the first group touched down in hsiao lin to a scene of utter devastation. currently the entire village is buried says taiwan's deputy minister of defense, and we have not even started to look for the missing from neighboring villages. by late afternoon, hundreds of survivors had been airlifted out of the region. but thousands more remain unaccounted for. at a nearby high school, relatives of those missing waited to hearals. these sisters last heard from their parents saturday. they told us hsiao lin village was a disaster and that they were going to be evacuated, then the phone died. authorities say it will be days before the death toll from typhoon morakot is known. for now it is still very much a rescue mission in these dark mountains. steve chao, al jazeera, huo shan kou, taiwan. >>> japan is recovering tonight from very strong earthquake that hit the central part of the country. this is how it looked as it was recorded by closed circuit television cameras. as the quake a 6.5 magnitude struck. rocking tokyo and nearby areas. police said one woman was kil

chung lin tin and his beloved dog were rescued from hsiao lin village, where it's feared a massive mudslide has buried hundreds. "we've been trapped for four days," chung said, "for so long we didn't know if anyone was coming for us." >> reporter: with the only road into hsiao lin and several other remote villages still washed out, rescue efforts have been painfully slowed. medical teams trying to get in on the ground had been forced to wait. we've been here hours now and so far escavators have made little to no progress in clearing the road. it remains very much a liquid rover of mud and the constant rain is making matters worse. we're not getting through, this engineer tells us. it may still take days. and so the government's answer, send soldiers in by air. the first group touched down in hsiao lin to a scene of utter devastation. currently the entire village is buried, says taiwan's deputy minister of defense, and we have not even started to look for the missing from neighboring villages. by late afternoon, hundreds of survivors had been airlifted out of the region. but thousands more r

two quick outs. >> rob: i wrote a blog on masn.com today about, you know, tim lin lin was in the big-- he was there to stay. reportermy hanson. 7 5 starts 430 innings to stay. i don't believe it is an age thing, i think it is a developmental and mechanical. you are protecting your arm well. you should be in the majors pitching. >> bob: i noticed something that will nieves did that usually only lead off guys do batting after a pitcher. he is batting before the pitcher but hess guy jd martin has not been to the dugout because of the outs. will took an extra 20 seconds. he was trying to give him a blow as martin has to get set up on deck. looper has a hard sinker. he struck out willingham with it. and strike 2 to nieves. looper is 34 years of age. 6'4", 230. major leaguer i know of that ever came out of mangum, oklahoma. lives in the chicago area now. 1-2 pitch. nieves reaching. not even coming close. so looper gave up the double to morgan homerun to dunn he is right at his night. we go to the 3rd each parch weir a scoreless 2nd. pxopo   >> bob: nationals baseball brought to you

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[applause] >> thank you very much, gail and lin.re going to take some questions now from the audience. we have some roving microphones. we'd ask you to wait until the microphone comes to you before you would ask your question and ifou would identify yourself by name and affiliation beings that would be very helpful. while we're waiting to see if there is a question from the audience, i'm justoing to start with one from the pod rater's prerogative here. linl what i understood you to be saying is the single biggest change we've undertaken in our society is we pool our dollars through the government to pay for care for people who used to not get it at all, chiefly the elderly and the poor and what we're talking about now is adding some more to that pool. more of the poor who we have not covered to date as gail said and this has been a stubbornly resistant problem. so if you had to characterize that, are we talking about a huge change or are we tadking about a change at the margin? >> well, it depends on how you define margin. the reaso

