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. >> if you want to know how tough times are, go to kansas city, kan., where 3000 people showed up for a school supply giveaway. our national, where the local humane society is in such bad shape, they cannot afford to take in any more animals. president obama is hoping the latest economic numbers are a reason to be optimistic. >> in the last few months, the economy has done measurably better than expected. >> he promises debt will -- he promises that will eventually mean more jobs. >> that is when it will really feel like recovery to the american people. >> the stimulus effect may not be seen for months, but the auto industry is enjoying an overnight beam, thanks for the cash -- thanks to the cash for clunkers program. the sudden surge of customers, congress of our, and the $1 billion budget was blown in days. the house just voted to add $2 billion more, and the senate will try to seal the deal this coming week before heading home before the august recess. republicans are asking where the nation can afford the president's ambitious agenda. >> the democrats who control, this have been s

. > and joining us now is kan von hiple. she's a senior fellow with the internatiol security program at the cter for strategicnd internatnal studies in washgton, d.c. karen, you just got back fm helping monitor the election situation in afghanistan. how did the security siation affect thevote? >> it affected the vte in traordinary ways. firsof all just as monitors w were n able to visit mo parts of the country. i was withhe national decratic institute for internional affair delegation we were in only 19 of 34 provinces. we weren't able toonitor everywhere and w were sck to monitoring the places th were sa safe our observation ports will be skewed towards the favored part. >>here's a piecein "the waington post" today saying that in many provces almost no women turnedout, which seems to be a big step bawards of the presidential elections of fi yearago. what ca the afghan government do to combat islam fundamentalistttacks on women's rights? >> it wasn't just womenthat were being threatened. it was ordinary ghans were being thre

. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's nbc meteorologist bill kans with the weather channel forecast. good morning, bill. you can't blame the girl for taking a little dip. >> we don't want to hear the weather forecast, we want to see more of the bear and the pool. that was the good uff. i can't top that. let's talk about the weather out there this morning. good morning on this thursday. we've still got some rain out there. the front is hung up on the eastern seaboard. we have gorgeous weather for you today. less humid air is moving through the tennessee valley, also the ohio valley is ideal today. here's the setup. area of low pressure along the front, moving up here off the mid atlantic. brought rain overnight outside d.c., right outside philadelphia too. the showers in the lower hudson valley, through new england. show you those in a second. the front snakes its way through the southeast. so the humid air has been pushed to the south. now more or less southern georgia, florida and coastal carolinas. this is the canadian high. that means beautiful, nice weat

we got to fort leavenworth, kan., and they had a quota, and the quota was filled. they said the next best thing you can do is to go to fort riley, kan., and they will accept you. so we went to fort riley, kansas. they welcomed us with open arms, so we were glad. you got three meals a day and free clothes. he made $21 a month, so nothing could be better. they put me in the horse cavalry. they had more horses and mules up for raleigh than they did people. i remain at fort riley until 1943. though war started december 2, 1941, and they were downsizing a horse cavalry, so they sent to the infantry. we shipped out and went to italy, and i remained in italy until the war ended in 1945. >> my career started, and i am not sure whether as patriotism or what it was, but i enlisted in the enlisted reserve corps. what that did was get me out of the infantry. it also meant that i would be in the united states army air corps when i did enter service, and that is exactly what happened. >> in the spring of 1943, i was about to graduate from high school here in abilene. it was the

and kan mentioned this idea of incrementalism a how hard heas been working at it over the years. does that apply also tothese othe issues, the other bls, laws, whic now hav his name on them? >> yes. and he wa alays one ho kept his eye on the ultimate objective but was wiing to advanceit whatever eent he cold do. >> and i tink partly th's because of the 10 presidts that hserved under as he sentor, five of them were reblicans. so te kennedy hadto learn to t things done in enviroents that were nt necessaril friendly terrory. certainly ring the reagan years. were very producti years for tedennedy. but it was always bgoing acrosshe aisland finding thatepublicanvote, tht publican co-sponsor that could get the bi done. gwenthe legacy of the ennedys is so uge. and it's now bece that they are this incredily stunchly liberal faly that -- big l, liberal fmily, that said as jack kemp used to say, wod set out to actuay tranform e world toward the left. is that what ialways was the case? >> no. i mean, the father, oe kennedy, was a vry conservave democrat who broke with f.d.r. in spctacular fa

