lindsey, i haven't seen her parents anywhere in the past few months. she's partying her butt off in l.a. and around the world. she's in paris with her sister partying. no one is really standing by her. by the way, michael lohan loves to come out and say these sort of things when he's promoting something. he's got a reality show with jon gosselin he's trying to promote, celebrity dads that he's promoting. >> we did call lindsey. as of showtime we didn't hear back from her of she's pretty busy. this is youtube by mod tv. she's busy at a paris fashion show during fashion week there. she's trying to basically launch her on fashion line with a major designer. april, it seems to me that lindsey is doing what she can to get her career back on track one way or the other, fashion, films, whatever she's going to do. her father is certainly not doing her any favors right now. >> maybe he's not doing her favors. there's no good time to talk to somebody about drug abuse. maybe he's not able to reach her. maybe she's too busy to take a call from her father. some of

there's a lot going on the for lindsey. not great reviews on her fashion show. she hadn't been getting many tv or film gigs so i think she's going to be talking about this. >> i appreciate you both being here. >>> making news plane crash scare. she survived a minor plane crash. here is exactly what happened with this. the plane they were in landed safely but all heck broke lose when the pilot forgot to put on the parking brake and that is when plane rolled and crashed into an suv. luckily no one was hurt. >>> tonight the younger members of the brangelina bunch on twitter? this is the newest picture of the precious twin toddlers that you have to see. and wait until you see the story on where and how it was snapped. >>> now more stories from the "showbiz tonight" news ticker making news right now. >>> welcome back to "showbiz tonight." right now the country's newest power couple. michelle obama and elmo? the first lady made her way from 1600 pennsylvania avenue to sesame street. wow. hard to believe it has been 40 years. tonight your first taste of what they are c

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lindsey. the restrictions went into effect here in all of their five hospitals today and it means that some people will not be allowed to see patients. >> a huge sign in the lobby makes it clear if you have flu- like symptoms, you are not welcome here. >> their loved ones don't want them to get flu on top of what they are already treated for. >> visitors are expected to use hand san highser. those with a cough or sneeze are asked to wear a mask. >> a mask will contain cough and sneeze droplets and hopefully reduce the spread of the flu. >> visiting hours have been reduced to four hours a day. >> i think that limiting the hours during all of this epidemic and things that are going on is really a smart idea. >> and anyone under age 18 is not allowed. even if it's the patients brother or sister. >> it is mostly effecting children. in fact, the largest percentage of age group affected is between 5 and 8 years of age. >>> there are some exceptions to the rule. with permission from the hospital, som

. >>> plus, senator lindsey graham says birthers are crazy. welcome back to the real world, senator from south carolina. it's coming up on "the ed show." e >>> welcome back to "the ed show." president obama is about to leave for copenhagen to help chicago win the 2016 olympics. i think it's great that the president is showing his patriotism in pushing to bring the olympics back to the united states. but proving that they can find a negative in absolutely everything, the republicans are still jumping all over the president for his 18-hour trip to denmark. for more, let me bring in journalist stephen a. smith on this one tonight. good to have you with us. >> always. >> do you think the american people are okay with the president getting involved in this and trying to seal the deal for his hometown? >> of course they are. i don't think there's any question about it. obviously you're going to have a few million people that have a problem with it, but that's only because they have a problem with him. of the 69 million votes he got to win the presid

lindsey graham would be calling the shots.d then talk later. >> gentlemen, great to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. appreciate your time as always. >>> earlier i asked you is president obama doing enough to close the deal on health care reform? 78% of you said no. 22% said yes, he is. that's "the ed show." i'm ed schultz. back tomorrow night. for more information on our program, our radio website, wegoted.com. "hardball" with chris matthews is coming up next. right here on the place for politics, msnbc. we'll see you tomorrow night. more on health care, more on jobs and do we send 40,000 more troops to afghanistan? have a great one. >>> anti-american? let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews of washington. leading off tonight, the right roots against america. remember how republicans questioned democrats' patriotism during the bush years? you were either with bush or with the terrorists? so what do we make the of the 4 glee some prominent republicans felt when chicago and president obama lost its o

lindsey, i haven't seen her parents anywhere in the past few months. she's partying her butt off in l.a. and around the world. she's in paris with her sister partying. no one is really standing by her. by the way, michael lohan loves to come out and say these sort of things when he's promoting something. he's got a reality show with jon gosselin he's trying to promote, celebrity dads that he's promoting. >> we did call lindsey. as of showtime we didn't hear back from her of she's pretty busy. this is youtube by mod tv. she's busy at a paris fashion show during fashion week there. she's trying to basically launch her on fashion line with a major designer. april, it seems to me that lindsey is doing what she can to get her career back on track one way or the other, fashion, films, whatever she's going to do. her father is certainly not doing her any favors right now. >> maybe he's not doing her favors. there's no good time to talk to somebody about drug abuse. maybe he's not able to reach her. maybe she's too busy to take a call from her father. some of

