[applause] >> thank you so much, fran. i want to say first that the work she did to make the transition the first one since 9/11 the best we have ever had because it went into directions, which rarely happens. including focusing on the inaugural and getting somebody in the line of succession away from washington was unsung heroism. the second is a point that she may. we are now two months from the eighth anniversary of 9/11. and there is a lot of complacency out there. it is stunning that we have not seen the kind of action, especially in congress, and frankly in the judicial branch. much less attention to the presidential succession act that needs to be there, eight years after the fact, and we in the commission hoped to wrap up our efforts to overcome the inertia that we've had. we now have two panels that will be led successively by my colleague, john fortier, at aei who is also the executive director of the continuity of government commission on the theory of presidential succession, or theories of presidential success

we're joined now by 15-year-old ryan and his mother fran. ryan was born a girl and went by the same of sara until recently. friends use male pronouns when referring to him but mom still calls ryan her daughter. thank you for joining us, you guys. >> thanks for having us. >> now, ryan, you're 15, is that correct? >> yes. i'm 15. >> do you get disturbed when your mom still refers to you as a female? >> sometimes i say "he" under my breath or -- but i don't know. i can't really correct her now. >> when did you realize you were different? >> when i was a little kid, i realized that something was just missing. i didn't really feel complete. >> did you say something to your mom right away or your dad, and if you did, how did you do that? >> no, i didn't say anything to anyone. i kept to myself. >> was that hard? >> not really, because i didn't really know exactly what it was. i thought it was a normal thing to feel. >> when did you first realize what this was? >> i think two years ago someone -- i met someone who was transgendered, and i was, like

so fran, thank you for joining us. >> norm, thank you for inviting me. i will warn people that i am sort of the warm-up act. it is a serious subject, but i hope to get you to juggle a little this morning with some of the sort of honest stories about behind the policy and all the initiatives. this is hard. it was hard in the executive branch. you know, when you think about the history, and there have been some very useful reports by the congressional research service, looking as some of the history here, and while the introduction is a very kind, he is the person who i would look to and read his stuff when i was thinking about the policy initiatives in this area. you know, there is great attention to this subject, as you know, going back to the cold war. but between the end of the cold war and a september 11, there was not a lot of attention here. because we thought the greatest threat from a state-on-state perspective was well behind us, and we did not really believe, in a fundamental way, the other threats, non-state actors, post sort of a real strategi

i participated with fran townsend actually in a wargame. anybody who has done one of these wargames, which extend over a couple of days, with a plausible sonar you of some catastrophe taking place knows how much we do not know how little we have been able to prepare, how you get into situations where the information is ambiguous if an attack is taking place, what kind of attack, what might follow. and you get people in the room who play the major players, and try to come up with different decisions that will take place and what the repercussions would be. you realize how little we know, how poorly we are prepared. one of the things that fran did as homeland security adviser, was to mandate that cabinet members and senior white house staff do these wargames. but she met with enormous resistance again for the human reasons, because it meant taking one or two or three days on a periodic basis out of their extraordinarily busy schedules and going offsite somewhere to go through these scenarios. after doing it, they all said how viable it was, h

hey, fran. >> good morning. >> hi, fran. >> this is my question. we're told that it's beneficial to have spf in our makeup, i have spf 45 in my moisturizer, 15 in my foundation. but sun protection should be applied every two hours to be effective. how do we go from having it in our makeup? >> assuming you put on a good spf in your moisturizer and you go to work you're probably not going to be in the sun that much. however if you sweat off the makeup or go from the office to the outside you have to take off the makeup and really. >> you say sweat it off. you're saying if you don't sweat off your makeup -- put it this way, if you don't sweat off you're sunscreen you're okay or do you still have to reapply? >> most of us are not going to put a sunscreen over makeup when they go to work. but if you are indoors all day you don't have to worry as much. if you go outside. if you do an activity, go for a brisk walk at lunch and the makeup comes off you have to go back to the basics and reapply. >> ay-yi-yi. >> it's a pain but when you're 60 you'll like tha

