dawson.let's start from left to right as i call them names. is your joshua cobbs, this nicole akin boyds, david millar and dana halverson. >> thank you all for being here. some of you have come a great distance, and again, your statement will be made part of the record in their entirety. and you can kind of summarize five minutes or so, i would appreciate it very much. we will start from left to right here, dr. dawson. the chief science officer for autism speaks, prior to that position she was a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the university of washington, the founding director of the university's autism center, dr. dawson received her phd from the university of washington. dr. dawson, thank you very much, and please proceed. again, summarized in five to seven minutes we would appreciate it. >> good morning, mr. chairman. >> punch the button. >> good morning, mr. chairman. i want to thank you for inviting me. i am very honored to appear before this subcommittee. and i want to thank

dawson is right about that. i know we're running out of time, but i just think it should be set by somebody here that there will be a time in the future where we will have a much better understanding of the environmental causes of autism. one concern that people have is that if we get stuck looking at one thing over and over again, we will miss the opportunity to look at another cause. we agree that the evidence now is very clear -- it does not explain very much about what we know about autism. we may be able to eliminate a rare event that is in place here that would connect the two. all the evidence says this is not the main story. the question for us is, where is the main story? where should we be looking? i would hope that the focus on this topic, particularly in this conversation today does not obscure the fact that there is probably something out there that is truly important that we need to be focusing on very quickly and move into very quickly. the hope is that the kinds of studies that dr. dawson suggest

dawson. let's start from left to right as i call your names. mr. joshua cobb's, miss boyd, david miller, and dena halverson. >> thank you all for being here. some of you have come a great distance. your statements will be made a part of the record in their entirety. you kind of summarize, 5 minutes or so, i would appreciate it very much. we will just sort from left to right here, dr. geraldine dawson, the chief science officer for autism speaks. dr. dawson received her ph.d. from the university of washington. thank you very much, and please proceed. >> good morning, mr. chairman. i want to thank you for inviting me. i am very honored to appear before this subcommittee, and i want to thank the committee members and you for your leadership in providing full funding for the combating autism act, and also for your most recent fiscal year appropriations bill. this year, more children will be diagnosed with autism, as you may know, than with age, diabetes, and cancer combined. autism research, howe

dawson. before we go on, i want to recognize my good friend and colleague from pennsylvania, with whom i have shared the gavel here over the last almost 20 years. senator specter is a member of the judiciary committee. they are on the floor now with the sotomayor ofoundation. >> thank you for yielding. we are taking up the confirmation hearing of judge sotomayor or for supreme court. i am due on the floor shortly, but i wanted to thank you, mr. chairman, and the ranking member for scheduling this hearing on this very important subject, and thank the witnesses for coming in. autism is a heartbreaking alemaailment. one of the toughest part is talking to parents who have children suffering from autism, and there's a real question of doing more. we have worked hard on funding for the national institutes of health. for a decade, we are able to raise funding from $12 billion to $30 billion, at a time when senator harkin and i have transferred the gobble -- gavel. regrettably, that is not enough. i

with a good year, favre could beat the numbers of warren moon, len dawson and sonny jurgenson did in t.o. this weekend -- the bills prize acquisition with an injured toe injured in the hall of fame game. dick jauron says owens will be back on the field next week. he's missed five of six practices and a preseason game. >> nascar champion jimmie johnson and his number 48 car were at the white house. joining j.j. were other sprint cup drivers and past champions. president obama said "fortunately we got jimmy to agree not to do any burnouts and tear up our backyard." obama joined our "nascar now" crew. >> you're excellent, mr. president, at filling out your college basketball bracket. you picked the tar heels to win the championship. >> i did, i'm sorry. >> what about the chase championship? did you fill out that bracket? >> first of all, it's a little early. we've got to see more information before we make a final determination but when you have champions like jimmie johnson, jeff gordon, tony stewart, just a lot of folks who are capable of winning at any given time, so i'm not going to

