kohl: i withhold. the. mr. brownback: i ask to call up amendment 2254 on behalf of senator chambliss and 2255 on behalf of senator vitter, en. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. the clerk will report. the clerk: the senator from kansas, mr. brownback, proposes amendments en bloc number 2254 and 2255. mr. brownback: i ask further reading of the amendments be dispensed. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. mr. brownback: these amendments have been agreed to on both sides for senator chambliss and vitter and i ask unanimous consent the amendments be agreed to en bloc. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. brownback: i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. kohl: i ask that the quorum call be set aside. the presiding officer: the senator from wisconsin. without objection. mr. kohl: i ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call

there's a kohl's store that the roof has collapsed. from the local hospital in beaumont they currently say they have less than ten people with injuries. there are radio reports that there may be more people coming in. so far the good news, all patients are stable. most have cuts and lacerations due to falling debris. but when you look at that damage there with that roof collapse of that kohl's store midday in beaumont, texas, it certainly could have been much worse. we'll continue to follow this story and bring you the pictures as they come in. i was in the grocery store when i had a heart attack. my daughter was with me. i took a bayer aspirin out of my purse and chewed it. my doctor said the bayer aspirin saved my life. please talk to your doctor about aspirin and your heart. i'm going to be grandma for a long time. boss: come on in, i had some other things you can tell people about geico - great claims service and a 97% customer satisfaction rate. show people really trust us. gecko: yeah right, that makes sense. boss: trust is key w

kohl: mr.esident, this program provides for cooperation between the federal government, state government agencies and local organizations to prevent erosion, floodwater and sediment damages and further the conservation and proper utilization of land in authorized watersheds. this program helps communities prepare detailed watershed work plans for flood prevention projects in cooperation with conservation districts and other conservation organizations. annual natural resources benefits include 90 million-tons of soil saved from erosion, 37,000 miles of stream and stream corridors enhanced or protected. more than 1 point million acre feet of water conserved. nearly 280,000 acres of wetlands created, enhanced or restored. and over nine million acres of upland wildlife created, enhanced or restored. this is a very important program, mr. president. and i urge senators to oppose this amendment. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. brownback: mr. president, i h

kohl: mr.ident, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. a senator: i ask that further proceedings up the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. brownback: we're trying to get to a final kind of conclusion on this bill. it's an important bill, important piece of legislation. also members want to speak about sotomayor and the nomination disort. the attempt is to get to move this off the floor and we're getting close to a final u.c. on this agreement so we can get passage on the bill. i wanted to talk about the importance of the agricultural industry. this key industry to my state. it's a key industry to the leader of this committee, wisconsin, his state. it's an industry that's done better than a number of others that have done over the recessionary time period. it has been an excellent performer on exports. we have one of the

kohl mr. president, -- mr. kohl: mr.sident -- the presiding officer: the senator will suspend until the clerk reports the amendment. the clerk: the senator from wisconsin, mr. kohl, proposes an amendment number 2233 to amendment number 190. -- 1908. mr. kohl: mr. president, i ask that further reading be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kohl: i ask that this amendment and tester amendment 2230 which has been approved by both sides and ask for their adoption. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, the amendments are agreed to. mr. kohl: mr. president, i move to reconsider that vote. mr. brownback: move to lay on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kohl: i suggest the absence of a quorum. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator in kansas. mr. brownback: mr. president, i want to ask first unanimous consent that rashana chin of my office be granted floor privileges during the remainder of the debate of this bill. the presiding office

look at kohl's. upwards at $50 a share and you take a look at the one-year chart. this this is at 52 week highs. you can't say that about a lot of stocks. also strong performance from j.c. penney. up 67% since january alone and that is a huge performance when you compare to the s&p 500. you wouldn't know that consumers are penny pinching by looking at some of these retailing stocks. we want to hear from you comments at the firstbusinessx.com. of course the inbox is open 24/7. we'll see you online and back here again next time. thanks for watching everybody.

