gumby and his horse friend pokey were eventually featured on "the howdy doody show." and in the '80s, portrayed on "saturday night live" as a cigar-chomping, show business prima donna, and he enjoyed that act. >>> bank failures are still turning up in 2010. horizon bank in bellingham, washington, was the first bank to fail this year. all of its assets will be taken over by the washington federal loan association of seattle. that means the fdic will have to cover more than half a billion dollars in insurance costs. 140 banks failed last year. that's the highest number since 1992. the fdic chairwoman says the number could be even higher this year in 2010. >>> have you seen the national debt clock lately? here it is, a staggering 12-plus trillion dollars and it's climbing. a teenager in rhode island decided to do something about it. she got the idea as part of a high school class project. the assignment was, find a social issue and take some action. 16-year-old katherine young wanted to help pay down the national debt so she held a bake sale. >> at first i wasn't serious

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[cheers and applause] >> howdy. ayn rand the from the grace to texas. [cheers and applause] are there any pro-life people here from texas? [cheers and applause] you are such an encouragement to us in the fight on the front line on behalf of life and we are fighting for it along with you. thank you for taking the stand and the sanctity of life. you know the first pitcher i ever had of my first grandson was a sonogram and i saw that little figures, that little body inside my daughter-in-law's guilaume and i sat down and wrote the grand sum a letter that might. i said i saw you for the very first time today and how beautiful you are because you remember our lord and god said we are fearfully and wonderfully made and we must not give up this fight. we cannot give up this fight. we will not give up this fight because this is the most important fight we are engaged in. thank you for taking the stand and being here for life and god bless you and god bless america. [cheering] thank you all for being here. im from degrees to tennessee. one of the most pro-life c