until you have a problem with your water main. but as we have learned over the last couple of years, just because our infrastructure needs are not visible doesn't mean that they are not deteriorating. a quick look at the recent news headlines across the country illustrates the state of our water infrastructure and i can only list a few because time is not -- does not permit. the franklin water main break closes roads and schools, says franklin, new jersey. the land castor water main breaks, a sink hole swallows a car in california. the water main break in manhattan causes evacuations in traffic, subway disruptions in new york city. the water main break cuts off water service to the medical center in west virginia. here we have a new -- an illustration of the water main break on river road in bethesda, maryland. watching people airlifted out of their cars, we're not making this stuff up. this is real. in metropolitan d.c. on christmas eve, 2008, was quite a spectacle. one headline actually read, "water main break forces dramatic re

. >> earlier this week, french and spanish leaders called for a special fund ahead of the main gathering. there was a not even widespread agreement on the need for an extra summit. the best that greek people can hope for is some flesh on the bones of the deal that was struck last month. a mechanism by which it might be delivered. right now that seems unlikely. everything seems so uncertain and gramm. >> let's go live to brussels, we're joined by a senior research fellow for european reform at the research center. if we do nothing, surely the values will drop further. >> you see the leaders coming to a different position on that now. it seems that they have created a kind of blocked space in which something has to give. >> what do you think that they can and should do? >> not very much, i am afraid. they can try to come up with something to prevent the collapse. political agreements to bailout greece. they can make noises about how it would actually work. the minimum that will be needed to give speculator something to chew over. unfortunately in this situation, germans to know what to say

you are a nonprofit -- you are a for-profit, you are in maine. ewr-profit, you are in maine.eft in the market because others have left. >> left players -- less players inÑi the market, you cannot manipulated as much. the regulatory environment in maine and particularly in the individual market was regulated in the way it was, everyone left except for us. we will not leave. we will stay and continue to serve our members. >> main was expected to be 23%? >> we filed for a great increase in maker the main regulator has denied that and we are in litigation with the main regulators to have appropriate margin. >> is the doctor costs remain 6%? >> the dr. causton made are very high -- the doctor costs in maine are very high. >> you have your drivers in california -- >> i can take that question. >> i don't know the exact trends in me. the driver in maine is that people wait until they are sick to get coverage and it drives up the cost. >> you are guaranteed to present a policy and it is up to the consumer whether they can afford it. >> only people who know they will incur health care

we stopped in betterford, maine and then go to portland, maine. we drive all the way up to the canadian border. no, i will not yield. we go all the way to mr. dreier: i didn't ask you to yield. ms. pingree: well, you had that look. we go to a duly licensed physician so they can rewrite their prescriptions and go across the border legally. this is a bus load of senior citizens. we go to that canadian drugstore and they buy their prescriptions. i want to tell you about one person i sat next to on one of the many bus trips. i sat next to a person who had to take a wonderful drug that we are glad we have for breast cancer but me take 30 pills a month. at that point i think it cost them about $150 a month for their 30 pills. but when we got across the canadian border, it was $12.35. that was highway robbery in my opinion. you know why that was? because the canadian government, just like every other western nation, requires that they -- that they negotiate for the best price possible mr. dreier: will the gentlewoman yield, madam speaker? ms. pingree: no

the main. 50 miles into the main. it's roughly 60 miles from there to there. straight, kind of looks north on this map, but it is west. straight up to the little village towns up here at the confluence of the roanoke. so i think what happened, it kind of went like this. john what you they were going to move inland before he left. they were quite certain and he wasn't quite certain where exactly they would settle in the and that it would be up here somewhere, but he didn't know right where it would be. so they told him before he left that they would leave the small garrison here on roanoke, that he should return him and that small garrison who is still being touched with the main group inland would then be able to direct him to the main group that left the island. so that's why he returns. but what he doesn't know is it's going to take him three years, not six months to get back to he has anticipated he will be back by the late spring or summer of 1588. he did get back until august of 1590. then

this is the main road that surrounds the chilean capital, santiago. the epicenter of the quake was several hundred miles away from here. look at a force that must have been generated to do all of this damage. today, the pictures emerged of the exact moment that the earthquake struck. you can hear one man telling other panicked residents to come down. -- to called down. tonight, in the areas worst affected, feud, fuel, and water are scarce. -- food, fuel, and water are scarce. looters take what they can share with others. everyone is hungry, frightened and frustrated. the president has called an emergency without parallel in chile's history. >> the nato commander and the afghan vice-president have visited more just days after it was declared free of taliban influence. that was the main focus of the largest military operation since 2001. the offensive was centered on central helmand province. police in dubai say all 11 suspects in the killing of a palestinian hamas commander say they are now in israel. it was revealed that the man was tried and suffocat

