, he's then taken to the showers. the final step before going to a cell. there the man then tells police he has a weapon. several searches and mees had missed a large gun with two magazines. why? the 600 pound man had the gun tucked away under his layers of fat. >> see, officers lift up and look under. if it's there, it needs to be searched. >> the 25-year-old is now charged with having a prohibited item in a constructional that silt. >>> let's get back to the breaking news. we take you to new york city, lower manhattan. we understand that's been a massive water main break here. we're talking on west bro

it will remain very hot across the dakotas and great plains. most coastal sections of the eastern sea board will remain cloudy and wet at times. >>> in sports, chicago and the seattle needed 14 innings to score. chica seattle left a man on third. then griffey's pinch-hit rbi gave the mariners a 1-0 win. >>> pedro martinez is back after a long injury layoff. the three-time cy young award winner went five innings last night in his first start for philadelphia. the phillies scored eight runs in the fourth in a 12-5 win over the cubs. >>> two old rivals got angry in san francisco. the giants' pablo sandoval didn't like this inside pitch by the dodgers' james mcdonald. the benches cleared, but there was no fighting. then in the tenth inning, juan arribe cleared the left field wall to beat l.a. 4-2. >>> in world cup soccer, the u.s. traveled to mexico, where the americans have never won a game. they didn't win this one either. with eight minutes to go, mexico's miguel sabas picked up a loose ball and scored to beat the u.s. #-1. >>> and a stunning ap

tonight, the heat steaming up into texas, oklahoma, kansas and spreading a little bit up towards south dakota. look at the area, this time of night, 77, omaha, 87, wichita, 86, 82 in st. louis as well. so that is where all the heat is now, but over the next couple of days that heat will shift off to the east, thanks to this big bubbing of high pressure. and this is not representative of the high pressure at the service, but representative of it aloft. and the heat really builds up in the big high pressure system this time of year. so it will be very, very hot for us. not so much tomorrow, high temperature at 90 degrees. you will feel even more humidity out there. 96 on sunday, which will be the really hot day. and the humidity will really come up too. so not only will it feel 96 is will feel hotter than that, more like 100, possibly 103 degrees, late, late sunday afternoon. and the heat will stick around for a while. looks like the heat is with us until the middle part of next week. so another nice night out there, not blazing hot tomorrow, but an isolated thunderstorm as well. high temperatu

we currently have about a $265 million cost for medicaid in south dakota. under the current provisions of the proposal, 133% of medicaid or 133% of the poverty level. we would actually have about a $45 million increase in our costs. we simply can't afford it. i don't know of very many other states that could. our sessions is there are changes that can be made, there is reform that is available. please, look at what the states have already done. look at the upper midwest. we made reforms. look at the dartmouth atlas program in which we've got about -- if you did the reforms that we've done in the upper midwest across the country, you could save 5% of g.d.p. in health care reform. neil: ok. governor, they're going to look at that, i'm sure after hearing you now. i do believe they watch us. they just don't say. thank you very, very much. good having you on. >> thank you, sir. neil: they call him romo for his tough political still. did he go too far? you all want to run your businesses more efficiently, so we've brought in a team of experts to help. one suggest

on in a bipartisan basis in the finance committee. >> kent conrad, from the great state of north dakota. thank you so much, senator. >> thank you, andrea. >>> coming up, the crisis of confidence on wall street. what will it take for consumers to increase their spending? cnbc's erin burnett joins us live from wall street. [ femal] the deeper you clean, the cleaner you feel. olay deep cleansers go beyond what the eye can see. they remove 2 times more dirt and make-up than basic cleansing. for a deep clean feeling, deep cleansers from olay. but i've still got room for the internet. with my new netbook from at&t. with its built-in 3g network, it's fast and small, so it goes places other laptops can't. i'm bill kurtis, and wherever i go, i've got plenty of room for the internet. and the nation's fastest 3g network. gun it, mick. (announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. with built-in access to the nation's fastest 3g network. only from at&t. but those days came and went, and the cigarettes remained. but today's a new day. and a few simple steps can make a