sir edward downes and his wife joan died at an assisted suicide clinic. assisted suicide is legal in switzerland, but the case has raised new questions because she was terminally ill. he was not ill at all. here's jim sciutto. >> reporter: sir edward downes and his wife, joan, shared a life immersed in music. he, one of britain's greatest conductors, she, a ballet dancer. but their greatest passion was each other. and when joan was diagnosed with terminal cancer, they decided to die together. on friday, they traveled to a clinic in zurich operated by the swiss euthanasia organization dignitas. they told only a few friends and family, and died holding hands in a room like this one after drinking a fatal dose of barbiturates. "after 54 years together, our parents died peacefully and under circumstances of their own choosing," their children said. when sir edward conducted here at london's royal albert hall, his wife, joan, was in the audience for every performance and every rehearsal. colleagues and friends say they were completely devoted to each other. >>

stephanie west of independent television news reports on the assisted suicide of sir edward downs and his terminally ill wife. >> loved by his musicians and revered by the opera world, sir edward downs never sought the limelight. instead, he kept a low profile and had the reputation of a master -- a workhorse with a passion for verdi. at the time of his death, he conducted 25 of the italian composer's 28 operas in a career lasting more than half a century. >> he would never give in until he got what he thought was the most important thing for the music at the moment. he loved the details. he loved the history of opera. he loved what was behind the notes. he loved the words. and together with his wife, they made quite an awesome couple, actually, because they were sort of made for each other. they were very strong and practical and full of life and full of energy. >> born in birmingham in 1924, the composer met his future wife, a ballet dancer and choreographer after he joined the covent garden opera in 1983. later she became dedicated to her husband's career working as his personal as

. >> the conductor edward downe has died, along with his lot -- along with his wife and assisted suicidelinic in switzerland. his wife was dying of cancer and he chose to travel with her to end their lives together. >> a gifted and passionate musician, ted downs was at the center of britain's musical life. his real life passion was for his wife, joan. they shared a life and love for music, one that friends and family described as passionate. >> i can perfectly well imagine being so rational thinking, it has been great, this is the way to complete our lives together. >>ç when ted downs was performing, or even just rehearsing, joan would always be in the audience. the couple that was completely devoted, they decided to make their last journey together. while joan violence was dying of cancer, her husband was not -- while jones was dying of cancer, her of them was not terminally ill. the doctor prescribes lethal doses of medication to those seeking assisted suicide. campaigners believe 170 people have traveled to switzerland for assisted suicide. it is thought to cost about 4,000 pounds pe

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sir edward downes was a highly respected 85-year-old british symphony orchestra conductor. his wife for more than 50 years, lady downes, 74, had terminal cancer, and he was increasingly blind and deaf. they were said to want to die, together. assisted suicide is illegal in britain, but not in switzerland. so the couple flew to zurich, to a clinic that specializes in assisting suicides. they drank a lethal fluid and died side by side, holding hands, in the presence of their two children. in washington, a federal commission is urging the iraqi government to protect that country's christians, in the wake of a recent string of church bombings. the u.s. commission on international religious freedom asked the iraqi government to identify and punish those responsible for attacks at or near five churches in baghdad. the violence killed at least four people and injured dozens. iraqi authorities believe the attacks were coordinated, and they have tightened security around churches. christians in iraq number about 750,000 in a mainly muslim country of 28 million. many of the people wh