[applause] >> thank you very much, gail and lin.e're going to take some questions now from the audience. we have some roving microphones. we'd ask you to wait until the microphone comes to you before you would ask your question and if you would identify yourself by name and affiliation beings that would be very helpful. while we're waiting to see if there is a question from the audience, i'm just going to start with one from the pod rater's prerogative here. linl what i understood you to be saying is the single biggest change we've undertaken in our society is we pool our dollars through the government to pay for care for people who used to not get it at all, chiefly the elderly and the poor and what we're talking about now is adding some more to that pool. more of the poor who we have not covered to date as gail said and this has been a stubbornly resistant problem. so if you had to characterize that, are we talking about a huge change or are we talking about a change at the margin? >> well, it depends on how you define margin. the

yesterday, lin energy was 11.5% yield and the stock still went down 4%. am i missing something? >> they knock it off for, you know, for the -- the amount of dividend, the stock goes for x, you don't get that dividend. you've got to own the stock on the must-own date the day before. it could get knocked down on earnings alone. i mean, look, i'm glad you came to me. that's going to ask you whether corn-fed steak is better than grass-fed steak. i'm telling you it trades -- just go to nebraska for it. you lose that dividend. stock gets knocked down. we'll find out later, of course, because we happen to have the wonderful and fabulous michael lin on the show tonight. carolyn in connecticut. >> caller: hi, jim. big old connecticut boo-yah. >> man, fancy boo-yah. >> caller: those are my kids in the background. >> love the familia boo-yah. put them on. put them on. let's get them in the market. >> caller: okay. say boo-yah. >> boo-yah! >> there you go. yes! how many other shows have got -- do you think any of those shows like csi got the kids watching? okay, go ahead. notice how i just

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japanese festival, joey chestnut, the reigning nathan's hot dog eating champion, put away 81 dump lins in 10 minutes. just in time for breakfast. >>> now for a look at the national and the regional weather, here's nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. >> should have been made to use chop sticks. >> that could have been dangerous. they could be lethal weapons if used at high speeds. >> hurricane bill. let's talk about the latest with this storm. amazingly, dan, this storm held together and made landfall in new foundland. it is exiting into the mid atlantic. the waves down at acadia national park down the coast of maine. here's nova shoesh that. still waves reported 10 to 12 feet. i know if you're going to the beach the waves will be a lot lower. rip current risk is still pretty high. waves off southern new england, 7 to 10-foot range. gulf of maine, right around the same. the waves are coming down but there still could be rip currents. as far as the forecast goes for today, as the storm pulls out, the humidity will go with it. dry high pressure will be coming

[applause] >> thank you very much, gail and lin.e're going to take some questions now from the audience. we have some roving microphones. we'd ask you to wait until the microphone comes to you before you would ask your question and if you would identify yourself by name and affiliation beings that would be very helpful. while we're waiting to see if there is a question from the audience, i'm just going to start with one from the pod rater's prerogative here. linl what i understood you to be saying is the single biggest change we've undertaken in our society is we pool our dollars through the government to pay for care for people who used to not get it at all, chiefly the elderly and the poor and what we're talking about now is adding some more to that pool. more of the poor who we have not covered to date as gail said and this has been a stubbornly resistant problem. so if you had to characterize that, are we talking about a huge change or are we talking about a change at the margin? >> well, it depends on how you define margin. the

. -- scott lin is under heavy pressure to keep him behind bars. they believe abdelbaset ali al- megrahi should remain in prison today are international agreement called for his sentence to be served in scotland. at the high court, our correspondent. what impact do you think this letter from the u.s. senators will have on the scottish authorities? >> the decision on whether abdelbaset ali al-megrahi is released comes down to one man, the scottish justice secretary. he is under intense pressure from all sides. american senators phil very strongly that abdelbaset ali al- megrahi should remain in prison and perhaps die in prison. he does have terminal prostate cancer. his defense team said it was a very serious form of prostate cancer. they said abdelbaset ali al- megrahi's absolute priority was to spend what time he has left with his family. he is the only man ever convicted of britain's worst terrorist atrocity. his decision today to drop his appeal by no means clears the deck for him to return to libya. the justice secretary is expected to make a d