fran townshend and policy analysts. it is over 2.5 hours. >> of this is key around the success of this report. we are preserving our institutions, which is the second report of the continuity of government commission. this was created in the aftermath of 9/11. there is the recognition that washington will remain a key target for terrorists and that a key objective is to do as much as possible to disrupt american's institutions of governance. what comes from that is that we have inadequate plans in place. this is in the constitution and the law to make sure we have adequate insurance to get those institutions, especially the three key branches of government that represents the first three articles of the constitution, up and running effectively with the confidence of the public without disruption as quickly as possible. with presidential succession, this is regulated by law after the vice president allow congress to create eighth line of secession. we have had three separate pieces of legislation that were done. the most

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>> serenity, fran quillty. what's missing is the monkeys running around with the trainers.d a lot of fun here. that was what was here before. >> larry: has the loss sunk in? >> i don't think so. it's starting to. i was overseas when it first happened. i was shocked, not entirely surprised, frankly, because of knowing michael and knowing of the things he had talked about, but i think i'm starting to feel a little bit, you know, more sadness actually. as time goes by. >> larry: when was the last time you saw him? >> i saw him actually a few months ago. i spoke to him a few weeks ago. >> larry: did he look well? >> to me, you know, it's subjective, but, yeah, michael was always -- he was always delicate and small and thin, but he looked no different than he had for years to me. >> larry: did you meet him through your father? >> originally, yeah. i have known him now for about 20 years. >> larry: and how would old are you? >> i'm 34. >> larry: so you were a kid. did you stay here as a kid? >> the guest house which is right over there. that was where i stayed the first time i ca

fran uses a -- san francisco uses a system similar to metro. can their safety system help d.c. the answers are technical and frustratingly vague for board members. >> reporter: washington's metro and san francisco's bart are heavy rail systems opened in the 70s. both were designed with automatic train control as the norm. a recent "washington post" article suggested that bart managers concluded early on that atc was insufficiently relile so they designed and installed a backup train separation system. board members who oversee metro are intensely interested in this extra level of safety since the automatic train control system apparently failed to keep apart two trains june 22nd resulting in a crash that killed nine people. bart's own web site refers to this secondary system as a backup train protection system. but metro managers told the local board what bart has is more of a diagnostic system rather than a secondary safety system. more than one board member expressed confusion. >> the barred system, whatever the bart, if it had been in place at the time of this collision, wou

but, vanguard's fran kniry calls e.t.f.s the biggest opportunithe's seen in some time. >> we are very cservative in our product develoent and launches. we are vercommitted to the e.t. landscape and we think it is going to be major part of vangua as we move forward. >> reporr: this spring, bond king pimco and charles schb anunced they, too were launching e.t.f. a move some experts predict will changthe e.t. landscape and attract more retl investors. t all providers however are gigantic. wisdomtrees an up and comer with lesthan one percent of the rket. is, by the way, the only pu play public coany that provides e.t.f.s. while the ree-year-old firm offers 51 equitynd currency e.t.f.s, it's yet to see profit. wisdomtree preside bruce vine isn't' worried. >> t e.t.f. business is exceptionally rong and i don't thg you've seen anything yet. i think 's going to really domina in the financial services industry over tim some predi e.t.f.s will pose a letimate threat to traditional mutual funds in the coming years. while others say, it's me likely they'llearn to coexist. >> we're not concern abo

. >> we put zoe in the cargo hold when we moved from fran to florida and we had great anxiety doing it did a lot of research and realized there was not better way. we decided to build it. >> they did. >> pet airways pets flai in the main cab ben. >> pet only airline. the only people on the flights are pets and one trained attendant. >> what was once a commuter plane now looks like this. >> we have somewhere between 30 and 50 seats depending on the size of the pets. >> is it just for dogs and cats? >> right now it is just dox and cats but we intend to open it up to birds. >> the one plane will service five cities with a pilot and pet attendant on board. >> from the time the pet is boarded until it is taken off the plane they will be watched regularly, monitored. >> is your try table off. snieshgs there are no tray tables and you don't have to worry about the seat being in an up right position. but the staff does try to make the animals feel like they are flowing first class. >> if we get in that silly it is ok abby guess what they will go oh, no, i have to be scared. but if you say hey