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down. lap 133. carl edwards is your new leader.rking very important. >> 101 is what they say. >> 21 laps to go. edwards and busch neck and neck, edwards takes the lead back. final lap, edwards. he will get the win. busch finishes second. edwards gets his 22nd career nationwide win. kyle busch has finished first or second in eight straight races. edwards was able to shave off 20 points. busch still has a commanding 192-point lead. edwards did lead a race-high 72 of the 200 laps. he spoke job and actually almost ran over one of the guys on scott wimmer's team. one time we came off and i misjudged and hooked him a little bit, we were racing hard and he hits the fence and i'm like one eye closed, turning, he hit the fence and then he hit me and i thought man, this is exciting. glad we didn't cut a tire and just really cool to race with kyle like that. that's fun. would be a cool place to race about -- i don't know, once a day. >> nothing but smiles after the w. still more baseball to get to. philadelphia's jimmy rollins doing something

edwards please? >> who is this? >> my name is david ridgen. i'm calling with thomas moore. can i talk to you for a couple of seconds? >> i don't believe you can. >> sir, mr. moore's downe hung up. >> he hung up. >> hello. >> hello, mr. edwards. sorry. mr. moore just wants to talk to you for -- all he wants to do is talk to you man to man. what do you think? >> i told you that. that [ bleep ] won't talk to me. >> hello. we are not available now. please leave your name and number after the beep. >> edwards, this is thomas moore. i need closure in the killing of my brother 41 years ago. if you're not the guy, then let's close it. there's no sense in you and i both going through hell for the rest of our lives. i'm not a violent guy. i want to talk to you in neutral ground, man to man, face to face. just the two of us. >> thomas still felt that he could talk to edwards and pressure him to tell the truth because edwards confessed so easily after his arrest, thomas always thought him to be the weakest link in the case and yet even if edwards did start talking now, would it be enough? back in 1964 when edwards and seale were released from jail, nothing further had been done.

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jerry edwards, back down to you. >>> chuck, we'll take a little drive along interstate 270, it's still relatively quiet. i'm not sure if that's a raindrop on the camera lens as well. the road surface appears to be dry. headed south out of frederick to rockville. checking things through northet. new york avenue, kenilworth avenue doing fine. south capital street no hang-ups headed to or beyond the southeast-southwest freeway. barbara and joe, back to you. >>> 5:21, 73 degrees, what the obama family is doing in northern virginia this week. >>> and a medical examiner is, what he's saying about the death of michael jackson. >>> plus the brazen robbery by a politician's brother, caught on camera. >>> and here's your liz on the money, money-saving tip of the day. >> allowance is an important strategy in teaching children the value of money. some experts suggest giving your child one dollar for every year of your child's age. and give your child his allowance in a way that makes it easy to make him save. ten single dollars rather than a $10 ( dryer blowing, music ) you can probably imagine a

jerry edwards is here with the traffic. >> put the top down? >> no, i'm going to keep it right where it is for now. we'll take a live look to see how we are doing. the wet roads could pose issues. 95 through the area is doing well. 270 is okay. we'll check the trip in the west along interstate 66 making your drive in, and headed to the capital beltway, take my word for it, it looks good. >> thank you so much, jerry. see you in a few minutes. >>> here's a look at four big stories happening today. prince george's county police are investigating an overnight shooting and robbery that happened on a road in nike drive in waldorf. it led to a person being shot after a robbery. no details have been release d n the person shot so far. >>> prosecutors say this woman lived in her home several months after she killed her daughters. she believed they were full of demons. >>> also, the nbc wall street journal poll will be released on the health care debate and president obama's first six months in office. >>> robert gates is expected to visit iraq's kurdish

down. lap 133, carl edwards is your new leader. 36 laps to go here. edwards in the pits.st enough which means he's got to back up and try again. like me pulling out of a parking spot. >> parallel parking very important. >> 101 -- i did pass my first driver's test, i want to throw it out there -- 21 laps to gedwards in the number 60 car takes the lead back. edwards, he will get the win. busch finishes second. edwards gets his 22nd career nationwide win. kyle busch has now finished first or second in eight straight races. edwards was able to shave off 20 points off kyle busch's overall lead in the standings. busch on, however, still has a commanding 192-point lead. edwards did lead a race-high 72 of the 200 laps. he spoke when it was done. >> that battle with kyle busch, what was that like? >> first thing, i messed up in the pits. my guys did a great job, and actually almost ran over one of the guys on scott wimmeray team. at one time we came off -- scott wimmer's team. i came off here and misjudge and hooked him a little bit and he hits the fence, i'm like one eye closed,

