no longer do that is geographically chauvinistic.eople of the united states, or persons of the united states. it is very hard to convince people that their political point of use are wrong. it is much easier to sell propaganda it to children. that is what the people who are making the textbooks are doing. steve: i wish you were kidding. i know you're not kidding. thank you. straight ahead, they want health care for all, but themselves. why some congressmen are not so sure about the building about to pass. also, jenny garth will join us at the conclusion of today's telecast. find out what she is up to .

-- geographic magazine and you decided to donate jeans? >> yes. >> and you did a denim drive. >> yes. i did one at school -- >> how many did you get. about 50. >> and then school was out and you were like, well, maybe i could do more? newspaper. >> you e-mailed it to the ocath local newspaper and then, a pe >> you e-mailed it to the local friends and family and then the local newspaper and then, a denim drive is what you did and then, how many did you get? / >> a thousan >> a thousand pairs of jeans and then you contacted the company to help with shipping. >> thedonated 700 they did the shipping. >> and he got the shipping donated and they donated the shipping. and what did you get to do today? >> i put in ben stiller's jeans. >> those are them? / >> yes. >> how cool is that. and those are > itwell, 's in t llfinal pair, the 33,000 -- 33,088th pair? >>> well, it's in the works. this was one project, done pair of jeans to throw their way. fromand e a link on ath jurns myfoxdc.com if you're intereed a maybe have a few jg >> i keep al a he's

factors that make up the various geographic adjusters in medicare. upon completion of the study, the secretary will make the recommended adjustments and provide appropriate increases or reimbursements based on the adjustments from a medicare proven fun. after two years and hold harmless provision expires and a payment for all new adjustments will then be provided in a budget neutral way. mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent to put in the record exhibit a and incorporate in that agreement. >> without objection that will be the order. >> the second study will assess the best way to shift our medicare payment structures to one that reimburses for high-value care. according to our agreement, the study will be completed within two years in the recommendation submitted to the secretary. the secretary will then have 45 days to submit an application plan to congress and congress will be faced with the option of a joint resolution of disapproval subject to presidential veto by the end of february 2012. if congress does not pass the joint resolution of by the

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why should our doctors' treatment choice be limited by a geographic area or the state? what kind of competition is this, mr. president? >> okay, all right. >> thank you. >> this raises an important question because it goes to the overall debate that's taking place out there right now. when we talk about reform, you hear some opponents of reform saying that somehow we are trying to ration care or restrict the doctors that you can see, or, you name it. well, that's what's going on right now. it's just that the decisions are being made by the insurance companies. now, in fairness, we probably could not construct a system in which you could see any doctor anywhere in the world, any time regardless of expense. that would be a hard system to set up. so if you live in maine, you know, we're going to fly you into california, put you up, i mean you can see -- and i'm not trying to make light of it, you can just see the difficulties. any system that we design, there are going to be some choices that have to be made, in terms of where you go to see your doctor, what's going on et

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you're right, it has to do with kids, national geographic kids magazine. and this is the editor. day for you guys. well, it's exciting. and guinness records are -- >> well, this is the fourth attempt and we're really, really excited and we have the page that we run every month in the magazine. the kids love learning about the dogs with ears sticking out and ladies with long pentagonner nail -- fingernails. >> well, if you're going to do something extreme, may as well do it for a good cause. cause. >> we have the record for clothes being recycled. this is the fourth attempt and the kids are happy to help us. we know that teens are passionate about saving the environment and we wanted to help them save the world. pollution and global warming, they're issues important to the readers. we wanted them to feel like they really changed the world and kept the jeans out of the landfills. >>> and the items recycled are in fact, jeans. how long have you collected them. >> we started collecting in april and four months and readers sent in the jeans. and, then, he kids took the initiative and

we can kind of carve those out based on geographic locations, property type, and also price. we know the jumbo homes are still suffering. so clearly those areas that are still suffering would be the place where the opportunities are. so investors would be wise to look to the geographic areas that are still having problems, the types of properties that are still having problem, and the price ranges where there are still issues. >> so why i be afraid of jumping in to a place? i smell opportunity. why wouldn't i be afraid? it sounds like you're talking about florida, second home market, high end. >> exactly. there's a guy who i think is a lot smarter than all of us, warren butch at the time is the one who said that smart people are bullish when everyone else is afraid. in other words, the time to be greedy is when everyone else is fearful. so if you want to follow his advice, not mine, now would be the time. >> sounds like melissa wants to buy a house. i think this is the right time. i'm looking at the charts. home builders are up 75%. i know they crashed very badly before this.

