harry truman was a lot like harry reid. in 1948, harry truman campaigned across this country, making the case against the do-nothing republicans in congress. they have been dealing with the do nothing republican leadership in the senate. despite all their tactics, despite all their political maneuvers, we keep making progress. he does not give in. he keeps fighting, and he of left them, and he changes the landscape of america as a consequence. we have taken quite a few punches as a nation. i took off after almost a decade of economic policy i that gave e sluggish job growth, falling income, a record deficit -- i want everybody to remember this. a decade of economic policy that culminated in the worst crisis since the great depression. 3 million americans have lost their job in the last six months of 2008. another 750,000 americans lost their jobs the month i was sworn in. the next month, it was 6,000, and these were not just numbers. most of you had somebody in your family who was touched by the crisis, if you were not your

harry knows this, harry remember this. we had seven republicans who were sponsors of this fiscal commission. they said we've got to deal with the deficit; we've got to deal with debt. so i say, okay, let's do it. i make an announcement. and in front of the entire country i said, i embrace this bipartisan fiscal commission idea. let's get this legislation passed. i'll sign it into law. next thing you know the seven folks on the republican side who had been co-sponsors of it voted against it. their legislation. now, this is typical. so, look, i don't want you guys to get bamboozled. i don't want -- when these folks start running the okeedoke on you, i want you to be clear. [laughter] when they start intoning about how "we care so much about the deficit and debt," and "we're tired of this out-of-control government spending" -- look, these are the folks who delivered to you a structural debt -- deficits that broke the record; turned record surpluses into record deficits. so this is like a lecture on sobriety from folks who had

that is your senate majority leader, harry reid. [cheers and applause] >> harry! harry! harry!i have known harry since i arrived in the senate five years ago. we have become dear friends. he is a man of principle. he is a straight-shooter. he is a man of his word. [applause] he comes across as a soft- spoken. you know how he is all like, "well, you know." [laughter] even when he is in front of a big crowd, he is like, "well, you know." [applause] we are trying hard. that is just how harry is. anybody who knows harry knows that he is made of strong stuff. this is one tough guy. [cheers and applause] a lot of people talk tough. harry is a tough. -- is tought. a lot of people in washington forget where they came from. harry remembers every single day. [cheers and applause] a lot of people, instead of taking the tough votes, showing leadership, making difficult decisions -- they do what is politically expedient. they end up making the choices that get them the best chance of staying in washington. that is not harry reid. he does not always do what is easy. he does not always do wha

thank you, harry, but no thanks. it is time to retire harry reid, folks. [cheers and applause] over the last two days, harry reid and president obama or the presidentduo, weren't they? -- they were the picture-perfect duo, weren't they? arm in arm, talking smack [laughter] ] sharron angle is about to smack. upside the head come november. [applause] let me ask all of you hear something. how is that hopey-changey thing working out for you? are you feeling it yet? barack obama talked about hope without an action plan, and harry reid bought into it. he talked about change without telling us what he wanted to change. and harry reid stuck with the people into the bad deal. the two of them are teamed up. the people woke up. they stood up for liberty. when harry met barry and past the giant welfare package and called it stimulus, what did we do? we did not cry. we organized an nominated sharron angle to defeat harry reid. [applause] when harry reid's pal, nancy pelosi -- you all know her, don't you? yes. when nancy and harry got together in the house and tri to pa

harry? >> you can really tell from this just how sensitive this subject is and what a hair-trigger finger from the agriculture department without even looking into it took -- to pull the trigger on her. >> that's exactly right. you know, vilsack's comments overnight showing that he recognized they have a real problem here. it is going to keep the story going throughout the day. you know, i suspect at some point they will bring her back on because of the tapes being so heavily edited. hyper-charged atmosphere where you have 24/7, cable, internet, you need to take a breath before you act. >> perhaps so. jan crawford, thanks so much for your help this morning. here's erica. >>> it is another huge milestone for president obama. the first was when he signed the health care bill in march. today he's set to sign a bill aimed at completely overhauling wall street. chip reid joins us this morning with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. it is being hailed as the biggs shake-up of wa