. >>> let's check with jerry edwards once again to see if the roadways are settling down. >> a lot ofdwork causing a lot of delays. this is the inner loop of the capital beltway. the left hand exit will take you to i-66, it's jammed. somebody is going on vacation. and any way, construction is in the left lane, and as a result we are looking at delays leaving springfield. it has been a busy morning, but all the lanes open to the 14th street bridge, filly. >> thank you, jerry. >>> and there is new questions about michael jackson and a secret fourth child this morning. a british tabloid said he could have a son, a 25-year-old dancer, who sat with the memorial service. he looks like michael jackson's youngest son, blanket. and police want to talk to another one of jackson's doctors for the third time. >> reporter: when michael jackson died inside his mansion, his cardiologist, dr. conrad murray was with him. now the spokesperson confirms investigators are asking for more records and want to interview him again, too. investigators have interviewed him twice. in a statement overnight the la

. >>> let's go to jerry edwards and the news4 traffic network. >> midday roadwork slowing you down. and on the inner loop, as you travel over towards university boulevard, the right lane is taken away. and around connecticut avenue eastbound on the inner loop, it's busy. and headed for downtown, along 395, northbound, and southbound is moving nicely. trouble from earlier in the morning is cleared out. travel lanes are open and we are looking good. joe, kimberly, back to you. >> thank you. >>> a water main break made things dicey for drivers this morning. it shut down the area of 23rd and i street. and crews expected to wrap up repairs shortly. >>> 11:11, 78 degrees. still ahead, more trouble for d.c. councilmember, marion bar y barry, finding himself at odds with the rest of the counsel. >>> and then an amazing story of survival. how this young boy managed to float down a river for eight miles, all thanks to his toy truck. b cpep#ú >>> the d.c. council will vote into an investigation in marion barry's use of contracts. and one says he is asking the d.c. inspector general to investig

what happens is that democratic republicans up and down the eastern seaboard begin toasting edward livingston'spassing resolutions announcing that they will not obey the sedition act. this discourse is thus worn into mainstream politics, this is the discourse of republican opposition in 1998. it's -- 1798. it's not marginal in any sense. as we all know, the democratic republicans go on to win the elections of 1800, they go on to take power notelets because jefferson and -- not least because jefferson and madison threatened the federalists that if they stay in power there will be civil war and as a result, this idea that the people have a continuing right to face down their governments, that the people should retain a continuing capacity to rise up in arms, should the government turn tyrannyical because the majority of the party for the first half of the century. iin 1826, this is on the 50th 50th anniversary of the revolution of the signing of the declaration of independence, a militia company in petersburg, virginia, is protesting against what is called the corrupt bargain, whereby john quincy

edwards for the check on traffic. >> another painful day for folks trying to head on down towards the auk akwan river. and construction south of lorden takes away the right lane. and northbound right now looks like we are doing okay. elsewhere, we will check out the woodrow wilson bridge. no worries there. and a little work zone, the outer work of the beltway. >>> time 11:11. hitting the roads in virginia. what you might want to do before you go. >> issue one for the president right now. find out why reforming health care is causing his popularity to plunge. >>> new details about the deadly hotel bombings in indonesia. why the video could be key in the investigation. >>> what the government was not told about cell phone safety. fios guy! where ya headed? ah, just installed fios in the whole building. now everyone has the fastest upload speeds. and we're giving them a mini netbook. well, i'm sticking with cable. so's ted. (voice) no i'm not! he's just goofing. (voice) no i'm not! (sighing) ted has betrayed me. (announcer) unlike cable, fios brings 100% fiber optics straight to your home and when you sw