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in shiao lin, which was flattened by the flood, people are being brought out alive, but it's a slow andisky operation. this man, winched to safety, said many others were buried under the mud. >> the flood just came in. nobody can escape. >> reporter: taiwan's national fire agency has said 100 people might be dead in shiao lin. the mudslide left just two houses standing. but around 200 people were found alive this morning. everyone had feared they were dead. survivors are being flown to this school which has been turned into a rescue center. the president came today and said he's doing everything he can, but some people are angry, saying the help has come through days too late. >> the rescue team should have started on the first day. 72 hours have already passed. how can they do this? >> reporter: the president will decide tomorrow whether to increase taiwan's disaster budget to cope with these flood, the worst in half a century. local officials say they need water pumps and generators -- and help clearing the major roads. in the towns, people have begun to think about trying to stop dis

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chula vista, the lin drive shot to center. bottom six here. the bases loaded. chula vista, counters this pitch. gets away from the catcher. nick connolly comes in to score from third. that's a heck of a ball game. chula vista goes oto win, 11-10. >>> that will do it. jeremy and vinita, back to you. >>> well, there is a littl monkey love coming soon to the london zoo. >> zoo keepers prepared three female gorillas for arrival of a new mate, by waying to whet their appetite with a life-sized photo. it loo.e it worked. they ran off ander to the pictures into a snack. >> hopefully, the new sitter won't meet the same fate as his >> hopefully, the new sitter won't meet the same fate as his photo. more th from what i hear, ms. haskins is a toughy. oh, we had a good breakfast so we're ready. gonna be another great year, huh guys?! you bet your 8 layers! yeah! long-distance high 5! oh, careful! hey, watch it. start the school year with an excellent source of fiber. a clinical study showed kids who had a filling breakfast... of kellogg's® frosted mini-wheats® cereal... ha

lin et, squeaky thumb. back in 1975 she was convicted of pointing a gun at president gerald ford in sacramento. after 34 years in prison she's  about to be free. august 16 is the day she'll get out. for the record, she first became eligible for parole back in 1985. an update tonight on a case against a man who saw his own brother shot right before his eyes. today florida prosecutors dropped all charges against him. he was arrested after his brother was shot by a police officer on miami beach back in june. he was from wood bridge, virginia, and police are still investigating the shooting. >>> card denied. coming up, a look at one man's complaint about a local repair shop and how it led to his arrest. >>> and things quiet right now, but that could change as we head into tomorrow morning. we'll talk about that and check tafiseven-day forecast in just s.ters yke to the break wi rst take you to the break a ok at live doppr le 0. 9, thowers coming in from 9,e south and west. stay tuned. weather is coming up next

in fact, my professor lin, he and his wife alice who became lawyers in defense of the -- i think it'se coal miners in cleveland -- not cleveland, but in ohio. every christmas they send poems to me. and the last couple of times they wrote about bujamal because they have been friends with mumia who has been in prison now for i think almost 25 years or maybe more by now. so it's been wonderful to see how, when you become active, you keep running into your old friends who have not given up either. i was also inspired by a young man that i met after college who now is a long shore man and who is at this moment i think trying to stop the ships from being unloaded at the docks in protest of the war in iraq. so there are all these people. and a really good friend of mine, gloria steinham has struggled all these decades for the rights of women. wilma man killer, principal chief of the cherokee nation is a close and dear friend, a wonderful person. so i'm just really inspired by all kinds of pple. dennis banks also, someone is telling me dennis banks, who is one of the founders of the american

gail emphasized that, lin emphasized that a little bit if his talk. the most part, medicare reforms that are being discussed are fairly modest, most of them relate to providing information that might, might be used down the road to try to control costs, and this is in a system that's unsustainable. just to realize how health costs in general are at an unsustainable path. this is just a projection made by the congressional budget office of health spending which is the bottom line on this graph, vis-a-vis other non-health spending in the economy and what shows is that this health spending, it includes not just medicare spending of course, but other health spending as well, is growing by leaps and bounds, basically shoving aside almost everything else that is being done in the economy. and the same is true for the government. if you look at the government projections over the george w. bush administration and over the president obama administration, at least as under current law, the greatest changes under both these administration is basically an increa