harry will chat with him later.as been around animals his whole life, but this probably -- not the ebb appearance he was expecting when hiking in glacier national park in montana with his family recently. a grizzly bear attacks, charges, obviously, he lived to tell the tale. we are going to hear it. >>> as we get closer and closer to chelsea clinton's wedding, we are unraveling big secrets, like this. we have a photo of chelsea entering a high-end dress shop here in new york. we think that's her. it could be a clue as to who designed her wedding gown. and we'll get to that story in a bit. >> ah, the details, the details. >>> first, to the latest in the ongoing search for kyron horman. for the first time in weeks now, police are speaking about the investigation holding a press conference yesterday where they gave few new details, but they did increase the reward money. priya david clemens is live with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this wall of good wishes continues to grow. and while many hope the li

harry? >> kelly cobiella in grand isle, louisiana. thank you so much. erica? >> harry, thanks. oil will most likely be on the agenda this morning when british prime minister david cameron meets with president obama for the first time in the u.s. cbs news senior white house correspondent bill plante has more for us this morning. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, erica. oil is on the agenda, and it's not just bp's spill in the gulf. it's also the controversy over the release of the only person convicted in the bombing of pan-am flight 103. and the question is, was he released as part of a deal with libya for oil? before departing for the u.s., prime minister david cameron told the bbc that had he been in charge, he would not have released lockerbie bomber abdelbaset al megrahi. >> as leader of the opposition, i couldn't be more clear that i think the decision to release al megrahi was completely and utterly wrong. >> reporter: al megrahi was released from prison last august after doctors said he had less than a year to live. now a year later, he's still alive

harry? okay erica, now to the latest in the disaster in the gulf, where there is reason for hope this morning that oil has finally stopped gushing from that blown-out well. but the next 36 hours of testing the new containment cap will tell the whole story. cbs news correspondent kelly cobiella is on the gulf coast in grand isle, louisiana. kelly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, harry. this is what gulf coast residents have been both pleading and praying for for nearly three months now, stop the flow of oil. well, that flow has now been stopped for more than 19 hours, and using this new, tighter fitting cap system. if you look at those cameras a mile down on the ocean floor, there is no oil coming from that well this morning. engineers are still checking the pressure. they're checking it every six hours. high pressure means the well is holding. low pressure means there is a leak. now, bp vice president ken wells says that so far it looks like the pressure is good inside that new cap.

harry, good morning. >> reporter: hey, guys.ood news down here is that the cap is still on the well and that means there's no new oil flowing into the gulf of mexico. it has been on there for a couple of days now. bp has made it quite clear they want to keep the cap on, but the government is concerned about anomalies below the well. and there's a bit of a tug of war going on right now whether or not to open it or keep it shut. kelly is here with the latest on that. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. ed that allen, the incident commander, has given bp another 24 hours to keep the cap on as long as they watch the well, test it and report back. for three days straight bp held back the oil and tested the well. all looked good. so good bp said sunday that if the pressure levels held and they found no leaks, the well could stay closed. >> we are hopeful that if the encouraging signs continue we'll be able to continue the integrity test all the way to the point to get the well killed. >> reporter: yet bubbles are coming from a va

thanks to harry's leadership. [applause] some people know these tax credits by the name 48-c, which refers to their section in the tax code. but here's how these credits work. we said to clean energy companies, if you're willing to put up 70% of the capital for a worthy project, a clean energy project, we'll put up the remaining 30%. to put it another way, for every dollar we invest, we leverage two more private sector dollars. we're betting on the ingenuity and talent of american businesses. now -- [applause] now these manufacturing tax credits are already having an extraordinary impact. a solar panel company, a solar power company called aminex received a roughy $6 million tax credit for a new facility they're building in the las vegas area, a tax credit they were able to match with roughy $12 million in private capital. that's happening right now and that's just one of over -- [applause] did -- that's just run -- one of over 180 projects that received manufacturing tax credits in over 40 states. now, the only p