edwards in the news traffic 4 center. >> reporter: not too many issues. we found a couple problems, but things are calming downhere as we kick into high gear for the morning drive. we'll check out 270. chuck, i mentioned the light rain showers. that's the case headed down through rockville. the good news from frederickville, no lanes are op. that's the case on the beltway from i-95 headed over to silver springs. we'll take a look to see what we can see. a reminder on the exit ramp from the vw parkway to go in on kettleworth avenue, there was a nasty accident there over the weekend. it took off the guardrail. authorities nailed the ramp to southbound parkway. itooks like it will be one travel lane throughout the morning. we'll watch that. it is cool. >>> well, some last-minute changes in the cash for clunkers program has put the brakes on some car deals already in the works. the program allows cash drivers to improve their gas mileage by a certain number, but the mile age figure is done on 10 vehicles. the jeep cherokee and the 1994 lincoln town car are eligible. the 1991 come car van and jox wagon jeti was onl

thank you, tom. >> now back to jerry edwards in the news the channel traffic watch center. >> near georgia avenue, we have a broken downleft travel lanes. two lanes are open, but it is a twigt squeeze. elsewhere, headed for downtown, 395 northbound is looking mighty fine this morning. we are loading up near the 14th street bridge. back to you. >>> thank you. breaking news overseas right now. an iranian plane has crashed. iranian state tv reports 168 people were onboard the caspian airlines jet when it crashed. this is video just into our newsroom. the plane was found i small pieces with the wreckage engulfed in flames. you can see the huge crater caused by the crash and the explosion there. everyone onboard is feared to be dead. reports from the scene indicate the weather was clear at the time,o weather does not appear to be a cause of the crash, at least initially. the plane was on the way to the iranian capitol. >>> a tsunami warning was issued for new zealand. no reports of injuries so far. > in northern virginia s.w.a.t. teams are trying to coax a man out of a home near falls church. he is considered a person of in

how his late father, captain edward boyle stand was robbed by the red coats who captured him in january 1777. after a week's confinement on and on named prison ship boils down was put in livingston's sugarhouse where such was the fall the state of things he wrote that there wasn't a place to lie down for the rest day or night but upon the excrements of the prisoners. it was a story his son wrote he never forgot. as colonel hartley would point out in the letter to washington the influence these things will have upon the country will take a long time to wear off. fast forward now a couple of years to 1779 a couple of years and about 100 pages of the book to a somewhat different topic. and the summer of 1779a philadelphia printer named robert bell began to advertise a slender volume that would transform the way americans understood and responded to the abuse of prisoners in new york. this was the grand eloquently titled narrative of colonel ethan allen's captivity from the time of his being taken by the british near montreal on the 25th day of december in 1775 to the time of his exchange on the sixth of may, 1778 written by himself. it was an immediate best se

down services for much of the day. it happened around 11:00 a.m. at the dmv office on edwards ferry road in leesburg. karen gray houston has more details. >> reporter: it was an unfortunate encounter. here's what it looked like from the helicopter. car lodged in building. after it smashed into a brig wall and the -- brick wall and the doors around 11:00 this morning to the suppl closet. the leesburg police and loudoun coty fire and rescue responded the driver of the car was not injured and nor was anyoneelse. the building was evacuated as a precaution. people expressed different levels of surprise after coming to the front doors to find them locked. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: with once what is a customer supposed tdo? >> i was wondering why the parking lot is empty. okay. >> okay. >> so, i guess bad day for us. >> reporter: turned out it was a real inconvenience for jane and wilbur whartman. they have been try for weeks to get his license. >> holy moses. this is the fourth time we have been down here this week. >> four times? >> the first time the machine was broke to take your picture. and the sec

down. this country has lost an icon and a dear friend. >> and, of course, as a broadcasting pioneer recruited by edwardkite defined television journalism, not just for the millions of american whose tuned in to this newscast every night for decades, but for so many of us inspired by him to become journalist, and his approach to news, that straightforward delivery an his passion to be a reporter, not just a news anchor i think lives on in never newsroom and hopefully will inspire the next generation of journalists. >> hon necessity at key moments in our history. >> looking back at the life and career of the legendary newsman. >> from cbs news in dallas, texas, three shots were fired at president kennedy the motorcade in downtown dallas. >> reporter: he'll be forever linked to the assassination of our young president. and with american's space flight. >> man on the moon. whew. boy. >> we're going to be busy for a minute. >> reporter: and the downfall of a president. >> we shall try tonight to pull together the threat of his amazing story quite unlike any in our modern american history. >> reporter: for 2