this angry crowd in austin, texas, they were more interested in holding democratic congressman lloyd dawson accountable. the evidence of shifting ant merely anecdotal. a rasmussen poll shows that there is a major change in how americans feel about the healthcare system. one year ago 37% said it was poor with only 29% calling it good or excellent. those figures have flipped. 48% view it as good or excellent, up 20 points and only 19% ate the system poor. with just a few days left before its recess, the bipartisan gang of six was back in action monday trying to negotiate a deal. in the meantime, republicans like senator cornyn say they continue to hear from worried constituents and are not at all surprised by their decision to fight back. >> they're scared and angry. many of them are slowing up at town hall meetings and expressing their views, and more power to 'em. we may not always like it, but people do have their right to express their views. >> following today's gang of six meeting, republican senator owe limb pia snow said that they're working hard to keep to the september 15 deadline f

dawson. let's start from left to right as i call your names. mr. joshua cobb's, miss boyd, david miller, and dena halverson. >> thank you all for being here. some of you have come a great distance. your statements will be made a part of the record in their entirety. you kind of summarize, 5 minutes or so, i would appreciate it very much. we will just sort from left to right here, dr. geraldine dawson, the chief science officer for autism speaks. dr. dawson received her ph.d. from the university of washington. thank you very much, and please proceed. >> good morning, mr. chairman. i want to thank you for inviting me. i am very honored to appear before this subcommittee, and i want to thank the committee members and you for your leadership in providing full funding for the combating autism act, and also for your most recent fiscal year appropriations bill. this year, more children will be diagnosed with autism, as you may know, than with age, diabetes, and cancer combined. autism research, howe

dawson mentioned is private insurance.here are virtually no policies in our state that cover autism therapies. there are none. in fact, it does not only cover behavioral therapy, but senators, it only covers 20 visit of any type of speech, o.t., or wetp.t. that is combined speech and ot. you concealing many of these children on not getting the assistance they need because the visit our kind of costly. those are the kinds of things that we looked at the gaps that needed to be filled. >> we ought to introduce a bill to modernize our laws on medicaid and reimbursement. >> how do people afford to do this? >> they can't. >> frankly, they can't. i do not have the exact figures, but we have been working quite a bit to get coverage. b -- it is a foxhole by foxhole case. these families have to do without. again, it is being done on a state-by-state basis. how you can do some sort of insurance pre-emption would be the ideal way to go. this is an educational issue, not a health issue, some have said. if you have seen my two sons, it

look for the number 21 bus to be diverted at pennsylvania and dawson, watermain break there. and number 17 operating with a diversion at nursery and winterson due to ongoing construction. marc train, on time and light rail and metro subway on time. for the mta transit team, i'm mark jones. >>> check out this video. 7-year-old gum chewing boy driving his parents' honda, in canada. his dad over there in the driver's seat. that's his mom cheering her son in the back seat. holding a baby, not buckled up by the way. apparently this kid was going faster than 40 miles per hour. this video is posted on youtube but was taken down quickly and police are out there looking for the kid and the family. >>> the dog is found safe and sound after going missing nine years ago. muffy somehow vanished from his family's home and animal cruelty prevention organization was investigating a possible case of animal abuse at a home 1,200 miles away and found muffy sleeping on a cardboard in the backyard. the owners of that house say they found the dog about a year ago wandering along a street. a microc

steve desanctis, virginia dawson, thank you both, appreciate it. we have 45 minutes to go until the market closes. the dow's down. we have some interpersonal betting going on that we might see some improvement especially if financials can get it going today. we'll continue to watch that as we get it down toward the closing bell. >> video game sales dropping sharply for the fifth straight month in july. but can today's release of the latest version of the popular madden nfl series give a boost to video games? >> you know, it's not just video games that are suffering from slow consumer spending. we're going to discuss when spending may actually pick up again and how that's going to impact a broader economic recovery. >> and then coming up after the bell is president obama losing control of the health care debate, and will that end up resulting in watered-down  legislation? we've got some answers coming up at 4:00. >> and as is our custom, there they are, the most active stocks today. these days, wouldn't it be great if saving money happened as autom

in dawson, there was a group inspired by al qaeda that has been battling with the government of hamasooting it out in a mosque. -- in gaza. our bbc middle east correspondent gave us this update. >> the area around the mosque, which is under attack by hamas, has been declared a closed military zone by hamas, hundreds of hamas policemen and members of its military wing of firing rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine fire at the mosque. inside the mosque, it is thought there are around two dozen supporters of that imam. they are firing back. at least one rpg has killed someone, and they say the death toll is rising, and even though this is a strong extremist group within gaza, itç isç extremely well equipped. it has managed to keep up things for more than four hours. >> the that is our reporter there. the coast guard said earlier that the arctic sea has been spotted around 400 nautical miles from the cape verde islands. the russian on voice as those reports are not true. -- the russian envoy says those reports are not true. prosecution for slander. the person has alleged that som