does anyone here believe harry reid? do we trust harry reid when he says things like that?efit of the doubt? this is what is going on now with energy. harry reid has temporarily taken a cap-and-trade provisions out of this bill to get it through the senate and into a conference committee where henry waxman has already promised to put cap-and-trade back in so that they can force it through in a lame duck section after the election. john kerry said they are going to do the same thing. it is not a big secret. they just think we are not paying attention, but we are. even if they were doing that, the senate energy bill sent billions of more dollars to the same green jobs racquets intended for the capitalist system. bottomline we need to tell every member of the u.s. senate, you vote no on any energy bill this congress. they do not deserve the benefit of the doubt on that issue. vote no on any energy bill. [applause] the lame duck thread is actually much greater band just the energy issue although obviously cap-and-trade is an enormous, enormous problem that will in the words of

on this thursday, i'm harry zblith i'm erica hill. good to have you with us this morning. >> have you ever been to the tetons? >> i have not. >> most beautiful stunning piece outside of jackson, wyoming. and if you are a werner like i lived out there for a dozen years, you want to climb those things. what one of the truths of climbing out there is late in the afternoon, you get the thunderstorms almost every day. thunder, lightening here in the tetons. three different climbing groups up above 13,000 feet. >> they were almost there. >> up there. they were way up there. you get up that high, there no place to high. thunder and lightning comes in, lot of people hurt. one person still miss thing morning. the latest that. >> we are going to take a look this morning at that whale. pictures are amazing. 40-ton whale crushes a boat. we are going to speak with the couple onboard that boat. i can't imagine what it must be like to see this lurching at you and then, of course, that's the aftereffects. more on that story this morning as well. firs

harry, good to have you on this program. >> thank you for having me. tavis: having gone through the text, i understand it, for those who know the story, they understand why you would call the book "no one would listen," for those who don't know the back story on what you did to uncover bernie madoff's scandal, you called the book "no one would listen" why? >> because we had an 8 1/2 year journey, my team and i we crossed fourth continents. we turned them in repeatedly to the s.e.c. i never let the s.e.c. know i had a team tracking in the field tracking madoff. it was too dangerous of a case. tavis: when you say too dangerous, true that you slept with a gun sometimes because you thought that someone was going to get on to you and maybe harm you? >> after june 2002 when i went to europe and i saw the offshore nature of the funds, funds and i knew that madoff at that time, it was pretty clear to me, he was stealing from organized crime. if he was doing that, he had to be criminally insane or an organized crime boss himself. i wasn't sure which. from that

right now harry smith in new york has more of the day's news. harry? >> smith: all right.nks, katie. tonight we learned an f.d.a. panel has finally made its recommendation about the controversial diabetes drug avandia and that is that it remain on the market but with even greater restrictions. the decision was far from unanimous and as dr. jon lapook explains, the battle over this drug is not over yet. >> so the voting results... >> reporter: today's vote culminates years of debate over avandia's safety and still opinions are deeply divided among patients... >> please think about those of us that have flourished on avandia. >> reporter: ...and doctors. >> we still have increases in stroke, in heart failure. >> reporter: in the end, a majority of the committee voted avandia should remain an option for patients with diabetes. in the 33-member panel, 12 votes to pull the drug off the market, 20 voted to keep it on the market with most suggesting further restrictions. one abstained. >> i do not think the evidence was strong enough to suggest that the drug should be taken off t

harry reid had called the surge in iraq a failure before it had even started. he called general david petraeus a liar. people will say strange things at different times. but i think for the new candidates, the rol being a candidate running for office is different i think that's what some of them might have imagined, particularly with the kind of scrutiny that they're going to get. for example, in nevada, sharon angle running against the majority leader whose approval numbers are very low are going to have tens of millions of dollars of negative advertising run against her. so i think that's what the playing field looks like this time. voters are going to have to make their decision whether they want to continue business as usual in washington, d.c. or whether they want to send somebody to washington who is going to operate as a check on single-party power on unpopular policies. >> a few questions on fund-raising for you. the big story this week is that the second quarter fund-raising reports are do. give me an assessment of how your candidates did. >> i think r