edward had to say coming to us from texas. >> caller: i was 19 years old when they touched down. i was in the coast guard. and cooking breakfast for a crew of eight men. >> thanks so much for that, edward. also we are talking about the moonwalk on our blog over on the heidi mac. our question, would you travel to the moon if you could, in fact, afford it. we've gotten a couple of responses on this. so once again, just go to cnn.com/heidi. post your responses. the first one says this. from matthew he says, of course i would travel to the moon to stay. i don't know what that means, but then this one coming in from laura who says, yeah, i would go to the moon so i would be 100 pounds less and eat all the space food i want. yum. good idea. by phone, by blog, by esp, we want to hear from you. 877-742-5760. and give your thoughts on hotline to heidi or go to cnn.com/heidi. >>> it's a different countdown ticking away at nasa. in just about 14 months, the space agency is set to retire its space shuttle program. what happens to the u.s. plans for space now? cnn's john zarrella has some answers. >> three, two, one,

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edward r. murrow asked him to join cbs news. at the time testify was less reputable than radio. >> the film seems to be upside down. the young reporter at the time, television was the future. even without formal broadcast training, cronkite seemed born for the job. it wasn't always hard news. for a time he co-hosted the morning news with a puppet. in 1962 he was named anchorman of the evening news which was 15 minutes long. >> as walter grew in stature, television news grew in stature. >> cronkite made cbs news respectable. >> reporter: less an year later, the news expanded to 30 minutes. viewers tuned into cronkite who saw his job as a mission to get the facts fast. >> he had more experience, more knowledge. there wasn't a day when news was a much more serious teaching cool. . >> the highest calling is to get the facts straight and report them impartially, fairly. >> he seemed comfortable. why was he so well suited? >> he was a presence america took to. he was telling everybody, everything's goesing to fine. >> he reflected what many ofs felt and showed the emotion we were feeling. >> his broadcast was the number

edwards ferry road in leesburg. investigators say the driver hit the accelerator instead of the brake accidentally. no injuries. the dmv shut down for the rest of the day after this but lit reopen tomorrow morning. and an hour earlier a pickup truck crashed into a house in prince george's county on croom road. driver was trapped for about 40 minutes while firefighters and paramedics and the collapse team worked to get him out. after the man was preede he was taken to a trauma center. investigators say it is not clear whether he suffered any medical emergency that caused this accident. and an hour earlier than that, around 9:00, ups truck collided with a car in charles county on route 225 near the intersection of route 301 and la plata. a nearby bank, gas station and restaurant were evacuated because of a fuel spill from the ups truck. the area had to be blocked off until the accident was cleared and that caused a major traffic jam. the driver of the car was taken to a hospital with injuries not expected to be life threatening. the truck driver was treated at the scene for minor injuries. >>> clinical trials for a swine flu vacci

here's jerry edwards in the news 4 traffiat network. >>> let's take a drive up and down 95 in virginiaexit for route 17, so far so good as the northbound flow. a lot of folks headed south. maybe headed on vacation. right now the good news is no hangups to report around the tread rifredericksburg area. we do have an exit at the exit for south capital street. southeast corridors are fine. in worry so is far. so far he he's optimistically on i-270. back to you. >>> in the new, president obama takes his push for health care reform on the road to ohio today. he used his fourth prime time news conference last night to say the refor is essential to the nation's economic recovery. he also cald af ait a role mode for the type of change americans want. brooke hart has more now from capitol hill. >> a lot of americans may be wondering what's in this for me. >> reporter: president obama tried to rita control of the health care debate. he focused on what americans have to gain an lod lose from reform. what will they sacrifice he was asked? >> they'll have to gef up pive paying for things that don't

