they are dingled and dropped about 50 feet on to a bedsheet. they believe it ensures good health. the childs right activists are outraged, but no babies were hurt. we have a check on the weather. >> i'm dying here.

see that we recover this country from the economic calamity that struck us last fall. >> senator dingler civil causes, are you concerned that senator kennedy will not be there? what is the dichotomy of all that? >> the loss of ted kennedy is a great tragedy, but personal tragedy, human tragedy, and loss to the country with very serious dimensions. but the hard fact is that the business of the country must go forward and we will do so. there are a lot of other members of the house and senate in large part in memory of ted kennedy will be moving forward on legislation that's important, health care as i mentioned, education, there is too little time left for us to address these kinds of problems for us to dwadle around. i don't think our good friend ted kennedy would like to see us mourning, but he would like to see us go forward to forward the causes he believed in. >> how do you feel about senator ted kennedy? >> he was a wonderful friend, he had a great sense of humor. he came back to campaign for me on several occasions. he was a great guy to work with, and he was also a great compromi

democrat john dingle in michigan last night, a health care forum in arkansas wednesday. >> that's what obama wants. >> no, it's not what president obama wants. >> yes. it is! >> reporter: but health care reform is an essential part of health care recovery, says the president. >> we cannot turn back to the failed policy of the past. >> reporter: now the hope is for months ahead with job growth. the economists say it might be 2013 before the unemployment rate drops back down to 5%. live from the hill, steve handelsman, news 4. wendy? >> good news on the unemployment front sent stocks soaring. the dow closed the 9,370, a gain of more than 2% for the week. the nasdaq up 27 points. the s&p up 14. this is the fourth straight week of gains for the major indexes. >>> eunice kennedy shriver is in the hospital. she is in critical condition at cape cod hospital in massachusetts. her husband, children and grandchildren are all at her side now. mrs. shriver is the sister of the late president john f. kennedy and mother of california's first lady, maria shriver. in addition to being part of one of t

john dingle. mr. dingle, good to have you with us tonight. >> it's a pleasure to be with you. good evening. >> have you seen orchestrated town halls like this, in the, in your career at any time? does this remind you of the '60s at all? >> well, the last time i had to confront something like this was when i voted for the civil rights bill and my opponent voted against it. at that time, we had a lot of klu klux klan folks and white spr supremicists and folks in white sheets running around, causing trouble. >> well, this is serious stuff is what i'm hearing from you tonight, right congressman? >> well, i've faced this twice. and ed, there's something very interesting. you talked about this thing being stimulated. the hard fact is, it is. i have here before me, this thing entitled "right principles." it comes from an organization, it was passed out at the meetings we had. we had two, we had so many that we couldn't accommodate them all at the first meeting, so we had a second one the same night. it tells them what to do, how to do it and why. here's some of the things they say. o

outside detroit, congressman john dingle barely got his opening remarks out when an angry protester pushed his son in a wheelchair up-front. across the country, protests are getting louder. >> i think the more people look at the details of this health care reform plan, the more opposition we're going to see in it. >> reporter: texas democratic congressman lloyd doggett believes they're carefully orchestrated. >> this notion of a grassroots campaign is totally and completely phony. the republican party has coordinated this apparent outrage and stirred it up. >> reporter: some demonstrations are clearly organized. a conservative activist wrote a memo at other town meetings to put the congressman on the defensive with your questions and follow-up. >> these are real constituents with real concerns, even if they're getting organizing help and being told about it from outside groups, they're going there, and these are people that vote and matter in terms of the political process. >> reporter: but the disagreements are getting increasingly ugly, with comparing president obama and congress to adol

it turns out that he was outside handing out dingle information on the health care program. it appears that he was a part of the operation. neil: you have been to a rally, you know what goes on. now, both sides are questioning the value of these events. what do you say? >> the value of the event is that it should conveyed to the elected officials that they are not getting it. it is about time that they are open to hearing exactly what the people are saying. there are so many things in this bill that are scary. we look out let me ask you -- neil: let me ask you, when nancy pelosi says that people protesting our un-american, how do you feel about that? >> it makes people like us more angry. we are not protesters in the sense that the news indicates we are sometimes. yelling and screaming. we have seen this kind of event before, very peaceful. 99% of the people that we met and saw were not there yell. they would yell when they would get a response from the congressman that was contrary to the language in the bill. somebody needed to hear that that was not the entire story. neil