i do spend time in north dakota, doing some stories for national geographic. and it is beautiful. you park your car, you walk out in this immense grassland, the whole state is a bloated everyone left. there are only 600,000 people there. and you are just lost in this immensity. and it's very call me. consider north dakota one big chunk of prozac. you get out there so i like all. it just happened i was lucky. my sister was asthmatic when i was a child. we live in chicago. the doctors told my. you're going to lose her. so the old man had retired, you know, civil servant. pau gasol up verizon to save his daughter. so i got there and found the place i belong, the desert. never heard of it. i thought everyplace was trees in illinois. so i scored. this must be proof of intelligent design. >> you say the second book -- >> the second one is coming out in the fall 2008. i spent seven years on it. it's got 114 photographs by the mexican photographer, that is called exodus and it is about the migration. it's about the migration in mexico. is about crossing the line illegally and it's about t

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. >> there is a large congressional district geographically. >> driving the 16 counties from and to and take four hours. a lot of the district as rural. space has been dialing it, holding a telephone town hall. >> we did one last night at 7800 people were on the phone, asking questions, listening to my responses, not screaming. >> during the web cast thursday with a newspaper, he said he is steering clear of large, temper- prone public forums. >> that is not my style. if that is what you want from me, you are not going to get it. >> that is not satisfactory to some constituents. this group showed up to again ask him for a town hall. instead, he spoke with them at length on how health care reform is necessary so long as the price is right. >> we do not know how we will pay for this bill. >> at a fund-raiser wednesday, protesters at it this and invited contributors. >> this was announced to many people. >> space's remote approach will likely continue. he won reelection to this district by a whopping 20 percentage point. those leery of government health care reform are ready to take game o

we're also going to go to the guy, the national geographic filmmaker who shot this documentary. it will blow your mind what's happening to dolphins in this country. and in the world, actually. >> i'm almost afraid to see that, actually. and if you are a michael jackson fan, you're going to want to get your hands on this. just before his death, michael jackson was working on the only licensed and endorsed book that was approved by his family. the jackson estate chronicling his life. the book doesn't come out until december. but we have a preview today. >> meantime we've got hoda kotb inside. having a check of the weather -- >> the news. >> here's the weather. >> ann, i have this. >> you know, when you wake up like that, hoda, we become hypnotized. >> go hoda. >> town hall meetings in montana and colorado are next on president obama's agenda this week as he defends his proposed health care overhaul. at a gathering in new hampshire tuesday he urged the crowd to ignore critics who he said try to scare and mislead. but he did not face any of the angry outbursts that have disrupted me

because they provide competition they might lower the price of insurance in their geographical area but they're certainly not charity. >> thank you for setting the record straight. a lot of questions answered there. elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. appreciate it. >>> from health care to housing, now time for the breakdown. did you know in some markets foreclosed homes, folks, are actually selling in a day. and in other places in a matter of hours. foreclosures.com actually says some homes are in contracts believe it or not less than 90 minutes after they are listed. the big driver is of course the banks that own these homes. they're pricing them to move so they can get those homes off their books. actually banks have to pay property taxes and maintenance fees, the energy bills, whenever they seize a home in foreclosure. now we're seeing this happen especially in bubble markets where there ar lot of foreclosures like california and florida but the drop in home prices is not just for foreclosure. it's actually homes in general that are really being priced to move these days as i'm sure