. -- like lin beck. -- glen beck. what a crazy raise it was. clearly he wanted to do this. he is the first saturday night live alumnus to be in the senate. he is playing a good soldier in the junior member of the senate. >> bill riley's show is rated as almost as tight as any cable show. >> i think he has a very committed and loyal audience. >> y? >> i think he gives voice to people as anchors about things and use about things. -- i think he gives voice to people who are angry about things. it is impressive that anyone can have longevity. the left has not been so capable at finding a mass communicators who deliver like these guys do. >> when you are really sharp about someone to get work feedback -- do you get more feedback? >> sometimes i think you can write in the end of proving way about people and get an enormous response. i think if you have no opinion, then you will get no response. i do not even think that way. i think about what is the story and how my going to tell the? and make the story as sharp as i can. >> i am going to go back to july 31, 1994. one of the peop

gail emphasized that, lin emphasized that a little bit if his talk.or the most part, medicare reforms that are being discussed are fairly modest, most of them relate to providing information that might, might be used down the road to try to control costs, and this is in a system that's unsustainable. just to realize how health costs in general are at an unsustainable path. this is just a projection made by the congressional budget office of health spending which is the bottom line on this graph, vis-a-vis other non-health spending in the economy and what shows is that this health spending, it includes not just medicare spending of course, but other health spending as well, is growing by leaps and bounds, basically shoving aside almost everything else that is being done in the economy. and the same is true for the government. if you look at the government projections over the george w. bush administration and over the president obama administration, at least as under current law, the greatest changes under both these administration is basically an incr

who doubled off the chalk lin in left field. driving in the 3ed run of that 3-run 7th. breaking ball by hanrahan, right-hander buckling a bit >> rob: right here. [ indiscernible ] >> bob: he has not bunted for a hit in quite a while. and he's capable of that. or threatening to and getting hit. crowd of over 21,000, little quiet at the moment. appeared to be a sacrifice attempt, and it's 0-2. not a good pitch to bunt at a 21,894 for the pirates. that's a couple, about 2500 above their average of 19,3 >> rob: lovely afternoon. >> bob: it has become. 0-2, and gonzalez drives it to right center. mccutchen is going to get there. >> rob: gonzo is trying to move the guy to second, puts thel in the air, and they've got andrew mccutchen out in center. you can't get it by him. >> bob: here's wil nieves, 0-3 today. willie harris playing left field, batting 9th on the double switch. ronnie belliard, 0-0 this year. pirates are occupied with him right now. so he's runnin

scott lin said they released him on compassionate grounds, and we are told that he has prostate cancer he was the only person convicted in the bombing of pan am flight 103 over lockerbie, scotland, he and they died in the airplane, many of them americans, several of them college students. he was welcomed home as a hero when he went back to libya this month, and that may be what people are up in arms. some are calling this h highly objectionable, but now, the government of the united kingdom and is having to fight against allegations that it freed al- megrahi to commit a lucrative oil deal with libya. terrorists for oil. our originally, the u.k. said scott and did this on its own, and anybody who knows anything about politics in the united kingdom knows this is not possible, and this is why the united kingdom and particularly gordon brown heart in the hot seat. clearly, they knew. the question is, why did it happen, and, in fact, did muammar qaddafi ruin it by flapping his lips and by having a party for the guy when he came home? did united kingdom decide that it was ok and he could be