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we need to shift that focus to that job creation on main street. and these ideas are not republican or democrat ideas. these are ideas about putting people back to work. i know in virginia and you know in ohio, we are on the cusp. we have an opportunity to start building again. americans are ready to do it. small businesses are ready to do it. and union fortunately, we aren't going to see the housing starts, but we know we can build things. we can build our infrastructure and retrofit our existing building stock. we have had a tool-belt recession annette it is time to see growth in the tool-belt sector. the fact is, we must rebuild america's competitive advantage and we must rebuild it one community at a time, one congressmen wealth at a time, one country, rebuilding our competitive advantage and putting people back to work. we have a chance to do that. now the gentleman, the gentlemen on the other side of this building, down in the senate, they may be through this recession. the media elites may be through. middle-class america are not through it.

the election it -- the question of how fast to cut the budget deficit, but with the gap between the main parties narrowing in the opinion polls, it is not yet clear who is winning. >> portugal's credit rating has been downgraded by the leading credit rating agency, fitch. this is because of concerns about its budget deficit. earlier this month, portugal passed an austerity budget aimed at cutting its debt. the downgrade heightened concerns about the health of some of europe's heavily indebted economy is -- economies. germany and france are edging closer to a deal. the imf will now be part of its financial package. france had opposed a bailout but appears to have accepted germany's terms for the deal. lawyers for oprah winfrey say she has reached an out-of-court settlement in a defamation case brought by the former headmistress of the school she batted in south africa. she was sacked over allegations that another teacher was involved in child abuse. she said statements by the talk show host had damaged her reputation. the united states has agreed to speed up requests from pakistan for mil

the rain is piling up around portland, maine, all snow in the rthern path of maine. five to ten inches total for northern sections of maine. the rain itself is sliding through portland. look at the heart of portland, heavy downpour over you, that moves off into the ocean later on this morning. you break out to windy conditions for most of the day. we have flood warnings around the region n light shaded green from the rain from yesterday. one to three inches of rain maine, vermont, massachusetts and new york. the other storm developing across the plains winds coming straight up the mountains and the rockies front range getting pounded with heavy snow. winter storm warnings from denver to new mexico, streaming around northern texas and the panhandle. we'll show you snow video from yesterday, does not look like spring. the folks in colorado yesterday snow fell all over the state, it was just heavy, wet snow and made for some treacherous conditions, i saw boulder county, 19.2 inches in some areas already. that's denver, you are going to get problems coming in later >> th

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so far the two main parties heavily sketched out some of the ways in which they will reduce the debt. the difference lies chiefly in the speed in which they would make the cuts. >> the reality is that what the two parties are saying is pretty similar. neither party is coming clean about exactly what they're going to do. in some ways we will be electing in the dark. we just do not know yet. we do not know how radical it will be or where the pain will be felt. >> they're not the only ones left in the dark. the financial market wants much more details from politicians about how they plan to balance the books. that is not likely come until after the election is over. bbc news, westminster. >> in a few minutes we will hear more from there, live, getting the latest economic analysis. some investors worry that the british deficit could lead to a tragedy of greek proportions. the israeli ministers talk spent the white house and all the other made headlines, over david. >> an unequivocal message to washington, leaves our settlements alone. for two days benjamin netanyahu expressed his determin

those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's web site. but for now, back to jeff. >> brown: and still to come on the newshour: one senator stands alone; the fight against the taliban in southern afghanistan: cutbacks for the u.s. postal service; and a historian on money, power and world events. >> lehrer: but first, an update on the earthquake in chile where the death toll rose to nearly 800 today. margaret warner has our story. >> warner: in the seaside town of chalco this morning, a new aftershock gave a small hint of what saturday's huge quake looked like on land and sea. the waters of the pacific did not break the beaches today, but vast expanses of the chilean coast lie in near-total ruin, hammered not only by the violent shaking, but by the massive tsunami waves that followed. walls of water at least 18 feet high rolled 200 yards inland and inundated whole villages and small towns. the surge tossed boats from the shore, wash