they'll start shopping more maybe at kohl's. if you look at the dollar store space, the deep discount store space, maybe they'll trade out of a family dollar and into a big lots or maybe even a walmart to some extent. i think to some extent consumers have been permanently changed. the behavior of consumers anyway. >> let's talk about the stocks themselves. bob pisani was pointing this out during the "fast money" segment. eric, when you look at some of these gains over the last several months, if there is an xik recovery, if people start going back to the malls like you say, eric, is that already priced in? >> part of it's priced in. you have to look in specific areas and certain specific companies but frankly i don't think we priced in the potential up side in earnings here. retailers have cut back a lot. we've also seen lower pricing from asia for product. and i think if we see the consumer come back there's going to be a lot of leverage that most of these retailers never had that we'll see come through. >> patrick, we kind of

it was just very scary. >> reporter: the roof of the kohl's department store collapsed. and several shoppers were injured by flying debris. the injured were rushed to a nearby hospital. it was surely not the shopping experience they had expected. >> i see a lot of debris everywhere. it looks like a lot of roofing material. a lot of the shopping carts were moved out of their positions, pushed across the parking lot. >> an emergency official says given the amount of damage, they had luck on their side in that no one was seriously hurt. >>> hurricane bill is still gathering strength out in the atlantic. and expected to become a dangerous category 4 storm later s forecast to move between bermuda and the east coast this weekend. that could mean 12-foot waves on the coast. and 20-foot waves on the coast of bermuda. this is what bill looks like from outer space. it was taken from the international space station, far above the earth. >>> now, for this morning's weather from all around the nation. violent thunderstorms in the middle of the country today. hurricane-strength winds.

it was very scary. >> reporter: the roof of the kohl's department store collapsed.e victims were rushed to an area hospital. most of the injuries were not life threatening but it is surely not the shopping experience they had expected. >> i see a lot of debris everywhere. looks like a lot of roofing materials. shopping carts were moved out of their position. >> we're hearing one woman inside the kohl's department store suffered a heart attack and died when the roof collapsed. >> hurricane bill is gathering strength in the atlantic and expected to become a dangerous category 4 storm later today. bill is forecast to move between bermuda and the east coast this weekend. that could mean 12 foot waves on the coast and 20 foot waves on the island of bermuda. this is a look at bill from the international space station far above the earth. >> general motors finds itself scrambling to keep up with sales. the automaker says it's going to boost production by 60,000 vehicles this year and is reinstating more than 1,300 jobs. as sharyn alfonsi reports, much of the credit for the

. >> reporter: the twister touched down outside the kohl's department store around 2:00 tuesday afternoonng shoppers off guard. a worker at a nearby restaurant grabbed his cell phone, capturing this video of the storm's powerful wind, bending trees and blowing debris. >> it went over towards wal- mart there was a car flipped upside down at wal-mart. >> reporter: it ripped apart the roof of this wal-mart. on the ground shopping carts and debris littered the parking lot. the straight line winds rearranged and overturned cars. >> another car just landed on top of mine. and came in on me. which is very scary. >> reporter: the roof of the kohl's department store collapsed, and several shoppers were injured by flying debris. the victims were rushed to an area hospital. most of the injuries were not life-threatening, but it is surely not the shopping experience they had expected. >> i see a lot of debris everywhere. it looks like a lot of roofing material. a lot of the shopping carts were moved out of this position, pushed across the parking lot. >> crazy to see how random that was. three cars w

urban outfitters and kohl's. >> you like these? i wanted you to say it. i will ask to you use your internal editor. remember what you said about kohl's. >> i got a lot of hate mail on that. seers is trading 1-1 with whirlpool. i'm not going there. i had enough problems with the cash for camels thing in murdoch country. this sears is trading 1-1 with the kenmore brnd name whirlpool. i don't know who is shoring this. a ton of stock too high and a ton of stock 2-0. people were shorting sears knowing that the chair woman shapiro is going after people who do naked shortings. i say good luck. you will be in the spin cycle at sears. i got a good deal on tires a few weeks ago versus costco. >> what are did you get? >> tires. i got tires and michelins for $400. $50 less than costco. >> i ask you to use your editor. i will not ask if that was tire. >> i got two and they threw in the car map and did it in 45 minutes. costco was a 2 1/2 hour wait. they were surly at costco and begging for my business at sears. >> you are looking good and i don't think you will need t