down into the mid-60s. i'll have your saturday forecast. that will be coming up in ten minutes at 6:11. >> thank you, tom. >> let's go to jerry edwards now andffic network. jerry? >> good morning and good news. everything seems to be moving along pretty well. certainly picking up some volume here on this friday on 95 northbound en route to the springfield interchange but nothing blocking southbound 95 also looks good. hovs typically wide open at this hour. let's see what else is happening around town. route 50 moving well. the beltway north of town, college park to silver spring lanes are open. word of a broken down vehicle in gw parkway northund near the cia. police are headed to investigate. back to you. >> thanks very much. >>> a commuter alert for riders using metro's red line. the transit agency has planned a major overhaul set to get under way in the coming months. >> the plan includes track repairs, platform upgrades and newest ka laters. the multimillion dollar project is intended to rehabilitate the aging rail system. >> these changes will cause growing pains for the morning and evening rush hours. megan mcgrath joins us live with t

edward r. murrow asked him to join cbs news. at the time tv was less reputable than radio, fraught with risk. >> unfortunately it seems to be upside downter: for the young reporter, at the time television was the future. even without formal broadcast training, cronkite seemed born for the job. it wasn't always hard news. for a time he cohosted the morning show with a puppet, sha sharlemane but then he was named anchor of the evening news, 15 minutes long. >> as walter grew in stature, television news grew in stature, cronkite made cbs news respectable. >> reporter: less than a year later the news expanded to 30 minutes and viewers increasingly tuned in to cronkite, who saw his job as a mission to get the facts fast and to educate his audience. this is his long-time producer. >> you kind of believed and trusted what he said to you because he had more experience, more knowledge, and it was in a day when news was a much more serious teaching tool. >> he was family. he was someone who made us feel safe and secure. >> good morning. and it's windy. >> reporter: for nearly 20 years cronkite brought the news to as many as 22 million americans

edwards now. what did you see on the way in? >> i saw little martians coming downake me away. >> we know where you live, jerry. >> let's head out and see how we are doing this morning. on the outer loop of the beltway, so far, so good. from the i-270 spur across the american legion bridge to tysons, inner loop, everything is beautiful so far this morning. elsewhere, let you know there is word of a broke yn-down vehicle in the roadway, 295 northbound at the inbound 11th street bridge. folks headed northn 295 coming up on that thing at speed so plan accordingly. hopefully a tow truck will get out there and move it shortly. back to you. >> thank you, jerry. >>> metro's announced it is closing four locations where bus riders have been able to buy fare cards. "the washington post" reports the sales offices at the royal street bus garage in alexandria, the four-mile bus garage in arlington and the landover bus garage in hyattsville will close on july 31st. the western bus garage in the district will close its sales office on august the 23rd. >> new today, a political fig

down to you. >> thanks very much, chuck. >> let's check the traffic now. let's go to jerry edwards. any problems we should know about?> it's pretty quiet so far. picking up volume but nothing too much to worry about as evidenced by the leave vdot camera pictures along 95 northbound en route to capital beltway. looking good heading south very light volume of traffic so far. elsewhere we'll take a peek and see what's shaking around town. 270 is doing fine. you folks coming in from the west, 66 no hang ups. reported to be incident free. back to you. >> thank you, jerry. >>> breaking news out of prince george's county this hour. overnight a famous go-go bar burned to the ground. the brian manner at the knights of columbus hall went up in flames just after 2:00 this morning. the hall is located in the 1500 block of southern avenue. no one was hurt in the fire. we have a crew headed to the scene and will bring you details in a live report later in the show. >>> big changes to a major commuter route in our region and it's expected that changes will ease traffic congestion. >> work crews created a new lane on the chain bridg