, the kgb's main successor agencies.the second one happened at another station, about 45 minutes later. >>> how's it going - >> u.s. soldiers in afghanistan got a surprise visit from the commander in chief. it marked president obama's first time visiting the country since taking office. while speaking to the troops he thanked them for the progress being made on the battlefront while warning about the difficult days ahead. earlier, in a meeting with the afghan president, president obama stressed the ultimate goal of passing the security responsibly held by the karzai-led government. >> i urge the transition -- that more and more security efforts are made by the afghans. >> despite a positive public acknowledgment privately the obama administration is urging karzai to clean up the cost and root out -- government and root out corruption. >>> with the world watching the pope resided over the start of holy week at st. peter's. at his homily, made only an indirect mention of the scandal shaking the catholic church. questions a

main street is in crisis. we need to understand we can rebuild this country. now we may not see how things start, pick up in the way some would like this summer but we can rebuild our infrastructure and we can reinvest in the existing building stock, whether that's municipal, commerce or residential through a major retrofit program that puts people to work rebuilding america's competitive advantage. because what you understand, mr. braley, from your experience in iowa and around this country, is that we have to reinvent america's competitive advantage. we will outcompete the world. but we cannot do it solely through supporting the financial sector. we have to start building things, making things and growing things again and we can still do that better than anywhere in the world but we need a trade policy, we need a work force development strategy, we need an economic development strategy that understands those are things we can still do. there are sectors like the energy sector where we can outcompete the world but everyone else, they're not playing for second

so far not wreaking havoc with the main butte commute. no problems to report baltimore to powder mill. lanes are open for business. over to you. >>> roads in montgomery county will receive a spring cleaning beginning today. county officials are launching the street sweeping program to clean 5,000 miles of roads and curbs. the goal is to remove debris left behind after the winter snow season. based on past years, officials expect 3,000-tons of materials could be removed. >>> transportation officials in the district plan to hold a meeting to discuss ways to improve access to the fort totten metro station. it will redesign first place and galloway street northeast to improve circulation. the meeting is 6:30 at the metro transit police substation in the 5300 block of first place northeast next to the fort totten metro station. >>> loneliness and it's affect on its health beginning the living well headlines. according to a new study, loneliness is a potential risk factor for high blood pressure. we look at how you can beat the solitary blues.

new obligations that have a big impact on the chicken producer and main. we are just asking that the full rulemaking process be followed so that we can have the opportunity for input. >> mr. chairman, can i make two comments to iraq we have met with the main business that has concerns about the ready to eat, not-ready-to-eat products. we have had a good meeting with them. secondly we have a dairy council that we established. that group will meet by conference call in march and we will have their first in person meeting in washington d.c. in a our hope is they can report to us by the end of this year with recommendations. >> thank you. >> thank you very much, senator collins. senator harkin. >> thank you for your great leadership and your deputy secretary. good to see our budget officer again, as he is every year for a long time. first of all let me congratulate you and thank you for the tremendous emphasis that you have put on child nutrition. long overdue, but i can sense the refocusing of the department's efforts in this area under your leadership. truly

the main part heading offshore and wet snow and rain at times.ay, for the forecast, for the most part, it's dry today. the rain and snow showers possible later and tonight, wet snow and rain at time and going back and forth and we'll just go down to 32 degrees and tomorrow wet snow and rain and we'll just go up to 39 degrees. that's above freezing and we won't accumulate on the ground as much. we'll have the five day coming up. we have good news. >>> we'll take it, thank you. >>> still to come, now, a warning about napping. it could lead to a health complication. >>> and wjz-13 is always on, here are the top stories on wjz.com at this hour. for all of the updates on the news and the forecast, go to wjz.com. >>> and here's a look at today's midday stocks. laxatives? i've tried all these. this one's gritty. this one can make you bloated. clearly, miralax is the one for me. it relieves my constipation with no harsh side effects. miralax. >>> in today's health watch a warning for people who love taking naps. >>> yeah, this is a surprising story, jess

