he's masas tstging heaff and loying to -- st .ill e yoe yl >> u feldy. >>> what is happening with the weather. >> hd radar, there is more rain teswd a ancouple of spots again of heavy rain here and there. mostly lig od mtorate m rain across its d.c. area. just some scattered showers at the moment. but more precipitation and enhap s hia l l happen all morning. take a look at of graphics now. this is the mog picture. mid-atlantic region and a lot of cloud cover and moisture to get through. morning time rain showers and maybe a thunderstorm or two might popup, but mostly just rain. here is a look at the surface map for today. a front stalled out down to the south. low pressure is developing as we speak. to the west, high pressure that will eventually get in here and give us a good day tomorrow. meanwhile early showers and late sun later today. five-day forecast, high today only about 81 degrees.

. >> you get down there, lois, and assign a tote graffer. two of them -- a photographer. two of them. chris: we're down to 1,400 dailies. this year alone five including denver's rocky mountain news and the seattle post intelligencer have printed their own obituaries. major cities like san francisco and boston may soon face a future without a single daily broad sheet. "the san francisco chronicle" and "the boston globe" are in big trouble. they're institutions really, as much part of those santos as rice-a-roni.

. >> you get down there, lois, and assign a tote graffer. two of them -- a photographer. two of them. chris: we're down to 1,400 ilies. this year alone five including denver's rocky mountain news and the seattle post intelligencer have printed their own obituaries. major cities like san francisco and boston may soon face a future without a single daily broad sheet. "the san francisco chronicle" and "the boston globe" are in big trouble. they're institutions really, as much part of those santos as rice-a-roni. bob, we're getting down to it. in the seven years this program has been on every week we've lost a fifth of circulation of sunday papers right now. >> it's sad. but the question is, the newspapers are going, are changing, there's no question about that. we're going through a real convulsion. but does journalism live? and i am really optimistic about journalism. that what tina does, magazines, television, there are great stories out there, great journalism is being done. and i think the younger generation really mainlines the information. they get it free. and i think

this is one thing that lois said. our living room was covered with flowers. and there -- i mean it was just the most amazing sight that you've ever seen. the whole thing was jam packed. and, you know, there were boxes getting in the way and doing this and that. and lois said, no, i want elizabeth to know how many people loved her and cared about her and wanted her home. and that's what jaycee needs to know. you know, in all of the trauma and all of the issues that she has to face, knowing she is loved and that it's okay and that, you know, she's going to have a life after this 18 years is what's so important to her. >> ed, i know the family, i'm sure, will appreciate your advice. you're one of the few people, really, on the plan whoet they can probably relate to right now. we thank you so much for your time tonight. and sharing some of your thoughts and insights with us. we appreciate it, ed. >> thank you, campbell. >>> and we want everybody to stay tuned. ed and elizabeth smart are going to joib and n anderson tonight. >>> and for the second week in a row, t

later today at loy ole ta university -- at loy ole ta university, shaq and phelps will square off. if he loses, he'll have to wear a pink ruffled bathing suit. stay tuned. >>> some mixed news when it comes to housing. our media partner, "the baltimore sun" is reporting home sales in the area could be starting to turn around smment area sales are actually higher in the first half of this year than they were four years ago. that's primarily true for highly sought after neighborhoods like the ones near the inner harbor. but home prices are still down across the area. pick up today's "baltimore sun" for more. >>> and the clunker countdown has officially begun. if you're looking to trade in your old gas guzzler, you only have one day left. the program will be terminated tomorrow and today, car dealers across the state are expecting large crowds as people look for as much as a $4500 credit. >>> well, the clunker program proved to be very popular. the president's popularity ratings continue to slip. the big reason, healthcare reform. this morning, president barack obama is taking some tim

