are getting byon very lo interesrates because othecountries, the hinese in particar, are willing to len us endss amounts of money. as long as it goes on, were ne and people shouldn't worry about it. the problem is it's t going to go on forever. and if we are t prepared and we han't done things to rece our reliance onforeign borrowinand at some point they decide they have lent enough money it ll be a wrenching adstment. i assume these foreign countrielend us monday beuse it's -- led us money because 's something in for them. why do theyhink so? >> because there are not ery ma alternatives. ifhe world economy looks like it's really goingo be a basket case, people would raer have money in dollars an absolutely anythin else. but as the economies of the rest of e world begin to recovery, eveually people are going to say we'e lent enough money tohe u.s. soit's one of those ings ere you can't quite say wt is going to be the precipating event but it seems unwis for us to cntinue toely on thechinese a otrs lending us even more money each yar forever >> how was en benanke's reapintment received on t

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len, help us out here. first off, how long was she a nurse, working, what, at a pain, neurology center, is that right? >> that's right. it was the pain and neurology center for dr. gerald weiss in norwalk, connecticut, on east avenue. and she was there for about two years before this whole thing started to unravel. >> two years? did anybody get injured because of her -- come on, she didn't even know what she was doing. >> yeah, it was something like that, mike. basically what happened was that there were a number of patients who said that the injections she was giving were very painful. supposedly when you use that needle, you're supposed to do it very slowly, and she was doing it very quickly. and someone eventually made a complaint in march of this year to the department of health here in connecticut, and that's sort of what got the ball rolling. >> when was she finally arrested then? go ahead, len. >> she was arrested in may on a different charge, actually, for forging a prescription. she was trying to g

lens replacement only gate vision for distance. >> the vision was blurred. there are new lenses that are allowing uso see up close also. >> the crystal lens will be used for her second cataract. it helps with near and intermediate division. >> the muscles in the eye focus this lends and allows it to operate like the lenses we were born with. >> this is the actual size of the crystal lens. a tiny thing that has made such a difference in her vision. >> i do not wear context or glasses. >> you are seeing. >> yes, i am. >> wbal tv 11 news. >> the doctor joins us with more information. good morning. she does not look old enough to get cataract surgery. >> many people have that much earlier than those before. we have a range from 4 to 108. >> aid is not a barrier for this surgery. who is a candid it? >> -- age is not a barrier for this surgery. who is a candidate? >> we can bring all of our focus right in here and see everything. >> it really saves people from reading glasses. >> most of the time they do not need them at all. they may need a small prescription. most people function without any glasses. >>

what len did is referred to as retiring a pool. >> this is the middle of my pool, what used to be my pool. >> reporter: covering it with a composite material decking. >> this is strong, very strong. you could park a truck on this. >> reporter: it cost him about $6,000 to do this. >> just pick it up and lay it on there. watch this. >> reporter: there's the pool. >> what's left of it. >> reporter: but len's move isn't permanent. the space underneath could be used as storage and it's all reversible. >> for the next buyer who wants to buy this house, if he insists he needs a pool, i'll be prepared to take this out, replaster it for him and bring it back to the pool even with the economy dropping our business is is increasing. >> reporter: his company is doing this to pools across the valley for homeowners who no longer use their pools. >> we have a structural engineer licensed by the state has has designed all our components we use. >> reporter: and by design, rainwater does go into the pool but an automatic pump removes it. >> we use the existing lines through the skimmer -- >> reporter

using government funds. here to talk about it lenhart along with len bloom. i want to kick things off with you. his is a business you used to be in. are there risks out there? we know there are. but are the rewards outweighing them? >> in general, this is probably a good business for citigroup. there are fewer competitors. four years ago there were 119 companies making mortgage loans, now there are only 30. they'll probably get decent rates and terms, and of course it provides more capital for home buyers. the caution that should also be looked at with mortgage lending, warehouse lending, is warehouse -- and i'm not saying in this particular case, this is the case. but warehouses in general. banks use warehouses as a way to get customers to issue security through the banks. they lend money to the customer and then the way the bank gets paid off they get the loan paid off is when the customer issues securities, which puts the bank in a horrible conflict of interest position because the bank is selling a security to pay itself back. so there's lots of inherent conflicts and lots of thoughts about

lens of a biographer. something that might surprise us about how senator kennedy viewed his own life that you know and we don't know, i think it's been said all day today about family, about faith. people loved him and called him teddy. people who weren't even family members called him uncle teddy. they loved him. i loved him. you know? when i went to start talking to him about the film he wanted to talk about the red sox. mike is absolutely right. one of the joys of his life. i think it was his sense of realness, of authenticity in him to sing a song, to recite a bit of poetry, to tear up, maybe. to remember a graduation or a birthday, to be generous with all around him. it's what we've been talking about all day but we cannot understate how incredibly important a contribution and then when luke at his public life, all that he has accomplished, it is a huge, huge void. it is night in hyannis port, massachusetts. >> in your video tribute last year victoria kennedy said he's the pied piper to our family. obviously he was to so many in this country. was it family, his second wife that had so much to do with him