kohl: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from wisconsin. mr. kohl: i'd like to take a minute to thank senator brownback with whom i've worked extremely well on this bill. he's made great contributions to the bill. he has a wonderful staff. fitz elder, stacy mcbride, katie tosky who also made great contributions. on my side, diane naylor and bob ross made great contributions. we're all very proud of the product. we're pleased with the vote and happy that it's over. mr. brownback: mr. president, i too want to make a few comments here. and that is to thank my colleague, senator kohl, who's worked on this for some period of time. i thought this was one of the smoothest appropriations bills we've had on the floor. i want to thank my colleague and particularly his work and that of the staff to make this happen. gaylin fountain, jessica frederick, bob ross. on mine, fitz elder, katie tosky and ryan scott melanie benning were key on it. i had some consternation where we broke the b0 legislation. we have a huge budget on our hands and we have to hit the

retailers with big four operation, kohl's, target, jcpenney comes to mind.rcing cost on apparel are dropping in the fall. they will fall greater in the first half of next year. big upside from that. >> thanks very much. chuck, matt, thank you for taking your time on those retailers. >>> claims, mark, claims numbers adding to the jobs picture. we've been focusing on that four-week average where that base is the best we were since the end of january. >> looks negative here. all right. the morning's claims number adding to the jobs pictures. building to friday's all. important, all eyes are on, the jobs report tomorrow. our task force fills in the final breath strokes on what to expect. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 if i'm breathing, i'm thinking about trading. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 i always have my eye out for a stock on the move. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 doesn't matter if a company sells computer chips tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 or, i don't know, fish and chips. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 i'll look at all kinds of stocks before i settle on one. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 if i think i'm onto

walmart, kohl's, jones apparel, they all said the same thing. walmart, jones, kohl's, target, they define retailing in this country. i don't know what this paper is classifying them as. top story in the business section. this is a good one, okay? this is one of my favorites. home depot, lowe's feel impact as homeowners skip pricey projects. didn't i spend last night telling you obviously i don't watch the show, but there's no accounting for taste. didn't i tell you last night that home depot that i own on my trust may be forecasting negativity. but actions speak louder than words. the numbers are terrific there. and it raised revenues. lowe's was bad. almost all of the quotes in this story are from lowe's. i think that's like talking to the losing team about how it did and then generalizing about both winning and losing quotes. baseball is doing terribly say the mets. well, gee, oh, yeah, ski daddy. the market is not fooled and the market is up nicely and lowe's dropped 10%. inquiring minds don't even need to know. i've got this one, the junk pa

thank you. >> thank you very much, senator kohl. senator hatch? >> i want to commend you and ranking member, senator sessions for conducting a fair hearing on the nomination of judge sonia sotomayor to replace justice david souter. i was pleased with judge sonia sotomayor said the hearing was as gracious and fair as she could have asked for. i came to the confirmation process wanting to vote for the president's nominee and the prospect of a woman of puerto ricans heritage on the supreme court says a lot about our country. i like judge sonia sotomayor and reflector service to the community, and her nation. i expect her to be confirmed, i know her service will continue for years to come. i spent a great deal of time reading judge sonia sotomayor's speeches, articles and cases and participated in all three round of questions during the hearing. i genuinely wrestle with this decision. i did not use political standard taken by senator barack obama in 2005 when he voted against chief justice john roberts, he voted no even though admitting the nominee wa

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first, today, target and home depot just joined kohl's and walmart saying that sales and profits areetting better. to me, target and home depot close to -- that is retail, isn't it? i mean, if we're not going to have a back-to-school season, wouldn't they know? walmart and target are the two biggest back-to-school stores in the country and they say they're encouraged about back-to-school season. memo to editors and writers on this, do your homework. you're not listening. second, tech's rolling over like beethoven, which ain't that bad. the mobile internet is tacking, the leader of the mobile internet is apple. boy, i guess that will still go down. wrong, up four today, a colossal gain because we've heard antidotal evidence that the iphone is taking names all over, canada, europe. the darn thing isn't even in china yet. generals lead, others will final. after the close, cramer alert, hewlett-packard reported what looks to be a nifty quarter. it's imperative that the bears find something wrong here. i'm feeling good about it, feeling good about my charity tonight. we'll pen something t