president obama continues his white house-to main stree 2-mai- his white house-to-main street program. while the focus is the economy, you can expect president obama to bring up the health care, too. after t summit, all eyes are -- all eyes are on capitol hill. reconciliation requires a simple majority of 51 votes. >> it is called a simple majority. that is what we are asking the senate to act upon. >> there are areas to agree on. but to go to the 51 votes instead of the traditional 60 in the united states senate will have cataclysmic effects. >> the president wants a deal by mid-march. turning now to what we can expect from the president is our reporter politico. there were some good points made about the summit. some of verbal promise was made. but it really amount to anything? >> we did not see any real substantive progress. i think this was an opportunity for the president to try to say, hey, i am looking at republicans. i do -- he doesn't want to be accused of not having any dialogue with of them. >> on friday, the press secretary said that the president will announce his way for

>> is main street feeling better?eresting, you know, interesting -- consumer confidence numbers are not rising, but spending is. so, people seem to be saying one thing and doing another. the mayor of a town in the middle of it all is up next. well, look who's here. it's ellen. hey, mayor white. how you doing? great. come on in. would you like to see our new police department? yeah, all right. this way. and here it is. completely networked. so, anything happening, suz? she's all good. oh, my gosh. is that my car? [ whirring ] [ female announcer ] the new community. see it. live it. share it. on the human network. cisco. >>> we are continuing our truck along route 50 to find out what main street thinks of the hot button issues in washington and on wall street. today we are going to ely, nevada. it is in eastern nevada, population about 5,000. it is the next stop on the road to recovery. john hickman is the mayor of that city. mr. hickman, good morning, and thank you very much for talking to us. >> good morning. >> belie

this is their main fund raiser of the year.hey have live entertainment and a live a silent auction. there are some nice items you will be interested in. there are still tickets available. check out this, a joe flacco signed a football. there are other items as well. there are some many things that you would imagine for a birthday party. they do things socially for families and try to enhance the lives of critically ill children. they do things like getaways or a vacation. they do normal things such as taking days in the inner harbor. they have a golf tournament and fund-raisers throughout the year. check it out this saturday. as far as the other information , there are many other charities that are involved. if you would like to contribute to a great cost and have some awesome action saturday night, check it out. it'll be great. take a look at your hd doppler. a system will affect us by the weekend. this weekend will be beautiful. a great night saturday night. come on out and enjoy it. we will have more with live interviews com

our main tea thank you will be some winds. it will be rather breezy. about 20 miles per hour. i think particularly during the morning and early afternoon hours and then that dies off. out to the west, that is where our next weather maker is. that will be in the form of some rain that will push in here i think thursday evening. we'll get some afternoon clouds building in tomorrow and then some rain will probably move in thursday night into the day on friday and then periods of rain on friday. sunny skies today though. warmer tempetures. still breezy, high about 64 degrees. there are your gusty windy told but. five-day forecast, now, i mentioned this earlier in the week. >>> i do think that today is the nicest day of the week. tomorrow, not a bad temperature. 65. but those clouds do build in and then some precipitation late in the day really during the nighttime hours. frierks cloudy, some rain, 50 degrees. although it will be dry until late sunday, it will be cooler with temperatures in the 50s. that is a look at what is happening with the weather. time

that's maine with an e. we're glad you're here and we might start, mike to have our panelists offer some thoughts on implementation of healthcare reform. and we can -- who would like to go first? ray? >> sure. well, i think one of the things we found out when we helped states on implementing the recovery package is that you have very, very little money. and second of all, actually the state capacity, just the number of senior people and people with expertise is actually down quite a bit basically because of budget cuts and so on over the last two or three years. so that's going to be a major problem going forward. we found it in the recovery package, for example, although they provided a lot more money for auditors at the federal level. we found that the normal auditors at the state level had contracted quite a bit. i would also argue that one of the big things is that there's probably four or five agencies here that are going to have to publish rules and regulations that may take five months, six months, se

