we will keep are eye on kessler motors stock after it plunged 15% yesterday. it went down 22% from two days earlier. two main factors one of wall street analysts who slapped a sell rating on in as well as concerns the expiration monday of a six month ban on sales of stocks by insiders would lead to a sell-off. again the opening bell well bring in 70 minutes. we will take a quick break. shot from outside 1 01 traffic looks like its moving all right. george will be up momentarily with a full check of your commute. we are back time now is 615 a quick update in the situation in the north and east. here's the latest snow totals 30 in. of snow in new jersey, 25 in new hampshire, 20 in. in central park, 18 in. in boston, 12 in. in philadelphia. no wonder things were canceled. if you want a seat wet snow totals are like there is a sight that helps you do that. we have the land here. we put it on our web site for you. they put it together interactive map with snow totals. use a man on the area. just click on a snowflake. this is briarcliff manor 13.1 in. of snow the sh

and jim kessler, vice president for policy at third way, a centrist democratic think tank. always have a trouble saying the name of that website. in democrats like you say this deal is a cave-in. others say this is the best you can get. why? >> well, of particular concern to me-- although all the details haven't come out tonight-- are the 2% payroll tax cuts that is essentially being proposed. that's been a republican idea they've been pushing for a long time in order to starve the beast of the social security trust fund. it means that money willate not be coming in to the trust fund but benefits will still be paid out. up until now the trust fund has been solvent. it's been able to pay out its own benefits. but in this plan they're basically trying to reduce the solvency of the trust fund because they couldn't get a benefit cut to the commission. they're just not going to stop until they try. >> ifill: you think the president and his... the people who support him on this are caving in to republican ideals not democratic ones? >> you know, the whole idea for the deficit com

health care i agree with ramesh's observations and the book that i wrote with john kogan and dan kessleralled healthy, wealthy and wise. it is about value. talk about costs in the book, but really is it about values. every reason to believe though we are not getting value right in u.s. health care and costs are too high from a value perspective. ramesh is also right on medicaid. the key issue in medicaid is less the formula you choose in the block grant and ending co-participation, ending states getting to spend other peoples money. in fact john and dan and i have argued the formula you said you want the governors to stop the co-participation in your way ahead. on adjustable mortgages and interest only mortgages what we have argued is that we ought to go back. peter and i argue that we ought to go back to a kind of regulation that limits contracts by wealth levels. i have absolutely no problem with affluent people having any kind of contract they want but it was ironic that a wealthy person buying an apartment on park avenue in my hometown had a simpler contract then many low income fami

doctor kessler: yes...atty: you know you could tell them that if they're 65, they can go to socialsecurity.gov and apply for medicare online. cathy: it takes less time than sitting in a doctor's office... sorry...it's, uh, it's less than 10 minutes... sometimes 5 or 6. it's quite easy! doctor kessler: you're really identical... and dr. welby really said... ♪...when cousins are two of a kind.♪ i'm jeff gordon, warning parents about pertussis. what's that? well, imagine a cough barreling through your infant's body at up to 100 miles per hour. with enough force to make him gasp for air. again and again. for weeks, even months. pertussis, or whooping cough, is potentially fatal. now imagine you gave this to your baby. parents most often spread pertussis. and even when babies themselves are vaccinated, they're probably not protected till they've had at least three doses. i'm working with march of dimes to urge you to help protect your baby by protecting yourself. ask your health-care provider about the adult per