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i'm julie chen with harry smith and erica hill.me good news for you. airline seats are getting bigger and more comfortable. we're going to tell you which airlines are making the skies more friendly. >> that's something i never thought i'd hear. >>> also, an unbelievable story. a little boy falls off a chair, lands on a metal rod. it's stuck in his head. not only did he survive the fall but look at that x-ray. look at the parents and doctors. >> reusable grocery bags, can they make you sick? the friend is a cloth bag u-hyul around all the time. you're supposed to use it to pick up all stuff. could there be germs, residual germs? >> no good deed goes unpunished. >> we'll find out from dr. jennifer ashton to help us separate fact from fiction. >> standing by at the news desk with a check of the headlines, good morning, betty. >> good morning. tony hayward is still ceo of bp this morning but not much longer. after more than three error prone months as the face of bp gulf oil disaster he's stepping down. he'll be replaced by bob dudley,

harris toed dan harris to take on whatonight on what lessons were learned and whether any of this will change. a reporter: with pretty much nvolved in the shiin the shirley sherrod case apologizing -- -- y extending her my personal and profound apologies. >> i owe miss sherrod an sherrod an >> reporter: the question -- >> amp downs episode tamp down america's warp-speed, hair political culture?culture? if you listen ton to media matters for america, the left-wing media monitoring od case bring the volume herrod case will bring the volume down at 't think it wi >> i don't think it will. i mean, i think, frankly, the right wing m right wing mob is committed to reporter: b >> reporter: but doesn't the left have a noise machine of its not like >> not like this. >> reporter: andrew breitbart, the right wing blogger who sparked this by posting the chine, and eo, says there is a left wing noise machine, and it's now going after him. so you're saying the rush to judgment here is against you? judgment. >> it's a convenient rush to judgment. ng on this lovs bad guy who's taking on this lovely, b

harry reid and the liberal democrats. will jack a vote against harry reid? i don't think so. for mitch mcconnell to be leader. he is opposed to changing the navigable -- deleting that word, adding these new regulations. the regulations are coming from the national democrat party. i know there are people here who are democrats. we have conservative democrats in kentucky, but the national party left you 20 years ago. jack may want to run as a moderate, but he will go up there and his first vote cast will be for harry reid. harry reid is not your friend on these issues. that is the problem. that is what this election will be about. you have to decide, who are the people wanting to change these regulations? who is talking about making the chesapeake bay agreement and nationalizing it? they're coming out of president obama's and administration. who are the people he is appointing? who are these 43 czars he is appointing? the person he has to head medicare, do these that is what this is going to be about. if he is truly for the epa, he has to vote with the republicans because that

in 1946 democrat harry truman cut federal spending dramatically. in 1946 he cut the federal budget from $80 billion down to $35 billion. he fired 10 million federal employees. it was called demobilization. and the result was the entire postwar economic expansion. mr. speaker, it's said that don't learn from history are bound to repeat it. i fear that the majority party is repeating a failed history of economic contraction at just the time when we need pro-growth policies. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from florida. mr. hastings: i'm very pleased to yield to my colleague and fellow floridian, the distinguished gentlewoman from florida, ms. wasserman schultz, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. wasserman schultz: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i am appalled and my constituents are appalled at the republicans' disrespect and cold heartedness when it comes

i'm harry smith. >> i'm erica hill. perfect way to kick off the end of week. a lot happen thing morning and a lot happening tomorrow. chelsea clinton getting married. we will get you the latest. you see there a live shot of rhinebeck, new york, hotel where we are told several wedding guests reportedly are staying. latest from rhinebeck this morning. >> we have a lot of news coming out of california. >> breaking news. this morning in los angeles, wildfires overnight and threaten at least 2 thousand home. happening just north of l.a. palmdale, california. that's where we find hattie kaufmann this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. i'm standing here at the frontline in terms of protecting homes from this fire. you can see behind me a fire truck and the home and behind that, you can see, the hill is blackened. fire got this close to the homes. this isn't just a single home. this is subdivision of the three fires burning. north of los angeles and this one by far the most dangerous. this huge fire, 60 miles north of los angeles, broke out about 3:00 p