let's look at some of the other main news. petco you are -- four main employees of rio tinto are facing trial in shanghai. negotiations with beijing were tainted. china warns about politicizing what is largely a commercial case. karzai talks with [unintelligible] it could signal the possibility for a deal with the group of rivals to the taliban. some parts of hong kong had readings more the double at which people are advised to stay indoors. beijing was trotted in yellow haze. anyone going outside was warned to wear masks and scars. the ban on ivory trading remains. an attempt to weaken it has been foiled. the two countries wanted to sell off stockpiles of tusks. >> the national park has lost more than 2000 elephants to poachers in the last four years. across sub-saharan africa, elephants are being slaughtered again for their tusks. elephant poaching decline after it total ban for ivory was imposed in 1989. elephants have started to be killed again for their ivory. at a conference which regulates the trade of endangered specie

anevery ste along the coast from maine to florida is under flood advisories. the national guard is evacuating this flooding is so intense even flood control measures couldn't stop it. in fall river, massachusetts, a drainage system installed just last year overwhelmed causing serious damage. >> looks like an earthquake happened. >> reporter: in hempstead, long island, tides are 2 and a half above normal and erosion washed away almost half a mile of dunes and in new york, a 77-year-old man drove past a barricade on the closed bronx river parkway. his car was swallowed by more than six feet of water. >> he opened the window and was holding on to the side. >> reporter: he had to be rescued from the roof of his car. and the water looks lower here today. it is. we're on the poucasset river. that's why major rivers will continue to rise over the next day, day and a half, robin? >> all right, sam. we'll get back to you in just a little bit. >>> we'll turn now to alan fung, the mayor of cranston, rhode island. good to see it's not raining though there are showers in t

those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's web site. but for now, back to judy. >> woodruff: now, financial reform on capitol hill. the house already passed its version of a bill. tonight the chair of the senate banking committee makes his case. more than 18 months after the financial crisis and after lengthy negotiation, connecticut senator chris dodd unveiled a new financial reform bill that he said would protect the economy from excessive risk. the laej lags would give the federal reserve blank the power to regulate the biggest players in the financial system. place a new consumer protection agency in the fed, and end government bailouts for firms considered too big to fail. >> never again should the american tax payer be asked to write a check because of an implicit guarantee that the federal government will bail out a company when it collapses , will threaten the stability of the economy as a whole. >> woodruff: dodd's bill

maine has about 16,000. snow is still 2 feet deep in some places. and it could be midweek before all power is restored. >>> now, for this morning's weather around the nation. another round of snow for parts of update new york. imto half a foot in maine, plus wind gusts between 30 and 50 miles an hour. snow in the southern rockies through the gulf coast states. >> 46 in dallas. 60 in new orleans. 73 in miami. boston gets up to 39. baltimore, 38. atlanta, 54, 30s across much of the midwest today. and 60s from seattle to sacramento. >> well, it's all over in vancouver. last night's closing ceremonies had its stranger moments including some that involved inflatable beavers and moose. and canadian mounties. >> the athletes are looking forward to a black sea russian resort in 2014, that is if you're counting just 1,439 days from today. >>> and u.s. versus canada in men's hockey may have been the most exciting. the u.s. was down 2-0 before tying the score in regulation. canada claimed the goal with an overtime goal. we will have the final olympic count. >>

but with the rest of the day's main headlines, we turn to david. >> thank you. china has reacted with anger to the decision of google to stop censuring internet -- stops answering internet searches. for now their mainland firewalls are blocking sensitive results. china said that google had broken written promises made upon entering the chinese market. >> google's decision is a major blow to china's international image. one of the world's most prominent corporations saying they can no longer do business china's way. china has refused to allow for uncensored searches and its website, according to google, there website came under chinese attack. here is the official response. >> google is wrong in halting filtering of this search provider, also in making accusations towards china. we firmly oppose these issues and express our dissatisfaction and anger at google's unreasonable accusations and promises. >> google says that china has moved to further limit free speech on the web. they had to filter sense of information to stay in china. chinese users have been directe

