it's also kirk's birtay. happy birthday, kirk. [ cheers and applause ] happy birthday, my man.ood man. happy birthday, captain kirk. that's great. that's great. well, it's a fun day. it's a fun day. we're having fun. but everne's still talking about health care. health care debate, everyone's got this -- that's all i'm hearing about. health care debate, because you know, the big news was the senate yesterday -- the finance committee rejected the democrats' health care plan. the one with the public option. so they rejected that. meanwhile, the republicans are offering their own health care plan. it's called "stop crying and take an advil." which i don't know if that's going to take off or what. if that doesn't pass, they're going to go with "swine flu fever, catch it." [ light laughter ] so that's interesting. nancy pelosi attended the u2 concert last night in washington, d.c. as bono's personal guest. she had a great time. the whole night she was on the verge of making an expression. [ laughter ] u2 even dedicated a song to her face, "stuck in a moment you can't get out of." [

: kirk ferentz finds a way to win a football game. face adversity. and able to grow from it. bounces ck from the michigan second week in the row. push into the final minute. this is a good, young football team that's still going to accomplish a lot in 2009. >> brent: see you in dallas, partner. next saturday we'll be at the cotton bowl for college football on abc. oklahoma takes on texas. it's the red river showdown. at noon eastern. now let's take you to times square for the ford wrap-up with big john sanders and smooth jesse palmer. take it away, john. we had a great one here tonight in iowa ty. hawkeyes win it, 30-28. >>brent, thanks a lot. welcome to the ford wrap-up. john saunders and jesse palmer. big question on everybody's minds the last couple of weeks the condition of tim tebow suffering that terrible concussion in the game against kentucky. when would he return? he was cleared to play today and urban meyers said you're cleared to play, you're in the line-up and finds riley cooper here. >> a lot of running early in the game

just like kirk has done. >> hi, i'm kirk and i need a money coach. things that's happened with my 401(k) just make me sick. i've lost one-third of my proceeds that i worked hard to put in there. i'm definitely concerned i'm not going to have enough for retirement. because i see the way the economy is going and i don't think that social security is going to be there. my contributions to my 401(k) are about $3,000 a year and don't feel that that's going to suffice me. i had hoped to retire around 60, 62. but it looks like i'm going to be doing it until 70, 75. >> my question is, do i keep continuing to put money into the 401(k) or do i diversify and put it into something like gold, silver, real estate? >> kirk, i feel your pain because just about all of us saw our 401(k)s get eaten up by the stock market decline. on the good side of the ledger, there has been some recovery. and second, you've got to go all the way back to the 1930s, to find a drop this fast and this rotten in the stock market. i still believe in stock market investing. you are approach

has done. >> hi, i'm kirk and i need a money coach. what has happened with my 401(k) makes me sick. i've lost one-third of my proceeds that i worked to put in there. i'm definitely concerned about not having enough for my retirement, because i see the way that the economy is going, and i don't think social security is going to be there. my contributions to my 401(k) is about $3,000 a year. i don't think that's going to suffice me in my retirement. i hope to retire around 60, 62, but it looks like i'll be doing it until 70, maybe 75. do i continue to put money into the 401(k) or do i diversify and put it into something else? gold, platinum, real estate? >> kirk, i feel your pain because just about all of us saw our 401(k)s get eaten up by the stock market decline. now, on the good side of the ledger, there has been some recovery and, second, you've got to go all the way back to the 1930s to find a drop this fast and this rotten in the stock market. i still believe in stock market investing. you are approaching a point, though, that if y

i just joked with him that teddy is probably in have been laughing and saying okay kirk now let me seewhat you can do in the senate. [laughter] so paul it is a great honor to welcome you here to this committee. [inaudible] to be part of a body that is so important to our democracy and with senator kennedy obviously loved as an institution and as you say the circumstances of my being here provide me with an incredible honor on the part of my own life and i hope to be able to work closely with u.n. senator collins. i know this committee enjoys a great record and has an important mission and we look out for our security here at home and protect our troops abroad and if i can contribute in any way to what we are dealing here as an important body of the senate, i will be delighted so thank you for your kind comments and i look forward to working with you. >> thank senator kurd. i am sure you will contribute substantially and i am delighted you have chosen to be on this committee. today's hearing, which is titled eight years after 9/11, confronting the terrorist threat to the homeland, was s

