joining us in our panel today are deb beck, president drug and alcohol service providers organization of pennsylvania; dr. richard frank, professor of health economics, department of healthcare policy, harvard medical school; patrick hendry, senior director of consumer advocacy, mental health america; john o'brien, senior advisor for behavioral health financing, substance abuse and mental health services administration, u.s. department of health and human services. john, healthcare reform, why was it necessary? what benefits are we going to see out of it? well, ivette, we have about 50 million individuals in this country who don't have any insurance at any given point in a year. a number of them use emergency rooms and/or hospitals and that has a very significant cost for both people who have insurance, as well as employers who pay for insurance. we spend about $17.2 billion dollars on uncompensated care for those individuals. we also know that there is a significant number of people with substance abuse disorders who have benefits and don't access care, but there are a significant nu

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and, as deb said, in some cases it is 25 percent, one out of four. a lot of people that have a mental health and substance abuse condition have another condition, another health condition or a chronic health condition that they need, not only just primary care, but also specialty health care. over the last several years, samhsa has embarked on a primary care behavioral health integration project prior to the affordable care act being in place. if you look at a number of provisions in the affordable care act, there is a variety of strategies, including incentives for states, as well as providers, to begin to really be serious about good strategies that will be successful in the integration. and similarly, there's a whole notion that we started to talk about which is the electronic health records. richard, i want you to address that. is that primarily being done not only because of the technology is there, but do we stand to save a substantial amount if people begin to allow their records to be exchanged? well, there are a couple of motivations for doi

debs stayed home while eugene debs was campaigning all the time. what about these two as a political couple? >> getting back to their marriage, their courtship is very slow. they meet a few times. it's like every few months or something, and because she is the boss' daughter, he won't go near her. when people say he married the boss' daughter, that's really a distortion of what happened. it's only until he is partners, full partners with carter that the courtship really begins. but she is -- there's -- particularly if you read in there about their retirement together, how close a couple they are. they're very, very deeply in love, and she is really the first spouse which in a full-fledged campaign mode goes around the country on the train with him in 1960 almost like an eleanor roosevelt going into mines and stuff like that, stuff which really wasn't done then. >> another call. this is from ft. worth. this is jack. you're on the air, jack. >> caller: hi. my question pertains to charles evans hughes' perspective on racism that was prevalent within t

deb? >> it may have been interesting because it may have been protected before he went on this rampage. after is a different question. there's the issue of his apartment because that apartment was rigged so that it would go off and that clearly he was also planning on doing maximum damage and take lives there as well. what about the charges there? >> reporter: that's right. there's the potential for more attempted murder charges there. this was a death trap from everything we've been told about it, there were multiple improvised explosive devices, multiple trip wires. he even set off a timer so that loud music was going off after he departed from the apartment, almost as bait for someone to try and gain entry into his apartment and authorities have said what they found in there if someone had gone in that door unprepared, they would have been at the very least severely injured but most likely killed. >> remarkable. planning this on two fronts. david, we've also learned that there was a sho

. >>> la mayorÍa de los estado ni deb estadounidenses piensa lo contrario. >>> proteger el derecho dede una hora una persona puede comprar un arma como esta, parecida a la que utilizÓ holmes para la masacre. >>> luego el federal, van a confirmar si el comprador tiene un rÉcord criminal. >>> asÍ comprÓ 4 armas en los Últimos dos meses para perpetrar la peor masacre en la historia del paÍs, masacre que esta madre no va a olvidar. >>> si dios nos perdonÓ a nosotros ¿quienes somos para no perdonar?. >>> hace instantes hablÉ con la seÑora y me dice que su hijo alvaro entrÓ a una cirugÍa, le van a poner placas metÁlicas en la rodilla. >>> el actor protagonista de la pelÍcula estuvo en aurora compartiendo con los heridos en el hospital. concluimos la transmisiÓn desde aurora colorado, gran solidaridad y fortaleza. >>> al menos 3 personas fueron arrestadas en incidentes separados por amenazas relacionadas con la nueva pelÍcula de batman. un hombre dijo que se dirigÍa a matar a su ex empleador luego de ver la pelÍcula, la policia lo detuvo y le encontrÓ un rifle de asalto, municiÓnes y recorte