lindsey's right. it's an all or nothing deal. and is it worth that at this point in time when we know they have the capability. we can slow them down, but a full-out military strike is what it would take. >> senator casey, your thoughts on a timetable. how long does iran have? >> well, it has to be a reasonable length of time to allow some of these discussions that have already taken place to develop. but there's no reason why you can't have on one track, a parallel track of talks, but also a parallel track for sanctions and moving forward. i think senator graham made an important point that i should have made earlier, and that's that there is a huge difference here between the regime and the people. we saw a stirring in the hearts of the iranian people this summer. that country has changed forever. now, we may not see people on the streets demonstrating, and i know that television cameras aren't documenng that necessarily. but behind closed doors, on the ground, in their homes, in their communities, there are a lot of iranians w

in washington, i'm lindsey mastis, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> seems congress is also good for spending money on things other agency don't want. president obama says he doesn't need another plane. even the pentagon itself says we have already. no matter the senate voted to move ahead with plans to give the military 10 more c17s that would cost taxpayers 2.5 billion. >>> you might see and hear other military aircraft over dc later tonight but don't worry, it is all just a training exercise. it will involve f16 jets and coastguard helicopters and it is all being coordinated by the north american aerospace defense command. >>> the supreme court planning to take a closer look at chicago's ban on handguns. it is a case that stems from a ruling last year. the chicago case will decide if the ruling should apply to local and state laws as well. the justices are expected to hear the case early next year. >>> turning now to the virginia race for governor. a new poll shows bob mcdonald extending his lead over the democrat. it puts mcdonell ahead by nine points. two weeks ago that same poll had the

what people like lindsey graham are focusing on, when you get back to 2012, likely the nonwhite, willto 30%. >> young people? hispanic people will show up and vote? >> show up and big vote. the track they're on now could produce a good outcome for 2010 without solving fundamental demographic challenges for 2010. people like lindsey graham are thinking about. >> are they afraid what happened in houston, '92, pat, our colleague, pat, take back the cities block by block and the stuff about cross dressing. that was waived as an example of a party going too far. >> yeah. i think ron is right. they're not afraid about it for the midterm when they think about 2012. which ron has written about, the upwardly mobile voter who used to be a republican who now has become a swing voter and voted for obama in the suburbs now. >> virginia voters. >> those are now voters up for grabs for a democrat or a republican. one of the things the republicans, for all -- you talk lindsey graham for john mccain they're going to stay on building this blueprint against barack obama on the economy, deficit, basicall

michael lohan comes out and says lindsey is going to have a drug problem.hey are going to have an intervention. first of all, if you have an intervention, you don't tell people. lindsey doesn't talk to him, his children don't talk to him. he's a terrible role model. he's going to help jon with his kids? >> he says it's not all about the money. of course it is about the money. kate accused jon of taking $230,000 out of a joint account. jon claims kate took money, too, like a million bucks. new tonight kate won the first round in court. a judge ordered jon to return $180,000 bucks or face contempt charges. i have to say, no matter what everybody thinks of michael lohan he is hitting the nail on the head saying they ought to focus on the kids. what do you think, is this a great move getting advice from this guy or totally stupid. >> i think it's great he's giving business advice, because he went to prison for security fraud. michael is a crazy guy. if there was a show of michael and jon, i would watch it in a heartbeat. >> regardless of the advice, he may can

so says lindsey graham. >> only in america can you make that much money crying. >> that's czar lindsey graham to you. >>> good evening from new york. the senate finance committee, fop lated with the majority not only crafted the bills of the insurance mon nollys but added that touch of medieval punishment, so familiar to the customers of the insurance monopolies. debating not only making health insurance by threat of fine, but by criminal penalties. buy their health insurance or go to jail, courtesy max baucus. to parody my grandma, i suppose i have no choice but to shove the umbrella up my backside but you're going to have a fight on your hands when you try to open it. states can form their own public options but it will be limited to people with incomes of 133% and 200% of the federal poverty level who do not get insurance at work. >>> speaker pelosi says a federal plan will be sent to the floor. and boehner proved he knows next to nothing about anything. >> i'm still trying the first american to talk to who's in favor of the public option, other than a member of congress or the admi