down. >> in a statement taken the next morning, jones told police he only briefly saw an unknown man fleeing the shooting scene. but months later jones identified 28-year-old arvin edwardsng suspect. jones was initially charged with felony coercion for his role in the fight inside the strip club, but that charge was reduced to a misdemeanor in exchange for jones' testimony against edwards. jones is expected to take the stand at edwards' trial, which will begin this week, but it's now been delayed until february. when contacted by espn, jones's agent and attorney said jones has "been trying to stay out of the news. he's got a child. he's got other family he supports. he's trying to get back into the only career he knows, playing football." >> tiger woods going home in a major. tom watson being in the lead at the halfway point. what's more surprising? "p.t.i." puts it up for debate coming up next. wassup man. keys. keys. stacy, keys. girl. um. billy. hi, boy. saddle. hermes wassup, little buddy, wing-tipped sandals. let's go. nobody flying tonight. hold it there big guy. yeah the warp drive hand it over your culture is primitive, yet so funky. (announcer) captain morgan.

office, and took down the solar panels from the roof because the felt they were unseemly, and he ended the programs programs and amerit its lead so now we're starting over again. >> host: edward to pick up there, when republicans on average are not as big supporters as the democratic party. when a president obama is elected, does the world need an ecobare ron to the same degree or do the policies democratses enact lead there to be more cook obarons popping up? >> guest: i think it's the latter. no one part of the puzzle its going to solve the monumental challenge. this is a world war ii of our era in my opinion, climate change, dying ocean,so you knee leadership from both political parties, taking -- working together. it's no one thing, one part of that can solve the problems. it's too huge. now, you talk about conservative versus liberal or democrat versus republican. there's great exceptions to that. you look at a company like wal-mart which has been a very conservative business enterprise over time, has discovered something that we all should have recognized many years ago is that waste, which is the biggest source of our -- one of the biggest sourceses of our environmenta

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advocates including massachusetts senator edward kennedy say all this stuff's needed to promote healthier lifestyles and cut medical spending down the road with lower obesity rates, less heart disease and other health problems. critics including wyoming senator mike kenzi say it's pork. these are public works projects dressed up and disgised to be stuffed into the health care bill. the way it stands local and state governments would have to submit proposals for these bike paths and stuff to the secretary of health and human services, kathleen sebelius. and she would be the final say on who gets what. suppose there would be the potential for any sort of a bottleneck there? it's far from a done deal. with an eye toward next year's mid-term elections, it is never too late, or early i should say, for the folks in congress to think about keeping their constituents back home happy. so get ready to build those bike paths. here's the question. should health care legislation contain billions of dollars for parks, walking paths and farmers' markets? go to cnn.com/caffertyfile. and post a comment on my blog. what do you think, wolf? >> i l

down. now i turn to the jeament from maryland, congresswoman edwards. ms. edwards: i thank the gentleman for yielding. each time mr. hall has spoken he reminds me of something else. i have to tell you, i, too, left my appendix in spain in a clinic but i didn't get a bill. now that is not what we're doing here. but we are doing something really important for the american people. i believe that the strongest health care reform we can pass out of this congress also embraces a robust public plan option that gives people choice, that's competitive in the marketplace, that -- a bill that makes certain that we cover -- we don't have exclusions for pre-existing conditions like domestic violence or any other pre-existing, so-called pre-existing condition. so i think that in order to meet the test for real eform -- for real reform, we have to have a system in which patients choods their doctors, doctors and patients choose their care and insurers and government bureaucrats alike stay out of those decisions. so i say to the american public, we're ready to cast a vote

edwards. i'm stunned. jeff garcia wants to win the starting job at oakland. can he? >> he's better than demarcus russell. last one, chien-ming wang has been shut down he had an e.r.a.... >> the yankees took the bat out of my hand. >> out of time. try do better next time. >> i'm mike wilbon. same time tomorrow, knuckle heads. check out the "p.t.i." podcast on itunes. let's go back the bristol. >> "p.t.i.." >> roy halladay still a member of the blue jays. need proof? pitched today against the mariners. actually took the loss, his fourth of the season. pitched very well, seven innings, three earned. yet to be traded as the deadline approached. roy halladay took the podium in seattle. >> i really don't know. you know, it's... it's time to move on. it's time for me to be done talking about it and continue focus on my job. everyone has been talking about you last start. how has that been to handle? >> again, it's been pitching like i always have. that's been the focus. and i think it has to be that way. so i'm going to continue to do that. >> one more quick one. you've been going through this and continue to. would you want to go through something like t