so that's interesting to know but it does have a lot of specialty retailers like guess jamboree in kohl'snd j.c. penney would you compare this performance of x r t compared to the spiders if you go back one year and the spiders not even bear be anywhere near what the 52 week high in fat down 20% prom one year ago 52 weeks ago back to that x r t truck back to those 52-week highs the we are talking about around 3350 or so this could be an area of technical resistance because this is where x r t was trading before it and fell off a cliff in september. the consumer is going to be very critical from now until the holidays. he began to hear from you again job hunting send us an e-mail comments at first business x. c o m voice mail number 3126608397 will see you online back her next time. pric we da ecial pric ca for steak. i coold hth but let's stet him sweait out a b. i coold hth anncr. vo: save money. live better. wal-mart

kohl's. a lot of the same stuff we talked about here still applies. these companies are cutting costs. they're managing inventories, which are down 10% to 20% from last year and looking at slightly better growth margins. they're getting better costs on their goods because goods for them have come down just like goods for us have come down. a couple curveballs to consider. bob has been talking about this. we are looking at this, cash for clunkers. people are putting more money into their cars and, of course, we know people are saving more. back to you. larry? >> thanks very much. what are the chain store sales results mean for consumer spending and especially the stock market? joining us now is rob morgan, market strategist from claremont wells strategy. richard hastings, consumer strategist for global hunter securities and the director of small and mid cap growth strategies for fifth third asset management. hello, gentlemen. rob, start with you. the stock market is very bullish about an improvement in consumer spending. let me read them again. the ind

penny's, kohl's. that will have the market's attention. >> a couple of consumer type of issues, unemployment coming out on friday, auto sales coming up monday. it will include one full week of the cash for clunkers program. >> this week u.s. senators are expected to take up the controversial cash for clunkers program. they are likely to vote on whether to infuse billions of more class. last week the house of representatives overwhelmingly voted yes to putting in an extra two billion dollars to continue the cash for clunkers program. after just one week, car dealerships across the nation are reporting they told tens of thousands of new cars under the cash for clunkers program. it allows consumers to trade in their gas guzzlers, get up to a $4,500 discount on a new more fuel efficient car. >> car dealers say they will continue to sell the cars, 7 even though the money is about to run out. initially the government set aside one billion dollars. >> i'm going to keep going until someone literally comes out

we are moving into significant areas with kohls department store being just one example. so we feel we can continue to exploit the food brand on multiple platforms. >> now, you say that your viewers enjoy watching your ads, but your ad revenue did drop nearly 4% in this past quarter. as the period wraps up, what is your outlook for the ad market? do you think it's hit a bottom? >> well, we do. we are right in the final phase, if you will, of negotiations in the upfront markets, so i'm not going to speculate on where we might end up, but we're very encouraged by the response we're getting from advertisers, we're encouraged by the trends we're seeing in the scatter market and third quarter. so, yeah, i think we have bottomed out in the advertising area. >> now, i have to ask you a question that is on the minds of all of the ceos we talked to. what do you think of the health care reform, and are you concerned as a ceo it will cost your company more money? >> well, it's something that obviously we like all companies are taking a look at. i think it's a little early to specula

kohl's shares finished up a fraction of a point. profits and revenue beat expectations but investors were disappointed in kohl's downbeat outlook for the rest of the year. most other retailers skidded on indications consumers were putting off back to school shopping. that's it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. now back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." former vice president dick cheney is writing his memory wars and "the washington post" reports that the one-time master of secrecy will reveal his grievances with his boss, former president george w. bush, and detail their heated arguments in full. someone who attended a recent cheney gathering described cheney's disappoint with bush and said in the second term cheney felt bush was moving away from him. he said bush was shackled by the public reaction and kritism he took. the implication was that bush had gone soft on him. or rather bush had hardened against cheney's advice. he'd showed an independence that cheney didn't see coming. tom defrank is the washington bur

