i'm going to borrow a technique from elizabeth cohen. she's been using it to talk about medical stories and health care. i'm going to bring the avatars out. this is hard luck harry. he is underwater, his home is worthless than his mortgage. and he's also -- see the pink slip? he's unemployed. under the new plan, hard luck harry could see his mortgage payments lowered to no more than 31% of his income for at least three months and maybe longer. now let me show you struggling sarah. struggling sara is underwater. her house is worthless than her mortgage. that's the house underwater. but she's working and she's just getting by. she's got a wage-earning job. she could get lower payments. but if she's not delinquent, she might get a reduction in the principle, the actual amount that she owes the bank. let me show you responsible roger. responsible roger also underwater. his house is also worthless than the mortgage on it but he's employed and he's been making his payments more or less comfortably. you know what he gets? he gets the government

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elizabeth cohen is standing by. our senior medical correspondent. she's got some answers, when we come back from this break, she's going to tell us what it means for you. ls compared to aleve. choose aleve and you could start taking fewer pills. just 2 aleve have the strength... to relieve arthritis pain all day. how do we know how big our hospitals need to be?, the census helps us know exactly what we need, so everyone can get their fair share of funding. we can't move forward until you mail it back. 2010 census. >>> going to cover the whole range of health care reform. one of our thoughts is when i talk to elizabeth cohen, our senior medical correspondent. you dedicated yourself in the last few weeks to explaining it in ways that relates to everyday people. i'm not entirely sure what health care reform -- what impact it will have on my costs, my insurance. you have avatars. some people. >> some made up people. to try to illustrate what it means to them. >> i thought these were the middle income martinis. they're the middle income martins. >> ali p

elizabeth cohen is here with the latest on the story. what's the verdict?ery, they are the parents. the parents have been informed that a dna test proves that they really are the parents. the international red cross gave them this dna test and yesterday, as you can see, here is nadine and junior alexis getting into a red cross vehicle. they were brought to a red cross compound in port-au-prince and told yes, the dna test showed that you are the parents that's according to a florida state official who i spoke to earlier today. as you can imagine, i'll bet they are very, very happy. >> oh, my goodness. so the baby is still being cared for in the u.s. what's going to happen next? how do the parents and the baby reunite? >> let's talk a little bit about what happened before before i talk about what happens next because you bring up a good point. what happened is this baby was in the rubble for five days before she was discovered and she was brought to the hospital where i was and spent five days and run by the university of miami and she was worked on by doctor

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elizabeth cohen always helps with us that and you've been tracking scenarios according to certain kindso would half of all americans be worse off? >> kyra, i think that depends on who you ask. what we decided to do rather than play politics is to make a couple of people up. we just invented some people and decided to talk about what would happen to them under health care reform. so let's take some people who might not be so happy about health care reform. for example, we have invincible isabelle here. look at those muscles, kyra. do you see how strong and healthy she is. look how happy she is. >> she's got good health care. >> well, no. she's healthy and says i don't need insurance, i'm healthy. look how strong i am. i don't need to buy anything. i'd rather spend that money on a trip to hawaii or something. so isabelle is not so happy with health care reform, you know j in because she is going to be fined a $95 fine for not having insurance in 2014 and that number will get bigger and bigger every year. isabelle will not be so thrilled with health care reform. let me introduce you now t

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is putting names and faces to all those aches and pains, whether they're hurting you physically or financially. she's been doing a great job in the last couple of days with these avatars that she's rest sur rethed for us. there may be no better way to tell the story than through the avatars. now we have a bill that we can look at you can actually tell us how different people are being effected by health care. so take it away. >> all right. let's take a look at what this bill will mean for, first of all, undocumented ursula. ursula is in this country illegally. there are 7 million of them p in many ways you and i pay for them when they get trooeeatment. what this bill does for undocumented ursula is nothing. she cannot go on the exchange. she's not allowed to go there. >> she can't buy insurance that way. >> she can't. the way that it does, i should say almost zero. it does help her in that this bill has a lot of money for the free clinics, the community health clinics. >> she might be there. >> she can go there. they do take undocumented wo

elizabeth cohen says dna samples from the couple who claim to be her parents are indeed a match.ed. >>> another story we've been following for you. for nine years, she kept a secret. janet newsome didn't tell anyone in the air force she was a lesbian. just as momentum was building to repeal don't ask, don't tell, she was outed by a third party. it was actually her local police department in south dakota after they saw an iowa marriage certificate in her home. >> she's now discharged from the air force. today the american civil liberties union has filed a complaint against the rapid city police department, saying the officers violated her privacy. the police department, meanwhile, maintains they were simply following routine procedures. she joins thus morning via skype from fairbanks, alaska. good to see you this morning. set the stage here. you got married, as karen said, in iowa last october to your partner, cheryl hudson. you were sticking by the don't ask, don't tell policy until this incident with the rapid city police department. what happened, and how did your sexual orient