. >> reporter: lois and derek have always been close to their grandchildren. >> may i have a kiss, please? >> but never this close. this summer they went from living down the street from their grand kids to living down the hall. >> i don't know. it is just weird that they live next door, like in the same house. >> reporter: in june they moved in with their daughter, a manager at a local telephone company and her husband a stay sntome dad they n rent of this four-bedroom home with an in law wing. >> it was like a step backwards almost. >> but financially a step forward. by splitting the rent each couple is saving $200 a month plus extra savings on monthly bills. >> our electric bill is $80 for this month, and previously i think they paid $60 and we paid $90. >> reporter: that translates in to each couple saving an additional $150 a monday on utilitities and cable. besides with the extra cash, there's some unexpected bonuses. >> they always have laundry all over the darn house. unbelievable piles of laundry. i said listen, why don't i take over the laundry and that's what i did. and that's

. >> hell loi. >> how are you? >> reporter: that's when doctors recommended she come here, to sibley hospital, the only local testing site for a breast cancer vaccine that researchers hope can prevent tumors from coming back in patients le baker. >> the vaccine is really for prevention. so it sort of shifts the focus from treatment to prevention. so this is -- >> reporter: oncologist doctor says the vaccine is being tested on women who have a high risk of recurrence and whose tumor cells have a specific protein. that protein is found in 70% of breast cancer cases. >> the vaccine is given to stimulate the woman's own immune system to recognize this protein as dangerous, to stimulate the system to fight it and to kill it. >> reporter: the vaccine is given once a month for six months. minimal side effects have been reported, including low grade fever, as well as inflammation and redness at the injection site. mcgrail says it's given to patients after they're done with treatment and could be especially beneficial for y

temperatures are generally in the loi 70s, 72 in frederick, 73 in hagerstown. annapolis, 73 degrees. the heavier showers were south and eat of town late yesterday. the better rain chances will be the further east and southeast you go from the washington area. no rain right around the capital beltway, a fairly dry start here. the heaviest of the rain showers are staying well offshore but it is a raining morning along the coast line and very dangerous day for rip current and large waves out there. if you're going to the beach, it's going to be a good day to go. i would not recommend getting into the water at all on saturday. 73 here in town, 68 degrees in cincinnati. here you can see on the satellite review, the first little push of moisture came in and what's left of danny, only a tropical depression at this time. 280 miles to the south of ocean city, maryland. this will continue to race off to the north and eventually to the northeast. running at 27 miles an hour in forward speed right now. maximum sustain winds at 35. just a tropical depression bringing the wa

from lois, the octogenarian. >> i think he's done more than his share not only for massachusetts, but the world. >> reporter: from jimmy, the union laborer. >> he was my man. he's massachusetts. without him, man, i don't know what we're going to do now. >> reporter: from martin, the irish immigrant. >> i feel a debt of gratitude to him, for sure. >> reporter: as the procession wound its way through boston, at sites special to ted kennedy, people told us why he was special to them. for martin allen, it was help with immigrants. >> he doesn't know me. but you know, he's not aware what he's done for me, but it's something i feel, i want to be here to see. >> he wrote my wife a 10-page letter, handwritten. by him. signed. >> reporter: for others, it was the kennedy family. >> they've been through so much. you know? he's the last one to go. >> reporter: or something as simple as the senator remembering a birthday for a 100-year-old grandmother. >> unbelievable. the guy was first class. to this day my grandma still talks about that party. >> reporter: what do you have to say to ted kennedy?

to ask you whether the white house able t maintainthe kind of arms length they saiit will on tese loying issues. >> that's a ery good uestion. the president ismeeting in he oval ofce today wit tom dash shal whoas the fomer snate majority leader, someonehe wanted to makehis secretary of health and human serces until a tax lap knocked that nomination out. he is a vry smart erson when it comes to health car has written a bookabout it. at the same timhe is working or advising he industry atthe same time. multiple entanglementwith different players. is he anadvisor t the esident or the idustry? is he both friends on the finance committee, not so muh with max baucus or the thers. wherdoes everybody stand a how es everybody balance thse different ideas? it's a very complicated issue right now. gwen: it's not s simple to maintain rms length. a quetion from ames in californiaor you ceci, another nuts and bolts qestionbut we heard referencein our open. asks will the taxpayer foot the bill for the overage for the millis of aliens in this country? >> absolutely not. everybody as said, eery democrati