pepper snapple and retailers estee lauder and kohl's. that's your global stock watch. still to come, one in every 355 u.s. households face foreclosure in july. that's the highest monthly rate since 2005. just when will we see a bottom in the housing market? >>> it is a little more than half past the hour. here are the top business stories from around the world. in the u.s., the retail sector front and center today as the government reports july sales and walmart posts second quarter results. >> and here in europe, second quarter gdp reports less than forecast as france and germany exits recession. >> here in asia, m&a in the resources sector. >> hello and welcome to "worldwide exchange." if you're just joining us in the u.s., futures are pointing to a higher start on the back of good data coming out of france and germany. as you heard ross say, they are out of recession officially, even if only weekly. we've got futures right now about 72 points above fair value as far as the dow, nasdaq and sps are higher. walmart will be a big factor in its earnings ahead of the bell

the bad news, there is no sales growth here, folks, nor is there for kohls. kohls very disappointing guidance in the second half of the year. j.c. penny on the weak side. financials up, john paul son bought big chunks of financial, including bank of america. these numbers were as of the end of june, so we don't know if they still have these positions. finally, say it ain't so. tootsie roll is down, a doubling of sugar prices, companies downgrading, and so they downgraded on concerns it will hurt them as sugar prices have gone up, crop shortages in this brazil and india, big talk. tradertalk.cnbc.com. >> bob, technology still holding up, nasdaq up 7.5 points. i take you to wall and show you big cap technology stocks. the story today dictated by apple. barclays capital raising the price target to 208 from 188, not only like the product line but free cash flow. stocks up 1.75%. microsoft strong, as well, 1%, talking about the zzunor next month. look at what is happening in the chips base. 1% for the semiconductor index, names internally within that intel, qualco

same situation with kohl's.they beat on the top line but they don't have any take up on sales at all. that, again, top line is going to be a major issues. elsewhere, i can't get to the solar companies. ldk solar is going to be opening down 10%, 12%. all the solar companies reporting miserable earnings. solar panel sales are down because of the global slowdown and they can't get any financing anymore. ldk is a chinese company, being held up by chinese banks, f financing from them. >>> bob, we're up 7 points. apple is a standout today as barclays capital raised it. they like the product pipeline. microsoft out of the gates to the plus side as well. modest gain but the hd version is going on on store shelves in the middle of next month. texas instruments was upgraded today over at rw baird. intel is up 1%. paul, meantime, is down 3 1/2%. it was downgraded at morgan joseph. it's a sell. that's on concerns of slowing sales of its pre. telelabs is up on an upgrade at morgan keegan. urban outfitters certainly on retail

a number of retailers will be reporting second quarter earnings including macy's, kohl's, and walmart which as dow component. wednesday the federal reserve's open market committee announces its interest rate decision after a two-day meeting. and the international trade balance is released. that's a report on the state of american imports and exports. thursday, total retail sales for the month of july will be reported. we'll get a real window into consumer spending this week. on friday, the consumer price index is released. it's a report on price fluctuation of consumer goods, a key indicator of inflation. thendex of industrial production meanwhile reports how much the country's mines, factories and utilities are producing. that will do it for us for today. thanks so much for joining us. next week we'll be talking about your credit scores. how to keep them high. your number is more important now than it ever was. keep it right here where wall street meets main street. have a great week, everybody. i'll see you again next weekend. >> tim: zero's guest was one of the greatest clutch perf

maxx, wal-mart, target, and kohl's all posted small gains, and may have an even better august. but consumers are still looking mostly at price and real need. >> i'm not sure if the other ones -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: retailers that have brick and mortar stores are offering a lot of deep discounts online. they're out thing the fact that they have free shipping. and some retailers that are exclusively online, they're saying in some states you don't even have to pay sales tax. anything to get consumers to shop. price, sales, and deep discounts on some everyday items are what is most important for shoppers. whether they're in stores early or still enjoying the summer, folks are planning even more carefully how they shop. >> you get what you need and bargain shop. you do the best you can. but at the same time you can't just buy what they want all the time. the school gave us a list of things that they necessarily have to have. and the rest we just have to penny-pinch or do whatever we got to do. >> reporter: in baltimore, roosevelt leftwich, abc 2 news. >> and abc 2 news works