but, vanguard's fran kinniry calls e.t.f.s the biggest opportunity he's seen in some time. >> we are very conservative in our product development and launches. we are very committed to the e.t.f. landscape and we think it is going to be a major part of vanguard as we move forward. >> reporter: this spring, bond king pimco and charles schwab announced they, too were launching e.t.f.s, a move some experts predict will change the e.t.f. landscape and attract more retail investors. not all providers however are gigantic. wisdomtree is an up and comer with less than one percent of the market. it is, by the way, the only pure play public company that provides e.t.f.s. while the three-year-old firm offers 51 equity and currency e.t.f.s, it's yet to see a profit. wisdomtree president bruce lavine isn't' worried. >> the e.t.f. business is exceptionally strong and i don't thing you've seen anything yet. i think it's going to really dominate in the financial services industry over time. some predict e.t.f.s will pose a legitimate threat to traditional mutual funds in the coming years. while oth

we have a system now which is carried out as fran townsend has said -- there are procedures that take -- that are in operation at the time of the state of the union, inauguration, other times, where a cabinet member is out of town. we can have a cabinet member out of town nearly permanently. you know, just one at a time. you know, the cabinet members might like that, a requirement that, you know, one week out of 8 or 10 during the year, they're required to work out of town. it's certainly workable anyway. >> buenas aries. >> well -- and, you know, they can claim that they're checking the, you know, sentiments outside of washington. i just don't see why sting up four or so new federal jobs -- to me it creates more problems than it fixes. so to me, i would extend the existing procedures for -- with the existing line of succession rather than create new jobs within the line of succession. thanks. >> thank you. thank you to all the panelists. as you can see, we didn't make this panel to be a panel of people who are officially associated with the commission to endorse every recommendation.

[applause] >> thank you so much, fran.nt to say first that the work she did to make the transition the first one since 9/11 the best we have ever had because it went into directions, which rarely happens. including focusing on the inaugural and getting somebody in the line of succession away from washington was unsung heroism. the second is a point that she may. we are now two months from the eighth anniversary of 9/11. and there i a lot of complacency out there. it is stunning that we have not seen the kind of action, especially in congress, and frankly in the judicial branch. much less attention to the presidential succession act that needs to be there, eight years after the fact, and we in the commission hoped to wrap up our efforts to overcome the inertia that we've had. we now have two panels that will be led successively by my colleague, john fortier, at aei who is also the executive director of the continuity of government commission on the theory of presidential succession, or theories of presidential succession. a

. >> fran says he failed to account for that topography. >> he flew too low and crashed into these power lines. >> the ntsb said he did not lack experience. >> he had 630 hours of total flight experience. he was certified as a commercial pilot for helicopter and six-wing aircraft, and he was also a flight instructor for advanced helicopter flying. >> and it appears there were no mechanical problems. >> it is the most popular helicopter made. i believe that's robinson fleet sells more than all other manufacturers combined. >> wbal news. >> three of the four victims worked for advanced helicopter. >> family and friends will too distraught to speak on cram ra, -- camera, but they dig speak about their loved ones. >> joseph began working for the advanced helicopter two weeks ago. he had been an electric tradition. according to his mother, george wanted to fly since he was 7 years old. after graduating from north carroll high school, he did a stint in the navy. his mom described him as a risk taker. he's survived by a 14-year-old daughter. family members said he would call her a half dozen ti

joining me is fran townsend a former national security adviser under president bush.g with us today. wow, when you read there, it's like, are you kidding me? bomb materials were actually brought into these buildings and some of the agents asleep on the job. how concerned into the american public be? >> the american public should be very concerned and i would be particular concerned if i was a federal worker in one of those buildings. one of the things the union president didn't mention is the people supervise response for supervision are indeed the officers. what were they doing with the resources they had? and why weren't they inspecting and tsing they contract guards? after all, the liquid bomb threat goes back to a 2006 plot emanating out of london. it led to the ban of liquids on airplanes. what we learned today, heidi, is the american flying public is better protected than the federal civil servants who work in these federal buildings. >> i want to sew what gary schenckle said, because he is the current director. he says this. this is going to be testimony he giv

