dr. nathan. what do you think the reduction in social security benefits would mean to seniors in this country. monday ruggles? >> the seniors i deal with, and especially the ones i talk to at vermont training associates, they are all terrified. plain and simple. terrified to expect to live on the dollars and cents that was in their earning statement, which unfortunately we no longer get. but their standard of living as they were working adults, and all of them -- i was at these meetings with, they were working adults. they weren't bums. they were hard-working people that wanted to keep working. they knew they cooperate survive on social security. neither can i. >> dr. hartmann. >> in the survey we took, we asked our retirees and near retirees of the four challenges they would face. one would be not having enough savings, going to a nursing home, not being able to pay for health care. but the single thing they were the most afraid of was the possibility that social security benefits would be cut.

dr. nathan and head west.talked a little bit about cola and some of you have touched upon this issue of economic security and what that means. when i read that on average people in the bottom 20% quintile are living on $7,500 a year, that is almost beyond comprehension. i just don't know how people do that. so say a word about that. how does somebody survive on that kind of a minimal income. and second, more broad comment, and i know it very is depending on the location of the country that you are living in, in vermont and minnesota it's cold and people spend a lot of money on heat in other parts of the country that may not be so. food prices vary. but dr. nei fin, talk a little about the issue of economic security and what is happening to people living on seven or $8,000 a year? >> senator sanders, chairman sanders, anyone living on $7,000 or less each year, as i stated previously, is living in a state of economic deprivation. no one can provide for their basic needs and achieve a certain level of economic se

dr. richard besser in cameroon. >> nathan wolfe's new book was published today and dr. richard besser's reporting, part of abc's initiative, be the change, save a life, produced with the bell and melinda gates foundation and we're grateful to both. >>> coming up next, the gop debate. who did him or herself the most good? and vice versa. stick around. luck? i don't trade on luck. i trade on fundamentals. analysis. information. i trade on tradearchitect. this is web-based trading, re-visualized. streaming, real-time quotes. earnings analysis. probability analysis: that's what opportunity looks like. it's all visual. intuitive. and it's available free, wherever the web is. this is how trade strategies are built. tradearchitect. only from td ameritrade. welcome to better trade commission free for 60 days when you open an account. the first thing you got to do is make a car that's worth building... one with character and conviction... that has all the luxury you'd expect. then you put in an 8-speed transmission that gets 31 miles per gallon. that combination of luxury and ef

dr. richard besser looks at what it takes to stop the next epidemic. rich traveled with virus tracker, nathandemic," is out today. and it talks about the leap from animals to us. >> and there's a brand-new study saying that bats are the source of a deadly ebola virus. once again, this looks at animals as a source of new diseases. there's one virus hunter that is out to catch the next pandemic virus before it can do any harm. and i went with him to see exactly how he's going to do it. the fear of a devastating, new virus, leaping from animals into humans and spreading across the globe, is not just the stuff of hollywood movies like "contagion." >> can i talk to her? >> your wife is dead. >> reporter: in 2002, 8,000 cases of sars came from a virus in bat. in 2009, swine flu, the h1n1 virus. originated in pigs and killed 18,000 people. and then, there's aids. 60 million people infected with hiv, the virus that cause s aid. 25 million have died. the source, a virus that jumps from chimpanzees in the jungles of central africa. for nathan wolfe, those jungles of cameroon, is a vast, outdoor lab. >>

nathan and ms. laura dibona's. mr. mark nichols and ms. jane keonna. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] mr. peter kwan and ms. jeannie kwon. ms. candy crowley and mr. michael roselli. drbert marchant. senator richard lugar and ms. deb lugar. senator lugar is the ranking republican on the foreign affairs, foreign relations committee. mr. chris courts and mr. andrew courts. mr. peter krause and mrs. lisa krause. senator max baucus and miss melody haynes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ambassador armalon revere and philip revere. the honorable timothy geithner and mrs. geithner. ms. carla a. robinson mr. guy -- [inaudible conversations] mr. henry h. kang and ms. cassie hearn mihalik. [inaudible conversations] the honorable ann stock and mr. stewart c. stolt. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ms. janelle monet and mr. nathaniel irvin. janelle monet is one of the performers this evening at the white house, following the white house state dinner. the other performers will be be on trio from seoul korea who were educated at juilliard in new york. [inaudible co

dr. robert colucci and ms. emily neustadt. [inaudible conversations] mr. spencer earth are over 10 and mrs. leslie collins over 10. ms. linda nathan and mr. roger h. brown.ersations] [inaudible conversations] mr. james biden and ms. sir biden. that matched >> guests arriving at the white house earlier for the state dinner for south korean president lee myung-bak. secretary hewitt and his wife, senate finance committee chairman max baucus, treasury secretary tim geithner and in just a moment ago, janel monet who sings asante broke. we're going into the dinner now to see president obama and presently offered toasts. [applause] found that sometimes >> i also want to acknowledge to guests in particular, and other son of korea chief security, secretary general funky mood is here. [applause] and our first korean-american, ambassador to the republic of korea confirmed by the senate today, ambassador graham chip. [applause] [speaking korean] [speaking korean] >> now i'm going to be very brief tonight because president lee has had a very full day and a very wet day. [laughter] as well as extended meetings, press conferences, state department bank with an address

dr. nathan. what do you think the reduction in social security benefits would mean to seniors in this country. monday ruggles? >> the seniors i deal with, and especially the ones i talk to at vermont training associates, they are all terrified. plain and simple. terrified to expect to live on the dollars and cents that was in their earning statement, which unfortunately we no longer get. but their standard of living as they were working adults, and all of them -- i was at these meetings with, they were working adults. they weren't bums. they were hard-working people that wanted to keep working. they knew they cooperate survive on social security. neither can i. >> dr. hartmann. >> in the survey we took, we asked our retirees and near retirees of the four challenges they would face. one would be not having enough savings, going to a nursing home, not being able to pay for health care. but the single thing they were the most afraid of was the possibility that social security benefits would be cut.