. >> i sonia sotomayor do kohl let mely swear -- >> reporter: formally making her the first are hispanic supreme court justice. >> so help me god. >> congratulations and welcome to the court. >> friends and family members applauded and she hugged her mother who raised her as a single parent after her father died when she was 9. where she was sworn in today was symbolic, too, a formal conference room at the supreme court. and for the first time, cameras were allowed in to report record the event. just before in a private ceremony, roberts led her through another oath, federal law requires a special one for judges. today's event was a big change from past swearing in ceremonies for supreme court justices held at the white house. >> i samuel a. alito, jr. >> i clarence thomas do solemnly swear -- >> reporter: though swearing in justi justices at the white house has been going on for nearly 70 year, members of the court have become more vocal complaining it that it sends the wrong signal. they figure that if the picture that goes out is of them being sworn in at the white house it conveys th

fellow retailer kohl's earned 70 cents a share.rdstrom will be out with numbers this afternoon. >>> regulatorsing citi to hire outside help to find out if current management is up to leading the bank through the cries. the ft says the retained head hunter consultant will carry out an independent management recrew after the government stress test. citi must present a plan to the gored before posting q3 results. bank of america, also said to be carrying out a similar review internally. citi has no comment on that report. >>> finally, today's the deadline for those companies with outstanding t.a.r.p. loans to submit executive comp information to t.a.r.p. czar. then he'll have 60 days to accept those proposal few let's get back to "squawk" summit, america's health care crisis with joe and becky. >> thanks, carl. a new guest with us now, former -- or actually tommy's been with us, former health and human services, tommy thompson. thunderstormer deputy fda commissioner scott gottlieb. new guest, jim greenwood, running the largest biotech

a number of retailers will be reporting second quarter earnings including macy's, kohl's, and walmart which is a dow component. wednesday the federal reserve's open market committee announces its interest rate decision after a two-day meeting. and the international trade balance is released. that's a report on the state of american imports and exports. thursday, total retail sales for the month of july will be reported. we'll get re

when same store health numbers are released on thursday, coming ahead of a slew of earnings from kohl's, jcpenney. our frugal fem fatal, stacey gilbert, she's the only femme besides myself, is bargain hunting. what do you see ahead of the big day? >> what's fascinating, we have same store sales coming up this week, a number of earnings in these retail companies still left to report here. and one of the things that we're seeing is sellers of august volatility. names like nordstrom's, jwn is an interesting one where they're sellers of august volatility. so i was kind of looking at this, why are they selling august volatility for these two upcoming events? one of the big issues here is back to school is huge for the retailers. back to school comps won't be taken into account until early september. that will incorporate all of august here. i want to look for a situation where august is really implying a decent, a big move, if you will, compared to september. i think september is where you're going to see bigger names in the retailers. >> what are you playing? >> and here's a name i like to

i have been concentrating on my clothing line available at kohl's and for the last year helping to developor the wii which is what i wanted to talk to you about. >> when did you start doing pilates. >> about 15 years ago and i read about it and i was looking for a work out that really kind of e listening gaited my muscles because i was bulky from the traditional gym work out. i thought any exercise i can do laying down and it is effective i am finding out more. >> do you do mat or machine or both. >> i do a combination of both. >> i happen to love machine pilates myself. >> i have to be honest with you. i still lift. >> it is guys like you that will try out pilates and not be able to exercise. >> guys like me won't care. but so let's talk about. >> very flexible. so now we are taking this to the wii, but it is not a 3d thing. so you had to somehow really work this thing out to get the pilates on to the tv. let's talk about that. >> pretty much they turned me into an avenue tar and i guide you through every move and it is like having an instructor there with you. it is interactive. i will l