>> nothing as special as kirk -- >> jimmy: all right. [ laughter ] >> kirks. >> jimmy: here we go, everybodyrecent years. she's here tonight to perform the song, "sin for a sin" from her brand new album "revolution." please welcome miranda lambert. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ i remember vividly what that vision did to me you laying with her in our bed ♪ ♪ love can be a tragedy when you do what you did to me all i'm seeing now is red ♪ ♪ i need to repent a sin for a sin bible told me to forget all those who trespass ♪ ♪ against tread their feet on sacred ground bad things come with consequence what feels good ♪ ♪ hurts in the end don't want to save you now i need to repent a sin for a sin ♪ ♪ fire and brimstone dirt and a headstone bury them, baby along with our sins ♪ ♪ hear the thunder six feet under hit your knees won't do it again ♪ ♪ ♪ guilty pleasure ease the pain whiskey running through my veins ♪ ♪ too late to save you now i need to repent a sin for a sin ♪ ♪ fire and brimstone dirt and a headstone bury them, baby along with your sins ♪ ♪ hear the thunder six feet under hit your kne

>> kirk ogrosky: i think it's way bigger. >> kroft: what changed? >> ogrosky: the criminals changed. >> waterman: sophistication. >> ogrosky: they've figured out that, rather than stealing $100,000 or $200,000, they can steal $100 million. we have seen cases in the last six, eight months that involve a couple of guys that, if they weren't stealing from medicare, might be stealing your car. >> waterman: you know, we were the king of the drugs in the '80s. we're king of healthcare fraud in the '90s and the 2000s. >> kroft: but it's not just miami. in march, the fbi arrested 53 people in detroit, including a number of doctors, and charged them with billing medicare more than $50 million for unnecessary medical procedures. and in los angeles, the city of angels medical center recruited homeless people off the street to fill their empty beds, offering them cash and drugs, plus clean sheets and three squares a day, while billing medicare tens of millions of dollars for their stay. >> eric holder: we have to understand this is a major fraud area. >> kroft:

. >> reporter: emily kirk patrick for the center for family literacy. >> there are 40% of our nation'sourth readers who are not reading at basic level. many of the fourth graders are children of the 30 million who cannot read at the basic level. >> reporter: many times, says kirk patrick, children just give up as they fall behind. >> early in a person's life they're learning how to read or should be learning how to read. and then as life and education progress, you transition to needing to read to learn. and it's when that transition happens, often in the adolescent years, that an individual falls very far behind and feels unable to catch up. >> reporter: for some, the problem is learning disabilities. most of them undiagnosed until recent years. others come from families where the parents struggle with reading or where english is not spoken. >> both my wife and i have lived here all our lives. >> reporter: for some like walter long, the reasons are not entirely clear even now. for those who will hear your words and say, how is it possible that a man in a major city like pittsburgh cou

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. >> kirk said one politician that they liked. of illinois with whom acorn has a long history. >> obama worked on the ground with acorn when he was a community organizer in chicago. and several years later in 1992, when he headed an organization called project vote. >> mr. obama reportedly helped tod train acorn organizers and represented acorn in a voters registration lawsuit. he served on the board of a charitable organization that paid acorn 190,000 . he told an acorn audience. i have been fighting along side on acorn on issues you care about in my entire career. still the president down place the relationship with acorn. >> you know president obama? >> no, i think i was in a line at a unimeeting and may have shaken his hand but not met him in a sense of like we are. you and i are good friends compared to president obama. >> you think his presidency is good for acorn. >> thus far, the jury is out. >> but perhaps not for long. there is also a down side to having friends in high places. acorn is scutinized like never before. comi

the product of a man whose daughter-in-law says was a kirk with an incredible head for business. was 82. >>> the redskins head into week five preparing to take on the carolina pan shares. >> soy far, the buzz has been surrounding an addition to the sidelines if the form of a consultant. we'll talk to the junkies about what this means to the fan and also the head coach, jim zorn. that is coming up next. love to save? shop with your giant card and save on thousands of deals, like healthy choice entrees, 5 for $10, 12 double rolls of quilted northern, now $5.99, and other weekly specials and real deal savings. enjoy more savings -- only with your giant card. tightening your purse strings? shop with your giant card and save on thousands of deals, like kraft salad dressing, 2 for $5, herbal essences hair products, now 3 for $10, and other real deal savings and weekly specials. enjoy more savings -- only with your giant card. [ power drill whirring ] thank you. excuse me, sir?! can you tell me which coffee tastes better? man: "a," denitely. this one. thank you. in a national taste test

kirk out, man, i'm gone. >> that does it for us at the halftime report.s "fast money" with go off the record for bank of america's ceo search. >>> we have a lot ahead. i see you got the purple memo. >> yeah. >> we're together on that. hollywood's new movie model. a "new york times" david pogue garmin's new cell phone, gps, you name it, we've got it. and then your picks for the most annoying words. you've been sending them to us. we'll give you a bunch of the examples when we come back. >> this is cnbc.com news now. >>> energy and commodity stocks are among the day's best performers on wall street as oil prices rise and gold suncrges ta new high. >>> and chairman dodd doesn't see any road blks to ben bernanke's confirmation. and nvidia halting development of chip sets for intel's newest micropros scesse microprocessers. >>> we are awash in annoying words and phrases. >> yes, we are. >> boy, are you annoyed. so are we with some of those. we'll get to some of those coming up. welcome back to the second hour of "power lunch." i'm bill griffeth. stocks have be