in the main slide show.ck. >>> abc news will take the live broadcast of president obama signing the bill into law. >> it is now a quarter to 6:00. remember this building. before the wire hit hbo there was dollars, life on the street, both very successful and now, it will be toured into a turnist atraction. we have sold the famous building and peer to a developer who expected to turn it into a hotel. >> what he used to stand for when he was a kid. >> my mom told me it use today be a reck center for kids and there was a pool. the kids will come out because -- theaters and stuff for kids to do at night. >> you have to remember the late grade virginia baker. property sold for $2 million. >>> charter school is making addition. school officials held a ground breaking and previewed what's to come. the middle school will include six new class room, art suite and science lab and outdoor roof top science space. it is being paid for with a $13.6 million bond issue. >>> our kids deserve more modern, more equipped, air c

the main catalyst was a drop in the february producer price index. prices at the wholesale level plunged by the largest amount in seven months. investors felt that further supports the feds' recent decision to hold interest rates for the foreseeable future. coal miner massey energy announced its acquisition of privately held cumberland resources. hartford financial services gain gained almost 5% after announcing a plan to repay the u.s. treasury. discover financial services also announced a repayment plan for government bailout funds, but its shares fell on the news. >>> elsewhere, arguing against a senate bill that would strip the federal reserve of its power to oversee certain banks and financial companies fed chairman ben bernanke says they need it in order to set interest rates and gauge the economy. >>> the environmental protection agency is developing stricter testing for products treating cats and dogs after they discovered they're killing hundreds of pets each year and injuring tens of thousands. >>> today keep an eye on nike, after the bell

that is it the main player in town as we watch this area to the east.we have dry and warmer air to follow for the middle of the week but for today we ex% a better chance of somehowers to build in after we see a sunny start, and by midday, showers and an isolated thunderstorm possible, we will settle those clouds after midnight and more sunshine tomorrow, although late clouds and disturbance but overall, more sunshine and warmer temperatures. for today we are stuck in the mid to upper 50s. our two degree degree. the afternoon will bring showers and maybe a thunderstorm. for tonight, those will seventy l back down and we will cool back down to near 40 and leading into the day tomorrow, a glorious one with sunshine and a return back to a high of 66. we will check out the extended forecast in a minute but let's go back to the roads with kim brown. >>> thank, jus tick. anyone headed toward the capital beltway, to 95 at route 198 in laural. that could be blocking lanes causing delays. we are quite. we have reports of trees down, warren road at bos lee, as you

. >> my main focus washingtons to make sure jeremy talking to him while doing cpr. come open jeremy you cap do. >> black stone a senior at annapolis highway school has been accepted to several universities including a 90 thousand dollar scholarship to howard university. >>> new details emerging tonight after a plane crashes into the south refer in edge water. the pilot 76-year-old richard dryer survived the accident thanks to fast acting witnesses who mrubingtd him from the sinking plane. >> we notice the guy actually just his head was sticking out of the water like in the distance so we rowed over to him and made sure he was the only one there and he wasn't injured and ended up pulling him up on the boat. >>reporter: state police say mechanical problems are most likely to blame for the crash. thursday crash is the third accident in the past month involving planes arriving and departing from lee airport. >>> man charged in the hit-and-run death of mcdaniel college student sentenced to continue years. convicted of neglect manslaughter thursday. bid struck and killed

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the outages spread from new york to maine and officials say it could take days for everyone's lights and heat to get back up and running. >>> fasten your seatbelts for another busy week in politics. the president is expected to give a speech this week, laying out how he wants congress to proceed on health care after last week's seven-hour health care summit. nancy pel owes y is sounding confident about passing a sweeping overhaul. >> do you have the 217 votes necessary to pass it? >> right now we're working on the process -- on the policy. from the meeting on thursday, the summit meeting, i believe that we're ready for the next step, which is to write legislative language and then go from there. >> what do the real numbers look like? nbc's luke russert is tallying them up for us, join iing us fr capitol hill. luke, first of all, let's get to the next step in the process. where does this go from here? >> reporter: this is what's going to happen. the process has to start over in the house. i'm a little hoarse cheering on the u.s. yesterday in hockey. the process has to start in the hou

