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>> all right, lynn sweet, thank you so much. >> hey, jake.hank you. >>> up next, one man's journey into hospital billing hell. he got sick, and owed nearly $500,000 and that's with insurance. wait until you see what investigative correspondent drew griffin found inside those bills and what you should be looking out for. >>> a popular kansas city restaurant leveled by a natural gas explosion. we have new numbers on the injured and the dead. that's next. how can you get back pain relief that lasts up to 16 hours? with thermacare heatwraps. thermacare works differently. it's the only wrap with patented heat cells that penetrate deep to relax, soothe, and unlock tight muscles. for up to 16 hours of relief, try thermacare. >>> keeping them honest. over the next two nights, in partnership with "time" magazine we're going to try to shine light into a black hole that in americans are sucked into every day. our investigation, of course, has nothing to do with astrophysics. it's about a hidden universe, the health care industry does not want you to see

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jake tapper, welcome. thanks for joining us. ali velshi, as always, appreciate it. >> our pleasure. >>> the man behind the oscar-nominated documentary about the early days of aids. >> we are in the middle of a plague! 40 million infected people is a plague! ;;;?Ñ?Ñw?w?Ñ >> how to survive a plague. an oscar nominated documentary about the early years of the aids epidemic. at the academy awards on sunday night, we decided to talk about it. joining me from los angeles, david france, director-producer of "how to survive a plague" and a long-time aids and gay rights activist, one of the film's main characters, a much deeper story than that, which we want to talk about. thanks for joining us, both of you. congratulations on the nomination. david, let me just start with you. and ask why this project now, and was there a specific message for a particular audience? >> the reason i went back to look at the old days of aids, before 1996, when the effective medication came out and made it possible to survive an hiv infection, was becaus

jake tapper in for anderson cooper. jake tapper in for anderson cooper. >>> the high cost of healthcare is enough to make you sick and it's also make something people rich. hospital ceos making 2 million, 5 million, even nearly $10 million a year, running nonprofits. who's paying for it? well, you are. we will show you how and how hospitals try to camouflage the bills loaded with bull. >>> later, why on earth is this man smiling? he came within inches of death by avalanche and lived to tell his incredible story. you'll hear from him in the studio tonight. >>> but we'll begin with two major developments in the blade runner bail hearing. one, a striking change in his demeanor and the twist you would laugh at for putting it in a movie. no one would believe it. a key member of the prosecution, the investigator in the case, a would-be killer. now this was never going to be a run of the mill court proceeding. but the way things are going, this one isn't even close. and bottom line, one of the fastest runs alive is now on a sl

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jake, what are the optics here?an paul on cnn said to me i see it as an extra response, but it doesn't really project party unity to have different responses to the president. >> i think if john boehner and mitch mcconnell had their choice here, they would have one person going forward with the response. you know ran paul is not likely to give his remarks over to the party of the vetted. he is not coordinating with them on message. this is where the party is right now. the party has two different factions, and as much as they want to say they're together and they have they're together on cutting spend and on not raising taxes, there is a conservative beening that ran paul represents that's not going to go along with the party's pulpit. >> there's been a lot of thundering and complaining -- i don't know if thundering is really -- >> classic thundering. >> there's been some complaining by folks on the right that the president needs to stop campaigning. you know, he is going to make three stops after the state of the u

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first from emily wade thompson, brenda jackson and miss virginia marshal and then jake kosac and leona hunter, nathan apple and linda cook and you have two minutes each. >> good evening to president nkoyo iyamba and vice president fewer and carranza and all board members and all assembled. i stand proudly as the president of the san francisco alliance of black school educators to introduce you to two women who will enlighten you on the grass roots organization that are in commitment to the students of san francisco, but most importantly, supportive to our african american youth. first i would like to present, our vice president, virginia marshal, chair person, of the world reknowned african american honor roll. brenda jackson of the third, and musical and step competition. >> and school is in session, good evening. >> what is the news? i have good news to share. before i get to the good news, i just want to say to president norton and fewer and superintendent carranza and staff and the president of uesf and ladies ladies and gentlemen and our beloved ester. i have a special thank you f

so please unanimously go ahead and approve as jake as submitted it. thank you. >> thank you. >> may. >> i want to say thank you for considering the prague stairway renovation. thank you. >> thank you. >> linda lighthowser. >> hello commissioners. i also want to thanks for this round of community opportunities fund grants. i work very hard with the prague street neighbors to get signatures for this project and i want you to know these were not people involved. i thought it was important that you know that. they live adjacent to crocker amazon park and wanted to use the steps that are in total decay. they volunteered to do maintenance once the project is completed and to watch over it and supervise it. they went to their churches and school groups to gather the signatures and these people are so grateful how government works. thank you. >> thank you. any others to speak on the consent calendar? being none, this item is closed. commissioners we would need a motion to approve the consent calendar without 5e. >> item e will be taken off? >> yes. >> and the