dawson. >> who's that? >> he was a congress man from chicago. he was very popular during the civil rights era. he was one of the first black americans to be a congressman. he was in a cabinet. and we're getting a lot of buzz about that book. there's never been a biography on him either. >> who is troy dickham. >> he's a historian. he wrote this about the british press and their views and how they saw the war. there was a lot of controversy in britain because people sided with beth. it was kind of a conflict who do they side with their previous or previous people who were colonist in the united states. he takes a look at how the press viewed the war. in england, the common person would write editorial. so even the common person had a voice about the revolution. >> now being northern illinois, you're in the midwest, you're publishing a book called "industrializing the corn belt." >> yes, it's a case study on

the number 21 diverted at pennsylvania and dawson. a watermain break. and the number 17 still working with construction diverting in the area of nursery and winterson. for the mta transit team, i'm mark jones. hearts happy... ...and big hearts happy too. because as part of a heart healthy diet... ...those delicious oats in cheerios can help naturally lower cholesterol. (cheerios spilling) cheerios. how can something so little... ...help you do something so big. >>> let's look at the weather with justin berk. good morning. >> good morning. 5:39. we're looking outside. i want to leave this up here as we take the view downtown. getting a little bit of morning light here. we still have haze in the sky and some areas of patchy fog. check the humidity this morning with 71 degrees on the thermometer. 84% humidity. so definitely feels a little sticky outside. across the board ranging from 72 in easton to 82 in ocean city. go the other way, they are down to 66 in york, pennsylvania. either way you slice it, thick fog this morning. then we'll see sun followed by

the number 21 taking a diversion at pennsylvania and dawson. watermain break there too. the 17 still dwurt diverted at nursery and winterson due to construction. for the mta transit team, i'm mark jones. hearts happy... ...and big hearts happy too. because as part of a heart healthy diet... ...those delicious oats in cheerios can help naturally lower cholesterol. (cheerios spilling) cheerios. how can something so little... ...help you do something so big. >>> 5:09. let's look at our wednesday weather with justin berk. >> 71 degrees right now but it's feeling a little more sticky than that. we've got a lot of humidity in the air and even some patchy fog. so our 71. 73 across the bay to easton. 83 in ocean city yeah, it's a little sticky for day three of the open. they had thunderstorms roll through that area yesterday. also a local storm pass through 9 -- 95 in harford county through aberdeen and cecil county. those areas may have the best chance of patchy fog in morning. otherwise what looks to be cloudy on the satellite imagery i think is trickery from the high humidity

with a good year, favre could beat the numbers of warren moon, len dawson and sonny jurgenson did inir golden age. >> no t.o. this weekend -- the bills prize acquisition with an injured toe injured in the hall of fame game. dick jauron says owens will be back on the field next week. he's missed five of six practices and a preseason game. >> nascar champion jimmie johnson and his number 48 car were at the white house. joining j.j. were other sprint cup drivers and past champions. president obama said "fortunately we got jimmy to agree not to do any burnouts and tear up our backyard." obama joined our "nascar now" crew. >> you're excellent, mr. president, at filling out your college basketball bracket. you picked the tar heels to win the championship. >> i did, i'm sorry. >> what about the chase championship? did you fill out that bracket? >> first of all, it's a little early. we've got to see more information before we make a final determination but when you have champions like jimmie johnson, jeff gordon, tony stewart, just a lot of folks who are capable of winning at any given time,

that's nice. [ laughter ] then, at 12:06, obama receives unexpected birthday visit from former "dawson's" star james van der beek. 12:07, james van der beek tasered. [ laughter ] then, at 12:08, obama apologizes to james van der beek on behalf of the secret service. van der beek attempts to hug obama. 12:09, james van der beek tasered. [ laughter ] crazy couple of minutes right there. 12:10, electrical charges from the repeated tasering give james van der beek super powers. 12:15, james van der beek, now stronger than ten men, carves obama's face into mount rushmore by shooting lasers out of his eyes. that's pretty phenomenal. 12:30, obama eats lunch. probably just a normal lunch. probably a sandwich or something. that's cool. 1:18, sitting alone in his tiny one-bedroom apartment, james van der beek realizes he's can manipulate matter using only his mind. see him bending a spoon there. it dawns on him that he is the chosen one. he was supposed to get tasered at the white house. all this is happening for a reason. if only he knew what that reason was. 1:19, james van der beek laments ruin