prostate kans ser the subject tomorrow knight. sheer a quick reminder of some of the things said exclusivelily to us. >> you don't feel you have to take a dna test to prove anything? >> i don't care at this point. >> larry: are you surprised that dick was found in his home? >> i am very shocked by it. but i have to tell you that it is not something that would be unheard of. >> larry: the debbie rowe part of the story. she was your nurse? >> yes. >> larry: met in your office? >> yes. >> larry: was that a real love affair? >> i don't know what love is. that sense, the imagination. i think she loves him very much. she admired him very much. >> larry: let's clear up something. he was not someone desirous of being white? >> no. michael was black. he was very proud of his black heritage. >> larry: we'll have more excerpts of that interview later. now exclusively. we welcome to "larry king live" garo ghazarian. longtime friend of dr. arnold klein. and richard charnley. the civil attorney for dr. klein. why does he need a criminal attorne

there's the bible, there's the kan,here's all these things. even's got one.everybody has a fait and there's stoes thathave gone through theges and i spect all of them but don't know where i fit in. i just have fith. >> rose: you belie in natu. >> i love nature. my church is my foret. i like to walk the trees, look up, the trees are so old, they're so tall, they're so natural and there so beautiful. and i jus like to touc them, hear footpnts. .. that, to me, that's my churc tht's my cathedral. i don't have a robe. i don' have a book. i don't know my boo if i have a book, i haven't read it. somehow it's missing. so... but i have faith and respect faith. and since tn i've been very awarof that. so i don't know wh it is, but6z i believe in it. it's a joney. rose: mickey rourkes here. in the 19s he was one of our mostought-after actor she swed early promisein gripping and raw perfornces in films lik "body heat""diner ""rumblefish" and,f course, "9 and a half eks." here's a look at mick rourke over theears. >> eve after the medown they' going to know it's ours. >>

>>ou can find anything u want in the kan or in t bie. >> rose: tha, in fact. you go to islam is there any place in the koran that pple are...he radica fundamental ee such as al qaeda that osama bi laden n find things that he can say "ah, the bie speaks to me"? >> on th one hand, can find a vers that litally say.. well, it says "kill t polytheists wherer you find em." but on the other hand if you look closy at the context of th verse, then what it says is basicallynless they're on your side in this particular war. and that iustrates. what i'm saying is that when he saw it being in hisnterest to ly with people. ey are allies d think wld ben his side. if you look at the koran closely that's whas going on. he was a warrior for much ofÑi e cors. there are a a lot of belligerent verses in ther but it's clear i context that i would argue it's actually not fundentally about rigion. i argue the religious conflicts are not fundamentally about religion, e so-calledeligion colicts. people wilalways manage to invokeheir religion to justify the killinthey do just as th'll m

louis, des moines, kans city and dallas.rs and thunderstorms from atlanta to birmingham on down to orlando. the drought continues in south texas.ob >> it's 92 in dallas, 89 in new orleans, 91 in miami. a high of 85 in new york, 75 in boston, 70 in chicago and 73 in omaha. salt lake city 93, seattle 87. >> when we come back, hometown coverage of kennedy's legacy. >> you're watching "world news now." now." house, faster and easier well now you can, introducing the new... powerful... lightweight... oreck xl platinum vacuum. you don't vacuum open floors, you vacuum rooms filled with furniture. and the xl platinum makes cleaning under, around, and behind them, fast and easy! so take advantage of this limited time no-payments-no-interest-for-one- full-year offer and order your new oreck xl platinum today! also send you the powerful oreck handheld vacuum-- hi, i'm david oreck, and this is my new platinum upright vacuum. i want you to try it risk free for 30 days. you'll also receive a year's supply of filter bags free, plus this in

fort leavenworth, kan., which you will see in a moment, and a state prison in michigan. is this a good idea? charles has been to gitmo dozens of times, he is our guest this morning. >> a good morning, bill. bill: there was a classified study under the previous administration on where to put them. spanish, michigan. where that idea come from? >> i have no idea. they floated this trial balloon over the weekend to see if it would stick. they are not allowing anyone in the administration to travel to any detention facility in the united states to check it out, they do not want the press to get wind of it. bill: they are doing this covertly. spanish, mich., well north of detroit. you have been to gitmo dozens of times, can you move these detainee's to someplace in the u.s. and keep them safe? >> yes, you can. the fear is not that they will break out of prison. the fear is whether that would increase the threat level in that location substantially to the point where it is not worth it. the argument on one side is to keep gitmo open, transparent and humanely run. the argument m