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among those youngsters vying for a prime playing time is jake arietta.rted the home opener last year but finished with 18 starts finishing with a 3-9 record. as the 26-year-old is among many candy candidate for a starting rotation spot he says nothing has changed. jake says this year will be the same as it always has been in the past. >> pretty much each and every year going into camp. you know everybody is in the mind set of trying to win a job and it's no different from any other year i feel like. you know this season it's going to be exciting a lot of comradery and friendly competition there. the only thing everybody is going to put their best foot forward and i think a lot of guys are going to make it difficult to put together a team this year. >> jake has been on the mound for portions of the last three seasons. >>> elsewhere in baseball today. it was last week when felix hernandez agreed to a monster seven year $155 million year but that contract still sits only table unsigned. the mariners are now concerned about a physical last thursday that reve

jake layman taking it by himself. terps up three in the second half. baltimore city college, pride of it raining that three. he had 18 points. maryland comfortably over clemson on saturday. 73-59 now number seven in the a.c.c. there goes jerome hairston. he had a career high 20 on saturday. every game means the world right now. you can tell there's jerel with three of his 9. tigers won it 72-71, now 6-13

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thanks for joining us. >> thanks, jake.> just ahead, they spent a fortune to get a degree. now they are driving taxis and mopping floors. what it is costing the economy to have so many underemployed college graduates. that's next. ha ha ha! no no no! not today! ha ha ha! ha ha ha! jimmy how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? happier than dikembe mutumbo blocking a shot. get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. we all work remotely so this is a big deal, our first full team gathering! i wanted to call on a few people. ashley, ashley marshall... here. since we're often all on the move, ashley suggested we use fedex office to hold packages for us. great job. [ applause ] thank you. and on a protocol note, i'd like to talk to tim hill about his tendency to use all caps in emails. [ shouting ] oh i'm sorry guys. ah sometimes the caps lock gets stuck on my keyboard. hey do you wanna get a drink later? [ male announcer ] hold packages at any fedex office location.

>> reporter: eight-year-old jake is ready in fact, he can't wait. >> every day, he will say no ice skating and i'm like not today. friday. >> faster. faster it s. let's go. >> reporter: they call this extreme recess, an event put together by a non-profit called dreams for kids. >> hi? >> and children with special needs get to skate. >> and they know -- they know area rock stars. >> reporter: the forward gave them a ride. jack teen had his jersey signed by the goalie. >> i have something called arthroglycosis, where i guess your giants error -- joints don't develop and i can't bend my knees very far. >> reporter: he's been in physical therapy since he was two weeks ole.

at first, jake's family thought they saved ziggy but his connection with jake has been a lifesaver.only feeds him iams. compared to other leading brands, it has 50% more animal protein... ...to help keep ziggy's body as strong as a love that reaches further than anyone's words. iams. keep love strong. [ ariel ] my mother was never into our coffee at all. she would only get a splash of coffee in her cup and then fill the rest up with cream and it -- mommy, what's going on? what are you doing? so when we did the blonde roast she finally went from a splash of coffee to only a splash of cream. and i thought that was so cool, i said "well she's enjoying this." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ and a boat... >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> good morning, everyone. it's 7:56. i'm michelle griego. >>> there's still no sign of four people and a boat after a weekend distress call off the monterey county coast. that call suggested two adults and two children were abandoning a sinking sailboat called the charmblow. the coast guard says so far, no one is familiar with the boat of that name and no on

nice to get a little poetry. >> next we have jake kosac, leona hunter, nathan apple and linda cook. >> i'm jake kosac from george washington high school and i guess that i want to continue what i started a month ago when i came here and ran out of time and i was talking about the ato g requirements and accountability as far as keeping the promises to the families, okay? what i didn't or what i wanted to continue, but i didn't have time was, for instance, the programs that are being put out now for credit recovery. all right? i mean i'm a counselor, i me this is my specialty. i know this stuff. what you have here is what the district put out in their evening school, classes in a million years i would not have say that is what they need. pe, okay, george washington high school, we have two kids in pe after school and we are holding a class with two students, career ed, we have three students and holding a class, we have teachers, okay? no chinese. and 7 kids in spanish. okay? if you would ask me, these were not the classes that we need. okay? so and then you gave the schools, for instan

at first, jake's family thought they saved ziggy but his connection with jake has been a lifesaver.nly feeds him iams. compared to other leading brands, it has 50% more animal protein... ...to help keep ziggy's body as strong as a love that reaches further than anyone's words. iams. keep love strong. [ ariel ] my mother was never into our coffee at all. she would only get a splash of coffee in her cup and then fill the rest up with cream and it -- mommy, what's going on? what are you doing? so when we did the blonde roast she finally went from a splash of coffee to only a splash of cream. and i thought that was so cool, i said "well she's enjoying this." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> now 4 minutes before 8:00. even the water looks a little gray today. sharon's watching the streets. >>> that's june just an algae bloom. moisture is marching our way. it's going to be here by noon, as will milder temperatures. 31 now, 46 going to be your high with rain and heavy at times through the afternoon. flood watch will go into effect around then. here's sharon gibala with traffic control. >>> good morning everyon