lindsey lohan fashion week.hing called the walk of shame. >> she's had a few walks of shame. >> yeah. she was named the artistic director of emanuel ungaro's collection. she came out for this runway show over the weekend, and fashion insiders say it was absolutely disastrous. in fact, they say she was walking down the runway with tears in her eyes. no wonder why. everything was tight and the theme was hearts andpparently it wasn't pretty. >> another bad professional experience for lindsey lohan. show and tell you weren't always my favorite day. with all the pet hair in the air, i'd spend class preoccupied, bothered by itchy eyes. but now i have new zyrtec® itchy eye drops. it works fast, with just one drop, to relieve my itchy eyes from allergies for up to 12 hours. no other allergy itchy eye drop works faster or longer. which is good, 'cause there's a lotta paws to shake. with new zyrtec® itchy eye drops i can love the air™. (announcer) find it in the allergy aisle next to other zyrtec® products. >>> here are s

lindsey lohan caused mayhem when she made her debut as artistic advisor to e manual ingaro. the line targets teens and 20- somethings. hundreds flooded to see what the 23-year-old came up with. the journalists then turned around and bashed her designs, some calling them too old and tired. i don't think i would use those words. >> you can buy her fashions for a cigarette and a drink, apparently. that's all it takes. >>> plenty of new drama for reality tv couple jon and kate gosselin. radar online was first to report that jon secretly empties out their joint bank account and reportedly took took $200,000 and left kate with $1,000. his actions are apparently causing kate to go back to court today to get the money back. this guy is really showing his true colors. >> the thing is that the money will stop rolling in and they'll have to take care of eight kids. >> that is so wrong. >> that's terrible. he'll get his. >> jon. >>> tucker barnes joins us with a look at this morning's weather. >> i am doing weather. and it will be beautiful. cool to start the day. we had temperatures ba

lindsey graham said, and god bless him, he said that i'm a pessimist. no, i'm not. i think america's best days are ahead of us, but he doesn't think that. he thinks that i believe her best days are behind her. he said he doesn't listen to pessimists. >> you can listen to him if you like. i choose not to, because, quite frankly, i don't want to go down the road of thinking our best days are behind us. glenn: let me ask you a question. do you think i do? o you know, there are people that watch this show and say he is just a raving t.v. guy. i believed in ronald reagan. pessimism doesn't work with the american people. you think i want to believe that? as a dad, do you think i want to believe these things? that i want to believe that we're going to go into hyperinflation, that the country could financially collapse? let me make this clear to you. i am not a pessimist. if i was a pessimist, if i believed these things and i was a pessimist, i wouldn't be living in new york city. i mean, they're going to be eating each other in this city. things collapse, it won't be prett

live in fairfax county, i'm lindsey mastas. >> thank you. lots of hospital talk is tackling this now. >>> the virus could add up to a billion dollars worth of losses for businesses. companies are taking the flu threat very seriously this season and telling sick workers to stay home. at this new york city financial firm, for example, the fight against the flu is evident from the employee medical center to the office elevator. >> we have the machines located like every time you turn a corner here. >> many companies are also offering employees free on site flu shots and some are providing remote access to ailing workers who could do their jobs from home. we have more important prevention about the flu at wusa9.com. all you have to do is click on living well. >>> we have more living well news still ahead on 9news now at 5:00. at 5:56, a skin care ingredient that has been dubbed the fountain of youth. it can make drugstore products work like high end. >>> some surprising findings today from the michael jackson autopsy. the medical examiner says t

not lindsey graham being on tv. >> plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. president obama courting gay americans. maybe courting is not the right word. alan colmes has some opinions. mel gibson trying to get his drunk driving conviction cleansed. is that legal in the ladies will analyze and we hope you stay tuned to those reports. ♪ you @@ bill: in the barack and a hard place let's bring in obama supporter alan colmes and monica crowley. what's your beef now with obama this week? >> my big beef this week is that he dissed the dalai lama. bill: no. no. >> yes. bill: really? >> i am stunned. i can't believe it. bill: the dalai lama. >> president obama who is a liberal and self-proclaimed advocate of human rights has thrown the dalai lama under the bus. bill: did he get hurt? >> he is not receiving the dalai lama at the white house this week. this is the first president since 1991 not to have a private meeting with the dalai lama. look. bill: wait, wait. maybe he was afraid he would get a fist bump that he didn't want. >> maybe he is trying to avoid that is

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we've got over here my buddy lindsey with a question over here. >> hi, lindsey. >> how are you? >> great. what's going on? >> i was wondering if you had any suggestions about a quick way of how to get out of debt and fix your credit score. >> okay. first tell me what kind of debts you have? >> well, i have some credit cards. those are evil. >> yes, they are. i'm sorry to ask you something this personal. but how much credit card debt are you carrying at this point? >> would it be bad if i told you i really didn't know? >> that would be really bad. okay. let me tell you your assignment after you finish looking at the fish. your job when you get home is i want you to add up all your credit card bills, figure out the grand total of how much debt. if you have debt on credit cards that exceeds 50% of what you make in a year, you've got a real problem because then it's really hard to get past just paying minimums. on the other hand, if you find, hey, i got this annoying credit card debt, it's maybe 10% of what you make in a year or 25%, what you do is come up with a plan where you figu

