terry bilhartz is 61 and professor of history at sam houston state university in huntsville, texas.r. bilhartz's discovery of low testosterone took place 11 years ago. >> it was, of course, the blood work that identified the low testosterone. i knew i wasn't in optimal health at age 50. i knew i was slightly overweight. i knew that my cholesterol levels were too high. i knew that my blood pressure was slightly higher than it should be. but nevertheless, grading myself on the curve, i felt that i was healthy. >> mcfarland: unlike many hypgonadism patients, dr. bilhartz experienced no noticeable symptoms of this condition. >> very interestingly, not all patients become symptomatic, and that's an area of research. we do not know why. >> well, the basic question is, what can i do about it? and the answers i've received, i think, was a very wise answer, that there are really three steps to improvement. one is improved diet, and two is exercise, and then three is actually the hormone therapy itself. >> the treatment right now that's been approved by the fda is replacing testosterone, in d

a reporter for an abc affiliate in huntsville, alabama has just been fired over some revealing comments a personal blog about her job. shay allen posts lists of ten confessions on friday, that included something i've done, going braless on the air, best sources were ones that had crushes on her, and much more. her station, waay ordered her to take it down, she did that. but after she reposted it, she was fired. allen isn't happy about it, and here is her reaction. >> well, i was thinking i was being snarky and funny, it sounds clichÉ, i am in this business to make a difference, and my ability to do so has been taken away. >> i am thinking it wasn't a good idea to go out and tell people that, well, i don't know how to do my job, i don't take it seriously, and my station shouldn't worry about the fact that i just destroyed all their credibility now, dana. >> and she gets an interview on the "today" show. really, this is how you fail upwards. >> but is it upwards or -- >> it is like 15 minutes of fame. it was way too much information. you took my line. i was going to say i have two funny l

. >> host: we have a world war ii veteran in huntsville, alabama. thank you for calling. >> caller: thank you for taking my question and comment. i'm a world war ii veteran. i'm 82 years old. i am concerned this. i'm wondering if mr. atkinson can get this message. the reason i think a lot of soldiers are committing suicide is because of money. because a lot of them, when they get discharged, some of their parents may even be dead then. they go to a city, they don't know anyone. so many of them do not have anywhere to go and all of that. so the army could do this, i am not sure about why it is taking so long. i know that we have what they call 52-20. i lived with my older brother and i gave him $10 for my rent. he ended up with another $10 per week. >> host: nathanael, what was your question? mr. akin simmons was that your comments. where were you stationed in world war ii and what was your experience? >> caller: i am from los angeles, california. i was stationed east of france and also in germany for a short time. i was part of a 337 engineers, i wa

. >> it's early may, 2011, and marcus tate of huntsville, texas, is visiting fight town for the firste. he's walking on the strip with some family members when something catches his eye. all of a sudden i see two guys arguing. it went from playful to serious. >> marcus can't believe what he's seeing. it's a scene right off the comic book pages, only this is no joker. >> that's what turned my head to the whole situation, was batman getting loud. >> maxwell allen, aka, batman, has been making a living by dressing up as the caped crusader for more than a decade. first on hollywood boulevard in los angeles. and in 2010 he moved to the las vegas strip. >> i like being my own boss. i like working with kids. and i kind of like being out there. >> like virtually all of the street characters on the strip, batmax works soly for tips, posing for photos and relying on the generosity of batman's adoring fans for his income. >> everybody thinks you're making great money, every, every day, which is not true. i mean, one day you can do really well. up to 100 bucks a day sometimes. and other days can

we found a company that responded in huntsville, alabama. now, we're here because you ended up selling one of your devices to iran. >> by accident, certainly. >> lynn leaper is the ceo of az technology, which makes aerospace testing equipment. she sold kakavand this spectroreflectometer, a device with various uses, including, the government says, enhancing the capability of long range missiles. she says kakavand's trading company lied to her in their emails. >> we asked who the end user was, which is one of the questions on-- >> the end user. >> right. >> yeah. oh, did they tell you it was going to iran? >> they said it was going to malaysian telekom. >> did that make any sense? >> yeah, actually it's a reasonable request. >> so she sold it for $95,000, and off it went to kuala lumpur. we know actually from the indictment of mr. kakavand that he had arranged for your product to be flown via iran air. >> [chuckling] >> right into tehran. do you know even know who the actual recipient of it was? >> in the indictments, there were two companies

last week, shea allen, intrepid reporter at channel 31 in huntsville, alabama, was fired for giving hersocial media pals for the lack of glamor behind the curtain of modern media. >> many of you might be wondering what exactly does a journalist do on a friday? on a friday, i wait. for a live shot where i'm going to talk about nothing. nothing at all. i'm actually going to be live for a minute and a half where i talk about the facts that nothing happened. this is me sitting in my car, waiting to do a story about nothing. and getting paid less than most mcdonald's managers. >> john: where does one begin? there are two ways to lose your job in media? number one, tell the unabashed truth. note to self. number two, take a job at current tv. i can say that. what are they going to do? fire me in two and a half weeks? she told about her profession and faced the consequences. like an extremely low stakes bradley manning. absolutely no one needed to know the hidden truths she felt compelled to reveal. like how in this video she revealed she's often gone braless on the air and she can't do stories