geographically, the highest goals of unemployment -- south africa is the case. north africa, the middle east. that is where the highest levels of unemployment happen. east asia, the best levels of unemployment, largely because of the chinese experience. on the other hand, chinese figures -- we do not have that good figures. that 4.3% only accounts for the urban unemployed, not necessarily the rural ones. we do not have figures on that. >> thank you very much indeed. let's take you around the globe. police in indonesia are involved in a shootout. it this is believed to be one of southeast asia's most wanted terrorist suspects. exchanging gunfire. the leader of the group is thought to be behind the bombings and the twin suicide attacks on jakarta hotels last month. the leader of the tamil tiger rebels has been arrested in southeast asia. the group leader was killed in may. a moscow court has rejected a petition by the family of the murder journalist for a renewed investigation. three suspects were killed during the -- were cleared during the first inquest. italy's

geographically makes sense. you hear something, what happened? >> yeah, i actually saw it on my car. next thing my girlfriend and i saw debris falling out of the sky. and a big splash in the hudson. about, i would say 20 feet in front of me maybe closer, little farther, the tire fell on the roadway in front of our car. >> i can't tell from the picture, just seeing the rubber casing for a tire or actual tire material in there? tire is rubber casing, is it just the exterior or solid what fell? >> looks like just the exterior. i didn't see the rim or anything inside. >> this fell in front. could have hit your car? >> could have, yeah. must have had some velocity coming from the skies. looking at your twitter page you have since looked, still images and you do believe you saw there were three tires attached to the plane. you have extra reason to believe this was from the crash? >> yeah, that type of aircraft has the same tire. i have reason to believe it is. i saw the wing spiraling down, maybe the wing may have hit something. >> we have been getting

first on facebook and eventually "national geographic."the goal was to get it in the magazine. >> but a photo this rich this rare, this in folkies had an audience that couldn't wait for the print copy. >> one of the guys says, well, you're famous in korea. >> so they have gone viral and even to the networks. >> squirrel on a morning program. >> melissa and jackson don't expect to turn a profit from their priceless picture worth so many words in so many languages but they do enjoy the thought they're sharing their joy with others. >> it was so much fun for us. now we just love it that everyone else thinks it's so fun. >> it doesn't look real. we know it's real but i it does look like it's photo shopped. >> they are going to be on "today" later this morning. the squirrel has its own facebook page. look for nuts the squirrel. >> i'm going to friend nut. >> they grow the squirrels big in that part of the country. >> there's so much more ahead on 11 news today. >> we'll take a look at some of your answers to our "watercooler question of the day

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oak, the old courthouse square, yet they, and in particular their children, had little notion of geographical origin, of a starting place. i think that is sad, but i can't conclude that it is bad, without room to grow in a town like stapleton, neb. these americans, the relos, become new pioneers on the global frontier. they fly where they must on the shifting winds of a breadwinner's job through booms and busts, the hardiest find a proxy for a place, close ties to their immediate family, with the help of the digital links of a boundaryless age. [applause] >> are there questions? bill? >> first, i want to congratulate you on the impressive reporting you did on putting this book together. but i am curious, as someone who already had plenty of experience with relocation in your own career, what two or three real surprises did you gain in this reporting that shaped this book? >> the biggest surprise was not the effect on children, but the effects on wives. it was a surprise, in part, because my wife, who is here, didn't bring these issues up with me much. she came along. and it was probably fruit

that geographical proximity means the h1n1 swine flu virus tops the summit agenda. the outbreak which is now a global pandemic started in mexico. >> i think everybody recognizes that h1n1 is going to be a challenge for all of us and there are people who are going to be getting sick in the fall and die. >> reporter: borders also prompt talks about drug cartels. the violence leads to dozens of kills in mexico a month and cartels are spreading north to the u.s. president obama says he backs the mexican president's fight against the drug war. >> we have responsibilities to reduce the trafficking of guns into the south, that help strengthen these cartels. and the flows of money and money laundering. >> reporter: also on the agenda, an unsettled economy-induced trucking dispute. this spring president obama signed a bill which blocked mexican trucks from entering the country because of safety concerns. in return mexico imposed more than $2 billion of tariffs on u.s. goods. >> allowing mexican long haul trucking into our country is going to diminish safety on the highways.