. >> in fairfax county, i'm lindsey, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> every single state has been touched by the flu or h1n1 and a new report by the trust for america's health offer a bit of a troubling scenario. if 1/3 people wind up catching h1n1, 15 states could run out of hospital beds. that includes maryland and virginia. to deal with over crowding from emergencies, some hospitals are putting together surge plans. they would postpone elective surgeries to free up beds. for instance, when they might need to call for government help for mobile hospital units. >> and check out this crash scene. five teenagers were in this car when it skidded and flipped over into the creek. they were driving through rock creek park on beach drive. police do not believe they were speeding. the teenagers say a van veered into their lane. the van's driver says she was trying to avoid a biker that was in front of her. luckily everyone is okay and no one has been charged. >>> off now to warrenton, virginia, where a 17-year-old girl is almost beaten to death. police believe she broke up with her boyfriend and

senator lindsey graham on fox news sunday agreed that something must be done. >> the security situation is going to get worse and any hope of better governance is lost and the taliban will reemerge. >> reporter: president obama's national security adviser, former general jim jones insisted that afghanistan is not in imminent danger of falling to the taliban and fired back at mcchrystal. >> what general mcchrystal has done is presented his opinion, is presenting his opinion of what he thinks his role within that strategy is. our strategy is a regional strategy. >> reporter: secretary gates has said he remains undecided on strategy and gave no hints today as far as towards which camp he is leaning. tomorrow president obama plans to meet with a bipartisan group of congressional leaders to talk about the war. he said the administration would brief leaders from both parties and key committee chairmen and also seek their opinions. >> claudia tonight. >>> according to the department of defense, there have been 779 u.s. military members killed in afghanistan since 2001. 220 of those deaths have

deflect the possible public rift between vice president biden and general mcchrystal, and republican lindsey graham and saxby chand lis said the general should rule the day since he's on the ground making the request with-the-knowledge he has and it is the biggest decision from president obama the coming weeks and it is something he's meeting again twice behind closed doors this week about. >> jamie: we know the taliban is really present but there is a chance al qaeda regrouped. many of the al qaeda factions in the south are now in pakistan. how much time do we really have for the president to make the decision, because our troops, every day are at risk. >> bret: it depends who you talk to, jamie. administration officials say they do have some time and that you had national security advisor jim jones, saying that he does not believe afghanistan is going to fall to the taliban. and he believes karzai's government, hamid karzai could actually pull this out eventually, however when you talk about deployment of troops it's important to know if you side with 40,000 troops you have to mobilize the

lindsey wilcox has the story. >> it takes a toll on your body. >> after having her three girls, she put on a lot of weight. she lost 70 pounds, but pregnancy left its mark on her body. >> my breasts got bigger and i never went back to the size they were before. your hips, just everything. >> to address those areas, plastic surgeons are performing more money makeovers, a surgery combining both a breast and abdominal procedure. >> we can do more procedures in one setting as opposed to spreading them out over time. >> last year, plastic surgeries were down, but these combination procedures were up the same amount for two reasons. >> it lets you take off less time from work and family duties. it also helps to rejuvenate a whole unit. >> good morning. how are you? >> a breast reduction and a tummy tuck. but any tenderness? >> the recovery was painful. >> i cried a lot. it was hard. >> you have done so well. >> three weeks post o-op, she is feeling like herself again. >> the breast reduction was covered by her insurance. the makeover's can cost from eight to $17,000. >> we have the possibilit

glenn beck had his share of distractors as well but rare people like lindsey graham piles on.nd. >> i'm not saying he's bad for america. you got the freedom to watch him if you choose. he did a pretty good job on acohen. what i am saying he doesn't represent the republican party. you can listen to him if you like. i choose not to. >> "the washington post" op-ed columnist stephen hayward summed it up this way. so where are the real lawmakers? the answer may be still trying to find their footing. a recent straw poll found huckabee leading the pack and barely pulled in a quarter of the vote. john mccain says handing sarah palin the 2012 nomination could be catastrophic. john mccain is active behind the scenes recruiting candidates that can reshape the party in his image, a kinder, more moderate gop and whether or not he can pull it off, dylan, that is the ending of a story waiting to be written. >> jacobs wisburg is joining us. he says republican party has become fundamentally brain dead in his latest article. also with us is democratic strategist karen finney who i suspect is kl