"the situation room" with wolf blitzer starts right now. >>> deb, thanks very much.scalding new attacks in this presidential contest. the obama campaign aims a hard-hitting new ad at mitt romney's taxes. one of romney's top surrogates says the president should "learn how to be an american." also caught in the act pictures of a sea case that kept tons of drugs off u.s. streets. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> we begin with both presidential campaigns getting down and dirty on the low road as the candidates themselves try to stick to the high road. the latest examples, killer tv ad that the obama campaign is using to welcome so-called welcome mitt romney to pennsylvania. and a top romney's surrogates complaint that the president should "learn how to be an american." let's go to our white house correspondent, dan lothian, watching all of this unfold. we've been saying it's getting ugly. >> reporter: certainly right. the fireworks today. the president was in texas attending a total of fundraisers trying to camp up in the campaign cash. some of those

>> there are a lot of polish -- [ all talking at once ] >> i'm not deb any grating polish. you have france. you have germany. did he deliberately not go to germany? >> why would you go to germany? >> why wouldn't you? [ all talking at once ] >> obama went there and got 200,000 people. >> he would not -- >> harrison would shall -- [ all talking at once ] >> romney could probably get a couple of dozen people in a broth house. >> what did you think of that? >> i'm not making fun of him. >> i said romney would have gotten 150. >> are you making fun of romney? >> i don't know that, but i know that he's not the character that obama is. >> 's not a celeb -- he's not a celeb. >> obama went to cairo in six months, and it was a famous speech. >> did it cause the youth of cairo to rise up? >> i think he caused expectations to rise that were not realize. >> exit question. what nation did mr. romney not visit on this trip possibly deliberately? >> afghanistan where there's more troops than anywhere else in the world right now, i believe. >> that's correct. >> he visited nowhere because

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deb in vermont. hi, deb? >> hi, stephanie.lf of my two rescue dogs, julie and detective doozel -- >> hi, detective doozel -- >> and julie. >> i'm going to call my next dog bob. okay. go ahead, deb. detective doozel has been talking to julie, and they were wondering about this because they said there are three things that bring someone down, and they were talking about politics, and they were talk about mr. romney and they said the first thing is money. and obviously he has lots of that. and the second thing detective doozel came up with was greed. and the final thing which we have yet to see is sex. >> oh well what does detective doozel think is going to be sex scandal? >> he is not sure. he is working on the case right now. >> he is a real detective -- >> why do i sense this clip is going to end up on news busters later today. okay. we love you julie and detective doozel! [ applause ] >> they are handment and romantic. >> when i first got jazz i contemplated changing his name to paul. >> i like that. a cat named paul. [ laugh

when invited to explain her position at the boys and girls state convention, where was deb? washington, d.c., hobnobbing with party bosses and corporate lobbyists who want to keep the special tax breaks for millionaires. >> cenk: special tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires is what the republican party is about. why don't you use it against them? they are. i've been screaming about this for ten years. stop trying to hit them and hit them. this election, it looks like they're hitting him. what happened to this democratic party? one more, this time in montana. >> dennis rehberg's forgotten where he comes from because rehberg voted for billions in tax breaks to big bankers on wall street. rehberg voted to let wall street's ceos get millions in bonuses funded by taxpayer bailouts. yes, congressman it is. >> cenk: hit him again and again! this is a winning strategy. hey, you know what? we're on your side. claire mccaskill case, we're protecting medicare. what are these guys doing? giving breaks to millionaires and billionaires. that's a strategy that can work. i woke up t

not paper, not plastic credit or deb debit. the question is not what can you do for your country. not now. not later. not okay? the question is not, what your country can do for you. the question is not, who will save us. how are you getting by? [applause] >> i'll end with a love poem. >> my lover. who lives far. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room and offers supper. in a bowl made of his breath. the stew has boiled and i wonder at the cat born from it's steam. the cat is in the bedroom now. muling. the cat is indecent and i whom trying to be tidy, i whom trying to do things the purpose way, i who am sick from the shedding. i, am undone. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room and offers pastry in a basket spun from his vision. it is closely woven. the kind of container some women collect. i have seen these in many colors but the basket he brings is simple. only black. only nude. the basket he brings is full of sweet burdens and i eat even the crumbs. as am i have not dined for days. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room and offers t

