mcdonald's said about seven million of the collectible glasses have been sold. they were made in the u.s. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: b.p. claimed progress today in its six-week struggle with that gushing oil well at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. and onshore, the president was back for another update on the disaster. ray suarez begins our coverage. b.p. managed to install a cap on the damaged wellhead last night, designed to greatly reduce the flow. still, as the hours passed, oil continued to burst from the sea floor a mile below the surface. company officials said the visible leakage was expected. b.p.'s doug suttles: >> but what you're seeing on tv is there are a series of four vents on the top of this cap, which actually let oil out the top, and we'll be successively closing those vents as we bring the production up that. i'm actually pretty confident this is going to work. it probably won't capture all of the flow, but it should capture the vast majority. and i think we'll know that over the course of today

lady across the street from me, who is 70 years old and has to come out of retirement to work at mcdonald's -- this is and when i listen, i want to make certain that we keep focus on the people who have sent us here. i agree, we have to look at the derivatives. we have to have transparency. the person who works out there and go hard, pursuing the all- american dream, and they pay their taxes and do what they're supposed to do ds and gng to the synagogue, we have to figure out, hen all the dust has settled, that we%+ serve them. this is because the focus of wall street -- they are going to get their bonuses. the people i represent will not get a bonus because they do not have a job. and the question is, this storm will be over, but as i say to my constituents, when this i over, who will have their job? wi they have their health care? will they still have the opportunity to take their children to the amusement park. what are they just going to be out of luck? this is our moment. i am excited to see us moving forward on this i will yield back. >> the gentleman from iowa? >> thank you. i want t

it is lunch rush at mcdonald's, he has to wait his turn in line. he gets up to the counter and orders his happy meal. as he is paying for it, he says to the teenager taking his money, which mind telling me how old you think i am? he looks him up and down and says 31 or 32, no older than 35, for sure. >> he says i am ashley 47 years old. i hope i look that good when i- am your age. now the guy is on cloud nine. he wants one last jolt of affirmation. he walks around the block and sees a cluster of people around a bus stop. he walks up and approaches one elderly woman and says excuse me, ma'am, sorry to disturb you. would you mind telling me how old you think i am? the woman says, if you take off all of your clothes, run around in a circle and bark like a dog, i will be able to tell you how old you are. the guy obviously thinks this is a little weird, but he is determined to see if he beats the system, so he strips naked, runs around, baying at the moon. people are taking out their cell phones to call the cops. just as things are on the brink of compl

at the only mcdonald's in whitman county, the salad menu isn't served, so it'sburg burgers, mcnuggets the like. >> the variety of the foods that are available are poor-quality nutrients. >> reporter: dr. al rausa is the district health officer for 18 counties in northwest mississippi. he's been working as a public health official in the delta for 40 years. >> i had a malnutrition problem when i arrived, i have a malnutrition problem now. back then it was the absence of food or the unavailability of food that was the problem. and now i've got this abundance of food. >> reporter: the problem now, rausa says, is that the food people eat is loaded with calories and fat and they're leading more sedentary lives. medical studies showed that people who live in these food deserts have higher rates of obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes than those in areas served by mainstream grossers. >> we can't tell people to buy fresh food if there's no place to buy it, right? >> reporter: first lady michelle obama has zeroed in on food deserts as part of her signature campaign to end

i heard the arguments in the heller case as well as the mcdonald case. it was obvious they were going to rule that way. it's a very limited decision. chicago and oak brook are the only communities left in the country that have anything approaching a near handgun ban. it was washington d.c. and then chicago. there's nobody else that's directly affected by this. but the crucial part and it's really a narrow scope for the second amendment that they talked about. justice alito talked about a... the second amendment gives you a right to have a gun in the home for self-defense. this is the crucial part. he repeated the language from heller that says this right is not unlimited. you can have restrictions on who gets guns and where they take the guns, how the guns are sold, carried and stored and even what kinds of guns they are. in effect the extremes are off the table. what we ought to do now, you can't have gun bans but you can't have this anybody any gun anywhere vision that i think wayne pushes sometimes. let's find the common ground in the middle that will

i want to know what everybody's favorite food is at mcdonald. >> hamburger. >> skok. ... coke. >> the kids these days, they can eat whatever they want. when i was young i was from a poor family. we did not have enough to eat. all we had were potatos. >> suarez: paul french is the author of a soon to be released book titled fat china. >> what we have here is a one child policy which is not enforced everywhere but is still the norm. so now we have a generation coming through that not only have no siblings but have no aunts and uncles. this has led to what we might term here as the six pocket syndrome which is where every child or little emperor as they're known here as two parents and four grant parents. those four grandparents and two parents don't really have anything to spend their money on except that child. so they are lavishing that child. they are arguably spoiling that one child. of course after generations of not having enough, people don't want to say no to charn children. they want to let them enjoy the prosperity rather than the austerity that they knew in their

that is what the court decided on in mcdonald curses the city of chicago. d.c. anything in the language that opens up restrictions on assault -- do you see anything in the language there? guest: courts look at the precise issue before them. in chicago, there was a handgun ban. they will have to wait for someone to bring a future case. we have had a lot of experience with this. a lot of groups were predicting that we would see a huge increases in the murder rate. the murder rate was five points seven per hundred thousand before the sun set. we have seen a drop. guest: we have heard several times from john. that crime has gone down. he has been making these assertions. the police chief wrote an op-ed piece because they got fed up with this misleading information. she pointed out a couple of things. crime rates in the district of columbia have been plummeting for years. that decline started in 1994 with the enactment of the brady law. the one kind of crime that is increasing in the district of columbia is home invasion crimes. that is where a long people to have gu