lois capps was the author that would allow the insurance program to cover abortions.he house legislation says that no federal funds will be used. abortions would be paid for by beneficiary premiums. a spokesman for the national right to life says they are not buying that explanation. he said "it is a sham,. it is a bookkeeping scheme." republicans have been saying all along that the cap and tax bill would raise energy prices and cost jobs. the house democrats who wrote the bill commissioned a study to see if this was true. "the washington times" said the study, produced by the government energy and information administration, found that half and tax "increases the cost of using energy, which reduces real economic output, reduces purchasing power, and blowers aggregate demand for goods and services." the manufacturing sector will lose 2.5% of its jobs by 2013. a great job, liberal democrats. tonight's "meltdown" is brought to you by california. "the l.a. times" says the national resources agency issued the country's first planned to adapt to heat waves, rising sea leve

we know ted kennedy had friends and familiar loy both sides of the aisle. what are you hearing from them? >> universal praise for senator kennedy. one thing not only did his passing mark the end of the kennedy era in american politician for -- his brothers, jack, robert, but also the end of an era in kind of a civility and bipartisanship that we are seeing less and less from the united stas senate in congress nowadays. as much of a liberal lion as ted kennedy was, that he had tremendous friends on the other side of the aisle. we are -- utah, republican senator orrin hatch was one of his closest friends. worked with john mccain on immigration reform and really could reach across the aisle and work with the other side. now as -- the united states senate is grasping with health care reform and other controversial issues, having someone like that even with someone who was as liberal as ted kennedy to work with the other side and vice versa, congress is missing that now. >> and you just said that it is an end of an era. is this also the end ofhe kennedy family p

. >> i was just talk to go your producer john mall loy, remember applied materials reports next week and it's shifted a huge amount of the company's manufacturing to solar panels, those photovoltaic panels that we've been talking about. i'm at a company called solindra, and this is it's solyndra, and these tubes, 40 in a panel, are actually cylinders, and they collect the sun from every angle, and it makes for a far more efficient device. they were about the first to get a half billion? tim his, and they're going to guild a brand-new corporate facili facility. it's a massive expansion, venture capitalists, 49 deese in july alone to the tune of a half billion. that's a record pace. we are seeing an enormous amount of investment by the state of california. $3 billion earmarked for solar investment. that should yield something like 40,000 new jobs over the next couple years, so a lot of xibt that old-guard silicon valley companies may be giving way to this sort of new revolution. we heard about it in the early days of the obama administration and nose those promises are trickling throug

. >> reporter: low lois wanted the high school to remain open. her 16-year-old daughter elisa will be a graduating senior next year. >> this was her fun year, her last year. >> reporter: days after the archdiocese of baltimore said it was forced to close the school because of deep debt and low attendance, parents and students took to the school's campus to protest. they scurried to find alternatives weeks before the new school year and scrambled to start fnd raisers to save towson catholic. it was then windsor decided to take legal action. it was a battle she thought they could win. >> we were suing the archdiocese. they're big and strong. >> reporter: windsor and another parent filed two lawsuits. one to block the school's closing and another to keep the school open. windsor says towson catholic breached a contract. >> they voided my contract. that's where we figured we had a leg to stand on. >> reporter: a county judge sided with the school keeping it closed. this week, windsor agreed not to pursue the fight and her daughter is preparing to att

ate loy allows kids to ride for free.ounty is cutting the program for budget reasons. >>> time for another living smart report and looks like the obama administration will keep a bush appointee on the job. who's that. >> we are talking able bernanke. the obama administration plans to nominate him to the second term. the president is expected to announce it during a break in his administration. brennan i can was nominated fed chairman by president bush and sworn in february of 2006. he is credited by many for averting a falldown. he is expected to face tough questioning before congress. >>> speaking of the economy we will have a look at consumer confident dense. it the board releases a snapshot on consumer confident dense and investors will look for a key report for home prices for the month of june. they hope for encouraging reports on both fronts. >>> maryland wants another slice of the stimulus pie. the state requested $360 million in federal funding to improve marc rail service and speed up amtrak trains. virginia has