nice excuse, fran, but how do the seals feel about this. we went to one of them for a response. >> i never felt more ashamed in my life. i feel like a piece of blubber passed around the pool while strange men tried to grope my flippers and flick at my inverted nipples. thank heavthank heavens my tese inverted. >> greg: rick, is this right, interspecies kissing? >> when i was kingle i knew a girl who would do this for 200 bucks and you get a massage. it wasn't really a bad deal. so sad that things have gotten this bad and the nation's zoos and aquariums. where else can school children go to see what happens when you take an animal and pull it out of its natural habitat and stick it in a tank. >> greg: and then try to make out with it. >> wonder what happens when they get to first base. >> greg: this is something i wanted to do but whenever i brought it up i was put into some kind of therapy. >> right, you were the one sent outside, casstcastigated durina field trip. keep this in mind, everybody, if seals can balance balls on their nose, imag

sap fran's giants, sanchez, hit the first no-hitter against the padres. the nationals have recorded 60 losses befe the all-star break for the second straight year. more on "sports minutes." >>> good morning, everyone. your sports minute begins with baseball. not picking on the astros. high drama in houston. bottom of the ninth, jeff blum up with the bases loaded. a walkoff to win it. the astros beat the nationals. orioles hosting the blue jays. dave trembley walks the game as he begins serving a two-game suspension. brent cecil shot out the os, the former terp, two hits. brendan morrison yesterday to a one-year contract with a reported $1.5 million. in his 12-year nhl career, morrison has four 20-goal seasons. notary public golf, at the u.s. women's open, christy kerr who won the tournament in 2007 leads the way by one stroke. you can watch the third and fourth round. that's your sports minute, i'm hakeem durmish. have a great day. >>> why 350 passengers were forced to evacuate using inflatable slides. plus, president obama in ghana. residents of that afr

. >>> meanwhile, in paris, frans, no beach, no problem.ery year truckloads of sand and dozens of palm trees are trucked to the banks of the river to create a fake beach, right smack in the middle of the city. folks treated like the real thing. some take their lounge chairs there, they make sand castles. there's a pool area and activities for the children. the art financial beach now in its eighth year. i guess that's part of the art financial beach as well, veronica. it's open for about a month. >> okay. lounge chairs, sand, and a little imagination. >> and everybody is smiling. you didn't see any frowns there. >> back here, we'd be smiling if we could get some rain out of the clouds. >> my lawn is really turning brn in spots, and i'm sure the same could be true about a lot. we've got the clouds outside right no some rain is coming. it's just south of the area right now. so we take a look outside. overcast skies. our temperatures today have been in the low 80s across the area. the dew point temperature at 59 degrees with a southeast wind a

san fran 77. 115, 115, that's not a heat index. that's the forecasted high for phoenix. let me show you the seven day. 85 and sunny. 90 on wednesday. keep that 90 here on thursday. instead increase humidity and add thunderstorms to the mix. unsettled for a couple of days. friday if we get a thunderstorm they will be isolated and on saturday 85 degrees. scattered storms and partly cloudy. that's my seven day. kris sneed is in for -- is in for angie. good morning. >> good morning, kim. we will start with the bw parkway. nothing but glean cars and drivers are up to speed. that's not the case on 270 southbound as we head out. slow germantown to 370. that is building. ten extra minutes right now. heading to virginia 66 eastbound, two delays for you. 50 to 123 and then slowing down nutley to 495. sun glare as you can see is starting to factor in here. be prepared for that. bring some shades of sunglasses. 395, we are slow edsall road to seminary and then at the 14th street bridge. if you are heading to the district right now you can see inbound new york avenue is slow from bla