lens. both parties are screwing you. when are you going to get that? they are using me. they're using you. they're using all of us.e the r or d next to their name and start supporting or opposing politicians in a different way. look at what they believe. look at not what they say they believe, but what they actually do. you know, a little thing i learned, a great man taught me, what was it -- judge a man by the content of his character. here is something i want you to send to every politician. i want you to sen to every politician, and demand an answer, and they are either in or out, ok? i made it big because i think they have a hard time reading things. ok. so make it really big. one, i believe in a balanced budget and therefore will vote for a freeze in government spending until that goal is realized. i know, that's crazy. i believe government should not increase the financial burden on its citizenry during difficult economic times, therefore, i will oppose all tax increases until our economy has rebounded. three, i believe for more than four decades of u.s. dependence on foreign oil is a travesty. can i ask you

lens. >> thanks so much for being here. >> you used to fly in helicopters doing traffic at a tv station. >> for a year and a half i was in a helicopter and you know how important it is to listen to air traffic control when on vfr. you're responsible for making sure you don't run into someone. >> everyone in the cockpit has to be looking around, looking for other airplanes. >> head out to the plaza for another check of the weather from nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning. >> good morning to you. we talkeke all right. what is your sign say? >> lester, you are great. >> isn't that cute? let's send it back inside to the lester. >> tell her i said she's great. thanks very much. >>> more to come on "today." up next, a scream, struggle and silence. wlaepds to a georgia -- what happened to a georgia woman who's missing now almost a week. the frantic search for kristi cornwell. is. job.'s his mom vo: my job is to give him everything he needs to succeed, while staying within a budget. mom: that's why i go to walmart. son: and that's how the constitution helped shape america... mom: i love

lens. >> thanks so much for being here. >> you used to fly in helicopters doing traffic at a tv station.r a year and a half i was in a helicopter and you know how important it is to listen to air traffic control when on vfr. you're responsible for making sure you don't run into someone. >> everyone in the cockpit has to be looking around, looking for other airplanes. >> head out to the plaza for another check of the weather from nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning. >> gd gmornin. to you. we talked about tropical storm na earlier. rndon't think it's going to be too lon before we have another system right behind it. look at anna to your left, a little small blob of cluster of thunderstorms. look in the middle of your screen. this should be the next tropical depression forming during the day today. we get to the time of the year where one will come after another. this one, probably in a day or two, will be tropical storm bill. as far as the forecast, a great beach day for new england to the mid-atlantic. storms and heavy rain in south florida. a risk of strong storms through the nor

i want to tell you something about my family as a lens about the challenge we have in front of us as a republican party. my oldest sister has worked and continues to work as a secretary or administrative assistant for a company for 40-plus years in the same job. my older brother worked for most of his career as a member of the united food and commercial workers, and for part of that time as a union organize iror steward working in the produce department of a grocery store. he worked there for 40 or so years. my other brother worked for a number of years and for much of his career in an oil refinery as a member of the chemical and atomic workers union. now he works for a municipality. my other sister, rose, is a one-on-one special ed aid for children who are disabled in the public schools, and she belongs as a member of that union. so you can imagine the political discussion around my house growing up was a little challenging. but interestingly, when we talked about the issues, when we talked about the merits, the values and beliefs of what we stood for, we would have a discussion tha

us. stop looking at the president and anybody else in washington, right or left, through that lens. don't see the man that is you projected on him. see him as a man who happens to be our president or a senator or a congressman. how was he raised? what does he believe? more importantly, what do those around him believe? here is fox news contributor and syndicated columnist michelle malkin, who is going to help us out a little bit more on this book that i read two weeks ago. it is called "reclaiming revolution." it is terrifying, michelle, and it's not an ancient book. can you tell me a little bit about it? >> well, it's very creepy. what it is essentially is a self-published history of this group standing together to organize a revoluntionary movement, and it is a rhett prospective of what -- a retrospective of what this group did and how it splintered and essentially disbanded and yet grew its evolutionary cadre that is out there today over the '90's and into 2004. there are a lot of parallelled here -- a lot of parallels here between acorn and the seiu operate and this left wing op