. >> reporter: lois windsor wanted the school to remain open. her daughter will be a graduating senior next year. >> this was her fun year. her last year. >> reporter: days after the archdiocese of baltimore said it was forced to close the school because of deep debt and low attendance parents and students took to the school's campus to protest. they securied to find alternatives and fund-raisers to towson catholic. it was then that windsor decided to take legal action. >> suing the archdiocese? that's big. they're very strong. >> reporter: windsor and another parent filed two lawsuits. one to block the school's closing and another to keep the school open. >> they voided my contract. that's where we figure we had a leg to stand on. >> reporter: a county judge sided with the school keeping it closed. this week windsor agreed not to pursue the fight and her daughter is prepared to attend murder mercy high school in the fall. >> i'm a strong believer in what goes around, comes around. things happen for a reason. i don't know what this reason will b

lois' article is at the website right now. >> thank you.d klein, i was looking at the ratings. we tv people to a lot of that. there was the one that cbs did that was quite good. nobody watched it. it did 0.9 in the only ratings that matter, and that is the demographic, and i wonder if because we are in the northeast and so close to the massachusetts culture to and know so many people in the culture if we in theç media are not overboard with this to a degree that the rest of the countryç just is not with us. >> well, i think it is a legitimate question. our ratings will be out in one hour. well, in 15 minutes, we will know. >> and the media, i think, and did caroline kennedy, because the media focused on her "you know, you know, you knows. " do they sure this deep concern that the rest of us have in the east? shepard: ed klein,

. >>> president obama is taking a break from the beltway and taking his familiar loy a weeklong vacation pl wipe taking time away from the health care fight, there's no indication the debate is anywhere near settled. brian mooar has more from capitol hill. >> reporter: president obama heading off to camp david and to martha's vineyard leaving behind the washington heat. but not the pressure of the health care debate. >> the preference of the public option. >> reporter: the president is holding out hope for a public option, government health care insurance, the senate finance committee's bipartisan gang of six reportedly taken it off the table. house speaker nancy pelosi says her chamber won't pass a bill without the public option. the white house says that the president wants a deal but will not settle. >> the president's goal is not to print a banner and sign a bill just so somebody can say we reformed health care. >> reporter: the latest polls show public confidence in the president's handling of health care is slipping. "the washington post"/abc news poll shows his approval numbers ar

>> i think it's deaf nilt loy each one of those things you mentioned.t's the bad economy and ultimately it's above all the changing demographics in this country. you know, there's been heavy white immigration for the last seven, eight years. he kind of sucked in all the people worrying about border crossers and so on. >> mark, appreciate your time tonight from the southern poverty law center. thanks so much for your insight on this. for more, let's to our panel tonight. the chief white house correspondent and political writer for the new york times, the former republican congressman earnest iztuk is with us tonight. let me go to you first. how do you take this information when alcohol, tobacco and fireafir firearms comes out and says we're on a heightened alert for such an activity like this. what do you make of it? >> i don't think that's a correct statement from atf. we've always had instances of the left and the right. homeland security warned about both. remember the unabomber. he was on the fringes of the left. remember the big protest of the left

as banks have slowed the lending there's been lois money that's flowed into the stock market. this goes to the big observation that a lot of china's lending efforts have gone to speculate in the stock market. and the other two problems. ipos have come back. they weren't allowed for a whole year, now they're back in july. that's a lot of competition for the stock market. look at the shanghai index. what do you say for an index that goes down 70% in a year, then rallies back 100%, and now is down 20% in two weeks. i call that volatile. tradertalk.cnbc.com. rebecca, how are we looking over at the nasdaq? >> hey, bob, we're looking higher, but just as much as china is the story for stocks there, china has a lot to do with the story of stocks here. as you heard from maria bartiromo at the top of the show-n her conversation with hp's ceo mark hurd, china played a major role in their earnings, and we do see that playing out here at the nasdaq as well. also hp yesterday in their earnings report mentioned the fact that essentially they see tech spending bottoming out here. that could b