outside of detroit last week hitler obama signs outside, inside protesters shouting down democrat john dingle. there are exceptions to all of this, an event in rural missouri went light. some of the sound and fury carefully orchestrated. much of the fear and loathing seems real. gary tuchman speaks with new jersey protesters. tom foreman is back from a town hall and he joins us live from baltimore. what did you see, tom? >> reporter: it was quite a night. easily over 500, or 600. i'm not sure you put all the people inside and people outside who couldn't get in. they started showing up to meet with u.s. senator ben cardin from maryland. just outside baltimore is where they were meeting. clearly, clearly, clearly many, many many of the people were there to oppose the plan. there were some supporters, certainly, but an awful lot of them were there and vocal about why they were opposing this plan. many feel it is rushed. many don't like the cost. many for a lot of other details. even as some try to defend it. take a listen to what was being said outside this hall at towson university. >> there is

dingle. >> mr. dingle no. mr. marqui. mr. bouchr. mr. palone. mr. palone, no. mr. gordon. mr. gordon, no. no. mr. engle. mr. engle no. >> mr. green, mr. green, no. @@@@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [roll call vote] [roll call vote] mrs. christianson. mrs. caster. mrs. caster, no. mr. sarbane, no. mr. murphy of connecticut. mr. murphy, no. mr. space, no. mr. mcnerny. mr. mcnerny, no. mrs. sutton. mrs. sutton, no. mr. welch. mr. welch, no. mr. barton. mr. barton, aye. mr. upton, aye. mr. stern. mr. diehl, aye. mr. whitfield, aye. mr. blunt. mr. blunt. mr. blunt, aye. mr. boyer. mr. boyer, aye. mr. pitts. mr. pitts, aye. mr. terry. mr. terry, aye. >> mr. rogers. mr. rogers, aye. mr. sullivan. mr. sullivan, aye. mr. murphy of pennsylvania. mr. murphy, aye. mr. burgess. mrs. blackburn. mrs. blackburn, aye. mrs. scolise, aye. mrs. christianson votes no. mr. rusch, no. mr. stupack, no. mr. doyle, mr. doyle, no. mr. marqui, no. mr. mathison. mr. mathison votes no. mr. stern, aye. mr. ross. mr. ross votes no. >> have all members responded to the call of the role? this is an opportunity if

the signs doing the talking outside the meeting held by congressman john dingle. in denver a young man from wasilla, alaska, coincidentally, wearing a t-shirt that said hitler gave great speeches too. picketing the town hall event held by speaker pelosi. in st. louis, six people arrested last night outside the town hall held by the congressman two for assault, one for resisting arrest, three for disturbing the peace, the protestors yelling about political oppression after not having been allowed inside the doors of the venue having been closed once it had reached capacity. because of what we call the fire code. as we know, the anger and ideas of the tea party protestors did not form spontaneously outside congressman chris murphy's town hall meeting in connecticut. nothing up his sleeve. that guy not even bothering to hide his apparent affiliation with anthem blue cross blue shield. actually not bright enough to wear a different shirt to trall. at the town hall held yesterday in wisconsin that reported protestor heather blish introduced herself as just a mom from a

dingle, congressman dingell's name on it. he's been with us a long, long time. do believe that the house ought to honor dingell, the senate ought to honor kennedy, and then we can get into the conference and see how best to go forward with that. i do believe that the members of the house really owe a great debt to congressman john dingell, and i think that we ought to honor him with our legislation, and the smenate should honor it's own and then when we get to conference we'll work it out. >> congressman, thanks so much. >> thank you so much for having me. >>> coming up, ted kennedy's personal faith in god. he didn't speak much of it publicly but embraced catholicism very deeply. a key evangelical leader, reverend jim wallace, joins me to talk just that in a moment here on "the ed show." inner beauty is important, but not nearly as important as outer beauty. ♪ that's why i use covergirl's simply ageless makeup with olay regenerist serum. a department store brand can glob up in lines and wrinkles and actually make you look older. simplygeless stays suspended over