click on w lin. >>> well imagine trying to get a job once you've been in jail. not always easy. >> in fact life after prison can be filled with life long pitfalls learned behind bars unless you come out with the right attitude. >> this morning our steve chenevey talked with someone who went to prison at 16 and he talked about how he worked when he was inside to be a better person on the outside. >> i was young and i didn't understand the things i did as a 16-year-old would impact me for the rest of my moment. it was the first time i ever held a gun or committed crime but in 30 minutes everything changedch i was in prison and found myself staring at a nine year sentence. >> you were convicted of a carjacking, six felonies and spent nine years in the prison syste going in as a 16-year-old and charged as an adult, it seemed like that would be hopeful for many. when you were 16, did you look at it that way when you first got sent to prison? >> no. i think i was more angry because i knew i was wrong and made a mistake, egregious error, but i thought i was redeemable

i would have ran my own line, instead of giving it to the lin third place car. the they deserved to win at the end. he didn't deserve to win.u wer >> oh, man, i'm so sorry, i forgot it was the kyle busch'm show. i thought we were racing for a s win. i many sorry, we had a great car. too loose. he wasi' better. i thought it was my job to hold him off.oo loose he came over to the car, and he cam knockede our fender in, and started crying like a little baby. [laughter] >> i just want to throw this out to you. no crying in baseball. i think the same thing goes for the guys, who drive. no crying. history was made for kyle busch, took the lead, to set the nationwide series all-time record. >> last week stewart was able to win at watkins glen points-leader jeff, will look for another victory on the track on sunday. edwards won last year. but, as nicole says, beating anyone, on kendricks sports is a tall task. >> i don't know if anyone can beat kendrick motor sports. >> in 26 years of competition, the team boasts numbers no one can match. >> i don't want to take anythin

just click ton the job shop lin at the top of the home page. you can check out listings aross the d.c. area. at #:00, we'll feature the job of the day. >>> an economic jolt for automakers will live to see another day at least for another month. the cash for clunkers program got the $2 bill wrong boost. the white house says the popular program would have ended today if it didn't get more money. it burned through the first bill wrong the first two weeks. now, consumers will have time probably until labor day to get a rebate of up to $4,500 to trade in their gas guzzlers for new, more fuel efficient cars. >>> now to a historic vote on capitol hill as the first hispanic is confirmed to the highest court is in nation. swroot nomination of sonya sotomayor of new york to be an associate justice of his supreme court of the united states is confirmed. >> the vote broke down along party lines with democrats solidly behind her and only nine republicans voting yes. judge sotomayor will be sworn in tomorrow and join the supreme court when it reconvenes next

unless you don't know the mess is there,lin and richard's kids know. >> they know not to walk under the trees, they go around. >> reporter: here the birds are leaving their marks on leaves, the street, sidewalks and cars too. >> clean black car was parked under there the other day. and i felt so bad, sure enough by the end of the day it was destroyed. >> i have no idea what the solution is. we have been here 10 years. it was a problem since we have been here. >> almost every year? >> yes, just every year. >> the smell is just terrible. >> reporter: the city only comes out when neighbors complain and others fail. >> it is one of the great fun things that the kids do in the evening. they come out with blocks of wood, pans, anything to get the birds to move on. >> reporter: jay ryan tried an air horn. it didn't work either. >> they will fly off, go to another tree or come right back into the same tree again within a couple of minutes. >> reporter: it really is not a winnable battle. the city of frederick has for years responded to city complaints, trying to shoo away the starlings, but the

days when you look at who was arguing, we needed a welfare program for all those people on the bread lin who were starving, who sa we needed a public-works program, that was frances perkins. she was in remarkable positn to do that because she had an amazing life, she was born into a conservative family in massachusetts, they didn't really want her in college, her father didn't want her to take a job, she took a job as a teacher, she took good job teaching outside ccago but she also came in on weekends and vacati time and work with jane addams and she really bame a reformer in chicagond went on to new york and became an expert on factory safety and one day she was having tea at a wealthy friend's house and theutler came in and said there's a fire outside, so frances perkins personally uitnessed the fire, sama 136 when in jump to their death to escape the flames and she became the leader inw the 1t their death to escape the flames and she became the leader she became the leader in factory reform after that. she pushed for the values we associate with the new deal. she wasn't sure she wante

