our report on that tonight from our senior correspondent lisa myers. >> reporter: dave fucci, a frustrated farmer in rural north carolina has been calling his phone company for years, asking for better internet service. >> they go, oh, we're sorry. it's not available in your area yet. >> reporter: he is among the 62% of americans with no access to affordable hh-speed broadband internet service. when we were there, it took 20 minutes to dial up the internet on his phone line and service was excruciatingly slow. he says this hurts his business and his daughter's education. >> we've been left behind. and it's unfair and it puts her at a disadvantage at school. >> reporter: the good news is that the obama stimulus package dedicates almost $3 billion to get broadband to rural areas. the bad news is that the money is being handled by the rural utility service, an agency which critics say has a history of mismanagement and incompetence in this area. >> over the last seven years this agency has a legacy of spending money inappropriately, being slow to get money out the door to places that need it.

lisa myers, nbc news, washington. >>> the economy is just one of the items on the president's agenda at the g-8 summit in italy tonight. but the most pressing issue for the group of 8 just might be aftershocks. the summit after all is taking place near the town, aquila, experiencing rumblings from the massive earthquake in april. our chief correspondent chuck todd traveling with the president with us from rome tonight. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. news out of the summits, always a lot of declarations, commitments and pledges. there was one serious issue the president wanted to bring to the table this summit. that is iran. and the g-8 which is made up of america's six closest western allies plus a some times adversary, russia, collectively urged iran to respond to the diplomatic over chtures get to table to discuss the nuclear issue and is giving iran until september to do it. if they don't, the next time the g-8 meets which will be in september, they will possibly take these -- take this issue further with iran. maybe it will be sanctions. but it was a tougher stat

lisa myers, nbc news, washington. >>> tough times continuing for the nation's airlines.ontinental announced it is cutting 1,700 jobs and raising fees. it will now cost $20 to check a bag at the airport. $25 to book your ticket over the phone instead of online. the head of the consumer product safety commission is putting companies that make children's product on notice. its enforcement powers are strengthened that means fines for producing dangerous toys going up next month. maximum penalty for consumer violations is going to go from under $2 million to $15 million starting in mid august. >>> severe weather to tell you about in the denver area today. violent thunderstorms in the early hours of the morning brought hail, heavy rain, 60, 70 mile an hour gusts, lightning strikes. some of the damage was major. downed trees crashed into businesses and homes. a big one there. tens of thousands of people were left without power. >>> when our broadcast continues along the way in just a moment, next time you need a credit card, if you told us to see the monks would you think we we

lisa myers takes a look at whether that's a recipe for waste or a long-overdue rescue. >> reporter: daveeen helping people in need weatherize their homes in rural missouri for 19 years. sealing, drilling, insulating homes where utility costs and energy waste are high. his program often has been strapped for cash. >> $500 worth of weatherization is basically a band-aid on a bullet wound. >> reporter: but soon, president obama's stimulus cavalry will arrive, and gregory, who usually oversees work on 100 homes a year, will now oversee 100 homes a month. >> nobody had a clue of that kind of money. that's beyond your wildest dreams. >> reporter: around the country, states are getting massive increases in weatherization money. for example, missouri from $6 million to $128 million. florida, $2 million to $176 million. texas, $5 million to $237 million. >> it's almost an overwhelming increase. >> reporter: for this local executive director in missouri, this means a new building, a lot more training, at least 50 new jobs, and new worries keeping him awake at night. >> making sure that we're accou

senior investigative correspondent lisa myers has more. >> reporter: for children, pool drains are a natural curiosity. but can be deadly. drains can pack up to 800 pounds of suction force, a child's hair or body can be sucked in and trapped underwater. watch what happens when he put this rubber toy on a drain. three adult men could not pull it off. >> i've been doing injury prevention for close to 50 years and these stories about as tragic and horrific as i've ar d. >> reporter: 6-year-old abigail taylor fell on the kiddie pool drain on her family's club. the suction pulled out her intestens and she later died. >> ma'am, where are you today. . >> reporter: 7-year-old graham bake, granddaughter of secretary of state james baker was playing in a spa like this, her mother nancy said she became trapped by a drain suction and drowned. >> it pinned her. she couldn't, she couldn' get up. >> reporter: that tragedy and five years of tireless lobbying by the baker family gave birth are to a new law, it mandated that all public pools basically any pool outside a private home replace these flat

lisa myers, thank you so much. such an eye opener. >>> just ahead, michael jackson's unheard new music. his collaborateor and friend, akon shares exclusive insight. that was the odds of winning tickets to tomorrow's public memorial for michael jackson. rob from houston, texas, was one of the lucky view to win a pair. just how shocked were you when you got the news? >> i was brolown out of the wat. you can't go to l.a. to get the tickets. why did you want to sign up for the memorial in the first place? >> sometimes you enter a contest just for the fun of it never expecting to win anything. in this case i just happened to win. it shocked me to death. >> and as i know as you told jeff rossen earlier, you lost your job so you're in a difficult situation. you actually planned to sell the tickets on ebay. have you had a lot of interest so far? i think you listed them for $15,000. >> i bumped the price down because i felt that maybe that would just be overextending things too much. i don't want to be the bad guy here. i'm

