it says the invocations are illegal but some lodi residents say the prayers are appropriate.s for the mayor, he says he is just caught in the middle. 6. >> i try to be respectful of people's beliefs an feelings. i think as a council member you have to. >> the mayor says it will be up to the residents and the council whether the invocation stays, is abolished or replaced. maybe with a moment of silence. what do you think? should jesus or any other religious figure be part of an official government's vent? call us right now, 1-877-tell-hln. that's 1-877-tell-hln. you can e-mail us, by going to cnn.com/hln, click under your views. there is also a link there to our facebook page. post your comments there. you can also texted worth views plus your comments and names to text hlntv. >>> president obama's approval rating drops. a new cnn/opinion research corporation poll shows 56% of those surveyed approve of how he's doing. that's down seven points from april at his first 100 days mark. it also shows 54% have a favorable opinion of him. 34% do not. >>> let's get back to the breaking

before every council meeting in the lodi area, and invocation is given, giving banks and prayers.have more from san francisco. what are the critics saying? >> there are mostly atheist and secular groups who say that these prayers violate the constitution, and lodi's city college -- policy of keeping city meetings nondenominational. beyond the legal issues, critics say the references to god and jesus christ make nonaggression to attend uncomfortable and say that they should not have to endure that any public building. megyn: and what did those who support it say? >> and there are many of those. they say this is a 40-year tradition and any effort to discontinue them were watered down the line which amounts to censorship and discrimination. one group, colorado has launched a petition drive in support of public prayer. the group claims to have gathered 5000 signatures, in part because of an internet campaign. both sides have been gaining support on the internet, and all of this attention has turned the city into a first amendment battle ground. megyn: it sounds like it has lost to all

getting lodi overnight but mild. 72 here in town. upper 60s outside of the beltway. winds at 5 miles per hour. tomorrow we have a much better chance of showers and thunderstorms as a cold front roaches the-- approaches the area. tomorrow temperatures in the mid-80s. saturday's high temperature of 90 degrees and sunday and monday, maybe tuesday of next week, might be mid-90s in a few places. so summer is here to stay for the next 7 days. >> at least. tucker, thanks. >>> chances are someone is going to sing happy birthday to president obama today. he turns 48. he will celebrate by working. he will have lunch with senate democrats at the white house. but you can get free lunch in honor of the president's big day at z burger in findlay town. they're giving away free burgers and birthday cake from 11:00 to 2:00 and the first 48 people in line at 10:30, will get gift certificates good for 48 burgers and 48 milk shakes over the next year. and from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. stop by any dominoes in d.c. and say happy birthday and you'll get a free chocolate lava crunch cake. we

lodi and tulsa, oklahoma will do it.hicago has two more of these inservice days or lack of payday paydays yet to be scheduled. shepard: what do you think the impact of this will be? >> well, $34 million towards a 300-million-dollar potential short fall isn't much. that's the city's number. now they are taking look half a million dollars. how do they stem that gap? certainly furloughs aren't going to make it then the question comes ok does the city raise taxes? does the city cut services or a combination of both? >>no. shepard: steve brown reporting from chicago. thanks. an american icon has fallen victim to tough financial times and changing technology. readers digest. today the manage screen publisher announced it's filing chapter 11 bankruptcy production. circulation problems and advertising. readers digest been around since 1922 many people know it as the way they read just about everything from short stories to news articles. condensed from larger versions and other publications. and, of course, there are the clean j

jane: now to lodi, california. a heated debate over public prayer.efore every council meeting, an indication is given. claudia is in the bureau. >> you can forget about potholes and traffic problems. the biggest concern out there has been what to do about this two-minute prayer opening every city council meeting. >> local pastors have given indications for decades, but now christians are complaining. >> we want people to feel comfortable when they come into the meetings. >> groups advocating separation of church and state argued that they are violating the constitution, and their own policy of using only nondenominational in vocations. now, they're fighting to keep god in city government. >> we will ask the mayor to defend the prayer in jesus's name in court. we think we can win this if the city will just have a backbone and support the pastor. >> both sides are using facebook and twitter to drum up support among citizens, many of whom showed up at a rally before sunday's meeting. >> there is a lot of passion, and boast site's site of the constitutio

right now, the biggest issue before the lodi city council is the 2 minute prayer that opens all of theiryers have got to go. church leaders are demanding that they stay. both sides cite the constitution and case law to defend their case. in the meantime, the city council is just praying that all sides can reach a common ground. trace: there is brand new information in the bottom of the hour. martha: and now to the war against h1n1, that will be heating up. there are a number of pharmaceutical companies battling to be the first one to come up with a successful swine flu vaccine. there will be a lot of money in store for the company that wins this battle. maryann? >> hello, martha. many drug companies are fast tracking production of vaccines. kids are going to be going back to school. officials are worrying about h1n1 rapidly spreading. novartis started to inject people with vaccines yesterday. it has not yet been approved here in the united states. they did that in order to speed up the process because they say it is faster than what they have right now. it will begin human clinical trial

. >> james on our line for republicans out of lodi, california. >> it's about 20 some years ago the federal government ordered all of the medical schools in the united states to reduce their enrollments, and then they turned around and paid the medical schools for their lost income from having reduced tuitions. and this is how your government acts when it has any way, any avenue of influence in the medical profession is they call the shots. and many times the public isn't even aware of it. >> james, thanks for your call. >> james, there's an interesting thing, though, that we have the internet now. it's -- and i've seen this just from talking to politicians over the last several years. they're not aware of how easy it is to check up on what they say now. they really still can't get used to the fact that in five minutes i can tell you that you just lied about something and here's the record. you get to look up all the stuff. you know? you get to arm yourself. the thing that they really don't like are informed educated votors, inform yourself. it's the only way to fight back against the speci