it has spread geographically, it's spread in intensity in certain areas and its ability to coerce and control parts of the population has increased. >> reporter: gen. mcchrystal's strategy review would fundamentally change how the u.s. fights. relying more on afghan forces and doubling the number of afghan soldiers and police. improving local governance by fighting corruption and concentrating u.s. troops in population centers where they should spend less time fighting the taliban and more time defending the population. >> our focus was on hunting down terrorists. not on protecting the population and building governance for them. it made it entirely new easy for the taliban to get access and rekindle insurgency. >> reporter: to challenge the insurgency mcchrystal will soon request thousands more troops. but that will be highly controversial and not come without costs. the u.s. has already doubled the number of troops this year and the last two months have been the deadliest of the war. nick schifrin, abc news, zabul province, afghanistan. >>> and still ahead on "world news" -- controv

the magazine national geographic kids led the effort to collect old pairs of jeans from children across the country. this week a judge from guinness world records certified the results. >> i think in small ways all of the groups that are out there working on these issues, we are beginning to see a difference. we are seeing a really sort of spike in the environmental eco consciousness of the american populace. kids are more aware of these issues than adults are. >> the jeans will be recycled and reprocessed into insulation for rebuilding homes damaged by natural disasters. it will be enough material to insulate more than 60 homes. >>> it's no secret many families are struggling in this rough economy but for the owners of one of the oldest farms in maryland, help comes from some four-legged friends. we are introduced to these heroes. >> reporter: this is one of the oldest farms in all of maryland. the land was bought in 1802 end bes inthe me family ever ncsie. >> this was a very siold tobacc farm. the property here, the home and the out buildings and everything were built by my great grea

yet they and in particular their children had little notion of geographic origin of the starting place. i think that said but i cannot conclude that it's bad. without room to grow in a town of light stapleton nebraska these americans, the relos become new pioneers on the global front here. they fly where they must on the shifting winds of the breadwinners job through booms and busts they find a proxy for place and close ties to their immediate family with the help of the digital links of a boundary this age. thank you. [applause] so, are there questions? bill? >> the first, i want to congratulate you on the impressive reporting you did on putting this book to get there. but i am curious as someone who already had plenty of experience with the location in your own career but two or three real boom surprises did you gain for this reporting that shaped this book? >> the biggest surprise was not the effect on children, but the affect on why this and i think it was a surprise in part because my wife who is here didn't bring these issues up with me much. she came along. [laughter] and it was

toward the end of july, we put up a commercial that talked about the fact that illness has not geographic boundaries, no boundaries with respect to economic status, or race, or whatever. it affects everybody. we are committed. we know that there are important things that can be done by way of getting everyone into the system, keeping them there, and making sure that they have a safety net. the end of the commercial indicates that we're for bipartisan reform. if taking all the work that we had done, packaging it, and putting real dollars are brown the commercial that communicates to the american people about where we are and what we support. it is taking this outside beltway, and people inside are familiar. that was what was very important to the august recess. >> one of the proposals put forth in the sense finance committee -- the senate finance committee is the calotte which is a alternative to the public option did you do not seem to want to support. is that something you can support? how would that play against private insurers? >> there is no way to know how these entities would be de

team rooms and fort campbell they've been given discovery channel video tapes and old national geographics to study what afghanistan is like. that is their intelligence at the beginning. it got much better and more robust and complex, but at one level or on the other hand i think there's nothing wrong with that because they are doing everything for anything they can to prepare these guys. they write letters home saying if you are reading this letter things didn't turn well for me. they are taking off their wedding rings and putting them in an envelope and handing it to the chaplain, and now they are landed. mulholland said to them before i got on the aircraft trust no one, even the afghans themselves may try to kidnap you for ransom, etc., etc.. so they are really in no man's land. but the odd thing is special forces relish this kind of opportunity. much like the us is officers of world war ii out of which special forces eventually grew confirmed officially in 1952. they are trained to work behind enemy lines. they speak the language like i said they know everything about the culture they

but it doesn't reduce them online training does reduce a lot of geographic barriers but does reduce some of the sort of special barriers but it doesn't reduce tm all. you still in order to do online training need computerand chair to sit in, you know,r a laptop what have you. but that means the online training has to take place somewhere and has to take place somewhere in time. so that's something you need to be thinking about. you can talk about, the question whether or not is if they come little skilled workers don't have a personal computer at home so we need to be thinking and where online training is going to take place. a couple of areas, kind of the obvious suspects the is the work force system under the investment act and of course community colleges or another area you could be doing onlin aining but a couple points on that -- hate to sound negative -- the work force investment system and community college system in this country are substantially overwhelmed at this point. the work force investment system under the work force investment act in the 12-month period ending in march