reagan felt a commitment to dokohl as the leader of west germany -- allreagan felt a commitment to kohlest: this was something they did not want to do. they had about 1200 weapons aimed on western europe. basically, he finally got him to the point where they agree to take them on down. he was working with the germans. they basically saved the whole group. host: robert is calling on the independent line from cincinnati. caller: good morning. thank you for line me the opportunity to speak. as i have listened to the two people on, reflecting back on the life i have lived as a citizen and the enacted states during reagan's presidency -- and if i recall unemployment compensation became taxable, the air traffic controllers were fired, and we lost the ability to write off interest on your income taxes on automobile loans unless they were used in business. i am not turn to be sarcastic with my last comment, but made no effort, not a vegetable. guest: oh, that is right. a tomato is a free. --is a fruit. ronald reagan certainly did lower taxes. there were various changes in the tax cut. there was

a kohl's department store roof collapsed on frightened shoppers. >> about half the store's flooded rightow. >> reporter: at least ten victims were treatedor minor cuts and scrapes. mostly from flying debris. >> we had a lot of potential for a lot of injuries. just lucky and fortunate. >> when you get daytime heating, it often fires up these thunderstorms. and a lot of times they can spin the small funnels that occasionally do touch down. >> reporter: when this one touched down, shelly riley was sitting in her car in the walmart parking lot. >> what i was seeing when i was sitting in the car, was all of kohl's roof coming, i the tornado. >> reporter: another car landed on her roof. but somehow, she made it out without a scratch. >> i wanted a new car for my birthday tomorrow. looks like i'm going to get one. >> reporter: and while she will spend the day car shopping, cleanup crews will be hard at work. there really is a race for these retailers to reopen. school starts in this area next week. and there's still an awful lot of back-to-school shopping to be done here. diane? >> okay, ryan.

also a kohl's parking lot in beaumont, texas.den triangle hit with an f-1 tornado yesterday, winds over 120 miles an hour there. certainly doing some damage. severe weather in inland states also a problem. >> thank you, rob. >>> a maryland lawmaker in hot water for creating the perfect romantic setting. why? on bended knee. could mean much more than a marriage proposal 37. >>> heidi's off today, i'm don lemon. we're taking your comments on the democrats side that they may go it alone to push this health care bill through. twitter here, finally, the dems have taken a page from the repubs or handbook for years. 51 votes to pass everything from now on. let's see what you're saying on our blog here. we're watching you in civics class in oakland, tennessee. not sure why the dems would push this bill. let's see if i could get one more frayou from the blog. the demhas been going it alone, what's changed? it's about time. thank you, logon to cnn.com and go to heidi or don or go to cnn.com/newsroom and you can click on our twitter, facebo

it's the reason why, for instance, the target and walmart and kohl's has said the back-to-school season is encouraging. did you see that reported anywhere at all on this show? you had to get it from the raw data. now i have noodled long and hard why confidence is up given all the gloom and doom. look at this. here's a guy, double-dip threaten housing recovery in the negative street journal? now, i have one of these eureka moments. the consumer confidence is up, because people no longer read newspapers. of course, only svelt unions 63-year-olds like me read nuts. you don't they don't even have them delivered anymore? no wonder people feel more confident. finally one more thing to celebrate. the retail investor is back. the money in numbers are terrific. they're terrific. as you can tell from the booming business at franklin resources, a mutual fund house that rallied huge today. regular people are putting money to work despite the media-inspired gloom. they know america is coming out of the this morass, that business is coming back, that thele firings have run their course and the hiring

. >> reporter: explains brian kohl of home energy savings company quo beco. >> getting and using a programmablehermostat is a way to save. >> let the house be warmer from 9:00 to 5:00 and that will save you a lot of money over the course of the summer. >> reporter: a simple one is o can pay for itself in the first year. switching your light bulbs can make a difference, too. compact fluorescents give us less heat and use less energy. >> don't touch it. >> in fact they produce almost no heat at all. >> when you have incandescents on at home you are heating your living space. >> that means you have to seal the leak. it takes a home energy audit to find out where the air escapes but start with weather stripping on windows and doors. >> between caulking and weather stripping you can make a big difference in terms of reducing how air moves in and out of your home. >> this is really cheap stuff. you can get it at any home improvement store. >> reporter: even your outlets can benefit from installation. a few helps to keep your home and budget comfortable this summer. one more thing, you want to check y