and in this case, baghdad was the main effort amounts why focus focused my reporting on it in the book because i just had a certain amount of time that i could spend and write this book while outstrip wording. so the critical thing is, of course we know the same search. increase in troops, 30,000, fine. if you do also had 100,000 iraqis been added. it wasn't the numbers so much as the change and how they were deployed and the dispersion of the troops was critical. and not just as a bumper sticker to do it. it had a purpose. the dispersion of the troops into the joint security stations in the combat outposts all over this main area and again there were a few before, but there were sufficient numbers, 68 in may in baghdad, 77 and all the greater baghdad area at the peak. and so they gave you an ability to really start transforming the neighborhood. there are also a number of population control measures and the thought of people on the soft and squishy point that i would like to talk about. putting up the walls both in the neighborhood that had become bomb factories but also the target ar

the main event of the day. this provides an opportunity to clear up a number of different issues. i would like to, can i start with a simple one? it is budget day. it is budget day. there is a picket line outside the treasury. will the prime minister confirm that on this occasion he would my people to cross it and go ito to work. >> let me first congratulate my right honourable about the good news. and let me secondly thank him for getting near to asking a question about the economy. of course everyone is going to work here. we will continue to work for a labor government. >> i am grateful to the prime minister for his congratulations. most people focusing on how you find the time for these things. i am very grateful nonetheless. very interesting from the prime minister. last week he would not give any support to british airwaves. the first quarter is concerned for them to go to work. one of the things in the spirit of clearing up a few issues to one of the things the treasury are working on concerns the prime minister's disastrous decision to sell gold at rock-bottom prices. this

what are your main objections to this reconciliation bill? >> the main objections are that the overall program explodes the government by $2.6 trillion. takes a trillion dollars out of medicare that should be used to make that system more solvent. uses it to create a new entitlement which enbe fits people not on medicare and not senior citizens. will significantly raise the premiums of small businesses in their health insurance plans forcing them to drop their employees and will be a major tax on the american people and will interfere with the american people's ability to get health care from their doctors because a lot of doctors will not be able to provide health care under the -- proposed in this bill in the area of medicare and medicaid. and the amendments we're offering, the vast majority of them basically hold the democrats to their word. one amendment says simply that the president and his cabinet and the majority leader staff should be subject to this type of a health care system as well as everybody else in the america. that's someth

president reagan's main thing was to defeat the soviet union.not something that bush worked well on and he was wrong on that. he meant well, but we do not want the government telling schools what they should do. of course they should do better with reading. it was a disappointment. his spending and his failure to make any changes in the education was a disappointment to many people. >> on the website of the department of education, i want to read a couple of things. provide 1.5 billion to expand race to the top four school districts as well as states to carry a systemic reform and $500 million to continue the investing in innovation program to test, validate and scales up effective approaches to student learning. but it is not the federal government's job to do that in schools. they do this because they have a federal grant. they cannot possibly know what is good for children in all these individual schools all over the country. a lot of the money goes to pay salaries state department of education workers. obama has done face -- a tremendous amo

what they found is that the size of the main course grew by 69%. even the plate size went up by 66%. >> yeah. by the year 2000, jesus and company were eating 23% more bread than the originals. >> the scholars said they ed the size of the disciples' head as the ratio and compared it to the plate size. >> a lot of food. >>> up next, the stories we'll be following today, including a new focus for the president on health care reform. >>> and congress takes on tanning beds. we'll be right back. the moistu. skin accepts it better. absorbs it better. and has its natural balance restored for a clinically tested 24 hours. for skin that looks and feels truly comfortable. dermatologist developed lubriderm®. your moisture matched. go online to save $2 on lubriderm ® products like new intense skin repair ointment. i am a wife. i am a mom... and i was a pack a day smoker for 25 years. i do remember sitting down with my boys, and i'm like, "oh, promise mommy you'll never ever pick up a cigarette." and brian looked at me at eight years old and said, "promise me yo

the sheer of my home state of maine is almost $700 million. and in the next few months the administration will likely ask this congress to spend another $30 billion to fund a surge of troops in afghanistan. at a time when we cannot find $30 billion to create jobs, continue unemployment benefits or help small businesses we need to ask ourselves, is the cost of this war worth it? is it right to spend more money and lose more lives on a strategy that isn't working? can we afford to turn our backs on the challenges we face at home and to pursue failed policies abroad? i am an original co-sponsor of this concurrent resolution because i firmly believe this war needs to end. we have asked our men and women in uniform to return to combat again and again. they have fought with bravery and helped the people of afghanistan with compassion. they have risen to meet every challenge and paid every price to defend this country. but the cost of this war is too high. the economic situation in the country is too dire and the rise of our brave -- lives of our bra