but here locally -- age, i think you meant harry reid. caller: excuse me, harry reid.charlie rangel is on the mind this morning. ok. yes, with harry reid. but here locally we have a congress man. he is against everything. he wants to decommission the nuclear power plants at indian point and his minions -- i don't know if he personally has come out against it, but his minions here, his environmentalists have come out against exploration for natural gas. here we have it. the democrats talk about natural gas and yet they will not allow exploration and drilling for it but the process called hydraulic fracturing here in bed shale belts where natural gas is plentiful, and they won't allow it to be explored for and drill the floor and brought to market. so again, we see that to face -- two-facedness illustrated by those two points. host: david mention charlie rangel. the reason why he was on his mind because it is the front page of many newspapers, that charlie rangel faces ethics charges. there is going to be a public hearing next week. back to energy legislation and david's

that is what harry and i have fought for.rankly, at every turn, we have met opposition and obstruction from a lot of leaders across iowa. that is why -- across t aisle. that is why i am glad we have a boxer in the senate, who is not afraid to fight for what he believes in. we will fight until americans are headed back to work again and we are recovered from this recession and we are building this economy stronger than before. that is what we are committed to doing. [applause] so nevada, i know we have been through tough times. not all the difficult days are behind us. there will be some tough times to come, but i can promise you this. we are headed in the right direction. we are moving forward. we are not going to move backwards. i am absolutely confident that if we keep on moving forward, if we refuse to turn backwards, if we are willing to show the same kind of fighting spirit that harry reid has shown throughout his career, then out of this storm, brighter days are going to come. thank you very much, everybody. god bless y

dan harris, abc news, new york. >> our thanks to dan.we are a culture that is always looking to improve the way we look. sometimes we succeed, other times we fail miserably. >> spray tanning is a very good example. while it's safer than sitting in the sun, it can easily turn into a golden brown disaster. here's miguel marquez with more on spray tan faux pas. >> there's two sets of nozzles, which one is it? which -- which -- which one is it? >> reporter: "friends" ross geller knows. and he knew it years ago. >> dude. it's chandler, let me in. >> go away! i don't want to see anybody! >> reporter: spray tanning may be safer than suntanning but the results can be scary. there's the raccoon where you spray around the eyes. the thin, brown line where half your face doesn't tan. the splotch. looks more like a rash than a tan. then there's everyone's favorite. the oompa loompa. do i really need to explain this one? the website pale is the new tan popped up last year and seems to have no end of spray tan horrors. >> i get submissions from all ove

. >> reporter: here in north here's dan harris. >> reporter: here in north north a, deep in the bible the bible up of atheists group ofdecided to remind eople of the history of the pledge of allegiance by putting pl puttingillboards all over the state, including one on the billy graham parkway, which say "one nation indivisible." billy graham parkway, which say "one nation indivisible." urposely leaving out the words god.r god." atheists point out those words at original the original pledge. writtens written in 1892, more years00 years after the country as founded, by pastor francis ellamy, as part of a campaign to promote patriotic observances in schools. >> one nation, indivisible -- nation, indivise pastor didn't use the words "under god." >> reporter: the p use thes added the phrase in 954. so you think having "under god" you thin so you think having "under god" you thin s actually discriminatory? it is for it is for me because i don't believe in a god and i don't believe our i don't believe in a god and i don't believe our don't believe that our country was founded on christianit

good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, harry. the body of one of the missing sailors has been recovered, but the whereabouts of the second remain unknown and with each passing hour the chances of finding him grow slimmer. with july threatening to become the deadliest month for u.s. troops in afghanistan, the taliban website boised they ambushed the sailors' suv in an attempt to capture them alive. when the two men fought back, the taliban opened fire killing one and capturing the other. presumably, the man whose picture was also posted on the web, but that does not explain what the two men were doing there in the first place. members of a team training afghans, the to left their base near kabul on friday for the relatively short drive to camp eggers, yet their badly shot up vehicle was found 80 miles south of kabul. why they strayed so far and why they drove intoal taliban-controlleder the toy by themselves, a blatant violation of security feed yours, remain unknown. this specialist, the only other american servicemen in enemy ha