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>> jake, why the change in tone from the white house here? this a matter of looking at the polls here? is this a matter of recalculating the message here? clearly the president and many of his cabinet members were out for the last two weeks portraying a very dire situation. >> well, that's exactly right, suzanne. now what's going to happen is, there isn't going to be this tremendous catastrophe on friday morning or saturday morning. so, the president, i believe, feels as though he needs to set expectations accordingly, especially since there's been alarmist rhetoric in the previous weeks. he has credibility at stake here. if after all these dire warnings from his administration, people wake up and they don't feel the effect of the cuts, and as the president said, a lot of people won't feel them in the first few weeks, then people are going to start to wonder about whether or not all those warnings he was issuing were accurate. so, i think that's one of the reasons he's doing this. he's setting expectations lower than they've been set in the p

dapper -- jake tapper.n this evening. >> according to sources with knowledge of the president's state of the union address president obama tonight will announce by this time next year, 34,000 u.s. troops currently in afghanistan will be back home, reducing the number of troops in that country by roughly a half. president obama will announce 34,000 u.s. troops currently in afghanistan will be back home by this time yex neanext year. it is a big foreign policy to be made, it's expected to be largely about economic issues and the middle class. >> what do you think, is it going to be partisan or more of an olive branch? >> i don't think it will be either, if i can be so bold as to take something that you're not offering a choice that you're not offering. >> you may take it as always. >> i think he will be assertive. i think he will not perceive, he and the white house will not perceive what he's saying as overtly confrontational. i'm sure it will be interpreted that way. i don't anticipate a big olive branch of

jake is on capitol hill. this will be an important address for the florida senator, jake, and it is difficult to do it after what the president has done. >> that's right. it is always a thankless task for anyone to give the response to the president of the united states but it is interesting, marco rubio, the senator from florida who will be giving the republican response

jake tapper is in. >>> tonight only on "360." the high cost of health care is enough to make you sick and making some people rich. hospital ceos making 2 million, 5 million, nearly $10 million a year, running nonprofits, and who is paying for it? well, you are. we'll show you how and how hospitals try to camouflage the bills loaded with bull. >>> later why on earth is this man smiling? he came within inches of death by avalanche and lived to tell his incredible story. you will hear from him in the studio tonight. >>> two major developments in the blade runner bail hearing. a striking change in the defendant's demeanor. and, two, the kind of twist you would be laughed at for trying to put in a movie. no one would believe it. a key member of the prosecution, the lead detective on the case, revealed to be an alleged would-be killer. granted, a celebrity defendant with a glamorous and sympathetic victim never meant this would be a run of the mill court proceeding. but this one isn't even close and one of the fastest runners alive is

mark turgeon said that it was 39-34 had he decided to call on jake laman. jake with a slam a second ago. and nice pass here to the team high man. out of baltimore city college high school. much to the pleasure of the turgeonites. they look just like the coach, don't they? nonetheless, auto maryland winning it, 72-59. elsewhere at home today. another example of how towson basketball is just getting better and better. the tigers mark their 16th win this season, behind a career high 20, from freshman jerome harrison. here's the other. jerome betman. it's the team's first winning season in 17 years with a whole lot more basketball to go. as they say, this is an abbreviated sportscast. that's sport, we have more at 11:00. >> and we just got an update on that nascar accident. 11 people were injured and six of them listed in critical condition right now. that's the latest coming out of daytona. >> wish we had time to talk about it now. but we'll do it later. >> we'll have more on that tonight at 11:00. >>> be sure to watch the cbs primetime lineup at 10:00. it's "

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jake tapper broke the news. last year about winding down the war in na country. >> reporter: i think it certainly ramps up the pressure on the leaders of afghanistan, specifically the military leaders, afghan national army, the afghan border patrol, these individuals will have fewer american troops to patrol with them, to lead them, that's i guess the purpose of it, is to ramp up the pressure to make sure afghter ready to take contl for security of their own country. when i was in afghanistan in 2011 one of the big concerns from troops and officers there with whom i spoke was not so much whether or not the afghan soldiers and security officials would be ready, but whether there was enough -- whether there was going to be enough logistical support, whether or not the nonsexy part of military operations, resupplies, medevacs, making sure troops have enough food, water, ammunition, whether that was going to be up to speed. from what i understand that is an area of concern though it's not spoken about all that much.