peter dawson, an investment advisor in island. we're looking at banks. getting calls from florida, california and everywhere else about hon zi schemes and people believing that a bank is involved. >> jake, always a pleasure to have you. >>> final trade right after this. welcome to the now network. population: 49 million. right now 1.2 million people are on sprint mobile broadband. 31 are streaming a sales conference from the road. eight are wearing bathrobes. two... less. - 154 people are tracking shipments on a train. - ( train whistles ) 33 are im'ing on a ferry. and 1300 are secretly checking email... - on a vacation. - hmm? ( groans ) that's happening now. america's most dependable 3g network. bringing you the first and only wireless 4g network. sprint. the now network. deaf, hard of hearing and people with speech disabilities access www.sprintrelay.com. >>> who made the most money today? regis takes the top spot. he gained 3% on lsi. unysis is up 2%. >> regis wants to get out of his three-point. regis is right. sell preept mac. >> ibm. sell it. >> i

on july 15, just days after the recent attack, dawson creek daily news got a hand witten note from somebodylaiming to the bomber. quote, return the land to what it was before you came, every last bit of it before things get worse for you and your terrorist pals in the oil and gas business. i don't know if any sees irony there that the actual terrorists who blow up the oil pipelines refer to the victims in the oil and gas business as, quote, the terrorist pals, but the pipeline saboteur is not alone when it comes to bashing big oil. however, not quite as strong as the actual terrorist. remember how then senator hillary clinton wanted to handle those capitalist pigs and those windfall profits? >> i want to take those profits and i want to put them into a strategic energy fund that will begin to fund alternative smart energy, alternatives and technologies that will begin to actually move us towards the direction of independence. glenn: where have you been? going to take those profits, take them. a year later, congressperson maxine waters wanted to go a step further. >> this liberal will be all

i old boss lloyd dawson who gave me my first job. the democratic governor from texas.imate republicans and legitimate opposition. >> it's energized a lot of republicans and conservatives from the other side. >> not just republicans. i think it's fair to say these are republicans at these meetings. we heard ben cardin say today at this meeting that he would never vote for a bill that increased the deficit. now, president obama says that it's deficit-neutral. the cbo, the congressional budget office say it's something else. saythy it's well over $200 billion that would increase the deficit by that much. i think this is ben cardin's get of jail free card. dianne feinstein is also -- has some reservations because of the deficit question. so if it comes down to that, i think they're going to see a lot of democrats have a real good excuse to not vote for this bill. >> i think the deficit is one thing and death threats are another. there are legitimate threat's. >> maybe a tiny fringe columnist out. there i think that's what they're seeing. the main in this country see this,

joining us now to break down today's market action is virginia dawson, president and ceo of claremont investment partners and co-manager of the morningstar four-star-rated industry leader investment fund. we also have jeff davis cio of lee munder, boston-based investment firm that managed $4 billion in assets.. thanks to both of you for joining us. virginia, i'll start with you. what do you think of today's action? >> what we like to say is we see the market going up. it's great. the cash for clunkers, whether you believe that the 2 million's going to be approved or not, it's been a great deal. it's gotten people looking into the market. it's gotten people looking into opening up their pocketbooks. and i think this is just going to keep this bull market going. >> yeah, jeff, do you agree with that? >> yeah.h. i feel pretty good. i mean, 50% rally off the bottom is just about average now for a market rally off the bottom historically. so that's good. it hasn't done it with any economic strength or in the earnings we've just seen are not revenue driven, they're expense driven. but you k

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the projections are, that could be 50% by the first quarter, to dawson 11. the big issue is that it is not subprime borrowers. those are people who buy conforming mortgages that are back stopped by fannie mae or freddie mac. it depends how much they could be worth. it means that we are far from over in terms of how this will impact. it affects consumer spending, psychology, just about everything. martha: is there a sense that the dynamic will change and maybe some of these banks will have to make a new deal with some of these buyers? if that is the case, what does it mean for the banks? >> the administration is working to modify mortgages. they have not really done a good job, to put it lightly. the good news is that we're starting to see what we believe are the signs of a bottoming in housing. it is not over. it could be a long, difficult drag. it depends on where you live in the country. in the northeast, we are starting to get hit. others are starting to stabilize. the issue is the trade up by air, not the first time home buyer, but someone who owns a hom