lindsey murphy with more on where thiseam has been and where it could be going. >> reporter: on monday following the redskins loss to the lyon there's were more questions than answers. does it boil down to just x's and o's or is there a deeper divide. >> those of us in the locker room are not feeling like this team is falling apart or panicking about losing two games. i feel like you go through those situations in this league. you have to lose and you have to win. it's one or the other. >> the redskins happen to be on the losing side twice this season. they open the year with a loss to the giants. then barely beat the rams ab then last sunday fell to the lyons who were on a 19 game losing skid. while this situation may divide some teams, it may also unite them. >> i hope it does. people are ready to throw in the towel. it is week four of the season. there are a lot of teams in the same situation of us. but because we've had close games with the rams and lions, it's like we suck. i think we know the talent that we have and we have the opportunity to go and do something special. we have

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lindsey graham keeps calling me a cynic. i am not a cynic. i believe in the american people. i believe, look -- my dad was a baker. his dad was a baker. his dad was a baker. i'm the first guy to ever go to college in my family, and you know what? i went for about 60, 70 days, that's t you know why? i couldn't afford it. i believe in the american dream. we can make it as long as we're being honest with each other, and we help each other out. tonight, i'm going to lay some facts out for you. i think this is -- and i played this several times. this is the most important clip. if you want to understand the big picture in the puzzle we're trying to put together, this is the one thing obama has said that you must understand above everything else. >> the supreme court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, i think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and commu

lindsey czarniak has this week's red skins rewind." >> reporter: october 22nd, 1989, outlasting the buccaneers. the worst start a skins fan could imagine. second possession and ralph's punt is blocked by ricky reynolds. the buccaneer also recovers it and gets behind the cavalry, coasting 33 yards. 7-0 after the first quarter. the skins defense, manly in more ways than one. second quarter, on their own 8. look out testaverde. dexter manly, part of a monstrous effort on the day holding to the bucks to just one yard rushing. >> it's an attitude. a frame of mind. you have to believe what you can do. i think all the guys up front believed in each other and believed in themselves. you have to go out and play like that. >> reporter: the attitude eventually carried over to the offense. just before halftime, a rolling mark threads the needle, a pinpoint pass to gary clark. skins lead by 5 at the break. second half, clark, robinson moves a step and clark makes him pay. skins are all smiles leading 22-7 midway through the third quarter. that happy feeling was quickly replaced by a sick one. a vinny tess

coming from lindsey graham of all people. coming up, the story with the same kind of acronym that the tourism association used to use. >>> we turn now to our acronym evolution correspondent, mr. kent jones. >> good evening. our language is always changing. words that may have been inoffensive a few years ago now have an sboorly different meaning. i think this is a good example. >> for years interesting wisconsin tourism federation has toiled to introduce the world to the wonders of manager's dairy land. the finest milk, cheese and butter in the world.

so it's a very joyful occasion. >> that report was from wave's lindsey english. and prosecutors join the defense in asking that chandler's conviction and sentence be set aside. chandler's attorney does plan to seek restitution from the state. >>> a second vaccine has been approved to protect against the virus that causes cervical cancer. the fda says cervarix can be given to girls and women ages 10 to 25 years old. after the first shot, the second and third doses are given within six months. the fda approved the first vaccine gardasil in 2006. >>> official in minnesota say three pigs on display at the minnesota state fair tested positive for the h1n1 flu. the state's agriculture department says this may be the first indication that the virus is present in some swine here in the u.s. officials say the pigs showed no sign of sickness. they apparently were healthy. they say it's most likely the pigs contracted the virus from people visiting the fair. the fair took place between late august and the beginning of september. state officials say they're not really sure w

. >> also popping in committee member lindsey graham saying the policy should not be ended because ofresident's campaign pledge and wants the military to weigh in on this policy. in 15 minutes we'll hear from retired military leaders on whether they think the time is right to end don't ask, don't tell. stick around for that. >>> you got some important decisions to make this year on open enrollment. that's coming around at work, is that right? >> that's right. thank you, richard. this is the kind of thing that can be very important. it impacts your paycheck every week or every two weeks and what it's going cost you when you go to the doctor's office. you'll see the envelope coming soon. consumer directed, what does that mean? it means you pay more. it does mean less out of your paycheck but more if you go to the doctor's office. it does mean lower premiums. they can be 20% lower. you'll keep more in your paycheck but at the doctor's office the deductibles can be up to $10,000 for a family. that's a lot more. the insurance company hopes that if you're involved in some of the costs upfro

