gary tuchman found out.e found a doctor who says he knows why. >> reporter: this heart surgeon says the price for medical care in mcallen, texas, is just way too high. and he's paying the price for speaking out. >> post op day five. >> reporter: do you think you're committing professional suicide? >> i do. i have. the results are plain. >> all right. >> reporter: dr. lester dike doesn't put most of the blame on malpractice lawyers or insurance companies for the rising medical costs here, he blames his colleagues. >> a lot of doctors here are practicing in a way that treats a patient's like atm machines and essentially extracts the maximum amount of profit from the patient. >> reporter: dr. dyke spends much more time relaxing on his ranch because he says other doctors are angry at him and stopped referring him patients. his practice, he says, is down 70% since he started speaking out a few months ago. >> i am being black balled. the only way they can pressure me to stop doing what i'm doing is essentially cut

gary tuchman, cnn, clairmont, north carolina. >> if you still have questions about tomorrow's speech logon to ac360.com where we'll have the full text of the president's speech. >>> live from the battle zone. anderson gives us up an close look at a marine base that until two months ago was still taliban territory. first tom foreman joining us with a 360 news and business bulletin. >>> hi, erica. in britain three convictions today in the plot to blow up planes bound for the u.s. and canada with liquid explosives. the plan which was uncovered three years ago led to all those strict limits on the amount of liquids that can pass through airport security. >>> a 360 follow-up. a senior british official admits trade and oil played a crucial role in the decision to include the lockerbie bomber in a prisoner transfer deal with libya. that's according to "the daily telegraph" over the weekend. soon after that decision, libya approved a $900 million deal with oil giant bp. last month the bomber now dying of cancer went free on compassionate grounds and not under a transfer agreement. some polit

gary tuchman takes us up close. >> reporter: this north carolina school principal had to decide whether or not to air president barack obama's speech in his school. the pressure was on. >> it may sound a little strange, but after a flurry of phone calls, my first thing was go in my office, shut my door and have a prayer because i knew i was going to have to make a decision. >> reporter: what was he hearing from parents? mostly comments like those we heard at the county fair, just down the road. do you think the school should play barack obama's speech? >> absolutely not. >> it's getting more like communism. we're going to do this and that. >> i think it should be up to the parents' decision if they want their children to hear that or not. >> reporter: that's exactly what the principal decided. the speech will not be shown at elementary. >> i will not deny the political climate is high. emotions are flying high. i didn't think kids should be put in the position to be singled out, staff members singled out, parent -- >> reporter: singled out because they stayed for the speech? >> exactly.

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gary tuchman explains in today's "techno file." >> reporter: with every step you take, the body createsy that usually goes to waste until now. >> this particular device is designed to capture energy while you're walking. >> reporter: it's called the bionic energy harvester. a closer inspection reveals wires and generating that harness power from the natural motion of walking. >> they're producing the mechanical energy initially, and through the device that's turned into electrical power. like a battery charger basically. >> simply strap on two-pound brace and get moving. with each step the device transfers the energy from the hop in your step to batteries. pop those in a digital camera or cell phone and the more you walk, the more you can talk. >> for walking -- for only one minute, you can produce about 20 minutes of talk time on a typical cell phone. it's a lot of power. >> reporter: it's still in the development phase, but researchers are hoping to have it available soon in a world where staying connected is key, cutting the power cord could give you a lot more room to roam. >>> a ma

gary tuchman, cnn, claremont, north carolina. >>> all right, time for your midday reset.i'm tony harris in the "cnn newsroom." it is noon in arlington, virginia, where president obama is about to address students at wakefield high. school kids all around the nation will watch live. >>> it is noon on capitol hill, where congress is getting back to the same challenge it had when it left health insurance reform. >>> it is 9:00 a.m. in san francisco, where work crews headed off a nightmarish morning commute. they got the bay bridge fixed and reopened today. >>> let's get started! >>> you've heard the controversy, and the criticism, just about a minute or so, you will hear the actual message. we will bring you president obama's speech to schoolchildren live, as soon as it begins. our white house correspondent, suzanne malveaux, joining us live with a bit of a preview. and, suzanne, what do we know about what's going on right now with that virginia high school? >> reporter: tony, they're getting ready to listen to the president. he just wrapped up what was kind of a a q-and-a.