so that as this book and its stars in 1960 in manhattan with a secretary named lois few is expelled fromraffic courts downtown for attempting to pay a parking ticket while wearing slacks. there is a picture of her in the book, she is the tightest and best groom the person wearing slacks and entire history of the world but the judge was so overwhelmed with horror at the idea of a woman going into public coming into his court wearing pants, that he just went nuts. he started spewing every possible metaphor -- no pants, pat resco, pedestal, is sort of memories -- and minimize everything about 1970 which was keeping with the year 1,000 mccain to the way people lived and where they regarded women. and then to find going back that most women that were there in 1960 especially were particularly knocked out by the credit thing, that you couldn't get credit in your own name, and the times which was a great source for information on this kind of stuff i must say found woman who had to go to a mental hospital to get her husband to cosign the lease on their apartment because they couldn't just trust

lois is with us in massachusetts. your comment or question here? >> caller: hi, mike. yes, i think that anybody that didn't know that michael jackson was on drugs was really, really living in la la land because you could tell by looking at him at various times all through the court -- >> talking about the molestation trial, right? did we lose her? >> caller: no, i'm here. >> what do you think of what murray said? >> caller: i think he did give him something. i don't know what he gave him. but nobody has oxygen tanks in their home unless they are deathly ill. >> thanks for the call because we had heard the chef for michael jackson had made mention, we talked about what was the routine like. she told cnn's larry king that pretty much every morning, conrad murray would come down with the oxygen tanks and then the morning of michael jackson's death, that was not the case. guys, we will take a quick break. much more on this coming up. we are also finding out when and where michael jackson will be buried. we are getting confirmation on that this time. we will take more phone

lois and derek lugg have always been close to this children, but never this close.own the street from their grandkids to living down the hall. >> i don't know, it's just weird they live next door like in the same house. >> reporter: in june they moved with their daughter victoria and her husband jason, a stay at home dad. they now split the rent of this four-bedroom rental home with an in-law wing. >> it was like a step backwards almost. >> reporter: but financially it was a step forward. by splitting their rent, each couple is saving $200 a month. plus there's extra savings on monthly bills. >> our electric bill is $80 for this month, and previously i think they paid about $60, and we paid about $90. >> reporter: that translates to each couple saving an additional $150 a month on utilities and cable. plus with the extra cash there's some unexpected bonuses. >> they always have laundry all over the darn house. unbelievable pile of laundry. i said, listen, why don't i take over the laundry? that's what i did. that's my contribution. >> reporter: father and son-in-law

. >> my name is lois daniels. the left has pretty much celebrated their victory over sarah palin since she stepped down. is there something she can do besides public speaking to send them the message that she has not been defeated? if so, then -- if not, then what? >> she is finishing her books. she will certainly be giving a lot of speeches around the country. i think what she needs to do right now is to write editorals on substantive policy issues, because she is a smart woman. she should go beyond the energy issue, which she is very good on. she should be talking about economics. she should be talking about foreign policy. she's great on national defense. i believe she is focused on what this administration is doing to gut national defense. we find every turtle crossing under the road, we are cutting our national defense. we're cutting all of our weapons. we are cut -- cutting missile defense. i think she needs to be outspoken on those issues. i think maybe not so much on the social issues, but she's very good

they hired the top guns the loying community in annapolis, and ey made every effort to prevent us froentingtis on agriculture. >>mith: some people have said tos that you'd clean up the whole situation much fter if the integrators, the poult processors, re responsible. u got to clean it up, and yo all e responsible. >> well, wcan only do what we can do. the farmer certaly is... you know, is h own businessman out there on the farm, and i tnk it works better ift's a cooperative effort. smith: so perdue pioneered process to recycleart of the chicken growers' excess mare tohip across the country. d perdue launched a voluntar program teach its grors tter manure management. and the programshat we're looking at are an alternate to more regulation, i gue. >> more regulation and enforcement, which nobody lis. i mean, nobody likes, yoknow, somebody coming on your farm, you know, without any warnin and those kindof things. >>here's no quemrhat the influence the agricultural fa lobby in general has had a very successful role in liting the amount of pollution corol regulations that we see in t chapeake b