of the third week of july we put up a commercial that talks about the fact that illness has no geographic boundaries, no boundaries with respect to economic status or race or whatever. but if affects everybody. and we are committed. we know there are important thing that is can be done by way of getting people into the system, keeping them there. and making sure they have a safety net. so taking all of the work that we've done, packaging it and putting real dollars around a commercial that communicates to the american people about where we are and what we support. so it's just taking this outside the beltway and people inside the beltway are familiar with with what we're doing. but that we thought was very important for the august recess. >> one of the proposals being put forward is a cooperative establishing insurance cooperatives. which you guys have spoken out against and republicans don't seem to want to support. is that are cooperatives something you can support? and how do you think that would play against private insurers? >> there's no way to know what, how these entities will be

islamic jihadists represent the worst threat that the world has ever faced but their goals are not geographical boundaries, racial purity, or cultural dominance. they believe that their purpose is to take a last breath of the last person who does not share their dr.. not all muslims believe this abc any more than -- not on muslims believe in this lunacy any more than christians believe in the same thing is that the church from kansas does while they disrupt military funerals. the hero's welcome came hours after president obama said this. >> we are now in contact with the libyan government and we want to make sure that if in fact this transfer has taken place, he is not welcome back in some way but instead should be under house arrest. mike: today, obama called the scene highly objectionable. the press secretary said this. >> we communicated with the libyan government. we continue to watch what they do in the days going forward about this individual. we understand that the video that you saw yesterday is tremendously offensive to the survivors that lost a loved one. >> what about the president?

the readers of national geographic kids collected 30,000 pairs of jeans for this recycling program.thes will be turned into insulation for homes. an official from guiness world records was on hand to certify all of these results. a 9-year-old from ohio was honored for having a drive at his school that collected 1,600 pairs of jeans. good idea. >> that's kind of neat. >> look at that. >> i picture these layers of jeans in the walls of your house. >> and then maybe they could come back. the acid-washed ones could come back when ty are allowed in the future. >> the video game the sims as always appeared to gamers. the latest version has offded some critics with its availability of lifestyle choices. it allows same sex couples to get married and adopt children. some accuse the game of an agenda to get gay players. >> i don't know about that game. >> we talked about him a little bit yesterday. it wasn't quite the question that did in a local contestant last night. >> anthony sloan was asked which state voted for the winning candidate in 24 of the last 25 presidential elections. >> c, fin

why should our doctors' treatment choice be limited by a geographic area of the state? what kind of competition is this, mr. president? . decisions are being made by insurance companies. in fairness, we probably could not construct a system in which you could see any doctor anywhere in the world any time regardless of expense. bulb be hard to set up. if you live in maine, you are going to fly into california -- put you up -- you can see, and i'm not trying to make light of it, but you can see the difficulty. with any system we design, some choices will have to be made in terms of what is going on, etc. that is currently being done in the private marketplace. all we are trying to do is to make sure that those decisions being made in the private market place are not discriminating against people because they are already 66 -- 6 - sick, and making sure they get a good deal. if you go to a hospital, you get one of those operations you discussed, and it turns out that two weeks later, a europe got to be readmitted because they did not do it right the first time, the hospital

but national geographic has used new technology to show us incredible pictures. what it looks like under all that water. >> mountain ranges as big, as those above the watt center. >> yeah. sometimes bigger. and volcanos, valleys, everything. >> highways? >> no. no highways. areas that look like highways. no taco stands. no fast food. no fast food under the ocean. >>> i'll do this. we'll do a little weather. let's get to the boards. show you one or two things. you ys up for that? [ cheers ] you up for that over here, too? a little bit? [ cheers ] just checking the temperature of the audience. here's what we're looking at. there's one cold front that makes a drop today right through america's heartland. it will fire up thunderstorms. st. louis, you're on the lookout, all the way to memphis, nashville, cincinnati. these storms are likely to have damaging winds and flash-flooding. beautiful totals in southern california. it's more beautiful this tuesday, than last tuesday. we are with you in south texas, where it is so, so bone-dry. and it's been the hottest july on