. >> in huntsville alabama she was a daily fix toure on the evenin news.e of stories for waay but it was her after hours in the social media, her personal log now making national headlines. >> confessions of a red headed reporter. >> among her disclosures she's napped in a news car, gone braless during a life report. is frightened of old people and refuses to do stories involving them. >> i thought i was being funny but i didn't think it would come to this. >> her bosses weren't laughing. the station told nbc news it couldn't comment on personnel matters. >> i know it sounds cliche but i'm in this business to make a difference and my ability to do so has been taken away. >> experts say social media is a smart tool for journalists but can blur lines between the personal and the professional. >> younger professionals are used to posting about their personal lives on social media that they don't have the same filter as of those us that didn't have the options when we started our careers. there's also her you tube channel. sometimes equally candid. >> this is

roy spencer of the university of alabama-huntsville said, and i will quote him -- "i don't deny that there has been warming. in fact, i don't even deny that some of the warming is due to mankind." in another interview, he said -- "i am one of those scientists who think that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere should cause some amount of warming. the question is how much." another minority witness, dr. roger pelkey of the university of colorado, these are statements by the witnesses invited by the republican side. it is simply not credible inlonger to just deny climate change. the view that carbon emissions has caused climate change is shared by virtually every smisk association. from the geophysical union to the american meteorological society. but of course to the polluters, this isn't about the facts. it's about political power. they bought this clout and they're going to use it, facts be damned. the republican response to the president's climate plan even served up the old climategate fantasy. that's the faux scandal in which hacked emails between climate scientists were selec

from huntsville, alabama and is a dod employee -- guess i morei disappointed in the fact that our leadership not plan correctly for this. they have a lot of time to plan for this and, in speaking of them, they said it was not going to happen in the first place. is that the way our capital is currently working? do we not have a plan? that's what scares me more than anything. we're talking about soldiers' lives more than performing our work. i don't know what will happen. hopefully, things will turn out well for us but we will see. thank host: you for the call. here are a few other stories -- this is from "the boston globe." another story -- you can read that story in "the washington journal." there's also a story about the nsa surveillance since edward snowden released information about those programs. this is from " the new york times." we are taking your calls this morning for about the next 15 minutes or so on buffalo's that will begin for over 650,000 civilian department of defense employees. babas next from baltimore, maryland, on our republican line. caller: hi, how are you? have ain ma

huntsville, alabama caller: good morning. thank you for "washington journal" and cspan. am retired military, air force and army. i hope they are stepping up their efforts in this work. i don't want to fathom what would happen if a female was captured. i worked next to some great females and that would bother me so much if one of my comrades, if the now captured, it already bothers me about the man but i cannot imagine if a female was a prisoner of war. summers, has congress look at this issue? guest: there has not been a whole lot of congressional action but this will become a volatile situation in the months ahead. i would expect after lawmakers return that they would take up this topic. host: here is a tweet - guest: the mission of the accounting issue is the fullest possible accounting. that means the man returned alive, the identify remains, are evidence. family members will be given as toh evidence as possible as why that is the case. we have a decent success rate with identifying remains. for the vietnam war, we have accounted for over 1000 individual since 1973. i

host: fred, huntsville, bill:? caller: yes, good morning. thanks to "washington journal" and c-span. i'm retired, both air force and army. i just hope they're stepping up their efforts in this prisoner of war-m.i.a. work because when we start putting female soldiers further forward for combat, i can't and don't want to fathom what would happen if a female was camtureled. i worked next to some great females and it would bother me so much. it bothers me about the men, of course. host: and we'll leave his comments stand. has congress looked at this issue at all? guest: there's not been a lot of congressional action up until this point. but we're just a week or so out from recess. but i would expect after lawmakers return at the beginning of september to see hearings on this topic, yes. host: do you ever close a case and what is the threshold when a decision is made that there are not enough remains to find? guest: the mission of the accounting issue is the fullest possible accounting. that means the man returned alive. the identifiable remains

host: john in huntsville, tennessee, uninsured. john, you are on the air. john, are you with us?right, let's move onto in plainview, indiana, was private health insurance. caller: i have just two questions that i thought i heard somewhere that in the bill, the government has direct to i think it was the insurance companies -- i don't know if you would call it bank accounts, but faster payments, claims, some of someone files a claim, there cannot be any denials by health insurance companies to maximize profits. can they have real-time access at the health insurance company and transferred to the doctor or the hospital? guest: there is the subsidy payments into directly to the insurance company from the federal government, i know of no tovision that does anything make any changes to health insurer pay the provider. that is probably company by company. it is contractual. it depends on the company cost 's agreementy with doctors and hospitals, and i know of no provision where the government can intervene in the process, certainly not automatically on computer, other than the avenues

he joins us right now from huntsville, alabama. flawless transition to civilian life. how does it feel to get this award? >> thanks, brian. i appreciate it. it's a humbling experience. to know how many veterans are out there having started their own business, there is literally millions. and being recognized by the national veteran owned business association, singled out among those great americans is a great honor. >> brian: you were singled out for 2008. you formed pinnacle, you co-founded pinnacle, pinnacle group. what do they focus on? >> we started out with aviation training primarily. that's everything from computer-based training applications up to flight simulators. we've expanded. we actually have instructor pilots flying aircraft. we produce manuals to support the maintenance and operation of aircraft. and couple of commercial ventures. lately doing on-line learning and some sophisticated gaming technology to allow students anywhere around the world to access some of the courses available at various universities. >> brian

host: dawn in huntsville, you're on the air. are you with us?o rot in on plainfield, indiana who has private health insurance. caller: i have two questions. i thought i heard somewhere that in the bill the government has direct access to the insurance companies. i didn't have to call it bank accounts, for faster payments eyes in the the can no longer be didn't oust from insurance companies to maximize profits, i guess you would say. -- that they would transfer to the doctor or hospital? this subsidy payment would be sent to the insurance company from the federal government but i know of no provision that does anything to make any changes to how that insurer pays that provider. that is probably company by company. guest: it is contractual. it depends on the companies agreement with doctors and hospitals. i know of no provision for the government can intervene, certainly not automatically on a computer other than the avenues that artie exists. insurance is regulated by the states and you can protest claims. claims will still be denied. the idea is