the back drop of wall street bailouts and main street suffering only sharpening the break. >> this is an argument that goes all the way back to the founding of the country. during times of economic distress, this argument, which is always simmering, explodes. we saw it in the 1930s and we're seeing it again today. >> reporter: wrapped around the brick that smashed the door of democratic party headquarters in rochester, new york, a note with the barry goldwater quote, "extreme number in defense of liberty is no vice." on twitter, sarah palin told followers, "don't retreat, relead." while an alabama man advocated uprising. >> the mussels of 3 million rifles that can be pointed at the heart of anyone who wants to be a tyrant in this country. >> reporter: at the tea party protest at the capital this weekend, some demonstrators threw racially and sexually-charged insults at members of the congress. karl rove suggested these are the growing pains of a burgeoning political movement. >> some times the rhetoric is raw and angry. that it's down side. the up side is a large number of people have

google has redirected all search traffic for main land china to its hong kong site rather than pullingut of china. wherever the dispute heads next, it won't affect relations with the u.s. government. >>> what did toyota know and when did it know it? a popular questions these days. cnn's investigation team has obtained an internal toyota memo that changes the timeline we thought we knew. here is cnn's drew griffin. >> reporter: this is the document of a clear warning sign from august of 2002, nearly eight years ago, that toyota had a sudden acceleration problem and that according to toyota's own service bulletin, the problem was electronic. >> it says electronics. it says the fix is reprogramming the computerme. it doesn't say anything about formats. >> reporter: the document was given to cnn by a group of attorneys now seeking a nationwide class action lawsuit against toyota. >> we brought the document to clarence ditlow. he says the document, not previously made public, is an indication toyota knew much earlier about an electronic connection to sudden acceleration. he says the service

those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the "newshour's" web site. but for now, back to gwen. >> ifill: now, apologies and explanations in ireland, germany and the vatican, as catholics revisit unfinished business. allegations of child sexual abuse are once again rocking the roman catholic church. this time across europe with revelations that reach into the inner-most sanctum of the vatican. at his weekly general audience before crowds in st. peter's square, pope benedict the 16th said he would soon speak specifically to mounting concerns within the irish church. >> as you know, in recent months the church in ireland has been severely shaken as a result of the child abuse crisis. >> ifill: 15,000 cases of sexual, physical and emotional abuse over 60 years have been uncovered in ireland. cardinal sean brady, the leader of ireland's roman catholics has been accused of covering up sex abuse in the 1970s. some are calling for him to resign. bra

and so those black people, it's not their main issue. we are good with that. i don't know. i think there is -- anyway i think the question you have to go back to who is we again and is that just when you start talking about the community is to have to live in a same place, and that affects sort of having one of waste. >> i feel a little bit differently than robert on this. surprise. in that i think this gets back to the on responsiveness of the government and i think it's complicated but i think we are very clear on some issues not just african-americans but the country as a whole when it comes to health care we are very clear poll after poll shows we want some sort of government finance health care system. we are close on that. we clearly want us to be out of iraq and afghanistan. we've escalated those war at least in afghanistan and i think this gets to i know this is critical among black people, but i think in some ways it raises the question of what is -- people talk about how smart barack obama is and i never met him i don't have any idea but, you know, the first thing

the main part has pulled off shore and the clouds are beginning to break up in maryland. now i'll put the radar in and we'll give you an idea of where there still is some rain. the biggest rains have moved off over the atlantic ocean. but we have some lingering showers still hanging back. basically from the bay eastward so most of this stuff is now falling from the i-95 corridor and points east. and it is pulling away from the area. earlier this morning out in far western maryland there were a couple flakes of snow associated with this. of course that's a sign that some colder air is coming in. that's what's going to get your attention overnight tonight especially. we'll talk about how the weekend will shape up in just a minute. >> the house of representatives sealed the deal on health care reform. last night's vote came after senate republicans forced changes to the bill. the senate back for one last vote. kelly o'donnell explains how long it will take to hear from people ahead. >> this had all the feel of an encore. >> join me tonight to vote aye for our families, our s