messages of hope at the grassroots level using practical grassroots methods of prevention and intervention. >> kelly: the dream she once had with her two sons for lenand jay is now the substance of her giving hope to other children. lenice shows how to rise above tragedy and adverse it. she supports the belief that broken communities can be transformed. that their crooked paths can be made straight, that through the ashes of drugs and violence something good and beautiful can be made beyond a dream. >> kelly: incredible woman. she believes that they are teachable and loveable. for more information, go to our website. >> julie: what a strong mom and woman. >> when you think of working out you normally think you can hit the gym. there is another form of exercise as we age. our brain crunchers. let's ask a pediatrician for the american academy of pediatrics. by your late 20s i'm learning today, you've already hit your mental peak and are giving up mental speed and efficiency. what does that say for us? we're not in our 20s, can we work out our brains? >> i think it's always important to exercise your brain. you don't want to be a couch potato you want

us that loss of appetite or sluggish behavior are also signs something is wrong. all right. just be sure to check on them. >>> let's get the weather forecast. tony is here today. >> quince lenslly we are going to turn up the heat in to the weekend. a stretch of dry weather including today. around 90 degrees both days on saturday and sunday. the rest of the afternoon partly sunny skies, warm and humid, nothing unusual for this time of the year. the highs in in the mid-80s. overnight, partly cloudy skies. a little fog will develop after midnight. kind of like what happened last night. low temperatures a little bit either side of 70 degrees. right now 81. atop the hour at national airport, an east northeast wind bringing in the humidity. the dew point is 66. producing relative humidity of 60%. not oppressive but you will feel it when you go outside. 78 winchester. 83 hagerstown. one of the warmer spots 79 at bwi. everyone will settle to the mid- 80s this afternoon. right now a little cloud cover out there. these are fair weather cumulous clouds. i don't see any precipitation chances but i condition rule out the chance of an isolated storm, especially on the eastern shore and to

len specter offering up his support for a public option. hear that interview by describing to our pod cat on duedobbs.com. and join us on twitter.p next does the president think doctors are worth more money than practicing medicine and helping their patients? >> doctors may look at reimbursement system and say i'll make more money if i take this kid's tonsils out. >> we'll ask experts on the face-off debate and report on the quality of sweden's health care system. all receive the same care. they say imports always get the best mileage. well, do they know this malibu offers an epa estimated 33 mpg highway? they never heard that. which is better than a comparable toyota camry or honda accord? they're stunned. they can't believe it. they need a minute. i had a feeling they would. there's never been more reasons to look at chevy. >>> we continue our coverage of health care systems around the world. we're examining public health care systems to see what we might learn. tonight, it's the state of health care in sweden. sweden, ranking fifth in a european survey of health care quality. the life expectancy, by the way, in sweden is 81 y

len goodman may have graduated from there. this morning on the "today" show there were brief technical difficulties which resulted in a little treat for those of usatching. watch here as nbc newsman david gregory prepares to go on air. >> tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of apollo 11 historic lunar landing. it was on july 20, 1969. >> he's making his hair look insane all the time. what he's doing is called wolfing your blitzer. who brushes your hair -- let's look at that again. how hard he -- like he's trying to fling the hair off his head. [ laughter ] that's when -- when you give a chimp hair brush that's the way they do it. also this morning on the "today" show meredith vieira asked the -- she scored an exclusive with the president. she asked the president about the mom jeans when he threw out the pitch at the all-star. i guess he was put in the position of having to defend his pants. >> you're married to one of the most fashionable women in the world. do you want to defend the pant? >> no. i hate to shop. those pants are comfortable. for those of you who want the president to look great in his tight jeans, i'm not the guy. >> we're not ask

and for all of us, part of what we believe is who we are and where we come from. we have that as our experience, a lens to which we view a lot of the been circumstances. i cruel and a little place in minnesota, a suburb right side of st. paul. when i grew up, it was a, some of the world's largest we packing plants and the world's largest dockyards for a while. it was very much of blue-collar town. it said down precipitously. it was an enormous economic dislocation in my home town with a lot of moms and dads being laid off. a lot family's been disrupted because of that. but he was a great community. a great place to grow up. i want to tell you about my family about the challenge that we have in front of us as the republican party. my oldest sister continues to work as the secretary for administrative assistant for company for 40 years are more in the same job. my elder brother worked for most of his career as a member of the united food and commercial workers. part of that time as a union organizer and union steward working in the produce department of progress restore. he worked there for 40 years up.