it's failed in fran. it's bankrupt. it's failed in england. daniel hanna was on this program.rica, i love you. please, we're ten years ahead of you. don't make the mistake we've made. >> but he also said on another show that they had the best system in the world. sean: he didn't say that here. >> but i saw him retract what he said here on some other show. i swear, sean, he said he was misquoted from himself. he's from london. sean: michael. >> we have a situation in this country where so many people -- and you said it in the constitution. clearly it's not. it should be a privilege and a right for every american to have health care. sean: we've gotten away from this idea that we're going to charge americans 5.5 extra surcharge. i believe in the america where we have freedom, opportunity, and choices, maybe not equal results. i don't want a child to go hungry in america with the wealth that we have. i don't think that's necessary. i don't want people in this country not to have health care, we have a safety net, medicare, medicaid. all of those systems are bankrupt. why would we

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. >> fran and i lived in the north bronx. >> jimmy: really? >> for about a year.m raimi who, at that time, was writing "evil dead 2" lived with us. and he and his writing partner were writing "evil dead 2" on the front porch for that period of time. and joel and ethan had just written "raising arizona." so, it was -- >> jimmy: you guys are all buddies? >> yeah. and i really like silver lake. it's just a part of l.a. that's, you know, very eclectic. >> jimmy: yeah, cool. >> and this was the early '80s. it was -- >> jimmy: a good music scene out there. >> and a good music scene. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, i like silver lake. but now you're here in new york. >> and there were some, you know, there were some comedy clubs out there at the time. i don't know if they're still there. >> jimmy: i used to work the improv on melrose. that's not in silver lake. >> that's not in silver lake. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: where i used to work. comedy magic club? >> like, nobody knows where silver lake is really, unless you're, you know, a los angelean. >> jimmy: by the way, i love hearing

george johnson say h isife fran has dedicated her life to public seice.x years working for the clinton administration and ho now retired. r,veweve she gets up every day, brepesaris medication, kfast, lunchnd dinner. she also cares for her children, grandchild and is currently planning a wedding for both her .ilen dr wow. if y know someone like fran johnson, e-mail their sto and a clear, close-up video or picture to morning person@nbcwashington.com. >> that is "news 4 today." thank you for staying with us. >> stay connected with us. we're on facebook and twitter. wake up with us tomorrow morning. we start at 5:55 a.m. have a terrific day. >> bye. whee! happy days are here again. whee! ooh. celebrate summer with giant and enjoy mouthwatering fruits and vegetables at prices you can handle. like sweet cherries, just $1.57 a pound. only at giant. k, eackst cri , enbs, c and burgers on the grill. people: oh! at giant, you'll find fresh, delicious, quality meats at prices that sizzle. like super g split chicken breast, just 99 cents a pound. only at giant. at su

they mocked a plan to save the endangered saltwater harvest mouse whose san fran habitat borders thested in the final bill that passed but now it appears a little more than $16 million of the stimulus funds will go to restoring two bay area salt ponds. that prompted house minority leader john boehner to lament the stimulus isn't creating jobs but, instead, quote, is making sure american harvest mice have nice comfortable homes in the midst of the recession. pelosi's office quickly responded calling the attacks on the mouse a tired and tried tale of republican desperation. finally, texas democratic congresswoman sheila jackson lees was given less than the white glove treatment by speaker pelosi for a proposed resolution honoring michael jackson as a global humanitarian. pelosi was asked today if she would go along. she said the subject matter was pop culture, and that she does not feel it is necessary to have a resolution that might cause a debate over contrary views about jackson. the social security administration admits that it wastes $4.6 billion a year in underpayments an overpay

n the nuclear issue they did not go r endorsin additional sanctions which fran very much wanted. but rusa wa ristant and said that would be counterpductive. but they did set another interim goal of september that is thatt the u.n. meeting ineptember, the g8 are all goingto get together and te stock of the situati. a president sar cozy sad last nht if iranasn't done anything to real get seriouabout talks and negotiations,hat at the g-20 summit ich immediatelfollows in pittsburgh,ollows the u.n., th quote decisions will havto be taken. >and you have some european countrs there at thesummit that have strong commercial ties withiran, right? so they wld be imcted by strong new nctions? >> absolutel, jeff. and fact, i'm told the present did not ask for these european coutries to make a cmmitment now, that if the talk trackoesn't work, that they are ready to impose snctions. but i will give you a coupl of examples. we all know about russia oil & gas am but germany a italy, huge trading partners of iran. germany sls allindsf indtrial machinery, oil drehling equipment, a lot of high-tech