luis castillo shoots the loy pitch to the same exact spot. two runs are in. and 8-4 mets.h time in his career. atlanta sees their five-game win streak come to an end. >> texas has won three straight in five of 6. right now, they have taken a 6-5 lead in the top of the 7th on the twins. ian kinsler, three home runs, six r.b.i., since coming off the disabled list. josh hamilton hitting .460 with 1 rbis in his last 18 games. >> bj upton and the rays have behind the wildcard. trying to narrow the gap. but it is all up to upton, who clears the fence. number 8 of the season for him. one home run shy of his total from last year. david price improves to 6-1. in his last nine games. giants and reds have just gone final. top 10, ryan garbage he owe, with two men on. that's trouble for the reds. can you think of you panda is in. another run is in. 7-5. giants on top. then 8-5, bottom 10. joey vato grounds out to ishiskawa, and that's it. san francisco's won back-to-back games. garko finishing 2 for 5 with four ribs. he had four r.b.i. combined in 17 games with the giants entering tue

. >> shaq and phelps will compete in a swimming race at loy yolia university.l be led by bob berman and shaq's team will have two other gold meddwraalists -- medalists helping him out. phelps will have to swim with his legs tied behind his back. >> if i win, he will have to look in the camera and say, shaq, you would have been a great swimmer. if i lose, i have to wear something pink and do synchronized swimming. >> another part of the challenge, he will find out -- he won't find out how far he has to swim until moments before the race. most likely the stadium will be filled with loyola students. >> did you see how small that photographer looked when shaq was coming in? that is one big man. he has the unfair advantage. >> coming up, a look at top stories. >> plus, no place like home for an east baltimore family. we'll take you to an extra special homecoming when "11 news sunday morning" continues. >> welcome back to "11 news sunday morning." thank you for being up so early with us. >> absolutely. thank you for being here with us this morning. and thank you for

kennedy loy brar in boston. >>> pirates holding a hijacked ship off of the coast of somalia fired aticopter. no rounds of ammunition hit the chopper. the surveillance flight over a time when he's flagged the vessel called the wind farm. pirates held the crew and the 30-member -- the ship with the 30-member crew inside since april. >>> more pictures surfacing with fidel castro's meeting with venezuelan students over the weekend. the first video we've seen of castro in more than a year. he underwent abdominal surgery back in 2006. >>> a technical dpliglitch is o thing, but imagine opening a letter that says you have lou gehrig's disease. a cruel disorder that robs you of your life before killing you. what do you tell your family and friends? days later, we say, we're sorry. it was a technical glitch. you shouldn't have gotten that letter. that's what happened to hundreds of veterans; including bret casey. he joins us now. set the scene for us here. how did this letter come to your attention? >> thanks, john. i got a phone call from my mother last wednesday afternoon. and she -- she sai

. >> no hat as loied in the courtroom. >> it's not a hat. >> excuse me, sir? >> what?ats allowed in the courtroom. >> the woman removed her scarf for the rest of the hearing. the judge said she never mentioned its significant significance. the judge said if she had, he would have permitted it. >> looks like we're going to see less traffic. aaa predicting travel is going do drop more than 13% and while the economy is keeping more people at home, another big factor here is that the holiday falls almost a few week later than last year and many kids are back in school. even still, prices for gas are about a dollar lower than a year ago. >>> 40,000 people drthrough 100 tons of tomatoes at each other. it was all for good fun though. this is the 64th annual tomatina festival in spain. it backed up traffic in the city for nearly two miles. ail those tomatoes flying around everywhere. let's take a look in with bob van dillen. >> let me show you the path over the next couple of days. it's on the weak side right now. the tropical storm is 60 miles per hour but it's going to conti