seguridad, la policÍa dora el gas y la electricidad en todo el vecindario >>> por precauciÓn, pablo iÑ debmilia aunque dice no estar tan preocupado. >>> lo hacemos por los niÑos, y hay que salirse un ratito. >>> la policÍa trabajÓ lentamente des activando los explosivos fundamentalmente para no arriesgar a los agentes en parte para evitar destruir pruebas que puedan ser Útiles en el juicio. con esta explosivo intencional detonaron una de las trampas. y a medida que pasaron las horas, hicieron progresos. el fbi dice que el operativo estÁ marchando muy bien. y aunque no han eliminado completamente la amenaza, el riesgo es significativamente reducido. agentes de la brigada de explosivos piensan terminar con el departamento esta noche. recoger la evidencia puede tomar dÍas mÁs. el jefe de la policÍa no tiene dudas que james holmes querÍa matar o lastimar a los agentes. por problemas mentales, homblme no supiera lo que estÁ haciendo. durante los Últimos meses recibiÓ gran cantidad de paquetes por correo. el jefe dice que calculadamente planeo la masacre que conmoviÓ a la naciÓn. hace algunos mo

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our good friend, deb, in arlington says folks aught to marry who they want to marry.er, i stand by the right of chick-fil-a. where their charity money goes is no one's business. they serve all the folks who want the food. as long as it doesn't interfere with the sandwiches, it shouldn't matter. people can choose not to eat the chicken and chow down elsewhere. that's right. freedom of speech and freedom of choice. but scott from lexington park, maryland, says really? it's all about the politics. if you ask me, what kicks this into high gear is president obama said he supports gay marriage. that's what the republican pounced on as we all know, we want to get him out of the white house and all the haters will vote for willard. being mitt romney's first name. why has this gotten so nasty? let me see if i understand this correctly. someone that has the position to same-sex marriage is expowsing hatred. e equally hateful? without being called hateful and incuring the politically correct? sadly, john, it was seen that we cannot. and finally, we have this on the electric grid

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any new fee was not apply to deb intercards, how will shoppers know if they're charged extra?lers would have to tell customers about the extra fee but the national retail federation says consumers shouldn't panic and most stores will find waste to avoid passing on the charge. >> most merchants compete by lowering prices being cheaper than the next guy. you're more likely seeing merchants giving discounts. >> reporter: discounts like gas stations cheaper if you use cash and credit. >> and some states like new york and california have already banned these surcharge, but, sharyn, it's now up to a judge to approve the settlement before we see new fees. >> for now it should cost the same if you use gash or your card? >> correct. >>> overseas in egypt. secretary of state hillary clinton, is meeting with egypt's first democratically elected leader. one of the hostages, a pastopas his family held a news conference saying he's a diabetic and needs medical care. the hostage taker said he took americans captive to free an uncle held in the egyptian prison. he promised americans would not

one historic deb.m usaaare of african american heritage.and as fredricka whitfield reports.. it's something they hope will inspire future generations. generations. 2008 olympic gold medalist cullen jones relishes the idea of being a role model."i can't tell you how many family members that picked up a driver because they saw tiger woods do it so i think that 3 the beacon of seeing someone that looks like you that is excelling in a sport like i said, getting out of a bad situation those are the glimpses of hope people see." jones is part of something historically different about usa swimming. he's one of three athletes with african-americaa heritage who will compete for the u.s. -- the first time there's ever been more than one. growing up in new jersey, jones learned to swim at age five, after nearly drowning at a water park. now he helps teach other minooity kids to swim through usa swimming foundation's make-a-splash program. he knows it will take time before those efforts create more minority swimme

morning deb debuting. good night. >> ama: i'm ama daetz. >> alan: i'm alan wang.eaking news out of vacaville. a fire is burning near interstate 580 year home -- near homes. we have a crew on the way. >> ama: oakland firefighters put out a fire in a building where several fires were started over the year. the fire broke out the second floor of the building on webster street around 9:30 this morning. nobody was hurt. the fire department says crews know the battle well after battling another fire in the statement structure a year ago. >> a memorial for a jockey who died in pleasant ton. he tied thursday during a race at the alameda county fair. now questions are being raised about safety