it will be conducted by a task force coached by fran town send, former homeland security aide to president george w. bush. the other co-chair, judge william wester, former director of both the fbi and the cia. >>> there was major disaster recovery drill at rfk stadium today but it was not staged by any of our areas, police or fire departments and this role nducted by at&t and attest of how the communications company responded and to a catastrophic disaster. at&t officials say that they want to ensure that their networks are equipped for voice and data service during a major emergency. their network disaster recovery team has been activated before they helped restore service after the 9/11 attacks and after hurricane katrina and recent wildfires in southern california. >>> somebody held up a bank in northwest washington this morning. investigators say that the suspect walked into the united bank branch on k street and at about 10:00 this morning. and he pass ad note to the teller and demanding money and suggested that head a weapon. the man walked away with about $2,000 in cash. nobody was

large fran shiez -- franchises with strong deposit basis and have provisions earnings to offset the credit losses going forward. it doesn't mean it will be risky here. i'm listening to you guys talk about yahoo!, and apple and i think i'm the red-headed stepchild here. >> we're not seeing the economic turnaround and the bank reporting earnings so far. you don't extrapolate goldman's reports and their numbers to the economy. you look to the banks right now and we're not seeing it so far. >> one last question, chris, this is actually the last question that i will ask you. can you take it off the table at this point? that's a publicly-traded bank out there will need to be seized by the fdic because of its exposure to commercial real estate? is it that big of a problem? >> it's a significant problem. i think if we don't see stability in the unemployment rate you could see that happen. i'm not going to bank on that, but the unemployment rate continues to go higher your vacancy levels will go higher and you'll have bigger issues and losses on the commercial real estate portfolios. i don't think

fran franklin will stay in.ess they figured with nick johnson and adam dunn batting in the 7th they want to keep that left-hander in there for a while. he throws a lot harder than alan embree who is more of a finesse guy. and i guess they figured if gonzalez got on he could have bunted him over. that did not happen. so burnett has a chance to get a couple of quick outs here in the sixth. little tapper nick johnson. a race to the bag. >> rob: if you're jim tracy, this game could go awhile. >> bob: true. >> rob: so i can't burn a lot of guys coming out of the bull pen this early in the ballgame. >> bob: get all the latest nats news, offers, discounts on facebook. join the fan page you could add teddy roosevelt as your friend. natstown .mbl. >> rob: i followed teddy. >> bob: what you just brought up is a total difference the way don baylor used to manage in this ballpark. if it was a game where there were runs scored early he would pinch hit for his pitcher in the 3rd, 4th, 5th inning. so many boppers on that team

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. >> i just met fran and she made quite an impression on me. >> reporter: rob described a man motivatedy a strong sense of decency but what's most compelling about what his friend has to say ten years on is that although he never admitted it publicly, john had very clear political ambitions. >> he wanted to become the president of the united states. and over the years that i knew him, he had been preparing for that. >> reporter: john would have been close to 50 today and there are times, rob says, that he still indulges in the what ifs about a certain matchup, for instance. >> i predicted that john would go for 2012 but things moved quickly, obama showed up, he had three years as a senator. they probably would have had a similar set of experiences. >> reporter: a decade later it's still the potential we remember, the what might have been. for "good morning america" claire shipman, abc news, washington. >> kennedy was born just 16 days after his father was elected as president. you may remember those iconic pictures of him playing under his father's desk. >> especially seeing him under t

i participated with fran townsend actually in a wargame.anybody who has done one of these wargames, which extend over a couple of days, with a plausible sonar you of some catastrophe taking place knows how much we do not know how little we have been able to prepare, how you get into situations where the information is ambiguous if an attack is taking place, what kind of attack, what might follow. and you get people in the room who play the major players, and try to come up with different decisions that will take place and what the repercussions would be. you realize how little we know, how poorly we are prepared. one of the things that fran did as homeland security adviser, was to mandate that cabinet members and senior white house staff do these wargames. but she met with enormous resistance again for the human reasons, because it meant taking one or two or three days on a periodic basis out of their extraordinarily busy schedules and going offsite somewhere to go through these scenarios. after doing it, they all said how viable it was, ho