our affiliate was there when protesters lashed out at long-time congressman john dingle. >> reporter:dingell booed out by the cheers on what people think about the idea of national health care. the 81-year-old could barely get a word in edge wise. crowds started showing up early to wait in line, both those for and against yelling it out against the meeting ever got under way. >> just say no! >> reporter: once inside, it was a free for all at times. >> it got really heated and really loud. it was a lot of chanting, a lot of booing, you know, some clapping. it just, at one point, it felt like people were more worried about drowning each other out than listening. di dingell's wife, debbie, vowing to set up another town hall meeting. >> get as many people as you want to get. >> reporter: so many questions about what the obama health plan really means. >> something has to be done in a way of reform. but not to redo our whole health care system. >> there's going to be more division in this country than ever and the majority of people want this bill stopped. >> reporter: marsha who was invit

here is a protestor at a michigan event held by congressman john dingle carrying a sign that depicts the president with a hitler mustache. yesterday talk show host rush limbaugh compared the president, speaker of the house nancy pelosi, the proposed health care reform, and the president's health care logo to nazism and/or hitler. and despite criticism from among others the conservative national review online, the antidefamation league, the american jewish congress, and rabbi marvin heier founder of the simon wisen thal center, he retrenched with the health care thing today. >> his health care logo looks damn like the nazi logo. i'm sorry but it does. i didn't create either logo but i have two eyes and i can see. infuriating democrats, good. is obama not got a website where he is asking supporters to provide the names of people providing disinformation about the health care system? what did i say yesterday that is not true? >> you know, there are people alive today who barely survived the holocaust. and there are many people alive today whose whole families were killed in the holocaus

they are dingled and dropped about 50 feet on to a bedsheet. they believe it ensures good health. the childs right activists are outraged, but no babies were hurt. we have a check on the weather. >> i'm dying here. that video was -- >> i know. you see the look in the baby's eyes. >> wow! man! they are dropping babies. guys, we welcome you here to the plaza and thank you for coming out. i encourage you if you are at home to join me. we will take a look at the weather in the mid-section of the country with the storms and big time heat again for the pacific northwest. pop up showers and storms as well around florida and portions of the coast. that's a look at the national picture and here's a closer look at the weather for your weekend. . >> i'm still recover for example that dropping baby video. >> record high temps in parts of the country can translate into record high electric bills, but we have simple tips to help you cut cost by hundreds of dollars. we will save you big time money, up next. this is "the early show" here on cbs. to stay in tune with life after 50 i switched to a

. >> reporter: the crowd shoving to get in and where members of congress like michigan democrat dingle get shouted down. much of the passion and protests comes from conservative voices opposed to the democrats' plan for a government-run option for held care. [ chanting ] the democratic national committee in a web video charged these protests are staged. >> now, allies are organizing angry mobs. >> reporter: some on display get stoked by the provocative megaphones of rush limbaugh who went so far as accusing democrats of wanting to soernlize medicine of nazi germany. >> the obama health care logo is damn close to a nazi swastika logo. >> reporter: to encourage attend, conservative organizers acknowledge they sent e-mail alerts to members but argue the anger is real. >> i think that the politicians should be careful about so easily dismissing this many people showing up and participating in the process. >> reporter: virginia democrat jim moran expects to get an earful. >> funny to be opposed. i don't think it's fine to come in with the objective of disrupting the town hall meetings. >> r