for the drugs used to put inmates to deb some states using pad drugs and their lethal cocktails others not checking the potency and effectiveness of the ones they use is this a form of cruel and unusual punishment or question more. and clot clad in enough riot gear for a war zone u.s. police officers are a force to be reckoned with some call it a safety measure others and intimidation tactic all taking a critical look at the evolution of the outfits and the already of today's police officers. it's tuesday july thirty first five pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching our. well starting off this hour with an update on julian assad the swedish government has rejected a request by aqua dorian officials to interview a songe in the u.k. that's according to the wiki leaks twitter feed it by the. to plead her case and she says she's extremely worried about the state of his health she says he's under extreme stress in the ecuadorian embassy and he's been under long term extreme stress for the last two years while these this case is being going on and he's really living in c

it became popular world deb -- wide when ernest hemingway wrote about this and " the sun also rises " very lucrative one long fiesta. this is a town of to wonder thousand but the population can triple. hotels are full. and restaurant reservations are difficult to get. amusement parks, and music food appeal to everybody many people are under 30 years old. only 50 percent are from abroad. yet americans, europeans and asians are often injured. locals say visitors to not realize the danger or take it seriously. there has been 15 deaths since 1924 and thousands of injuries. ambulance crews lined the cores from the corral to the bull ring. they face certain death but locals and visitors want to talk about this for years to come. >>vicki: california cuisine at this place takes it one step further. downing & dish is only from california cuisine. um] ♪[tum] ♪[tum] ♪[tum] ♪[tum] ♪[tum] ♪[tum] [phone ring,] car brakes hard [phone ring] [car crash] glass shatters [sirens] this video was submitted by a student through the safety scholars program. for more information on teen safety visit driversed

. >> reporter: yoga studio owner deb flashenberg says she regrets going back to work so soon after herwas born last year. >> i wish i had that time. >> you regret it. >> i do. i wish i was a little more separate. >> concerned, will mayer's decision derail gains made by mothers? >> is she the new role model or is she ruining it for the rest of us who want a little more time and more flexibility. >> i hope she's not the role model for all of us. >> reporter: but she has supporters. joan walsh from salon.com wrote "not everyone has to approach the birth of a child as a life-changing disruption." another tech titan, facebook's number two, sheryl sandberg, says she believes in flexibility. >> i walk out of this office every day at 5:30, so i'm home for dinner with my kids at 6:00. >> reporter: the u.s. requires many companies to provide 12 weeks of unpaid leave for working mothers. compare that to some other countries. germany afords 14 weeks, canada 50 weeks, sweden 16 months, and that's paid maternity leave. >> it's like we're with countries like saudi arabia and syria. it's really bad. >

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how you maintain that deb and voltage is by maintaining a perfect balance between electric supply and electric demand that gets out of whack by a fraction of a percent, we could get a blackout. h.j. rogers did not notice. he made some mistakes because of that. i told you that he owned the paper mill in appleton, wisconsin. this was powered by a water wheel. he thought he could save some money by having the same waterwheel that powered his paper meal also powered his electric generator. the problem is that the paper mill had a lot of demand for its services. the electric generator had one customer, which was h.j. rogers himself. the generator was producing way more electricity than the little grid needed, and throughout h.j. rogers' mountain, electric light bulbs with burnout pop, pop, pop, and everyone every one of them cost the equivalent of $36. that quickly became an expensive mistake. even if h.j. rogers had been technically competent, and there were people who are technically competent to set up some of these early grades, there is a good chance he still would have failed. that i

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she and her partner deb, have five children, joshua is the oldest, he was three when he came to them a foster child with autism. he's now nine and thriving. >> he's incredible. he got student of the month at school and everybody was beaming from the principal didn't. >> reporter: the couple not only adopted josh but adopted four other children because they were siblings and didn't want to break up the family. >> i think it helps that jenny and i come from large families. because we are used to the okay, it is chaos. >> reporter: they first became foster parents through a non-profit organization dedicated to encouraging more people to become foster parents and improving the lives of foster children. there are nearly 60,000 children living in foster care in california. richard, alonzo and stephen know firsthand what it is like to need a place to call home. >> my parents weren't able to be there for me with when i was younger. in the foster system i experienced good times and bad times. i was in 12 homes. >> reporter: the quality of foster care can have a lifelong impact. stephen sits o