some sun breurning through the ppeou, everything is triggering to the north and along this lin ar thit, which is a boundary between just plain o. t you smid a on up in pennsy hiand some very, very humid air being pushed up frolatthe south, and e Ãofomr?icate all that with a frt coming out of the ohio river valley. there is a jet stream running along here. so as that pushes into this tr clical a on mass, a situatio similar to what happened fridald Ãjlnd that friday set of stos yielded a couple of tornadoes. so right now, we have that storm warning in ehem6 c13 t for parts of adams, york, and lancaster Ãofounty until 9:30 this mornin and the threat of severe weather exists today, slight risbr frolt the baltimore area eas of.ard u into new england and into the carolinas. ? aospeoy for win, possibly a tornado could spin up out of this sshehem. so mecpeoy clothe ly today. thunderstorms likely. that means we're gy mocing it a pkuzz at 505 go, 60% chance. temperatures low to mid 80's. therthe effect. that will kick in at 2:00 this Ãjlparernoon and conti, a se fo while. that continues norther

om lin usth wa9 green green and wius wa9 on facebook. you'll get live alerts on all of our stories. >>> a lot of people can hardly afford to eat out at restaurants nowadays. let alone leave behind a fat tip. since the economy took a turn for the worst, so did gratuity. the dos and don'ts of tipping. >> reporter: there are rules for just about everything. >> 15 to 20 percent is the usual. >> reporter: like all rules, sometimes they are honored. and sometimes they are broken. >> even if the service is great, my little tip is not too great for them. i feel bad, but it's the best i can do. >> pamela with the washington school of protocall says when economic times are tough, consumers spend less and that means cutting back on gratuities. >> the dine and dash is back. although they are paying the bill, they aren't leaving tip. >> reporter: servers are feeling the squeeze. fewer customers, and fewer tips. >> people give 15, 20 percent are going for the 10%, 15%. >> now it is just 10%. >> for every $50 you spend, you should leave your waiter $10

red lines will single track between the fort totten and tacoma stations and the red lin next weekend and the weekend of the 21st. >>> and an accident between the braddock road and springfield exits ofhe outer loop of 495 have traffic blacked up this morning. the rooed is completely blockede a two-mile bacpku of vehicles trying to get on 595 southbound at the mixing bowl. >>> and both directions of route 1 closed in woodbridge because of a serious accident. >>> the nats have won six in row, a special day for fans at redskins park. here's more in today's "sports minute." >> good morning, your sports minute begins with the red-hot nationals. last night, down 5-0, the nationals came back to beat the diamondbacks 7-6. josh willingham drove in the game-winning run in the seventh, when he hit a two-rbi double. the nats extended their win streak to a big-league best six games. a fan appreciation day at redskins park, coach zorn is holding out nine players, including veterans santana moss. a record crowd of 28,000 fans attended last year. >>> in tennis, andy roddick advanced to the semifinals

the current owner has lin up at least 6 potential buyers. company tried to auction off the landmark last month but no one entered a bid. the first buyer to present a bid will get the hotel, which has been closed for five years. now for a check on the forecast. >> it is warm out there already. we are headed to the low 90's. temperatures in the 70's right now and dew points in the 60's. a little sticky out there. by noon, 86. it is going to be a hot day like yesterday, a typical summer's day and next week we will stay in the 90's right on through friday. >> thanks, dave. thanks for for ler f at your chevy dealer. ch with more eligible models to choose from than anyone. if your clu er if alquies to be recycled, you can get a $3500 or $4500 government rebate. and just announced! if you qualify for the clunker rebate, you may also qualify for 0% apr for 72 months. that means you can buy a '09 malibu for $271 afmoh ntter a $3500 government rebate and no downayment. go to chevy.com for details. >>> that music has "mad men" fans very excited. the sh