. >> reporter: a heated confrontation for democratic congressman john dingle in michigan. a course of boos at a similar event in missouri and at this town hall meeting in florida, some had to press their faces against windows because the crowd was over flowing. >> clear a path. >> reporter: the president spent the evening at a political fundraiser in virginia. beyond the protests he's looking at polls like this one that show 52% of voters disapprove of his handling of health care. >> all we do is bicker and point fingers. >> reporter: the white house is struggling to stay on course and the president had to back democrats who find themselves on the receiving end of the growing protests. >> it not lost on me how badly the health insurance industry and the big drug companies do not want health reform. >> reporter: and thahas been the argument from democrats, that the protests are being organized. >> i'm not a right wing whacko, i was not hired or forced to come here by anybody. >> reporter: some may avoid having town hall meetings which are usually a staple of the summer rece

there was an opportunity with the clintons and they didn't move ahead with jim cooper and dingle andynahan. >> more moderate. >> people don't seem to want to compromise. i think the opportunity will emerge and you and i know, and savannah, know covering this story there, will come a moment in the next couple of weeks, someone has to cut the diamond, someone has to make the critical zi what can get done, what should get done in these circumstances economically and what commitment should be made for the future in terms of doing something again. someone has to make that decision. >> the problem is we have the problem on the right as well, if people in the middle cut a deal, to be practical, they get sav e savaged by their base, that may happen here. let's read george f. will, the most consequential kennedy. the constitution makes senator 1% of 1/2 of one of three branches of the federal government. the intangable and unquantifiable chemistry of personality in a laboratory like the senate made ted kennedy forceful. in the senate as elsewhere, 80% of the important work is done by a talent

. >> reporter: in michigan a vocal crowd told representative tom dingle what they want to be done withlthcare reform. >> kill the bill. >> kill the bill. >> reporter: some went so far as daring police officers to arrest them. the most recent poll shows support slipping for healthcare reform. megan gilliland. fox 45 morning news. >>> well, this all brings us to our question of the day. we want to know what you think. do you think some of the health kaiser protesthealthcare protese unamerican? we are going to take your calls later this morning. you can also send us a tweet at fox baltimore. >>> the parents of murder victim carl lacking wil lackl will spea national trade show. that would reduce the amount of crime organized from behind bars. gary and math tiply, lackl's parents are scheduled to appear today at the american correctional association trade show in nashville. carl lackl was going to be a witness in a murder trial against accused patrick byers when police say buyers ordered lackl's murder by using an unauthorized cell phone. >>> he was convicted in june of gunning down john do

[applause] in but am -- a lot of americans were touched about the man screaming at senator dingle.en working at this for 17 years now. i went to 300 towns in america in march through may last year. 300. i did not meet in the disabled children worried about losing their coverage. i'm a disabled children and their parents to a party lost their coverage who did that get in a covered in for worried about whether they are going to double to put food on their table. that is far more important. you have to make the case that the worst thing we can do is the status quo. you have to figure out the three or four things at 100% will agree on. it has to be in the bill. and the three or four things and none of us wanting a bill that we are being accused of. helping someone draw up a living will is not the same thing as an by the seniors to die. [applause] it is a legitimate thing. in order to save our expenditures, -- when they have their wits about them, there is nothing anti-life or anti- american about when hillary's dad had a stroke, he hung on for a long time. with the first things we did

dingle. no. mr. boucher? mr. palone? mr. palone, no. mr. gordon? mr. rusch? miss eshue, no. mrs. supack, no. mr. engle. mr. green. mr. green, no. no. mrs. caps. mrs. caps, no. mr. doyle. mr. doyle, no. miss harmon. miss harmon, no. mr. gonzalez. mr. insley. mr. insley, no. miss baldwin. miss baldwin, no. mr. wayner, no. mr. mathison. mr. butterfield. mr. butterfield, no. mr. hill. mrs. christianson. mrs. christianson, no. mrs. caster. mrs. caster, no. mr. murphy of connecticut. mr. murphy, no. mr. mcnerny. mr. mcnerny, aye. mrs. sutton. mrs. sutton, no. mr. braley. mr. braley, aye. i'm sorry. no. mr. welch, no. mr. hall, aye. mr. upon tton, aye. mr. whitfield. mr. whitfield, aye. mr. shimkus, aye. mr. blunt. aye. mr. boyer, mr. baoyer, aye. mr. pitts, mr. pitts, aye. mr. walden, mr. walden, aye. mr. terry. mr. terry, aye. mr. rogers. mr. rogers, aye. mr. sullivan, @@@@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ >> mr. angle. mr. angle votes no. mr. rush. mr. risch wrote snow. mr. greene. i am sorry. ms. matsui, i am sorry. ms. matsui votes no. mr. bowsher. mr. bowsher votes know. matsui votes no. mr. boucher