according to his former video editor, richard heene once spoke to william scatter in, aka, captain kirk" shatner's comment -- mike walters from tmz, i think i have a motive now. in fact, i'm going to direct this over to karen desoto. okay, an attorney for the former associate said heene wanted to get rich quick so he could build a bunker or something underground where he could be safe from the sun exploding because he thinks the world is going to end in 2012. >> well -- well, thank god he's insane because anyone who would do this and do this type of hoax, i would hope that they're hearing voices and drooling because any person who is somewhat with it, it's very disturbing that they would do this. and use their children, jane. i think that's what's so disturbing is the use of the children. i'm sure that there's probably been at least ten, 20 complaints to youth services at this point. so i hope those investigators get out. >> how about plead insanity. i wonder if he could because this stuff is really crazy. a lot of the stuff that friends are saying he talked about -- >> i don't -- >> --

kirk ference. and it's just -- how neat! who would ever expect anything?idn't expect anything, no. >> the good news is, robin, doctors say she didn't do additional damage by not rushing to the hospital. by the way, she's never been to the team stadium to see a game. the university president has invited her to watch one last month from the sky box. >> i love that. she's going to love that experience. look at her. she's so cute. >> 71. >> thank you. she's a fan! >>> a new jersey man definitely did not work hard for the money. he pleaded guilty to cashing more than $470,000 in paychecks for a job that he never did. the man accepted a position in 2002 and then changed his mind, but nobody caught on until like two years ago! prosecutors are asking for a six-year sentence. and, yes, they want him to pay back the money. ♪ you got to move >>> all right. if you've got a credit card, this could directly affect you. a freeze in credit card rates is being proposed. our money expert jennifer westhoven is here. good morning. >> good morning, thanks, robin. we've heard a

to be the bond kirk you have to do things like this looks ridiculous buying a ten-year at three six,ok down and shake my head. you bet on deflation in the face of the biggest fed action and government fiscal spending in history and you're still going to be right on these bonds. >> well, it's not exactly a bet on deflation but certainly a bet on inflation moving down closer to zero. i mean, our models show the core inflation rate over the next 12 months moves closer than we could reasonably have forecast six months ago. you know, the actual cpi number is negative. so a 4% long bond or 310 ten-year doesn't seem unreasonable in that context. >> you did it as gold was surging to 1,000 and all the other commodities were going, commodity part of the stock market was going. we were asking ourselves who to listen to. we did say at one point the gold market is smaller than bond market. ten-year looked like an outliar. are we going under three? would you still buy this thing? >> well, those things are hard to predict. what you really want to try and forecast is how long the fed stays at zero.

an alien hunter and a mad scientist, i can't think of anyone else you would call other than captain kirk. >> and william shatner tells "showbiz tonight" his story is overblown. he's inflated the amount of contact we've had. channels like tlc and countless production companies are releasing statements that say the same thing. we have nothing to do with this guy. but entertainment journalist imagines that one day they'll change their minds. >> richard heene is somewhat famous now so i think all the people that are tripping over thems to say, we didn't work with him, we didn't work on a reality show with him are going to be trying to get interviews with him for a reality show. it's how hollywood works these days. >> but right now it seems that even if heene doesn't interest hollywood he definitely has the attention of the cops. joining me tonight in hollywood, carlos diaz. and he was mad, wacky and eccentric. when you hear all these accounts describing richard heene, what do you think? is he an evil, mad scientist or just a wacky, eccentric guy trying to make a living? the sad thing is, he

kirk ferentz. it's just -- how neat! who would ever expect anything. i didn't expect anything. no. >> now, get this. carol has never been to the team stadium to see a game. she's been invited to the sky box next month. >>> in other news cleveland city prosecutors charged braylon edwards with misdemeanor assault for punching a friend of lebron james. he attacked the much smaller man, who james says only weighs about 130 pounds outside a nightclub. he could get six months in jail. james called his actions childish. edwards' attorney says he will plead not guilty. >>> larry johnson first this guy rips his coach on twitter after losing to san diego. that's not smart. then attacked a twitter follower using gay slurs says the kansas city star and also not smart. but then cussed out reporters using another gay slur when asking about the tweet saying get your bleeping bleep out of here. he dent see bleeping bleep. >> does he know how to use twitter and how it works? >> obviously. vikings held coach told vikings head coach brad childress said he dressed up like a flight attendant. he wa