. >> then i was going to ask you about geographic areas, if there is a change there. what are the hardest hit states and is there an indication they are doing better. i remember you said you really couldn't point out a geographic area because it was bad across the country, and i wonder if that was -- has changed at all or if there were dramatic increases or declines. >> i haven't seen any big changes in the patterns in any particular state. the unemployment rate has moderated. it hasn't grown much. i think that's been roughly the same pattern throughout the states. i'm not seeing a big change. in fact, there might be individual states that are still having troubles. >> what are the states hardest hit? or just the largest unemployment rates. >> these are states like michigan, arizona, nevada, florida. it turns out overall numbers in california have been the hardest hit, but that's actually a very large state. so it may not be so bad. >> which ones are doing the best? you can come back on the second round and tell me. >> i do have those numbers. i just need a minute. >>

this one was so memorable, the couple decided to send it on to national geographic. >> that's a chipmunk. >> that is. that's not a squirrel. >> it's a ground squirrel. our producer is correcting us. >> looked like a chipmunk to me. >> the time now 6:19. a check on traffic and weather straight ahead. >> plus the purple and black leave the redskins black and blue. the ravens season opener when we come back. >> and don't forget to e-mail us your "water cooler question of the day." what do you think of the eagles' decision to sign michael vick?he maryland lottery minute. hut onehut twoit's game time folks, the ravens cash fantasy scratch-off is out in stores now! this $5 scratch-off has an instant top prize of $1 million. plus, an internet promotion where you can win ravens season tickets for life, game worn jerseys, a trip with the ravens team and other prizes you can't get anywhere else. visit mdlottery.com/ravens for all the details and to enter your extra yards. pick 3 players don't miss out on your extra chance to win. the green ball double draw promotion ends this sunday. so far over $

greta: israel is in a horrible place geographically. they are very close to iran, and iran can reach them. we have been so supportive of them. on the other hand, i do not get the sense that israel thinks that negotiation is an option between the united states and iran. is that about right? am i about right on that? >> i think that is correct. i think from israel's point of view, what makes it hard is that they know iran is trying to increase their air defense capability to add that there are likely to be dispensing and further hardening his their nuclear program, which means even if they successfully, let's say, destroyed their uranium enrichment facility, iran could be building a duca facility, a couple hundred miles away, and that is what a military strike is not a complete solution to iran's situation -- iran could be building a duplicate facilities. if you miscalculate where iran is in their nuclear program, you could find out six months from now that things are different. greta: they can either build it and have it done with in one

sample sales used to be geographically located in new york. now you can do it online and virtually anywhere you are, you can access these same discounts. >> i have to admit i didn't even know what a same pl sale was until you ed -- educated me about that this morning. but it is a way to get designer brands for far less than usual. >> exactly. you get anywhere from 50% to 80% off if you do smart shopping. it is all about buy savvy and be smart. >> with savvy.com you have really done the work for people. this is amazing. you were blowing me away with the weather segment with what you paid for these and what you are offering them for. >> exactly. this is a gwen steffani bag. it sells for $250. we're selling it for $75. this is a lamb handbag. $345. it still has the retail price hanging on it. $45. >> this i bought at a sample sale. >> amazing bag. $800 bag for $300. >> i'm sitting here wondering why anyone would pay that much for a hand bag, but >> these are designer names and people pay it. it blows my mind, but there's always a way to get it fo

in terms of forecasting storm surge to help with rescue operations that in addition to natural geographic data a full database should contain what you turned social geographic data to help with that in particular. from your experiences with ike in particular, what -- give some examples of that would be particularly useful, how it would be useful on the social geographic data site. >> yes, senator. i should first say that i and my team work in the state operation center. we work with state elected leadership with the governor with chief of emergency management jack cali. we are constantly interpreting the model forecast and taking a runs from the super computer the texas said fenced computer center and looking at the impact geography. now, what we see in the physical side, the high magnitude impacts are not necessarily the areas where you want the first responders to go. i will give you a concrete example. if we had ground zero being in the east beach galveston island we have an area that is developed with half million-dollar beach houses which were second homes, very high event condominiu