there were a number of breaking points with him but she was most horrified after the lin chang of saddam that took place in atlanta. he is lynch to in a very famous lunching that gets a lot of press and washington is asked to comment about it because he is a nationally recognized black leader and he refuses to comment four months. finally when he does, he says something about of course, a rapist should be punished and does not take up the issues behind a case which is sam hose probably got into a labor dispute with his employer it was a classic lynching used to suppress a tiny bit of self assertion on the part of an african-american and washington refused to take it on seriously and she lost all faith in him at that point*. >> host: are there any repercussions for her? also read about the power washington had to silence black political activists who did not agree with him. >> guest: yes. he had power over who got published, who said what and he did what he could to keep wells out of the picture. she would go on to participate with anti-washingtonian movements the niagara movement and the

today goveornrn tiar o'malley announced his support for the highlyti anticipated purple lin which wou run from the cathesda metro station to new on. the 16 mile traculk .dwop tok enssrs would transfermro trfe21s trins on thera t ins on the ispurple li. p thisro projectosttoje cost $1.5 billion. opponents of the purple line plan favored a bus trait system for environmental reasons. arguing light rail would ruin the capital crescent trail. today the governor said his decision is in line with what local leaders want to help ease traffic congestion. >> it was the product of a consensus that we built through disagreement, we built a consensus through a public hearing process for this option. the purple line option that we're proposing will be sleek, it will be quiet, it will be low to the groupd. this is not your grandfather's light rail. >> o'malley also planned to create a 14 mile red line through baltimore today if the purple line gets the proper approvals and funding, construction could begin in 2014 with service beginning in 2018. >>> the rising temperatures may slow thing down f comm

. >> greta: in her only television interview in 40 years, lin is a told fox television steve don dunleavy8 about the savegery.. >> he had rope and wire cutt canners and we got there and hd climbed up the telephone polegt and cut the wires and we started going around the embankment. and after we all got over to the other side a car startedo coming towards us. >> a parent who had been visiting the care taker started driving the car toward then ter gate. must have been terrified out of clis mind to see the people climbing over the gate at midn midnight and pulled the car tot a stop and said i won't say anything, don't hurt me.ivery >> a delivery boy, 18-year-old steven parent just graduatedd o from high school. >> watson shot him four times, two times in the face and a couple of times in the chest, killing him.house on the >> greta: in the house on the hill, nobody had heard a thingg >> abigail was reading a book and voitek napped out on the couch in the living room. sharon was in the bedroomco talking.e house. >> the three of them continued on to the house.wn >> they went into the house and

hurt pretty bad lin this downturn and also have great recovery opportunities. you can back away and not have the office space exposure where all the concerns seems to lie. >> do you think business will lead us out of it? cost cutting old-fashioned free market capitalist to profitability? >> i don't see how the consumer can possibly lead us out of this. >> you mentioned dow chemical before. give me another great pick. >> another we like is international paper, much more domestic driven company. >> beat the street. beat the street. >> absolutely. this company trades at about five times its cash flow, as a value guide is exciting. they also created $1.3 billion in free cash flow in the second quarter, which was probably the trough. >> whatter? give me another name. i'm fascinated. big business names. >> eaton, exceptionally high quality. >> what does eaton do. >> diverse in terms of auto, trucks, hydraulic, electrical. >> a clunker. >> differs slightly from the clunkers. senator coburn knocked me out o this thing, but i'm still hanging in there. you like eaton.