dingle's legislation. it looks like that. give me your thoughts on that piece of legislation.know many in the agricultural community are concerned about that. and i think in your introduction, at least to the chairman, have a background with california farm bureau. so let's start with you. your thoughts on that bill that looks like it will be on the floor here in just a few minutes. >> well, the bill clearly we support. we do support bill and we look for looking at what the working group produces and looking at other, as they review current statutes and regulatory authorities and seeing how wing into the 21st century. i think many of these measures. >> let me ask you specifically about some of the concerns we've heard from folks in agriculture. >> i got a long e-mail last night about that. >> and in particular, your former employer, the farm bureau. do you think they are way off base? or do you think, again, recognizing where you worked before, do you think they have some valid concerns? >> you know, i think that we have to -- i think in working with fda and usda, we have a go

[applause] in but am -- a lot of americans were touched about the man screaming at senator dingle. i have been working at this for 17 years now. i went to 300 towns in america in march through may last year. 300. i did not meet in the disabled children worried about losing their coverage. i'm a disabled children and their parents to a party lost their coverage who did that get in a covered in for worried about whether they are going to double to put food on their table. that is far more important. you have to make the case that the worst thing we can do is the status quo. you have to figure out the three or four things at 100% will agree on. it has to be in the bill. and the three or four things and none of us wanting a bill that we are being accused of. helping someone draw up a living will is not the same thing as an by the seniors to die. [applause] it is a legitimate thing. in order to save our expenditures, -- when they have their wits about them, there is nothing anti-life or anti- american about when hillary's dad had a stroke, he hung on for a long time. with the first thin

[applause] in but am -- a lot of americans were touched about the man screaming at senator dingle. i have been working at this for 17 years now. i went to 300 towns in america in march through may last year. 300. i did not meet in the disabled children worried about losing their coverage. i'm a disabled children and their parents to a party lost their coverage who did that get in a covered in for worried about whether they are going to double to put food on their table. that is far more important. you have to make the case that the worst thing we can do is the status quo. you have to figure out the three or four things at 100% will agree on. it has to be in the bill. and the three or four things and none of us wanting a bill that we are being accused of. helping someone draw up a living will is not the same thing as an by the seniors to die. [applause] it is a legitimate thing. in order to save our expenditures, -- when they have their wits about them, there is nothing anti-life or anti- american about when hillary's dad had a stroke, he hung on for a long time. with the first thin

[applause] in but am -- a lot of americans were touched about the man screaming at senator dingle.orking at this for 17 years now. i went to 300 towns in america in march through may last year. 300. i did not meet in the disabled children worried about losing their coverage. i'm a disabled children and their parents to a party lost their coverage who did that get in a covered in for worried about whether they are going to double to put food on their table. that is far more important. you have to make the case that the worst thing we can do is the status quo. you have to figure out the three or four things at 100% will agree on. it has to be in the bill. and the three or four things and none of us wanting a bill that we are being accused of. helping someone draw up a living will is not the same thing as an by the seniors to die. [applause] it is a legitimate thing. in order to save our expenditures, -- when they have their wits about them, there is nothing anti-life or anti- american about when hillary's dad had a stroke, he hung on for a long time. with the first things we did afte

dingle's legislation. it looks like that. give me your thoughts on that piece of legislation. i know many in the agricultural community are concerned about that. and i think in your introduction, at least to the chairman, have a background with california farm bureau. so let's start with you. your thoughts on that bill that looks like it will be on the floor here in just a few minutes. >> well, the bill clearly we support. we do support bill and we look for looking at what the working group produces and looking at other, as they review current statutes and regulatory authorities and seeing how wing into the 21st century. i think many of these measures. >> let me ask you specifically about some of the concerns we've heard from folks in agriculture. >> i got a long e-mail last night about that. >> and in particular, your former employer, the farm bureau. do you think they are way off base? or do you think, again, recognizing where you worked before, do you think they have some valid concerns? >> you know, i think that we have to -- i think in working with fda and usda, we have a