just a bit more from this story from loi -- lori montgomery this morning, she writes "republicans are already on the attack. the same political transaggression that cost democrats control of congress under former president bill clinton and may have cost george h.w. bush his jop job. democrats say obama is unlikely to break his pledge before next year's congressional electric, and object that it would be safer to wait until his second term if a tax increase is unavoidable." we talk with kristin. caller: i don't think you are a republican, because you could pronounce gratten if you were. i just want to say, i don't hate the obamas. i love to see an african-american family in the office. who wouldn't? his kids and family are enchanting. it is fun to have a young vibrant family. this is nothing about them personally. but the guy never has a job. he's a community organizer. sorry to say that, but i think a lot more qualified people were overlooked because they weren't black kennedys. >> what do you think he will do about raising taxes? >> i think he will do whatever his handlers tell him t

understand how to praivment they are enjoyable once you're out there on the waw teemplet and on vee lois no alcohol as well that has been another steam this year of why people have had trouble. we're going to get these going now and remember the 100-foot rule that means you're not supposed get too close to any one else. i'm going to go out for the distance the right way. i'm going to end stend back to you as i take off here. >>> >> here we go. all right. joel d. smith. looks like he is doing it the right rie way. coming up a lot nor to college than just the books and tuition. is your campus bound child ready and prepared? an expert will join us to answer your questions in take action thursday. >> and last weekend we had a very active weather weekend indeed. will we see more of t an updated all-time favorite: juicy steak layered with zesty chipotle sauce, melted cheese, piled high with only... the toppings you love on freshly baked bread. only at subway. subway. eat fresh. thunderstorms earlier with lighten can strikes. we were looking at 350 rient can strikes in an hours time earlier mor

i said, people seem to feel like it's their patriotic duty not to shop and lay loy.son's spending is another person's income and you're not doing the country any favors by hunkering down. we need to behave normally and do what we normally would do. so i agreed wholeheartedly with the message. >> bob, do you think having the nomination in his pocket now, did that allow him to take a harder line on exit strategies? in other words, if he didn't have it, would he be trying to keep the job by being our friend, keeping money easy, or do you think he's beyond those sorts of political consideration? >> i think he's beyond that, but i think this removes a major distracton. i think things will go up more smoothly now that we're not talking about the appointment every day. >> what do you think will be the defining characteristic of his second term? >> i think people will be surprised that we're not going to have this inflationary blow monthout that they expect to have. the fed's balance sheet expanded, but it hasn't expanded since last december. the monetary base spike, but mos

you can't even go to the loi brar library. employees will not be paid. local media reports this could save the city more than 8 million bucks over the three days. the other two are later in the year. if anyone has any shady intentions, emergency services like police and fire departments are not affected. >>> some positive news to report on the global financial crisis. japan's economy is showing signs of improvement. expanded last quarter a booming export business and a government stimulus. the country's unemployment is rising and incomes are falling. economists and politicians say recent gains may not last. the news from japan is another indication the global economy may be recovering. last week germany, france and hong kong reported growth in the second quarter. the united states' economy shrank 1% in the second quarter. >>> still some economists say the economy here in the u.s. is looking up as well. so what do you think? do you feel like at the end of the tunnel, has the recession permanently changed your spending habits? let's get to the phone. dena

lois, medical professor. please go ahead. caller: good morning. i have a 73-year-old, still practicing physician in the central valley of california and i have two points. one is, i know this is a personal question but do you folks -- you folks aren't personal now. you're on national tv. i would like the doctor there to tell me how much money he makes out of just doing his medical profession and how much his wife makes. she's a pediatrician. he's a cardiac surgeon. number two, this hospital that you're talking about right new -- now is an elite town. i'm in a small town and my hospital recently build a $7 million building, a whole new building and yet they're all crying about heir losing money. the government isn't paying money. where is the money coming from? last night i watched this new electronic skappel. how do you buy that if you're wasting money? there's a lot of that in hospital competition and expenditures that would go to help poor people if you just couldn't do that. i'm nervous and i'm not probably saying this directly. >> doctor, i ap