that is what harry and i fought for. and frankly, at every turn we have met opposition and obstruction from a lot of leaders across the aisle. that is why i am glad i've got a boxer in the senate. [applause] he is not afraid to fight for what he believes in. when harry and i are going to keep on fighting until wages are rising and americans are headed back to work again and we have recovered from this recession and we are actually rebuilding this economy strong again before. [applause] that is what we are committed to doing. so, nevada, i know we have been through tough times. and not all the difficult days are behind us. there will be some tough times to come. but i can promise you this. we are headed in the right direction. we are moving forward. we will not move backward. and i am confident that if we continue moving forward and people refuse to turn back towards and we are showing the kind of fighting spirit as harry reid, then out of this storm brighter days are going to come. thank you very much, everybody. [cheers

." >> harry smith joins us now from new york. harry, good morning.eren't you just in grand isle yesterday? >> yeah. i was there. you know what? i can tell you just very anecdotally just scientific but from the last time we were there on the water six or seven weeks ago you could see the oil on top of the water say in the bay. we were on the water all day sunday, saw no oil. >> you had a great story, too, people are fishing, they are smiling, they're happy. they are getting back to normal in a way? >> well... incremental steps, unfortunately. we were down there. who knows. we'll keep our fingers crossed as that cap continues to seem to work. that's good news. >> they say lindsay lohan may -- what were you talking about her going to jail, she may have already signed a deal for the first interview after jail for as much as a million dollars? i don't know if it's true or not. >> probably true. >> apparently her lawyer quit. >> one of michael jackson's attorneys is going to join us at 7:00 to talk about what she can expect once she goes into the big house

it's hard to get people to say, no, i don't like the way things ar doing -- going but i love th guy harry. will democrats run away from president carter? [laughter] will they run away from president obama? >> in swing districts, anything but the safest democrat seats, democrats will run away from president obama. >> stephanie running for re-election in south dakota already with an ad about how she voted against health care. i think that's a yes. >> you won't see the president out on the campaign trail very much. >> yeah, i think they're going to run away from him. chris: getting voters to turn out is one of the classic art forms in american politics. in the 1960 kennedy-nixon campaign, both side tried to time their final barnstorming trips to excite the troops. they told kennedy to hold off the chicago stop until the end. look at how all the trade unions showed up at the last weekend. same story on the nixon side. he brought president eisenhower to new york the last wednesday before the election. there they are in harold's square, macy's right before the election day. that same year lyndo

jimmy harris, please join me. [applause] and every year, our presentation guests are handmade by a japanese american artist. this is actually a very special piece of artwork of japanese origami. [applause] next, at the heritage partner level, i would like to first call off our bank of america fund, a senior vice president. [applause] then, one of our best food companies in the country and in the web, kraft foods has joined us this year, and i would like to invite the area vice president to join us as well. [applause] [applause] our last one as for our friend, wells fargo, who is always with us since 2005. is the sentence is the metro district manager here? i think he is still on his break. thank you for joining us in this celebration. this is the official celebration of the city, and it has really touched me every year to see our major bout here with us. it means a lot with us. -- to see our mayer brown here with us. it means a lot to us. >> these and gentlemen, da mayor, willie brown. [applause] >> thank you very

well, harry reid, when he was on the other side of the barrage, of how bad harry reid was, he was in trouble. now the last poll is up seven points. i'll bet anything -- i'm not allowed to bet -- but i bet harry reid wins. to paraphrase mark twain. i think the reports of our demise are premature. >> the naacp had a convention. and they passed a resolution saying that elements of the tea party are racist. do you think elements of the tea party are racist? >> well, the truth is. at least elements involved with some of the tea party folks expressed racist views. we saw it on television. i wouldn't characterize the tea party adds racist. members, people on the periphery of their things have expressed unfortunate comments. again, it was all over tv, your network. black congressman walking up the stairs of the capitol. i don't believe, the president doesn't believe that the tea party is a racist organization. we don't believe that. very conservative. very different views on government and a whole lot of things. but it is not a racist organization. >> one of the big issues in this election,