len know, starting on the 14th. >> that's right. >> gig. >> make sure you join us tomorrow.ment reports a 0.9% drop in the producer price index with a the core rate dropping 0.1%. housing starts fell in july but revised to show a gain. target shared called higher after better than expected results in the quarter. that's cnbc business news for now. first in business worldwide. i'm courtney reagan. >>> live from the financial capital of the globe, this is the one and only "squawk on the street." good morning, everybody. i'm mark haines. welcome to volatility tuesday. futures off session highs but still on the plus side after monday's big slide. housing starts and producer prices tempering earlier enthusiasm. >> that's right. i'm erin burnett, and the original enthusiasm was generated by a few big company, target, saks and home depot all beat estimates and either stuck with or boosted their forecast. target interesting, profits were down more but way more than anybody was looking for. >> and home depot was a surprise after what lowe's had said the day before. in fact, home depo

lens, surveillance, surveillance. that's a wise man. and think they flu forecast gives us that handle we've never had bore because we've never been able to read the message in the replicants of the sequences that are published. in this case we give an example of sequence in which we've identified -- you can't see them there, but a couple of replicants. we track the rift for each year and strain from 1918 to 2008. we calculate the replicant, which is the first part of this exercise. which tells you whether things are sleeping or in trouble. orhether things are coming. in this case, the replicant ually if it's under 5, nothing much is doing to happen. in the last 100 years, that's been the case. if it's above 5, it usually means that the genes that are involved in t influenza in particular have been stimulated and they have overproducing which we have shown there related to rapid replicated and related to the outbreak. we were then able to isolate the gene that was responsible for this by checking the eight genes, for example, in h5n1. and i showed you this yesterday. and wh

lens of a dozen years of history. >> our attorney had reviewed a list of of proposal for an advance into books, the product was a real book with a real publisher and it offered us financial independence for the first time in our lives. since house members and senators have been accepting it as is in writing books about critical, and i thought we had done the right thing. for example, no one had questioned then a senator gore's advance or his right to offer earth and the balance while many republicans to challenge his ideas myself included none have challenges in,. one news report indicated 29 senators have written books while in office and other reports indicated a number of authors had received a book advances which were larger than the amount we were getting for renew america. people who defend the world order will always attack us for try to get the message of change to the american people. however, we are accustomed to ou opposition from those quarters and would make no decision based on their routine and expected criticism. but because what we're doing in congress for the first hundred days and beyond is so important to our country we do not want to distra

using twister and things like that. i guess you actually tried to shoot inside the plane. >> yes, i did, and i do not know whether it was the impact hitting the camera lense an error, or i did not push it right, maybe i pushed it two times. jon: what was the impact like? >> i thought it would be ok. i thought we were going to make it when i saw the field. i knew we were going to be ok. and just before touching down, the ditch came into view. but the plane was not going to fly anymore and we just caught that opposite edge of that bitch, just a foot below the rim -- we just caught the opposite edge of the ditch, right below the rim. just hundreds of feet. everything went forward, but laptop went into the back seat, mike iphone went out the plane and ended up under the tail. jon: you got out of it alive, and that is a good thing. good to talk to you. good job, charles. . . there are many ifs in your family's life. if your kids can go onward and upward, no matter what. . the most essential insurances, term life and disability, in one surprisingly affordable package. creating a personal safety net that's bursting with guarantees for the if in life. jane: want

len devecchio do? he takes the fifth amendment. he refuses a polygraph test. later in a trial after usented immunity dance recital recall 66 times. if you and i were granted immunity and we said i don't recall once, contends, jill. that is why they give you immunity. the fbi is so worried that these mock cases over here going to go down, if scarpa jr. talks about his father and his relationship that day in my opinion now, and this is underscored by, this is a memo from james kallstrom to louis freeh. andy talks about how the failure of the fbi to wrap this investigation of this casting a cloud over the nyo, the new york office and threatening a series of cases in the eastern district of brooklyn and is basically telling louis freeh to shut it down brother. and guess what happens? they shut it down, they left devecchio, despite all this treasure trove of the evidence i'm telling you about, 11 months treasure trove called a hoax and a scam. the fbi and the feds come up with a story that is a fabrication. they so they kala the spokesmen the scam. what motive would ramzi yousef have? why wo

using our mask to do research on a rig. >> reporter: one catch for fishermen trying to embellish the tale of clicking the big one. >> there's the tales -- put a wide lensit. >> cool. would you get one. >> never taken pictures underwater. maybe in a little pool or something like that. scuba diving, i see people with the big rigs. something like that might be good to take down. >> gorgeous. >>> talking a little bit about health care co-ops. heard them talked about a lot in the alternative government-run health care option. how do they work? and is it a realistic model for a nation? >>> 50 minutes past the hour. welcome back to the most news in the morning. now more than halfway through this make or break month for health care reform, democrats may be raising the stakes. cnn learned the obama administration may go it alone with no republican support. as the tension builds, we're hearing more about health care co-ops built by some as an alternative to the government-run plan. how would they work? would they work on a national scale? this is dana bash. >>> john, kiran, we've been reporting for a couple of months that senate health care negotiators have been