then i was going to ask you about geographic areas. one of the hardest hit states and what are the states that are doing better. and i remember when we were asked the worst of this at one of these hearings, you were saying how really couldn't really even point out a geographic area because it was bad all across the country. i wonder if that's changed at all f there is dramatic improvement or dramatic decline? >> yeah, i'm not seeing any real big change in the pattern among states. the unemployment rate, the unemployment rate has moderated. it hasn't grown much. i think that's been roughly the same pattern, i think, throughout the states. i'm not seeing a big change. there might have been individual states still having troubles. >> what are the states hardest hit? >> largest losses -- >> or just the largest enemployment rate. >> these losses are states like michigan, arizona, nevada, florida. turns out overall numbers in california is the hardest hit. but that is also a large state. not quite so bad. >> and which ones are doing the best

it successfully alleviates the problems that exist as i talked about such as family demands, geographicdemands, racial and ethnic differences. financing and transportation and inequities. the utilization of online learning is most effective when it allows for flexibility and it recognizes the various roles that adult learners play in their lives. it really needs to fit within the lives of adult learners. many adult learners may be students, workers, caregivers and we need to work training around them instead of asking training to fit training around their busy lives. delivering online course work is not a new concept. universities across the country have successfully employed online learning for decades. sloan c has done a great jobn promoting online learning for universities and it has really become pervasive across the united states. more recently this concept has been adopted in the work force system and believe it has a place in the work force system. this initiative to put online learning on the work force system begins with a grant of the department of labor women' bureau to the s

his story is featured on the national geographic channel's "locked up abroad." in el paso, shoshanna johnson, former prisoner of war, held cappive in iraq for 22 days in 2003, the author of "i'm still standing-memoirs of a woman soldier held can'tive" comes out next february. and michael was imprisoned in bulgaria for 12 years, released in july of last year, held for three years in solitary confinement. he was convicted on embezzlement charges but says he was not guilty. all right, scott. what is the worst thing about being held captive? >> well, for us, i mean it was the constant threat of death over the five days. myself and a turkish colleague were being held as accused spies by the ansar al islam insurgents while we were being held and threatened by death we came under attack by the american forces who attacked to retake the city. we were under american attack being held by ansar al islam and on six occasions it was for me that i was threatened to be killed either by beheading, tortured to death or shot outside. it was quite -- that part of it was the roller

you can see how geographically a southern is being born overnight. perhaps you've heard about colonial's legal issues, fraud allegations, the whole problem. you might be thinking those could sink bb & t after this deal. you also no doubt are concerned if you follow this deal about all the terrible construction loans that bb & t got in florida as part of the bargain. to that i say untrue. hey, don't worry. when i say the victor gets the spoils, i'm talking about real spoils, meaning that the fdic has basically kept the legal problem and given bb & t the deposits, which is all we ever wanted anyway. plus bb & t got a great loss sharing deal with the fdic, one that works out to be heads bb & t wins, tails, the fdic loses. and before it takes the colonial loan portfolio, remember, it's not possibly the fraudulent part, that goes to the fdic, it has marked down the loan book by 7%, meaning they expect the percentage of loans to go bad, that's twice the number of bad loans that the other deals from the fdic have taken and they are thinking about buying dow

f food dispenlser.ho fto pirst geographic. this morning the couple was on the "today" s show and they reassured matt lauer that the picture is real. right. >>> let's find out about some of the stories in the works for news 4 this afternoon. >> i wonder how many pictures it took just to get that one. > coming up this afternoon, we'll find out how social networking sites are changing the way some do business. plus how you can use facebook and twitter to land yourself a new job. then at 5 k on, get home grown tomatoes without being a guard thing guru. this infomercial says it's in the bag, but did z. it really do that. liz kren issue is back to find out for us. plus as kids head back to school, dr. jackie joins us with tips on how to keep your kids healthy as they head back to the classroom. that's coming up in had get healthy for life today. for these and all the day's news and your forecast, we start right here at 4:00 and 5:00. back to you. >>> let's go tom now and get a final check of our forecast. >>> the tropics are heating