lindsey graham and john mccain and joe lieberman wrote a piece recently in the "wall street journal." on the question of who should report to the armed services committee, i'm on the foreign relations schmidt eor ni nie in time, i think we will have lots of opportunities to question general mcchrystal and maybe other administration officials as well. there is a whole long list. >> bret: he is saying he is south on 60 minutes and at this london foreign policy group and hasn't even briefed behind closed doors the senators and house members. >> well, let's be fair when president bush made the determination about a surge in iraq, he made a decision and then we got to see general mcchrystal months late earl. i think the same should happen here. the president should have access to all the information he needs as well as have the congress have a debate but this debate is not going to end the minute that the president allows people within the administration to come to capitol hill. we already had months and months of hearing and we have to continue that. one thing we should do, though, let me

lindsey took a courageous stand against the disease before she became a statd stat. robin media has the story in breakthrough women. >> reporter: at tweerks lindsey abner took the extreme step of having both her health they breasts removed. >> i have a very strong history of ovarian cancer. my mother and grandmother died a bike apart from breast cancer. >> reporter: her mother was later diagnosed with breast and ovarian cancer shext carried the breast cancer gene and she has it too. >>> when someone lukes you in the eye and says you have an 85% chance of breast cancer it changed everything. >> reporter: she chose the fight back with drastic surgery. she felt alone. >> i wasn't a survivor inch didn't have a cancer. yet i was living with this very very significant increased risk. >> reporter: so she started bright pink. a network for cancer awareness and support. you through it she has helped thousands of women just like her. >> she's kind of helped me find my voice and inspiring other young women to think about their bodies, to do breast self-examination. >> there is

lindsey doesn't talk to him. he's a terrible role model and he'll find a way to help jon gosselin alienate his kids. >> here's the thing. we sure know how you feel. i can't pick apart what he's saying. he says it's not all about the money. kate accused jon of taking $230,000 out after a joint accounts and jon claims kate took money, too, like a million bucks. kate won the first round in court. a judge ordered jon to return $1 jon and katd need to focus on the kids. is this a gene i oh i have to admit, if they had a show i would watch it in a heart beat. >> jon may be a little strapped for cash. he was kicked off the show and clearly, kate holds the purse strings. in our question of the day we're asking this on air and online. as outrageous as it sounds, should kate have to pay jon? >> no. show was about both of them and the kids. they should split everything. it's ridiculous. >> as much as i could talk about this for hours i need to move on the to barbie's kankles. a firestorm brewing over stories that a french s

good evening, lindsey. >> caller: hi. >> hi. >> caller: hi. i had a comment about -- i was wondering if it was possible i know the little boy they can't find him and i was thinking, you know, the law and people in the neighborhood need to be looking in places like in the car trunks, anywhere a little boy could possibly be, just for the fact that it's possible that he is scared that he's in trouble and it's scary to think that he might be hiding in a dangerous place. >> thanks so much for the call, lindsey. lisa, that's exactly what -- kind of what you are talking about, what does a 6-year-old do? i mean, if a 6-year-old -- you know, daddy's been working on this shiny aircraft, the whole family is involved and me as a of-year-old i'm curious and played with ropes all of a sudden this thing takes off i'm going to hide somewhere, right? >> absolutely. kids are going to hide in the trunk, in the closet, right under the stairs. i think if any of us have a big hot air balloon in the backyard and dad and mom have been working on it, they are going to

republican senator lindsey graham said that it is just some evidence in a long line of evidence thatws that iran is trying to produce a nuclear weapon. >> clearly, they are not developing a nuclear program for peaceful purposes this report is more evidence in the long line of evidence that the iranians are trying to develop a nuclear weapon and half measures will not work. >> if we are going to avoid the very painful dilemma of having to live with that are taking military action to prevent that, we have to act now on the financial or economic side. >> for lawmakers, the burden of proof is here. jane: where is everybody standing in terms of sanctions? >> the lawmakers of both parties pretty much had it with iran and its dithering on this. centers made clear that they do not believe a word iran says about its nuclear program and want to move ahead with some deadlines and sanctions attached to them. listen to this. i do not think you have senator casey. center casey said they would want to make sure it is the appropriate time, that sanctions can be imposed swiftly without consequences.

you had lindsey graham come out and say beck is a clown. >> that's the key to the story. right there. >> that's the part of this good for our debate separate if it's good for the obama administration. even you if don't like the administration, the quarantining of the toxic conservative fringe voices is g. i guarantee the republicans will do better if we hear more about olympia snowe and lindsey graham who is not with the president on health care which is a reasonable voice. than these folks who have no constituency only millionaire budgets to offend all of us. >> i love the way you use the word quarantine like they all have swine flu. >> worse than swine flu. >> i take issue with one thing. i don't think they are either a, republicans or b, conservatives. >> what are they? >> i think they are conspiracy theorists. whether they are picking on the jews or masons or lizards from space, they believe there's somebody out there against your interests and only i know the truth. in this case, it's progressives. they used to work on making "liberal" a bad word so liberals started

actress, sinr, designer, lindsey lo han. she debuted her new line this week. how did it go?the starbucks coffee put to the taste test. we'll try to pick the instant from the best on the panel. >>> and in the district, we'll take you inside the $4 million bike station