. >> rose: along that lin, education. >> yes. >> rose: what is the chin commitment to higher edation? you did a survey of great iversitiesnd you want china to bon that survey. >> china, of course, needs to... it needs to have more peopl properly educated. and right now what we he in cities is nine yr education. in the country side it's only sixears compulsoryducation. so we have a long way to go. and i think only about,ou know maybmore than 0% of the gh school graduat can move on, 20%. and... buof course among all. among the high school graduates, lot of them have come this way. >> rose: ce to the united states. >> come to the unitestates. >>:rt me if i wrg. the largest exchange students between the united states with china is the unitestates. we have 2000 now studying in china. >> we havebout 90,000. >> rose:ou have 90,0 in america? >> studying inhe united states on different campuses, yes. >> rose: is tre a...ell me how you're emphasizing education. >> education, we have a poli that's actuall a national strategy. that is to develop countrie through ecation with scien and technology.

it is time to lin to what our studio audience has to say. we'll get to those in a moment.or us? >> i am greg. my wife lynn and i are concerned about the public option. if it pass and doesn't work can it be repealed. >> ronald reagan said. eternal life on earth is government programs. we are good at getting one started but we have an impossible time of letting it go . so the worry is probably not. you can look at a lot of government programs that kept going. >> we have had a lot of e-mails. >> thousands since the show started. >> sandy from arizona wants to know so many people say it is an emergency we have to do something now. as i understand it none of them take affect before 2013. if this is true shouldn't we slow down if do it right? >> we many people in the town halseare saying it is not that we don't look at issues in the health care system. we all agree it needs to be done. everybody said that. but the question is what and when? when is big issue. many of us are concerned about it being pushed so hard. can i make this observation? i thought the best statement of all

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. >> stop that unhole yea lins. all right, guys, thank you very much.o many of you, i wasn't allowed to be on the screen. that's how much clout i have here. thanks for being with us. great night. >>> next up, my prognosis on health care. i am back faster than you can say turn your head and talk. i'm racing cross country in this small sidecar, but i've still got room for the internet. with my new netbook from at&t. with its built-in 3g network, it's fast and small, so it goes places other laptops can't. i'm bill kurtis, and wherever i go, i've got plenty of room for the internet. and the nation's fastest 3g network. gun it, mick. (announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. ♪ you better call me a doctor, help me, overloaded ♪ >>> until now, guys, president obama has been the perfect politician. his tactic strategy, organization, add up to one of the most potent campaign machines in modern history. but lately, the president is for the first time losing control of the agenda. he's fallen behind in his own debate and the rea

but we're going to take a no spin lin l laura: for months president obama and democrats have promised to get things done before congress goes on vacation. but that, of course, did not happen. well, naturally somebody has to be blamed. so party leaders are trashing traditional health insurance companies and the media. >> insurance companies are out there in full force, carpet bombing, shock and awe against a public option. >> i don't think we should be crying great big tears about the insurance industry. there is no business in america that makes more money than the insurance industry. i think that you folks have created the deadlines we haven't. >> at the same time you have got a lot of misinformation coming out of, you know, far right wing radio, talk radio, and other outlets. >> we are going to make sure that health care reform doesn't get swift voted during the month of august. laura: with us now liz chatter don a democratic strategist and byron york. liz, i'm going to start with you. the democrats blot deadline. the deadline that was trumpeted by the white house and democrats on c

ione rob rgo lin. it is 8:26. here is a look at some of our top stories this morning.ide det jlttives are investigating a shooting in west baltimore this morning which hg,pened shortly after 4:00 yesterday afternoon. ng.olice re youonded to a call finding a man shot several times in the back. he was rushed to the hospitaterm there is no word on his condition. due to the severity of his wounds ou homicide detectives he been called in. >> police are cremting city watch cameras with helping them capture a 17-year-o. t murder suspect. cameras caught a fight between two groups of boys in the 3as block of north pack -- jlcca street. officers say he -- skinner took out aulnie wi and stabbed the victim in the chest. he's charged with murdeitt as'm Ãm- p andcuarious weapons charges. >> a teenager that admitted taking part in a f onpe omman n will spend the rest of the summer in juvenile detension. ththe western maryland children's Ãofenter until amer ustess 0. he must also pay $1 thousand 800 in restitution. the teen aeetitted to the Ãa home in june. oul:thorit:00.s 'm y that a

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