the magazine national geographic kids led the effort to collect old pairs of jeans from children across the nation. today, a judge from the guiness world records certified their results. >> all of the groups working on these issues, we are beginning to see a difference and we are seeing a spike in the environmental eco consciousness of the american population. kids oftentimes are a lot more aware of these issues than adults are. >> what are they going to do with them? the jeans will be recycled and repressed for insulation. they will have enough material to insulate more than 60 homes with jeans. >> what a great idea. temperatures cooled off considerably today. chief meteorologist, topper shutt is live on the terrace with your forecast first. >> we dropped another 5 or 6 degrees today. a little humid still and we have thunderstorms in the forecast. here's your forecast first. for tonight, scattered showers and thunderstorms. some of which could contain some strong, gusty winds and heavy rain. not quite as muggy, but we are splitting hairs here. loremid 60s in the suburbs. l stw il70los

. >> where geographically was the greatest growth in sales?>> for our company, the biggest is in eastern europe and asia and those are the markets growing the fastest. they are among the more mature markets and the u.s. is right now the fastest growing for us. nearly 30% to date. >> 30% growth in the u.s. you gave us the good news. thank you very much again for taking the time to join us. i know it's evening there. >> no problem. >> jim cramer. we will talk about legos. the bears may be back in town for the market and jim has sell off stocks to watch. what does he think about a company with 30% revenue growth. bringing jobs home to be something kids want. "street signs" will be back.  >>> we were having conversations about lego. the united states of america, there aren't many company who is can say that. >> when i took my kids to lego land, the idea was, look, you don't need the fancy games and the high prices. you want to do crafts. this was the e85 lent. it looks like they are making a come back and i think it is values. >> we were talkin

according to national geographic, they smuggle millions of dollars worth of antiquities out of the region every year. for many of you who have been to afghanistan know that the countries was at the crossroads -- this incredibly rich, ancient history. a lot of ancient sites are being absolutely. lot of it -- most of it is being smuggled out through pakistan. pakistan is always the linchpin in this situation. when i started looking into how the money functions in the insurgent system, this takes me back to the soprano's model, even though some of these groups that operate along the border region, are only loosely affiliated with each other. the guy at the district level, usually takes a percentage upstairs to whoever has -- everybody pays in, so it is like a pyramid. an upside-down pyramid. it goes toward the top. that would indicate the top leaders of all of these movements are making huge amounts of money off of all of this criminal activity in the region. we heard numerous reports of financial representatives from each of these groups, from al qaeda, the taliban, an extremist group that

evolved over the year to prevent interstate branching, i think it did permit more diversification geographically, which is helpful in some circumstances. i would personally not be in favor of for the limits. -- of further limits. >> i would just say that you alluded to certain the circumstances in which interstate operations became a problem. i think that can be the case. but that is where it is important to focus on business model of the entity in question, and it ought not to be allowed to engage in unsafe and unsound practices, whether they involve excessive branching that is unsupported by sound business plans or other practices. >> let me point out that thrifts enjoyed the ability to branch interstate without restriction. with community banks, my impression is that that privilege has had some impact, but i am not certain how great. >> my colleague from montana brought up the testimony from mr. ludwig, i want to go into another area of his testimony that i found very interesting. he makes the point, and i'm sure he could make it much better than i, which he may get a chance to do later, but

the geographical proximity means the h1n1 swine flu virus tops the summit agenda.now a global pandemic, started in mexico. >> i think everybody recognizes that h1n1 is going to be a challenge to all of us, and there are people who are going to be getting sick in the fall and die. >> shared borders will also calm talks about drug cartels. the violence leads to dozens of killings in mexico, and cartels are spreading north to the u.s. president obama has said he backs mexican president calderon's fight against the drug war. >> we have responsibilities to reduce the trafficking of guns into the south that help strengthen these cartels. and the flows of money, and money laundering. >> also on the agenda, an unsettled economy-induced trucking fee. this spring, president obama signed a bill which blocks mexican trucks from entering the country. in return, mexico imposed more than $2 billion of tariffs on u.s. goods. >> allowing mexican long haul trucking into our country is going to diminish safety on our highways. >> the trip marks mr. obama's second presidential visit t