this morning, i was extremely dismayed to learn of the court's decision in mcdonald versus the city of chicago. holding that common sense state and local gun laws across the country now will be subject to federal lawsuits. this decision and its predecessor, the dtrict of columbia versus heller have disregarded the precedent of 71 years embedded in the united statev. miller, a 1939 case. i find that shocking as a former mayor. i believe the proliferation of guns have made this nation less safe, not more safe. we now he more guns than people in this country. they are sold erywhere. on street corners, in gun shows, with no restraint whatsoever. any type of weapon. they fall into the hands of juveniles, criminals, and the mentally ill virtually every day of the year. and the supreme court has thrown aside seven decades of precedent to exacerbate this situation. from the documents that have been revealed thus far, i am encouraged that solicitor kagan holds starry decisis in high regard. for example, at harvard, she expressed strong disagreement with don't ask don't tell. but she allowed mil

is there any doubt after the court's decision heller and mcdonald is a second amendment to the constitution, secures a fundamental right for an individual to own a firearm, use it for self-defense in their home? >> there is no doubt, senator leahy, that's binding precedent and entitled to all respect to binding precedent in any case. that is settled law. . >> as solicitor general, did you have a role in the president's domestic or foreign policy agenda? >> the solicitor general doesn't take part in policy issues. certainly -- the only policy issues i think i might have taken part of, and these are policy issues that would only overlap with litigation issues is national security issues. but otherwise, the solicitor general is a legal officer. >> if you were involve in domestic or foreign policy agenda, would that not be something you want to consider in the issue recusal? you mentioned national security issues, for example. >> right. i think that anything that i substantially participated in as a government official that's coming before the court, i should take very seriously as you say. the

figure in the clinton-gore effort to restrict gun rights and as a dramatic 5-4 decision today in the mcdonaldase shows the personal right of every american who own a gun hangs by a single vote on the supreme court. miss kagan was also the point person for the clinton administration's effort to bl k block -- abortions. perhaps she was the key person who convinced president obama to cha who convinced president clinton to change his mind on that precedure.clinton to change his mind on that precedure. her actions punished the military and defeened our soldiers as they fought in two wars over seas. as someone who feels the burden of sending young men and women into harm's way, to ensure military resucruiters were tread fairly, i can't take this issue lightly. dean kagan also joined with three over law school deans to write a letter in opposition to senator graham's legislation for determining who was an enemy combatant for the war on terror. she most recently, the nominee served as solicitor general for little over a year. but her shortenure there has not been without controversy. in her first app

lady across the street from me, who is 70 years old and has to come out of retirement to work at mcdonald's -- this is and when i listen, i want to make certain that we keep focus on the people who have sent us here. i agree, we have to look at the derivatives. we have to have transparency. the person who works out there and goes hard, pursuing the all- american dream, and they pay their taxes and do what they're supposed to do kids and going to the synagogue, we have to figure out, hen all the dust has settled, that we%+ serve them. this is because the focus of wall street -- they are going to get their bonuses. the people i represent will not get a bonus because they do not have a job. and the question is, this storm will be over, but as i say to my constituents, when this is over, who will have their job? will they have their health care? will they still have the opportunity to take their children to the amusement park. what are they just going to be out of luck? this is our moment. i am excited to see us moving forward on this. i will yield back. >> the gentleman from iowa? >> thank you

mcdonald's corporation put up some money. that little project in which we reduced the number -- the ratii of trained child psychologists. these are people at least with a master's degree. down to about one to -- i'm a little hazy here. maybe 100 to 200 kids. right now, the national average is about one in 3,000. there's about one trained psychologist for -- in each school system for every 3,000 kids in america. i could be off a little bit, but i don't think i'm off that much. we got it down to a couple hundred. which means we had a trained child psychologist at a school every day all day, interacting with the classrooms, interacting with the teachers, interacting with the kids. they went home, made home visits with the kids, found out what their family situation was like, found out what their health situation was like. the day you were talking bought that, about looking at their health, getting them the kind of dental assistance they need, the kind of eye glasses, the things like that. >> in three years time, teachers were am

figure in the clinton-gore effort to restrict gun rights and as a dramatic 5-4 decision today in the mcdonald case shows the personal right of every american who own a gun hangs by a single vote on the supreme court. miss kagan was also the point person for the clinton administration's effort to bl k block -- abortions. perhaps she was the key person who convinced president obama to cha who convinced president clinton to change his mind on that precedure.clinton to change his mind on that precedure. her actions punished the military and defeened our soldiers as they fought in two wars over seas. as someone who feels the burden of sending young men and women into harm's way, to ensure military resucruiters were tread fairly, i can't take this issue lightly. dean kagan also joined with three over law school deans to write a letter in opposition to senator graham's legislation for determining who was an enemy combatant for the war on terror. she most recently, the nominee served as solicitor general for little over a year. but her shortenure there has not been without controversy. in her first a

real estate, you know, value for the gas station is million dollar branch right now like 7/11 and mcdonald's you have to change all of those. like one day we decided not to eat hamburgers. what's the alternative? so it's a big deal. and we need to work and think about those points, too. thank you again. guest: you know, this transition will take 25, 30 years. nothing, nothing is happening overnight when it comes to, you know, oil and cars. we just have too many -- like the caller said, the infrastructure is based on oil. it sounds like -- you know, the donkey following the carrot. at a certain point you need to make a change. you can keep following something forever, quhass weaver' been -- which is what we've been doing with oil for over a century. and accept it that there will be a transition. the real thing is when there's an energy crisis, like in the 1970's when there were lines at the pump and there is no oil. those are the things that are disruptive. but a transition that could take 25 years? you know, given the right signals, given a lot of competition, i don't really see that as econ