. >> reporter: lindsey of toronto says the u.s. health care system saved his life.iagnosed with a malignant stage two brain tumor his canadian doctor put him on a four month waiting see a specialist. went to buffalo, paid cash and had tumor removed in a week. >> if i would have waited to whenever they got around to me, i could have been a four and a four more than likely would have opened it up, took a look and said sorry you are gone. may not have lasted that long. >> reporter: a colorado think-tank hosting a conference in vancouver, highlighting this growing trend of canadian patients traveling to the u.s. for tests and surgeries to avoid long and potentially dangerous delays. rick baker a health care broker arranging for hundreds to get care south of the border. >> everybody doesn't want to wait two, three years for a life altering condition. >> reporter: only a fraction of canadians leave free health care for treatment in the states. many more americans go north for cheap prescriptions. polls show over 80% of canadians prefer their government-run system despite

lindsey aber in is today's breakthrough woman. >> at 23, lindsay took the extreme step of having both her healthy breasts removed. >> i have a very strong family history. when my mom was only 18, her mother and grandmother died a week apart both from breast cancer. >> abner's mother was diagnosed with breast and ovarian cancer and carried a gene. >> when someone tells you up to an 87% risk lifetime risk of breast cancer, it changes everything. i couldn't live like that. >> she chose to -- >> i didn't have a cancer and yet i was living with this very, very significant increased risk. >> so she started bright pink, a network for cancer awareness and support. abner helped thousands of women just like her. >> she's kind of helped me find my voice and inspiring other young women to think about your bodies. >> there's nothing like having an opportunity to pay it forward and make it different for somebody else. >> all right. >>> police are considering murder charges after three people died in an arizona sweat lodge but the man that runs the program is definitely facing a lawsuit. new for you

lindsey graham, senator bob casey and also senator evan buy all very well versed in foreign policy and they'll be talking about iran, the decisions that were made with these negotiations that happened. what exactly came out of those meetings, and also about the tough decision on afghanistan as well and of course we'll have an answer about whether chicago did not get that olympics bid. we'll have that as well. >> thanks, brett. good to see you. we'll see you gaion sunday morning. >>> let's get to tony for another check of our forecast on this friday morning. >> all right, thank you very much, steve. let's take a look at the current temperatures around the region. we're at 57 degrees here in the district. dulles airport is 53 degrees and frederick 52. the air station is coming in at 60 degrees at this hour. here's a look at the satellite- radar composite for the area. got quite a bit of cloud cover moving across the region, more clouds off to the south and west and well out to the west as well so we'll get that moving through here during these morning hours and then it will start to burn

. >>> lindsay lohan's estranged dad making shocking claims that lindsey is hooked on prescription drugsdebate on whether or not he should keep his mouth shut. >>> and more stories breaking from the showbiz newsroom from the news ticker. >>> welcome back to "showbiz tonight." it is 30 minutes past the hour. i'm a.j. hammer broadcasting tonight and every night from new york city. tonight, sympathy for kate. there is a great debate raging over kate gosselin after she cried on the "today" show claiming that she's broke because her husband jon wiped out their bank account. >> he took $230,000 of the $231,000 that we have liquid and i have a stack of bills in my purse i can't drop in the mail. >> kate may be fighting a new battle. it's the battle for sympathy. even though kate is claiming she can't pay her bills is anyone actually feeling sorry for her? we got this call from nancy in washington. >> caller: she's going on tv claiming he's broke. she has no money and that she's poor and yet she's saying i want to design a new diamond ring with eight diamonds in it and a mother of pearl. so wher

you had lindsey graham come out and say basically -- >> that's the key to the whole story. there. >> i think that's good for our debate. separate whether it's good for the obama administration. even if you don't like the obama administration, the quarantining of these toxic, conservative fringe voices is good. i guarantee you, the republicans will do better if we hear more about olympia snowe. than these folks who have no constituency. they only have millionaire budgets to offend all of us. >> i love the way you use quarantine like they all have the swine flu. >> i don't think they're conservatives or republicans. i think they're conspiracy theorists. whether they're picking on the jews or masons or aliens from space, or lizards from space, believe somebody's out there against your interests and only i know the truth. in this case, it's progressives. they used to making liberals a bad word. glenn beck had the amazing thing where he equated progressives with tyranny and slavery 200 years ago. >> i know. >> as if he's our weapon against these people. >> he just twists everyth

