people there say they have crushed about 40 vehicles if just the laus few days. dealers are hoping that crushing continues because they won't see any federal money until the clunkers are officially destroyed. the program may be great for the auto industry, but not so great for another industry, actually jack's auto parts' primary business, the sale of used auto parts. >> people don't need to get a part to fix this car. so you're taking thousands of cars off the street. so if the people don't need a part to fix it, we're out of business. >> he's got hundreds of clunkers just waiting to be towed from the area dealerships. >>> authorities in n. france are investigating a deadly bush crash that occurred in the bar dough region around 3:00 in the morning. a tour bus veered off the road smashing through a highway divider before coming to rest on a bridge abutment. at least one passenger was killed, 20 others are were injured, including the driver. police say the bus was traveling from germany to portugal and most of the passengers were portuguese. >>> a bus carrying ab

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lau laura's father said he learned his daughter had been pardoned and would be freed on cnn. he said the breaking news came across and he was ecstatic. here's more of what he had to say to reporters stud. >> i'm elated. i'm going to go down there and see my little girl. i knew something positive was going to happen and it happened. i'm so glad and thankful for all the people for prayers and thoughts. i'm very thankful to the state department and for the government for doing all they can to gain the release. >> of course, this is a tough time for the family. euna lee's husband michael said hannah was starting to just show pictures and her father, showing that her mother euna was no longer in the picture, which was difficult for this 4-year-old and the father to handle. he asked for mercy and said really it was a mistake that the women had crossed from china into north korea. the family did release a statement that reads, we are grateful for our government, president obama, secretary clin r clinton and the u.s. state department for their dedication and hard work on behalf of am

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i'm laura ingraham reporting tonight for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us. coming up, there has been a lot of talk recently about teachable moments in the gates-crowley controversy. but, first, the entire health care debate with s. one big learning opportunity for the american people and the politicians who are supposed to be representing us. that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo. when barack obama and the democrats swept into office in november, they did so on this nebulous promise of change and a desire to remake america. republicans were told by the elites on the right and the left, that they were on the verge of becoming a permanent minority party if they didn't moderate their views and, frankly, become more relevant. the country was moving, you z away from the old ideals of reagan conservatism and so should the g.o.p. well, smart conservatives weren't buying this. they said look, wait and see what this crowd does with the country, then talk to me about moving to t

american lau. it is clearly -- the cia has understood this for years it went beyond anything past practices. i have no doubt about it. this is against the law. >> thank you very much, bob baer, and thank you tyler drumheller. it's great having experts on the program. >>> up next, a u.s. congressman calls a self-described right wing terrorist a great american. that's his reaction. that profile in courage coming up in the "sideshow." by the way, the "sideshow" is getting very well named by the behavior of the wing nuts. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc. >>> back to "hardball." time for the "sideshow." first up, u.s. congressman trent franks of arizona has upgraded the birther bs. this weekend mr. franks informed a public town meeting that he had been considering bringing a lawsuit in the matter. it's not quite clear whom he intended to sue. the president, i guess. here is the problem with this. if barack obama was not born in the u.s., which a contemporary newspaper announcement of his birth

. >> there were lau thunderstorms overnight and heavy rain. the northeast corner of the state. a lot more activity off to the southwest and a lot more clouds. a warm front will be north of us this evening. it will be a tropical air mass over as. if the cold front is a long way off. we have mostly cloudy skies today in the forecast. a good chance of scattered showers and thunderstorms with highs near 80 degrees. >> thank you. thank you for joining us. thank you for joining us. need a lift? hey buddy, i appreciate the ride, you know. no problem. ♪ mind if i take a shortcut? yeah, sure. ♪ i knew the subaru legacy was the smart choice... what i didn't expect... was the fun. the all-new subaru legacy. feel the love. ♪ >>> we're back now, 8:30 on a friday morning, 28th day of august 2009. raining here in the northeast, but you know what? that's not stopping an enormous crowd from gathering at rockefeller plaza for one very important reason. these people are here to see miley cyrus in concert in just a couple of minutes. and ann, they've been lining

lau[laughter] >> and the other is about to learn her doctorate in counseling psychology why they didot choose to go into medicine i think -- well, we've touched on some of those issues today. but what i want to tell bet and emily is that your father has writn down, and, you know, where it is, what hwants when it's his time. and i encourage you to -- at some point in your lives have this conversation among yourwn family and write it down. >> and on that note, we will bring this to a close. i want to once againay that health affairs really is so grateful to the organizations that made this forum possible today. the robert wood johnson foundation, the association of medical colleges, the american board of internal medicine and the american hospital association. we pledged to bring you a serious discussion that was at the level that the topic demands, a serious health reform as we said, demands a serious discussion. i hope in the process we also brought you one that you have found provocative, simulating, informative, and as we heard from the last panel, even emotional. thank you very mu