here's gary tuchman. >> reporter: a quick response from two of the nation's top trial attorneys. when i asked what's wrong with capping medical malpractice settlements. do you think this is unamerican when this happens? >> unconstitutional. and i believe our constitution is about the finest document, you know, we could possibly have. >> reporter: even more blunt, i asked if malpractice verdicts dramatically jack up our health care costs? >> there's no impeeric evidence anywhere that it's out of control. >> a lot of allegations, right, from doctors and insurance companies and from americans. do you think they're misled? >> yes. >> reporter: both former presidents of the nation's largest trial lawyer association say it's easy to scapegoat the lawyers. >> nobody wants to be sued for anything. but that's the way our country works. i commit legal malpractice, i should be sued. >> reporter: but they say punitive damage malpractice verdicts are much rarer than critics make them out to be. he says he's been told he won more such verdicts in the u.s. than any other plaintiff attorney. and

gary tuchman found an answer and it could be on their head. >> reporter: high school football is backd coaches this time of year, sweltering temperatures which can increase the risk of heat stroke and in some cases death. to beat the heat, a georgia company has developed these dime-sized sensors worn inside players' helmets. >> we're trying to give that early warning alert system that that athlete is getting dangerously close to heat stroke. >> reporter: the monitors constantly monitor the body temperature of the players on the field. if a player exceeds 102.5 degrees for more than 30 seconds, an alert sounds. >> we want to prevent injury before it happens. this is just another tool that we can use to make sure these kids are safe. >> reporter: it costs about $100 a players. the technology could also be used for firefighters and military personnel. for these players, it's safety first and then friday night lights. >>> a killer has been convicted, he'll get a trip to the death chamber or rot in prison. the gripping 911 call is helping sale his fate. >>> take a close look at this ad, wh

. >> reporter: gary tuchman, cnn, mcallen, texas. >>> it is go time. we are pushing forward with the next hour of "cnn newsroom" with betty nguyen! >> hello there. >>> madrid, 2004, terrorists blow up commuter trains, killing almost 200 people. colorado, 2009, investigators target a suspected plot for similar attacks right here in america. we are pushing forward on a probe that stretches from the suburbs of denver to the streets of new york city. >>> plus, scobee, montana, on the u.s./canadian border. if you can't find it, just follow the dollars from washington. now, the feds are rethinking stimulus projects that some call borderline crazy! >>> and from baghdad, the back-story. >> a cup of coffee that you don't have time to drink and the "get out of bed now we're leaving" wake-up. >> yep, you snooze, you lose, your chance to see iraq's famous shoe thrower walk out of jail. it's not your ordinary photo-op. >>> hello, everybody, i'm betty nguyen, in for kyra phillips at cnn world headquarters here in atlanta. and you are live in the "cnn and you are liv

this is where our gary tuchman went to a school that's not going to be showing it.he spoke with the principal and asked him how that decision was made. >> this is what he's going to say in the speech. if you quit on school, you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country. isn't that a message you'd want your kids to hear? isn't that part of what education is all about? >> most definitely. and we've asked our parents again, going back to responsibility. a responsible parent will sit down and talk with their kids about staying in school. >> and finally, hay dee, let's zoom in from san antonio, texas. we're hearing about a district in which there are some schools showing it, but several that are not showing it. and we heard an argument from someone about why she believes schools should not be showing this. >> it's not the message, no. the message, i think, is inspirational. >> reporter: for them, it's the way it was handled. >> it is how government is operating without the citizens being involved. it is more by edict. and that was really, really d

he's on "the edge of discovery," and so is our gary tuchman. >> reporter: water. it's the most abundant resource on the planet. yet, every year millions of people die. because they don't have access to clean water. so, dean cayman, inventor of the segway, decided to take this problem on with a machine he calls the slingshot. >> we believe the world needs a slingshot to take care of this goliath of a problem, bad water. >> reporter: he says the machine can turn contaminated water like this dirty river water to clean water, by boiling and distilling and vaporizing it. >> in goes the bad, and as you can see, out comes the good. that is pure water. >> reporter: the machine is smaller than some other water purifying systems, making it is more portable. >> it's ideally suited to going in places like the developing world. >> reporter: he said it requires very little electricity and maintenance to function, but unless he can get a partner to help keep costs down, the slingshot won't get to people that need it most. >> we need to be able to protect the valuable resource, w

cnn's gary tuchman found a smalltown texas doctor who places the blame somewhere else. >> how you feelingn says the price of medical care in mcallen, texas, is just way too high. and he's paying the price for speaking out. >> post-op day five. >> reporter: do you think you're committing professional suicide? >> i do. i have. i mean, the results are plain. all right. deep breath. >> reporter: dr. lester dike doesn't put most of the blame on malpractice lawyers or insurance companies for the rise in medical costs here. he blames his colleagues. >> a lot of doctors here are -- are practicing in a way that treats the patients like atm machines and essentially extracts the maximum amount of profit from -- from the patient. >> reporter: dr. dyke now spends much more time relaxing on his ranch because he said other doctors are angry at him and have stopped referring him patients. his practice he says is down 70% since he started speaking out months ago. >> i am being blackballed. the only way they can pressure me to stop doing what i'm doing is to essentially cut off my referrals and try to make