dan harris has that story from ashville. >> reporter: here in north carolina, deep in the bible belt, group of atheists decided to remind people of the history of the pledge of allegiance, by putting up six billboards all over the state. including one on the billy graham parkway. that says one nation indivisible, purposely leaving out the words, "under god," atheists point out those words were not in the original pledge, which was written in 1892, by francis bellamy, as part of a campaign to promote patriotic observances in schools. >> one nation, indivisible. >> reporter: the pastor didn't use the words "under god." congress added the phrase in 1954. you think having the phrase under god is discriminatory? >> i think it is for me. i don't believe in a god. i don't believe our country was founded on christianity or any religion. >> reporter: jennifer lovejoy is a mother of two and wife of a disabled policeman. >> i'm not taking away anyone else's belief in a god. many of our fore fathers feared god. but i think they feared political correctness more. >> it's silliness. >> reporter: ev

colton harris-moore is being held following his arrest. michael williams of wfor in miami rr miami reports. >> reporter: colleton harris-moore will arrive hand cuffed, wings clipped, barefoot no more. harris-moore appeared in federal court friday smiling and chuckling as he talked with fellow detainees but the teenager said nothing when his turn came before the federal magistrate, a federal public defender said harry moore has waived his right to a removal hearing clearing the way for him to be sent home under federal guard. once in seattle federal prosecutors will begin to try and build a case around what lawmen say was an escapade that covered nine states and detours to canada and the bahamas. authorities suspect harris-moore was behind more than 100 thefts including five stolen airplanes. he allegedly ditched the last of those planes in the waters off great abacoe island nearly two weeks ago. bahamian authorities caught up to him after a high-speed chase sunday, barefoot to the last. harris-moore ran away from a halfway house two years

harry reid today is committed to giving us that opportunity, that open door, if you will, over the next weeks, days, months, what ever it takes to find those 60 votes. the work will continue every single day. in the meantime, as senator reid has just said, we have an obligation to the american people. we have an obligation to our country and that is to respond to the oil spill in the gulf. that is why senator reid will bring this admittedly narrow limited bill to the floor because he is determined to do what we can in the timeframe that we have before the august break. that will address some of our energy independence and some of -- some of our energy dependence and some of the oil spill issues. let me be crystal clear -- this legislation that he has proposed does not replace climate legislation. it does not replace comprehensive energy legislation president obama call me before this meeting and said point blank that he has committed to working in these next days at a more intensive pace together with carol browner and other members of the administration to help bring together the abili

dan harris has the report for our series, "faith matters." >> you're savior. there's a little sinner here. >> reporter: this ceremony you're seeing right here is called a debaptism. >> coming from everywhere. >> reporter: it is the latest public display of brash bald-faced blasphemy from an increasingly aggressive atheist community. >> baptize inferno. >> reporter: the ring leader is this guy here, edwin kagan, one of atheism's premiere provocateurs. he says his community is at war. >> atheists have no chance whatsoever of per vailing in a correct confrontation with believers. there are far too many of them. i've called this phenomenon the american religious civil war. if you wish to be depap tized, will you rise, please? >> reporter: the idea behind debaptism, as you surmise, is to symbolically remove the baptize mall water. >> free at last. it involved a hair dryer, you see, we labeled truth and reason. >> reporter: how many people have gone through this? >> lots. and many have taken it as a joke, but some have found it truly, if you will, a spiritually clea

harry reid. [applause] >> as we have heard [laughter] the same year that president lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation, a statue built by slave was lowered onto the capitol dome. the untold story is that we already know is less than reed blood -- [laughter] -- his last name was reid -- but there are different ways to edell it and his was spell rei reid. the title of the capital's crowning feature belies its own history. it hardly describes the foundation of the building over which it presides. each of us speaking today recognizes what a privilege it is to call this place are workplace. countless local slaves labored here long before we or any centers or congressman before us could enjoy that honor. their tasks or backbreaking. there are condemned to a disgraceful injustice but they found the strength to fashion the most graceful. design through blistering summers and biting winters and snake infested quarries, they carted carry this does that would shape the structures in which players w