and the next one from fran, sarah palin and elizabeth hassle back at the view will start up their ownow. rush limbaugh can be the announcer. there we go. we love our bloggers, don't we? cnnnewsroom.com. >>> meanwhile, the obama administration achieving a victory on the business front today as the bankruptcy judge clears the way for the establishment of a new gm. christi christine romans is here. >> reporter: the obama administration wins one step closer to getting out of bankruptcy and starting a new road for gm leaving some cumbersome and unprofitable assets in its wake. the judge saying that there was simply no other choice. the only alternative to an immediate sale, the judge wrote, is liquidation and that, of course, would be a disaster for the gm employees, creditors, and the supplies who depend on gm. here you have a bankruptcy judge saying that the new gm can go forward and close down factories and shut down brands and sell off unprofitable assets and sever thousands of relationships with dealers and turn into this new gm and move forward. it's pending appeal and it will have t

remember how happy fran frank costanza when kramer came up with the man-ziere. frank didn't dance.anted to take it home when we were done. >> i couldn't tell with a t-shirt on. you had a normal t-shirt on. nobody knows. >> it's like you said. if they had the little fake abs with it, maybe then. >> you're going to call me on it. you'll feel there's no abs, right? it's just displaced. >> we all know the moment that someone puts their arm in the midri midriff. >> would you wear something like this, david? you don't need it at all. >> well, you know -- are you asking me to do that now? 'cause it's not going to happen. >> i gave it a shot. i gave it a shot. >>> coming up on "good morning america," retail rehab. this woman has 100 tubes of lip gloss, 300 pifrs jeans. we now you the money detox to control her spending. nduduroe with an epa estimated 32 miles per gallon. and up 6le00 mis between fill ups. imos e uthffst f eelic ent crossover on the highway. better than honda cr-v, toyota rav4 and even the ford escape hybrid. the all new chevy equinox. >> live, and in hd, this is an abc 7 n

toasting him and his wife, fran, for their 1991 dinner before their wedding. >> my friend.t an impression of me. >> reporter: rob describes a man motivated by a strong sense of decency. but what's most compelling about what his friend has to say, ten years . is that although he never admitted it publicly, john had very clear political ambitions. >> he wanted to become the president of the united states. and over the years that i knew him, he had been preparing for that. >> reporter: john would have been cse to 50 today. and there are times, rob says, that he still induls in the what ifs. about a certain matchup, for instance. >> i predicted that john would go for 2012. but things moved quickly. obama showed up. he had three years as a senator. >> reporter: a decade later, it's still the potential that we remember. the what might have been? for "good morning america," claire shipman, abc news, washington. >> so much of that what might have been, because of his age. he's just my age. 38 going on 39, when he passed away. putting politics aside. for all that was obvious about j

i participated with fran townsend actually in a wargame. anybody who has done one of these wargames, which extend over a couple of days, with a plausible sonar you of some catastrophe taking place knows how much we do not know how little we have been able to prepare, how you get into situations where the information is ambiguous if an attack is taking place, what kind of attack, what might follow. and you get people in the room who play the major players, and try to come up with different decisions that will take place and what the repercussions would be. you realize how little we know, how poorly we are prepared. one of the things that fran did as homeland security adviser, was to mandate that cabinet members and senior white house staff do these wargames. but she met with enormous resistance again for the human reasons, because it meant taking one or two or three days on a periodic basis out of their extraordinarily busy schedules and going offsite somewhere to go through these scenarios. after doing it, they all said how viable it was, h