she and her partner, deb, have five children. joshua is the oldest.e was just three when he came to them as a foster child with autism. he's now nine and thriving. >> he's incredible. he got student of the month at school and everybody at school was beaming, from the principal on down. >> the couple not only adopted josh, but adopted four other foster children because they were siblings and didn't want to break up the family. >> i think it helps that both jenne and i come from large families because we are used to the, okay, it's chaos. it's chaos sometimes. [laughter] >> they first became foster parents through a nonprofit, an organization that is dedicated to encouraging more people to become foster parents and improving the lives of foster children. >> there are nearly 60,000 children living in foster care in california. richard alonzo and steven whetherby no firsthand what it is like to need a police to call home. >> my parents weren't there for me while i was younger and while growing newspaper the foster care system i experienced good times and

so your child is nott iwith deb >> what they want to do. >> certainly. >> there's a great rule of thumbamount of debt you take onto what you would expect to earn in the first year after graduating. so a teacher's probably going to be able to take on less than a pharmacist or engineer. >> 100%. >> all right. thank you. appreciate it. if you have a question you want our experts to tackle, upload a 30-second video with your help desk questions to ireport.com. >>> poppy, thank you. groceries, clothes cars this past spring, today economists reporting the economy slowed. the gdb grew 1.15%. still apparently slightly hiezer than analysts expected. it's fueling hopes for more stimulus from the fed. and i want to bring in erin burnett. she's the anchor of "erin burnett out front." great to see you. you have the higher food prices because of the drought and the budget cuts killing the government jobs, there's all kinds of headwind. have we hit a wall? >> sort of seems like we have, brooke. when you have a crisis caused by excess debt, it always takes an incredibly long time to get out of it becau

richard deb beer was convicted in a scheme -- richard delabrer was convicted in a scheme protecting shipments of untaxed alcohol and he confessed he bought and sold ya ban cigarettes. >>> -- contra ban cigarettes. >>> there are new questions surrounding mayor gray's 2010 campaign having access to a confidential database with the identities of more than 6,000 public housing residents. fox 5's matt ackland reports. >> can you all back up some, please? i can't even breathe. >> reporter: a frustrated mayor gray once again peppered with questions about issues within his campaign. the mayor lashed out at reporters just trying to get his side of the story. >> can you get the microphone out of my face, sir, please? thank you. >> reporter: the latest issue a washington post story that rots the gray campaign had access to a huge data -- reports the gray campaign had access to a huge database, names of 6,000 public housing residents, a list that should be confidential. >> i know nothing about a list. >> reporter: if that wasn't enough for the mayor to deal with, he was also heckled at the international

deb feyerick.. >> a might of anticipation turns instantly tragic. >> gunshot after gunshot. >> there's hundreds of people just running around. >> a masked gunman on a rampage of terror. >> he's at the exit firing away. >> 70 people dead or wounded. >> i have seven down. >> the fight for survival. >> we looked up and then there was another car and then there was another car and then there was another police car and another police car. >> the effort to heal. >> we will remember you, we will honor you by celebrating life. >> the victims remember. >> maybe if i was there, she'd still be here. >> hello, everyone. i'm don lemon. one week ago in aurora, colorado, changed the lives of so many in an instant. tonight, what happened inside theater 9 and what was behind the shooting rampage that left so many people dead and wound. and we learned he had been see goingin ing a psychiatrist and mailed a package of his plan but it wasn't delivered in time. now, the people we don't want you to forget. i have been r

those who have managed to live who will live with the scars say they don't want to be referred to, deb, they say they're not victims. they say they are survivors. we're told that the suspect in all of this has access to television and newspapers. we certainly hope he's watching and if he is found guilty of this to know the horrible thing he is accused of doing. i'm don lemon in colorado. our special report begins right now. >> reporter: a night of anticipation turns instantly tragic. >> gunshot after gunshot. >> there's hundreds of people just laying arnold. >> reporter: a masked gunman on a rampage of terror. >> the guy is just standing right by the exit just firing away. >> reporter: 70 people dead or wounded. >> i've got seven down. seven down. >> reporter: the fight for survival. >> we looked up and then there was another car and then there was another police car and there was another police car. >> reporter: the effort to heal. >> we will remember you. we will honor you by celebrating life. >> reporter: the victims remember. >> maybe if i was there, she would still be here. >> rep