here's harry lin, president of the technology startup taaz.com. >> it's reported that next month, the new engineering library at stanford university is going to open, and that library will have 85% fewer books and periodicals as the old library its replacing. 85% fewer books and periodicals. all that information will instead be digital, in an online format for students and professors to search and download. no stacks and stacks of paper- smelling books. no banks of card catalogs. no shelves full of magazines and journals. just computers. now, generally speaking, i love technology, but i can't help but feel a sense of loss about this library. i recall many intriguing, meandering discoveries amid the bookshelves of the libraries of cornell university, my alma mater. analog findings sparked by my fingers and eyes searching through the shelves. interesting hand-written notes from previous borrowers in the pages of the books. and, yes, even the smell. hot plastic doesn't smell like a library to me. but there are excellent, logical reasons for stanford's decision. engineering formulas chang

he is jack ablin, chief investment officer with harris bank. welcome to "nightly business report." >> thanks, tomment. >> tom: how bearish you are here in the month of july? >> tom, i'm not necessarily betting against the market. what we really believe is a matter of risk management. so roughly a month ago, right at the beginning of june, we decided to really take our risk exposure down by taking stocks and other high volatility assets down and we raised a fair amount of cash in short-term bonds. >> tom: why don't you think the risk in a stock market at this point in time is worth a potential reward in the weeks, months, and quarters to come? >> well, you know, really everything in the market revolves around the economy and economic policies. and given we have this $2 trillion stimulus package pretty much winding down, the fact remains that the economic uncertainties surrounding continued growth are still out there. and i would have liked to have seen a much stronger patient, if you will, before taking it off life support. >> tom: we are seeing

as far as -- i am no fan of harry reid. feel he should have been -- he is not as politically astute as he needs to be. he should have been tougher. heat is providing legislation that will help the american people. the republicans have stopped him at every turn. in terms of -- it is not because of money, it is his contender, even when she has a platform to speak, her self-proclaimed press conference, she will not take questions. as far as andrew brightbart, he is responsible for what happened, because regardless of whether the naacp head of the tapes in their possession, which they should have reviewed more closely, he intentionally edited the tapes to cast aspersion on this woman and the administration. no one is fooled by the allies and the innuendoes that is being propagated to the american people in the name of those that want to be back in power who ran this country into the ground and now are angry. guest: estuary word during the bush it mensuration, go to our web site and look at some of the efforts that we had during

he has spoken extensively with the former teen fugitive and says colton harris-moore is just an immature kid who doesn't want to be considered a hero. it's very interesting. >> most lawyers are guarded. but not this time. he has fascinating insight. >>> we want to begin with the flooding in the midwest. chicago just had one of its biggest rainstorms in more than a century, and eric horng is just outside the city in broadview, illinois. good morning, eric. >> reporter: these waters are certainly taking longer to recede than they did to rise. parts of this community, as you can tell, are still a mess this morning. in the meantime, west of us in iowa, all eyes are on a failed dam and the vulnerable communities now in harm's way. the breach happened quickly and violently. water gushing from the crippled dam sending boats from iowa's lake dell hi crashing down below. >> there it goes. oh, my god. >> reporter: the torrent flooded nearby cabins and roads and forced a key communications center to be evacuated. >> we've lost our 911 service, our long distance service. our telecommunication servic

and a case of animal rights abuse in russia catches the eye of totem coach harry redknapp has decided to take care of the russian sam parasailing over the scene a p.r. stunt and more head to our team dot com. now some other stories from around the world pakistan has declared a day of national mourning for those who died in the country's worst camera. on wednesday a passenger jet crashed into the hills outside the capital islamabad leaving all one hundred fifty two on board that the air blue plane was flying from karachi bound for the capital and a saw you have known was caused the crash that figure just a geisha continues with. the government in greece has ordered all striking fuel tanker drivers back to work or face arrest and the loss of their licenses their protests are threatening tourism business. and causing food shortages fuel has run out in all but what about a few of the capital's petrol stations stand off follows months of labor union opposition to the stare the rashers in the debt strapped country. in somalia it's amalia's capital mogadishu at least eleven people have been