>> we have a poster of william dawson in the black electoral leadership from and he was a congressmanfrom chicago and he was very popular during the civil rights era. he was one of the purse black americans to be a congressman, he was in a cabinet and he did a lot of first reason that era your giving us about that book. there's never been a biography of him so people are looking for a two reading about this. >> who is tried it meant? >> he is an historian and he wrote this book about the press and their views of the american revolution in how they saw the war, there's a lot of controversy in britain because their people who signed with both the patriots and the loyalists so it was a conflict of would they side with, their own people in britain and work there on previous people who are now colonists of the united states so he takes a look at how the press you the war ends in england's the common person can write to the newspapers, and write editorials and so even the common person had a voice about the revolution. >> being number illinois fewer in the midwest and you have written a boo

joe, president of dawson wealth management. michel michelle, start with you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> where are the markets headed? >> i think there's still a little bit more room on the upside. i just saw some numbers from one of the economic coming out over the weekend, $72 for earnings for the s&p for 2010. and as i mentioned the last time i was on, at geneva, some of the work we do, $75 to $80 in 2011.. i think easily if you put a 15 multiple on that you're at 1100. >> you're willing to look past the revenue situation?n? >> well, i think at this point i am encouraged by the fact that all the cost-cut that companies have done has led to earning beating. i do think ultimately we need to see some top line growth.h. two of the companies i'm going to talk about today had real top line growth this quarter year over year. but i do think, yeah, ultimately we have to see revenue growth longer term. i think it's coming.g. >> i mean, it's coming for sure. if it doesn't come in the fourth quarter we have some real problems.

dawson. >> he was a congressman from chicago. he was very popular during the civil rights era.one of the first black americans to be a congressman. he was in the cabinet. he did a lot of firsts. we are getting a lot of buzz about that putt. there has never been a biography on that either. >> who is troy bickham? >> he is a historian. he wrote this book about the press. the british press and their views of the american revolution and how they saw the board. a lot of controversy in britain because there were people who sided with both the patriots and the loyalists. kind of a conflict. their own people or their own previous people who were now colonists and the yen to states. he takes a look at how the press the of the war. and in england the common person could write to the newspapers. write editorials. and so even the common person had a voice about the revolution. >> now, being ignored in illinois in the midwest. you have written a book called industrializing the corn belt. >> comes out in december. it is available already. it is actually a case study on iowa. it looks at how

what we have done recently, the team that has been led by professor clint addendason and h -- clint dawson they took the data from hurricane ike and run simulations of the landfall as the storm occurred historically and they have taken a concept called the ikedike which is a sea barrier that would be built along about a 60-mile segment of texas coastline. all of galveston island over to the peninsula and they have run both of the simulations with and without the dike. they have also taken ike and created a mighty ike, a category four ike and run the same simulation so that you can see on the hard option side of using things laike dikes and storm gates what the consequences might be. there are also the soft options. wetlands restoration and some development limitations. they are seen as the opposite. you have to pick one or the other. what we can do with the super computer modeling is see what best combination would work for different areas of the kecoastle and may be coastlines that would work for one particular landfall scenario that could fail or create problems for another. the wonderfu

what we have done recently, the team that is led by professor dawson and his assistant in the the university of texas. they have taken hurricane ike from that, especially from the wind fields, and they have run stimulations as the land fall as the storm occurred. and they have taken a concept called the ike dike, which is texas a & m. this is a sea barrier that would be if built 60 miles, all of galveston all the way over to peninsula. and they've run both of the simulations with and without the dike. they have also taken ike and created a category four and run the same stimulation. so you can see on the hard option side of using things like dikes and storm gates, what the consequences might be. there are also the soft options. wetlands restoration and some restrictions on led use and development on the coastline. these are usually seen as categorically the opposite. you have to pick one or the other. we can see what best combination would work for different areas. there are maybe combinations that would work for one particular landfall scenario that would fail or create bigger problems for