in myl kan adsidrsre heading nck to css in prince n'sgearore re fckde tre school time rundel foirrnibao toochquim t fe for fauquier,pe c appulnder nd lotpper spotsylvania count us. d.c., asde s antlsre students hitting the books today. news 4 tracee wilkins joins us live from the brandywine bus depot with more on what's in store for school this year. >> reporter: we're here in prince george's county where 130,000 students will be heading back. this is the second largest school system in maryland, the 18th largest in the nation, and we got to get these kids to school somehow. that's why we're hanging out here on the bus. this is the first stop on the start of school. as you take a look here, you can see that what they've equipped buses with this year in prince george's county, cameras. all around the buses, three to four new cameras in each bus. and down here, this is a little area where kids will be able to swipe their i.d.s so that they know for sure that they're on the correct bus before they board. joining us live is mr. cox, who's a bus driver here with the prince george's county sc

kans kansas. so you did pretty well. >> yeah, you know, there are upsides to the beat that i have here, which is cover things like talf and taft and you get to go to jackson hole every year and think about monetary policy issues and the balance sheet. that's going to be a big issue. ben bernanke is supposed to talk about reflections on the past year. that includes a massive rise in the balance sheet. we're wondering whether he's going to talk about how to masterfully unwind the balance sheet. there's a lot of talk about economics and central banking here, but also about politics with a major issue here. you know, is this fed chairman ben bernanke's last speak as chairman. depends on whether he is reappointed by president obama. he talked last night with monetary expert jacob frank kel and he said, you know what, obama should put us out of our pain here. >> we are now in august. there is nothing no, new information as we begin between now and the time that the new chairman of the fed needs to be ap

wichita, kan., on our uninsured line. caller: the morning. -- good morning. have been interested in how this scenario plays out. i will like to ask a question to people there. if i break the windshield of my car and called to get it repaired, and they ask me if i am ensure your nod. -- if i am ensure the warnock. because they have different prices. what would be the circumstances if there was a moratorium on all insurance paid to hospitals and doctors for a year, what would that do to the cost of health care throughout the country? and of the cost of supplies for the hospitals throughout the country. host: to vote. -- thank you. guest: the question is, what would happen if there is a moratorium on all interest payments to hospitals around the country? the liberal answer is that most hospitals would close their doors. it is very unusual for in the hospital to have roughly a year's operating expenses in reserves. host: dr., use of the snide the people who ask the press -- she said the people can come. if people say they have cash, how much will charge me? guest

locations include a soon-to-be closed maximum security prison in michigan, and a military penitentiary in kans kansas. president obama ordered guantanamo closed by january 22nd of 2010. >>> our top story today or it has been what we're working on. iran detained three american hikers. swiss diplomats are trying to meet with them today. richard lui joins us now. the u.s. most of our viewers know doesn't have relations are ir iran. how do they work to get them released? >> that's the concern right now. we talked about this situation with cnn earlier, don lemon on our sister network. take a look. >> strategy number one is to shut up, to not talk publicly about it. number two, is to talk to anyone who is talking to the government of iran, and that is the prime minister of iraq has good relations with the government of iran and the swiss have represented our interests there for sometime. this is a real opportunity for the iranians to have a public relations coup that they can somehow that they are still participatary in the community of nations by simply confirming they're students and releasing the

we ended up in wichita, kan.. we found it was close enough. the $14,000 for the operation. there are a lot of canadians who do not have the resources. >> right. they just go on suffering until they get in through the system, which i think is -- if somebody has money, they should be able to pay its. peter: you were not even offered a colonoscopy, and it could eventually discover prostate cancer. richard, we're glad you're doing well. we wish you well. thank you for that valuable information as it relates to what might happen in the united states. >> thank you. >> thank you. peter: you knew her as a teenager at west beverly high school, but now kelly taylor is all grown up and back on "beverly hills 90210." joining us is actress jenny garth. she will join us in the studio next. first, let's check in with megyn. megyn: karl rove has some thoughts on this. the president says he will sign a health care bill without republican support, but to the american people want that? he says his miami tv station devoted him for being gay and not manly. a lette

a line of showers and thunrstorms stretching from nebraska and kan >>> good morning. it's turned more humid, temperatures around the region in the 60s to near 70. there is capitol hill, surrounded by a late summer haze this morning. now 71 in washington, highs today near 90 degrees. lots of sunshine. a little more humid today. tomorrow a northeast breeze after a front comes through in the morning. will keep us cooler. maybe clouds in and out. mostly cloudy friday and saturday. depending how close a trocal system c >> that's your latest weather. >>> justahea more on t loss of senator ted kennedy,is passinanotr sad chapter for the nnedy family. here nows aoo atome images from ted kennedy's life set to the eulogy he gave for his brother robert back in 1968. >> all of us will ultimately be judged, and as the years pass, we will surelygegeudud j jurur the eort we have contributed to building a new world society and the extento whicour ideals and goals have shaped that event. our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. it is the shapin