." >> reporter: lindsey took the extreme step of having both her healthy breasts removed. >> i have a very strong family history. when my mom was only 18 her mother and grandmother died a week apart. >> her mother was also later diagnosed with breast and ovarian cancer. she carried a breast cancer gene, and avner had it, too. >> when somebody looks you in the eyes and says you have an 87%le chance, how do you deal with that? >> reporter: she wasn't alone. >> i was living with this very significant increased risk. >> reporter: she started bright pink, a network for cancer awareness and support. through it she's helped thousands of women just like her. >> she's helped me find my voice in inspiring other women to do self-breast examination and think about your body. >> there's nothing like an opportunity to pay it forward and make it different for somebody else. >> hundreds of people lined up waiting for a mall to open, but they didn't want a new video game or a cell phone. they just don't want to get sick. >>> plus it may be the most bizarre marketing partnership ever. find out what com

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i mean, these celebrities get stuff taken out of their house, like you just said, paris, lindsey, theyave backgrounds. they've gotten out of a lot of it. i don't think these kids will be so lucky. plus, they're celebrities, so they want to make a statement against them and put them behind bars. >> we'll stay on top of this, thanks, mike. >>> next, a group of college students are upset they were not let into a nightclub. >>> steve phillips gets the boot. the stormy sportscaster was canned from espn after he was caught in a steamy sex affair with a 22-year-old co-worker. she allegedly wrote a graphic letter to his wife and veered her car into his house. now phillips lost his job and is headed to rehab. we'll have the latest on this drama-filled soap opera and ask the question, is he a sex addict? >>> shocking allegations of blatant racism. six african-american college students were refused entry into a chicago bar. was it because of their clothing or the color of their skin? that's what we're asking tonight. students from washington university in st. louis planned a senior trip to chicag

and believe it or not he is teaming up with michael lohan, as in lindsey's father. >> another bargain. >> right. >> to do a show called the divorced dads club. >> oh, god, that's going to be a hit, dobt you think? >> i don't know. >> may want to watch. >> that do you pay attention to this story of jon and kate. >> i have been. i find it fascinating anyone would want to like lay out their dirty laundry like that, it's unbelievable. >> i do it for a living. that's my job to lay out dirty laundry. >> he wants to bar the tlc cameras from filming his kids. >> when he was on the show, he didn't want to bar them. >> exactly. >> now it's kate plus no one now. >> it's a vendetta thing. to be honest, i pretty much did the same thing, i did a reality show with my family at the end of which i ended up getting a divorce and they said we'll put it on hold until they work out their differences so, i will be ten years before you ever seen that woman on television with me again. so, jon & kate plus eight is dead. >> they both were kind of problematic, put it that way. i mean, he's a bad guy in many wa

. >> senator lindsey graham also said the policy should not change just because the president made aign pledge. more on that story for you in 20 minutes. >>> a 6-year-old cub scouts could face 45 days in reform school. he violated the zero tolerance by bringing his new camping utensils to schools. this is zero tolerance just going too far. supporters of the policy say it could be hard for administrators to distinguish innocent mistakes to real school threats. >>> rafer weigel was a boy scout for a little while. >> that really touched a nerve because i was a boy scout and i think that's just going way too far. >> tough one man. 45 days of reform. let's talk about a team that rallied around a team whose wife died a few days earlier to pull off an amazing victory in the final seconds. >> i have no idea how this man did what he did. mike zimmer comes home on thursday to find his wife had died unexpectedly. sunday he joined the team saying that his wife would want him to against the rival ravens and his players said seeing him lifted their spirits and they played spirited. now in first pl

and going after glenn, as republican senator lindsey graham blasts glenn beck, the white house attacks the cable host on their blog. we're going to talk about that and hollywood hypocrites. good morning, everyone. i'm mika brzezinski. joe scarborough is off as he recovers one more day. along with me, we have willie geist and pat buchanan. good morning to you. i want you all to weigh in on david letterman. i had sex with staff. that's what he said on his show yesterday. got a good laugh out of that. someone at cbs is trying to extort him. willie, why don't you go first since we've been talking about it. >> he went on the air last night, and he got a package in his car and it said, i know about the terrible things you've been doing to your staff. dave said there was evidence of terrible things he's been doing to his staff, having sex with members of his staff. so he went to the district attorney's office. district attorney took the case, had him write a fake $2 million check to this person, and they went and arrested the guy at cbs news just yesterday. >> it's a squalid story all around