jeanette kohl. we welcome you to 9 news not 9:00. >> thank you so much. >> i know people know your face and name but they are saying, wait a minute, college president, spellman college, bennett, museum director this is a new position for you started in march of year. >> it is a new position, but in many ways i'm still the educator. i think any museum, if it is not educating is not doing its full job. of course we want art. we want to be inspiredded. we want our aesthetic sensibilities touched. why don't we learn? and why don't we dislearn the myths like about animals in africa. >> all right. so that leads us to this exhibit on until february of 2010. artful animals. the "washington post" called it the hyper family friendly exhibit that does dispel some myths. what does it tell us? >> i think it tells us largely that africa is a place of great diversity but it is not that tarzan dominated, wild place that folks want to make it. this is an exhibition that is centered on animals, but it really helps us

kohl's viced, macy's. a surprise to the up side.t surprises and a lot of the retail names from the stock per sfektive did pretty well yesterday. one real wick note. the university of purdue professor put out a study saying that this $3 billion that could go to cash for clunkers is going to ache take $300 million a month out of the the pockets of retailer because people will have new car payments every month and that is money they won't be able to spend in the retail channel. so it just goes to show you hot economy is really interconnected. take money from one place, you know, you can put it somewhere else but you got to take it from somewhere. >> your stock of of the day, wendy's arby's group. we could start seeing them together. >> that is exactly right. they announced over the fall that last year, windy's and arby's merged. with will see it under one roof. the margins are in mind. the stock was up 7% yesterday. so let's all celebrate by going out and vague beef and cheddar or a double with cheese. >> wait until they're five for fi

>>reporter: city councilman bill kohl is questioning the bill sent to state delegate john cardin. while on a boat in the inner harbor. cardin staged a mock police raid while he proposed to his fiancee and 15-minutes use of a pa control boat and 5-minute use of its helicopter, the bill comes to $300. a police spokesman said less than five officers were involved in this mock raid and their pay rates were calculated into the delegate's $300 tab. >> it is impossible to put a number on it, but i do know that $300 is a lot lower than what it would cost me to rent a helicopter to fly over the harbor or rent a boat to do a sight-seeing tour. >> they calculated that is what the cost was and i feel confident that commissioner frazier and his staff came up with the exact amount. >>reporter: cardin wrote the city a $300 check this week and apologized for what he calls an error in judgment, but city councilman bill cole wants more answers of how public equipment became involved in such a private event. >> it says that we don't -- we put such a low value on it and the fact it was an elected off

part of a roof of a kohl's department store was cut off. several people were injured, but none serious. >>> back here in maryland, parts of the state are dealing with severe weather. >>> as we look at the forecast for tomorrow, what we're seeing, if you're headed down to the ocean is this. tomorrow, chance for a thunderstorm or two. and then friday, scattered thunderstorms are still possible. even on saturday. still the chance for a few thunderstorms before that front finally gets out of here. but by saturday eeping, it -- evening, it starts to clear out. back here at home, what we're expecting for tonight, still scattered thunderstorms around. mainly in southern parts of the area. but tomorrow morning, going to start out with a mix of clouds and sunshine. as we head through the day, scattered showers and clouds heading through the day once again. and temperatures still pretty warm. and it will still be muggy. now, for the rest of the five- day, here's bob. >>> risk of showers. very warm and humid. saturday, still a risk of a shower. and th

yesterday in beaumont, texas, an f-1 tornado touched down and tore up a walmart and kohl's department store, the winds 110 miles per hour and doing damage there, flipping cars over at that point and also injuring a few people. this video courtesy of performan performancecaraudio.com. and bill is moving west-northwest at 18 miles an hour. still a little less than 400 miles north of the leeward islands, but getting closer to the u.s. we will not likely take a direct hit. but the northeasten coastline interaction. >> a big storm, yes. >> we'll pass it over to you. >>> here's what we're working on the next hour. the politics of going it alone on health care. we have the latest on the rumored shift strategy for democrats to pass reform without republicans. >>> we'll also hear from this man, the mayor of milwaukee. he was beaten over the weekend just trying to help a woman in distress. his first news conference on the attack is next hour. >>> and michael jackson's doctor is speaking out. what he has to say about the singer's death and his involvement. >>> lots of questions and concerns in t