lisa myers this morning. lisa, thank you for your reporting.brian williams with what's coming up tonight on "nbc nightly news." brian? >> hey, ann, good morning. thanks. coming up tonight, an emotional story about children of war. raised in fear and in fighting, but now an extraordinary new program takes them out and away from that violence, allows them really to just be kids again. some of them for the first time. that and more when we see you tonight for "nightly news." ann, for now, back to you. >> all right, brian, thanks. it is now 8:06. let's go back to >> it is already a steamy start for us today. 74 downtown, 71 at b.w.i. marshall. heading for a high between 87 and 92 degrees. barry humid. barry humid. and that's your latest weather. matt? >> all right, al, and coming up, you're going to dive for sunken treasure, right? >> that's right. we're looking for over a half billion dollars worth of treasure, coming up. >> find out what al found. introducing listerine® total care. everything you need to strengthen teeth, help prevent cavities, a

. >> let's talk about dividend yielding stocks, joining us is lea lisa myers, oversees $11.5 million including the templeton fund. good to have you here. >> good to be here. >> buying any health care stocks? >> seriously, are you? >> really tempton as a whole has been over -- health care, the stuff you have been talking about for a long time, generic competition, all of that has been priced in. >> obama care putting extra pressure on them. there's still of the highest flow flow yielding in the market. long term value investors based on what they can produce longer term. we're an aging demographic around the world. these countries have the highest structures, we heard able to cut costs. >> you get a lot of microsoft as well. what do you think of the deal with yahoo!? >> again, we like microsoft as a broader part of liking technology for the same reasons we like health care, high free cash flow yield. $31 billion on the balance sheet, global company able to invest -- >> buying technology for dividends. >> not all technology, but certainly there's a broad spectrum that we are able to pa

lisa myers this morning. lisa, thank you for your reporting.ian williams with what's coming up tonight on "nbc nightly news." brian? >> hey, ann, good morning. thanks. coming up tonight, an emotional story about children of war. raised in fear and in fighting, but now an extraordinary new program takes them out and away from that violence, allows them really to just be kids again. some of them for the first time. that and more when we see you tonight for "nightly news." ann, for now, back to you. >> all right, brian, thanks. it is now 8:06. let's go back to key west where al is standing by to give us another check of the weather. hey, al. >> hey, thanks a lot, ann. key west besides all the sun and fun is also the home to the only licensed veterinary hospital in the world that treats turtles. sea turtles. joining us is the director of e hospital. good to see you, rich. >> nice to see you. >> now this is ian. what was wrong with ian? >> me had a couple of tumors on her body. we took those off. we kept her about two months, now she's feeling healt

and lisa myers has been following this story. racking down on these huge rates in washington, d.c. there, lisa. >> you're absolutely right, contessa. they are supposed to be doing that. a couple of months ago, congress passed a law to protect consumers struggling to pay their bills from the predatory practices of credit card companies. since then, millions of americans have received another round of notices that their credit card costs are going up. some consumers are asking can they really do this? >> reporter: struggling with medical bills and a consulting business, hard-hit by the economic downturn, linda and jay gal a ger reluctantly downsized last year from the townhouse they had renovated to a manufactured home. >> one of our major concerns is that we wanted to be able to pay our bills. >> basically, said we have to make a really big change and i have to say, it was scary. >> reporter: then the notice arrived from chase last month the interest rate on their 5,000 credit card bill was almost doubling to more than 15%. why? to

. >> director of special projects, lisa nick myer is with st. vincent depaul.project will get more off the street. >> we do believe that this project will improve the situation that exists right now. >> by doubling the space, it will provide a place for people in need of a meal to wait versus outside on the sidewalk. >> we really are looking at this not as an expansion but renovation and a building edition project. >> but that's not how some in the community see it. until their concerns are addressed, they plan to do everything within their power to keep the project on hold. in southeast baltimore, joy lepola, fox 45 news at 10:00. >> well, in a statement, the mayor tells fox 45 that this project fits in perfectly with her 10 year plan to end homelessness in the city and her office has read more positive feedback than negative. >> bge new plans for a grid system to change your energy bill. they plan to install 2 million so-called smart energy meters. bge claims it will save 2 1/2 billion dollars by doing this. it rewards customers with rebates for saving energy

we're going to talk about this program with sergeant lisa myers. sergeant myers, how often do you hold this throughout the summer? >> we are going to hold the program through the end of august. >> reporter: we say that this is antigang as well. it's easier to keep the kids out of a gang. what do you tell them if they're approached by a gang? >> one the things we try to instill in the kids that participate in our program is good decision making. i think that is so important. we talk to them about being careful with the people that they choose to hang around and the locations and also we try to offer some options for them to participate in our program. >> reporter: what is what they're talking about here with the kids in between all of the games. we will be here the rest of the morning to kel yo tell you moree details. i'm joel d smith, fox 45 morning news. >>> still ahead, don't judge a bottle by its label. >>> collin springs explains the history of its water. >> the reason bottled waters could soon face stricter regulations. >>> the humidity stays