fran seen is in north carolina and writes we have two sons in medical school and both have medical school loans, how can they get help paying back this loan? gerri? >> well, francine, a number of student loans forgiveness programs in health care. the national health service corps is an example of forgiveness program for doctors and nurses who practice for a number of year. otherwise look at the american medical association of medical colleges and they have a database of state and other loan repayment programs for other school students. and, of course, if you have any other questions, send them to us at gerri@cnn.com and we'd love to hear from you and answer those questions just as we did every friday. >> thank you, gerri, have a great weekend. >> all right, you, too. >> gerri and the money team are the absolute best. poppy harlow, christine romans, ali velshi, stephanie elam get the expert analssis by logging on to cnnmoney.com. >>> health care reform, who pays? we'll hear some of your ideas next in the "newsroom." er... of pills compared to aleve. choose aleve and you could start taking

and saturday fran 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. the ntsb is going back out to the site and testing the racks at the takoma and fort totten spots. shuttles will be available. for the latest on your commute, let's check in with julie wright. >>> we're talking about the sinkhole right now. and there is not too much of a backup in the area along 236 at conwell drive west of d columbia pike. traffic is ableto get by one direction each way. a lane is open east and westbound and traffic is very light, but crews continue to work on what was a water main break and then a collapse of the road because of that sinkhole. traffic is getting through one direction at a time and very light traffic volume in our favor this morning. over to the wilson bridge where traffic runs smoothly out of oxon hill. no accidents from maryland to rginia. the lanes are open. outer loop of the beltway, this is a change in the traffic pattern at van dorn, the lanes split to the left and one to the right but they continue toward telegraph road and toward the bridge. a

second we should establish a workable macroprudential fran markon resolution regime that can identifye and unwind systemic risks if they do develop. closing reagan toy gaps is an important part of reducing systemic risk. if financial bridges of bens realize they can achieve the same economic gains which the work coscom abutt flaka twip reegan toy gapped they will do so quickly, often with sights and leverage. we have seen this time and again most recently with over-the-counter derivatives. instrument for which major institutions engaged unregulated trading in synthetic versions of the other often highly regulated financial products. we can do much to reduce the systemic risk and close these gaps and ensure that similar products are regulated similarly. in addition to filling gapsk:f e need to ensure greater transparency of risk. transparency helps reduce systemic risk by enabling market participants to better allocate capital and giving regulators more information about risks that are building in the financial system. transparency has been utterly lacking in the world of unregulated o

caller: yes, i have a question about -- you made sort of a comment aboutal fran kin. looked like from your expression, you were happy. i wondered how do you feel about what's going on with senator and the governor from south carolina? and also, you want less government. i was jus curious if you voted for bush last election. i'll hang up and thank you very much. . guest: if they trust in stamford, then by golly, i will, too. host: by using that private peter by public officials should be cause for resignation? guest: host: because, -- guest: because, especially on the republican side, we have faith and family and we have totter those things for so long. and that is not to say that democrats do not have those things as well, but the level of emphasis we have placed on those issues, we could do a bit better job of making sure there are no sub-skeletons in our closet. -- there are no skeletons in our closet. host: next call from montana. caller: i went and looked at the dot and the contracts that have been awarded on a daily basis and there was scope shocked -- and i was

n fran, the ceo of nascar, heas said we have gone to congress and told them it's portanthat t car mafactures a little bit. some of the spoors that we spoke to includg sprint, s ey are extremely happy. sprint pays $75 milln a year to be called the sprint cup. and they are happy. >> how big of a business is this >> tony stert owns his own te now, and businessis out $80 million, and they run on $30 mlion isheir budget. it cost $600,000 to go a race. there is a crew of 21 eople. during a sson, and you know u ba those thingsup, and ey have about 18 cars. let me give you a qick bie. hio sponsors are office depot andold spice. luckily, they have e sa exact color red. and tha savesth thousands and tusands of dollars because they can pain all the cars and have only one color. >> $60000 to go to a race? those numbers are equivalent to what it costs mika to fly -- >> oh, my osh. thank u so much for coming on the show. you can watch the new special "inside th track, refueing nascar." and that'sat 9:00 p.m., 10:00 p.m., and 1:00 a. nascar. >> they suld hand out pin calendars and have pat sho up. >> yeah,