edwards is with us. >> good morning to you. good morning everyone. rush hour wound down on schedule.here at the american legion bridge off the 270 to tyson corner looking good. inner loop same story. no hangups to report. looks like we're okay through northeast. tom, how about today's forecast? >> climbing into the 70s. a chance of a passing afternoon shower or thundershower today, tomorrow, thursday, friday and into the weekend and getting more humid tomorrow and that humidity will linger into the weekend with highs in the 80s to near 90s saturday, sunday and again on monday. >> thanks very much. tonight at 5:00, lindsay czarniak lunches with one of the biggest names in tennis, anna kournikova. now back to "today" show after we take a short break. qo (; captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> and hello, everybody. it is tuesday, july 21st. we're so glad you're joining us today. >> good morning. >> tori spelling was such a hit yesterday. she's back again today. >> i survived. >> you more than survived. you ca, you saw, you conquered. you got great reviews from everybody a

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edwards. >> he said it, not me. good news along i-270, nothing to fear so far this morning. moving along very welcoming out of frederick all the way past 118 in germantown headed down good news. we'll check the rails and see what's happening. possible delays on metro rails as the investigation continues into the redline accident. that is scheduled to continue through thursday, but, of course, it is a very fluent situation. we are looking good this morning with the mark rail report nothing delays. back to you. >>> there are concerns about metro safety this morning. the transit agency confirmed several circuit that is monitor the locations of the trains have failed. those are on the red, green, orange and blue lines. none of the riders are in danger, though. megan mcgrath is joining us with more. >> reporter: good morning. crews have been testing track circuits since the crash and they have found some problems in other areas of the system. so how dangerous is this situation? well, an article in "the washington post" says the problems have been found in four of metro's five lines. at times, the article says trains cannot be seen by the operation's center. metro on the

hopefully if you come down with cancer, your particular type is receptive by one of those 23. what if you live in prince edwardand, they only approve one out of the 25. you would have to be very lucky to have cancer that was treatable by that one drug. but what if you had cancer that required one of other 24? you would be just out of luck. >> that's exactly what our concern is, which is physicians ought to be able to have the maximum amount of freedom to customize and taylor the care per the particular need of their patient. each patient is different and he'll ailment is unique, if we set standards by government body, the uniqueness of that patient is completely disregarded. cookie cutter, standard bas medicine. it's all cost driven, not theáah@@@@@@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ $@ @ we remember that you are there. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [inaudible] >> testing. ah, there we are. i wanted to direct my question to mr. baker, who was just speaking about -- you made a comment. this is not a question but you said -- i want to -- this is not a

hopefully if you come down with cancer, your particular type is receptive by one of those 23. what if you live in prince edward they only approve one out of the 25. you would have to be very lucky to have cancer that was treatable by that one drug. but what if you had cancer that required one of other 24? you would be just out of luck. >> that's exactly what our concern is, which is physicians ought to be able to have the maximum amount of freedom to customize and taylor the care per the particular need of their patient. each patient is different and he'll ailment is unique, if we set standards by government body, the uniqueness of that patient is completely disregarded. cookie cutter, standard based medicine. it's all cost driven, not therapy driven. so, is it five minutes up already? >> it is. >> i guess i've been gavelled. >> doctor, we remember you're there too. >> there we are. well, i wanted to direct my first question to the -- not to the doctor but the gentleman, mr. baker, who was just spoke about. you made a comment, mr. baker, i want to -- this is not a question pertaining to this comment, but you s